Pala, Swamp Cabbage, Celery
Healthy Lifestyle August 2nd, 2010
you often experience difficulty sleeping disorders or insomnia? There are natural ways to overcome them, namely by making use of nutmeg, kale, and celery.
One of the tricks that always fit body is adequate and quality sleep. The problem is, many people are now less sleep because of sleep disorder or insomnia.
In fact, 30-50 percent of world population suffer from insomnia, and 10 per cent were categorized as chronic insomnia. Although the body was lying in bed long enough, still not able to sleep.
The main cause of insomnia is stress. Insomnia sufferers typically have weak powers of concentration and experience in the rate of severe fatigue.
Adequacy of sleep you are not measured by the length of time to sleep, but more on quality of sleep. Sleep quality is said if you wake up in the morning in a state fit.
Iwan also experienced insomnia problems. Already nearly half of this year she was only able to sleep before morning. Despite taking a sleeping pill, still he was difficult to sleep.
One friend suggested that Jasmine take traditional ingredients made from raw spinach, nutmeg, and celery. After routinely drank juice three materials, a few days later he was able to sleep soundly.
“The three ingredients were blended. Let tasty, add fruit such as watermelon, melon, starfruit, or one tablespoon of honey, “said Iwan.
Soothes effects
In Indonesia, the history of nutmeg and water spinach as the usage of herbs to overcome insomnia, were hereditary been going on for hundreds of years. The oldest literature written by Mevrouw J. Kloppenburg-Versteegh, a Dutch woman.
He writes on what he observed and heard from local communities, and who has practiced alone. The third printing of books was published in 1912, the title Raadgevingen Werken en het gebruik van betreffende Indische Planten, Vruchten enz (Ways and Advice Concerning the Use of Indonesian Crops, Fruits, etc.). Literature was also called other nutritious ingredients as insomnia medicine is chili Puyang (printed to-12 years in 1968).
Celery also has long been used in Indonesia and in the other hemisphere as a drug used to treat insomnia. Oldest records of celery, his usefulness was perceived by the ancient Egyptians (the time before Christ).
As disclosed Adriana Suwono from Herbacare, compared with water spinach and nutmeg, celery is not directly used to relieve insomnia. More Celery has a calming effect and reduce high blood.
As we all know, times of stress, a person’s blood pressure is usually not stable. Well, celery serves to stabilize (not lower) blood pressure.
Triggers Sleep
Combined the three materials, namely, water spinach, nutmeg, and celery, mixed by Dr. J. Sidhajatra Suwono, about 30 years ago, proved to effectively cope with the ¬ is difficult to sleep and stabilize high blood pressure.
Kangkung serves as a trigger sleepiness. Nutmeg really is not that cause drowsiness such as water spinach, but make a nice bed. Meanwhile, celery acts to stabilize blood pressure.
In everyday life, ordinary water spinach and celery is consumed in the form of vegetables, while the nutmeg in the form of candy or syrup. Adriana added, to achieve the desired effect, the dose plays an important role.
“Eating a few pieces of celery mixed with carrots, potatoes, chicken, meatballs, of course would be different if the special we boil celery, kale, and nutmeg to cure insomnia. The result is a stew is a simple extract. Eg 5 cups boiling with water until the remaining 1.5 cup, that’s the extract, “he said.
He is with out the chicken extract. That is, chicken meat boiled in a pot of water until the remaining approximately 2 cups. Chickens have no taste anymore, all the substances are absorbed in the rest of the water extract. So also with medicinal plant extracts.
No Addictions
The third extract these materials are now available in capsule form, such as those made with the name Adriana Naturest extract. It guarantees this herb is safe and not addictive because it is made from 100 percent natural ingredients. If you want to mix itself is not difficult, can be used as decoction or juice.
If you suffer from sleep disorders (insomnia), try this triumvirate. Secured you will be able to sleep soundly.
Boiled or Blended
Water spinach and celery can be consumed as a vegetable, while the head can be made syrup or candied. All three materials can be mixed to overcome sleep disorders.
How? As explained Adriana from Herbacure, free measuring, for example, each 1 handful spinach leaves and wet celery and nutmeg to taste. In dry form, more or less weight about 30-10 grams.
Stew
Rinse two handfuls watercress that has been cleaned up underneath the stem, two handfuls of celery, and nutmeg to taste. Heat three cups of water until boiling. Furthermore, the third such materials enter and wait until the water is only one glass. Can add a teaspoon of honey if liked. This herb drink after dinner or before bedtime.
Juice
Wash fresh spinach single cell that has been cleaned up underneath the stem, a handheld celery, and nutmeg to taste. These three ingredients were put into the blender that has been filled and a half glass of water.
Once blended, you can filter it and add a teaspoon of honey or milk to taste so much sweeter. If you want more fresh, add ice cubes. Drink after dinner or right before bed.
Organic Cow's Milk Nutrition
Weight Loss August 2nd, 2010
It’s no secret that milk is a very rich source of nutrition. Milk contains at least 14 of the 18 vitamins and minerals most needed by the body every day.
However, in recent years some doubt of the quality and nutritional quality of cow’s milk because this system of adult cattle ranch more dikandangkan and no longer eat grass. Limited land and the difficulty of getting the grass to make the cows in this modern era is more often get the animal feed concentrates.
Food affects the quality of cow’s milk. However, in general there is no noticeable difference between grass-fed beef or concentrates. “The difference may only micro components, if component macro something like,” said Purwiyatno Hariyadi, Ph.D., food technology experts from the Institut Pertanian Bogor.
Similarly, organic milk. Purwiyatno say, organic farming is actually more to give environmental rules, but not to the product. “The cow is given food or plants that natural or artificial, the product is not much different outcome,” he said.
Not just milk, other organic products as well as nutritional quality and safety are the same. “When compared, there is an advantage in organic produce, but there are also drawbacks. Until now there is no data to say which one is better than the other,” said Director of the Southeast Asian Food & Agricultural Science & Technology in this.
Meanwhile, assuming that the cow that dikandangkan more stress than cattle let loose on the grass, according Purwiyanto, will not affect nutritional quality. “His influence may be more to the total milk production, rather than nutritional value,” he explained.
He added that consumers need not worry on the nutritional quality of cow’s milk. “If we talk about mass production, it must be the end result will be standardized by the industry. Just seen it on the label packaging of nutritional information,” he said.
Terms to Know How to Cook
Diet Tips August 2nd, 2010
Just learning to cook, or are still confused by the term found in cooking recipes? Learn easily here so cooking more enjoyable.
Saute (sauteing)
Cooking with less oil
1. Use the fire in order to remain crunchy vegetables and vitamin content remains optimal.
2. Avoid cooking with aluminum pans from a mild stir by thin so do not burn.
3. Enter the old ingredients cooked in advance, new materials enter the fast fading. Serve immediately after being cooked.
Steaming (steaming)
Cook food with steam
1. Steamed food after boiling water and steam heat enough.
2. Materials that contain vitamins B and C better steamed than boiled, because the easily soluble in water.
3. Water should not enter into the steam and must be frequently checked, do not let up.
Baking (baking)
Cooking in the oven
1. Preheat the oven before baking.
2. Place pan on middle oven rack. Do not jump at the bottom because the cake will burn before the inside cooked.
Frying (deep frying)
Fry in hot oil and many
1. Use cooking oil with the best quality and much, until the food is immersed.
2. Use medium heat while frying quickly in order not to burn.
3. To know the oil is hot enough or not, enter into the oil timber sodet. If the oil is bubbling around sodet, means that the oil is hot enough.
Boil (boiling)
Cooking in open or closed in a pan of water over high heat until boiling
1. Enter a food ingredient after water is boiling.
2. In order to keep color fresh vegetables, cooked in an open pan without a lid.
3. To make a delicious broth, put the meat, wait until the water boils again. Cover the pan and reduce heat, and cook until meat is tender and translucent colored broth.
Mengetim (bain marie)
Cooking using water as the introduction of heat, so food is not in direct contact with fire
1. For the flan, mengetim time enter into the oven.
2. Mengetim time, keep the water does not enter into the container of food or heat resistant dish with cover with aluminum foil.
Usefulness captivated Avocado
Weight Loss July 19th, 2010
Avocado, although the high fat content of about 16 percent, but the fat contained in the green fruit is safe and even healthful. That’s because about 63 percent elemental composition is an unsaturated fatty acid, especially single unsaturated fatty acids.
Diets rich avocado unsaturated fatty acid can lower LDL cholesterol (low density lipoprotein) which can be detrimental to health. Single unsaturated fats also have antioxidant activity which keeps the body from damage caused by malignant arterial LDL cholesterol.
Avocados are also rich in vitamin A and carotene are good. Similarly, the minerals potassium and low sodium. Reportedly, the food kaliumnya levels high and low sodium is a healthy food to maintain a healthy heart and blood vessels.
According to Dr. Samuel Oetoro, SpGK, a nutritionist from Semanggi Specialist Clinic, people with diabetes are strongly advised to eat avocado. “The content of omega-9 and fiber are excellent for keeping blood sugar levels,” he said in International Fruit Day commemoration in Jakarta, Thursday (07/01/2010).
Avocados can also be used for beauty, for example, overcoming cracked heels or dry skin with blender and made a mask. Avocado slices thinly sliced like a plate can also be used to overcome fatigue and swollen eyes.
Meanwhile, the already mashed avocado and mixed with orange can be used as a hair penghitam. The trick, avocado which has been smeared in your hair smooth, then covered with a shower cap for an hour. After it was washed with shampoo.
With the various properties owned by this delicious fruit, I think we need to accustom themselves to enter this fruit in the daily menu list, either as juice, salad, or fresh beverages.
Egg Choosing the Right Ways
Diet Tips July 19th, 2010
To obtain eggs of good quality, choose and store eggs with exactly the following way:
* Cleanliness shell. Pick shell eggs clean, smooth, not cracked, and bright colors. Eggs with the above characteristics are usually still new and fresh. Eggshell color is dull or cloudy, querying the nascent black spots usually indicate that egg has long since been covered with mold.
* Video eggs. Eggs are good does not make a sound when shaken. This means that no part of the broken eggs (such as a ruptured egg yolk).
* Highlighted with lights. As highlighted lights, a good egg looks clear and bright.
* Enter into the water. When inserted into the water, a good egg will sink.
* Clean the egg in a timely manner. Do not wash eggs in newly purchased, because the actual egg washing will only accelerate the damage. Clean the shells of eggs from the dirt with a rag.
* Store in refrigerator. Place the eggs in the egg rack in the fridge. Egg position should be established with a wider section at the bottom. This way of maintaining the position of the yolk stays in the middle.
* Keep away from other foods. Eggshells are also porous, so avoid cooking materials placed adjacent to the strong-smelling like jengkol. If not, do not be surprised if you smell of processed egg jengko
