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Trans Fat
Some of the well known bad effects of trans fats are:
- Trans fats raise LDL and lowers HDL levels.
- It promotes formation of arterial plaque, which may lead to high blood
pressure, heart disease and stroke.
- Makes over-indulgers more susceptible to cancer, obesity, multiple
sclerosis (a chronic progressive nervous disorder concerning loss of
myelin sheath) and diverticulitis (inflammation of a diverticulum in the
digestive tract).
- Decreases reaction of human cells to insulin, an aspect in both adult-onset
type-2 diabetes, and obesity.
- The birth weight of a newborn is reduced when trans fats are consumed by
pregnant women and they pass into the tissues of the unborn babies.
- Weakens the immune system
- Action of enzymes that destroys toxic and carcinogenic chemicals is
inhibited.
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Cocktails - How to Make and Enjoy Them
Preparing cocktails is not rocket science though some of the spirit used then could
probably have fueled one.
For most cocktails, you just put some spirit like vodka or whisky in a glass, then
add something to provide the “body” of your creation – that might be fruit juice,
cream or whatever your imagination suggests.
Then, with many recipes, you color it with a liqueur and top it off with decorative
touches like those little umbrellas or slices of fruit for eye appeal and so people
can feel they are drinking something healthy respectively.
Their real purpose may be to add flavor(s) and nourishment or just bubbles and
eye appeal.
To find out more about Cocktails and How to Make and Enjoy Them, go here.
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Your Diet and Cancer
Diet is 'Double edged Sword'. Improper diet increases the risk of cancer but a
proper, well balanced diet reduces the cancer risk.
Diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors and has been estimated to
account for up to 80% of cancers of the large bowel, breast, and prostate. Diet
affects the risk of many other cancers, including cancers of the lung, prostate,
stomach, esophagus and pancreas to varying extents.
These outcomes, reported from clinical trials, support the role of your diet in
prevention, or reducing the risk, of cancer.
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Take Control of Alcohol
The following facts are very disturbing:
- Alcoholism is the cause of death of about 100,000 people a year in the U.S.
A..
- The U.S.A. Federal Government spends around $166 billion on the indirect
and direct health costs of alcoholism.
- The health of up to half of the adult U.S. population is affected by alcohol,
causing it to be a leading factor affecting the health of the nation.
- Alcohol lowers our body’s resistance and immune system, so alcoholics
contract infections like bacterial pneumonia relatively easily and this leads
to more complex, dangerous and expensive medical problems.
- Alcoholism is an uncontrollable desire for alcohol which leads to serious
physical, emotional, and social problems.
- Alcoholism is also a major factor in serious motor vehicle accidents,
relationship problems and break-ups, assaults and even suicide.
- Alcoholism is on the rise among teenagers and even younger children.
To get more information about alcoholism, go here.
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Dinner Parties Made Simple
Are you planning to host a dinner party? If so, do you want to learn the followings?
- How to plan for the party
- What to serve during the party - appetizer, salad, main course, side dishes,
dessert and drinks
- How to set table
- The recipe of food that are suitable for the party
- Timing of the food preparation
- Some important and useful tips
More information about dinner parties.
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Plain Cooking
Are you interested in getting the recipes for the good old American pioneers’ food?
Over 100 recipes for holiday dishes and every day treats including
- Rib warming Percolator Punch
- Old-fashioned Plum Pudding,
- Melt-in-your-mouth scrumptious and terrific Mom's Waffles
- Great Grandmother's Angel Food Cake
- Luscious Eggless, Butterless and Milkless Cake
To find out more about this good-old traditional recipe book, go here.
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BioLiving in a High-Tech World
If you want to focus on prevention rather than cure, vitality rather than illness, a
higher standard of health rather than symptoms, and the low cost of prevention
rather than the high price of a cure or lengthy hospitalization, this book provides you
with a means to achieving it.
When you make this choice you may live a long healthy robust life in your own right
rather than masking fatigue, debilitation, depression or prolonged misery with
drugs.
Prevention entails education and personal responsibility to lifestyle, diet and
exercise. Begin to take on more responsibility for your own mental and
physiological health and start living the bountiful life, full of health, and are no
longer in the dark as to how you live and what brings about sickness or what they
can do about it when it does happen.
more about BioLiving in a High-Tech World
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