‘Diet’

Fundamental Characteristics of Cancer-fighting foods

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Fundamental Characteristics of Cancer-fighting foodsExperts say that 50% of the tumors can be prevented with proper diet. Prevention is always better than cure and in the case of serious diseases like cancer, it is very useful to fill the kitchen with foods that are proven to have anticancer properties and not far from the food we daily. Integrate them as much as possible.

Fundamental characteristics of cancer-fighting foods

1. Olive oil:

The monounsaturated fats protect the colon-rectum cancer. By working on bile acids, olive oil reduce the risk of gastrointestinal mucosal growth. Do not forget that the arteries remain flexible to improve circulation and oxygenation of the entire network.

2. Water:

There is food, but we can not live without it. Water makes your cells alive, regulate many functions and help to eliminate toxins through urine and feces.

3. Garlic and onions:

Garlic and onion contain “allicin, a sulfur-rich compounds that act as scrubbers liver, eliminate toxic substances that accumulate in the blood and tissues. (more…)

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Rich Nutritional Benefits for the Body’s Inflammatory

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

A diet rich in antioxidant nutrients exerts anti-inflammatory power that achieves slow the development of diabetes, obesity and cancer, said today the president of the Spanish Federation of Societies of Nutrition, Food and Dietetics (fesnad), Alfredo Martinez.

Martinez explained that this is the conclusion of a major study presented at the Second Congress of the fesnad held up today in Barcelona, and stressed that this statement Underlying medical thinking, but has now been found.

“Some foods have a higher level of antioxidants that prevent inflammation,” noting that this, in turn, “acts as the trigger diseases such as diabetes, obesity and dyslipidemia,” remarked the professor of nutrition at the University Navarre.

The researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Medicine, Boston, biochemist Barry Sears, a medical doctor at the conference explained the important role of inflammatory Zone Diet, which proposes the proportion of 40% carbohydrate , 30% protein and 30% fat with extra intake of Omega 3. (more…)

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