Health and Food

Archive for November, 2009

Why focus on fat and fiber?

The typical Western diet provides an excess energy from fat (especially saturated fats) and added sugars to the detriment of complex carbohydrates and fiber. This diet was related to non-communicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease. The Western diet is associated with the increase of the diseases. Cardiovascular disease and cancer in virtually all industrialized countries responsible for at least half the total mortality. Nutrition is a modifiable factor here.

In general, knowledge regarding the relationship between diet and health in short supply. The majority of the population lacking the necessary ‘practice’ knowledge and skills for healthy feeding. Moreover, consumers often underestimate their power consumption in the wrong. General nutritional advice and any policy should aim at an overall reduction in the risk of diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, … for the population as a whole. In the concrete implementation should be discussed not only nutrients but should rather be talking about food framed in a total diet.
Nutrition is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Though it is obviously not the case that those who eat a balanced healthy lives automatically, but it is undeniably a step in the right direction.
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Chocolate suppressed a persistent cough, which is the latest proof that this delicacy is good for your health. Therefore, scientists now say that cocoa ‘superfood’ for your body can be.

Ingredients
A recent British study shows that eating chocolate a persistent cough relief. It was once seen as a health sin, but the evidence is growing that this candy is good for your body. It contains many antioxidants, free radicals that turn, are responsible for the aging process, carried. Antioxidants also protect your skin from sun damage and give a boost to your cardiovascular health. Another beneficial ingredient is theobromine, which is good for your nervous system. The substance phenylethylamine will turn a good mood.

Treatment
Chocolate is so good that some doctors now recommend it as a form of treatment. Professor K.K. Atsina cocoa powder used for years as a treatment for high blood pressure and diabetes. Another scientist Kwaku Addai recommend two to five servings of cocoa powder to protect against malaria. British surgeon and professor Dan Rein Stein encourages his patients to eat chocolate as much as possible half hours before surgery. “People cocoa food for an operation are less tense, more alert and work out better than those sedatives given. With a relaxed, attentive patient, I have a routine procedure in less than three minutes to provide. The same procedure can take much longer if the person is tense is. “

Mood
Donatella Lippi, the Italian professor: “In recent years doctors consider flavonoids, which you find in high concentrations in cocoa as a natural antidepressant. It can also be used to substances in the brains as serotonin and dopamine balance. They are at checking your mood and dwangneurosen.

That fruit and vegetables contain lots of good nutrients has long been known. But following products are really at the top.
1.  omega-3 fatty acids
Increasingly you will see which products omega 3 and omega 6 are sometimes added. What is it and what is it good for and how can you ensure that you get enough in?

2.  honest about food
This book covers myths about nutrition. Well-known truths to the test and be examined in the laboratory or in practice.

3. coffee
Coffee is widely drunk and happy, it’s actually the most used drug. Yet do many stories about coffee. In relation to health, for example.

4. Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean Diet is not a real diet. It’s more a lifestyle where you have the choice of healthy products. By following this diet …

5. detoxification diet
Today, the air, our food and water chemical, gifige and unnatural substances. These wastes accumulate in our bodies.

6. choose color
Fruits and vegetables have the most beautiful colors. Thus they look not only attractive, but the different colors of fruit and vegetables also contain vitamins, …

7. blueberries are healthy
That broccoli, tomatoes and oily fish are the healthiest food is reasonably familiar. The blue berry or blueberry seems so far in the series to have forgotten.

8. Reduce your cholesterol
Of course everyone knows that you must eat healthy and varied. But not everyone feels like calorie counting and weighing the amount of food and type of food to keep.

9. how healthy is trans fat?
Those who are somewhat concerned with healthy food know that you soon have to use fat in moderation. In moderation, not completely banished.

The XXI century: the century of Health Nutrition

Nutrition today means much more than just the basic nutrients argue that dogs and cats need. It also means responsible for their health and wellbeing and provide them a longer life.

Basic Nutrition:
1. The body build and maintain
2. Energy supply

Health Food:
3. Educate and prevent
4. Feed and care

In forty years, three major phases followed each other Until 1980 it was just to ‘eat’. From 1980 they started to deal with the ‘feeding’ of the animal:

* They wanted to build and maintain the organism
* And energy supply. It took into account two parameters: the age and activity level of the animal.

Between 1997 and 2000 arose the concept of Health Food:

* Feeding is prevented
* And also provide feed.
* This concept takes it into account four parameters: the age and activity level of the animal, of course, but also the variety, size and physical condition. Royal Canin, one of the biggest players in the field of health food in Europe.

As a result of this inevitable cultural evolution to modern and well-informed consumers of their beloved animals only your diet that is best for their health and longevity.

The dynamics of health food, the strategic battleground of Royal Canin, can be summarized in three points:

* Faster innovate
* Developing products that are increasingly better targeted and better performance,
* The people who professionally deal with animals a high added value.

Nowadays, animals with certain diseases are supported by a specially designed diet food. In some cases this makes sense. A first example is a diet food for dogs in support of OA. Rightly so much attention to this treatment. We have here some information about this diet food for you to put a row.
Diet food for dogs

diet food for dogs with osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is a chronic and often progressive disease of one or more of the movable joints characterized by degeneration (decay) of articular cartilage, small growths of new bone and an inflammatory reaction. The disorder is associated with pain and increasing disability. Estimated to receive about 20% of dogs over one year with this condition to make.

Treatment usually consists of administration of analgesic and also anti-inflammatory drugs. These are called NSAIDs ie non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. In severe cases, injections are sometimes administered in the joint with corticosteroids.

An entirely new approach is a dietetic feed of omega-3 fatty acids. This type of material helps to bring under control the inflammation and therefore also of the pain. Moreover, they reduce the activity of enzymes that break down cartilage. Cartilage cushions the bone and acts like a kind of ‘shock’ in the joint. In arthritis, this cartilage constantly destroyed by destructive enzymes, a process that continues even during the administration of anti-inflammatory and pain-reducing agents.

Implement the diet
Hills Prescription Diet Canine j / d * and
Hills Prescription Diet Canine j / d * Low calorie
include:

* High levels of omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil from deep sea) which inhibit cartilage destroying enzymes, and the inflammation around the joint combat and thus also reduce the pain;
Glucosamine and chondroitin * natural. These are building blocks for repair of cartilage;
* An anti-oxidant formula with vitamin E and C, selenium and beta carotene that protect the joint tissue inflammation caused by free radicals;
* A controlled calorie content, in order to prevent weight gain and extra load on the joints to avoid.

This diet will often reduce the need for medication. It is useful if fewer resources need to be administered and may ultimately cost savings. In addition, less medication use for the animal ultimately safer. But the important thing is that the pain in animals decreases and mobility increases.

“Low calorie” version
Because many dogs with osteoarthritis also as a result of reduced physical activity often overweight Hills also has a low calorie’ variant of these foods on the market.

Does your dog one of these signs?

* Stiffness and difficulty in getting up.
* Fewer want to play.
* Difficulty walking up stairs or jump in the car.
* Fall short walks.
* Limp or funny way.

Brain Diet Hills BD
Thanks to good care are our house dogs get older. Regularly comes to taking the dogs show signs of dementia. Conduct that are inconsistent, unrest

Not only for the peace of mind of the dog but for your own peace of mind it can be useful here what to do. Hills has made this a diet that is strangely empty for our North Hollanders really works. This has also aangetoodn Hills with scientific research.

It is also good to know that dogs are a little less in their upstairs room there is a very successful emdicijn. Do not hesitate to contact us at your pet and eu have a good tip to deliver

Diet food for cats generally

Diet food for cats occupies an important place in the treatment of various diseases.
Because cats often highly idiosyncratic in their taste preferences, we try to offer the widest range of different brands.

We have not as many established practices. It implies that not all packages of all carry in stock are kept. Also it is possible that another client was just before you

Through our simple order form you can order food for nothing so you never come. You will be notified when the food can be picked