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The miraculous Vitamin E

July 7th, 2009, Tuesday, 10:28

Tocoferoles and tocotrienoles are grouped into four types: alpha, beta, gamma, and delta, is an important source of nutrients vitamin E.

It has many qualities essential for a healthy life. Vitamin E is lip soluble and sensitive to alkaline environments and oxidation.

Recommended daily dose: 12-20 mg.

Sources:

• vegetable oils rich in unsaturated fatty acids (soy, corn, sunflower), fruit oil (nuts, seeds of sun flower), germs of cereals, green vegetables (spinach in particular), and tomatoes are the main food sources of vitamin E. In the very small amount is found in meat.

Roles and characteristics of vitamin E

•Due to antioxidant action prevent cancer because protects healthy cells from free radicals and pollutants agencies;

• strengthens the immune system;

• Allows better blood irrigation in the whole body;

• Helps to combat the emergence cancer cells;

• Preserve ‘integrity’ of vitamin A

• Attenuates feeling of fatigue, improves mental efficiency, helping your body to recover after sustained effort (it is a vitamin essential for performance athletes)

• Are acting like anticoagulant that prevents blood aggregation wafers;

• Accelerates healing wounds caused by burns.

Useful Notes:

• Chemical treatments that are undergo vegetable oils, reduce the content of vitamin E

• Vitamin E is the subject of controversy: in ancient time was considered an aphrodisiac, anti sterilities remedy, but some recent studies contradict this hypothesis, considering that it is valid in the case of animals, not human beings.

• Iron should not be taken simultaneously with vitamin E, it is necessary to a break of 8 hours between administration of that two.

• Vitamin E is necessary when using anticonvulsive medicaments or certain antibiotics.

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Fibers: the secret to lose weight fast!

July 3rd, 2009, Friday, 08:00

Fibers accelerate loss kilograms in plus, but with one condition: to know how to consume! Here are some secrets of fibers to help you lose weight!

Which fiber helps you? Only natural fibers, present in fruits and vegetables, fresh or dried, in whole cereals, can help you keep your figure. Foods rich in fiber such as milk, are very valuable for the figure.

The same is true for tablets with cereal seeds: they act more on transit and constipation, than on the figure.

You must eat fiber at every meal to lose weight? To optimize the effect of fiber on the body, is preferable to consume at every meal. But through food diversifier you will diversify and the nature of fibers. In practice, this is how to join:

• Breakfast: a fruit, bread or whole oatmeal;

• Dinner: vegetable or fruit or dried vegetables or pasta or rice.

• Desert fruit (pie apples).

• Fiber: quantities ideal for losing weigh

Ideal would be to consume:

• Vegetables: at least 200 g at breakfast and dinner (raw, cooked or canned).

• Fruits: 1-4 daily, depending on hunger and appetite.

• Cereals: necessarily integral.

Why fibers strike hunger?

Several mechanisms explain that a diet rich in fiber limited calorific intake:

• Sources of fiber, like fruits and vegetables, are among the foods poorer in calories.

• Fibers require an effort to masticate. Eat more slowly, less so.

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