Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Eat Healthy Foods to Appear Younger

Always seen pretty, handsome, and younger is the desire of every human being. Many methods are used by us to use anti-aging products, which may give negative effects to the body.

You may not realize, to always look pretty, handsome, and younger, can be obtained by consuming healthy foods every day. Healthy Food consumption certainly cheaper and certainly safer.

Here are some healthy foods that can help you maintain your youthfulness, reduce risks of disease and aging faster.

1. Oats
Oats, known scientifically as Avena sativa, are a hardy cereal grain able to withstand poor soil conditions in which other crops are unable to thrive.
 
The benefits of oats for Heart disease: The study results show, eating oats helps lower cholesterol, due to the role of beta-glucan. Beta glucan is an essential nutrient in oats, which can block re-absorption of cholesterol. Oats also contain avenanthramides, anti-inflammatory compounds that help prevent atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, the most common cause of heart disease.
 
Servings: Consuming 3gram beta-glucan per day has been shown to help lower cholesterol re-absorption. In 40 grams of porridge oats contain 1.5 grams of beta-glucan.

How to increase the benefits: Choose as much as possible intact unprocessed oats. The glycemic index (GI) of porridge oats intact only reached 42 in each dish, while the GI of instant oat could reach 66.


This chart graphically details the %DV that a serving of Oats provides for each of the nutrients of which it is a good, very good, or excellent source according Food Rating System. This chart taken from WHFoods.com

2. Fish
As quoted from wikipedia, Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate (or craniate) animals that lacks limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups.

The following are the benefits of fish:
Cancer: In a Swedish study, omega-3 is able to reduce tumor size and kill cancer cells.

Dementia and stroke: Eating regularly at least three servings of fish high in omega-3 fatty acids per week can reduce the risk of brain lesions by 26 percent. Lesions of the brain is a cause of dementia and stroke.

Heart disease: Regularly consuming omega-3 has been associated with decreased risk of cardiovascular problems by 45 percent.

Blindness
: Consuming more than two oily fish a week can reduce the risks associated with macular degeneration (vision impairment caused by aging factors) by 39 percent.

Serves: The Heart Foundation recommends consuming at least 500 mg of omega-3 sources, which can be obtained by eating about 150 grams of fish every day day.

How to increase the benefits: Options are good sources of omega 3 on salmon, gemfish, blue mackerel, canned salmon, tuna, and sardines.

3. Tomato
Tomato may refer to both the plant (Solanum lycopersicum) and the edible, typically red, fruit which it bears. Originating in South America, the tomato was spread around the world following the Spanish colonization of the Americas, and its many varieties are now widely grown, often in greenhouses in cooler climates.

The following are the benefits of tomato:
Osteoporosis: At least two studies have shown that consumption of lycopene reduces the risk of osteoporosis. In 2009, a U.S. study found people who ate more than 4.4 servings of lycopene a week the risk of fracture is significantly less.

Heart Disease: Scientists from the University of Adelaide, said that eating at least 25mg of lycopene a day can lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol by 10 percent.

Preventing cancer
: Tomato-based phytochemicals and carotenoids, like lycopene, which has anti-cancer effects. The benefit to the skin, tomatoes can encourage cell repair skin exposed to sunlight exposure. In addition, too, can provide protection against skin cancer.

Serves: One cup of raw tomatoes may contain up to 3:46 mg 21 mg of lycopene. Scientists say take 500 ml of tomato juice every day or 50 g of tomato paste may protect against heart disease.

How to increase the benefits: Eat tomatoes are cooked. Because the content of lycopene in tomatoes would increase by 54 percent after two minutes cooked and 164 percent after half an hour.

4. Apple
Various studies have shown how much can you earn from the habit of eating apples. Here are some conditions that can be prevented by eating apples:
Heart disease: study shows, the consumption of apples every day will reduce the risk of heart disease by 22 percent, and lowers cholesterol 'bad' by 23 percent (after six months).

Alzheimer's disease: Apples contain antioxidants that help prevent toxicity in neurons of the brain, associated with the development of Alzheimer's.

Premature death: According to one study, eating lots of apples have a positive effect on mortality (death). As is known, high content of flavonoids apples, where these plants have pigments that have antioxidant effects.

How to increase the benefits
: To get a greater benefit, eat apples with their skin. Because, apple skin mengadung 75 percent of dietary fiber and at least a dozen anti-cancer compounds.

More health benefits of apple please read our post : The Health Benefits of Apples

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