Showing posts with label Cardiovascular disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardiovascular disease. Show all posts

Friday, July 12, 2013

An introduction to the benefits of eating black fungus.

Black fungus is not only delicious, nutrient-rich, but also has many therapeutic efficacy, and thus eat more benefits of black fungus. Such as black fungus with the blood, weight loss, bowel, such as the role, but also is beneficial for coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. 

1. Natural Enrich the blood products
The black fungus nutritionists called “factor in the meat, iron element 185 mg per 100 grams of black fungus, iron than spinach and 20 times higher, various meat dishes and vegetables in the highest iron content.Chinese medicine believes that black fungus sweet nature, cooling blood, hemostasis, attending hemoptysis, hematemesis, nose bleeding, bloody diarrhea, bleeding, bleeding hemorrhoids, constipation, blood, etc., because of its high iron content, may be timely for the human body add enough iron, so it is a natural blood food.

2.  The body’s scavenger
Black fungus is rich in plant collagen, it has strong adsorption, also has no intention of difficult to digest food under the hair, chaff, wood residues, sand, metal shavings and other foreign matter dissolution and oxidation. Eat black fungus can play a clean digestive tract, intestinal Qingwei polyester role.Especially for workers engaged in ore mining, metallurgy, cement manufacturing, Barber, flour processing, cotton and wool spinning air pollution serious types of work, the regular consumption of black fungus can play a good role in health care.

3. White hair can eat black fungus
We all know, hair white with nervousness, excessive concern related experts, prevention and treatment of white hair, in addition to regulating emotions, but also pay attention to the diet to increase the intake of trace elements and nutrients UFA role to promote the normal hair growth.Trace elements iron and copper are important elements to promote hair melanin synthesis, white hair people should eat more foods rich in these two elements, such as oysters, scallop and other shellfish, almonds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, peanuts, pine nuts and other nuts, animal liver, and kidney tissue. Some UFA role, such as black fungus, black sesame, black rice, seaweed and other food.     

4. Weight loss, cancer prevention, cure constipation
Black fungus is rich in cellulose and a special kind of plant collagen, these two substances can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote the excretion of intestinal fat foods to reduce the absorption of dietary fat, thus preventing obesity; same time, due to two substances can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation, and is conducive to the timely removal and discharge of toxic substances in the body stool, and thus play a role in the prevention of colorectal cancer and other cancers of the digestive system.

The elderly, especially constipation habit elderly, insist on eating black fungus, eat fungus porridge, the prevention of age-related diseases, anti-cancer, anti-cancer, anti-aging have good effect. Cholecystitis and stones in patients with early, every day to eat black fungus, accompanied by pain, evil and vomiting, and other symptoms can be alleviated within a week.

5. The prevention of cardiovascular disease
Black fungus contains vitamin k and rich in minerals such as calcium, magnesium, can reduce blood clots and prevent the occurrence of thrombosis embolism, prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Black fungus role of promoting blood anticoagulant, bleeding disorders, unfit for pregnant women consumption.

6. Fungus + dates can lose weight
Black fungus powder jujube powder diet: Material: black fungus powder 5 grams, 20 grams of jujube powder.Practice: with the right amount of boiling water, black fungus powder red jujube powder can be drink.

7. Protect the neurons 
Efficacy: black fungus in the glial residual impurities in the digestive tract and excreted waste adsorption black fungus contains the class of nucleic acid substances, can reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood.
Glia are commonly known as the glue of the nervous system; however, this is not fully accurate. Neuroscience currently identifies four main functions of glial cells:
  1. To surround neurons and hold them in place,
  2. To supply nutrients and oxygen to neurons,
  3. To insulate one neuron from another,
  4. To destroy pathogens and remove dead neurons.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Pomegranate: How To Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit

The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree.
Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Progression
A new study published in the journal Atherosclerosis confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis.[i]
Mice with a genetic susceptibility towards spontaneous coronary artery blockages were given pomegranate extract via their drinking water for two weeks, beginning at three weeks of age. Despite the fact that pomegranate treatment actually increased cholesterol levels associated with very low density lipoprotein-sized particles, the treatment both reduced the size of the atherosclerotic plaques in the aortic sinus (the dilated opening above the aortic valve) and reduced the proportion of coronary arteries with occlusive atherosclerotic plaques.
Remarkably, the researchers also found that pomegranate extract treatment resulted in the following beneficial effects:
  • Reduced levels of oxidative stress
  • Reduced monocytie chemotactic protein-1, a chemical messenger (chemokine) associated with inflammatory processes within the arteries.  
  • Reduced lipid accumulation in the heart muscle
  • Reduced macrophage infiltration in the heart muscle
  • Reduced levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 and fibrosis in the myocardium
  • Reduced cardiac enlargement
  • Reduced ECG abnormalities
How can something as benign and commonplace as a fruit extract reverse so many aspects of coronary artery disease, simultaneously, as evidenced by the study above?  The answer may lie in the fact that our ancestors co-evolved with certain foods (fruits in particular) for so long that a lack of adequate quantities of these foods may directly result in deteriorating organ function.  Indeed, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling argued that vitamin C deficiency is a fundamental cause of cardiovascular disease, owing to the fact that our hominid primate ancestors once had year-round access to fruits, and as a result lost the ability to synthesize it. 

Discussion

This study adds to the already extant body of clinical research indicating that pomegranate can help unclog your arteries.  For instance, back in 2004, the journal Clinical Nutrition published the results of a three year clinical trial in an Israeli population, finding that the daily consumption of pomegranate juice reversed carotid artery stenosis by up to 29% within 1 year.  Remarkably, the blockages in the control group increased 9%, indicating that pomegranate's artery unblocking effects were even greater than at first apparent. [ii]
Pomegranate's value in cardiovascular disease is quite broad, as evidenced by the following experimentally confirmed properties:
  • Anti-inflammatory: Like many chronic degenerative diseases, inflammation plays a significant role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis. There are five studies on GreenMedInfo.com indicating pomegranate's anti-inflammatory properties.[iii]
  • Blood-Pressure Lowering: Pomegranate juice has natural angiotensin converting enzyme inhibiting properties, [iv] and is a nitric oxide enhancer, two well-known pathways for reducing blood pressure. [v] Finally, pomegranate extract rich in punicalagin has been found reduce the adverse effects of perturbed stress on arterial segments exposed to disturbed flow.[vi]
  • Anti-Infective: Plaque buildup in the arteries often involves secondary viral and bacterial infection, including hepatitis C and Chlamydia pneumoniae.[vii] Pomegranate has a broad range of anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties.
  • Antioxidant: One of the ways in which blood lipids become heart disease-promoting (atherogenic) is through oxidation. LDL, for instance, may be technically 'elevated' but harmless as long as it does not readily oxidize. Pomegranate has been found to reduce the oxidative stress in the blood, as measured by serum paraoxonase levels.  One study in mice found this decrease in oxidative stress was associated with 44% reduction in the size of atherosclerotic lesions. [viii]
For additional research on pomegranate's heart friendly properties read our article: Research: Pomegranate May Reverse Blocked Arteries
Also, view our dedicated research section on reversing arterial plaque: Clogged Arteries

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