Showing posts with label nutrients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrients. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Vitamin B-Complex: The Vitamin for Learning

All of us know by now that good nutrition results in better health, fewer infections, more endurance and stamina. We improve physically when our diet is adequate in vitamins, enzymes and minerals. Can diet have any effect on mental health and mental processes? Yes, of course! The nerves and the brain cells are affected by that same good diet that assures us of healthy skin, teeth, and eyes.

The process of learning is complex indeed. In spite of hundred of years of devoted and learned study, we still do not understand fully what biological, chemical, nervous, mental, or electrical processes go on in the human body when we are learning something. But something in the Vitamin B Complex appeared to make this process easier and faster.

Learning is, at least in part, conditioned by the presence or absence of a particular food constituent. There is a certain nutritional state of the nervous system which must be realized for the effective realization by the learner of the teaching one receives.

Child in glasses studying and learning
All public or private schools all over the world must aim to turn out a complete, mature, and self-sufficient personality to their students before going out in service in whatever choice of field they are in. They must not be concern only in instilling facts into their brains but with study, athletic and recreational facilities to develop them with.

Our apathy about diet problems and the food manufacturing companies must be blamed, whose advertisements convinced almost everybody that their food is everything it should be, when in fact they are doing a great disservice to the public; the white sugar and refined cereals and their products – worthless as food and potentially dangerous, for their assimilation by the body uses up precious stores of vitamins and minerals which are replaced by our diet.

We must have proteins, carbohydrates, and fats that we should eat fruits and vegetables that children should drink milk, and astonishing results could be obtained over a period of years, feeding, ample amounts of all supplements and vitamins.

We have the responsibility of keeping before others (men, women, and children) the facts that are not well-known about nutrition.

Read More: http://healthmad.com/nutrition/capability-to-learn-enhanced-more-by-thiamin/

Robbery in Nutrition: Avoid These Nutrient Thieves

Everyday, almost everybody around the world are using, eating or doing these (stuffs or usual lifestyle wants), listed hereunder and so there is an urgent need to restore the vitamins which we unknowingly remove from our bodies.

  • Smoking destroys Vitamin C.
  • Drinking alcoholic beverages drain much of the body’s Vitamin B.
  • Coffee uses some of the Vitamin B of our body.
  • A diet overcharged with artificial sweets cuts in on the B vitamins.
  • Chlorine in our drinking water destroys Vitamin E in our body.
  • Chlorine dioxide used in bread has the same result.
  • Rancid oil or fats in the diet destroys Vitamin E.
  • Inorganic iron compound destroys Vitamin E. This is the kind of iron given in cases of anemia. Sterility muscular dystrophy and coronary disease may result from Vitamin E deficiencies.
  • Raw fish robs thiamin.
Assorted
  • Chemical sterilizer, ethylene oxide, used in food industry, destroys B vitamins. The loss is between 11 to 47 percent.
  • Sodium sulphite destroys much of the body’s vitamin, and is mostly found in ground meat, such as hamburgers, pork sausages, chili meat, and cooked beef rounds.
  • Sleeping pills block the progress of carbohydrate metabolism and so add difficulty of the body’s absorption of thiamin.
  • Medicines for malaria destroy Vitamin B.
  • Penicillin, chloromycetin destroys Vitamin B.
  • Mineral oil, used as laxatives destroys Vitamins A, D, E and K.
  • Fluoride destroys the enzyme phosphates, upon which many vital processes in the body depend, including its handling of vitamins.

Read More: http://healthmad.com/nutrition/nutrient-thieves/

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Nutrients in Different Fruits (Apple, Avocado, Banana, Coconut, Grapes and Papaya)

We need different kinds of fruits and veggies so that we can get all necessary vitamins and minerals needed in our bodies to live sane lives.

Apple
Apple is a highly nutritive food. It contains minerals and vitamins in a good quantity. On an average, 100 grams of apple contains: 84.6% moisture, 0.2% protein, 0.5% fat, 0.3% minerals, 1.0% fiber, 13.4% carbohydrates.

It provides 10 mg. calcium, 14 mg. phosphorus, 1 mg. iron, 40 IU of vitamin A and around 59 calories. There are small amounts of vitamin E, H and B-Complex too.

The skin of the apple and flesh contain more vitamin C and A than the inner flesh. The apple has malic acid, which is completely utilized by the body. This malic acid is beneficial to the bowels, liver and brain.
Apple Nutrition Facts

The active medicinal ingredient of apple is pectin, found in the inner portion of the rind and pulp that aids in detoxification by supplying of glacturonic acid, necessary for the elimination of certain harmful substances.

Mango Nutrition Facts
Mango
Raw mango is rich source of pectin, oxalic, citric, malic, and succinic acids. It is a good source of vitamin C, B1, and B2 too.The ripe fruit is very wholesome and nourishing. The principal ingredient of mango is sugar. There are citric, malic and tartaric acids in a ripe mango that are beneficial to the body and help maintain the alkali reserved of the body. On an average, 100 grams of mango contains 81.0% moisture, 0.6% protein, 0.4% fat, 0.4% minerals, 0.7% fiber and 16.9% carbohydrates.

It provides 14 mg. calcium, 16 mg. phosphorus, 1.3 mg. iron, 16.0 mg. vitamin C and a small amount of vitamin B complex.

Its calorie value is 74.

The ripe mango nourishes the body by increasing gastric juice, blood, flesh, fat, bone marrow and semen. This fruit is also beneficial in liver disorders, loss of weight and other physical disturbances.

Avocado Nutrition Facts
Avocado
Avocado contains fat, which is wholly free from the unpleasant butyric acid. It is a rich source of vitamin A and maintains high resistance against bacterial infection. The protein of avocado is of finest quality. The pulp of the fruit is so free from fiber that it forms with water a fine emulsion, which closely resembles milk in consistency and appearance.

Per 100 grams of edible portion, it contains 73.6% moisture, 1.7% protein, 22.8% fat, 1.1% minerals and 0.8% carbohydrates.

It provides 10 mg. calcium, 80 mg. phosphorus, 0.7 mg. iron and 290 international units of vitamin A. There is sufficient of vitamin E and a small amount of vitamin C and B-Complex. Its calorie value is 215.

Banana Nutrition Facts
Banana
This fruit is a constitution of tissue building elements, protein, vitamins, minerals, and calories, along with sugar and high grade protein, which include three essential amino acids.

Per 100 grams, it contains 70.1% moisture, 1.2% protein, 0.3% fat, 0.8% minerals, 0.4% fiber and 27.2% carbohydrates. It provides 17 mg. calcium, 36 mg. phosphorus, 0.9 mg. iron, 7 mg. vitamin C and small amount of vitamin B Complex.

Its calorie value is 116.

This is supposed to be a complete balanced diet if combined with milk.

Grapes Nutrition Facts
Grapes
Grape is a highly valued food due to its rich content of sugar, which is formed almost entirely by glucose. Grapes glucose is easily assimilated and helps in the metabolism of glucose which is helpful for proper functioning of heart and other physiologically important organs.

Per 100 grams, grapes contain 92.0% moisture, 0.7% protein, 0.1% fat, 0.2% minerals and 7.0% carbohydrates.

It has 20 mg. calcium, 20 mg. phosphorus, 0.2 mg. iron, 31 mg. vitamin C and small amount of vitamin B Complex, vitamin A and P.

Its calorie value is 32.

Papaya Nutrition Facts
Papaya
Ripe papaya is an excellent tonic for growing children, for pregnant women and nourishing mothers. It is a boon for the stomach.

Per 100 grams of edible portion, it contains 90.8% moisture, 0.6% protein, 0.1% fat, 0.5% minerals, 0.8% fiber and 7.2% carbohydrates.

This provides 17 mg. calcium, 13 mg. phosphorus, 0.5 mg. iron, 57 mg. vitamin C and a small amount of vitamin B Complex.

Its calorie value is 32.

The most important content of papaya is the protein digesting enzyme in the milky juice or lather which is carried in a network of vessels. This enzyme is similar to pepsin in its digestive action. This enzyme can digest protein – 20 times than its own weight.

Coconut Nutrition Facts
Coconut
Coconut is highly nourishing food. It has a high oil content that is easily digestible. Its oil resembles butter in physical and chemical properties. The protein content of coconut is of high quality, containing all the amino acids.

Per 100 grams of edible portion, it contains 36.3% moisture, 4.5% protein, 41.6% fat, 1.0% minerals, 3.6% fiber, and 13.0% carbohydrates.

It provides 10 mg. calcium, 240 mg. phosphorus, 1.7 mg. iron, 1 mg. vitamin C and a small amount of vitamin B Complex. Fresh coconut’s calorie value is 444 and dried coconut’s calorie value is 662 (per 100 gm.).

Its tender kernel contains various enzymes and is easily digestible. The water of a single coconut contains sufficient vitamin C to meet the daily requirements of the body. It also contains several vitamins of B-Complex group. Its water is a good source of several minerals too.




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