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| Vitamins: The Right Choice |
| 2011-07-28 06:00:58 |
Do you doubt: whether you should take extra vitamins from the pharmacy, or natural vitamin dose you receive every day with food is enough to solve such a difficult problem as the maintenance of good health. Anyway, how big is the real benefit from the vitamins, aren't the producers of multi-colored pills cunning by telling about the absolute their necessity? Let's see!From food or from vitamin products?To get the required daily dose of vitamin only from food, you must be sure your diet is >perfectly balanced, and eat every day for 5 portions of fresh fruits and vegetables (based on recent studies,experts propose to increase this number to 8 or even 10.Also, consider the following facts: In nature there are products which are present at once all the vital vitamins the human body.Vita...
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| Vitamins and their natural sources |
| 2010-03-30 06:19:07 |
All vitamins can be found in a bottle, but do we know where to look for them in their natural sources? When most people think of vitamins they think of a pill, or several pills, as their source. If you asked about the "natural" source of specific vitamins you would probably hear that you can find vitamin C in an orange or vitamin D from the sun. To refresh our memories, or perhaps to learn this for the first time, let's take a look at the basic vitamins, what they do for us and where, in nature, they can be found.Please note that this is provided as information only, and is in no way meant to help with any self-diagnosis. As with everything health related, if you believe you may have a deficiency or wish to know how much of a vitamin you should be taking, see your physician.Vitamin A ...
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| Vitamin D Sunlight or Supplements? |
| 2009-10-15 09:42:52 |
Giving your body the vital nutrients it needs to stay healthy is so important… and new research has uncovered that one of the most important nutrients, vitamin D (sunlight or supplements), may have more of a role in keeping us healthy than we even suspected.When it comes to risks for deadly heart disease, deficiencies of vitamin D may be a risk factor that has, until now, gone unrecognized.It may also be linked to other risk factors for heart disease that include diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure. The good news is that this type of deficiency is an easy thing to fix.Several large studies have shown that those with low vitamin D levels were two times as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or another heart related event as compared to those with higher vitamin D levels.” Vitami...
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| Is the sugar harmful? |
| 2009-03-14 04:09:13 |
The sugar is glucose, necessary for almost all processes associated with metabolism. Consequently, one would think that sugar is useful. However, to the dissapointment of everyone who loves sweets, it is not.
Because the refined sugar, honey or sweeteners such as maple syrup, brown sugar and white flour, represent carbohydrates, which do not contain essential nutrients, or contain them in very small quantities. Thus, in the body are supplied the net carbohydrates that have no significance for metabolism. To ensure the filing of the body with necessary substances, in addition to the sweets it is needed to eat other products, which means to consume more calories than expended, resulting in the addition of weight.
Persons who eats sugar, need vitamin B1 (thiamine). It is necessary in the digestion of carbohydrates and to turn them into glucose. Because sugar and other sweeteners do not contain vitamin B 1, or contain it in very small quantities, it must be presented in the body wi...
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| Synthetic and natural vitamins: good or bad |
| 2008-11-28 05:52:34 |
Vitamins were discovered and examined not in our era and they are known long ago. Nevertheless, some of the issues associated with them, still causes misunderstandings and doubts.Why, for example, some of these substances occur in the body by themselves, while others may be obtained only from the outside? Why without them the metabolism is disturbed, and if so - their surplus disturbs it even more? How useful are natural vitamins and harmful the synthetic ones?I won't stop on the benefits of the natural vitamins (there are many posts on the blog about them), but here is the list of sid...
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| The B Group Vitamins (part 2) |
| 2008-04-09 11:31:20 |
Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5Vitamin B6Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is involved in the processing of certain amino acids and in the functioning of the immune system, in the production of antibodies to fight infections. It plays a role in the production of red blood cells and in the processing of carbohydrates and fats. This water soluble vitamin is pervasive in many foods.Lacking vitamin B6 may affect the development of atherosclerosis and lower immunity.Vitamin B9Vitamin B9 (folic acid) is required for the proper functioning of vitamin B12 in the production of red blood cells and processing of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Good sources of this water soluble vitamin are: liver, kidney, green vegetables, yeast, fruits, dried beans and lentils, grains and untreated wheat seed...
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| The B Group Vitamins |
| 2008-04-09 11:28:23 |
This group includes 11 different vitamins, such as riboflavin (vitamin B2), thiamine (vitamin B1), folic acid, pyridoxine (vitamin B6), Pantothenic acid.Vitamin B1 (thiamine or aneurin) is involved in processing carbohydrates and providing vital energy for all of the organism. This water soluble vitamin is essential for the healthy functioning of the nervous system and muscles. It also plays a role in dealing with the body pain and may influence the intellectual functioning of the brain. Good sources of vitamin B1 - Lean pork, liver, kidneys, potatoes, cereals (millet, oat, buckwheat), bread (rye and wholegrain), legumes, green peas.A light deficiency of this vitamin can cause digestive disorders, nausea, constipation, fatigue, irritability and forgetfulness.Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) is inv...
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| Vitamins And Minerals For Improving Memory |
| 2008-01-31 07:22:42 |
Zinc - improves memory, influences the concentration of attention. Most easily the zinc is digested from marine fish, leguminous, bread, flour products from the full milling, turkey.Boron - although this micro-element is present in the food, with its lack - the brain activity is reduced. Boron is contained in the apples, pears, Grapes of broccoli.Calcium - necessary for the normal functioning of the nervous system. It is contained mainly in dairy products, as well as in oranges, dried apricots, broccoli.Magnesium - like calcium, is responsible for the transmission of nerve impulses. Can be found in peanuts, bananas, degreased milk. Iron - is necessary to preserve the ability to remember and focus. His sources: giblets, liver, fat meat, dried fruits, beans, green vegetables. Vitamin B1 - ...
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| How Harmful Is The Sugar? |
| 2008-01-19 08:33:38 |
The Sugar consists of glucose, which is necessary for almost all the processes involved in metabolism. It can be assumed that the sugar is useful, but, to the disappointment of all who love sweets, it is not so.Why? Because refined sugar, honey or sweeteners, such as Maple syrup, brown sugar and white flour, constitute carbohydrates, which do not contain the essential nutrients, or contain them in very small quantities. Thus, the body is supplied with pure carbohydrates that do not have a big significance to metabolism. To ensure that we give the body necessary substances, in addition to the sweets there is need to have other products, which means the intake of more calories than are spent, resulting in the addition of extra weight.Those who eat sugar need vitamin B1 (thiamine). Because wh...
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| Vitamins Will Be Chafed Into The Skin |
| 2007-12-29 08:30:18 |
The new method was developed by scientists from the Israeli Microbiological company Tagra.With their efforts have been established the micro-capsules containing a nutritive substance (i.e. vitamin), and surrounded by some coverage.This coverage has a special feature: the capsules (their shape resemble with some peculiar soft powder) can be jammed in the hands, rubbed with the fingers - they remain untouched.But if such a tiny capsule just barely gets in cream, gel, or any similar substance to them, the protective coating immediately becomes flexible and mitigated. When the capsules are then taken in hands, and the person begins to rub them into her skin, they collapse, and the nutrients get directly into the skin.It must be said that there is no interaction between the cream or the surroun...
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