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Flavonoids for Health

How difficult can sometimes see food not as something tasty to calm the hunger, but as a complex composed of a series of chemical structures including nutrients, fiber, water and others that much or little we know.

Flavonoids are natural chemical structures of plants and fruits found in different concentrations and different health effects. Have been identified around 6000 types of flavonoids, but not all known and studied, the benefits-some of them. Humans can not produce for their benefits and we eat them. Know some of them.

In general, flavonoids are found naturally in fruits, vegetables, seeds and flowers, as well as beer, wine, chocolate, green tea, black tea and soy.

The flavonoids in black tea, wine, cocoa and green tea, have a high antioxidant being cardioprotective (ie protect the circulatory system), on the evidence, take 3 cups of black tea a day would help in preventing heart disease.

Citrus Bioflavonoids flavonoids are the most outstanding among them is quercetin, hesperidin, Naranjina and limonene. These are respon-sible for the particular color and flavor in some foods such as onions, broccoli, cherries, grapes, orange, lime and lemon.

Previous programs have commented on the isoflavones, better known as phytoestrogens found in different legumes, however, the most active from soybeans and kept in their products like tofu, soy milk etc. Isoflavones are used as I-therapy alternative to the present discomfort during menopause.

Fruits and Vegetables to Protect Our Skin in Summer

fruits for skin

In summer, bet on fruits and vegetables in season. Rich in antioxidants and vitamins, are essential to protect body parts that are most exposed to sun, skin and eyes. They help to keep hydrated.

Because in this case meets the premise that nature knows best, and the warmer months offers us the fruits that will benefit us.

Want to know how to leverage them? In juices, iced drinks and cold soups!

In summer, you can combine different fruit juices, smoothies or slushies, fulfilling this dual role which talkable (supply of vitamins and hydration). You can also use multiple cold vegetable soup, which is one of the star dishes in summer, when anything else makes us heavy.

During the summer season there are a number of vitamins that are particularly relevant. The combination of different fruits and vegetables, can concentrate on a single food multitude of much needed antioxidants and vitamins such as A, C or E.

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The Most Effective Weight Loss

The most effective weight loss diet

Want to know which diets are most effective? often lose the north, and test everything that is going through your head (or whatever you know): Atkins diet, diet coupled, dedicated to some diet foods (and forget others) .

effective dietAnd yet … as effective as is sometimes the simplest (perhaps we do not want to see, hoping for a miracle). A study has concluded that the most effective diets are diets menus, that is, the diets in which one can eat all kinds of food, but in a balanced and controlling the calories you eat throughout the day.

Albacete has a pharmacy in an observational study of over 500 patients to determine which were the success rates of subsistence allowance menus and diets by food groups (the famous dissociated diets that do not allow, for example, mixed hydrates protein carbon).

In addition, they found that dieters through menus are those that usually eat at home, probably also influence the respective success rates, while the dissociated are more frequent among those who eat out (perhaps because they find it so easy to follow a low-calorie menu as varied and must conform to what is in the bar turn.)

Although both diets (menus or food groups) are isocaloric, the results conclude that the former are often more effective and easier to follow patients, while the latter tend to lengthen long time without getting the final results.

The Cold Dinner Cause Digestive Discomfort

cold dinner In summer as well as some fancy dinner salad nice and cool, but although we believe this is a very healthy and light dinner, take it often can cause digestive discomfort.
Increasingly frequent dinner cold dishes like salads, sandwiches, fruit, yogurt … We just feel like cooking at night and also this kind of dinners are ideal to take care of calories. However, this type of dinner cause bloating and constipation, especially in people with a sensitive stomach.

There are a number of foods that “cool” the body. Although summer seems to be what we want more, if you Friol, you have slow digestion or throat infections or urine routine, you better rethink it because it can aggravate any of the three.

And is that the cooling sensation that causes us to eat is also transmitted to the digestive organs, for which cooling is not always the best option. The cold slows down their activity, causing the digestive system runs out of power and multiplying problems such as bloating, flatulence, slow digestion, constipation or stomach pain.

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5 Infusions Cleansing to Remove Toxins

After a few days eating a lot and bad (fat, sugar, alcohol …) your body suffers. If you want to get rid of all harmful substances and feel more liger, cleansing teas are a good option.

They are also a good complement in the midst of a diet as it helps to eliminate toxins. But you should be aware that herbal teas do not thin themselves, because what does not lose stored fat, but toxins and plenty of water, the diuretic effect.
Want to know some effective cleansing tea?

green tea1. Green tea

This is a very healthy tea that has a good diuretic, and lipid-lowering (lower levels of blood lipids).

However, not recommended for certain cardiovascular disorders, ulcers, sleeplessness.

2. Grapefruit Infusion

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