Posts Tagged ‘Vitamin’

Thin body and pale face were not the only body symptoms of malnutrition. When the body has an imbalance of calories and nutrients, it will send the signals, ranging from fatigue, difficulty concentrating, until the itching. Any malfunction of the organs of the body caused by malnutrition?

Fatigue

When the body is iron deficiency, we will be tiredness, lethargy, difficulty concentrating, loss of appetite, and the emergence of dark circles under the eyes. Iron is needed by the body to make red blood cells, a component that carries oxygen throughout the body. A woman is advised to consume 14.8 mg of iron and 8.7 mg for men.

The best sources of iron include red meat, green leafy vegetables, and eggs. Vitamin C also helps iron absorption, so you can drink a glass of orange juice after eating the food sources of iron.

Itching

Itching of the skin can be a sign the body lacks the minerals zinc (zinc). Another sign is difficult to heal wounds and white lines on the nails. Zinc helps remove carbon dioxide from the body and we need for healing wounds.

World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one third of the global population of zinc deficiency. Packaged foods that contain chemicals phytates also need to watch out because it inhibits the absorption of when we eat foods rich in zinc.

Zinc can we get in nuts, grains, Cereal intact, fish and red meat. Oysters are also included in foods that are rich in zinc.

Pain in the tongue

Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency (riboflavin) is the tip of lip sores, sore tongue, burning sensation in the eye such as burning, fatigue, visual disturbances, and anemia. Vitamin B12 deficiency most frequently occurs in those who drink lots of coffee, users of sedatives, stomach pain medications, or exposure to the preservative bisulfar.

The best sources of vitamin riboflavin is milk and other dairy, liver, meat, brewer’s yeast, egg yolks, poultry, fish, wheat, and spinach.
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Hair is a part of our bodies that can be said to be very important health for our appearance. Compulsory therefore we maintain and care for her. here I will give advice and tips for maintaining and caring for our hair. there are some things we must do for maintaining and caring for the health of our hair.

3 hal important that you should look to maintain the beauty of hair, among others, health, hygiene and selectively choosing hair cosmetics hair.

1. Strict diet hair growth also depends on the diet that we do. Diets are too tight can cause hair loss caused by iron deficiency causes anemia.

Hair can be lost due to dietary iron, but iron can we get from meat, eggs, cereals, wheat and beans. Consume fresh fruits and vegetables to meet the body’s need for vitamin C that functions in iron absorption.

2. Cutting hair short haircut will make it easier for us to maintain cleanliness of the scalp. Cutting your hair regularly will not make your hair grow faster.
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One type of vegetables that are tasty processed so whatever the menu is bean sprouts. Bean sprouts produced from mung bean sprouts or soybeans proved to have high nutritional value and are beneficial to health and beauty.

Vegetable sprouts of any kind, either mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, bean sprouts alfafa, as well as other types of bean sprouts contain compounds fitokimiawi very efficacious. When compared with the seeds, sprouts or bean sprouts more nutritious. Protein bean sprouts 19 percent higher than the original protein content in seeds. Why is that? This is because, during the germination process, there was another revision of essential amino acids which are building blocks of protein germination bean sprouts.

Germination is a process going out of plants (shoots) from the institution. The process was accompanied by the mobilization of food reserves from storage tissues or pieces of seed to the vegetative (growth axis of embryo or institution). Mung bean, cowpea, or soybean commonly referred to as bean sprouts. During the process of germination, reserve food material is converted into a form that can be used both to plants and humans. The process of germination (germination) is affected the condition and place.

The process became sprouts have 90 percent olisakarida chains into simple carbohydrates, so that the compound is easily absorbed by the body, without producing gas. Because it contains lots of fiber and water, bean sprouts membmantu draining dirt in the colon. This is a double power bean sprouts in the fight against cancer.
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So far, people already know that papaya is very good for health. But most people recognize the benefit of the papaya fruit is meat only. Though bark, leaves and papaya seeds are edible and nutritious as well.

Papaya has long been known for health benefits. In 1875, British physician TP Lucas, start a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, who treat patients with papaya.

Papaya contains papain (cysteine protease enzyme hidrolase) that can assist in digestion by breaking down proteins. Papaya is a good source of fiber, folate, vitamin A, carotenoids, lutein, lycopene and essential amino acids that affect proper cell function.

In addition, papaya has more vitamin E four times as many, 33 percent more vitamin C, 50 percent more potassium and fewer calories than orange. Read the rest of this entry »

Knowing whether vitamin intake is adequate or not is a difficult thing. But it turns out that low vitamin levels could be detected by the tongue.

The tongue is used for chewing, tasting and swallowing which helps the user throughout the day. Because of abnormalities that occur will be very clearly seen that makes the tongue could help detection of vitamin deficiency.

Here are some conditions on the tongue associated with a vitamin deficiency, namely:

The tongue is cracked or broken
The surface of the tongue that looks cracked or broken in pieces (fissures) shows the body are deficient in vitamin A. Usually lack of vitamin A is more often associated with vision problems, but it also affects the health of the tongue. Read the rest of this entry »