Monthly Archives: January 2009

Choose Safe

Choose SafeThe consumption of non-fat foods should not choose the home. Note that there is a nutrient contents in it and make sure it is safe to health.

Professor of Food Science and Nutrition Department of Nutrition and Community Family Resource Bogor Agriculture Institute (IPB) Prof Dr Ali Khomsan Ms menuturkan, must be defined, food containing high fat and reduced fat contents can be said to be low fat food.

However, in the womb of fat, and there must be rules of the Board of Food and Drugs (BPOM). “If you have to comply with the rules, then it is good to eat,” called Ali.

Nutrition consultant’s Hospital Mother and Child in Ampera, Kemang, Putri Gita Menur SKM, said non-fat foods that have little fat womb. However, the function of this fat should not be overlooked. Function of fat is to help absorbsi vitamins that dissolves in fat. In addition, fat is also a source of acid-essential fatty acid that can not be produced by the body and must be supplied from food.

“Function of fat as raw materials are also hormones affect the physiological processes in the body, such as the making of sex hormones,” said Putri.

He also explained, in a network of fat body fat (adipose networks) have to function as an insulator to help maintain the body temperaturnya, while the women can provide unique feminine contours such as a network of fat in the buttocks and chest.

In addition, fat body fat in the network also act as a cushion to protect organs such as the ball eyes, kidneys and other organs. “Therefore, when someone is too often non-food consumption of fat, the functions of the organs will not function optimally, the patient for heart disease, high cholesterol, need to apply a low fat diet to help lower blood cholesterol level,” said daughter.

Putri added, the consumption of food low fat should ditanamkan since the children, that is approximately the age of 5 years to old age so that is expected to reduce the number Obesity in children and adults so that they can reduce the risk of disease degenaratif

“Thus, non-fat food is good food is consumed with the actual total low-fat, high fiber, low sugar, low salt, do not use the preservative, processed with a baked, boiled, high saturated fatty acid does not double (omega 3 and omega 6), “the message.

There is a Sense of Sickness in Mind

sicknessinmindHow many people need to improve the pain even just to sit in the dentist chair? And how might the Rugby players can continue to follow the match even with a broken arm bones?

Lecturer at the University of Sydney Lorimer Moseley has spent more time to study the problem, and appear with the answers that I too surprising.

In the research project recently, the information is in the most recent edition of Current Biology, Moseley and friends found the body size of members that can affect pain perception about the pain.

Some 10 people with arms that look sick members of their bodies through the broken glass that zoom in or out. If members of the body are too big, patient perceptions about the pain became stronger. When the swelling is reduced to direkayasa, the swelling is reduced and patients do not feel too sick. This explains the brain that respond to feedback and act in accordance with it.

So, when you hit the head again, do not look to the mirror and so the size of swelling. I do want to reduce the pain, think there is no swelling at all.

Caution, Sleep Disorders Can Be Parkinson asked!

sleepdisorderPeople who have sleep disturbances that make them cry or kick during sleep may face greater risk of contagious senility (demensia) or Parkinson disease, the results of such research is published journal Neurology U.S..

Sleep disturbance is often known by the term behavioral disturbances rapid eye movement sleep (REM). People who have sleep disturbance does not have the normal rhythm muscle weakness that appear during the REM phase, which is often known as sleeping in the dream stage. They even have the muscle activity is very much like hitting, kicking, or cry, particularly when disclosing their dreams.

Study involved 93 people with the type of sleep disturbance, but it does not have symptoms or signs of disease degeneratif nerves, such as lost memories or Parkinson disease. Development of health followed the participants for five years.

During that time, 26 people contract the disease recorded a decrease in the ability nervous. As many as fourteen people have Parkinson disease, 11 suffered demensia, and diagnosed a contagious disease or Alzheimer’s Disease lewy.

Researchers estimate the risk, five-year development of the disease is the decline in the ability nervous about 18 percent, while the risk for 10 years reached 41 percent and 12-year risk of 52 percent.

“This of course is very interesting for people who have sleep disturbances and their families and doctors,” said study author Ronald Postuma from McGill University in Canada.

“These results may help us to better understand how the development of this disease degeneratif nerve. All it also suggests that there may be opportunities for the development of protection from disease, perhaps even prevent it before symptoms can appear,” he said.

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