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 …

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 …

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, …

When the main objective is to lose weight and avoid the return of the lost pounds, there are some precautions to be taken into consideration.
There are some simple but efficient gestures.

Always eat at the table and never when you’re doing some other activity (watching TV, speaking on the phone, driving)
Don’t fill your plate, take a portion at a time so that you have the notion of the quantities
Begin the meals with soup or salad – the vegetables they contain produce a satiable sensation, avoiding excess eating.
Reduce the normal portions, getting …

Raw fruit, cooked or canned fruit, do they have the same nutritional value?
In a general way raw fruit is nutritionally richer once the cooked one loses some vitamins and the canned fruit usually has a sugar syrup that diminish the nutritional value.
Is it possible to eat too many fruit?Exceeding the ingestion of fruit and vegetables is less harmful than the excess of ingestion of food from other food group. However balance is one of the golden rules for a healthy feeding therefore, when talking about fruit and vegetables, according to …