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14/05/2020

Sleep and immunity are tied closely. Explore what your immune system does while you sleep to better understand the immune benefits of sleep.

21/09/2019

Your family health history doesn’t doom you. But knowing more can help you act to reduce risk. Use these tips and motivation to help you gather your family health history.

18/09/2019

Ganito rin ba ang vitamins ng anak mo?
Kung hindi pa, better think twice. 😊

Para hindi sayang ang gastos, make sure na sulit ang vitamins ng anak mo. 'Coz kids need more nutrients than adults for they are growing and developing. ❤️

Usanimals, one of the USANA products for kids, is an advanced formulation of important nutrients beneficial for the maintenance of good health.

THE BENEFITS OF USANIMALS

Many studies show that most children do not receive the nutrition they need from their diets. Less than 25 percent of them eat the recommended ve servings or more of fruits and vegetables each day, and adequate amounts of key nutrients such as zinc, vitamin B6, magnesium, and calcium are missing from their diets. Vitamins C and D are also often de cient. A quality nutritional supplement, such as Usanimals, can help ensure that none of these essential nutrients are missing.

THE SCIENCE OF USANIMALS

Beta-carotene: Beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A in the body. Vitamin A helps in the maintenance of eyes, skin, and the proper function of the immune system.*

B vitamins: Usanimals contains a carefully proportioned complex of B vitamins, which support a healthy metabolism and normal growth and development.*

Vitamin C: An antioxidant critical to maintaining good health, vitamin C supports many important functions and is vital for the synthesis of collagen—a type of connective tissue. Collagen is the most abundant structural protein in the body and is essential for healthy skin, muscles, teeth, bones, skin, and blood vessels.*

Vitamin D: In addition to its important role in supporting bone health, vitamin D helps in the absorption and use of calcium and phosphorus throughout the body. It also helps maintain healthy immune function.*

Vitamin E: Vitamin E helps protect against free-radical damage to maintain good health. Eye health also depends on adequate amounts of vitamin E as well as vitamins A and C.*

Calcium: A healthy diet with adequate calcium and vitamin D, along with regular physical activity.

24/08/2019

If You Spend a lot of Time in Front of a Computer
Screen, Make Sure this Nutrient is Part of Your Diet

Research has some advice for young adults exposed to long-term computer screen display light. You may need a higher intake of lutein. Dietary lutein may have beneficial effects on visual performance, especially in contrast sensitivity.

Take a look at this study and see how lutein supports vision and where to get it in your diet.

https://askthescientists.com/higher-lutein-levels-improve-visual-function-long-term-computer-display-light-exposure/

In adults exposed to long-term computer display light, higher intake of lutein may have beneficial effects on visual performance, and contrast sensitivity.

14/04/2019

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD SQUEEZE LEMON INTO YOUR TEA

Catechins are antioxidants that are thought to be responsible for many of the health-promoting qualities of green tea.

Unfortunately, catechins are relatively unstable in non-acidic environments, such as the intestines, and less than 20 percent of the total remains after digestion.

Research conducted at Purdue University found that citrus juices enable more of green tea's unique antioxidants to remain after digestion.

Catechins were also significantly more bioavailable in ready-to-drink products formulated with ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Both vitamin C and citrus juices interact with catechins to reduce their breakdown in the intestines, but citrus juices were more powerful than could be explained by their vitamin C content alone.

The study showed lemon juice to be the most effective at protecting catechins, followed by orange, lime and grapefruit juices.

The combination of lemon and tea may be even healthier than previously thought. To get more out of your next cup of tea, don’t forget your squeeze of juice.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17688297
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802066/

13/04/2019

Your body constantly performs cellular cleanup. Autophagy and mitophagy help with cellular damage control. Learn how they help maintain your health.

23/02/2019

Blueberries!!

Blueberry-a tiny fruit superstar rich in plant compounds and antioxidants with health-supporting benefits!

Known scientifically as Vaccinium ssp., blueberries owe their deep blue color to their high anthocyanin content which gives a variety of fruits, and veggies their shades of deep blue, purple and red.

Plants produce these naturally occurring compounds as a protective mechanism against harsh environmental stressors including ultraviolet light, cold temperatures, and even drought.

In addition to their phytonutrient content, blueberries provide a wide-variety of other essential nutrients important for promoting health and well-being.

The small but mighty blueberry has also been studied for specific health supporting benefits including their effect on cardiovascular and cognitive health.

The biological activity of plant compounds in the human body is synergistic. Anthocyanins, other flavonoids and nonflavonoid phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables interact collectively to promote better effectiveness.

Consuming a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables, including blueberries, will help insure you get a variety of essential nutrients- vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, and other health promoting flavonoids to support better health outcomes.

https://askthescientists.com/higher-fruit-vegetable-intake-associated-lower-mortality-rate/

https://askthescientists.com/colorful-eating/

09/12/2018

The Effect of Processing and Preparation on the Nutritional Content of Foods

Even if you eat a "perfect diet," are you sure you’re getting everything you think you are from your food?
It’s a good question, and one you probably haven’t asked recently—or maybe at all. How does freezing, cooking, drying, and reheating affect the nutritional content of food? What about grilling? Should you cook your vegetables, or eat them raw?

Many of the nutrients in foods you eat are affected in different ways by the method of storage, processing, preparation, and cooking. Did you know that you lose as much as 80 percent of the vitamin C content of a fruit when it is dried?

There are exceptions, too. Cooking improves the bioavailability of carotenoids from foods. Cooked carrots, spinach, mushrooms, asparagus, cabbage, peppers, and many other vegetables supply more nutrients than when they’re raw. That means you get more carotenoids and ferulic acid. However, it is also true that cooking destroys much of the vitamin C and polyphenol content.

Another important carotenoid, lycopene, is also more bioavailable when the food source is cooked and processed. Tomato paste contains much more usable lycopene than raw tomatoes. Broccoli provides more of certain healthy nutrients when cooked, and more of other healthy compounds when raw.

There isn’t a single best way to prepare, store, process, or cook your food. As always, it comes down to variety and moderation. The best way to ensure you harvest maximum benefits from your diet is to eat a variety of the recommended servings of fruits and vegetables no matter how they’re prepared. And the more ways you make them delicious and enticing to you, the more likely you are to eat fruits and vegetables.

Here is a very informative page on the nutritional effects of food processing.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/processing
https://askthescientists.com/higher-fruit-vegetable-intake-associated-lower-mortality-rate/

08/12/2018

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21/08/2018

Paano Maiiwasan ang Gallstones o Bato sa Apdo

Ang gallstones o bato sa apdo ay mga namuong deposits ng digestive fluid sa gall bladder. Ang gall bladder ay maliit na organ sa kanang bahagi ng tiyan sa ilalim ng atay. Ito ang nagsisilbing imbakan ng bile na kailangan para sa pagtunaw ng taba sa ating bituka.

Iba iba ang laki ng gall stones. Maaaring kasinlaki lang iton ng butil ng buhangin at maaari itong maging kasinlaki ng isang golf ball. Ang mga taong may gallstones at nakakaranas ng mga sintomas ay kadalasang kinakailangang sumailalim sa operasyon upang tanggaling ang apdo. Ngunit kung wala namang senyales at sintomas na nararamdaman ay hindi ito kailangang operahan.

Sintomas ng Gall Stones
Minsan ay walang sintomas na nararamdaman ang may mga gallstones. Ngunit kapag bumara ang gallstones sa mga ducts sa apdo ay maaari itong magdulot ng sintomas tulad ng:
1. Biglaan at matinding sakit sa itaas na kanang bahagi ng tiyan,
2. Matinding sakit sa gitnang bahagi ng tiyan sa ilalim ng breastbone
3. Pananakit ng likod at kanang balikat
4. Ang sakit na ito ay maaaring maramdaman sa loob ng ilang minuto hanggang ilang oras.

Kailan ka dapat magpatingin sa doktor?
Kumonsulta sa inyong doktor kapag nakakaranas ng mga sintomas ng gall stones. Agad na kumonsulta kapag nakakaranas ng matinding komplikasyon mula sa gallstone tulad ng:
1. Labis na pananakit ng tiyan na kahit anong gawing posisyon ay matindi pa rin ang sakit
2. Paninilaw ng balat at mga mata
3. Mataas ng lagnat at chills.

Mga Dahilan ng Pagkakaroon ng Gall Stones.
1. Ang iyong bile ay mayroong maraming cholesterol o taba. Kapag maraming taba sa bile na inilalabas ng atay ay maari itong mabuo na parang mga crystals at kalaunan ay maaring maging gall stone.
2. Maraming bilirubin sa iyong bile. Ang bilirubin ay kemikal sa katawan mula sa ating dugo. May mga sakit na nagdudulot ng maraming produksyon ng bilirubin sa atay tulad ng liver cirrhosis, biliary tract infection at mga sakit sa dugo.
3. Hindi nailalabas ng maayos ang bile sa iyong apdo. Magiging concentrated ang bile sa iyong apdo at ito ay maaaring madresulta sa pamumuo ng gallstones.

Mga Risk Factors sa Pagkakaroon ng Gall Stones.
1. Pagiging babae
2. 60 taong gulang o mas matanda pa
3. Katabaan o obesity, Pagbubuntis
4. High-fat diet
5. High cholesterol diet
6. Hindi pagkain ng fiber-rich food
7. Pagkakaroon ng gall stones ng mga kapamilya
8. Diabetes
9. Pag-inom ng gamot na may estrogen

Para maiwasan magkaroon ng gall stone, kumain sa tamang oras. Huwag mag-skip ng pagkain dahil ang hindi pagkain o fasting ay maaaring magdulot ng gall stone. Huwag biglaang magbawas ng timbang. Kung kailangang magpapayat, huwag bibiglain dahil nakakapagdulot din ito ng gall stone. Panatilihin ang tamang timbang.

Paano Ginagamot ang Gall stone?
Kapag wala namang matinding sakit na nararamdaman, kadalasang hindi tinatanggal ang apdo sa pamamagitan ng operasyon. Lifestyle changes at tinutunaw lamang ang mga gall stones sa pamamagitan ng gamot. Ngunit kung malala na ang gall stone at matinding sakit na ang idinudulot nito sa pasyente ay kailangan na itong operahan (laparoscopic cholecystectomy). Kumonsulta sa inyong doktor kung may sintomas ng gall stone.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gallstones/symptoms-causes/syc-20354214