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Friday, March 20, 2015
HOW DO YOU IMPROVE YOUR BALANCED DIET
the Union of diet and dietary supplements has reproduced two food menus, apparently balanced. Locate yourself in relation to the composition of these menus and use the findings to improve your own balanced diet.
California menu
Breakfast: 1 bowl of hot chocolate, 3 slices of toast, 1 pat of butter, 1 tablespoon jam. Snack 10 am 1 coffee, 1 sugar, 2 biscuits shortbread. lunch 1 pizza bakery , 1 apple, 1 light. Snack soda 16 h: 1 chocolate. Dinner cereal bar: 1 large plate of mixed salad (tomato, tuna, hard boiled egg, grated carrot, lettuce, rice, salad dressing), bread, dessert cream 1 vanilla, water. In Front TV: 1 stick sorbet
Did met the nutritional recommendations?
Yes for carbohydrates (toast, biscuits, pizza dough, cereal bars, rice and bread), protein (tuna and boiled egg), fatty acids (butter and salad dressing) and drinks (coffee, diet soda and water) .No for fruit and vegetables (potato, vegetable pizza, vegetables mixed salad). They should be eaten at least 5 times day. No for dairy products (chocolate, vanilla custard). Must be consumed three times a day. And last not for simple sugars (hot chocolate, jam, chocolate bar, sugar vanilla custard, sorbet). So limit the intake of sugars.
Pretty menu
For comparison, here is a menu respecting all nutritional. Breakfast recommendations: 1 bowl of tea lightly sweetened, 3 crackers, 1 nut spread margarine, 1 teaspoon honey, 2 grandchildren flavored Swiss, 1 orange juice without Sugar added. Lunch: fillet, braised zucchini noodles, 2 small potatoes in their jackets Champs, 1 fillet cream lightened, 1 yogurt 0%, 1 fruit salad syrup. Snack 16 h: 1 tea, biscuit. Dinner 1: 1 plate of green salad lightly seasoned with a vinaigrette of olive oil, 1 cold chicken leg, 1 pie slice, 1 apple, bread.
No excess simple sugars: honey and sugar 2 small Swiss aromatisés.5 fruits and vegetables: orange juice without added sugar, zucchini noodles, fruit salads, potato and salad verte.3 dairy products: Small-Swiss , yogurt 0% and Camembert.
You should also aim balance Tip: regularly write down everything you eat for a day. Then analyze your menu and adjust the next day your mistakes. You can easily and gradually acquire good eating habits.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Fuyu Persimmons What Are They And How Do You Eat Them How They Are Different From Hachiya Persimmons
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| Fuyu persimmons became one of my favorite fruits once I learned how to eat them! Follow Foods For Long Life on FACEBOOK ! |
What a Treat!
My friend Chris came over the other night and surprised me with a big bag of fuyu persimmons from her tree. I absolutely love these little fruits and planted a fuyu persimmon tree in my backyard almost 2 years ago. Unfortunately I have not yet gotten a single fruit. I hear that it can take up to 5 years. I wanted to buy some the other day but they were charging $1.50 each! The best bet is to find an Asian market like the one I shopped in last year in San Francisco that was selling them for only 50 cents a piece. But having a friend like Chris who brings you ones from her tree is actually even better!
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| Fuyu persimmons are shaped like a tomato |
Its Not a Hachiya!
Im dedicating a post to this subject because of the big mistake I made many years ago. Hopefully I can prevent this from happening to you.
When I was growing up, my father used to bring home these large, oblong persimmons. Today I know that they were "hachiyas" but back then they were just "persimmons" because I was unaware that any other type existed. He would set these out on the counter and patiently waited until they "ripened". Actually, it was more like waiting for them to turn to mush!
At the exact moment when they are a soft, liquidy gel, they become this wonderful, sweet and creamy fruit. However, if you eat them a minute sooner, they are extremely astringent and tart. Most people bake with them but me and my dad just ate the sweet, smooth pulp with a spoon.
So the first time I bought Fuyu persimmons, I set them out on my counter and waited for them to turn to mush. I waited and waited only to watch them rot. I couldnt image why they never ripened!
One day at work, I noticed a table of women passing around a sliced persimmon. The slices were hard like an apple and I wondered how they could stand to eat that astringent, unripe piece of fruit! They offered me a slice and I was shocked to discover this crisp, sweet delicacy wasnt astringent at all! I then learned that this was a Fuyu, not a Hachiya persimmon and that they are meant to be eaten when they are crisp, like an apple.That was a wonderful day in my life!
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| Hachiya persimmons are oblong (not short and squatty like a Fuyu) and must not be eaten until extremely ripe , soft and mushy. |
High in Fiber
Persimmons in general are very high in fiber providing about 6 grams per fruit. I write a lot about fiber and I will write more in the future as it is one of the most important things missing from the American diet. There has long been agreement that fiber is beneficial in preventing heart disease and diabetes. And, of course, everyone knows that it keeps you going, so to speak. Although I think its obvious, the jury was still out on fiber preventing colorectal cancer. Well, recently the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) has upgraded their findings and now report that high fiber foods protect against colorectal cancer. They recommend women eat 21 to 25 grams of fiber a day and men should consume 30 to 38 grams daily. So eating fruits like persimmons (and pears, which are another high fiber fruit) is a good way to get your daily requirement.
Simplicity in Preparation
My favorite way to prepare fuyu persimmons is just to peel, slice and eat them. They also make a wonderful ingredient for a raw, fall fruit salad. Dice them up and add to diced apples and pomegranate seeds for a crunchy and colorful treat!
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| Theres not much you can do to improve the flavor of this wonderful fruit. My favorite way to enjoy a fuyu persimmon is to just peel, slice and eat! |
Fish Oil or GLA to Treat Acne Vulgaris Controlled Human Trial Confirms 2g EPA DHA or 400mg GLA do the Trick!
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| If you want to know how to get of pubertal acne, you got to ask professional pubescents ;-) |
If you google "natural acne treatment" it will usually not take long until you find a reference to fish oil and gamma linoleic acid (as in borage or starflower oil). Against that background it is surprising that the Korean scientist are obviously the first to scrutinize the efficacy of 2,000 mg of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid and 400 mg γ-linoleic acid (from borage oil) in a parallel design dietary intervention study.
Long-standing "natural acne cure" now scientifically proven
The 45 participants with mild to moderate acne, were allocated to either of the intervention groups for 10 weeks, after which the effect on their skin was evaluated visually and via heamatoxylin, eosin and immunohistochemical staining of the lesions.
DHA + EPA vs. GLA + X: I am not sure if this may have skewed the results, but it is imho worth mentioning that the DHA + EPA group received their 2g of long-chain omega-3s in form of two caps of pure EPA + DHA. The GLA group, on the other hand, had to take 2 caps with 1,000mg of borage oil, which contains 200mg GLA per gram, but also up to 420mg of "regular" linoleic acid, of which scientists believe that it is an acne vulgaris promoter (Wolf. 2004).
And what the scientists observed was ... positive, at least in the omega-3 group, the mean inflammatory acne lesion count was significantly reduced (from 10.1 ± 3.2 in week 0 to 5.8 ± 3.4 in week 10; p < 0.05). |
| Figure 1: Changes in inflammatory acne lesion counts with time (left, top), noninflammatory acne lesion counts with time (left, bottom), and changes in patients subjective assessment (VAS) with time (right; Jung. 2014) |
In the end, there was no no significant difference between the two treatments for any of the measured parameters, so that it is probably up to you, whether you try to control the "fire within your skin" with GLA or DHA + EPA supplements."Mean non-inflammatory acne lesion counts were also reduced by omega-3 and GLA supplementation (23.5 ± 9.2 to 18.9 ± 8.3, p < 0.05, and 22.8 ± 8.4 to 19.2 ± 7.2, p < 0.05, respectively) at final visits, whereas mean lesion count in the control group was unchanged (from 21.8 ± 9.7 to 22.0 ± 8.6). Significant differences were evident between the treatment groups and the control group after 10 weeks (p < 0.05)." (Jung. 2014)
Figure 2: Before (top) and after (bottom) photos (Jung. 2014)
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| GLA, EPA & Co play an important role in thyroid disorders, as well | learn more |
It was thus high time for the "pro-science" to catch up with what "bro-scientists" all around the world knew all along. Fish oil and borage oil help with acne vulgaris.
Why? Well, in both cases its probably the reduction of the production of arachidonic acid-derived pro-inflammatory eicosanoids.
- Cordain, Loren, et al. "Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization." Archives of Dermatology 138.12 (2002): 1584-1590.
- Jung, Jae Yoon, et al. "Effect of Dietary Supplementation with Omega-3 Fatty Acid and gamma-linolenic Acid on Acne Vulgaris: A Randomised, Double-blind, Controlled Trial." (2014).
- Wolf, Ronni, Hagit Matz, and Edith Orion. "Acne and diet." Clinics in dermatology 22.5 (2004): 387-393.
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