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Recently more and more people are talking bout antioxidant, perhaps you should explore for some antioxidant facts before further choosing any related products for yourself.

What is antioxidant? It is categorized as substances which slow down or prevent the process of oxidation of another chemical. In nutritional defnition, it represent a group of nutrient which stands against the effect of free radicals.

In chemistry definition, it simple means the interaction between the oxygen molecules and the molecules of other substance. One of the most common example which you can find with effect of oxidation will be rust – when the molecules of oxygen and iron are in contact, the molecule of oxygen takes away the electrons from iron and eventually make the iron to be weaker. Another example would be apple, when it is exposed to the air for few minutes, it would turn brownish and less crunchy.

When oxygen and free radicals are fused in our body, it causes chronic destruction to our bodies – aging. free radicals destroy our skin cells and make our skin to become less supple and more wrinkles formed. Damaged cells can not shed their own waste as easy either, a process that is linked with human diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and aging.

Considerable researches and studies from chemical, cell culture, and animal studies indicates that antioxidants have the ability to slow and prevent the development of cancer. Antioxidants protect the body from this destruction by neutralizing the oxygen and free radicals – they have an extra electron that they can give away to free radicals through oxidation process to stop the destructions in our cells.

Antioxidants are found in a variety of fruit and vegetables, nuts, whole grain cereals, legumes, tea, red wine and herbs. Those alone makes a pretty good antioxidant list. However, foods on your plate don’t have the nutritional value that they do when they’re first picked. In fact, after sitting on the bed of truck, getting processed into cans, or cooked up at home, the antioxidant value is severley diminshed. Therefore, we should consider a daily antioxidant supplement, along with our healthy diet.

Antioxidants are substances that help prevent cellular damage in our bodies. Our body has its own process of repair, but with the stress of current lifestyles and the increasing amount of pollutants in the environment, we may need some extra help. Ideally, we can get most of the antioxidants we need by eating fruits and vegetables, essentials of a healthy diet. However, in today’s fast-paced world we sometimes replace fresh fruits and vegetables with less than ideal choices. Therefore, enhancing our less than optimal diet with an exceptional antioxidant supplement may be extremely beneficial.

Agel EXO is proven to be one of the best product which contains 17 different unique of whole fruit purees and plant extracts from around the world, each with its own unique properties. This distinctive formula contains 17 potent botanicals that each when tested individually was found to have a very high total antioxidant capacity. Each of these exotic fruits and plant extracts is incredibly good for your health, but they’re even better together. Which means that EXO contains a wider range of nutritive qualities than products that offer only one active ingredient. EXO’s unique combination of ingredients offers you literally hundreds of naturally occuring antioxidants in the same convenient serving.

Now imagine, the extraordinary benefit of EXO, together with the implementation of gel suspension technology, made up of not one but 17 of these antioxidant-rich fruits and plants. In independent testing, EXO’s antioxidant capacity as determined by an oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) rating was found to be a quite extraordinary.

Ingredients: The exotic antioxidant-rich fruits in EXO represent the best berry and fruit sources from around the globe. Blueberries from the lush Pacific Northwest of USA, Dark-skinned grapes from Europe and North America, Cranberries from quiet waters of Northeastern USA, Bilberries from rich lands of Northern Europe, Aronia chokeberry from forests of Central Europe, Pomegranate from Persia and Mediterranea, Aloe vera gel from the arid Mexican plains, Noni fruit from mineral-rich Polynesian shores, Acerola cherry from Brazil , Wolfberries from China and Southeast Asia, Acai berries from Amazon rainforests, Rooibos herb extract from Africa and more. These selected fruits are ranked highest in ORAC rating a rating of antioxidant bioactivity.

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Few days ago, Mr. Kazunori Hironaka from Obihiro University in Hokkaido discovered that by using the method of electric shock and ultrasound on potatoes, it increases the amount of anti-oxidants in the potatoes.

According to their research, performing these two techniques on the potatoes are not only raise the level of antioxidant, which includes phenol and chlorogenic acid up to 50%. For your information, antioxidant are important in nutritional value as it helps to prevent chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, various cancers, diabetes, and neurological diseases. For these 2 types of antioxidant, they are helpful in slowing the release of glucose into the bloodstream, it may possible reduce the glucose level in our bloodstream if appropriately include in the diet plan.

Commented from Kazunori Hironaka, by immersing the whole potatoes in water by using ultrasound method or performing electrical charge for 10 to 30 minutes on the potatoes in salt solution, he discovered that with only 5 minutes of ultrasound treatment on the potatoes, polyphenol levels and other antioxidant levels are increase up to 60%.

This experiment may be one of the important breakthroughs for producing various food with high implementation of antioxidant.

Question for the readers: What if we use the microwave oven on potatoes, does it increases the level of antioxidant in the potato as well?

For those people who always like to drag their sleeping time to midnight, beware of heavy protest from your heart. According to Animal study from New York State University, people who sleep after 2.00 are having heavy disruption on biological clock as well as serious impact on the lipid metabolism, these eventually increase the risk of heart disease.

M. Mahmood Hussain commented that late sleep, frequent travel to different continent regions  are disrupting the flow of biological clock, this outcomes circadian rhythm in our body to become confuse which may lead to increment of blood triglyceride levels (fatty acids). When high concentration of blood triglycerides are chronically existed in our bloodstream, it could turn out to be heart disease.

Furthermore, people with metabolic syndrome and obese are often contain high concentration of plasma lipids in their bloodstream. For your information, metabolic system in our body is responsible for the regulation of plasma lipid levels in the bloodstream by synthesizing or removing the plasma lipids in the bloodstreams. Researchers found out disruption such as light adjustment will significantly affect the rise and fall of plasma triglyceride levels in our body.

I believe that most of the parents would get annoyed by looking at their own children stay in the bed till afternoon especially during the holidays. There is a good news for them who love to sleep longer during the holiday. According to Scientist from United States of America, taking of extra 1 or 2 hours of sleep during the weekends or holidays may boost the vitality of our body.

Commented by David Dinges, the professor from University of Pennysylvania, ocassionally stay in the bed may be one of the effective curing agent for those who has sleep disorders. For those who are persistently lacking of sleeping time, by resting extra 1 or 2 hours in the morning could possibily help them to achieve health recovery as well as curb the sleep disorders.

According to doctors, poor quality of sleep could affect people’s thinking, increase our pressure,lose control of our emotion. weaken the immune system as well as increase the risk of bacteria infection on our body.

The appropriate sleep for an adult is seven hours. For those who often sleep more than seven hours a day, may increase the risk of heart disease. Furthermore, David Dinges suggested that for those who often lack of sleep during the whole week, you may pick one night out of the week to sleep for 10 hours.

According to British National Health Services NHS, they have spent almost 40 million pounds annually on the adverse effects of Flip Flop in the society as approximately 200,000 of people each year are suffering from chronic foot pains and diseases.

Recent years, flip flop has become one of the significant change on women’s wear. Such simple flat sandals save them from being long-term abused of wearing high-heels. Commented from experts, perhaps for the sake of our health, by long-term wearing the flip flops, it may lead to causing injury on the joint.

By wearing Flip flop, it indirectly causes us to change our habit of walking, when you are moving forward with flip flop, it would cause external pressure on your feet which would lead to long-term injury. Furthermore, flip flop increases the risk of falling.

When we are wearing flip flop, our toes tend to curl and squeeze together in order to seize the sandals. this could also injure our toe bones chronically. According to Mike O’Neill, the member from British Podiatric Medical Association, he warned that flip flop decreases the leg support on our body. Chronically it could injure our lower legs, tendons and even the growth of the bones.

Generally we would take 1 to 2 hours nap allowing our brain and body system to have a temporary relax and energy replenishment. Do not underestimate such meditation can actually improve our immune system and strengthen the body resistance towards disease.

Indeed, napping is one of the crucial steps in promoting better health, especially for those who stays up for the midnight match during the season of World Cup FIFA 2010, according to doctor, napping for too long may cause counter-productive effects to our health. Following are the 5 steps you must follow for the sake of your health:-

30 minutes Nap

It is the best to adjust your napping time at most for half an hour, or else it will be uncomfortable for your health. According to doctor, napping for too long could greatly disrupt our biological clock and affect our sleeping behaviour.

Nap posture
Most of the people ignore the posture during their nap, it must not be too simply on the napping posture. DO not sit or lie on the table to nap. It will greatly affect the blood supply to our brain, this is why some people feel dizzy after their nap. Furthermore, do not use your arm as pillow to allow your head to lean on it, such method is affecting the blood circulation and nerve conduction on your arm, it could numb your hand. The deal nap posture is the exactly the same as our sleep posture, our body should be comfortably lying down and our face should be correctly facing the ceiling.

Covering
Although its hot during the summer, still you need to cover yourself with a blanket or quilt to avoid any cold lump from invading your body.

Windy Area
Do not sleep near the windy area. According to doctor, we could easily catch cold due to the temperature regulatory system in our body is disrupted.

Eating Behaviour
Do not overeat if you are planning for a nap after the meal. Theoretically, when our stomach is full of foods, more blood will flow into the stomach to execute the process of digestion. This outcomes less oxygen supply to be reached to other part of the body especially our brain.

According to modern research, it confirms that saliva is highly contained with water content, essential amylase, lysozyme, mucin, globulin, lactic acid bile iron, calcium, amino acids, potassium, calcium, chlorine etc. These substances are highly beneficial to our health and cell compositions.

Researchers concluded the regimen of Salive into 8 functions.

Mouth Cleansing
Salive is able to wash away all the food resides and keept our mouth clean.

Soothing and ubricant effect
Salive contains mucin, which is able to soften and protect our gums from being too tight and hard.

Hemostatic effect
Salive promote blood coagulation. WHen there’s trauma or hemorrhage occurred inside our mouth (tooth extraction etc.), saliva may help to stop the bleeding.

Dilution Effect
Although salive is slight acidic, still it helps to dilute those liquids which irritate out mouth.

Antibacterial effect
Saliva contains variety of organic and inorganic components. They contains natural antibacterial effect which is able to prevent the mouth, throat and gum inflammation.

Recovery effect
Proven that there is low amount of nerve growth factor in the saliva, these growth hormones are able to reduce the healing time and accelerate the healing of skin.

Digestive effect
Saliva contains large amount of amylase, which is able to hydrolyse the starch in order for efficient absorption into our body.

Anti-Aging effect
According to researcher, saliva contains certain parotid hormone which is able to cells to glow (conserve young cells and reduce senescence in cells), it also helps to strengthen our teeth and muscles.

Latest news reported from Chile stated that experts of Cardiology from 97 countries from different continents around the world have proved that start a relationship has significant improvement to our health especially for heart.

According to Philip Poole, Cardiology expert from London’s Imperial College commented that love can help to reduce stress, depression and anxiety. Love can be an important role in preventing the heart disease and it also helps to promote optimistic in a person for effective in disease healing

Experts point out that depression and stress frustration and other emotions will affect heart health. Below are some suggestions from the experts that you may alter in your daily life for better healthy lifestyle:-

1. Enjoy favorite activities, doing more massage, spend more time with your buddies;

2. Engage in less vigorous exercise is the best way to reinvigorate yourself i.e. yoga, slow jog;

3. Consume more fruits and vegetables and whole-grain meals to avoid tension;

4. Ensure eight hours of sleep per night to maintain a pleasant mood.

Everybody understands that foods are important for our body. For the sake of our health a, we always tend to consume variety of nutritious foods. However, you may not believe that (or even heard of) consuming the foods in slight different temperature may significant affect our health.

These days, with all sort of erratic eating habits (buffet / fast food), we have overlooked the correct way in eating and drinking. Bacteria, virus can easily fuse into the foods and invade our fragile body. With haste advancement in our civilization, we as human seems to neglect the antecedent of taking food – clean, fresh, fully cooked, tasty.

In fact, during old days, formal dining is not only to represent respect and character in us, it is the best way to make sure the freshly cooked foods we eat is completely digested and absorbed into every single cell in our body. During old days, foods are not being served by placing all the furnished platters and entrée on the table and allow you to feed on. Instead, foods are served dish by dish to make sure every course of meal that you’re taking is fresh and warm enough.

Recently, many modern people are having problem in poor digestion. Most of us do are highly rely on antacids in almost every diet as modern foods are highly chemically produced. Antacid is generally formed by any substance, generally a base or a basic salt, which is able to neutralizes stomach acidity. This could inhibit the concentration of gastric acid in our body, when the food is not completely digest by the acid, it might harm and injure our stomach.

Do not underestimate the aftereffect (side effect) of eating too much of cold foods. According to nutritionist, combination of stress and pressure, having too much cold foods as well as the speed of taking in foods could exponentially increase the production of acid juice in our stomach.

Furthermore, people who like cold foods tend to have higher chance in getting constipation. Theoretically, , the function gastrointestinal have cogent effect on liver function and metabolism rate, this is because liver is important in metabolizing all the nutrients into our body. Therefore, when more icy foods are taken in, it would affect the absorption of nutrients in the intestines. Some people may think that our body temperature will consequently warm up the cold foods as it passes down to the stomach. In fact, when diffusion of heat into the cold foods is occurring, it would have passed by (skipped) certain enzymes in our body i.e. amylase needs optimum temperature (37°C ) to break down the sugars. This outcomes certain substances in the foods are unable to be broken down, thus it would accumulate inside the intestine and outcomes constipation.

A latest study published in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise has proven that women may possibly to lose fat mass while gaining lean muscles and strength through drinking two large glasses of milk than sugar-based energy drinks after workout. According to McMaster University researchers in Canada, women who drank milk after exercise lost more fat than women who drank sugar-based energy drinks.

Most of the women misunderstand that weight-lifting helps to promote muscle building. In fact, lean muscle is very difficult to form; women naturally have less testosterone, a male hormone which plays important role in muscles building. Weight-lifting will only help to tone your lean muscle and burn all the excessive fats instead of bulking up the muscles on your body.

Building lean muscle is an important part of improving overall health and fitness. Lean muscle speeds up metabolism so you burn more calories and store less fat. Plus, the extra muscle helps give you the ability to do more exercises so you keep getting healthier.

Indeed resistance training (weight-lifting) is not a typical choice of exercise for women, but such workouts help to boost strength, bone, muscular and metabolic health in a way that other types of exercise cannot.

According to the experiment, regular workouts and milk consumption work do substantially improve women’s body composition and health. Women who drank milk barely gained any weight, however strength and conversion of lean muscle balanced out with the loss of fat.