Have a Better Life

Our bones, muscles and joints are the structure that supports the body, protects the internal organs and make our movements possible. Simple actions like walk, sweep the house or even write depends, in a long term, of the food we eat.

What can we eat that help us keep moving for a long time?

• Blue Fish (tuna, sardines, salmon, etc) and their Omega-3 help to reduce the inflammation of articular diseases. They also contain vitamin D.
• Vegetables: contain vitamin C with antioxidant power.
• Vegetable Oils: great source of omega-3 and vitamins.
• Fruits, dry fruit and seeds, besides having calcium and selenium, they are benefit for their vitamin E.
• Integral cereals are highly rich in fiber and help to control the weight (overweight can damage the bones and joints)
• Milk and dairy products: these products are the best ones for bone development due to the calcium they contain.

All these products will help you to have a healthy diet and to prevent diseases like: Osteoporoses, Fibromyalgia, Gout and rheumatoid arthritis.

Broccolis are not my kids favorite vegetable, in fact they don’t like to eat them. Broccolis are a green vegetable that is great for anemic people. Their main component is water, followed by carbonate hydrates and proteins. They are a great source of vitamin C, folic acid and carotenes, as well as a good provider of vitamin E and B6. Regarding minerals they have potassium and phosphor.

Broccolis have an anticancer function, with a main role in the heart disease and cancer prevention. Due to the high quantities of calcium and phosphor they are beneficial for bone health. Together with all the green leaves vegetable, they are excellent to prevent and treat anemic states.

As I mentioned in my family blog my husband is overweighted. He’s not careful with what he eats and his diet includes cookies, sodas, chocolates, etc. There are several products available he could take like hydroxycut which burns calories and controls appetite, but he’s not very fond of taking pills so he prefers to eat more soup, vegetables and fruits. The problem is when he eats a full package of cookies…
He’s already having high blood pressure and it can be cause by the overweight besides the dangers of stroke and heart attack.

Tomato is full of vitamins, minerals and flavonoid. Contains lycopene, one of the more powerful antioxidants, which gives him the red color.

Tomato:

• Makes the cellular walls stronger
• Frees the body from toxic substances and increases defenses
• Prevents heart diseases and problems with the blood veins.
• Is benefit for vision and improves the health of the nervous system

Pickles are a very popular way of conserve food, especially vegetables. Its own flavor comes from a process of addiction of vinegar, salt and sugar.

From the nutritional point of view, pickles have a profile similar to fresh vegetables, with the exception of the high amount of sodium (a salt component) and sugar.

Eating salty food is frequently attached to the increase of blood pressure and to a high risk of gastric cancer.

The presence of sugar also gives a higher caloric effect to pickles than fresh vegetables, therefore these type of food must be eaten sporadically.

Halloween is costumes and Pumpkins, but Pumpkins also means health.

Pumpkin is a vegetable and is rich in pro-vitamin A, zinc, phosphor, calcium and iron.

The pulp is rich in zinc that helps the treatment of burns and healer and it’s important in the protection of the skin against the sun rays and excellent for the vision.

This vegetable is rich in phosphor which is a brain tonic.

Pumpkin seeds are rich in iron and should be eaten in regions where the iron is not very present in the food.

Pumpkins also have a reconstitute function on anemic and malnourished children.

My husband was recently diagnosed with GOUT (metabolic arthritis). It is a diseased caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood stream. Crystals are formed and deposit themselves in the cartilage joints, tendons and involving tissue. This causes inflammatory reaction, pain and some of the crystals can even come out through the skin.Here is the diet prescribed to my husband and that should be followed by all Gout patients:

You can eat:

• Cow, chicken, lamb, duck
• Green vegetables, carrots and tomatoes
• Apples, pears, bananas, oranges, peaches, melon, watermelon, figs
• Raise, pasta, bread, potato, eggs, olive, fresh cheese, yogurts
• Water, fresh tea, low fat milk, sodas, white wine

You should avoid:

• Pork, hare, partridge, heifer, ham, pig
• Liver, pate (made from liver), or sweetbreads (thymus)
• Seafood
• Alcoholic beverages, particularly beer
• Bacon
• Pineapple, cherries, lemon

Keep your weight under control and exercise.