Friday, October 8, 2010

Specific Foods

How much protein?

Despite what many people believe an active lifestyle, protein from foods like meat, chicken, eggs or fish are not an important source of fuel for exercise. Weight lifters and distance runners may have needed a larger amount of protein that the Sunday Sport. However, the food we eat regularly from a variety of foods is more than sufficient for most of us.

Eat vitamins C and E

Experts have suggested that to be active particles produced free radicals can damage cells and genetic material (DNA). He would then eat foods rich in antioxidants like vitamins C and E to help repair the damage. Foods rich in these vitamins include strawberries, oranges, grapefruit, kiwi fruit, olive oil, wheat germ and nuts.

Eat foods rich in iron

Studies have shown that runners, particularly females, were likely to have low levels of iron. This is explained by the fact that they eat less meat (rich in iron), absorb less iron and consume fewer calories. It is important to eat iron-rich foods like dried fruits, spinach, fortified cereals and meat low in fat.

Benefits of Vitamin B1

Thiamine helps your body convert blood sugar into energy. It keeps your mucous membranes healthy. It is therefore essential for the nervous system, cardio-vascular and muscular. Read also: Heart health for the whole family: 10 good habits.

Vitamin B1 is an essential nutrient that plays a role in supporting the nervous system and in protecting your nerves against degeneration and lesions. Vitamin B1 helps your organs and nerves to transmit messages to each other (eg when your brain tells your leg muscles to jump. Also read: Combat stress: foods to fight against stress.

How to add vitamin E to your diet?

Prepare a mixture of nuts, sunflower seeds, peanuts, dried fruit, breakfast cereal, granola bars, etc.. as well as some very dark chocolate (it's a mixture of popular and known people who make the hike). Read also: Healthy Eating: 10 Tips to Healthy Eating.

You can also eat whole grain cereal in the morning with wheat germ and almonds sprinkled over. Enjoy with green leafy vegetables served as a side dish rather than a plate of pasta or rice. Read also: Healthy Food, 15 fruits and vegetables very healthy.

Make a delicious crab salad using light mayonnaise (mayonnaise and crab are both good sources of vitamin E). With a little planning, you'll see that it is not difficult to eat a diet full of natural vitamin E, without having to swallow vitamin E. Read also our healthy recipes.

Foods rich in vitamin E

Nuts and seeds are excellent sources of vitamin E. The best of each category are almonds and sunflower seeds. Also read: 6 super foods to add to your diet.

50 grams of almonds provide 12 mg of vitamin E. While 50 grams of sunflower seeds provide 20 mg of vitamin E is 3 times the recommended daily intake, which is 30 IU.

Oils from oleaginous plants (plants grown specifically for harvesting their seed or fruit rich in fat, which is extracted from the oil for food, energy or industrial) and vegetable oils (including margarine) are good sources of vitamin E, but take only trans fat free margarine (made with healthy oils). Read also: Olive oil may help prevent obesity.

Green leafy vegetables are rich in vitamin E (90 g of spinach provide 1.5 mg), but a sweet potato is still a better source since 115 grams of sweet potato are already making 7 International Units of vitamin E (which is 4 mg of vitamin E). You can meet your daily requirement of vitamin E by eating 115 grams of sweet potato with a tablespoon of margarine without trans fat. Read also: Vegetable Green: 9 best greens.

Other good sources of vitamin E are based cereal grains, wheat germ, seafood, eggs, avocados (half a lawyer provides 2.4 mg of vitamin E). Read also: Avocado: a fruit rich in good fats and nutrients.

If you make a low fat diet to lose weight, try to include still some sources of vitamin E as sunflower oil, nuts and whole grains. Read also: How to choose good carbs when doing errands.

These 8 foods you guarantee an increase of energy you need to spend the day without strokes:

1) Soy

Soy is rich in phytoestrogens energizing (plant estrogens). Soy tastes better when combined with oatmeal for breakfast with fruit or a milkshake.

The Okinawa diet is among those who recommend more regular consumption of soy. Thus, soybeans contain more protein (by volume) than beef.

Although some studies suggest that soy might be linked to fertility problems in men, soy can alleviate hot flashes and help women to live well with menopause.

2) turkey on whole wheat

The combination of lean meat and whole grain bread provides protein and endurance, to finish with tiredness.

3) Peanut Butter

A tablespoon of peanut butter on whole wheat crackers gives you more protein and fat to reduce appetite and tiredness with.

4) Bean Soup

The bean soup is a good source of fiber, folate and iron. Light will make you quickly forget the strokes.

5) whole-grain cereals fortified

Treat yourself to these cereal with skim milk and a banana. This is a breakfast full of B vitamins (in grains), calcium and protein (in milk) and potassium (the banana), to give you lots of energy to start the day.

6) Walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts

As long as you eat them in moderation (they are high in calories), these nuts are an excellent source of oilseed proteins.

Not only do they regulate the strokes, but the dried fruit oil seeds can also improve performance of runners (Board # 3).

7) Hummus

Chickpeas are the main ingredient in hummus, and are a good source of fiber and iron. You can easily find hummus in Lebanese restaurants.

8) A mixture of dried fruits and nuts

These mixtures are a good source of all minerals, but do not overeat because they are also high in calories. With these mixtures, say goodbye to strokes.

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What causes a deficiency in vitamin E?

A lack of vitamin E in your body causes neurological problems due to a poorer nerve transmission. This nerve damage include problems such as spino cerebellar ataxia (neurodegenerative disease characterized by a set of signs and symptoms characteristic of a more or less severe in the cerebellum, which results in difficulty walking and the balance) and myopathy (neuromuscular disease resulting in degeneration of muscle tissue). Read also: Reduce the risk of brain diseases through diet.

A deficiency of vitamin E may also cause anemia due to oxidative damage exerted on red blood cells. Read also: Anemia: Food to treat anemia.

Recommended daily intake of vitamin E

Health experts recommend eating 10 International Units of vitamin E per day.

Remember that 1 International Unit vitamin E is the biological equivalent of about 0.667 milligrams of d-alpha-tocopherol (2 / 3 mg exactly). This means that you are advised to consume at least 6.7 mg vitamin E daily. Read also: Vitamins are not automatic for children.

That vitamin E can not do

While it was thought that vitamin E could reduce the risk of heart disease, recent studies have shown that this remains unlikely. In fact, a 2005 study even showed that taking vitamin E supplements may actually increase the risk of cardiac arrest. It is also one more reason to get this vitamin through food containing vitamin E rather than through vitamin supplements. Read also: Healthy Food for the heart, to keep the heart healthy.