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Babies who are exposed to salty foods before 6 months seem to develop a taste for salt also determines your relationship with her in the future. New research indicates it. If you do not want your baby to have health problems due to excessive consumption of salt when I grow up, be sure to read this article.

Mothers often worry that their children do not develop too much for your sweet tooth. Candy and chocolates are as the villains of childhood are associated with obesity, tooth decay and poor nutrition. Making small to have a healthy relationship with sweets, is almost an ordeal. So, Rachel says proudly that his son definitely does not like sweet foods. But what about the salt? Nobody seems to think about the effects of salt in early childhood. Read the rest of this entry »

A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation concluded that if you win or eat compulsively cravings are likely to be forcing your brain to eat, as a result of an addiction.

This addiction is “fueled” by certain foods. Here is a list of foods that cause more addiction:

1. Junk food, a definition which is given to a wide variety of foods low in nutrition.

2. Sugar. In an animal experiment found that sugar is potentially addictive because it promotes the release of endorphins, which give the sensation of pleasure. When you remove sugar from the animals was observed experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »

Among others, calcium serves four main functions in the body. A primary role in the formation of bones and teeth, adds its participation in muscle contraction in the transmission of nerve impulses and blood clotting.

The regulation of calcium in the body, which includes intestinal absorption, deposition in bone and elimination via urine is complex and depends on several components: phosphorus and parathyroid hormone or hormones such as parathyroid hormone, calcitonin and vitamin D , acting on the bone, kidney and intestine. With phosphorus balance is antagonistic, ie, increased plasma levels of one leads to decreased other, which makes us revise the diet, route of both minerals. Read the rest of this entry »

To account

Although the results filled with optimism and new ideas to doctors and researchers should be clear that much remains to determine the extent and feasibility of using lactobacillus as drugs (biotherapeutic agents), and the right dose for treating illnesses.

Thus, although substantial market exists in the number of food and nutritional supplements including lactic acid bacteria and to ensure its effectiveness in treating various diseases, mainly gastrointestinal disorders, medications can not be considered, but agents in combination with a balanced diet served to strengthen the functioning and resilience of the digestive system. Read the rest of this entry »

Lactobacillus casei (Shirota and casei casei DN114). For over 30 years is evidence of the beneficial effect of these organisms on the natural defense and elimination of toxins and microorganisms that cause diarrhea, including rotavirus.

Recent studies in mice show that this family of lactic acid bacteria reduces the risk of colon cancer and, increasingly insistent, it is accepted to be effective in the prevention and treatment of gastritis. Also been observed to be effective at reducing stomach acid problems in those who continue treatment with drugs that irritate the stomach. Read the rest of this entry »

Case by case

Let’s look closely at the types of lactic bacteria most common:

Lactobacillus bulgaricus. The combined action of these microorganisms with bacteria and Streptococcus thermophilus produces yogurt that we all know and even some nutritionists consider superior to milk, because it has proportionately more calcium and causes no problem of indigestion to those who are lactose intolerant.

Besides this, several studies have shown that lactic bacteria force the body to produce interferon gamma, a substance effective against infections (in women helps prevent that originate in the vagina) and reduces the severity in cases of allergy. Therefore, the yogurt is highly recommended for feeding the human being and recovery of those with anorexia, asthma, alcoholism, or cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

Qualities

To facilitate the study of many products, dietary supplements and novel foods that are in the market, specialists have created four categories that encompass, depending on your action:

Functional. In addition to nurture, generate positive effects on health. An example is the flesh of fish and fortified milk, which contain omega-3 fatty acids, which stimulate intestinal defenses and reduce circulatory ailments.

Prebiotics. These fibers are indigestible ingredients that stimulate the activity of beneficial bacteria in the large intestine, so they are not exploited by humans, but they help indirectly. Among them are made with whole grain foods. Read the rest of this entry »

Many foods improve bowel function and help the immune system because they contain lactobacillus or lactic acid bacteria, which work in harmony with the intestinal flora. Find out how this happens.

While the relationship between diet and health was recognized by the Chinese people for several centuries, not to mention that the Greek physician Hippocrates said almost 2,500 years ago that “food should be your medicine”, was until recent years that gave renewed attention this important field. Read the rest of this entry »

The prevalence of childhood obesity has tripled in the last 15 years. Weight gain depends not only on how many calories you ingest, but also in whatever form. Carbohydrates, contrary to what was supposed to gain weight more than fat caloric value being equal.

Two studies in the Department of Food Science, Physiology and Toxicology at the University of Navarra has shown that not all calories as fat.

They show two articles published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism and Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics, two relevant publications in the field of Nutrition. They describe the results of these investigations, comparing the weight gain caused by two isocaloric diets (with the same calories), one rich in fat and the other rich in carbohydrates, both conducted in rodents.

So far we suspected that our diet and our parents, grandparents, etc., Affecting our genetics According to the published results, weight gain depends not only on how many calories you ingest, but also in whatever form. “This difference,” explains one of the study’s authors, Professor of Nutrition Alfredo Martinez, “is due to changes in our cells, ie, diet-induced changes in our genes through a process called methylation” he says. Read the rest of this entry »

Our agency receives daily many noxious product of daily activity. These must be removed through the intake of certain foods whose main function is to help expel any ingredient that may cause some type of injury or illness.

Fortunately, nature provides us with these foods daily, together, help us to keep the body detoxified. Although all foods have their share of purifiers are some plants that occupy the list of body scrubbers, among which stand out.

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