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We follows the seasons and this week we enjoy Broccoli. This field so green and tasty, with Italian origin and a relative of cauliflower, it has many properties to help nourish the body. It’s full of vitamins; fiber and iron which helps us get a better quality of life!
Broccoli has a lot of vitamin C that is very important in the formation of bones, teeth and tissue. Also in the process of healing, digestion and healing of common colds. Besides vitamin C also contains Vitamin B which helps us a lot of the human body. One of the many positive effects is giving us the help to balance the nervous system and cardiovascular pathways also involved in the absorption of carbohydrate and fat metabolism.
Apart from its high content of vitamin C and dietary fiber also contain nutrients with potent anti-cancer. A high intake of broccoli has been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer and is also beneficial in preventing heart disease.
To continue adding the advantages and excellent properties that this plant has, we must say that Vitamin K is also present. Its main function is to form prothrombin for blood clotting, thereby contributing to the healing of bleeding and eliminates the discomfort associated with the reduction of prothrombin in the blood.
After learning the importance of broccoli, all that remains is to eat as many times as you can. Enjoy this week in two of the plates easyDinner Light Menu!
Soluble vitamins are those lipids (fats) but not in water. They are present in the fatty part of foods of animal or vegetable. Fat-soluble vitamins can accumulate and cause toxicity when taken in large quantities.
Types of fat-soluble vitamins
* Vitamin A or Retinol: Essential to prevent night blindness, for vision, proper growth and immune system function and maintain healthy skin and mucous membranes. It is found in animal foods like butter and whole milk, and the animal in the form of carotene, especially in vegetables, red or orange, and that carotenoids are pigments that color.
Vitamin D: It has a role in bone mineralization, as it promotes absorption of calcium and phosphorus. Also attributed other functions related to the nervous system, brain and pancreas.
* Is obtained from the diet and cutaneous synthesis mediated by radiation from the sun. Foods rich in vitamin D include oily fish, egg yolk and milk and its derivatives.
Its deficiency results in rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults, its deficiency may contribute to the development of osteoporosis in old age.
* Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that protects lipids and other components of the cells from oxidative damage, thus intervening in maintaining the structure of cell membranes. Present in most vegetable oils, nuts and eggs, adequate intake of this vitamin, is a protective factor in cardiovascular disease.
* Vitamin K: Necessary for the synthesis of several coagulation factors, so its absence can prolong bleeding time dangerously. It is synthesized by bacteria in the intestinal flora, approximately half of the requirements may be obtained in this way. In foods, the most found in vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables, and legumes.
properties of burdock
Burdock plant is certainly common in our day to day, and more particularly in the where we live. In fact, surely in the place you live there is a garden or field where you find it.
It is a plant that stands out because it has large leaves, which in its first year of life, especially, tend to grow in a rosette.
It is also a medicinal plant, a very long time, has been widely used by the various features and benefits it provides, especially if taken as an infusion (tea for health).
Learn about the different benefits of burdock found in this interesting plant.
Benefits and properties of burdock
* Rich in vitamins and minerals, especially B group vitamins
* Useful in cases of rheumatism.
* Recommended in cases of fluid retention.
* Helps lower high blood pressure levels.
* Cares for and protects the liver (known how to debug the liver) and gallbladder.
* Helps to reduce excessive levels of uric acid.
* Purifies the body, making it ideal in diuretic plants.
It is not easy for parents to make healthy food choices for their children and not for them. It is so much information, so many denominations, many attributes, which ultimately raw best price and the best advertising. At the end everyone ends up believing what the product promises, and all give up, buy.
There is much confusion because there are too many health claims, many messages, vitamins and everything has special properties that no longer remember what color are cows or milk is the true, With spots, dots, stripes or colors ?.
Some advertise a benefit, but do not mention that are high in other unhealthy. Why not simply declare that a food with no trans fatty acids, if you have a high sodium and / or sugar, or fat-free read, if you have a high salt intake. To be healthy should have all the good attributes together, be low in saturated fat, no trans fats, no sugar and no sodium or low intake of them.
Then we will show you some foods that are not necessarily what they seem, so you end buying what is really thinking and wants and not what seems to be, but it is not.