Chocolate is one food everyone likes. The entrance to the sweet, nutritious and versatile. In general, the main ingredient of chocolate is cocoa fat. Cocoa beans in terms of fat content, to dark chocolate for the top grade, while milk chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate sandwich, followed slightly. In fact, dark chocolate has a high nutritional value in addition, there are some interesting health care.
First of all, dark chocolate rich in flavonoids and flavonoid "cocoa polyphenol", a composition with antioxidant activity. Polyphenol content of more taste more bitter. Polyphenols can promote the body to produce nitric oxide, which enables the heart, brain blood vessels to dilate, thereby reducing vascular resistance, lower blood pressure, improve blood circulation and can increase the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular flow. In general, oral 7 g dark chocolate can lower systolic blood pressure of about 2.9mmHg, diastolic blood pressure decreased approximately 1.9mmHg. In contrast, other types of chocolate such role is less clear.
Secondly, the role of dark chocolate has a puzzle, can improve memory, prevent elderly amnesia. It also can increase the glycogen, increase energy reserves, anti-fatigue. In addition, dark chocolate contains tannins can inhibit plaque, with anti-caries effect. Dark chocolate is rich in magnesium, this element has a sedative, antidepressant effect.
Although chocolate has a good health effect, however, can not eat at any time, consumption should be aware of the following during the two issues.
First, dark chocolate and milk should not be the same drink. Because chocolate contains oxalate, easy and milk in the formation of calcium oxalate and calcium binding emissions from the urine, thereby reducing the body's intake of calcium.
Second, women with migraines do not greedy chocolate. Because it contains serotonin can induce migraine attacks.
Friday, July 9, 2010
The results show that: vinegar can lower blood pressure
Vinegar can be considered as the most healthy condiments, eating properly can not only beauty, weight loss, but also can reduce the risk of high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, stroke and other diseases. For hypertensive patients, the table may wish to set the regular vinegar PICKLES, Vinegar dish.
Osaka University of Foreign Studies Health Management Center has conducted an experiment, researchers gave a daily consumption of the composition in hypertensive patients with 15-30 ml of vinegar drinks. After 8 weeks, found that blood pressure in patients than in the other group of patients not taking vinegar drink a certain degree of decline in blood pressure.
Therefore, patients with normal blood pressure should eat more vinegar. Vinegar mixed with stinging head, hot and sour Guatiao, Vinegar potato silk, motorcoach, all the delicious dishes suitable for patients with hypertension. Even people without hypertension, the appropriate cooking time add a little vinegar can not only increase the appetite, help digestion, but can soften blood vessel, to prevent deposition of impurities within the blood vessels to prevent hypertension.
In addition, the now popular fruit vinegar is also good for health drinks hypertensive patients, its taste is more gentle than the vinegar flavor, and rich in minerals, potassium, helps to flush out excess sodium, long-term drinking can take the to the auxiliary step-down effect.
Osaka University of Foreign Studies Health Management Center has conducted an experiment, researchers gave a daily consumption of the composition in hypertensive patients with 15-30 ml of vinegar drinks. After 8 weeks, found that blood pressure in patients than in the other group of patients not taking vinegar drink a certain degree of decline in blood pressure.
Therefore, patients with normal blood pressure should eat more vinegar. Vinegar mixed with stinging head, hot and sour Guatiao, Vinegar potato silk, motorcoach, all the delicious dishes suitable for patients with hypertension. Even people without hypertension, the appropriate cooking time add a little vinegar can not only increase the appetite, help digestion, but can soften blood vessel, to prevent deposition of impurities within the blood vessels to prevent hypertension.
In addition, the now popular fruit vinegar is also good for health drinks hypertensive patients, its taste is more gentle than the vinegar flavor, and rich in minerals, potassium, helps to flush out excess sodium, long-term drinking can take the to the auxiliary step-down effect.
Hypertension and diet
1. Carbohydrate foods
Appropriate food - rice, congee, noodles, pasta, arrowroot soup, taro class, soft beans
Should avoid foods - sweet potatoes (abdominal gas produced food), dry beans, biscuits class Sauvignon
2. Protein foods
Appropriate food - fat less food (meat tenderizer meat, cattle, pigs, lean meat, white meat fish), eggs, milk and milk products (cream, yogurt, ice cream, cheese), soy products (tofu, natto , soybean flour, fried bean curd, vegetable silk tofu).
Should avoid foods - fatty food (cattle, pigs, pork, row flesh, whale meat, herring, eel, tuna, etc.), processed products (sausages, etc.).
3. Fat foods
Suitable for food - vegetable oil, a small amount of butter, salad dressing.
Should avoid the food - animal oil, raw lard, bacon, oil sardine
4. Vitamins, minerals, food
Appropriate food - vegetables (spinach, cabbage, carrot, tomato, lily root, pumpkin, eggplant, cucumber less fiber), fruits (apples, peaches, oranges, pears, grapes, watermelons, etc.), seaweed, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables raw produce abdominal gas, must be soft-boiled or made sauce.
Should avoid foods - fiber hard vegetables (Gobo, bamboo shoots, corn), irritation intensity vegetables (spicy vegetables such as mustard, onion, celery class).
5. Other food
Appropriate food - light black tea, yogurt drinks.
Should avoid the food - spices (pepper, mustard, curry powder, alcoholic beverages, coffee, strong tea, etc.), carbonated drinks, salted food (pickle category, salty salmon, salted fish sub, fishy roe, sugar, soy sauce, boiled vegetables , pickles category).
Appropriate food - rice, congee, noodles, pasta, arrowroot soup, taro class, soft beans
Should avoid foods - sweet potatoes (abdominal gas produced food), dry beans, biscuits class Sauvignon
2. Protein foods
Appropriate food - fat less food (meat tenderizer meat, cattle, pigs, lean meat, white meat fish), eggs, milk and milk products (cream, yogurt, ice cream, cheese), soy products (tofu, natto , soybean flour, fried bean curd, vegetable silk tofu).
Should avoid foods - fatty food (cattle, pigs, pork, row flesh, whale meat, herring, eel, tuna, etc.), processed products (sausages, etc.).
3. Fat foods
Suitable for food - vegetable oil, a small amount of butter, salad dressing.
Should avoid the food - animal oil, raw lard, bacon, oil sardine
4. Vitamins, minerals, food
Appropriate food - vegetables (spinach, cabbage, carrot, tomato, lily root, pumpkin, eggplant, cucumber less fiber), fruits (apples, peaches, oranges, pears, grapes, watermelons, etc.), seaweed, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables raw produce abdominal gas, must be soft-boiled or made sauce.
Should avoid foods - fiber hard vegetables (Gobo, bamboo shoots, corn), irritation intensity vegetables (spicy vegetables such as mustard, onion, celery class).
5. Other food
Appropriate food - light black tea, yogurt drinks.
Should avoid the food - spices (pepper, mustard, curry powder, alcoholic beverages, coffee, strong tea, etc.), carbonated drinks, salted food (pickle category, salty salmon, salted fish sub, fishy roe, sugar, soy sauce, boiled vegetables , pickles category).
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