Sweet News To Honey Lovers!

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Hi all,
Do you like honey?
I love honey. Everyday first thing in the morning I make a glass of honey drink mixed with Apple Cider Vinegar and flash it down my throat. It helps to cleanse the system as well as give my body a lift.

Know something? Honey also has the antioxidant quality.

Dietary Antioxidant

Sweet news to honey lovers. Two new studies by researchers of the University of Illinois show the dietary antioxidant benefits of honey. One of the studies shows that part of the dietary antioxidant qualities of honey has preservative properties that work on meat without compromising the taste. Based on a work done on human blood in the lab, a recently published study says that the dietary antioxidants present in honey slow the oxidation of low density lipoproteins (LDL). Too much LDL in the blood leads to atherosclerotic plaque deposition.

Like a previous University of Illinois study in 1999, researchers found in both studies that dark-colored honey, especially buckwheat, provide more protective dietary antioxidant punch than lighter-colored honeys. This proves that while it is still early to say that honey can be a dietary antioxidant, it does point out its vast potential in terms of antioxidant properties. Principal researcher Nicki Engeseth, a professor of food chemistry in the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmenal Sciences, agrees with this.

Published online on April 6 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the newest study on dietary antioxidants was the first to look at honey’s effect on human blood. With the use of a much more precise method than the one used in 1999, the study found that the dietary antioxidants found in honey are equal to those in many fruits and vegetables in their ability to counter the degenerating activity of highly reactive molecules known as free radicals.

“It’s still too early to say definitely, but honey seems to have potential to serve as a dietary antioxidant,” Engeseth said.

In January, Engeseth and Jason McKibben, a researcher with Anheuser Busch in Santa Monica, CA, reported in the same journal that the dietary antioxidants in honey were more effective compared to traditional preservatives, such as butylated hydroxytoluene and tocopherol in slowing oxidation in cooked, refrigerated ground turkey. It was observed in both studies that while the meat browned during cooking more extensively than traditionally preserved products, taste was not negatively affected.

For the other study, Engeseth worked with yet another colleague, Nele Gheldof, a doctoral student in the department of food science and human nutrition. They measured the dietary antioxidant and phenolic contents in honey taken from sevel floral sources, such as acacia, buckwheat, clover, firewood, Hawaiian Christmas berry, soybean, and tupelo. Using the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC assay, they discovered that darker honeys have the highest values of dietary antioxidants. ORAC is a tool that has been used for the past decade as a way to analyze the same components in fruits and vegetables.

So..... drink more honey!

Cheers.

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What Children Should Eat Doesn't Always Translate To What They're Actually Eating!

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Hi all,
Today, lets talk about why Children need Antioxidant.

Antioxidant Supplements for Children

Our bodies need rich nutrients from healthy foods in order to help with its development. The growing period especially is the best time to adopt good nutrition. That is why infants, children, and teenagers are more in need of good nutrition so they can grow and develop into hearty adults.

Establishing a healthy, wholesome eating habit is always best for growing children. Fresh fruits and vegetables are a rich source of nutrients which the body needs. Infants, children, and teens should eat a variety of these nutritious foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables every day in order to get the necessary amount of nutrients for growing.

However, this task is not as easy as it sounds. What children should eat doesn’t always translate to what they’re actually eating. With today’s processed, packaged fast food diet, it’s difficult to convince them why plain, ol’, unappealing vegetables is better than the spicy junk they’re eating.

Fortunately, there are several antioxidant supplements for children available in almost any health food store and pharmacy. Proportionate to their size, children require more of certain vitamins and minerals than adults do. They need more B vitamin antioxidant supplements for children to help them extract energy out of food. They may also require a nutritious snack or two, plus more antioxidant supplements for children, between regular meals to give them the proper fuel to grow, learn, and play.

At the age ten, girls experience their growth spurt. Boys often have theirs around twelve. This period is often the best time to be especially conscious of their calcium and antioxidant supplements for children intake. Vitamin D antioxidant supplements for children are also required. These antioxidant supplements help the body absorb calcium and prevent rickets. Children who don’t spend much time in the sun may need vitamin D antioxidant supplements for children, as well as vitamin K antioxidant supplements for children, which are necessary for strong bone development.

For fighting infections, vitamin C antioxidant supplements for children are recommended. Vitamin C antioxidant supplements for children help absorb iron, a lack of which can lead to fatigue and poor concentration. Young, growing children also need plenty of vitamin A and zinc.

If you suspect that diet alone will not provide the proper vitamins and minerals for your children, talk to your doctor about antioxidant supplements for children. Some infants require iron and fluoride supplements. Kids who are over two years old may be recommended to take multivitamins in liquid form and squirted into their juice or milk.

Remember, always check with your doctor before you give your children any health supplement.

Till we 'meet' again, take good care of yourself and your children.

Cheers.

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What Are The Most Unlikely Antioxidant Rich Foods?

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Hi all,
Today, I would like talk more some Antioxidant Rich Foods which is overlooked by most of the people.

Antioxidant Rich Foods

Sometimes the best antioxidant rich foods can be the most unexpected. Blueberries may be the poster children for antioxidant rich foods but what little of us know is that the humble bean may be an antioxidant powerhouse candidate.

A new study suggests that beans may well join the antioxidant rich foods family that includes the likes of berries, spices, and potatoes. To date, the largest and most advanced analysis of the antioxidant rich foods shows that disease-fighting antioxidants may be found in the most unlikely fruits and vegetables. Beans, artichokes, and even Russet potato can be rich antioxidant powerhouses as well.

Researchers particularly found that small red beans are among the top antioxidant rich foods in the bean category. In fact, they were shows to contain more disease-fighting antioxidants than both wild and cultivated blueberries combined. Blueberries have always been known to contain a rich amount of antioxidants and have been heralded in recent years of its high antioxidant content. With this new study however, it looks as though the small red bean is snatching away the spotlight.

Other antioxidant rich foods that the study focused on include nuts and spices, such as ground cloves, cinnamon, and oregano. What kept these foods away from the antioxidant-consuming public for long is that they are generally consumed in much smaller amounts than fruits and vegetables.

The study used updated technology to assess the antioxidant content of more than 100 foods, including fruits, vegetables, cereals, breads, nuts, and spices. Each food was analyzed for antioxidant concentration and ranked according to antioxidant capacity per serving size.

Cranberries, blueberries, and blackberries were ranked highest among the fruits studied. Beans, artichokes, and Russet potatoes were tops among the vegetables. In addition, pecans, walnuts, and hazelnuts were the winners in the nut category, and ground cloves, cinnamon, and oregano were the top three antioxidant rich foods in the spice category.

However, researchers noted that the total antioxidant capacity of antioxidant rich foods does not necessarily reflect their potential health benefits. It seems that a big factor in the health benefit of antioxidants is what happens in the digestion and absorption process.

In the recent years, antioxidant rich foods have been credited with helping prevent and even cure a majority of diseases which are said to have been caused primarily by harmful free radicals that attack healthy, normal cells. By destroying this free radicals, antioxidants not only stop the free radical chain reaction but repair damaged cells as well. Antioxidants have been linked to the treatment of such disorders as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.

Antioxidant is really my favorite subject, shall do more research and share with you.

Cheers.

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Want To Know The Result Of The Research Done On Antioxidant?

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Hi all,
Today, I just like to shall with you a research done on Antioxidant.

Antioxidant Comparison

If you want the health benefits of antioxidants but find that some fruits and vegetables are simply not to your liking, then do a little antioxidant comparison chart of foods. With the recent furor over antioxidants that’s taking the scientific and medical community by storm these days, several scientists and nutrition researchers are all over themselves conducting antioxidant comparison studies to find which fruits have the highest concentration of the beneficial substances.

An antioxidant comparison of some of the most common fruits found that the little red berry in its pure form contained the highest quantity of disease-fighting phenols. Phenols are a type of antioxidant that is thought to reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, stroke, and heart disease.

This antioxidant comparison study appeared in the November 19 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. It was also published earlier in the Web edition of the journal on October 3.

About the Antioxidant Comparison Study

The antioxidant comparison study represents the most comprehensive investigation to date of the quantity and quality of antioxidants in fruits. This is what lead researcher Joe Vinson, Ph.D., a chemist with the University of Scranton in Scranton, Penn., said.

In the antioxidant comparison study, Vinson picked 19 fruits that are commonly consumed in the American diet. For the purposes of antioxidant comparison, he then measured the total phenol content in each fruit and came up with cranberries as having the highest phenol content gram for gram. On the basis of serving size, cranberries also ranked first in the antioxidant comparison chart.

“Cranberries are one of the healthiest fruits. I think that people should eat more of them,” says Vinson. “Although researchers have known for years that cranberries are high in antioxidants, detailed data on their phenol content in comparison to other fruits was unavailable until now.”

To further their antioxidant comparison study and investigate the effects of high antioxidant content on animal cells, Vinson and his associates are now conducting animal studies. They want to determine if the high antioxidant levels of cranberries protect against the development of some of the more serious chronic diseases such as atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Atherosclerosis is a condition that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.

The researchers working with Vinson also included in their plan the eventual study on antioxidant comparison with humans to determine if supplements of the fruit would offer heart protection.

Till the next post, stay healthy, stay young.

Cheers.

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Anti Aging - You Are Only As Old As Your Cells

Anti Aging

Hi all,
As promised, I shall talk about Anti Aging today.

Anti Aging & Antioxidant

You are only as old as your cells.

Research shows that cells are only allowed so many cell divisions in a human lifetime before they would have to give out. Based on their findings, scientists say that by the time you are 20 years old, most of the cells that make up your body have already used up half of their available cell divisions in their cell lifespan. That means by the time you are 40, your cells may only have 30 per cent of cell divisions left. This is actually the reason behind the physical changes that goes on not only inside but outside the body as you approach your years.

When your cells finally use up their naturally allotted cell divisions, the result is death. It is an inevitable occurrence and there’s not stopping it. There is however a way to retard it though. Recent research has found a way to give you new hope, a way to rejuvenate and extend the lifespan of cells.

What causes aging?

According to scientific studies, one of the most significant factors contributing to the aging process is chronic inflammation. These are the identifiable inflammatory diseases which the body develops as we age. Chronic inflammation leads to damage in the cells of our brain, heart, arterial walls, and other body structures which are attributed as the cause of such illnesses as heart disease, Alzheimer’s, senility, Parkinson’s, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, prostatitis, stroke, and a few other diseases brought by aging.

Much of scientific research these days are focused on finding a solution to aging. Their results point to free radicals as the main culprits. It seemed that the more free radicals you have in your body, the faster the aging process becomes.

Free radicals are harmful, unstable substances that develop after oxidation, a naturally occurring process of the body. Free radicals are not harmful in themselves. In fact, they can be beneficial. The only problem is they do not distinguish between healthy and harmful molecules so that there is a great possibility that they would also “attack” your other healthy cells, causing massive cellular damage, tissue damage, and eventually resulting in a chronic disease or disorder, such as aging.

What is antioxidant antiaging therapy?

Modern theories of aging are generally looked at in two theoretical ways – the damaged theories and the programmed theories.

The damage theories of antiaging primarily look at the damage that our cells incur over time. Hence, this aspect of antioxidant antiaging therapy focuses more on extrinsic aging, which is the aging process compounded by externally caused factors.

On the other hand, the programmed theories are primarily concerned with the genetics of how long and how efficient our cells can maintain optimum health. This antioxidant antiaging therapy looks at intrinsic aging which is aging due to the rate of passing time.

Anti Aging Antioxidants – The Answer to Aging

In their focused attempts to find a solution to aging, scientists have finally made a breakthrough with the discovery of anti aging antioxidants. Anti aging antioxidants are substances whose sole function is to act on free radicals and keep them from damaging cell tissues. Anti aging antioxidants are natural substances but our bodies cannot produce them by themselves. That is why, we depend on plants for our source of anti aging antioxidants.

Human beings are only one of a few animal species who can’t produce their own anti aging antioxidants. We get most of our anti aging antioxidants from the fresh fruits and vegetables that we eat. Vegetables such as cabbages, potatoes, cauliflowers, squash, and carrots are all rich in vitamins which act as anti aging antioxidants.

What are the benefits of antioxidant antiaging?

Antioxidant antiaging therapy is actually a combination of different therapies used to slow and/or reverse human aging. With the possible exception of longevity medicine, antioxidant antiaging is one of the fastest growing segments of medicine.

How antioxidant antiaging works?

As you process food for energy, your body produces substances that are highly unstable. The process is called oxidation and the substance produced is called “free radicals.” Because of their highly unstable nature, free radicals increase damage to cells of the body, thus contributing to the aging process. In order to neutralize these free radicals, your body uses certain vitamins, minerals, and enzymes – collectively known as antioxidant antiaging. All these nutrients come from the food you eat, but they may also be available as supplements in the form of pills or capsules.

Some antioxidant antiaging you might have heard of include:

Vitamin A
Vitamin B-6
Vitamin B-12
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Beta carotene
Folic acid
Selenium

All these antioxidant antiaging can be found in the food that you eat everyday. The best sources are usually fresh fruits and vegetables. If you can’t obtain all the antioxidant antiaging nutrients that you need from food, your doctor may recommend using supplements to make up for any deficiencies.

Phew, what a big topic.
Hope you have learnt something.

Till we 'meet' again, Stay Healthy and Stay Young.

Cheers.

Anti Aging

Keep Your Skin Young & You Will Look Young

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Hi all,
Why are skin care products so popular? Because they help to make you look young!

Skin Care Antioxidant Science

When talking about skin health and skin care, it seems that fads are the rule. Pick up any magazine or newspaper and browse down to the skin care section and you are sure to find advertisements for skin care products and vitamins to enhance skin health.

Currently, the skin care antioxidant fad is natural and holistic. It seems that the general belief is that the more natural the skin care antioxidant product is, the more effective it’s going to be. This belief is not without its historical basis since several centuries ago, our ancestors have been using plants and natural oils to beautify the skin and keep it healthy. Now, when you open your medicine cabinet, you will probably find several bottles, tubes, and glistening plastic dispensers that contain labels identifying all the main ingredients in the skin care products – ingredients that are more like a litany of all flora and the fauna of the rain forest rather than compounds developed in a sophisticated research laboratory.

The world has created a term for these. Nutriceuticals, a word developed from the combination of “nutrients” and “pharmaceuticals.” When it comes to the world of nutrition and skin care, a familiar term readily pops up. Antioxidants. What are they?

It seems that for every skin care product that we buy, we always find that most of the ingredients contain antioxidants. Antioxidants have several beneficial effects for the skin. An antioxidant is a compound that can neutralize the destructive oxygen molecules, called free radicals that result from normal metabolism or oxidation. Free radicals may also be stimulated by external factors, such as the ultraviolet rays of the sun.

The idea of free radicals is so complicated that it is hard to explain it in one article alone. Just to be brief though, one of the harmful effects of free radicals is mutation in genes which could lead to skin cancer and affect the ability of the skin to repair itself.

With the introduction of antioxidants, free radicals may be greatly reduced and controlled. Antioxidants are said to complement skin care nutrients, one keeping harmful substances from destroying the skin while the other keeping the skin healthy and strong.

Aging skin is a primary skin of anyone who is concerned about skin health. Signs include fine lines and wrinkles, brown spots and light spots, tiny rough precancerous growths (called actinic keratoses), prominent jowl lines, sagging skin, and a general increase in roughness and dryness of the skin.

Most skin care antioxidant products that claim to everse or stall aging skin moisturize the top layer of the skin. Through re-hydration, the appearance of fine lines.

Hm.... don't think I could avoid talking about anti-aging, lets touch on this hot topic at my next post.

Till then, take good care of your skin.

Cheers.

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These Are The Best Antioxidant That Keep You Young

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Hi all,
Yes, I know you would like to know which are the best antioxidant, here it comes....

Best Antioxidant

Blueberries, cranberries, red berries, purple berries – say what? Yes, there is such a thing as a purple berry. You may not be that familiar with the term but new research has shown that when it comes to finding the best antioxidant source, nothing compares to purple berries.

A group of USDA scientists have come up with a study which suggests that among the highest fruits for best antioxidants, purple berries are even higher than blueberries and cranberries. Their preliminary laboratory studies told them that the elderberry, black currant, and chokeberry – collectively known as “purple berries” due to their dark color – are as much as 50 percent higher in best antioxidants than some of the more common berry varieties. This further proves that purple berries are the best antioxidant source and have the potential to provide more health benefits, from boosting the immune system, cutting down cholesterol, and preventing the onset of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease.

In the near future, scientists predict that best antioxidants from purple berries will play a bigger role in the marketplace where they are poised to be used as part of a growing number of specialty health foods, drinks, and nutraceuticals.

Besides purple berries, there are also other rich sources of best antioxidants. According to the largest USDA study yet, artichokes and beans may not be at the top of your list of favorite foods but when it comes to best antioxidants, these veggies earn a coveted place. According to the study, these vegetables are among a growing variety of foods to contain surprisingly high levels of the disease-fighting compounds known as best antioxidants.

In addition to artichokes and beans, researchers have also found that Russet potatoes, pecans, and even cinnamon are all excellent, although lesser-known, sources of best antioxidants.

This new study is more complete and much more accurate compared to previous studies, due perhaps to updated technology. It also includes a wider variety of foods for their best antioxidant test. Over 100 different foods were used as researchers analyzed their antioxidant levels, including fruits and vegetables, as well as spices and nuts.

Among the fruits tested, purple berries, cranberries, blueberries, and blackberries ranked highest when it came to best antioxidant sources. Beans, artichokes and Russet potatoes were also the top contenders among the vegetables tested. Pecans, walnuts and hazelnuts also had best antioxidants in the nut category.

But no matter which food source is a better antioxidant source or which one isn’t, the bottom line remains the same: eat more fruits and veggies. This was according to Ronald L. Prior, Ph.D., a chemist and a nutritionist with the USDA’s Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center in Little Rock, Ark.

SO what are you waiting, go get it...... :o)

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