Category Archives: Food and Nutrition
What is Food Pyramid?
The food pyramid is a useful tool for making healthy food choices at mealtime. Meet the food pyramid allows us to make choices between different options, helping to obtain the items needed by the body to function properly, also suggested portion sizes to control calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium in the diet.
At the [...]
The Importance of Vitamin C in Pregnancy
A pregnant woman with poor nutrition may suffer several problems during pregnancy, all reversible in your body. However, training the body is inside, they may not be going back, and the consequences of this condition the child for life.
One of the nutrients that can not miss during pregnancy is vitamin C, which in the absence [...]
Special vitamins: Vitamin C
One of the most common, famous and important nutritional vitamins is vitamin C. The consumption of Vitamin C is essential in under 20 years. For men under this age are recommended an intake of 90 mg per day, whereas in women a daily intake of 75 mg is enough.
The most important benefit of vitamin C [...]
Benefits of Celery
Celery is ideal for preparing salads and other dishes. It is a very nutritious vegetable: the vitamins are B, A, C and E. In addition it also contains various minerals. Its water content is very high and is included in all weight loss diets because of its diuretic properties. Let us know the benefits of [...]
Lack of vitamin D Carries a Higher Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
We’ve talked a couple of times about the importance of vitamin D for our body. This vitamins is acquired through certain foods such as milk or egg, and also by solar radiation. According to a new study, vitamin D deficiency is associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
The Institute of Cardiology, Intermountain Medical [...]
Vitamin D Linked to Hypertension in Women
Young women with vitamin D deficiencies are three times more likely to have high blood pressure in middle age, in relation to those with normal levels of the vitamin, according to a new study by the American Heart Association in Chicago.
Younger women joined a growing list of people including men, who can develop high blood [...]
Aluminum and Its Effects on the Body
Aluminum is a nonferrous metal and can enter your body in 3 ways: by what we eat, so we breathe and what we drink. We must take certain precautions because the aluminum has no beneficial biological function. On the contrary, some people manifest allergy to aluminum, suffering from contact dermatitis, and even digestive disorders, and [...]
Healthy foods to prevent and combat bronchitis
A study in the United States, found a lower risk of chronic lung diseases such as bronchitis, strictly volunteers who consumed a combination of healthy foods.
Healthy foods to prevent and combat Preventing bronchitis:
• Choose a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, poultry and whole grains and have good health insurance.
• Eat plenty of vitamin C [...]
Benefits of sunflower seeds
There are especially nutrient-rich foods with positive health effects of the body. This is the case of sunflower.
Benefits sunflower seeds. The seeds or sunflower seeds contain:
• Protein.
• Minerals, Potassium, Calcium, Iron, Zinc and Sodium.
• Vitamins, B, C, D, E and K, Niacin, Thiamine and Riboflavin.
• polyunsaturated fatty acids.
• They contain no cholesterol.
Benefits – properties of [...]
Benefits of avocado for healthy body
It is common knowledge that the pulp of a ripe avocado is as good as its taste is pleasant, since only enough to add a little salt to enjoy it. Besides the benefits to our health avocados are extraordinary.
Benefits of avocado for healthy body
The avocado contains:
• It is a rich source of vitamin E, A, [...]
