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Strawberry Smoothie for lowering cholesterol
If you need to lower your cholesterol in summer and you are not allowed to eat ice cream, you can opt for a different variant but no less tasty, as is the strawberry shake or% cholesterol. This strawberry milkshake has all the properties that help treat high cholesterol naturally.

Strawberries also known as strawberries are fruits that contain antioxidants and fiber that blocks cholesterol absorption in the intestine, increase the synthesis of HDL cholesterol and reduce the chance of cardiovascular disease. These also provide a benefit purifier.

Recipe for strawberry shake 0% cholesterol

* Ingredients for 2 servings
or 1 cup of skim milk.
or 8 strawberries or strawberries
or 1 / 3 cup nonfat cottage cheese.
or 1 teaspoon vanilla essence.
or Ice.

* Preparation
o Place all ingredients in blender or food processor, less ice.
Or smoothie.
O Serve and add ice.

This strawberry milkshake is great for kids who need to lower your cholesterol and want to drink something tasty and no saturated fat.

Remember that this shake should be integrated into a diet for high cholesterol.

Sesame seeds are an ideal food for treating hypercholesterolemia. While these are approximate calories to 565 calories, they also have a fat content that benefits cardiovascular health and helps reduce blood cholesterol.

For every 100 grams of sesame seeds, 48 to 52% corresponds to fat. Of the total of these fats are 80% unsaturated fats, represented by omega 3, omega 6 and omega 9. These fatty acids reduce LDL cholesterol and increase good cholesterol or HDL.

On the other hand contains fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals. All nutrients that positively influence not only on cholesterol levels, but about overall health.

Like all food must be consumed in moderation, eating 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds daily ground or whole on a daily basis is enough to obtain the lipid-lowering properties.

In most cases, overweight and high cholesterol go hand in hand, so one must be cautious when selecting food and make a proper diet to lower cholesterol and lose weight. It is also important to remember that exercise is essential to control both diseases.

The lasagna is perfect for concentrating on just one dish a lot of different nutrients. This eggplant lasagna can delight all who suffer from hypercholesterolemia, as it fully incorporates ingredients suitable for anti-cholesterol diet and also is delicious. Just try it, adding the variations permitted you can think of.

Ingredients:

* Two large eggplants
* an onion
* 100 grams of tofu
* 100 grams of mushrooms
* A cup of pumpkin puree
* A cup of tomato sauce
* Olive oil
* Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Peel the eggplants and cut them into thin slices cross. Shalala and set aside on a plate for a while. Meanwhile, prepare a puree of squash and saute with a little vegetable spray ground tofu and onions.

In a baking dish, is interspersed with a layer of eggplant and tofu with a onion, a mushroom, one of eggplant, a pumpkin puree and so deplete the ingredients. Finish with tomato sauce on top, seasoning with salt and pepper. Bake until lasagna is great no cholesterol is ready to be served. You can also try a cream sauce made with soy milk to give it another twist.

Nuts
Has always referred to nuts as a source of vitamins and nutrients essential to any diet. The benefits on the human body are spectacular, and for this reason all diets and nutrition experts recommend regular consumption.

A study carried out recently in the United States has proven walnuts are the best variety of nuts. This is because they are the most antioxidants providing the body, far outpacing other as almonds and peanuts.

But that’s not all. Walnuts are the nuts of better quality. This is another example of the excellent benefits that the consumer reports to our body. According to experts is that eating raw nuts for 7 days to receive full benefits.

So now you know. The next time you go to the market to buy dried fruits and nuts bow before other alternatives. Your body will thank you.

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease, is generated by action of the immune system of the body confuses healthy cells and attack them. It affects more than 21 million people worldwide, with increased incidence as over the years (reached the peak at about 75).

However, it also can develop in young people in general recorded a prevalence of three to one between men and women. While once the condition has been presented so far is not possible to achieve a cure, and thus achieve the abandonment of the drug, it is much that can be done in the field of prevention.

Within this context, a study conducted in England, which involved 25 000 people and lasted for eight years found that the addition of fruits and vegetables that contain a pigment called carotene to the diet can help reduce the risk of developing arthritis.

As stated in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the most beneficial and yet is frequently carotenoids beta-carotene or provitamin A, which provides more than color, has an important role in many biological functions and high antioxidant power. The results of the experiment showed that daily consumption of beta-carotene and zeaxanthin was between 20 and 40 percent lower in the group identified with arthritis, compared with 176 patients who had no signs of the disease.

For that reason, scientists concluded that people who do not have a daily intake of foods rich in beta carotene and zeaxanthin had twice the risk of developing arthritis, taking as a parameter to those that ate food with this property.

The grapefruit is a fruit belonging to the group of citrus. Although not much standing, should be included in our daily diet as it is an excellent adjuvant regimens and has various vitamins such as C, B1, B2, B6, A and minerals like iron, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulfur, or calcium . It also has antioxidant properties and is a natural diuretic and cleanser.

Contains flavonoids and terpenoids, which gives anticancer properties and blood thinners or lighten.
Fasting is highly recommended its use when you want to lose weight because it speeds up metabolism to help burn fat as well as the problems of fluid retention.

If you’re looking for an option to consume because you do not like the acidity, you can try to prove it with honey or add to your juice or mixed with juice of two oranges, and it will be least noticeable bitter taste.

What is important to know is that I never add white sugar because their properties are canceled.
Between January and June, when they are in the market in its entire splendor and should choose the heaviest and thin-skinned, as are those with more juice.

It is convenient to use if you have stomach ulcers, gastritis, heartburn, hiatal hernia or digestive problems or kidney.
It is an excellent food for people with anemia, stress, cholesterol, diabetes, gout, uric acid, obesity, colds and flu, as well as hypertension and liver problems. It is laxative and contains very few calories, only 40 per 100grs.

It is highly recommended during pregnancy and lactation periods and to help maintain the body’s defenses because of its antioxidant and iron it contains.
While there are more than 1500 kinds of grapefruit, all with the same properties. For my taste I suggest ripe pink grapefruit is sweeter than usual.

Citrus fruits: orange food and nutrition

The orange is a citrus “popular” is ideal for cooling in summer with juice while lounging in the sweltering heat or eat any flesh for dessert or any time of day. The point is that the orange is not only rich, fresh and nice looking but is also an excellent source of vitamin C: a medium piece provides more of the daily requirement of vitamin A by an adult.

Remember that vitamin C is essential for the organism as it participates in the formation of collagen and helps maintain high defense against bacterial infections. Collagen is a substance component of the skin and therefore has a major role to keep healthy and in good condition.

Other vitamins that makes this fruit is A and some B complex (thiamin, folate).

In addition, oranges also have one hand, soluble fiber, especially pectin that helps lower blood cholesterol levels and, on the other, bioflavonoids, which have antioxidant properties. However, we must clarify that these antioxidants are found in the membrane of the fruit, it is therefore preferable to eat whole and not just drinking juice.

There are several different types of oranges, but all of them equally tasty and healthy: navel orange, the Persian, Valencia and the blood (his name is because you have red streaks on the skin that give a darker hue .)

Coconut is an edible fruit that is derived from coconut, palm more cultivated worldwide. It has a hard shell covering rough white flesh full of fiber and nutrients. In the coconut, we can find a liquid known as coconut water is a refreshing liquid, and pleasant flavor which contains many nutritional and medicinal properties is interesting that you consider, for you to know you have many compounds in breast milk. In Hawaii, the mothers who can not feed their babies breast-feeding infants with coconut milk instead of animals, this has been done for hundreds of years.

Coconut water properties and applications in health and beauty

• Contains a wealth of minerals such as copper, zinc, iron, folic acid and phosphorus. The mineral that provides more than half of the concentration of coconut water is potassium.

• It is rich in vitamin E and B vitamins

• Rich in fiber, which stimulates intestinal good performance by removing bottlenecks and fermented substances from the intestines which causes severe health problems.

• Suitable for people suffering from colitis, gastric ulcers, weakness of the stomach and constipation. Combat anemia, nervous exhaustion and weight loss.

• Since it is rich in potassium is one of many minerals it provides, this is very good for our body and potassium is the best regulator for the body electrolyte, resulting in better elimination of toxins by natural means.

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Benefits of olive oil in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer

Javier Menendez Spanish scientist, specialist in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Institute of Northwestern Health Chicago (USA) confirmed at the genetic level the benefits of olive oil in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.

The study’s findings, which also participated Ramon Colomer, head of the Division of Medical Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, published in the latest issue of the Annals of Oncology ‘.

Spanish scientists have demonstrated in laboratory experiments on different cell lines of breast cancer that oleic acid, the main component of olive oil, greatly reduced levels of an oncogene called Her-2/neu. High levels of Her-2/neu (also known as erb B-2) are found in approximately 20-30% of breast cancer patients and are associated with highly aggressive tumors that have a poor prognosis.

Oleic acid
Colomer said it was the first time you attach a component of the diet, oleic acid (main component of olive oil) with reduced levels of an oncogene from studies in molecular biology. Moreover, according to Colomer, oleic acid not only suppress the overproduction of the gene, but also doubles the antitumor efficacy of trastuzumab, the antibody treatment that targets the Her-2/neu gene and has helped extend the lives of many breast cancer patients.

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You have been attributed remarkable healing properties: good for the circulation (blood pressure reduction) helps digestion, bleaching, astringent, and for its high content of vitamin C helps prevent colds and boost our immune systems.

- Good protector in preventing some cancers. Reduces cholesterol levels, astringent, antiviral and antibacterial. Effective diets.
- It’s exciting for the functions of the pancreas and liver.
- It is used in many home remedies: gargle to relieve sore throat, mouth ulcers and gingivitis,
- Take action against fat for this reason is a common ingredient of diets and slimming cures and even many anti-grease detergents.

Some varieties grown are: Fino and Verna Waiter and variety. Another variety grown is Eureka (Four Seasons).
* Lemon verna. Large size, rugged and Larage, half juice and few seeds lato. Long palate with little aciez.
* Fine verna. Medium size, much juice, pile fine and good color. mid-palate
* Primafiori. Medium size, much juice, thin skin, good color palate and acidity media. is the biggest seller in the Spanish markets.
* Eureka / Rodrejo. Medium size, much juice, thin skin and good color, more mid-palate acidity.

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