Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Apple juice improves quickness

The use of apples and apple juice protects brain cells from damage and prevents memory loss in old age is not associated with Alzheimer's disease and other mental illnesses. 

These findings came American researchers from the University of Massachusetts (g.Louell, Massachusetts) based on experiments on laboratory mice. 

In order to investigate the effect of antioxidants-rich apple juice on the aging brain, researchers conducted a series of experiments on healthy mice of different ages. For some time, several groups of animals receiving food containing a proper amount of nutrients or foods with depleted staff. In the water that some mice were, suffering from lack of nutrients was added to apple juice concentrate. 

Scientists have estimated the intelligence of rodents by placing them in a standard maze and measured the time that they needed to get out of it. 

Mice of different ages, who received a normal diet, were drawn from the labyrinth with the same speed. The same ability to demonstrate and young animals receiving depleted feed. Aging mice suffering from a lack of nutrients spent significantly more time to find a way out of the labyrinth. However, animals of the same age who received apple juice, to cope with the job even better than the mice who received normal food. 

Analysis of brain tissues of rodents showed that the nerve cells of older mice that received apple juice, were in better condition than their fellow cell receiving normal feed. 

According to researchers, adding apple juice to the diet of older mice completely protected them from oxidative stress brain cells caused by malnutrition. Quickness mice dramatically increased with the increase in the number of her apple juice.

Juices against aging

The team of scientists from the University of Glasgow conducted a study, which was intended to once again prove the benefits of antioxidants for the human body. Antioxidants - are substances that reduce the damaging effects of free radicals - the main source of disease and aging - in the cells of the body. According to the study, the inclusion of fruit juices in the diet reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases. 

The scientists analyzed the chemical composition of several kinds of juice and count the number of antioxidants contained in them. The researchers found that grape, apple and cranberry juices contained high amount of useful chemical compounds. 

Particular attention is drawn to the presence of scientists in the juices of chemical compounds - polyphones. Previously it was shown those polyphones, powerful antioxidants, destroying free radicals and helping people to regain health, preventing chronic diseases. 

The study showed that grape juice contains the highest number of a variety of polyphones, as well as stock what juices should drink to resist equivalent to the recently found in red wines of Bordeaux. 

Not all juices are equally useful. However, the addition of a daily diet of grape, grapefruit, apple with cranberry juice and pulp, you increase the number of antioxidants in the body, helping it cope with many chronic diseases.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

"Juice of Life", and Weil Genis

What to drink? No, no, now it wills not vodka. On the so-called soft drinks. The Union was not an issue - all drank lemonade, because all the same, except the lemonade, there was nothing. Here, all rushed to the American variety of Coca-kilo headed, but: tired, and managed to drum that into all these soda something that contains harmful - caffeine, cocaine, carcinogens, are, sodium chloride, and potassium cyanide. Almost every Russian son passed the stage of cold tea - this drink honorable compromise, the symbol of the merger traditional progressive flexibility. But we live in a country of vitamins, and sooner or later, everything comes to fruit and vegetable juices. 

This is a very correct, because nothing tastes better the nature and gastronomy has not yet been invented. This is, of course, the fresh juices. Because with all the confidence in the American Food and Drug Administration juice in the banks - the pathetic fellow healthy and beautiful natural juices. 

Therefore, everyone should buy a juicer. And to give impulse exciting creative process. 

The point is that fruits and vegetables for the juice can and should be mixed. This case is as individual as the choice of a bride, but the general laws in force there, and here. 

Juices roughly divided into three categories: morning, antiradical and dessert. 

The task of the morning - raising the tone, fixing the transition from sleep to wakefulness. Therefore preferable to juices sharp - the best citrus. Unmistakably suitable mixture: half grapefruit into two medium oranges. For tone, you can add two slices of lemon or lime. 

Antiradical juices should bring your appetite, from which he was weak and just so tasty liquid refreshment. Because there are good vegetable mixture. The best basis for them - Tomato, supplements may be different - celery, parsley, dill, coriander, chili. Two tomatoes tablespoon green - this is a normal proportion. This mixture can recommend to fans of "Bloody Mary". 

Juices dessert - softer, sweeter, thicker. Apple carrot mix well (one of two apple), strawberries (two or three berries in the two apple), pears (one of two or three apples). The two-to three sweet mandarin best to add a piece of pineapple, a banana, peach or apricot. 

But the main thing in cooking juices - the joy of the experiment. In the end, not so much in our lives of creative affairs, combining the benefits and fun that takes that much time and money.

One glass of juice day facing diabetes and obesity?

In talking about proper nutrition frequent assertion that it is necessary to drink fresh juices. But it turns out that scientists have argued the opposite. Regular consumption of juice can increase blood sugar levels that result will lead to diabetes. 

This conclusion was based on extensive research with the participation of 70 thousand women, which was held for 18 years. Scientists have found that 1 cup of juice a day increases the risk of diabetes and obesity by 25%, 3 cups per month - up to 15%. The most dangerous are the apple and orange juices. 
But the most surprising is the fact that regular consumption of fresh fruit has the opposite effect. Just eat 1 fruit a day to reduce the possibility of the disease by 18%.

2 glasses of juice a day strengthens immunity

Japanese doctors have shown that fresh vegetables, fruit or berry juice contribute to the prevention of disease and cold seasonal depression. According to doctors, the daily consumption of 1-2 cups of food significantly enhances human immune system. Japanese scientists have found that great importance is the color of juice. For example, red - accelerates blood circulation, gives energy, heat. Make it out of tomatoes, red cabbage, red pepper, bitter pepper, radish, rye, wheat, melons and cherries. 

Orange juice - creates a good mood, gives a sense of joy, increases vitality and helps to regain peace of mind. Get orange juice from oranges, carrots, apricots, pumpkin, and sesame and pumpkin seeds. Yellow - from lemons, pineapple, grapefruit, apples, peaches, etc. - Stimulates the motor functions, refreshes, helps the nervous and digestive systems, and with constipation. 

Green juices from all the leafy vegetables and Brussels sprouts, green parts of wheat, avocado cleanse blood; kill bacteria, serves as a natural sedative. Blue - from blueberries, plums, grapes, potatoes, parsnip, walnuts, celery - is useful in headaches, with increased mental strain, tones. Thus, to fill the shortage of vitamins can help with natural products.

Grapes juice

I recently became interested in the results of a study that revealed the antioxidant properties of some fruits and fruit juices and fruit drinks. It turned out that out of 13 investigated fruit and berry juices; the juice of red grapes is the most powerful antioxidant effect, because of the existence of a large number of plant substances, potentially preventing the disease, known as polyphones.

The results of this study led to the juice of red grapes called king of fruit and berry juices. However, before you rush to the store for those, it would be good to draw attention to the main component of red grape juice - sugar.

Like all fruit juices, the juice of red grapes contains much sugar. In one well-known juice brand contained 40 g of sugar to 240-ml. juice. That is, 100 ml. drink containing 16.66 gr. On the other hand, the Coca-Kola contained 35 g. of sugar to 330 ml. I.e. 10, 6, in 100 ml. This means that in the red juice contains 50% more sugar than Coca-Kole.

Is this excess of sugar may negate some heals properties, which are attributed to polyphones in the juice of red grapes? Apparently, this is a rhetorical question.

Sugar in the fruit and berry juices, as the juice of red grapes, mainly in the form of glucose and fructose. As I wrote before, while fructose is often viewed as a «useful» form of sugar, there is evidence that this is not true.

Just this week, for example, a study was published, which stated that this form of sugar might be in no small degree of harm. The study, published in the journal «Hematology», rats fed with sugar solution containing or glucose, or fructose (2). Feeding rat’s fructose led to two serious consequences: an increase in making fat in the liver and reduce the efficiency of protein lepton (among other functions, lepton reduces fat and promotes the formulation of the incineration of fat in the body).

The study revealed that some of the negative properties of fructose were the result of the deterioration of function receptor known as alpha- acid. This receptor is present in the human body, and its activity in humans is lower than in rats. As a result, one of the authors of the study «Hematology» suggested that the effect of fructose on human should cause even worse effects than those observed in rats. It seems that there is every reason to believe that consumption of fructose may contribute to the growth of obesity observed in the world.

Given all this, there is reason to argue that fruit juices should be consumed with caution. The presence in the composition of juice polyphones and antioxidant action does not take into account all the properties of juice and has an impact on the health of people.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Fresh Cranberry juice

All known properties of ordinary cranberry (poultries Pers.) Or cranberry - marsh (Glib.) (Fame. - Erica). This small semi with a small dark-green curvaceous leaves has a very valuable fruit. 
The chemical composition of berries cranberry so diverse that helps heal and prevent many diseases. Berries cranberries contain sufficient quantities of the following chemical elements: potassium, magnesium, calcium, copper, iodine, barium, iron, silver, manganese, lead. In addition, they are rich in vitamins C, PP, K, B1 and B2, as well as provide, glycoside, acid -, frolic and organic acid (2,3% - 3,3%) -, lemon, hinny , malice, benzoic (precisely because of the acid berries long retain their freshness without additional treatments). Sahara - fructose and glucose averaged 0.3% and 2.4%, respectively, are also found in berries Coloring, pectin, tannin, nitrogenous substances and. The most healing fruits cranberries are gathered in spring, because in them the highest content of valuable substances, sugars, and biologically active substances, but autumn is the owner of cranberry great concentration of vitamin C. 
In the rating of the most useful drinks in the world, compiled by researchers at the University of California, cranberry juice, took a 7 th position. The healing properties of fresh cranberry juice based on the high content of tannin, which hinder the introduction of microbes through the cell membrane. Due to this, with regular use of cranberry juice can significantly improve the immune system by enhancing the protective forces of organism. Moreover, the reinforcing affects of cranberry multiple antibiotics, especially for the treatment of diseases of the genitourinary system, urinary tract infections of different genesis. The mechanism of action is based on the natural acidification of the urine, resulting in the active reproduction of disease-causing organisms are terminated. But that's not all: the scientists have recently discovered the ability of substances contained in the cranberry juice to counteract the adhesion (sticking) of harmful bacteria to the walls of the urinary tract, thereby countering their reproduction and development of an inflammatory process. 
Cranberry juice has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, diaphoretic, diuretic effects. Its use not only as a treatment and prevention of argental sphere, but also as and funds. The salts of potassium diuretic properties determine the cranberry, which is in turn an excellent means of subsistence in cardio-vascular diseases and in metabolic disorders. These chemical elements, such as boron, iodine, manganese of lowering blood pressure, and cranberry juice is often recommended when hypertension. Even the cranberry cake contains about 6% frolic acid, which has effect of coronary vessels. 
Regular consumption of fresh cranberry juice significantly reduces the risk of food poisoning and counteracts the development of infection, since it has the ability to suppress the reproduction of bacteria, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, etc. This finding was presented at the annual meeting of the U.S. Institute of Food Technology. 
As a natural absorbent of harmful bacteria due to, cranberry juice is effective as an antioxidant. Properties provide a cranberry reduction breeding coccid, protean, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus. Fresh juice affects the increase in secretion of gastric and pancreatic juices, so it is often recommend for the treatment of diseases of digestive system. It further improves the appetite, absorption of food, and normalization of metabolism, strengthens the peristalsis of the intestines and removes slag. It recommends that in gastritis (but only with low acidity), colitis, appoint as a substitute for salt in the salt-free diet, as well as during treatment of liver diseases. 
A few centuries ago, it was observed detrimental feature cranberries in relation to the cholera vibrato; fine cranberry juice quenches thirst, relieves manifestations of fever, with flu, and significantly accelerates the healing sore. 
However, husks of grapes used cranberries not only inside, but as an external tool in dermatology. Embrocating of cranberry juice contribute to the healing of burns (1.2 st.) Purulent wounds, is recommended in psoriasis, eczema, and deprives the (dry). Also, cranberry juice concentrate is used as a means to get rid of lice. 
The most important contraindications are the use of cranberry juice and gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and increased acidity of gastric juice.