‘Minerals’

The benefits of Vitamin C

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Vitamin C

Unlike other vitamins and minerals if taken in excess can cause health problems, vitamin C does not cause damage, even when taken in large quantities.

Of course, it was not excessive daily intake of this vitamin, but that each person ate doses required, depending on the physical and mental activity was agreed.

VITAMIN C NOT ONLY GOOD FOR COMBAT AND PREVENT fever, but also helps the body stay healthy longer.

BENEFITS

1. Helps maintain healthy heart and entire cardiovascular system.
2. Played a role in cancer treatment.
3. Promote faster recovery from tissue injury.
4. Helps prevent broken bones.
5. Helps the immune system to function properly.
6. Against asthma and allergy symptoms.
7. Protect the body against damage caused by smoking or pollution.
8. Prevent diabetes, and to stabilize blood sugar levels by invigorating the metabolism.
9. Helps eliminate pollutants that attack the body: those from pollution such as lead, nitrates and nitrites in meats.
10. Increase the level of defenses to help prevent some diseases linked to the eye, nerves, hair and skin, including help prevent wrinkles.
11. It is a natural antihistamine that prevents or reduces sneezing, mucus, inflammation of the bronchi, asthma, etc..
12. Has antibacterial properties.
13. Help to establish vitamins and minerals such as calcium.
14. Assists the absorption of vitamins and minerals such as iron from food, taking vitamin C in three doses of 500mg each in the main meals.
15. Helps metabolize fats.
16. Has laxative properties, if taken 3 doses of 1000 mg per day each.
17. Necessary for the production of collagen (scarring), hormones (estrogens that decrease more hot flashes of menopause), also regulates hormone production (regulating thyroid) and neurotransmitters (regulating depression).
18. Take supplements of vitamin C helps reduce the symptoms of autism.
19. Improved morphology and sperm motility and sperm count.

WHERE TO FIND VITAMIN C???
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Healthy food for the heart.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

helthy food

Why you should eat Healthy food for your heart? Heart disease is one of the main causes of death among adults worldwide. Some things are more important than caring for your heart.

Make regular exercise, not smoking, controlling stress, eat less total calories, etc.. is part of the recommendations given by health experts, along with eating a variety of healthy foods for the heart and full of nutrients which consists of a healthy diet.

Where do you start? RegimesMaigrir.com suggest you add these 15 healthy foods for the heart to increase the intake while eating what you want, and maintain a healthy heart:

1) Salmon
Fish is an excellent source of omega-3 to protect your heart by reducing both inflammation risk of blood clots. Omega-3 also reduces the risk of heart attack.

These good fats will also maintain low cholesterol levels. Eating fatty fish, salmon or other fish such as tuna, sardines and herring at least 2 times a week.

To prepare a heart-healthy foods, try the baked salmon steak with vegetables and a salad dressed with lemon juice (instead of a vinaigrette sauce is too rich in calories).

Try to buy wild salmon, which contain less than polychlorinated biphenyl contaminants from salmon raised on a farm.

Salmon are also very healthy to maintain healthy skin. See also our recipe slimming “Salmon Sashimi” and “Cream of asparagus with salmon slices.

2) olive oil
Olive oil reduces the risk of heart disease by reducing levels of LDL ( “bad” cholesterol). Choose olive oil for cooking, or making a good sauce for whole wheat bread by adding a little olive oil in a small bowl and add a little vinegar and oregano basalmique.

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