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Advantages of Dietary Supplements

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Dietary SupplementDietary supplements contain a variety of ingredients, which may be present as concentrates or extracts, and are supplied in capsules, tablets, pills, pills, granules, tablets, powders, liquids or injections.

The elements commonly contain formulations can be grouped as follows:

Vitamins. Micronutrients that allow the body perform their functions and stay healthy, which are essential for metabolism, development and growth of the body are normal.

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Diets Based On Blood

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

gol oDiets based on blood type was first introduced by Dr. Peter JD’Adamo in his book, “Eat Right For You Type” said that that every person has a different response to food intake based on blood group-owned, that is why certain types of diets can not be applied to everyone.
Some of the benefits if the following blood type diet is such a stable emotional condition, easy to handle stress, increase body resistance so as not easily hurt
Dr. Peter JD’Adamo doing research for years on every type of blood and the results show that there are physiological effects of lectins would appear that enter the body
Lectins are proteins the body absorb the food, he says only compatible with certain blood types. If the food does not match the lektinnya blood type would lead hazards include clumping of red blood cells that cause a variety of health complaints
Based on these results Dr. Peter JD’Adamo doing research by checking each type of blood reactions to certain foods and make a list of appropriate foods for each blood group, then he also classifies food based on race, because he thought the blood type of each race is different because the neighborhood.
History Evolution
According to Drs. Peter JD’Adamo based on the evolutionary history of about 50,000 to 25,000 years BC human ancestors have the same blood type is “O”. They are true hunters who are always eating game meat, for that Dr. Peter JD’Adamo suggested that the owner of O blood group consume more high protein foods, following the low-carb diet with lots of eating meat or fish, but avoid dairy products and wheat
O blood group owner free eating meat and fish mixed with olive oil, but it was free to consume eggs, nuts but should limit fruit. While food should really be avoided is a cereal, a variety of pasta and rice, to obtain the maximum stamina encouraged to do aerobic exercise movements like the movement of the hunters. (more…)

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Folic acid in diet

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

folic acidFolic acid is a vitamin that in some circumstances of our life is very necessary. It is one of the B vitamins, especially important in the growth time, adolescence and during pregnancy.

This vitamin helps prevent certain birth defects related to the brain and spinal cord (called neural tube defects). Hence it is advised that the woman consumed before conception and during early stage of pregnancy to prevent these defects (for women age who may become pregnant, the recommendation is 400 mcg. Folic acid daily).

The difference between folic acid and folate is that the former is vitamin B complex man-made and is used as a vitamin supplement and added to certain foods (called enriched or fortified foods), while folate is the natural way of vitamin B complex and is found naturally in some foods.

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