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sugar
Whether to save calories, to reduce the glycemic index or to meet an adequate diet for a disease like diabetes, often seek to avoid foods high in sugar. To this end we often refer to the list of ingredients in a food product and there may not contain the word sugar, but other denominations that speak of the same. So today we tell you the different names for sugar or rather, the various ingredients are simple sugars.

If among the list of ingredients to visualize some of the following names are in the presence of a product containing simple sugars

Cane juice *
Molasses *
* Honey Corn
* Corn syrup, high fructose
* Sugar confectionery
* Brown sugar
* Dextrose
* Fructose
* Sucrose
* Fruit juice concentrates
* Glucose
* Honey
* Inverted Sugar
* Maltose
* Honey malta
* Sucrose

All these ingredients are not just different simple sugars or caloric sweeteners added to industrial products in order to flavor or preserve certain canned foods. So if what you’re trying to reduce sugar consumption, pay attention to the different names that speak of the same, since all these ingredients provide 4 calories per gram and the majority offers no additional nutrients or simple carbohydrates easy assimilation.

Does eating foods that contain cholesterol are not good for the body? Are we not allowed to consume foods in cholesterol? Cholesterol is actually needed by the body, but increased levels, especially of the poor, the low density lipoprotein (LDL), quite influential in the occurrence of CHD.

Cholesterol plays an important role in the formation of cell membranes, some hormones, and vitamin D. Her liver and connecting it to a carrier protein called lipoproteins, which make it soluble in the blood and transported throughout the body. In order to not get stuck with the wrong understanding about cholesterol, consider cholesterol myths and facts below.

Bad cholesterol
Myth. In fact, cholesterol is important for body function. The experts said about 75 percent of the cholesterol produced by the body and 25 percent obtained from food.

Most cholesterol is made by the liver and is important for many processes, including the production of sex hormones and vitamin D, and for brain and nerve function. Cholesterol is joined with a protein to form lipoproteins help travel in the bloodstream.

And an expert on food and nutrition technology, although considered dangerous, the body needs cholesterol remained. The average human takes 1100 milligrams of cholesterol per day to maintain the cell walls and other physiological functions. Of this amount, or approximately 25-40 percent of the normal 200-300 mg comes from food, the rest is synthesized by the body.

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Having high insulin or insulin resistance is the most common disease in the world. That is why to know what it means to have high insulin or insulin resistance, what are the consequences and how it can detect. Then we will see some of the most common questions related to the issue of high insulin and insulin resistance and the answers to these questions.

Do people who have high insulin or insulin resistance suffer from problems with sugar?
No. People with high insulin or insulin resistance are completely normal sugar. Having high insulin or insulin resistance is not to have diabetes (diabetes is a metabolic disorder, the process that converts the food we eat into energy).
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Maca is a root that is very popular because many properties. Maca grows in Peru in the Andes above 3500 meters in an area where almost no other form of plant life. In speaking Viviendosanos about Maca and its benefits.

Maca (Lepidium meyenii) has been a source of food for native Peruvian Andes region since ancient times.

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High blood pressure and increased blood cholesterol levels was not only dangerous for the heart. Two indications of this can also threaten the health of your eyes.

As reported a study, these two conditions can trigger the risk of someone experiencing eye disorder called occlusion or blockage of the retinal veins. This condition can lead to blindness caused by one or more veins carrying blood from the eye to the heart is blocked or congested fluids.

Research conducted in Ireland that indicates a person who suffered from high blood 3.5-fold risk of experiencing these occlusive clots than those with normal blood pressure. Meanwhile, people who have high cholesterol are at increased risk were recorded up to 2.5-fold.

This finding is the result of a review of 21 previous studies involving a total of 2916 patients with retinal vein occlusion and 28,646 people who do not have it. The results of the analysis also indicates, 63.6 percent of patients with occlusion of the retina are also potential problems with blood. Whereas those who did not have eye problems, the percentage is 36.2 percent. High cholesterol levels reach twice the percentage (35 percent) in people with occlusion than patients who did not experience it (16.7 percent).

Meanwhile, if the disease is associated with diabetes, those with asperger occlusion percentage is slightly larger than those that do not have diabetes of 14.6 versus 11.1 percent.

According altmedicine.about, some Chinese herbs could fight diabetes. However, there is insufficient scientific evidence to support its use.

That was the conclusion of a recent survey of 16 clinical trials in a total of 1,391 people. They received 15 different formulas herbal.

In traditional Chinese medicine, herbs have been used to help people with impaired glucose tolerance to prevent them developing diabetes.
Glucose intolerance, also known as pre-diabetes, is visualized by high blood sugar levels.

Chinese herbal medicine aims to normalize blood sugar levels, in different forms. For example, boosting the role of the pancreas, etc..

Although this approach appears promising in the treatment of pre-diabetes, should be conducted more clinical trials to confirm its effectiveness.

Allium cepa

Although it is considered a modest vegetable (the dressing of the poor “), onion natural medicinal properties and a very good nutritional supplement. This vegetable is a veritable fountain of health.

History:
As culture is known for 3000 years A. C. They knew the Sumerians (Mesopotamia) in S. VI BC and in Greece and Rome in the S. V a. n e. It began growing in the Middle East and America was brought by Columbus in 1492.

The study of pharaonic tomb inscriptions indicates the presence of onion in ancient Egypt. During the Middle Ages, onions could be present both in the menus in the palace as smaller plates.

Features
Biennial plant: first year or phase: from seedling to vegetative bulb formation, which is the body of the second year recess period or reproductive phase, corresponds to the production of seeds.

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