Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Soya - Much Benefit Much Healthy


Soybean is definitely not a stranger to you. But, did you include it in your diet list? If not, it's good to start taking it. Soy is a complete food source. Soybeans contain carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals like calcium, folic acid, potassium and iron. In addition, soy protein contained consisting of all essential amino acids that is necessary for health.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the benefits of soy in lowering cholesterol levels in 1999. The FDA issued a health claim that 25 grams of soy per day can reduce heart disease risk.

Another study recently,

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Olives - Fruit of Thousand Years


Olive (Olea europaea) is an annual small trees and evergreen, the young fruit can be eaten raw or preserved as a refresher after. 
The old fruit is squeezed and the oil is extracted into olive oil that can be used for various purposes. Olive is a member of the Oleaceae tribe. 
The characteristics and distribution 
Olive plants have characteristics include: 
1. grow as shrubs have bell-shaped flowers

2. single leaf by leaf position of facing no leverage

3. hermaphrodite or unisexual flowers and fruit ride
 
4. fruit of stone fruit with seeds have endosperm

Olive began to bear fruit at the age of five years and can reach thousands of years old, so that was the shrub has become a big tree. 
Olive trees thousands of years old of whom has ever been found in Palestine which survived until 2000 years. 
Distribution includes hot climate regions to temperate climate. 
Most species can be found in Asia and the Mediterranean region. The plant was still allied with jasmine (Jasminum sambac). 
Symbols and benefits 
Olive leaf stalks are often used as a symbol of peace and

White turmeric, Exempt Diarrhea and Bloating

 One of the family of herbal medicinal (toga), white turmeric may not be as famous as his siblings, or used to be named turmeric. Turmeric already very familiar in the culinary world.White turmeric which has the Latin name Curcuma zedoaria also contains many health giving properties.
The flavor is more bitter than his brother. But more distinctive aroma and strong because of the content of essential oil fraction more. Based on the record of Traditional Drug Control Directorate General of POM (Food and Drug Administration), the research on turmeric white or turmeric retrieval has been performed in China since 1988. Known to contain lots of white turmeric volatile oil consisting of curdione and curcumol. Has antioxidant properties that can withstand free radical oxygen causes the growth of cancer cells, anti-inflammatory (inflammation) and can increase the red blood cells. 

Our ancestors also often consume this white turmeric rhizome juice during childbirth to cleanse the organs associated with childbirth. But