Tomato Can Also to Diet
Diet Tips April 26th, 2010
Besides being used as a flavoring in many dishes, or drunk as juice, it rarely makes the fresh tomatoes as a snack. In fact, recent studies show that frequent eating tomatoes can help you lose weight. How?
Tomatoes rich in lycopene content, a compound which scientists believed could help provide satiety to decrease the appetite hormones.
These findings obtained by researchers from the University of Reading after test-enriched bread with tomatoes for 17 people aged 18-35 years. Given the time that compared to ordinary bread, and bread enriched with carrot, tomato bread was the most satisfying.
“It was a small study, and we can not say what the basic ingredients necessary tomatoes, but the results were statistically significant,” said Dr Julie Lovegrove, a specialist in the field of nutrition who led the metabolism of the research project.
According to The Daily Telegraph, lycopene is a substance that gives red color to tomatoes, and is a key component of the Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet has been believed to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and some types of cancer.
This research is certainly interesting to be developed again. Nothing wrong even if you begin to try it now. When fresh tomatoes taste boring, try to eat with a protein such as tofu and fried tempeh. Or, create a menu with grilled tomato cheese on top.
Pedometer Help Weight Loss
Weight Loss April 18th, 2010
SPORT, sports, and sports! Basically, all people understand that sports and physical exercise was healthy. In fact, there are still many people who do not understand the good sport is like what?
Quality sports often only measured by how hard the exercise is done, or how much sweat is released. As a result, many people are being too ngoyo until panting, even faint when exercising. What is so healthy it could be called?
“Exercise is healthful workplace can make organs more efficient. From there emerged the concept of sports therapy, which by definition is not as regular exercise, but a treatment program that uses sports to improve measurable health status of a person or help the healing process of disease – certain diseases, “said the director of Slim + Health Sports Therapy Mal Taman Orchid Jakarta, Dr. Michael Triangto SpKO.
Sports concept is measured using a reference to Michael’s heart rate the individual as the basis for doing a good workout and safe. This is important given the condition of the heart and strength of each person may vary and are influenced factors such as age and medical history.
“Counting the heart rate before starting the exercise is necessary to know the circumstances and the ability of the heart. To facilitate the monitoring of heart rate, it is recommended to use heart rate monitors during exercise,” says Michael.
Heart rate monitors are useful as a parameter or an alarm condition of one’s heart flutter during practice. We have been very practical form, similar to an ordinary digital watch worn on the arm. If you exceed the maximum limit of heart rate, then the “watch” will ring to remind the wearer to reduce the training activity.
The team of researchers from the University of Michigan America also concluded that increasing the duration of the foot path 20-40 minutes per day lost weight slightly, but continuously (continuous).
“Increasing physical activity is expected to provide health benefits through a reduction in weight naturally and independently,” said research team leader, Dr. Caroline Richardson.
“Increasing physical activity also reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, lowering blood pressure and help maintain muscle tissue firmness in times of dieting,” he added.
In the study reported in the Annals of Family Medicine, the Richardson and colleagues 9 examined 307 cases involving male and female participants. They participate in research on pedometer use, with a duration of 4 weeks to a year.
The result, almost all participants lost weight on average 0.05 kg per week. Richardson and his team also found that weight loss tends to be consistent in all nine cases that they studied. After a year, weight was reduced approximately 2.25 kg.
Exercise for Blood Sugar
Fitness April 18th, 2010
In addition to regulate the diet, people with diabetes also should be diligent in exercising. Because, exercise helps the body to absorb the maximum sugar circulating in the body. But, do not exercise also trigger excretion of sweat that quickly made thirsty? Especially when fasting, can people with diabetes exercise?
“Do not always identify the sports with sweat excessively, especially for people with diabetes,” said Dr. Michael Triangto, SpOK, sports medicine specialist from Slim + Health Sports Therapy.
Thus, exercise that is suitable is not aerobic and aerobic gymnastics. Because aerobic exercise has a movement repeatedly with a short time, it was harder. As a result, people with diabetes will be easier breathing hard and accelerating decline in blood.
Then, what kind of exercise is aerobics? Michael mentions, brisk walking or biking can be relaxing choice. But, before doing the sport, Michael reminded to see if there are other diseases that accompany diabetes. For, could have done a good exercise for diabetes, but not for other disease complications experienced.
That’s why before exercising what should be defined purpose and for goals to be achieved is to stay healthy during fasting and after fasting, it must be done according to the health value. Parameters for this, he said, is the measurement of heart rate with the formula 220 minus age in years. The results of the formula is 100% of heart rate and for people with diabetes, the limit is 50-70% of maximum heart rate.
For example, people with diabetes aged 30 years, so maximum is 190 beats per minute. Thus, heart rate limits when walking or cycling is a leisurely 80-133 per minute. That means, he explains, is less than 80 then do the exercises less than helpful, but if more than 133 are dangerous.
When talking about the benefits, exercise is done regularly and for long periods can help the muscles to absorb sugar, or glucose that circulate in the body. Therefore, people with diabetes is difficult to absorb sugar, it takes a higher insulin to glucose can be absorbed stacked.
“And with the muscles that are aerobic, body sensitivity of glucose into greater”. As a result, blood sugar levels can be more stable and for people with early diabetes, regular exercise can break away from drug addiction.
Stop Smoking, Benefits Jump felt
Health Care April 18th, 2010
Smoking is dangerous, not only because it deals with lung cancer, but also because smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The cumulative consequences of tobacco should be a good reason to quit smoking.
Although you have a smoker for a long time, various studies confirm, there will still be recovering damages from smoking before.
In a study of 1500 smokers, known a year after quitting smoking, there was improvement in the arteries caused by the inhalation of cigarette smoke. This means, the risk of coronary heart disease go down.
Although smokers who are separated from the cigarette has experienced a slight increase in weight, about 4 pounds, well known cholesterol in the blood go up. According to research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Other studies have shown, after 15 years of quitting smoking, your risk for heart disease is almost the same as those who never smoked.
Risk to suffer from other diseases, such as bronchitis, emphysema, and cancer, are also reduced. In addition, you also will look and feel younger, more energetic than, more resistant, stronger, and your wrinkles diminish.
This is a series of body changes that will occur as soon as you decide cigarette 20 minutes ago. Change is good for health will continue.
- 20 minutes after quitting smoking, heart rate decreased.
- 12 hours later, levels of carbon monoxide in the blood dropped to normal.
- Two weeks to 3 months after quitting, the risk of heart attack begin to fall. Lung function begins to improve.
- 1-9 months after quitting, complaining cough and difficulty breathing began to decrease.
Hiding the AIDS virus in Bone Marrow
Health News April 18th, 2010
The virus that causes AIDS was able to hide in the bone marrow can not be achieved so that the drugs into the body.
As a result, the AIDS virus at any time be able to come back. The research team led by Dr Kathleen Collins of the University of Michigan reported the results of this study in the journal Nature Medicine this week.
The research was also mentioned, the HIV virus can enter cells in the bone marrow which is feared will eventually enter the blood cells. When he entered the cells of bone marrow, the virus becomes inactive.
But, once entered into the blood cells, the virus can be active again and it can kill cells of new blood and move damage the cells of another. “During these drugs can reduce the number of deaths due to AIDS, but patients must use drugs throughout his life. If drug therapy is stopped, the virus could re-emerge. There are many hiding places should be investigated, “said Collins.
In previous studies proved the virus was found hiding in frequent blood cells called macrophages. If the sources of infection can be known in more detail, AIDS patients can immediately stop the consumption of the medicine after the infection is cured.
