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June 2nd, 2011 | 
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Ramadan is a trial period for all Muslims, already facing hunger, making a strict fasting which may lead to the irritability, but must be sustained in their faith to pass the test.
Health and Food during Ramadan
The fasting during the month of Ramadan, in addition to be communal also is voluntary and if there are food intake should not be vary considerably in relation to the daily diet normal, but it must be as simple as possible, with a balanced diet to keep the benefits of Ramadan and they are as follows:
Spiritual:
This is time for prayer, worship, reflection, the devotion, contemplation of a sincere, who seeks the closeness to God.
Physical:
The digestive system receives a rest during this period and is an excellent opportunity to reduce the weight, since the basal metabolism of the body decreases leads to the efficient use of fat. There was a drop of blood sugar, together with the lipids.
Psychological: Read the rest of this entry »
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Sometimes eat and something you lack to our food to know better, immediately turned to the salt for condimental but not lack who says to you that the salt damages and to avoid it, we find this response of yahoo answers that you clarify on this subject.
The problem is not in itself that the salt (sodium chloride) makes in our body, but that the usually consume excessive amounts. Our body needs only a few 6 grams of salt daily, including that in itself bring food (for example 100 mg. meat often contenter naturally some 65 mg. salt). Our body removes excess salt through the kidneys, but when the binge salt is repetitive (perhaps all or almost every day), our agency ends deteriorate.
It is said that the immoderate consumption of salt is a risk factor for the edemas, heart failure, and cirrhosis and kidney disease. Also further aggravates and until you can provoke hypertension.
In the pregnancy is especially compulsory to reduce the salt intake, not only to avoid the fluid retention, but also to reduce the risk of hypertension or aggravate if you already have… with the consequences for the mother and fetus Read the rest of this entry »
The progress of science in relation to the food and the quality of life originate new disciplines permanently, one of the most recent is the Nutrigenomics. The Commission examines the interaction of the nutrients and other assets of the food with genes. In other words, through it, with a simple sample of saliva could discover what the best diet is for you.
We now know that there are more than 250 genes related to obesity. If in each individual is detected the genes linked to the disease could be modified various factors to cancel the risk of being obese and arrive in this way to a healthy aging.
By studying genes could identify a “nutritional profile” that will include all the food and nutrients that are best for you. According to the genetic predisposition of individuals are going to determine what are the best foods for some and for others. For example, the consumption of fish oils do not have the same effect on all people, by means of the Nutrigenomics may make dietary recommendations.
The new knowledge based on the human genome sequencing and associated technology make it possible integration into the nutrition music, generating the emergence of this new discipline, the nutritional genomics, which will promote a customizing the allowance, the greater prevention and a nutritional therapy more effective. Read the rest of this entry »
A major concern of every parent is whether their children are eating the food requirements and a balanced in their diet. Is that the healthy food for children are crucial for healthy eating?
The food must possess certain characteristics that will tell us if you are healthy or not. The following list will enable us to glimpse in that we must build to choose the food for children and that attitudes or positions must be taken in pursuit of get good child nutrition.
- Uses fresh ingredients and natural: a food processed loses nutritional properties, in addition to the metabolism of a child processed differently chemical substances, because your body is not yet able to assimilate and dispose as an adult.
- Includes complex carbohydrates: They provide a significant amount of vitamins and minerals, protein, calories and fibers. They are found in healthy food such as the brown rice, fruits, vegetables, cereals, pasta, etc.
- Dales natural sweet: It is always attractive a rich dessert after lunch, moreover, many parents has taken this in the form of “prize” to stop the food. What is most advisable is to offer natural sweet as: a liquefied fruit, a cocktail containing granola and others, cereals, rice with milk, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
As always say here: the key is in the amount by which are consumed foods.
For more than they have no calories, or to say that no fatten, there is a series of food with which we must be careful. Foods that are healthy, but should be swallowed with restraint.
In this case we submit three foods that are considered completely healthy, but that should be consumed with great care.
Dried Fruit: do not consume all the time but, there are people who eat 100 grams of hazelnuts per day!
The dry fruits are very rich in fatty acids introduced, fats essential for the agency. But the amount of these acids that the body needs is minimal; with only eat 5 nuts a day reaches. Consume more than recommended giving to our body of an excess calories and fat to be felt quickly.
Natural Juices: they are an excellent source of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, and the way to acquire the nutrients of fruit. But it is not recommended consume throughout the day as if we were eating the fruit. In other words, you cannot take the juice by all the fruit. Read the rest of this entry »