Microwave Can Kill Nutrient Content In Food

September 6th, 2010 by Stand Team

I remember when the microwave was thrown into the market. Catalog which monsters domestic inhabitants of the modern kitchens, skeptics belonging to the old school of cooking with saucepan and scoop in hand tried to warn all that the microwave were harmful to health.

This belief was losing acceptance, but a myth survived the time and continued lasting with some credibility: the microwave kills nutrients. Today show otherwise.

All cooking methods kill nutrients and vitamins by three basic factors that affect the cooking: the temperature, the liquid used and the cooking time. This negative impact on the nutrients from food, but not to the point of settle completely (provided they do not eat food look, of course).

Well, the fact is that, to be the microwave one of the methods of cooking faster and in which affect these factors to a lesser degree, is that kills less nutrients and vitamins.

Ready, confirmed and superseded the myth. Today, Mother’s Day, you need not regrets for having given a microwave to your mom.

Longer live with eat less

June 26th, 2010 by Stand Team

It is not a diet quick to shed a few pounds, but something that scientists know for a long time, that could increase the life of mice and the more primitive creatures as worms, flies, etc, only restricting consumption.

But the first evidence with regard to delays of diseases and aging was obtained in primates (rhesus monkeys that live in the National Center for Primates of Wisconsin), on which the researchers conducted their studies reported in Science magazine.

Nobody knows yet if people could withstand the deprivation of consumption by the time enough to make a difference, however, they have begun attempts to educate the small on the subject.

“In reality it would not be so important that the genta alive again, but that live healthier,” said Dr. David Finkelstein, the National Institute on Aging, but the monkeys of Wisconsin seems to do both.

“The fact that there is less disease in these animals is surprising.” Read the rest of this entry »