Posts Tagged ‘Iron’
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Pathogenic bacteria found in farm animals currently have an immunity to antibiotics that is higher than many years ago. Therefore, to maintain to stay healthy and can be cut in time, farm animals injected with a stronger antibiotic levels or higher. This causes the animals came from farms may be more dangerous than an antibiotic prescriptions written by doctors.
Organic farms are very limited use of antibiotics. This does not happen in non-organic farms, where they use antibiotics without rules, as long as they can keep their livestock from disease. The use of antibiotics such as this causes stress on cattle. Of all the antibiotics circulating in Australia, 60% used in the cattle, not humans.
Marine biologists from the University of Queensland, Dr Simon Costanzo stated in Marine Pollution Bulletin March 2005 edition, that antibiotics and bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics, are found in water and sewage lines in downtown Brisbane. This increase threats to the environment and human health, especially for children. The British Medical Association has warned that resistance to antibiotics is “one of the major public health threats to be faced in the 21st century.” While WHO has ordered the reduction of antibiotic use in agriculture and animal husbandry.
Animals that live in a more decent and better on organic farms is to minimize the use of antibiotics and other veterinary drugs. Medicines and antibiotics are used only when really needed.
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Organs, a brain, immune system and detoxification mechanism of children is immature and still developing. The combination of these conditions with the large percentage of food consumption per kilogram of their weight, making children more susceptible to toxins that exist, compared with adults.
Toddlers are a lot of organic foods have pesticide residue stated less th
an 1 / 6 in their urine, compared with children consuming non-organic food.
Elizabeth Gillette’s paper in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives are used as reference by many parties, shows how the combination of exposure to pesticides (although slightly) in the environment, household and food lead to slowing growth in children. Gillette comparing children in two villages which are isolated in Mexico, where one village routinely uses pesticide and the other does not.
All other factors equal-genetic factors, diet, lifestyle, climate, culture, etc.. The study found significant differences between the two groups of children in two villages in terms of mental and motor skills (children exposed to pesticides have a low skill level, with high aggressive behavior).
In many Western countries, children and adults alike are exposed to pesticides. A Study on Mother’s Milk in 1995 found that infants exposed to pesticides in Australia at levels above the maximum limit. In Canada, found a direct correlation between pesticide contaminations in breast milk those increase the risk of otitis in infants.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Properly, a mother must always be patient in feeding their children, because of eating not only makes children fulfilled their nutritional needs, but these activities can also be used as a learning experience for toddlers. At the time the child starts talking, eating activities can be used as a means for mothers to teach the concept of taste, expression of taste, color concepts, the concept of texture, the concept of number, and size concepts.
Patience by mothers in performing this activity can facilitate the process of eating and toddlers to develop their insight and knowledge. In terms of eating, the mother or caregiver to act as mediators to introduce various concepts and facts which met the child in his environment. An example is when feeding, the mother can provide information about what to eat, what it’s like, what color, how much, and so forth. Feeding techniques while learning can be done through a few tips:
- Arouse the attention and wants the child to react. Mother took the child to eat and give a sign that the meal has arrived. To attract the attention of children, maternal use of verbal and nonverbal expression, to enable the sensing of children. Mom then took the plate and let the kids hold eating utensils, food, and imitate what the mother said. She was also the name given food, taste, shape, texture, and tightens up with an expression of voice or expression. Repeat this several times.
- Giving praise and raise confidence and competence in children if the child is eating properly. Mothers should not be stingy praise for his son. For example, if he had spent one tablespoon of food, just the mother’s praise of their versatility. Especially when the food can be spent with the neat.
- Get children to plan all activities shall be taken, all actions have demonstrated that patterns of activity in preparing meals, children should also be involved, such as washing hands, preparing food, telling stories about what was done the mother, to clear the table after dinner activity is over. This is done many times, in order to form habits and a healthy diet.
- In order for the learning process becomes much easier and pleasant situation, the mother should also make eye contact with toddlers. In addition, mothers are advised to have a sense of empathy, would give the baby a chance to speak, trying to share a pleasant feeling, and follow what the initiatives and responses of children. Mother or child interactions during feeding intensively this remedy can be used as a means to improve the cognitive abilities of children.
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
As a mother must be wondering about the meaning of the statement that title. How could the bacteria will become the most beautiful gifts for their children, while every time we spoke about the bacteria, the thing that immediately comes to mind that many diseases and things that are detrimental to other health.
However, mothers need not feel worried, because the bacteria are referred to in the title above is a good bacteria or better known as probiotics.
Due to the many benefits of these bacteria, often stated that good bacteria is the first gift given by the mother on the child since its birth, either through the womb, the birth, or breastfeeding.
SStarted in the birth process, when the baby moves from the almost sterile womb to the outside environment through a process involving contraction and time-consuming enough. At that moment, he is naturally in contact with mothers of normal microflora and then began developing microflora in the intestines and digestive tract.
After being born with a safe, child generally has a sterile gastrointestinal tract conditions. Cries first are the early sign of bacterial colonization. Even in the normal birth process, the colonization of the gastrointestinal tract can be realized thanks to the children of bacteria that come from contact with the birth canal.
Meanwhile, the baby who had been given breast milk, the dominant bacterial colonization by bifidobacteria than harmful bacteria.
The phrase for this which states that the milk was sterile, had been broken by the results of research which found that in breast milk that are from probiotics and Lactobacillus bifidobakterium group, which when consumed will reproduce in the gut and health impact.
One of the benefits of helping your child establishes the flora in the digestive tract so it can cope with the harmful bacteria that can cause indigestion and to stimulate and maintain stamina.
Not only that, probiotics can be used as prevention and treatment of acute diarrhea caused by intestinal infection. Other studies have even proved beneficial probiotics to prevent skin allergies (atopic dermatitis) and can not stand milk sugar or lactose intolerance.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Bananas are useful to increase the concentration power of children. Bananas are the fruit with high concentrations of nutrients and energy. Creamy texture makes the banana fruit is often used as a choice for baby food. For children, the benefits of bananas can also be a healthy lunch to school.
Bananas are very fit to be a menu of breakfast and lunch meals to school children. Banana pieces can be mixed into the cereal or breakfast food. Bananas provide enough energy for the children to be ready to follow the lessons in school.
Consumption of banana can help the process of learning in children because bananas contain potassium. Potassium is found in bananas which act to increase the concentration of children’s learning.
Bananas are also high in vitamins B, which is useful for retaining the activity of the nervous system works. For this, students can concentrate longer.
In one banana indeed contained many nutrients. Vitamins and minerals are superior compared to other fruits and vegetables, especially for vitamin B6 (piridoksin), C, potassium, fiber, and manganese.
Compared with apples, bananas contain more protein, more carbohydrates, more phosphorus, more vitamin A and iron, vitamins and other minerals. Many benefits can be obtained from a banana. In addition to very useful in preventing stress, bananas also improve thought, treat gastrointestinal inflammation, and nourish the eye.
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Adolescent risky of anemia, especially iron deficiency. Although anemia is not contagious but very dangerous, especially for pregnant women because it can affect the health of babies.
When the teenager had anemia, during pregnancy and giving birth will also be anemia. Whereas iron is essential for brain development in infants conceived. As a result, the babies will be born with intelligence below average.
Anemia occurs when red blood cell count decreases. With the reduction in hemoglobin or red blood, the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body decreases. As a result, our body gets less oxygen, which causes weakness and rapid fatigue of the body.
Iron deficiency anemia can occur because since the baby has anemia, hookworm infection, lack of iron intake because foods containing less animal protein, and the process of menstruation in adolescent girls. In addition, anemia caused by nutritional deficiencies or nutrient imbalances are often caused by carelessness of youth and parents.
“Women as a teenager tends to thin, eventually entered into a diet by reducing consumption of foods without any control by parents, so they suffer from anemia.
Adolescent women who suffer from anemia will experience health problems such as difficulty concentrating, lethargy and weak, easily tired and sore. This is certainly going to disrupt their activities and achievements in school.
Therefore, in order to avoid anemia disease, adolescent women should adjust their diet with high consumption of nutritious food. In addition to providing iron tablets, adolescent girls are encouraged to consume foods containing high iron like red meat. In more severe anemia treatment can include blood transfusions or consumption of drugs which can stimulate the production of red blood cells.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Nutrients have an important role to encourage the process of developing a child’s brain grows. Good nutrition is like fuel for the brain. The development of brain circuits rely heavily on the quality of nutrition and stimulation given to infants in the womb to the age since the first three years, or so called golden period of growth (the golden age period).
Rapid growth in human brain cells taken place since the age of the baby until the age of three years. And reached perfection at the age of five years. This makes the fulfillment of nutritional factors as a vital factor in sufficient nutrients for brain development.
Until the age of one year, 60% of energy from breast milk and foods consumed by infants used for brain growth. Therefore, infants and toddlers need lots of protein, carbohydrates and fats.
In addition babies and toddlers need vitamin B1, B6, folic acid, iodine, iron, zinc, AA, DHA, sphyngomyelin (complex lipid content of fat in the brain), sialic acid, and amino acids like tyrosine and tryptophan.
Breast milk contains all these nutrients.
With balanced nutrition, it will add to growth and development of cells and branches on the baby’s brain. And the more the number of branching of brain cells, then the better is also a function of synapses (nerve cell edge) between brain cells. And finally the child is also more intelligent.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Besides “brain vitamins” are minerals that can help improve your child’s intelligence, called the “brain minerals”.
Magnesium
benefits: Helps supply energy to the brain. Result of deficiency: irritability, anxiety, lethargy, depression, and confusion.
Iron
Benefits: helps the brain to process-nutris nutrients required for brain activity and helps the process of neurotransmitter. Due defisisensi: behavioral deviations, indifferent, weak concentration, weak memory.
Zinc
Benefits: required by all reactions in the brain; help produce essential chemicals and proteins in the brain; role of energy form of glucose and protein. Result of deficiency: lethargy, irritability, poor eating habits, anorexia, fatigue, obesity, confused.
Chromium
Benefits: Essential for the metabolism of glucose (almost all functions of the human brain relies on glucose as an energy source) Result of deficiency: poor concentration, poor memory, feelings of uncertainty, feeling tired.
Potassium
Benefits: required for neurotransmitter function. As a result of deficiency: weakness, loss of appetite, irrational thought patterns.
Boron
Benefit: improve memory, hand-eye coordination, and fitness. As a result of deficiency: poor memory, fatigue, feeling lesuh, and hand-eye coordination is bad.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Parents are not confused to make children more intelligent. Vitamins, dubbed the “Brain Vitamin” is believed to stimulate the growth of brain cells, improve function, improve memory and concentration.
Vitamin A
To produce brain cells in a protein. Result of deficiency: Depression and apathy in children can retard brain development
Thiamin (Vitamin B-1)
Assist in the process energy from glucose and protein. It is important for nerve function. In addition, Thiamin may improve the ability in solving problems. As a result of deficiency: fatigue, weak memory, mental confusion, behavioral deviation, short-tempered.
Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2)
Benefits: To preserve the integrity of myelin (the substance which envelops nerves and convey information), to help provide energy for the brain. Due to Deficiency: Inhibit brain development in children and cause behavioral problems.
Niacin (Vitamin B-3)
benefits: Contribute to help the brain to produce an important chemical substances and to help manufacture proteins. Result of deficiency: Fast angry, easily tired, weak powers of concentration, feelings of uncertainty and difficulty sleeping.
Pyridoxine (vitamin B-6)
Benefits: Helps the brain produce the chemicals essential, role in making proteins. As a result of deficiency are: Quick angry, easily tired, weak powers of concentration, poor sleep habits, and weak memory
Vitamin C
Benefits: helps in the use of protein and increase the absorption of iron which needed. Result of deficiency: easy fatigue, depression, not resistant to heat or cold or changes in air pressure; hypersensitivity.
Folid Acid
Benefits: helps manufacture the substances in the brain that are essential for storing data in memory. Due defisienssi: lethargy, weakness of memory, short-tempered, aloof, intellectual processes are weak.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Menstruation that occurs in women lasts between 2-7 days. During menstruation cause loss of blood that contains iron minerals. This will reduce the amount of iron in the body and cause anemia, fatigue and other side burdens.
Vitamin C is well recognised that the powers of the body to increase absorption, it’s important to increase intake of vitamin C during that period. It can do so by increasing vitamin C rich foods or taking supplements.
Vitamin C is very important for the formation of free radicals and powerful against the symptoms of the flu to be deleted. Orange also helps the body absorb iron and food, especially when get menstruation. And it can be replaced by vitamin C sumplemen. An orange contains about 70 mg of vitamin C or more and 100 percent of the total intake recommended by doctors.
Therefore proposed that a menstruating woman eat oranges too. Since then, a number of irons in menstrual blood are reduced. It also stimulates the formation of collagen network, accelerate the healing of sores or bleeding. The addition of vitamin C in oranges, generally include additional compounds namely limonin, limonin glukosit, limonene and hesperidin.
Compounds to prevent the change function of cancer cells. Limonene has also increased the activity of the protein that inhibits the hormone associated with breast cancer cancer.So, it is important that women eat 1-2 and citrus to avoid the risk of cancer and other diseases.
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