Why Local Fruits More Nutritious?

Why Local Fruits More Nutritious? | According to data released from the Central Bureau of Statistics, the fruit consumption of Indonesia is very low. In 2004, about 6 in 10 people do not eat enough fruit for nutritional needs. In addition due to lack of awareness in eating fruit, and fruit price is quite high for poor families.

But, Is fruits price really expansive to day? Apparently, not always. Because just import fruit that dhow the high price, while the price of a local fruit is still affordable.

Unfortunately, Many peoples prefer import fruit then local fruit, because considered more prestigious and more benefits. Beside that import fruit have a good shape then local fruit. Local fruit usually avoided because it shape is less prestigious, and also not in high level. Whereas benefit and nutrition value of local fruit is bigger then import.

"imports Fruit actually just won prestige, but its nutrient content is less than the local fruit," said nutrition expert, Emilia E. Achmadi, MS, RD, in "Does You Good Buavita Fruit", in the Birdcage, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Monday (3/19/2012) ago.

Nutrition of fruit is actually affected the soil structure, and post-harvest treatment. Because delivery of the fruit that is quite distant, imported fruit is generally harvested in the pre-mature to prevent rapid deterioration and decay during the delivery process. Harvesting the fruit before it matures will greatly affect the nutrient content in the fruit.

"The content of the fruit of the highest nutrient found in ripe fruit, so that harvesting of the fruit before it's time to cut the channel of the nutrients in fruits," he said.

Preservation of fruit by using chemicals such as wax coating makes the appearance smooth and shiny imported fruit, so it looks very tempting. In fact, the wax layer can be a bad influence on health.

In contrast, the nutrient content of local fruit considered better because at the time of delivery mileage is not too far away. The result, post-harvest treatment need not involve any preservatives or other chemicals. Because of distance delivery that tends to close, the fruit can be harvested when ripe, so the maximum nutritional content. In addition, because of its delivery mileage is not much, and being sold in the market, prices tend to be local fruit was cheaper.

Myths About Food and Beverage

Myths About Food and Beverage | Some assumptions about food and drink is often circulated around us. Which one is right and just a myth? Check out the explanation.

Myth: Drink a glass water before eating can reduce eating appetite.
Fact: Will be "yes" and will be "no", water in food form, like: soup or juice can't be consider as food anymore, except as fluid food. Because we will be satisfied when consume it, more over before eat prime food. If the main is drink white water before eating, this habits help you to reduce food up 75-90 calories, but not reduce eating appetite.

Public opinion that says that drinking water can suppress appetite also refuted by Professor Stanley Goldfarb, metabolism expert from the University of Pennsylvania. Because, this was no proof.

Myth: Soda good diet and safe for consumption.
Fact: It's okay to eat but do not overdo it. However, it remains the best choice of water, juice and green tea. Soda is less advisable for the health of any kind. Beverage that tastes this fresh it could threaten our health, especially if taken every day (and not offset by drinking enough water).

Myth: Potatoes can be fattening.
Fact: Potatoes contain substances that are good, but if the process by frying or given additional butter, obviously increases the amount of calories that can be fattening.

Myth: The seafood is high in cholesterol.
Fact: Yes, cholesterol levels in shellfish, crabs, shrimp is high. About 85 grams of prawns contain cholesterol are three times larger than the body's daily needs. Eat just enough to avoid heart attacks.

Do not Save Juice in Transparent Container

Do not Save Juice in Transparent Container | Busy work often makes us no time to prepare food with balanced nutrition, including neglect of consumption of fruit. To address the need for intake of fruits, fresh juices into one solution. "Jus be one practical way to enjoy the tremendous benefits of fruit body needs," said nutrition expert Emilia E. Achmadi, MS, RD, in "Does You Good Buavita Fruit", in the Birdcage, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Tuesday (19/03/2012) then.

But according to Emilia, in order maximum benefits of fruit juice still store, there are some things you need to consider:

1. Drink immediately after juice is made
Benefits of biggest pieces found in fresh whole fruit condition, so if the fruit has been processed, such as: cooked or in-juice, actually have reduced nutritional value. To guard against the decline in nutrient levels in the juice, make this juice just before drinking. Storage process will make the fruit juice is exposed to oxygen, and cause oxidation, which can change the color of the juice and damaging levels of nutrients.

"Every fruit will also experience the process of oxidation, and this process will further reduce the nutritional value to about 50 percent more,"

said Emilia.

2. Do not Discard skin and seeds
The highest content of vitamins and antioxidants in the fruit lies in the seeds and skin. But, of course, not all of the fruit can be eaten with the skin and seeds. Some types of fruit such as apples and pears should be eaten with the skin, without the peel. When you wish to make juice, rind should blend well with the seeds. "For example, for guava juice, do not remove skin and seeds, but blend together until the seeds are crushed, and screened the new," she said.

3. Do not place it in a transparent container
May be you wanna to keep juice, because it still remains, but do not store it in a transparent or translucent container. Juice in a transparent container placement will cause the ultraviolet rays into the container and break down some chemicals and nutritional value of juice. To avoid a reduction in the nutritional value of juice, stored in a colored container and place it into the freezer.

4. Add lemon juice
To avoid excessive oxidation process, add the lemon juice into the juice. Additional lemon juice will inhibit the oxidation process that occurs in the juice, and will add nutritional value. Additional few drops of lime or lemon juice into the juice prevents discoloration.

Source: kompas.com

More foreign-born doctors practice in rural areas, come from poor nations; Kentucky is about average, West Virginia is high

More than 15 percent of physicians in the U.S. received training in lower-income countries, including India, Pakistan and the Phillippines, a new study has found, reports Lori Kersey of The Charleston Gazette. The study was a joint effort by the National Research Council and the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and was published online on PLoS ONE.

Most doctors from low-income countries practice in low-income areas of the U.S., where most U.S.-trained doctors don't usually want to go. West Virginia has the most such doctors, at 29 percent all of physicians in the state. Kentucky has 16 percent, just above the national average of 15.4 percent. Montana, Idaho and Alaska all have less than 2 percent.

The authors of the study said low-income countries that send most of their doctors to the U.S. lost more money training them than they receive in U.S. foreign aid. In 2010, the Phillippines spent $1.7 billion training more than 20,000 doctors who then came to the U.S., but was only given $33 million in U.S. foreign aid. The authors suggest the U.S. should pay those countries back in some way. (Read more)

Miracle Benefits of Noni Fruit For Health

Miracle Benefits of Noni Fruit For Health | Benefits of noni to health has been very long known, even thousands of years ago. Chinese, Indian, and Polynesian peoples who were first to take advantage of noni to treat a wide range of health problems. In Indonesia, the benefits of noni fruit has also been highly recognized by virtually all levels of society.

Noni fruit better known as the 'pace' is: native plants of Southeast Asia. Appearance and taste of this fruit is not at all appetizing. In fact, many who call him ugly. because all the good that he can give, noni fruit remains one natural remedy that is hunted. Noni fruit is green when young. If it had been ripe, the color changed to cream.

In addition to spots, there are also blackish brown eyes all over the skin surface of noni. The smell of the fruit is very sharp, with a sour taste.

Chemical content of Noni Fruit

Magnitude of the benefits of noni fruit can not be released from a variety of chemical compounds contained inside of it. Scientists who have examined the noni fruit, discovered that this fruit contains many substances that are useful for the human body.

1. Noni fruit contains various nutrients such as carbohydrates, vitamins, protein and some minerals.

2. Noni fruit contains a number of antibacterial agents that have been shown to fight bacteria that cause infections.

3. Scolopetin, this compound serves the circulation of blood, potent anti-allergic and anti-inflammation, dilate blood vessels narrowed, and able to kill some bacteria.

4. A number of anticancer agents, anticancer substances in Noni fruit proved to be very effective against the abnormal cells.

5. Xeronine and proxeronine, xeronine work functions of specific proteins in cells of the human body. Meanwhile, proxeronine are precursors (building blocks of materials) xeronine.

6. Terpenoids, one of the functions of these substances is to help restore the body's cells.

Benefits of Noni Fruit

As already described above, based on various studies conducted many scientists, it is known that the noni fruit has many benefits for your health.

1. Boost the immune system.
2. Cope with various disorders of the digestive system, such as food poisoning, flatulence, and gastritis.
3. Cope with various skin diseases, such as sores, boils, dandruff, and burns.
4. Address a variety of disorders of the respiratory system, including asthma, sinusitis, and cough.
5. Prevent premature aging.
6. Overcome the throat and mouth, including canker sores, bleeding gums, and sore throat.
7. Treat bladder stones, kidney, and headaches.
8. Normalize blood pressure and keeping cholesterol levels in the body.
9. Relieve pain.
10. Against tumors and cancer.
11. Maintaining cardiovascular health.
12. Treating bone and joint pain.
13. Reduce fever.
14. To get a myriad of benefits above, we can take the form of noni juice, fruit juice, or capsules.

Some Treatment with Noni Fruit

1. High blood pressure

1 cucumber, 2 ripe noni fruit, brown sugar. Grated cucumber, then squeezed the water. Noni seeds discarded, and shredded. Grated noni fruit juice mixed with cucumber. Add 2 cups of hot water and palm sugar, then filtered. The herb is taken 3 times a day.

2. Cough

Lime juice, sugar, and 2 ripe Noni fruit. Noni grated and squeezed to take water. Add lime juice and cubes sugar. The herb is taken 3 times a day.

3. Jaundice

2 ripe Noni fruit , a piece of rock sugar. Noni fruit is squeezed to take water. Add rock sugar. Stir Both of these ingredients until mixed, and this herb drink 2 times a day.

4. Catch a cold

1 Noni fruit, 1 piece of ginger, 2 cups of water. These three ingredients are boiled, until boiling, and remain half of water. The herb is taken 2 times a day.

Source: anneahira.com

Knowing the Benefits of Sapodilla Fruit

Knowing the Benefits of Sapodilla Fruit | Sapodilla fruit is the name for the fruit with a characteristic dark brown color and rough (young or immature) or light brown with a smooth surface (for the fruit is ripe), oval or ovoid with a diameter of about 6-7 cm and a length of 10 cm, and this sweet.

Perhaps the "call" brown adopting English (sapote), although sounding a bit forced, but also strange to realize that Malaysia as the former British colony have not adopted the term "Sapote" become "brown", zapo, or thereabouts, but call it by ciku.

Apart from these attributes are really brown varies depending on the country where the sapodilla is grown and consumed, the sapodilla is one among the 14 kinds of fruit that is almost extinct in Indonesia, but the benefits of sapodilla fruit very much, especially for health.

Sapodilla Fruit Types

Before explaining the benefits of sapodilla fruit, it helps us recognize that the types of sapodilla. Sapodilla fruit has 6 species:
1. Brown manila (Achraz Zapota)
2. Brown-green (Chrysophillum Cainito)
3. Dark brown (Diospyros Digyna)
4. Dark brown (Diospyros Nigra)
5. Kecik sapodilla (Manilkara kauki)
6. Manila sapodilla (Manilkara Zapota)

Each species has its own close relatives, eg brown-black (Diospyros Digyna) Semek closely related fruit (Diospyros feet Thunb), Culiket (Diospyros malabarica (Descr.) Kostel.) And butter fruit (Diospyros blancoi A. DC .), but there is still no definitive studies of whether the benefits of the sapodilla fruit with the other different types.

Uniqueness and Plant Sawo

Actually there was no specific criteria for appropriate regarding environment for planting the sapodilla. Different environments will not affect the benefits of sapodilla fruit because the fruit is included in the plant that is easy to adapt to new environmental conditions, ranging from lowland to highland (Sapodilla yet to mature to perfection after being picked, ripe on the tree instead).

In addition, the benefits of brown plants are: resistance to drought, practical five-month dry season. Sapodilla tree is very suitable for erosion-prone areas, this is because the roots are strong enough to the ground pierced through. These plants can be selected as a display home page, because of its ability to grow in a closed or open.

Benefits of Sapodilla Fruit

Sapodilla fruit has so many benefits, ranging from wood, leather until brown beans have compounds that are beneficial to health. Let us exfoliate one by one:

1. Wood
Wood of this plant material is often used for furniture and statues or carvings, especially the wood of the tree 'sapodilla kacik ". However, the sapodilla tree wood is not good for much less firewood used building materials.

2. Leaf
The leaves also have a unique anatomical structures such as humans, have the costae (the human version of: broken ribs, brown version: maternal bone from the tip to the base of the leaf), epidermis up, down, lateral nerves, veins, etc.. Brown leaf is very useful for inflammation of the mouth.

3. Leather/Skin
Brown skin contains tannin, a compound useful as an antimicrobial (bacteria and viruses) that can be used to stop diarrhea.

4. Fruits
This is the most preferred, sweet taste characteristic, namely: sweet sintered (as it is sweet, fresh sand in it). One benefit of this is the sapodilla fruit to treat diarrhea,

5. Seed
Brown seeds contain saponin, which is a glycoside of the plant itself is useful as a storage carbohydrate, or a wasteproduct of plant metabolism itself. But unfortunately, saponins can cause abdominal pain, but apparently there are also benefits of this poison for us, ie, as a protection against attack, and is a powerful poison for fish and amphibians.

Source: www.anneahira.com

Benefits of Durian Fruit for Beauty

Benefits of Durian Fruit for Beauty | Durian Fruit Benefits for Beauty, Durian fruit, including the most preferred fruit in Indonesia. Besides delicious taste, the aroma is also very tempting. In addition to delicious and sweet, the benefits of durian fruit is not yet known to us as beauty treatments. In addition to rejuvenate the skin, the fruit is also good for reducing the effects of wrinkles.

More Beautiful with Durian

Beauty experts have said that there are three kinds of things that make your skin age. These factors are, intrinsic aging (aging due to factor in), extrinsic aging (aging due to external factors), and hormonal aging (aging due to hormonal factors).

The first and third factors are outside our control as human beings. But the aging due to external factors, can be prevented in several ways. One of them by taking advantage of durian fruit.

You can use the durian fruit as a face mask, or eat alone. Corresponding study of the dermatologist, the benefits of durian fruit was also effective to reduce wrinkles on the face (due to its flavonoid that can tighten the skin), and reduce dark circles in the eye.

You want to use it as a mask, and apply enough durian fruit flesh on your face and your eyes before going to bed. In addition to using the durian fruit, Balance your life as well with regular exercise and lots of vitamin E.

The goal that aging due to hormonal or other factors in the aging than you can handle. Extracts of durian is also nice to return the dead skin cells on your body.

Use the durian flesh when you shower and rinse thoroughly. After bathing, you will see the difference. Not only the dead skin cells are lost, but also your skin will look more toned.

Tips on Choosing Fruit Durian

But you should be more careful if you want to buy durian fruit, because now many outstanding durian 'injection'. That is, the durian fruit that has been injected with certain sweeteners before sale.

When buy it, do not hesitate to ask the seller to split the durian you want to buy, and do not hesitate also to taste it. Make sure your choice durian, it skin is yellow and brown, yellow flesh and sweet taste and fragrant aroma.

You need to be vigilant with the green durian fruit, and pale yellow flesh color tend to be white. Although the meat taste sweet, this is the durian fruit is still young and has been 'forced' to be mature additives.

Happy hunting, and feel the benefits of durian fruit!