August 21st, 2010 by Stand Team

Did you imagine that food and beverages such as chocolate, coffee and tea are essential? Well, according to the scientific English Gary Williamson of the University of Leeds, these are three of the 20 foods that may not be lacking in our lives.

The list that holds the “20 vital food” consists of foods rich in polyphones and chemicals natural offered by different health benefits, among which highlights those who protect us against coronary heart disease.

In this list dominated by fruit and vegetables, which are very effective in slow down the aging process, protecting cells of damage natural that are produced at the time.

A diet rich in polyphenol can help increase the opportunities that each one we have to reach the time of life genetically determined. Each day is more knowledge about the potential of the polyphenol to maintain the health and reduce the risk of disease during the aging. Read the rest of this entry »

August 17th, 2010 by Stand Team

The food is to not only draw, but also stay healthy, Hippocrates father medicine thousands of years ago argued this phrase that has come intact until our days; “That your food, are your cure”, and this is the basis of naturism, here we provide a brief of nutrients whose composition or properties are related to different parts of the body, advantage and therefore are to take into account the in shaping our diet.

Brain: research shows that the fuel of the brain are the sugars as they can increase the memory and stimulate its operation, (not white sugar or refined, but that come from natural sources).

Hair: wheat is a major source of biotin and an important nutrient for health, the hair bright.

Eyes: The beta carotene or pro-vitamin A, contained in the plants yellows, oranges, reds, dried fruit, fruit.

Lungs: research shows that eat tomatoes more than three times a week can help prevent respiratory diseases, from the Chinese medicine ginger has specific properties for them, such as food medicine, as well as other spices characteristics spicy.

Nails: Zinc is responsible for the strength in the nails, oysters, wheat germ, nuts, contain it.

Skin: The vitamin A is the vitamin of the skin on their way to Provitamin, and we can find in pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, peaches, apricots, algae, etc, in addition to reduce the possibility to certain types of cancer and considered the vitamin of the organic defenses.

Heart: The magnesium is the ore of heart by promoting their operation, which we can find in the dried fruit as the almonds, oats, the tofu, also has the capacity to prevent blood clots and high blood pressure. Read the rest of this entry »

August 15th, 2010 by Stand Team

We mentioned several times here in this site but I think it is important that remind slimming there is no magic recipes. The only way possible is eating properly and makes physical activity, nothing more.

What we can do is to help and collaborate with the process, because the thinning is just a process that takes time and will. But, when begin to see the results and look to improve your quality of life, feel all the effort has been worthwhile.

A good trick to collaborate in process of your weight loss is to eat certain foods that naturally help your body to burn fat. For example: the milk low in fat, the yogurt low in fat and cheese burn fat naturally, the secret is in the calcium.

The oats and barley are other foods to which you can use; the key is in the fiber that they have. The green tea also is another of the allies to lose weight. Read the rest of this entry »

June 12th, 2010 by Stand Team

The world with diet and nutrition is, unfortunately fraught with myths. Many advise that to carry out a good food is necessary to continue this or that step, and in reality is not doing more to ensure the reality of a myth about nutrition that has no validity whatsoever.

Therefore, it is good making it clear that many beliefs about nutrition are actually funded, and that are far enough from the reality. In the day we bring five nutritional myths that have nothing to do with the guidelines of a healthy diet.

The obesity is hereditary.

While the genetic factors are in part determinants of the development of obesity in the individual, it is not just reproach the greater responsibility for this. Factors such as the bad food, inactivity or lack of exercise are in fact that more influence in its development.

Eat fast puts on weight. Read the rest of this entry »