As human beings we must have been experiencing health conditions that are not so good, and we certainly would feel less comfortable when forced to take medication from a doctor. We certainly do not feel comfortable when it comes to taking prescription drugs for our healing, but we certainly will not be refused when cure is not in the form of pills, but the form of nutritious foods that can heal and restore the health of our bodies.
What is meant by Nutriceuticals?
Medications prescribed by consuming a particular food or beverage in the world of medicine hereinafter referred to as nutriceuticals. One expert in this field in Indonesia is well-known doctor Hembing can concoct a variety of plant materials and food ingredients in a recipe healthy food and drinks taste good but it proved to be able to cure various illnesses and provide good efficacy for health, stamina, immunity and body fitness.
Lots of food around us that can be "medicine" healer and restorer of our body stamina. For example, chicken soup. Chicken soup has been known as the restorer of strength and stamina as well as a healer when we are so weak physical condition, or in sickness. In ancient Chinese recipe, chicken soup is known as a "panacea" for the restoration of conditions and the stamina of a woman who had just given birth and are in weak condition, even in some cases operating, chicken soup mixed with boiling water deer antlers, and then consumed (eaten ) on a regular basis by people who are sick or the patient can reliably recover stamina and speed wound recovery.
In other cultures, like the ancient Jewish culture, the chicken soup is believed to cure many diseases caused by viruses, such as flu. Even some of the experts from the United States, used to call chicken soup as a natural antihistamine and some other experts who even mention that chicken soup has a similar function with the antibiotic substance penicillin. In addition to improving immunity and immunity of the body, chicken soup is also believed to be "killed" a disease that attacks the immune.
In modern medicine, chicken soup can also be proven to be effective cure or alleviate pain caused by rheumatic disease or injury to muscles or joints (rheumatoid arthritis). In a study in America, a doctor named David E. Trentham and his research team from Harvard Medical School conducted experiments on 30 patients with inflammatory disease of the joints (arthritis) or rheumatoid arthritis by providing them with food such as chicken soup every day. After three months the patients regularly consuming chicken soup, 25-30% of these patients feel less pain in their joints.
Here are a few rows of the list of healthy foods that "trusted" can quickly restore the body's stamina and also heal the body from disease, such as: garlic, soy bean, sweet potato / cassava red, kiwi fruit, bananas, green beans, and various Other nuts, broccoli, steamed fish, fresh tuna and various other marine fish, chicken, fat-free turkey meat (skinned), oats (oat meal), baked or steamed potatoes, green and red peppers, carrots, papaya, rice, black rice, spinach, turnip, onions, yogurt (not fat), apricots, citrus, tomato, goat meat, pasta (eg spaghetti, or various other types of pasta).
By knowing what foods are believed to heal and restore the stamina of our body, then we can mix their own ingredients into a food that is also nutritious recipes for health and fitness of our body.
Not only food that could help us obtain a healthy body, fit and excellent stamina. Also proved to be an appropriate beverage to help us get health and fitness. Numerous studies show that regular tea drinking proved we can reduce our risk of cancer of the body, heart attack, stroke or help us reduce cholesterol levels in the body. Secret efficacy proved the efficacy of tea beverage contained in tea leaves contain a substance which is called flavonoids, an antioxidant substance that can prevent our bodies from cell damage caused by free radicals that enter the body (either through respiration, food, or drink contaminated by pollutant substances, toxic substances that could accidentally get into our bodies).
Strongly recommended selecting varieties of leaf tea such as black tea, green tea, chrysanthemum flower tea or tea and similar varieties. Tea beverages packaged in the form of bottled, iced tea or bottled tea drinks ready to drink usually contains fewer flavonoids, while drinking herbal tea does not contain flavonoids. So we must choose the kind of clever-clever are we going to tea consumption, if we are particularly interested in properties flavonoidnya.
When we create or brewing tea, you should let down for five minutes, then we can drink it. This is to allow time for the hot water we seduhkan on tea leaves can actually dissolve the flavonoids so completely soluble in water which will be our tea drinking.
According to the research in the UK, suggested that we should at least drink at least 8 cups of tea (1.89 liters of tea) per day so that the antioxidants in tea (flavonoids) that go into our bodies each with six levels ideally apples we eat in daily. But if we include people who are sensitive to substances such as caffeine is also contained in tea, then we should be able to reduce their own consumption of tea we drink in a day.
For benefits and more complex properties, we can mix drinks we drink tea with honey to add a level of antioxidant substances into our bodies, juice of lime juice (which serves to accelerate the release of flavonoids in the tea leaves to encourage more dissolved in the steeping tea water that would we drink), or else we could also mix a little milk in our tea for added calcium contained in it, so the beverages we drink actually contains many important substances that are useful for improving durability and stamina of our body.
What are phytochemicals?
Phytochemicals is a name of plants, vegetables, fruits, seeds, and nuts that contain natural chemicals that can serve as a material for treatment. In Indonesia, the term plant is also known as TOGA (Family Medicinal Plants). When food is consumed on a regular basis it will be able to increase stamina, immunity, immune system, so we can avoid the disease and can also recover our bodies healthy and fit again when we're sick and be in the condition and stamina of a weak body.
Chris Beecher, PhD, a researcher in the field of chemical medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago, United States, have created a catalog of about 900 kinds of plants, vegetables, fruits, grains and beans that can be classified as phytochemicals (Medicinal Plant ). Among them are plant sterols can be found in cucumber. Sterols are believed to shed or remove cholesterol from the body. So by consuming a regular cucumber, cholesterol in our body we can subtract. In fact, cucumber fit enough is consumed by the patient's high blood pressure, because the cucumber can lower blood pressure. Other natural chemicals that can be found in plants, for example, polyacetylene, which is contained in the parsley plant, which when consumed regularly can prevent us from cancer risks, because polyacetylene contained in parsley crops, serves as a buffer (an imbalance) against foreign substances and foreign materials (eg carcinogenic) that go into our bodies that could potentially cause cancer. Other natural substances such as quinone which can be found in rosemary plants, serves to stimulate our body to produce more enzymes repellent toxins (detoxifying enzymes), and chemical substances such as indole (which can be found in chili or chilli), which proved to be combating the symptoms mendeaktivasi cancer by hormone estrogen. So if we are accustomed to eating fresh vegetables and cucumber sauce at lunch, on a regular basis, then we've keep our bodies from the risk of developing cancer. Also highly recommended in order to reduce consumption of meat cooked food by burning or baking, because if we are too often eat the roast beef (especially the baked or grilled until slightly charred), the risk of cancer of the body is also greater because, in a slightly roasted meat char (too ripe), potentially carcinogenic substances that trigger the growth of cancer cells in our body. So make it a habit to eat more vegetables and fruits if you want our bodies healthy and fit always.
Actually there are hundreds of types of food (vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts) included in the category of phytochemicals. Phytochemicals or medicinal plants can protect our bodies from disease susceptibility to attack by various means, ranging from protecting our DNA from damage, regulate hormone our bodies work simultaneously, and stimulates the production of chemicals in the body that work the body's nerve function to help us ( neurotransmitters).
An expert on medicinal plants (naturopathy) from Australia, Alison Johnson once said that the yard behind the home garden can be a good land to plant different types of medicinal plants which at one time may be quite useful to us. Some types of plants that he recommend to be planted in the garden behind our house, among others:
Aloe vera, powerful enough to overcome the indigestion, this plant can be cut into small pieces and then mixed in a beverage syrup which then can we drink to keep our digestive health. For other benefits, it turns out the sap and gel from this plant could be useful for treating burns, acne cure stubborn, and also heal the wounds caused by a cut or a fall, of course, a practical demonstration with smeared on parts of the body in question.
German chamomile, is an annual plant with white flowers with yellow in the center. This flowering plant can be used as a nutritious drink tea, how to put in boiling water and boiled until 20 minutes later the water was drunk. Powerful enough to overcome digestive disorders and into the wind (when drunk can stimulate the stomach to give off gas / fart), in addition to drinking chamomile tea regularly can cope with symptoms of insomnia (difficulty sleeping) because the effects of chamomile tea may help us to sleep soundly.
Lavender. Drink tea from steeping lavender nutritious overcome headaches, difficulty sleeping (insomnia), rheumatic diseases and digestive disorders. Lavender oil can be used expel fevers, treat burns, and could cure a cough illness when smeared on the chest of the patient just before sleep. Lavender flowers can be planted in the ground or in pots, and can also double as lovely ornamental plants. Should be planted in the garden that has adequate sunlight radiation.
Parsley plant, is efficacious to freshen breath and bad breath when chewed regularly. Parsley leaves can also be used as a tonic for our dry skin type, can also be used for hair tonics. Parsley can be planted in pots or can be planted as a hedge plant.
Rosemary, not only useful as an ingredient in cooking, but can also be efficacious as a drug any shampoo or hair tonic to overcome dandruff. Rosemary's way by mixing with water sufficiently and then memblendernya until destroyed, and then can be used to wash or also as a hair tonic. Rosemary can also be made as a tea beverage that was powerful enough to cure the "disease dementia", cure headaches, relieve nasal congestion during colds and to help counteract indigestion and relieve the pain of rheumatic disease.
Salvia or Sage, including herbaceous plant species. Salvia (botanical name) because it has the "healthy". This herb tea as a beverage when made (by using four pieces of leaves with boiled in boiling water) can overcome indigestion, to treat a sore throat or cough and can also reduce the amount of sweat that comes out of the body (for people who are in trouble because of too much sweat, so cause unpleasant body odor).
Thyme, is not only useful as a seasoning, but it can also be made as a nutritious drink tea to treat sore throat, water can also be made from thyme tea can be used to soak the swollen leg due to too tired to walk or run (usually a lot happening at the sportsmen).
Bay leaves, not only serves as an ingredient in cooking but also can be useful to relieve pain when squeezing and scrubbed, rubbed on the body of the wind caused by rheumatism or arthritis (disorder or arthritis).
Here is also discussed on several other types of nutritious food is good for our health, among other things:
Sweet / Sweet Red
Perhaps we have been looking at one eye on this one food. Many had thought that red yam / sweet potato (the Javanese call it with the term "Telo") is the food of the rural, backwoods food, or food among the economically weak. We may never realize that the cheap food that has benefits and properties that can not be dismissed.
Sweet / red yam contains more beta-carotene than carrots, containing vitamins C and E, a potent nutritious prevent the body from the risk of developing cancer. Also efficacious for menopausal symptoms in older women and also prevent women from osteoporosis attacked, because the sweet potato / cassava red are proven to contain hormone progesterone can help the formation of healthy bones, so women can avoid esophageal osteoporosis. For men, consuming sweet potatoes / yams can also be nutritious red gives "good shape" because of sweet / red Yam contain various types of carbohydrates and minerals that are useful for the growth and formation of muscle and body. In the pharmaceutical industry, even sweet potatoes / yams red is widely used as ingredients in the manufacture of birth control pills or contraceptive pills.
For those of us who was skinny or too skinny, certainly we want to have a good body, solid filled (for women) or the healthy muscle (for men). Besides advised to consume foods containing proteins (for forming the body), we are also well advised to consume carbohydrates and minerals are also needed by the body. Red yams or sweet potatoes has substances that are required for the formation and development of our body such as carbohydrates, the content of complex carbohydrates in the amount contained in a yam / sweet red shown to assist in the formation of muscle tissue, as well as dense bodies and contain. More and more athletes and bodybuilders to increase consumption of sweet / red yams in their diet every day. More and more athletes, sportsmen and bodybuilders who switched from diet of rice, potatoes, or bread to the consumption of sweet / red cassava as a staple food. This is because the yam / sweet potato or yam is believed to be red-free foods containing fat, and cholesterol-free, but full of minerals and vitamins that are useful for the formation of solid body that contains fat-free yet.
It's no secret that the red sweet potato or yam (Westerners used to call it with the title Yam), now widely consumed by athletes bodybuilder, gymnast until the ballerina who want a strong healthy body, containing and free of solid fats. Actually many western-style vegetarian dishes that include sweet foods / sweet potato dish in the menu is red. Yam / sweet potato can be cooked with red pan-fried or grilled with green vegetables such as spinach, carrots, beans, garlic, soy bean, potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes, pasta, spaghetti, until cooked with goat meat. There is also a cook sweet / red yam steamed with cheese and milk, and bacon and then baked in the oven and then eaten when ripe.
So now you should never underestimate the simple food that is more sweet potato / yam which during normal red underestimated. Very many of the properties and benefits contained in the food cheap but useful for this health and fitness. Let's start back to the rural lifestyle with a natural healthy diet for their health and fitness of our body.
Garlic
Been proven since thousands of years ago, that garlic has many health and healing properties, because it contains anti-bacterial substances and anti-virus. For example, garlic played a role in the recovery of the many people who caught the plague of dysentery in World War I. Garlic is also proven to heal and save so many lives when a strange disease that attacks the Roman Empire and ancient Egypt thousands of years ago to attack the inhabitants of the country. In those days, a strange disease has attacked many of the victims with ganasnya that within one or a few days already so many lives had been floated. Fortunately at that time someone accidentally chewing and eating garlic and soon he could recover in "mysterious." This knowledge is then spread by word of mouth so that the mysterious disease which was originally so violent attack and could not be immediately resolved and handled so many lives had been saved by virtue of this garlic. Until today, what a mysterious disease had attacked the Roman Empire and ancient Egypt had yet unsolved and unknown types. But one thing is sure to cure the mysterious malignant disease, only the "garlic".
It has since thousands of years ago, garlic is believed to maintain and restore stamina and endurance and immunity or immunity. Ancient Egyptian and ancient Rome have long been using and consuming garlic for fitness and endurance so that the immunity is not easily attacked by diseases. Starting from the flu, dysentery, to the various diseases associated with respiratory tract infections, and many other diseases can be cured only by consuming lots of garlic.
Garlic proves to various substances such as potassium, fluorine, sulfur, phosphorus, and vitamins A and C. Garlic is also found to contain bioflavonoids quercetin can inhibit or stop an allergic reaction or the reaction of tissue swelling. Chemical substances contained in garlic has been shown to protect the liver or liver from damage caused by the use of high doses of chemicals such as acetaminophen contained in many medicines and pain relievers medication or pills and tablets healer flu or influenza. Various studies on cancer also proved that the eating of fresh garlic (without boiling it first) on a regular basis can prevent us from the risk of various cancers, as well as inside it protected from the risk of stomach cancer. Garlic also can keep us from the risk of anemia or less blood. Some even thought that garlic may also help patients with AIDS or HIV to survive longer because garlic can prove to increase body immunity or antibodies. So start eating garlic from now on whether to become a kind of vegetable or fresh vegetables chopped into small pieces and then taken with a glass of water on a regular basis three times a day.
Sea fish and shellfish (Seafood)
Raw seafood, especially shellfish species is very rich in immune stimulant, especially the minerals zinc (zinc). Zinc is essential for growth and development of muscle tissue, and bone formation and development of sexual organs. Even experts who consider that there is one type of shellfish aphrodiziac (ingredients that can stimulate libido or sexual desire). Other foodstuffs that contain minerals zinc, among others, viscera (organs in beef), fresh beef, grains and beans, peas, carrots, long beans, green beans and potatoes.
Seafood, especially fish, is also believed to slow aging because the fish contains a lot of coenzyme Q10 (coenzyme Q10 or ubiquinone is usually called), a chemical compound whose function resembles the antioxidant vitamin E. Coenzyme Q10 plays an active role in enhancing the immune system (immune system), and slow the aging process. Eating fish regularly in the diet appeared healthy enough results in patients with heart disease, in which the heart pumps the ability of the patient improved significantly after consuming food made from fish regularly for one year, patients could breathe better and his breathing was no longer gasping labored after consuming many food-based marine fish.
Marine fish when consumed in large enough portions and consumed on a regular basis could prove to enhance the ability and muscle strength. Therefore, more and more athletes and bodybuilders who consume fish than meat of terrestrial animals, this is because saltwater fish can provide a more reliable protein required for the establishment and growth of muscle in the amount needed by the body.
Eating fish can also be overcome gastric indigestion (heartburn), and also good for health duodenum existing in the human stomach. Eating of fish and sea food from the sea is also very good for asthma sufferers, and also the patients allergic to histamine, as marine fish proved to be powerful enough to offset the effects of histamine into the body.
Nuts
Food ingredients from legumes is very rich in iron. Iron is needed by the body to transport oxygen to every cell in the body and also help in the use of oxygen that can be best utilized by the body's cells. Iron is very much contained in human blood. Therefore, if someone lost a lot of blood, for example due to an accident or because after a pregnancy, then usually the person is also in desperate need of iron intake of large amounts should be supplied from food that is eaten. Iron deficiency is usually characterized by symptoms of easy fatigue, the body was always weak and feeble. Iron-deficient people are encouraged to eat more foods that contain lots of iron, such as eggs, fish, liver, beef, poultry, green vegetables, wheat, bread, cereal, almonds, avocados, parsley, pears, pumpkin , raisins, rice, glutinous rice, soy, lentils and beans.
Food Containing Calcium
Milk-based foods, such as various cheeses (parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese), skim milk, cream, fresh milk, or fat-free yogurt is very rich in calcium. Calcium is needed in the establishment and development of bones and teeth. Calcium may also prevent heart disease, because calcium plays a role in stabilizing the heartbeat. In addition, consuming adequate amounts of calcium can improve the transmission of nerve stimulation of the body (nerve impulse), prevent colon cancer, and prevent osteoporosis. Calcium is also needed for development, growth and muscle contraction in order to prevent the occurrence of muscle cramps. Calcium is also supplied energy and protein participates in formation of RNA and DNA.
Other foodstuffs that contain calcium include salmon, sardines, green vegetables, brokolo, asparagus, cabbage, tofu, mustard, and almonds.
Vegetables and Fruits Containing Vitamin
Vitamins A, C and E is an antioxidant essential for the body. Vitamin C plays a role in preventing and treating heart attacks, cancer, and to build the body's immune system during infection, for example, when the body of influenza disease.
Vitamin A participates in the formation and healthy skin, hair and mucous membranes or membrane (the membrane covering the organs within us, such as the lining of the cheek). Vitamin A also played a role in bone growth, tooth development and reproduction. Vitamin A is also efficacious to prevent attacks cancer and overcome the aging of the skin. Precursor of vitamin A, namely Beta-Carotene, can help prevent cancer and prevent heart disease and prevent the occurrence of cataracts in the eye disease. Vitamin A can be obtained from foods such as pumpkin, carrots, spinach, bell pepper, red chilli, apricot, brokolo, egg yolk and beef liver.
Vitamin C to accelerate the process of healing and recovery of stamina, stimulates the body to release energy by breaking the carbohydrates stored in the body through metabolic processes (respiration) as well as contribute to and an important role in the body's nerve system performance. Vitamin C is easily obtained by consuming fruits and vegetables like oranges, peppers, kiwi fruit, strawberries, cantaloupe, broccoli, parsley, and cabbage.
Vitamin E is needed for healthy heart and body muscles attached to bones. Vitamin E is also needed to form red blood cells and protect us from attack and prevent heart disease and cancer. Vitamin E also played a part and efficacious for treating arthritis (arthritis) and also various kinds of problems on the skin (sensitive skin). Vitamin E is very easily found on the cuticle oil, sunflower seeds, vegetable oil, almonds, peanuts, peanut butter, and pears.
Other fiber materials
Fibrous food if consumed regularly can prevent attacks proved cancer, heart disease, and disorders and other diseases. Fiber is divided into two, namely fiber is not soluble in water (Insoluble Fibers or referred Roughage) and water-soluble fiber (Soluble Fibers).
Fiber food that is insoluble in water serves to cleanse the digestive tract was completely clean, and absorb toxic substances left in the wall of the digestive tract and duodenum. Fiber food that is not soluble in water can be obtained by consuming vegetables, rice, corn and wheat.
Food that is water soluble fiber (eg pectin), participate in the activities of digesting and absorbing food saris. Food that is water soluble fiber can be obtained by consuming wheat and barley, beans, citrus fruits, and other fruits.
Thus, it turns out food that is abundant around us also can serve to keep us from disease, increasing stamina and endurance of our bodies and even heal us from an illness.
