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Maybe the bars should consider changing their snacks and offer its visitors nuts instead of peanuts, because according to one study, these nuts have great health benefits for men. The great news is that eating nuts is not only good for the heart, but also to fight prostate cancer.

Researchers at the University of California-Davis, U.S., conducted a study in mice, to test the effects that the nuts were on their health. It is shown that after the nuts are beneficial for heart disease and that reduced levels of endothelin, a substance that increases blood vessel inflammation, pointing to the hypothesis that walnuts could also benefit other patients.

The Endothelin is a substance that also occurs in large doses in patients with prostate cancer. Therefore, invetigadores fed one group of mice genetically programmed to suffer this evil, and found that their tumors were 50% smaller and grew 30% slower than tumors in animals were not fed with walnuts.

Nutrition is one of the factors that affect the appearance of prostate cancer, and foods like nuts, olive oil and oily fish can contribute to the prevention of evil.

Properties nuts:

Its polyunsaturated vegetable oils can reduce up to 50% the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Because of its serotonin content, help to prevent hunger, so they are a good choice for your daily snacks. In addition, they give you lots of energy.

They are good source of vitamin E and have antioxidant properties.

With the zinc from nuts, you can maintain healthy skin and hair (and avoid problems of seborrhoea and balding).

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Conclusion of the holiday, after the development of culinary events, family dinners, business, celebration with other friends, associated with excess intake of fatty foods and hydrocarbonate. Binding of these factors means an increase, on average, between two and four pounds per person for Christmas, which together own lifestyle is often considered the holiday season seriously overweight.

It must be allowed to spend long periods without drug because the body has energy efficient gene in the case of overabundance causes the body tends to maintain the reserves obtained if this situation continues over time.
Obesity Institute recommends a diet today to help lose the pounds gained purify and balance the body, restoring a normal rhythm of life and diet to refocus your good eating habits.

Natural Foods

This is a soft foods, avoid the consumption of fatty foods, sweets, made or industrial development to destroy nature and minimal processed foods.

In the diet, the consumption of fruits like mango, grapefruit is key in facilitating diuresis due to the high potassium content and thus help to eliminate toxins. Kiwi and oranges serve as an antioxidant vitamin C.

Furthermore, infusion of green tea, red or pennyroyal have antioxidant properties and helps reduce levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood and facilitate digestion.

Performed 5 times every day without skipping any. It is important to have the command and respect the schedule in each intake.

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The chemical urate (uric acid is monosodium urate), which is known to cause gout apparently decrease the progression of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study by U.S. scientists.

Uric acid have significant antioxidant properties, both as a free radical trapping, but as a chelating agent, it is considered that this metabolite of purines constitute about 60% of the total antioxidant capacity of serum. (In fact there are studies that evaluate the possibility if high doses of uric acid given systemically may have antioxidant effects as vitamin C).

According to the report published in Archives of Neurology, urate would be powerful antioxidants that act against cellular damage caused by oxygen, which contribute to Parkinson’s.

Surprised?. …Apparently in these cases a slightly higher level of uric acid would be good. The funny thing is that normally in the diet of people with Parkinson’s are given lots of omegas and fish and not enough red meat, which would help raise the level of uric acid.

With the support of the Foundation, which sponsors the actor Michael J. Fox, researchers recruit 90 patients newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease for treatment with a chemical which helps produce a urate called inosine, which is thought that might slow the process of disease progression.

As mentioned earlier, red meat, offal such as liver, seafood, soups and some alcohol can increase the level of these blood urate. However, much of this could also result in gout.

In patients of the study was to be a relationship between higher levels of urate in the blood and slower progression of the disease.

Something worth mentioning is that people with gout who are treated for this disease, would not risk of developing Parkinson’s treatment because there is still no scientific evidence to support this.

Here is something important to mention, the diet of a patient with Parkinson’s, must now take many omegas and urate production source such as stews, although red meat and organ meats are rich in purines, and this facilitates the production of urate may also have other effects as we got on total cholesterol, so you should always do with extent and under the supervision of your treating physician.

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