Healthy Food Habits

Posted on 23 Aug 2009 In: Healthy Food Habits

Fruits and vegetables are the nature’s gift to the mankind. They contain essential vitamins and nutrients that help us stay fit and live healthy. A healthy diet must necessarily contain at least one or two vegetables in it.

Carrots have long been associated with proper vision in humans. This is because carrots are rich in Vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency may lead to poor vision and night blindness. Therefore, carrots greatly help in improving normal vision by restoring Vitamin A deficiency.

Radish is a root vegetable that is rich in ascorbic acid and Vitamin B6. Due to its high medicinal value, it is used in the treatment of whooping cough and cancer. It is also used to prevent arthritis and kidney stones.

Spinach is a rich source of iron and calcium. The nutrients present in spinach are readily absorbed by the body. Spinach is widely used in the treatment of digestive problems owing to its high dietary value.

Protein Deficiency

Posted on 19 Aug 2009 In: health tips

In some cultures around the world where food isn’t so plentiful, children can become malnourished and develop diseases such as Kwashiorkor. The children have the distended tummies,however the rest of their bodies are fine, this unfortunately is caused by a protein deficiency. Scientists can actually measure the quality of nutrients that people are getting.

People will volunteer to be involved in a clinical feeding trial and they will hook these people up to all kinds of measuring devices to measure everything from body temperature to how much moisture they exhale. They weigh and eliminate brine in their feces and record everything they can about these patients. They will feed these people a controlled diet – controlling the amount of protein consumed. They can measure how much is excreted, how much weight a person gains and basically they can determine how much of that protein is utilized by the body. When they do that they can determine the quality of the protein and the amino acids that makes up the protein. They can determine how well the body absorbs protein and assign anumber value to the protein as to how well it is absorbed.

Tips To Change Bad Eating Habits

Posted on 13 Aug 2009 In: health tips

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