Drinks to avoid during pregnancy
But only certain foods may pose a risk to your pregnancy. Also some drinks. You must avoid at all costs:
- Alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer and spirits, as it removes oxygen and nutrients to the cells thereby harming normal fetal development. Intellectual and physical effects of exposing a baby to alcohol, are permanent. So, avoid it forever! Continue reading
Foods to avoid during pregnancy
When you’re pregnant, feed takes on new meaning. Everything you eat and drink will affect your baby’s development for better or for worse. Therefore, it is essential that you know to choose a good balanced diet so that that little person that is forming in your womb, not lacking anything. In fact, during the nine months of gestation, on average you eat 300 calories more a day than you usually consume before becoming pregnant. Continue reading
Nuts, Exquisite and Nutritional
Enormous contribution of nutritious nuts require little preparation and can be eaten whole, chopped, ground, roasted, chocolate covered or secret ingredient in special dishes. You know them, and will want to know more about them.
Who would have said, the nuts were essential in the diet of the caveman, and even today we can enjoy them as snacks, candy or accompanying some meat, in addition, some oils are obtained or are used to develop butter or flour.
It is called nuts to those who do not have a soft texture when ripe and have wood-like appearance. It is recommended to chew thoroughly to avoid unpalatable. Continue reading
Oats Supplement: How to Eat?
How do you eat oats?
Oatmeal: The best way to get their nutrition. Oatmeal and oat bran are usually taken with milk or yogurt or as an ingredient in porridge, soups and salads and other dishes. Bran has little flavor and texture is very soft, so it often goes unnoticed and does not pose problems for consumption, unlike other types of bran as wheat.
The flakes are also preparing cooked with milk or vegetable broth and used for the production of vegetable dumplings, desserts and porridge, a dish of Scottish breakfast. Continue reading
Oats Supplement: Diet Recommendations
In what situations is suited or not recommended as an adjunct to diet?
Nervous system disorders: its starch content (in the body releases glucose, the main fuel of our nervous system), essential fatty acids (linoleic acid), lecithin, phosphorus, vitamin B1 or thiamine and avenin latter sedative substance.
It has a toning effect and balancing the nervous system, so its use is appropriate if: nervousness, fatigue, asthenia, insomnia and stress.
Digestive disorders: their contribution of mucilage to soothe the lining of the gastrointestinal tract and its high digestibility, its use is beneficial if gastritis and ulcer in remission and other digestive disorders. Continue reading
Oats Suplement: Nutritional Properties
A cereal rich in vegetable protein, unsaturated fat and vitamins B
Oats belong to the grass family, like the rest of foodgrains, one of the most important families for food and the fruits are dried beans and rich in starch, a complex carbohydrate source of energy for our body.
What are its nutritional properties?
Oatmeal is a cereal rich in protein, fat (nearly twice that of wheat), carbohydrates, vitamin B1 or thiamin (necessary for the proper functioning of the nervous system) and to a lesser extent, provides additional vitamins group B. It also contains minerals like phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron, the latter two from poorer use the foods from animal by our body. Continue reading
Amaranth: Health and Culinary Uses
Health
In the last three or four years have further investigated the chemical composition of oil from amaranth grains that leaves. However, it is seen that they contain a significantly higher amount of minerals like calcium, iron, phosphorus and caretonoides, compared with most vegetables. Has also been determined that several species of amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus as paniculus and are good sources of flavonoid antioxidants.
For more than a decade working in the production of new products made from grain amaranth leaves and, for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. There are several investigations, including the one carried out in coordination between the Functional Foods Center at Dallas (USA), Voronezh State University, Russia, and the State Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, indicating the preventive and therapeutic value of amaranth oil for the cardiovascular system. Continue reading
Amaranth, a plant with many benefits
The leaves and seeds contain beneficial this pseudocereal nutrition for cardiovascular health
Amaranth, also known as the “prince’s feather” in America began to be cultivated over 7,000 years ago by the Mayans, who considered it a sacred plant. Currently, there is only grown in countries where its consumption is traditional, such as Peru, Mexico and Bolivia, but others such as China, U.S. and especially India, have begun to produce thanks to the rediscovery of their properties.
Amaranth is used for human consumption and animal both the grain and leaves. It has been shown that the leaves are an excellent source of protein, with maximum accumulation in the flowering phase. In addition, the leaves contain a good amount of provitamin A and vitamin C. They also have different minerals, among them calcium, iron and magnesium, although it should be noted that the body absorbs more calcium and iron from animal than vegetable. The amount of fiber from the leaves is also important, so their consumption may be beneficial for people with constipation problems. Continue reading
Sorghum, a little-known cereal
Sorghum has different names depending on the part of the world you are. In Africa it is called “kafir” or “mtama”, while in India “iowar” and China “kaoliang.”
What is it?
Sorghum is a cereal from India and central Africa. In fact, in these regions and also in China, is a staple of the diet of millions of people. However, developed countries do not include sorghum in their diet but use it as fodder for livestock feed.
Characteristics
Sorghum is a grain more resistant to drought and has a large number of varieties. The grain may have different shades ranging from white to dark red or purple, to yellow. Continue reading