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Senin, 10 September 2012

Benefits Of Chocolate

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Chocolate is a processed food made from cocoa beans. Cocoa is a kind of annual plant a tree and have a Latin name Theobroma Cacao. Cocoa comes from the Americas. Cocoa trees can grow as tall as 10 meters but to plant cocoa cultivation generally only 5 feet tall with a canopy spread sideways. Cocoa is a plant that grows in the tropics. Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Brazil is one of today's biggest cocoa producer.

Cocoa fruit more often referred to as fruit chocolate because cocoa is cocoa producer. Chocolate is the most popular flavors in the world today. Additionally chocolate also processed into various food and beverage of the most popular in the world. In addition to the food and beverage, turns chocolate has many health benefits.
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Chocolate Fruit Benefits

There have been many studies conducted to examine the content and benefits of the fruit brown. Fruit chocolate contains anti-oxidants that are very high. Useful addition of the medical side, chocolate proved to have many benefits from the psychological side. Diaykini, with mongkonsumsi chocolate will cause a sense of comfort and relaxation effect. But in certain conditions, some products processed cocoa has adverse effects on health.



Today many manufacturers omit flavonoid that it tastes bitter. So this time chocolate products on the market contain only fat and sugar. According to some research done by experts they concluded that people who eat chocolate regularly have a longer lifespan of one year compared with those who did not eat chocolate. They argue that it is influenced by the anti-oxidant phenolic compounds found in chocolate pieces. Phenolic compounds also found in red wine that has been known to be very good for heart health. Brown also has the ability to inhibit the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) that can prevent a variety of diseases such as coronary heart disease and cancer.

Senin, 03 September 2012

Benefits of Coffee

Coffee for Health Benefits. Coffee, almost everyone in the world know, to start the day at work usually is not complete without a cup of delicious coffee. Drinking coffee was much loved by humans. From office workers to construction workers, traders, farmers, teachers, even the president, and you also must have drank too. It is already a tradition and the interests of her own for coffee enthusiasts.
Coffee is a solid black type of beverage that is able to give a unique flavor to the drink. Even some people become addicted because of the taste of coffee because of the caffeine contained in the coffee itself. Caffeine is an alkaloid chemical compound known as trimetilsantin with molecular formula C8H10N4O2. The number of substances contained caffeine in coffee is between 1 to 1.5%.

If someone is addicted to drinking coffee will taste their day would not be complete without drinking coffee. Is this true? The answer lies in ourselves coffee connoisseur.

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Benefit of Coffee
According to Harvard Women's Health, the consumption of several cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, the formation of kidney stones, colon cancer, Parkinson's disease, liver damage (cirrhosis), heart disease and inhibit cognitive decline in brain power.
  • Diabetes. Twenty studies conducted worldwide indicate that coffee reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes by 50%. The researchers suspect the cause is chlorogenic acid in coffee act to slow the absorption of sugar in digestion. Chlorogenic acid also stimulates the formation of GLP-1, a chemical that increases insulin (a hormone that regulates the absorption of sugar into the cells). Other substances in coffee that trigonelin (pro-vitamin B3) is also thought to help slow the absorption of glucose.
  • Cancer. Research has consistently shown that coffee reduces the risk of liver cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer.
  • Cirrhosis. Coffee protects the liver from cirrhosis, particularly cirrhosis due to alcoholism.
  • Parkinson's disease. The coffee drinkers have half the risk of developing Parkinson's disease is lower than those who did not drink coffee.
  • Heart disease and stroke. Coffee consumption does not increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. Instead, coffee actually slightly reduce the risk of stroke. A study of more than 83,000 women aged over 24 years showed those who drank two to three cups of coffee a day had a stroke risk 19% lower than those who did not drink coffee. Studies of a number of men in Finland showed similar results.
  • Cognitive function. The study of 4197 women and 2820 men in France showed that drinking at least three cups of coffee a day can prevent cognitive decline and brain aging by up to 33 percent in women. However, the same benefit was not found in men. This may be because women are more sensitive to caffeine.
Negative Effects Coffee
However, coffee also has a negative effect. Caffeine as the main content of coffee is an addictive stimulant. Caffeine affects the cardiovascular system such as increased heart rate and blood pressure. The negative impact comes when you consume to excess.

For most people, drinking two to three cups of coffee no negative impact. Drinking coffee with more frequency than that can cause heart palpitations, insomnia, headache and other disorders. Therefore, for those who consumed coffee that was not sleepy-such as lack of sleep-advised to spread consumption throughout the day.

Research on the relationship of coffee consumption with miscarriage does not provide uniform conclusions. However, for the safety of pregnant women are advised not to drink more than one cup of coffee a day.


Minggu, 05 Agustus 2012

Benefits of Cashew

Cashew (Anacardium Occidentale) including plant seeds into pieces two or so-called split seed plants. Proper name to classify this plant is a leafy plant two or ddisebut institutions also dikotil. Cashew tree has an uneven and dark brown.
Short-stemmed leaves are oval-shaped (ovoid) with scalloped edges, and stroke order leaves pins. The flowers are white. Part of his enlarged, fleshy soft, watery, and reddish yellow fruit is false.
It's not actually part of the fruit, but fruit is the enlarged stem. Cashew fruit actually called cashew (cashew), which is kidney-shaped stone fruit with hard skin and seeds who smashed two is by skin-containing resin.

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Curable Disease:Diabetes mellitus, dysentery, inflammation of the mouth;

Utilization:1. diabetes mellitus
Ingredients: 2 pieces of cashew stem bark and fennel pulawaras taste.
Method: The ingredients are boiled together with a 2 liter water until boiling, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drinked 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

2. dysentery
Ingredients: 1 handful of cashew leaf and 1 piece of bark cashew.
Method: Both these ingredients together with 1 1/2 liters of water to boiling, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drinked 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

3. inflammation of the mouth
Ingredients: 1 handful of cashew leaf and 1 piece of bark cashew.
Method: Both these ingredients together with 1 liter water until boiling, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drinked 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.
Composition:CHEMISTRY CONTENT: Cashew (Anacardium Occidentale), among others, contain chemical compounds such as Tanim and cardol anacardic acid, which is useful as an antibacterial and antiseptic.
Besides cashew leaves the young also have a chemical composition such as vitamin A content of SI 2689 per 100 grams, 65 grams of vitamin C per 100 grams, calories 73 grams per 100 grams, 4.6 grams of protein per 100 grams, fat 0 , 5 grams per 100 grams, 16.3 grams carbohydrate per 100 grams, calcium 33 milligrams per 100 grams, phosphorus 64 milligrams per 100 gram, 8.9 milligrams of iron and water 78 grams per 100 grams.

Jumat, 20 Juli 2012

Mangosteen Benefits

--> Mangosteen has a scientific name mangostana Garcia, grown in the archipelago and other tropical forests in this hemisphere, is not yet known to people familiar. Moreover, the fruit also called mangosteen fruit has not been widely used as a daily consumption society. The fruit is less popular with bananas, mangoes, oranges, apples, grapes and others.
The fruit is purple, with a decorative crown above the mangosteen fruit to look elegant. Therefore, in the world of fruit, Mangosteen Queen of Fruits didapuk Durian position to accompany the king of all fruits. Coupled with the many benefits of the mangosteen fruit to make fruit more stunning and must be consumed daily. From the list of benefits that will be described below, selaiknya you realize all the benefits of the mangosteen in conjunction with a healthy life. Especially when you know that you are generating 20 to 30 times more free radicals when you exercise than when you rest? These are all the free radicals that cause cellular damage in our bodies that cause all the degenerative diseases and problems that extends for the lifetime of running. Mangosteen contains antioxidants so much, and have the potential to neutralize free radicals. Then the effect of this fruit damage can squeeze out of the body without any side effects.

ResearchAntioxidants and Santon (Xanthone) is the main target of the research of the mangosteen fruit. According to a study at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico are the medicinal properties of the mangosteen, a Santon is extracted from the mangosteen fruit has antibacterial, antitumoral, anti-inflammatory, antifungal and antiviral properties. Experimental research conducted at the Department of pharmacognosy at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand concluded that extracts of mangosteen rind really have antibacterial properties. Mangosteen is a small purple fruit the size of a grapefruit, which has traditionally been used locally in southeast Asia to treat inflammatory disorders, dysentery, and skin, but no further explanation whether this practice is still growing in the local South East Asia, given the modernization which is also undermine the habit of consuming mangosteen. The fruit is also used to fight infection by boiling the fleshy part of his skin. In early 1855, a German scientist identified mangostin presence, a powerful antioxidant, known as Xanthones, which appear to fight infections, fungal, bacterial, antihistamines, and possibly cancer. Santon 210 have been identified in nature, and more than 40 of them have been found in the mangosteen fruit.

Usefulness of the drugSkin of the mangosteen has been used for centuries in Southeast Asia as a traditional medicine for treatment of abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery, infected wounds, eczema and boils. In traditional medicine, things like that mangosteen peel can be made on the pulverized into a powder, or boiled and applied to the wound treatment or sufficient in food. Currently, there is sufficient scientific evidence to support the efficacy of such treatment. 

Food
Mangosteen is usually eaten as fresh fruit. The fruit is also used to make jams and preserves by boiling the fruit with sugar and spices. Mangosteen can eat anytime, dn is always available in warm conditions, the storage of dry or moist, covered for 20 to 25 days, and up to 49 days or in cold storage with a temperature of 39-42 degrees Fahrenheit with relative humidity of 85 to 90 percent .

Any Mangosteen BenefitsYou must be curious about the great benefits of this fruit. To help you recognize the benefits of the mangosteen fruit, I will tell some of the benefits of the mangosteen fruit that we can enjoy:
  • Mangosteen fruit has a lot of antioxidants. As has been
  • we all know, antioxidants are very beneficial at all to destroy and fight free radicals that creeps on in our bodies.
  • Benefits are issued antioxidant mangosteen fruit is not only bias obtained by eating the fruit. Skin of the mangosteen fruit also contains many antioxidants.
  • From the isolation of the mangosteen rind is created substance xanthone.Pertumbuhan tumor and cancer cells can be inhibited by drinking the mangosteen fruit that has 40 different types of xanthone.
  • The benefits of the mangosteen fruit that others are derived from two types of substances called alpha xanthone mangostin and gamma mangostin. Various types of diseases can be prevented surely by both types of substances such xanthone.
  • Diseases such as Alzheimer's brains are dangerous and arthritis caused by an inflammation can be prevented by drinking the mangosteen fruit.
  • In addition to the above benefits of mangosteen, alpha mangostin function also replaces antibiotics like ampichilin bias. That's because alpha mangostin contain antibacterial very much.
  • Traditionally the benefits of the mangosteen fruit can also be used to maintain health and beauty. Minor ailments such as hemorrhoids, wounds and ulcers can be cured by diligent undoubtedly consume mangosteen fruit.
  • Besides being able to cure many diseases, the mangosteen fruit is also beneficial to prevent the emergence of various types of fungus in our bodies. Mangosteen Fruit Benefits you can get by eating the fruit of the mangosteen that are directly or can be made into a fresh juice.
When you include people who are lazy to eat fruit or drink juice, eat the mangosteen fruit extracts can also do. Moreover, many manufacturers are now producing fruit mangosteen extract in capsule form so it is easier for your consumption.

Mangosteen Benefits For Weight Loss
Of course there is nothing better than making Mangosteen juice. Mangosteen juice has a high amount of antioxidants, which makes it a powerful tool in the struggle to lose weight. Regular consumption of mangosteen juice will decrease your appetite and digestive system pumps with antioxidants. This reduces the amount of fat you consume and increase the body's fat burning ability. Juice can not do all the work to lose weight, so it is important continuous and regular exercise and maintaining a healthy balanced diet. The tips included. Drink one 8-ounce glass of mangosteen juice a half hour before breakfast to decrease appetite. Eat a balanced breakfast with a little protein, wheat and dairy products equivalent to 800 calories total. Correlation with a breakfast of juice in a balanced and should keep your appetite under control until lunch. Drink one 8-ounce glass of mangosteen juice a half hour before lunch.
Balanced lunch that includes whole grains, fruits or vegetables, and milk protein. Do not exceed 300 calories for lunch.

In summary the benefits of the mangosteen fruit if you're really not sure of is:
• slow down aging
• Fighting bacterial infections
• Prevent Alzheimer's
• Improve the symptoms of Parkinson's
• Help with anxiety and depression
• Helps reduce allergy symptoms
• Improve the health of the gums and eye health
• reduce Migraines
• Cure skin rash
• Reduce blood pressure
• Energize
• reduce inflammation
• reduce the pain
• Reduces tumor formation
• Reduce neuralgia
• reduce fever
• lowering cholesterol
• Stimulate the growth of red blood cells
• Helps in the healing of stomach ulcers, mouth and gut
• Helps fight viruses and infections
• Support on bone mass
• Enhance the immune response
• Helps protect the heart
• Helps reduce the formation of cataracts
• Reduce the irritable bowel
• Helps against fungi and parasites
• Helps support healthy blood vessels

Kamis, 05 Juli 2012

Benefits of Tamarind


Latin name: Tamarindus indica, Linn.
Family: Leguminosae

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a cultivar of tropical plants, including fruits and legumes. The trunk is quite hard to grow up and shade leaves. The trunk is quite hard to grow up and shade leaves. Tamarind leaves a long-stemmed, about 17 cm and finned even. The flowers are yellow and reddish brown fruit pods with a distinctive sour taste. Inside the pods are in addition to skin that wraps the pulp, seeds are also numbered 2-5 with a flat shaped somewhat blackish brown color.

composition:
CHEMISTRY CONTENT: Fruit tamarind pods contain chemical compounds such as apple acid, citric acid, sour grapes, tartaric acid, succinic acid, pectin and invert sugar. Tamarind fruit that ripen on the tree of which contain the calories by 239 cal per 100 grams, 2.8 grams of protein per 100 grams, 0.6 grams of fat per 100 grams, 62.5 grams carbohydrate per 100 gram, 74 milligrams of calcium per 100 grams, 113 milligrams of phosphorus per 100 gram, 0.6 milligrams of iron per 100 grams, vitamin A 30 SI per 100 grams, vitamin B1 0.34 milligrams per 100 grams, vitamin C 2 milligrams per 100 grams. Skins and seeds contain phlobatanin albuminoid and starch-containing seeds.

Curable Disease:
Asthma, Cough, Fever, hot pain, Rheumatic, abdominal pain, morbili: Allergies, Thrush, a new wound, wound ulcers, eczema, ulcers; Swelling stung by a centipede / bee, snake bites can, Hair loss
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Selasa, 19 Juni 2012

Benefits of Squash

Squash was first discovered by Patrick Browne in Jamaica in 1756. The species is widely planted in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. In Mexico is not only used chayote fruit, tubers are also used as food sources of carbohydrates.
Chayote fruit is usually cooked as fresh vegetables, vegetable acids. Stem and leaves of young shoots used to make salad / vegetables. Chayote (Sechium edule Sw) is a plant belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family. These plants include vines that can grow on the ground and low-lying plateau, without requiring special care.
Based on the appearance of the fruit, chayote is divided into two varieties, namely varieties of squash and pumpkin varieties of wine.
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Benefits of Squash
- Rich in Fiber

Chayote fruit has fiber content is good enough, ie 1.7 g per 100 g. Consumption of adequate amounts of fiber is good for constipation and is safe for sensitive stomach / intestinal inflammation. Dietary fiber may reduce cancer risk due to incomplete digestion system. Dietary fiber can reduce the residence time (transit time) of food from the oral cavity to the rest of the food issued in the form of feces. During his stay in the digestive tract, dietary fiber will bind substances carcinogenic (causing cancer). Thanks to the short transit time of food remaining in the gastrointestinal tract, the carcinogenic substance stays in the body is also shorter, so the chances of cancer is very small.

- Folic acid content in fruit squash is also quite good, which is 93 meg per 100 g. Consumption of 100 grams squash 23.25% is sufficient to meet the body's need for folic acid. Folic acid is essential bg pregnant women because it can reduce the risk of birth defects. Low intake of folic acid in pregnant women is closely linked to low birth weight and the incidence of neural tube defects (brain disorders). Folic acid deficiency anemia is characterized by symptoms, the number of grains of red blood cells is reduced. Folic acid requirement in adults is 400 meg per day. This needs to be doubled in women who are pregnant, and was 50% in the mother is breastfeeding.

- Lower Cholesterol.
Chayote fruit is also rich in potassium. Potassium is useful for the body to control blood pressure, hypertension treatment, and clean the carbon dioxide in the blood. Potassium is useful for working muscles and trigger ganglion. High potassium will also facilitate the delivery of oxygen to the brain and helps accelerate the fluid balance, so a fresh body. In addition, chayote fruit also contains vitamin component is high enough.

- Niacin is part of the vitamin B complex known as vitamin B3, serves to decrease the production of VLDL (very low density lipoprotein) in the liver, so the production of LDL cholesterol (low density lipoprotein) and triglycerides may decline. Niacin plays on enzymatic reactions in the body to metabolize carbohydrates, fats and protein, which is a coenzyme I and coenzyme II. Niacin is needed for energy supply in normal tissues. Severe niacin deficiency after a few months will result in pellagra as well as dermatitis, skin disorder that is distinctive and symmetrical, especially in parts of the body that are not covered such as the hands, arms, elbows, feet, skin, and neck.

- Conjoined Pumpkin is also rich in vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 has an important role in protein metabolism. Vitamin B6 is essential for the process of transamination & deamination and decarboxylation of amino acids. The need to achieve 0.02 mg per day for adults; 0.015 mg for infants; 0.2 to 1.2 for children, and 1.4 to 2 mg for adolescents.

- The content of selenium in the squash is also quite good. Selenium plays an important role to improve the mood. A study in the United States (1996) proved that his people are the lowest selenium levels showed the worst mood. Selenium intake of about 55-70 meg per day is recommended.

Nutrient composition per 100 grams of Pumpkin Siam - The composition of the nutrient content
  • Energy (kcal) ... 17
  • Protein (g) .... 0.82
  • Fat (g) .... 0.13
  • Carbohydrates (g) .... 3.9
  • Fiber (g) ... 1.7
  • Sugar (g) ... 1.85
  • Calcium (mg) ... 17
  • Iron (mg) ... 0.34
  • Magnesium (mg) ... 12
  • Phosphorus (mg) ... 18
  • Potassium (mg) ... 125
  • Sodium (mg) ... 2
  • Zinc (mg) ... 0.74
  • Copper (mg) ... 0.12
  • Manganese (mg) ... 0.19
  • Selenium (mg) ... 0.2
  • Vitamin C ... 7.7
  • Thiamine (mg) ... 0.03
  • Riboflavin (mg) ... 0.03
  • Niacin (mg) ... 0.47
  • Vitamin B6 (mg) ... 0.08
  • Folate (meg) ... 93
  • Vitamin E (meg) ... 0.12
  • Vitamin K (meg) ... 4.6

- Prevent Hypertension.
classified as a heart-healthy diet and blood vessels when it contains the ratio of potassium: sodium of at least 5:1. Every 100 grams of fruit squash containing potassium: sodium ratio of 62:1. In addition, the squash is also known to have diuretic effects, so as to reduce salt levels in the blood via the urine disposal. The reduced levels of salt that is absorbing / holding this water will ease the work of the heart in pumping blood, the blood pressure will decrease.

- Pumpkins Siamese
are also very good for gout sufferers. Diuretic effect of squash will launch urinate, so the excess uric acid can be readily removed from the body