Purple Potato Rich Antioxidant

The scientists introduced a purple potato that is claimed to be healthier than regular potatoes because they contain antioxidants 10 times higher. Meanwhile, new purple potatoes are marketed in several countries, including Britain.

Potatoes are given the name 'Purple Majesty' has dark purple color and contains anthocyanin, an antioxidant, which is more rich. Potato was developed from ordinary potatoes created by scientists from Colorado State University, USA.

Dr.Cathrine Tsang, researchers say the purple potatoes contain a natural pigment anthocyanin. "These pigments give the color purple on the potato that will not change though it was cooked," he said.

He added that the idea of purple potatoes are from the health benefits of red wine because of the high content of antioxidants. "The same thing found on this purple potatoes. Research shows positive effects on blood vessels and reduce high blood pressure," he said.

Weight Can Increase due to Hormones

It is not easy to lose weight, let alone defend it. But, if you are already exercising and adjust your diet but still failed to reach the weight you want, do not immediately feel guilty. Sometimes this failure has nothing to do with your lack of effort.

Apparently, there are certain hormones that play an important role in regulating our body weight. Hormones and behavior are influenced by a particular health condition that makes you struggle to prevent the scales go up.

When your break time is reduced, or not sleeping soundly, you must feel exhausted the next day. Well, this lack of rest time can spoil your healthy eating habits. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that people who slept only four hours a day for two consecutive nights will increase ghrelin (hormone that triggers hunger) 28 percent, and lowered leptin (a hormone present in the brain that you are full ) up to 18 percent.

Hormone disorder that causes increased appetite, where you can be tempted to eat sweet foods, high carbohydrate, and vegetable refuse. If this condition is still added stress can double the risk, because cortisol (stress hormone) can also improve appetite and encourage us to eat foods that are high in fat and high in calories.

If you feel tired and hunger began attack, you can still eat, as long as selecting healthy snacks and are able to provide extra energy. The combination of complex carbohydrates and proteins, such as whole wheat bread with peanut butter, could be an alternative. To reduce stress, you can do any sport you like. Yoga and breathing exercises also help.

Outside the hormone, there are actually other health conditions that can affect your weight. You may have heard of metabolic syndrome, which according to the American Heart Association has affected more than 50 million Americans. This syndrome is a set of medical conditions, including high insulin levels, high blood pressure, and fat around the waist, which can increase the risk of heart disease and other health problems.

Increased insulin levels often associated with weight gain, according to Jacob Warman, MD, chief of endocrinology at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. When they appear together with cortisol, insulin causes fat stored inside the abdominal cavity. These fats can also increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.

However, never too late to correct this condition, if you want. For that you simply change your lifestyle. Eat a diet low in calories and low in fat, minimizing carbohydrates, and exercise at least 30 minutes three times a week.

Why Your Appetite Increasing?

Turns out there was one habit that makes us always "invited" the hunger we unknowingly. Immediately overcome in order to streamline our program more smoothly.

1. Not enough time for breakfast. As a result, we will be selecting a donut or other fatty food as the stomach contents.

2. It was already mid-afternoon, but work is still piling up. Finally, we need more energy is one of them met with the eat.

3. Busyness makes us postpone the dinner. For example an appointment with a client dinner at 8pm, when we used to have dinner at 7 pm.

4. Already ordered food at the restaurant but the service is very long. And belly rings to boisterous powerful appetite signal which jumped dramatically. So do not be surprised if we eat with a frenzy.

5. Overtime. Working late into the night turned out to make our body requires more energy than usual. (PreventionIndonesiaonline/Lily Turangan/Priska Siagian)

How to Prevent Amputation for Diabetes Patients

ON diabetics, trifecta problems resulting in amputation, ie, numbness in the feet. Consequently, this nerve damage makes it less aware of injuries and leg ulcers. Ulcers that fail to treat, in turn, lead to serious infections.


"Usually, people with injuries at the bottom of their feet, like a blister, will change the way over. Style run will be changed to protect the blister place until cured," says Joseph LeMaster, MD, assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine , as quoted Health.

However, he asserted, people lose sensation, can not do it. They'll just walk right on top of the foot blister, as if this problem does not exist. The longer the rupture, become infected, and transformed into what we call a foot ulcer.

"Ulcers can penetrate to the bone and into the street for the infection to the entire foot. This is what leads to amputation," he said.

Leg injuries, the most common cause of hospitalization

Approximately 15 percent of all diabetics will develop foot ulcers at some point, even 24 percent of them needed amputation.

"The most common reason a person is hospitalized due to diabetes, not by high blood sugar or heart attack or stroke, but for a hole in the foot, a wound," said David G Armstrong DPM, Diabetic Foot Disease Specialist Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago.

Check your feet every day

The most important thing, diabetics can prevent the problem of leg ulcers.

"The most important thing you can do to prevent diabetes is a problem with seeing their feet every day, just like combing hair or brushing teeth," said Dr Armstrong.

You can use the mirror to check the legs or ask family members to do so. Increasing the temperature of the foot, which can be detected with special infrared thermometer, can be an early sign of trouble.

"Legs will feel the heat before the skin is broken," said Dr Armstrong.

Another way to prevent foot problems

Here are tips to prevent foot problems from the National Diabetes Education Program:

- Stop smoking if you smoke. Smoking is considered a possible factor of diabetes foot disease.

- Be alert to increased blood sugar. According to the study of United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study, people with type 2 diabetes that lowering blood glucose through intensive therapy less risky for treatment.

- Choose shoes carefully.

- Cut toenails carefully or ask someone else to do it if it was numb. (Ftr)

Coconut milk food, can trigger Gall Stones

IN general, food that was served on the day of Idul Fitri is a special food. Opor Call it chicken, goat curry, rendang, pastries and wet, and others. But generally the foods that contain lots of fat.

What happened on the day of Idul Fitri is a lot of people eat foods that contain fat. As there is a tendency "revenge" for not being able to enjoy such foods during Ramadan. "And the food (fat) is usually mostly made from coconut milk," said dr Prasna Pramita SpPD.

It is not wrong you eat fatty foods. Why? Because the body needs fat. "Functions for giving coating on human bone-shaped so that," continued Dr. Prasna. New will be a problem if the excessive fat consumed. If you have excessive fat deposition could occur in the body. And this makes the liver cells work harder to produce bile.

Just to note, in bile-green-brown. Bile plays a role in the process of absorption of fat and some vitamins such as A, D, E and K. "Because the fat is usually a lot. Importance of bile in digestion especially the absorption of fat, "said dr Prasna. The liquid stored in the gallbladder bile is stored in the gallbladder which lies below the liver. Shaped like a pear. Gallbladder accommodate as many as 50 ml of bile. Length is about 70-10 cm. These organs are connected with the liver and duodenum through the bile ducts.

Well, what happens when we consume food containing fat was excessive? Will occur or the birth of many diseases. One of them is gallstones.

"Well, if people have already had the talent, already have cholesterol, there will be more piles of cholesterol. And so could spark gallstones. Tendensinya could have up to 30 percent, "said Dr. Prasna. Gallstones can form due to increased cholesterol levels in the body and the heart can no longer issue them.

Gallstones are formed gradually. First, the excreted cholesterol that can not be settled. "As is usually the gall wall thickening also occur. And that if in-ultrasound visible thickening occurs, "continued Dr. Prasna. It triggers chemical changes in the bile. This change is called gallstones.

Gallstones can also be caused by a heap of other substances such as piles of pigment billirubin and calcium salts that form solid particles such as crystals. So that its characteristics were different. Gallstones are formed from piles of yellowish cholesterol and looks shiny like oil. While gallstones are formed from stacks of black pigment billirubin but hard or dark brown but fragile.

Incidence of gallstones can cause various problems when entering the digestive tract, small intestine. Sometimes gallstones are also frequently appeared on his own bile ducts. When there are gallstones in the gallbladder can lead to inflammation called acute kolestitis. That's because the fraction of gallstones in the bile ducts that cause excessive pain.

Symptoms that appear similar to the symptoms of gastritis because the location of the gallbladder adjacent to the stomach. Do not even think that people rarely have heartburn when there is bile duct gallstones.

"The symptoms are not typical there. Mild symptoms like bloating, nausea, vomiting. If you eat fat, become more sick, belch more frequently, and the flue gas, "explained Dr. Prasna.

Because the symptoms are not typical and very similar to the ulcer, patients usually come to the doctor with the complaint. Gallstones new light after an ultrasound examination.

Actually, unlike gallstone symptoms ulcer. This can be seen from the propagation and frequency of pain. In patients with ulcer, pain, or pain usually develops slowly until the great. While on gallstones, the pain can appear suddenly with pain that is and then can just disappear.

"When you have pain, symptoms of colic is often the case," he added. And these symptoms will occur repeatedly.

Enforcement is done by ultrasound diagnosis. Equipment is directed to the body and the reflected wave will be read by a computer system. Or it could be X-ray examination and blood tests in the laboratory.

Women's potential is suffering from gallstones. The possible occurrence of gallstones increases with age. Some people are also potentially more easily attacked by gall stones, such as people undergoing weight-loss program fast. The reason, losing weight fast by any means, calorie diets or with surgery, causes cholesterol gallstones in 50 percent of the people who run the program.

People are often associated with birth control pills and hormone therapy are also at risk of gallstone attack. Similarly, the Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum (small intestine). Gall stones are formed due to Crohn's disease patients experiencing lack of bile acids is sufficient to dissolve the cholesterol in bile.

Treatment is by resting the bag or gall bladder. Treatment or therapy that is usually done is to provide a combination of drugs Chenodeoxycholic Acid (CCDA) and Ursodeoxicholic acid (UDCA).

"Treatment CCDA combination therapy (reduce the synthesis of cholesterol) and UDCA (reducing absorption of cholesterol) is expected to be able to cure gallstones with no side effects," please dr Prasna.

However, based on research, these therapies not only can prevent and get rid of gallstones.

To be able to remove gallstones, and equipment necessary medical action. There are two options that can be done. "Laparoscopy or regular surgery," he said.

Laporoskopi only cause scars like a stab in the stomach and the process using computer control. While surgery usually have a clear cause scars tear. In essence, the medical action undertaken aims to lift a bag or gall bladder. As a result, patients could no longer eat foods that contain fat. "Because nobody else will process the fat in the body," explained Dr. Prasna.
(Genie / Genie / tty)

Prevent Stroke with Know the risk factors

Stroke is a health problem in Indonesian. In the estimate 2-3 million people in this country have suffered a stroke. Although a stroke is often associated with old age, in fact, more and more initial 30 year-old man who suffered a stroke. In addition to causing disability, stroke can also cause death.

However, if you prepare yourself from now, you can memangksa most of your risk factors. "This disease can be prevented," according to dr.Sutarto Prodjo Disastro, Sp.S, head of public relations counseling and Stroke Foundation of Indonesia in the event that the Control Cholesterol Control diadakano Life Leh Pfizer in Jakarta, Thursday (19/8/10).

Stroke is a brain attack that may arise due to sudden interruption in blood flow due to blockage or rupture of blood vessels in the brain so that brain cells are deprived of blood, oxygen or food substances that resulted in cell death in a short time. "If the dead brain cells can not regenerate or grow back, so be careful with stroke," said Sutarto.

Men do have a greater risk of stroke, but in recent decades into the same chances in women. "Women tend to be more stressful to have two roles, namely, career women and housewives," said dr. Arieska Ann Soenarto, Sp.JP (K), from RS.Jantung Harapan Kita Jakarta.

To help reduce the risk of stroke, try checking the following:

- Check blood pressure
Many people who do not know they have hypertension, because these diseases have no symptoms from the outside. Your blood pressure checked by at least once a year for control of hypertension is the thing that is not negotiable in the prevention of stroke.

- Check cholesterol
There are many reasons why high cholesterol levels in the blood, including diet, obesity and smoking habits. Lowering cholesterol is important, regardless of your age and health condition. The recommended safe limit is less than 160 mg / dl. Choose the type of foods with low fat content.

Watch out, Santan Improve Cholesterol

Dishes during the month of fasting was impressed even more special than ordinary days. For most people, less if the breaking of the fast afdol unaccompanied bersantan compote and other foods. But be careful, consume too much food bersantan can cause bad cholesterol (LDL) increases.

"Coconut milk is dangerous to koresterol because it contains saturated fatty acids or unsaturated fat. In contrast to the unsaturated fat in avocados, that is unsaturated fatty acid which is not dangerous," said Ann Soenarta dr.Arieska, Sp.JP, consultant on the sidelines kardiologis Living Control Cholesterol Control event, held by Pfizer at Jakarta, Thursday (19/08/10)

According to doctors, Ann, is very important to maintain your diet when breaking fast. "80% intake of the food intake is to determine cholesterol levels. So what you eat can increase the risk of increasing cholesterol," the doctor said that the daily practice in RS.Jantung Harapan Kita Jakarta.

Coconut milk as fast food is okay, but the amount is limited. "If allowed to eat food iftar bersantan, but do not limit although the coconut milk over it tasty and can increase appetite," he said.

Added by him, cholesterol is a disease that can be present because of a long process. "If you eat (food coconut milk) every now and then it does not matter, does not directly increase cholesterol. Cholesterol is a progressive disease. But if the food during the 10 days it automatically cholesterol coconut milk continues to increase," he explained.

To maintain good health during the month of Ramadan, the doctor Ann suggested that we should eat a varied diet. "Balance in eating fruits and vegetables," he said. In addition to coconut milk, which also needs to be restricted is makananan intake of high sugar-containing and unsaturated fats, such as fried or fatty meat.