Vinegar & Watermelon are Health Products
I read this article from an email.
So this household products can help us regulate our sugar level. Would you believe that Vinegar can help us clamp down our sugar level?? Well, it does. While some Carbo foods like Rice, potatoes, pasta, etc. spikes up our sugar level, vinegar will help us regulate it.
The watermelon, on the other hand, is full of lycopene that helps us crush cancer cells. It loaded with water, therefore keeping us Hydrated. Here is the full message from my email.
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Household Staple That Steadies Blood Sugar
You use it for cooking, cleaning, gardening, and a hundred other household chores. But for your blood sugar?
You bet. Seems vinegar — the tart stuff in tasty vinaigrettes and marinades — may help clamp down on blood sugar spikes from eating starchy carbs like potatoes and pasta.
Keep It Steady
Keeping blood sugar from surging may cut down on diabetes risk in the long run. But stabilizing blood sugar can do good things instantly, too — like stymieing hunger pangs, keeping your energy up, and keeping pounds off. To get the blood sugar benefit of vinegar, try pairing starchy foods with vinegar-based sauces or dressings. Or start a meal with a salad dressed in oil and vinegar.
Reality Check
Of course, a shot of vinegar will only go so far when it comes to keeping your blood sugar steady. To really ward off blood sugar problems, you’ll need to:
Get moving . . . so your body uses blood sugar better. Try this easy-on-the-joints workout.
Load up . . . on low-glycemic-index foods that help keep blood sugar stable. We’re talking high-fiber fruits, veggies, and whole grains. Check out this video on how fiber helps digestive health, too.
Pare down . . . maintaining a healthy weight helps reduce your risk of diabetes.
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Watermelon: 3 Juicy Benefits
A cool wedge of watermelon on a hot summer day? Refreshing, for sure.
But watermelon is more than just a seasonal treat. Here are three great health reasons to dig into this juicy fruit:
It’s loaded with lycopene. Watermelon juice actually gave tomato juice a run for the money in a recent study of lycopene levels. That’s good news for your body, because early research suggests that lycopene may be a cancer crusher.
It can make your skin pretty. Watermelon is loaded with a key compound credited with helping skin’s healing and regenerative processes. Say no more — bring on the melon!
It’s practically calorie-free. With fewer than 50 calories in every cup, watermelon is one smart way to satisfy a sweet tooth. And with a whopping 141 grams of water per cubed cup, watermelon will keep you hydrated, too.
Exercise Cures!
This is why exercise is so important. Any diet supplements or food we eat will not be that effective if we don’t exercise. It helps us regulate our blood flow, increase our stamina, sweat out all the dirt inside our body, and decrease the possibility of getting sick. For example, in my experience, I use exercise (basketball) as a stress reliever. I release all my anger and all the negative emotions into it, resulting to a positive note. I feel relaxed after that game and can easily look forward to the next day’s work.
Did you know that walking is also a kind of exercise? Here is an article about exercise curing diabetes and obesity:
“Walking a bit more each day can help people control their Type 2 diabetes but obese people trying to keep weight off may need to exercise harder than they had thought, according to a studies published on Monday.
Simply walking 45 minutes more each day helped people with diabetes use blood sugar better, Michael Trenell of Britain’s Newcastle University and colleagues wrote in the journal Diabetes Care.
“People often find the thought of going to the gym quite daunting, but what we’ve found is that nearly everyone with diabetes is able to become more active through walking,” Trenell said.
The Newcastle team paired 10 Type 2 diabetes patients with people without the condition of similar height, weight and age and asked everybody to walk more than 10,000 steps each day.
Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI scans showed that people who walked 45 minutes more each day burned about 20 percent more fat — increasing the ability of the muscles to store sugar and help control diabetes, the researchers said.
“What is exciting about this study is that it provides an immediate way to help control diabetes without any additional drugs,” Trenell said.
Diabetes affects an estimated 246 million adults worldwide and accounts for 6 percent of all global deaths. Type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90 percent of all diabetes cases and is closely linked to obesity and physical inactivity.
Obesity and diabetes both are growing problems as more developing nations adopt a Western lifestyle, something the International Diabetes Federation estimates will propel the number of people with diabetes to 380 million by 2025.
But current exercise guidelines calling for people to get 150 minutes — 2.5 hours — each week may not be enough to help the obese keep weight off, John Jakicic of the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
To determine an optimal amount of exercise, the U.S. team enrolled 201 overweight and obese women in a weight loss programme between 1999 and 2003 and assigned them to one of four exercise groups.
After six months, women in all four groups had lost an average of 8 to 10 percent of their weight but many gained it back.
Women assigned to exercise for about an extra hour each day did not gain the weight back, the researchers said. These women were also more likely to stick to healthy diets.
Jakicic recommended that people who want to lose weight and keep it off get at least 4-1/2 hours of exercise a week.
“There is a growing consensus that more exercise may be necessary to enhance long-term weight loss,” Jakicic and colleagues wrote”
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/hl_nm/exercise_weight_dc;_ylt=Akoty..aj0eS8udEGp9K0GfVJRIF
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