Food and Nutrition
Medicinal Uses of White Pepper
Like many eastern spices, pepper was historically used as a spice and medicine. The medicinal uses of “Piper nigrum” is discussed in “bukuro Mimi,” a book written by Moriyasu Negishi, a municipal judge in the Edo period (1737-1815). Pepper also appears in the book Buddhist “Sutta Samaññaphala” as one of the few drugs that could be used by a monk.
According to secondary sources, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), white pepper is used for pain and stiffness of joints, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or arthritis. They also report that white pepper is used in moxibustion techniques in acupuncture. However, at this time, there is a lack of high quality trials in humans to support the use of white pepper for any indication. Read the rest of this entry »
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Healthy Eating for Heart Care
A series of recommendations to support this important body healthier. Find out what we can do for your heart.
Things to consider:
Reduce your intake of salt: salt is not only harmful for people with high blood pressure, but for all the world, as altered hydro-electrolytic balance, promoting fluid retention, increased cardiac output and blood pressure also increase renal work. Therefore try to start reducing their consumption today, prefer low-sodium foods, such as those containing biosal choose, avoid pre-prepared dishes and elaborate, add less salt to your meals and use herbs to flavor them. Read the rest of this entry »
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Health Benefits of Cinnamon
Cinnamon have numerous health benefits. If you think cinnamon is simply something to sprinkle on cookies, tea or cappuccino, think again. The popular exotic spice, once considered more precious than gold, has medicinal value that pharmaceutical companies are doing even take notice.
Health Benefits of Cinnamon, as it is, has been used for a long time to cure everything from athlete’s foot to indigestion. Early civilizations recognized its ability to stop bacterial growth.
Recent research indicates that cinnamon may have a beneficial effect on brain function. Participants in a study of cinnamon chewing gum or the sweet smell of spices. Cognitive tests revealed that subjects who had used Canela better memory functions and can process information faster. Encouraged by these results, scientists now conducting studies to see if Cinnamon improve mental abilities in the elderly and those prone to anxiety before the test. Read the rest of this entry »
Food Poisoning: Prevention Recommendations
Prevention recommendations
Wash hands, cutting boards and utensils used for cooking raw fish, meat or poultry (before and after preparing food) to prevent the transmission of such bacteria staphylococcus.
Avoid sushi, oysters in their shells, raw fish, Caesar salad made with raw eggs and liqueurs made from unpasteurized ingredients as raw food can harbor bacteria.
Completely remove mildew food (however small) and dairy products, bacon, canned ham, sliced ??meat for lunch.
Remove the potatoes have begun to take shoots, because they contain high levels of solanine, which infiltrates the Pope and not destroyed during cooking. Solanine can cause hallucinations for days after the person has recovered from food poisoning. Read the rest of this entry »
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Food Poisoning: Remedies and Recommendation
Folk Remedies
Remedy for food poisoning # 1: Eat two cloves of raw garlic, as it is a natural antibiotic and detoxifier very effective in case of food poisoning.
Remedy for food poisoning # 2: Mix apple juice with half teaspoon of honey and a pinch of table salt to supply the body with potassium, glucose and sodium chloride are lost in case of vomiting and diarrhea.
Remedy for food poisoning # 3: Boil for 5 minutes, 2 tablespoons ground ginger 1 cup of water. Remove from heat and cool. Take 3 cups a day to reduce nausea and help replace lost fluids.
Remedy for food poisoning # 4: Boil for half an hour, a persimmon ripe and chopped 1 tablespoon dried horehound herb in a pint of water. Remove from heat and cool. Take this tea four times a day. Read the rest of this entry »
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Food Poisoning
Each year approximately 60 million people worldwide suffer from food poisoning.
It occurs when a contaminated food is consumed by organisms or toxins, either because it was in decay, not cooked long enough or unhygienic handling.
Some organisms cause intoxication are:
- Staphylococcus
- Salmonella
- Campylobacter (undercooked fish in the milk and not boil)
- Vibrio (In ill-prepared seafood)
- Trichinella (The pig)
- Clostridium botulinum (food wrapped in aluminum foil that are left outside the refrigerator overnight)
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Food Allergies and Intolerances in Children: Diagnosis
How is allergy diagnosed in a child?
The first thing to exist are symptoms suggesting the existence of allergy. There are two methods:
Prick skin test
Skin testing is the method of choice and can be performed at any age. Involves placing a drop of the suspected substance in the anterior forearm and punctured with a lancet. After 15 minutes there is observed if skin reaction (a papule). If it appears positive.
Determination of IgE (immunoglobulin) or specific serum RAST
A sample of blood from the child and check the existence of specific IgE against food. If there is a certain level of IgE test is positive and can diagnose the allergy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Food Allergies and Intolerances in Children: Allergic Reactions
Symptoms of allergic reactions
The symptoms of allergy, in contrast to the intolerance occur immediately, usually within minutes of contact with the substance responsible (contact, inhalation or ingestion).
Usually manifest in the first two years of life, often coinciding with the introduction of different foods in the diet.
The most common manifestations are:
Skin
- Urticaria Acute is the appearance of hives on the skin, itching or swelling of face, lips or ears. It can be all over the body, or only in the contact area.
- Atopic Dermatitis: usually occurs in children who have sensitive skin and skin problems of all kinds from birth, but often associated with food allergies (especially to milk and eggs) that enhance its basic skin problems. Read the rest of this entry »
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Types of Food Allergies in Children
Most common types of food allergies in children:
Before going to comment that people with allergies develop a special predisposition, inherited from their parents in most cases, to suffer one or several diseases mediated “immune mechanisms.” That is, the immune system of these people has a special ability to, when in contact with certain substances (for very different type), cause an allergic reaction mediated by immunoglobulin E.
The immunoglobulin E are the ones that cause the formation of other substances that involve the appearance of diseases such as allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, atopic dermatitis or food allergy, often associated in the same patient.
Although allergy is a medicine not yet fully developed as we know there are plenty of foods implicated in food allergies. Some of the most common are: Read the rest of this entry »
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Types of Food Intolerances in Children
Most common types of food intolerances in children:
Protein intolerance of cow’s milk
Cow’s milk is composed of two fractions: casein and whey (which in turn is formed by other proteins).
There are two serum proteins: alpha S1-casein and beta-lactoglobulin, which are not found in breast milk, which are the main causes of allergies and intolerances to cow’s milk.
It usually appears during the first month of life in infants fed formula or breast milk children whose mothers drink a lot of milk (although this is rare).
In this case are vomiting, diarrhea, blood loss through injury of intestinal mucosa and anemia.
You can also occur later, two or three months. In this case we observed prolonged diarrhea, protein loss, malabsorption of other foods (for the injury of intestinal mucosa), and therefore lack of normal growth of the child. Read the rest of this entry »