Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Surprises about eating fruits!!!



It has been recommended 5 servings of fruits per day are healthy. But, something you are not aware is that, consuming sweet fruits is harmful as it elevates blood sugar; it is a heath threatening fact for those with family history of diabetes or someone with pre-diabetic condition.


Adversely, gout could be triggered by eating too much of sweet fruits versus traditional believes in gout is triggered by food contains high purine foods such as mushroom, beans, meat, seafoods and etc.



Avoid taking large servings of sweet fruits such as lychee, dried dates, watermelon, mango, rambutan and etc.


Taking beneficial fruits such as guava, bitter gout, berries, prunes, lemon, tomato and etc.


Remember, taking too much of sugary food is a poison!!!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

About Banana

Did You Know The Wild Forms Of The Banana Plant Come Originally From The Indo-Malaysia Area?




How Many Ways To Serve Banana?





How To Ripe Banana?

1) Natural


2) Store at room temperature.



3) To ripe faster, place under the sun.



Caution: 4) Commercially to make this process go faster bananas are treated with ethylene-gas.


5) Never store bananas in the refrigerator, the fruit will decay from the inside. Banana will not ripe but will turn black in the refrigerator.



The "Food As Medicine" For Banana:
1) Edible banana is yellow when ripe.



2) But recent findings by Japanese scientists discovered that, when deep-ripe banana turned dark yellow with some dark patches on the skin, the bio-active phytochemical is very high and it has beneficial effect of "anti-tumor" activity.



3) Nutrition contains of banana includes :

- a good source of fiber for a healthier bowel movement; but, taking green/un-ripe and deep fried banana/chips will, on the other hand, caused serious constipation.


- a good source of potassium for a healthier blood pressure;




- a good source of vitamins C for a healthier immune system;



- an essential source of 8 types of essential amino acid contains that cannot be produced by our body but to obtain from food source;



- a good source of energy before and after exercise.



The Right Way To Consume Banana

1) If your are on low starch/sugar diet, no more than one banana per day.



2) If you are on slimming regime, no more than one banana per day.



3) If you are not into low starch/sugar/slimming regime, taking deep-ripe banana to gain "anti-tumor" phytochemical.


4) Taking banana before and/or after exercise will help you to quickly "repair and rejuvenate" muscles and tissues and most of all, cut-out all those low quality protein supplements with artificial additives and chemicals.


Go For Banana..........