Chocolate and cardiovascular health
The benefits of chocolate are sufficiently well documented as to enjoy that chocolate bar you have in your power with total conviction that makes you good. The list continues to grow and add more fuel to the fire with new evidence.
In the British Journal of Nutrition, a team of Italian researchers from the University of Milan published the results of an experiment conducted with approximately twenty volunteers, average age 24 years, who were offered a healthy diet for several weeks.
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Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
When necessary supplements of vitamins or minerals.
When we have a balanced diet, healthy eating as a bit of everything, we get all the vitamins and minerals that our body needs, without providing any kind of surcharge.
We note that in a diet assimilate certain nutrients on its own, and that sometimes supplements may be necessary. On many occasions, the pace of life, eating out, frozen foods, fast food etc.. can not be done lleavar a healthy diet, and that’s when shortages may appear certain minerals or vitamins to this through a blood test, we can see what kind of vitamins or minerals we are lacking, and that’s when we can use Supplementing our diets with certain dietary supplements, whether vitamin, mineral or other.
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People with a good vitamin B in your blood
People with a good vitamin B in your blood may have a lower risk of lung cancer, even if they smoke, according to a new European study.
The study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that having high levels of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) and the amino acid methionine cut the risk of cancer in more than half.
This study was conducted in more than 400,000 people. Where these substances could be found naturally?. We can find in nuts, fish, meats. We can also take them by way of supplements. The researchers say that quitting smoking is still the best way to reduce the risk for these cancers.
The team of researchers shows that a good diet is always the key to preventing such evils, take vitamins at the discretion is not the idea and is still too early to say that taking them can have extra protection. It has been observed that people who follow a healthy diet could reduce cancer risk.
The general B complex can also be found in whole grains and fiber we consume. From this it follows again that eating healthy is important and that keeps us in a lower health risk.
Four Foods With “Bad Press”
We can say that there are foods that have had “bad publicity.” Often categorized as “unhealthy” foods that really are not so, and if we knew we could consume in our diets include no problem.
Within these foods with “negative press” are nuts, bread, frozen vegetables, and egg.
Nuts have a bad reputation due to its high calorific value, when in reality, our bodies also provide good quality fatty acids, vegetable proteins and fibers. In addition to vitamins and minerals.
The bread, enough alone to believe that fat. The nutrients that gives the bread is very healthy, his presence is important in our diet. The bread does not harm our health.
Frozen vegetables, is believed to be frozen for lost nutrients. In truth, they are plant, period. Frozen vegetables give us the ability to access them throughout the year, even when food is not at the station.
Egg, the belief that the egg is high in fat made this food for years was “marginalized.” However, the egg is rich in proteins, vitamins, iron and other minerals.
What is important for achieving a healthy diet is to combine all foods without removing any. Include all and any in excess, thus achieving a balanced diet.
Vitamins for Good Vision
Like other organs of the body, eyes, brain and visual system needs proper nutrition to function optimally.
A Visual healthy diet should include the following vitamins and minerals in food intake or supplements.
Vitamin A : Deficiencies in vitamin A can cause a slow adaptation to light / dark, difficulty seeing at night, eyes red, and dry eye.
Vitamin D: Vitamin D deficiencies can cause muscle weakness and poor structural development. Recent studies linking vitamin D deficiency with difficulties in attention and impulse control.
Calcium: The reduced mental capacity, hyperactivity or attention, impulse, irritability, and nervousness have been associated with scattered diets deficient in calcium.
B vitamins (B1, B2, B6, and B12): The intake of vitamin B complex, correlates with the overall health of the neurological system. The symptoms of deficiency of B complex may also include burning eyes or dry eyes and sensitivity to light.
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