The Nutrition Labels

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Posted on 4th December 2011 by admin in Healthy Lifestyle

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You all know that outside of food and beverage packaging that we buy, that there has is that the nutritional labels of food products. But we know much more than that? Do we know how to read it? Is there a hidden fact that there we should be aware of? There are so many questions about such a small label. But believe or not, a lot of information on the label, has been revealed is that we buy the product again. Let’s see what information on the nutritional labels of food and more importantly shown how to nutrition information to help us can read and eat healthy.

Before you try decoding this Nutrition Facts food label, you must know that the label designed for adults which is usually around 2,000 calories each day. Therefore, the food nutritional information is not designed with children.

Let’s start from scratch. Most of the information on food nutrition labels is measured in grams and milligrams, elements such as: carbohydrates, cholesterol, fiber, fat, protein, sodium and sugar. There are other pieces of information in the form of percentages, such as vitamins and minerals available. Once again, all the nutrition information is listed for adults are calculated based on the intake of 2,000 calories.

Second serve information such as size, number of calories per serving and of course the ingredients listed on food nutrition information. Portion size is the amount of food or drink for the item. Nutrients on the label refers only to the specified size of the portions. So if you eat more than the specified size of the portions, then you need to increase the number of calories, fat, sugar, etc. Also the number of servings on the food label to the container. Be careful because there are big differences between the individual serving size and number of servings for the entire package. Speaking of calories, which are also listed for individual servings on labels of foods nutritional values. (more…)

Cause of Nightmares

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Posted on 1st December 2011 by admin in Healthy Lifestyle

Often times we experienced nightmares during sleep, often even among us does not know the cause of our nightmare. In fact, there is often a nightmare to believe and think will happen because there is something bad will happen. In fact, nightmares often occur due to the influence of your real life before you sleep, especially when you experience something that makes you very depressed. A diet that is not good it can also cause us to experience nightmares. Here’s why you are having nightmares:

1. Stress
Stress, often caused by traumatic on real events. Sometimes they are the reason of the nightmare or bad dream. According to the Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), the main cause of this nightmare is the grief of losing loved ones, and suffered or witnessed an attack or major accident, can stimulate the emergence of a nightmare. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is also a common cause of the nightmare over and over again.
However, not at all nightmares happened by things that are traumatic. Cause of daily stress, such as pressure on the work environment, such as life-changing financial problems or fired from their jobs, can also cause nightmares.

2. Spicy foods
What we eat can have an effect on events when we sleep. That can also lead to a nightmare. There is little research published in International Journal of Psychophysiology classifying healthy men, and eating spicy foods before they went to sleep one night, and then compared the quality of sleep at night when they eat food that is not spicy.
At night when they eat spicy foods, the study participants took longer to wake up, and produce a poorer quality of dreams. Explanation is spicy foods can raise body temperature and this is disturbing to sleep. This is probably also the reason why people often have nightmares when they sleep near the time they finished eating. Meal before bed can increase your metabolism and brain activity, and causing nightmares. (more…)

Healthy Lifestyle with a Lemon

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Posted on 30th November 2011 by admin in Healthy Lifestyle

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Lemons grow in many countries, but grew in abundance in Sri Lanka, India, Mexico, Malaysia and the West Indies. When lemons are ripe, the color changes from green to yellow.

Here are some health benefits of lemon juice:
1. Lemon juice is antibacterial drink. This can kill the bacteria of malaria, cholera and typhoid. You can see people add lime juice to raw oysters before have to eat.

2. Natural lemon, it famous contains vitamin C to cure scurvy, who is one of the symptoms of inflammation of the gums. Scurvy was disease at one time common among sailors at sea vessels for long periods.

3. Lemonade is a refreshing drink. Not only has that cools effect for the body, but that also good for a bad cold. Next time if you have a fever, drink a mixture of lemon and sugar or honey with water.

4. Lemon can be use to relaxing the feet as well. You can enjoy your feet relaxation when your feet soak into warm water and rub them with lemon juice. This opens the pores and drink the lemon juice give a cooling effect. This treatment should be done so as you sleep better because it acts to relax the leg nerves.

5. Some women use lemon juice mixed with water to wash their hair because they believe it will increase the brightness.

6. Another little tip – you can drink some other juices from other fruits such as apples to avoid a discoloration of the flesh when exposed to air.

Tips to Buy a Sweet Lemon

Not all of the lemon was sweet. Here are tips:

* Select a firm lemons and with a clear lemon yellow.
* Comparing the same size of lemon, select that one which is the heavier. Greater weight showed more mineral and sugar.
* Look for thin-skinned lemons tend to be stricter with more mineral content.
* At the two ends of the lemon, identify the “butt” on the lemon. A stem like stars and you’ll also see three, four or five points of this star. That points of the star used for you to know how much the mineral content in a lemon. Total points higher, the higher the mineral content.

Juice Tips:

* Room temperature more prevent damaged quality lemon than you put it in a refrigerator. So you have to remove the lemon from your fridge before you have to juice the lemon.
* Before juice, try the microwave the lemon and you will get more water from the lemon. However, do not superfluous, because you are not supposed to cook the lemon!

Healthy-lifestyle does not only go to gym and have a exercise, But you have to pay attention to food and drink even adequate rest.All the Best!

Healthy Lifestyle with Changing Eating Patterns

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Posted on 30th November 2011 by admin in Healthy Lifestyle

In this life there are so many choices, even these also apply to healthy lifestyles (and also for you who want lose weight). If you want a healthy life or to lose your weight, there are several alternative menus can you try changing your diet (daily) you, here there are:

1. CHANGE: White Rice with Boiled Potatoes
Why a potatoes? Because a potatoes have the kind of complex carbohydrates, that is so good for the body’s metabolism. Potatoes also contain glucose (sugar substance) which is lower than rice. So does no harm if we occasionally replace the rice with potatoes.

2. Change: White Rice with Brown Rice.
Nutrient content in brown rice are more than the white rice. In addition to nutrients, brown rice also contains plenty of fiber contained in the skin. Unfortunately milling process makes many nutrients are lost?

3. Change: White Bread with Whole Grain Bread (Wheat).
If you change the commonly used wheat flour with wheat (like breads, cereals, pasta), a lots of benefit for your health. Because wheat contains soluble fiber (water-soluble fiber) can lose your bad cholesterol and insulin levels.

4. Change: 1/4 Meat with Fish.
Fish is ideal as a source of protein for the body because fish contain good fats. That can be certainly that some fish such as salmon contain omega 3 which is very important for the health of your heart and brain.

5. CHANGE: Regular Sugar with Low-Sugar Calories
Reduce the use of sugar in your food, even if forced by reason of lack of good taste without sugar, use low-calorie sugar. Because other than sugar may increase the risk of diabetes and obesity, gradually use of excessive sugar can lead to glycosylation.
Glycosylation is the process of supporting the sugar molecules into protein molecules, causing damage to cells and can increase inflammation, and cause a blockage of blood vessels.

6. Change a Bag of Potato Chips with Apple Slices.
Life is indeed felt empty without a snack. But without we realize that we ignore snack and think that won’t make you gain weight, actually is very influential to add your weight. We can replace it with sliced apples that besides not containing fat, high fiber and also contain antioxidants. While potato chips, contain zero calories. And because it fried, so must contain the oil and salt.

7. CHANGE: Soda with Water or Tea.
Soda contains lots of sugar that can add weight, if any company that offers a diet soda; it’s all not free from artificial sugars that can cause cancer.
We’d better replace it with plain water, which has been proven the best drinks relievers thirsty and without side effects. White water systems also play an important role in metabolism. Or it can be replaced with a tea that contains high antioxidants.

8. Change: Green Apples with Red Apples.
Surely we are wondering “why it must be replaced, is it equally apples??” It’s his choice to consume whatever remains of the best apples. However, we need to know that red apples proved to have two times more antioxidant activity than green apples. Antioxidant levels were also five times more than the green.

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