Have you seen people who got shorter as they aged? Do you remember the stories about sailors and scurvy where their gums would bleed?  What about people who are anemic and get short of breath easily?    All of these are examples that show the importance of vitamins and minerals.

vitamins

Vitamins and minerals are important for our bodies.  The cells in our bodies need vitamins and minerals to do their jobs correctly.  Vitamins and minerals help  with  wound  healing,  healthy  red  blood  cells,  bone  growth,  blood clotting,  breaking  down  food  properly,  and many  more  important  actions.  Remember  the  stories  about  sailors  and  scurvy  where  their  gums  would bleed?   That was from a lack of Vitamin C since they had a steady diet of salted pork on ships with no fruits or vegetables.

Vitamin & mineral deficiencies can occur later in life.  It is important to eat a wide variety of foods in order to get all your vitamins & minerals.  Often, as we age, we start eating the same foods and limiting our variety.  We like certain foods and ignore those we don’t like. Losing teeth or developing acid reflux, intestinal problems, or other medical conditions can make eating some foods difficult or impossible.  Cooking some foods can also get more difficult as time goes by.

To get all your vitamins and minerals, take these steps:

• Eat a wide variety of foods, including lots of fruits & vegetables.
• Take a multivitamin daily that is for your age group.  Centrum Silver is one example.
• Talk to your doctor about whether you may be at risk for any vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
• Do not take vitamins or minerals individually unless approved by your doctor.
• Talk to your pharmacist to learn how your medications interact with vitamins and minerals.  Your pharmacist can also help determine what you should and should not be taking.

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The food that we eat daily differs a great deal with the food that women with pregnancy have to take because it directly affects the health of baby inside. So much care should be taken regarding the food that is taken at the time of pregnancy and the diet should contain more vitamins and nutrients that make the baby inside healthy. One of the best practices is to take a multivitamin daily. Regular health checkup and proper diet keeps mother and the child safe and healthy.

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In this article I want to give some suggestions on diet that every pregnant woman can take.

Fruits and vegetables: These are the well known source of best diet anytime. Women with pregnancy can take 3 or 4 times fruits and vegetables. These contain abundant C vitamin which helps very much in developing gums and other tissues. C vitamin is rich in melons, oranges, papaya, tomatoes, cabbage etc. Fruits and vegetables contain iron and pulp that adds strength to the baby as well as the mother and also a rich source of vitamins.

Milk and milk products: Its always preferable to take dairy products that are having low fat like non-fat milk or milk with less fats, yogurt because these are rich in Vitamin A, D and B. It is also good to take cheese which contains calcium but it should be taken in fewer amounts because it contains fats. Dairy products develop disease resistance and helps in growth.

Non vegetarian products: Women with pregnancy can take cooked meat, poultry, eggs, fish 2 or 3 times a day but in limited quantities. It’s better not to take shark, tilefish, swordfish, dolphin which have large levels of mercury. The food should be cooked properly otherwise it may create some sickness. All these non vegetarian foods are rich in proteins and are very much helpful in growth and acts as building blocks of body. Proteins also build enzymes, hormones and antibodies against several diseases. For a fast growing of baby inside the mother’s womb proteins help very much. Non vegetarian foods also contain Vitamin B and iron which are very important in the development of red blood cells.

Water: Pregnancy women should take as much water as possible as it plays a crucial role during pregnancy. It is the main carrier of food to the baby and it prevents the baby from constipation, excessive swelling and other bladder infections. It prevents the baby from dehydration. Intake of less water is one of the reasons for early labor. Pregnant women can also take juices as source of water but they should have sufficient amount of water like watermelon, oranges etc.

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thyroid

All these days we have discussed normal health conditions, now let’s move our glorious glands towards deeper concepts of health. This article comes out with glands of our body which plays a precious role to smoothly run a typically arranged machine, named body.

Thyroid

Our typically body needs every minute part of it in a perfect condition; any change of its role tends to severe issues of health. One of such minute but most important marvelous part of body is thyroid gland. It is one of the largest endocrine glands and has very important role in every activity. This gets settled in thyroid cataliage with in the neck inferior. The role of it is use to manage the level of proteins and nutrients adequately in every part of body. This controls the activities of every organ and provides required energy.

How it Controls energy levels?
It’s the pituitary glands which order the thyroid glands and this intern comes from the parts of the brain called hypothalamus. Apart from this hormones also have an extraordinary role in body functioning. Hormones are one which signals certain body actions. Some meant to produce different glands and some meant for some specialized features.
Thyroid which is actually located at throats right side below the voice box can migrate to all the body parts when person is in fetus mode. Though this is a very rare case, it just ends the human thyroid from neck to the chest. Thyroid generally consists of two lobes. This gets connected to trachea with the help of isthmus, while it is travelling windpipe (trachea).

Guise of Thyroid
Though thyroid is quite in weight but can tends to serious culprit when its function becomes abnormal. Thyroid glands are in bunch and they transfer the messages in themselves to operate the body in perfect condition. For this they need to produce few cells in absolute level. Either lesser or higher level of thus tiny cells tends to abnormal situations in human body.

Thyroid role

T3 and T4:
Thyroid produces two different tiny cells and they are triiodothyronine and thyroxine and they are shortly named as T3 and T4. In this T3 is meant for production of iodine in numeric 3 and t4 generate 4 iodides. This iodine will enter in to the blood stream and plays their role in corresponding function. This iodine moves to every cells and confirms with the cell regarding their consumption of oxygen and nutrients, which is generally termed as metabolism. They also take part in heart muscle contraction and nerve function by increasing the utilization of cholesterol and nutrients. This ensures normal growth and brain development.

C cells:
There are few cells liberated from thyroid which manages the levels of calcium in body. As every one knows how calcium is important for human skeleton. The cells which play the role of calcium controller follicular cells or the parafollicular cells or C cells and the other are parathyroid hormone. But, too much of these hormones tend to builds of barriers in human performance. Based on the production of all these hormones, health culprits come in to the picture and those culprits are termed as hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism.

You can know more regarding these culprits and their effects and defects in the upcoming articles very soon. Hope this information makes you wise about the thyroid and its role in human body.

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energy drink

The advancement of technology has made us more mechanical and proactive to diseases than before. The layoffs in various business and problems in the relationships are killing our natural excitements and happiness. The amount of stress being levied on humans are very high and it is essential to keep ourselves peaceful and healthy from them. It is the physical health that gets effected initially and then your fitness and later you will be collapsing in the hospital bed. It is you who have to take care that these things do not go out of your control with healthy diet and nutritional food. There are many products available in the market with nutritional values but only a few are good as they are designed for person-to-person.

I have come recently come across MonaVie on Facebook where I found some fascinating details about the nutritional needs of human body and how this company’s products are useful to us. MonaVie is one such company which is producing health products with Brazilian açai berry and 18 other beneficial fruits. Numerous products are being sold by them like monavie original, monavie active, monavie emv etc; each of it is developed using a special kinds of fruits and for special purpose. Let me give more details about the product that I liked most from their company.

Monavie is made up of apple, grape, acai, acerola and camu camu which recharges your body instantaneously. It will not only boost your physical health but also stimulates your mind so that you become hyperactive to do any kind of work. Unlike other energy drinks that provide empty calories from simplified sugars like high fructose corn syrup, 80% of this energy drink contains natural fruits, there will not be any side affects. Thus you can consume it happily. If you want to know more about these products, you can also visit MonaVie on Facebook.

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trimesters

The main turning point for women comes when she is carrying. It’s a memorable sweet and great feeling which is inexpressive in words. This feeling remains a successful and happiest many physical, harmonically and mental changes begins at this point. Any negligence can leads to worst situations. So a proper erudition can save coming child and mother. Along with nutritious food optimized exercise is very essential. This article narrates the viewers about the accurate level of nutritious diet for a pregnant lady to conceive a health baby.

Nutrition built
To retain the required proteins for baby shaping out in women all essential nutrients are very essential. Apart from usual food, an extra diet is very essential for the women during this precious and risky life. The levels of folic acid, iron vitamin D play a very important role while conceiving the infant.

Folic acid: a vital acid which prevents spinal bifida, a serious congenital case occurs in tube housing. This fails the nervous system by closing the tube and rise to several disabilities. And also affects on other neural tube defects in babies. A women with pregnancy needs to consume 400mcg of folic acid for initial three months of carrying.

Vitamins: The vitamins D(10mvg), C(50mcg) ,B6(0.96mcg) ,A(700mcg) and also riboflavin(1.14mcg) are very essential and they need to be in proper proportions. This can be obtained in dairy food, vegetables and fruits.

Others: Apart from this, calcium for strong bones and teeth, copper for not effecting heart, arteries, skeletal and nerves system at the time of delivery. Fluoride makes the teeth strong which usually gets week at the time of first, second and third trimesters. And also potassium, metabolism, thiamine, phosphorus etc are also having equal importance.

Food filling nutrients gaps:
Fruits and vegetables are the chest of vitamins; minerals and fiber can riches the women body fit for delivering an infant with strong health. And also enriches the body strong even after delivery. Vegetables like broccoli, spinach, green pepper, collard green, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, brussel sprouts are the main producers of main nutrients like carotene and vitamin C. Fruits like cantaloupe, oranges, peaches, watermelon and strawberries are helps to enrich your nutrients level in body.

diet for pregnant lady

Dairy products like milk, curd, cheese, yogurt, tofu offers the plenty of vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B. And preferring for low fat dairy products instead of full fat dairy products ensures the nutritious health along with low cholesterol body reducing the risks relates to cholesterol.

Poultry food like chicken, meat, fish ensures high mineral level in body and enriches the strongness in babies. Supplements usage also balances the body for your baby.

Apart from this, regular check ups and frequent visits of doctor, a prescribed exercises makes ensure the healthy delivery of baby and also strong health of mother and child. Smart and secured steps can yield a healthy baby which is going to be the precious gift for your life and for your beloved ones. Be cautious while perceiving the precious gift of your life (your child).

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There are very few things in life you have control over in, what goes in your mouth is certainly one of them. Keeping track of your diet is important if you want to remain healthy and have a good figure.

The basis to any good diet plan is avoiding calories. The high protein diet, vegetarian diet, low calorie diet, cookie diet, liquid diet, etc all tell you clearly to avoid calories at all costs. Calories include all fatty foods, so what you need to do is avoid junk food, fizzy drinks, cheddar cheese any thing with a lot of oil and sugar.

Calorie counts are given behind most products. When you go shopping you need to pay attention to what this calorie count reads. In order to lose weight you need to eat fewer calories per day than your body needs. To lose 1lb a week you need a negative calorie balance of 500 calories per day. To lose weight at 2lb a week you need to reduce your calorie intake by 1000 calories a day. So the first thing you need to do is to find out what your calorie intake is. There is a simple formula to calculate your average calorie needs called the Harris Benedicts formula:

The Harris-Benedict formula (BMR based on total body weight)

The Harris Benedict equation is a calorie formula using the factors of height, weight, age, and sex to determine basal metabolic rate (BMR). This makes it more accurate than determining calorie needs based on total bodyweight alone. The only variable it does not take into consideration is lean body mass. Therefore, this equation will be very accurate in all but the extremely muscular (will underestimate caloric needs) and the extremely over fat (will overestimate caloric needs).

Men: BMR = 66 + (13.7 X wt in kg) + (5 X ht in cm) – (6.8 X age in years)

Women: BMR = 655 + (9.6 X wt in kg) + (1.8 X ht in cm) – (4.7 X age in years)

Note: 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
1 kilogram = 2.2 lbs.

Example:
You are female
You are 30 yrs old
You are 5′ 6 ” tall (167.6 cm)
You weigh 120 lbs. (54.5 kilos)
Your BMR = 655 + 523 + 302 – 141 = 1339 calories/day

Exercise is necessary to maintain a good physique. It burns your carbohydrates then tones your muscles. An average adult requires a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise a day. Along with exercise rest is also very important your body needs eight hours of sleep a day. The body is like a machine it consumes energy which it gets from food for it to work properly it needs eight hours of sleep.

Some helpful tips:

• A simple technique to loose weight is to correct the way you breathe, it is scientifically proven that deep breathing exercises can decrease your weight loss by a staggering 30 pounds in two months. In the process you also oxygenate your brain properly, leaving you fresh and energized.

• Avoid animal fat and butter. Theses are a huge source of carbs in our lives. Try to use substitutes like olive oil and fish oil.

• Drink green tea. It controls your cholesterol levels, prevents cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

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Everybody think that we can heal medicines only with the medicines but not always. Diseases can also be treated through providing mental relief and in many other ways. Many people don’t know that water is one of the major medicine to your and occupies 70% of our body. There are many diseases those can be treated through water without the use of any kind of medicines. If adequate amount of water which is clean was made available and the people used it appropriately, the amount of sickness and death could probably be cut to half.

Correct usage of the water is the basic prevention and treatment for diarrhea. In many areas, diarrhea is the most of the common cause of sickness and death in small children. Contaminated water is the major reason for all diseases. An important part of the prevention of this disease and many other diseases is to make sure that the water we drink is safe and clean. We need to store the water in a cleaned container as well as we have to change the water daily and we should not drink the stored water. It is always suggestible to boil the water before drinking. If this is not possible then store the water in a clean container and cover with some plate on top of that container. Keep this container under the sunlight so that no other bacteria will pass through that container.

The common cause of deaths in children is due to dehydration or loss of too much water from the body. By giving a child with plenty of water possibly with salt or lemon or sugar will prevent the possible dehydration and also brings the child suffering from dehydration to a better state very quickly.

Giving the more water is the great treatment than any other medicines for dehydration. Drinking more water also keeps the body in a balanced condition and makes sure the proper functioning of our body parts. Water also reduces the tension makes us more resistant from diseases. So try to drink water as much as possible.

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