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April 11, 2017
We can't ignore the importance of liver in the human body. It's constantly working as a filtration system, helping our body flush out toxins and harmful ingredients before they can cause any damage. Prescription medications, alcohol, smoking, and other unhealthy life choices can hurt our liver easily.
Milk thistle is basically a flowering herb with a vibrant purple flower and the white veins inside the plant's leaves. According to ancient mythology, the milky substance inside the leaves first originated from a drop of the Virgin Mary's milk. Other names sometimes attributed to Milk Thistle include lady's thistle, Mary thistle and holy thistle. It is also commonly referred to as Silybum silymarin. This ingredient has actually been used for medicinal purposes for more than 2000 years, and it is still considered to be one of the best supplements in the entire world.
The function of Milk Thistle is extremely powerful, it has ability to both protect the liver from potential toxins and help regenerate healthy cells. It has been found useful in a variety of liver and gall bladder conditions such as cirrhosis, hepatitis, gall stones, fatty liver and poisoning.
Canadian native brand Total Natural is a brand with advanced technology and high quality products, Total Natural milk thistle ingredients include high purity of Silybum marianum (78%) and selected pure natural herbs. Take 1 capsule 2 times daily, in the morning and evening. Use for minimum of 3 weeks to see beneficial effects. It's a perfect way to love your liver.
June 05, 2015
May 15, 2015
Natural fruits or vegetables like tomatoes, watermelons are full of lycopene which is one of the strongest natural antioxidant. It’s also a generally recognized anti-aging substance to defense free radical, physically remove the rubbish and keep the body healthy.
Some scientists predict that antioxidant will help people to extend 30%-50% of their lives. Europeans and Americans are never stop studying lycopene. Researchers asked patients to take lycopene for 4 weeks and their LDL decreased dramatically. Also, compare to cholesterol-lowering drugs, lycopene doesn’t have any side-effect and plays an important role on preventing stroke and cardiovascular diseases. Many studies of healthy meals are based on observation of people in Mediterranean regions. You will find ketchup served at every meal and they have less chance to have cardiovascular diseases and cancer. This is all relying on lycopene. The “Times” magazine in the US used to place tomato as the best food which contribute on human health and lycopene is also called “Plants Gold”.
Research shows that, The body can only digest 0.05mg lycopene by taking a fresh tomato. However, our bodies need at least 20mg lycopene every day to prevent prostate disease, protect heart and brain, slow the effects of ageing, protect the skin etc. According to this, people need to eat 300 fresh tomatoes every day to get that much lycopene, and that's obviously impossible.
So what's the best way to take lycopene? The tomato juices on the market are all added with food color, reductant or oxidant, that's why the color is pure red and the juice and fresh are mixed. Having fresh tomatos can get a lots of vitamin C, kalium and dietary fiber, which is good for preventing cardiovascular disease and fat. but you can't get all the lycopene and carotene in that tomato, unless you cook it and add a lot of oil, but lots of oil is obvisously not good for health. Nutritionists indicated that the best way to take lycopene is to choose a good brand of lycopene product. Total Natural's lycopene product contains 5mg lycopene per softgel which is made of 15 fresh tomatoes. Taking it by instruction can eliminate free radicals, lower cholesterol levels and heart diseases, prevent cancers, especially prostate cancer.
番茄紅素富含于番茄、西瓜等天然果蔬中,是目前已知的自然界最強的抗氧化劑之一,它是國際公認的抗衰老物質,可有效捕捉萬病之源的自由基,清除身體垃圾,讓生命穩定在活躍的健康狀態中。
科學家預言抗氧化劑在未來可將人的壽命延長30%—50%。歐美國家對番茄紅素的研究一直在持續推進。專家曾這樣做過實驗:連續4周讓他們每天服用番茄紅素補充劑,患者的低密度膽固醇大幅降低,同時比降血脂藥物減少了副作用,證實番茄紅素對預防中風和心血管疾病效果顯著。在蜚聲中外的地中海健康飲食中,番茄醬是每餐必備, 居民的心血管疾病和腫瘤的發病率明顯偏低,番茄紅素的作用功不可沒。美國《時代》曾將番茄列爲對人類健康貢獻最大的食品之首,將番茄紅素譽爲“植物黃金”。
調查表明,吃一個生番茄,人體只能吸收0.05mg的番茄紅素,但人體每天要攝取20mg的番茄紅素才能達到它防治前列腺疾病、保護心腦、延緩衰老、美容 美膚的效果。按照這個定量,每人每天要吃進300個新鮮番茄才能滿足,這顯然是不可能的。
那該如何攝取蕃茄紅素才好呢?市面上的包裝蕃茄汁都是添加了色素,以及還原劑或氧化劑,顏色才會這麼紅,且能維持果水融合的狀態。生吃番茄能獲得其中維生素C、鉀和膳食纖維,對于預防心血管疾病和預防肥胖是有利的,但是不能充分吸收其中的番茄紅素和胡蘿蔔素,除非熟食番茄並加入大量油脂,細細咀嚼才行。而加很多脂肪顯然會升高能量(熱量),妨礙番茄的健康效益。營養學家表示,攝取番茄紅素一項選最佳擇是:從市面上含量較高的番茄紅素産品中,選擇好的名牌。Total Natural的茄紅素膠囊每粒含有5mg茄紅素,是由15個新鮮蕃茄經過發酵、熟成處理後所萃取之抗氧化物質。按說明服用即可迅速消除自由基,降低膽固醇與心臟疾病,預防癌症,特別是攝護腺癌。
April 17, 2015
The development of the brain will go through cells’ proliferation, differentiation, migration, death and synapses all these complicated processes, and nutrition and energy are tow important things for the brain to develop. The crucial time for people to develop their brains is when they are 0-6 years old. Fetuses and DHA is an infant brain development necessary trace nutrients, also can promote neural network forming, it is an important component of the retina material. During the last three months of pregnancy, The DHA in fetuses’ brains will increase to three or five times more, no wonder people also called DHA as “brain gold”.
DHA plays an important role in infants’ vision developing. All the Information gained by the brain, 60% of them comes from our vision. Therefore, children’s vision will affect their reactivity, spatial sense and speed of perception directly. DHA is an important component of the retina material, when children are lack of DHA, their vision ability will also be affected, which results in poor reaction capacity and poor observational ability. A research showed that when added DHA to 162 non-premature babies’ infant formula; all of their visions get improved after a year. If a pregnant woman couldn’t get enough DHA, her baby may have a lower weight, or even have mental retardation, and the baby’s mental flexibility, language competence, comprehensive ability and fine motor skills may also lower than normal kids.
The research found that, if you only taking DHA rely on your diet, the efficiency can be very low, which is only 1% to adult males but 9% to pregnant women. The main source of DHA for an infant comes from the mother’s milk, but if the mother doesn’t have milk, then the baby should take infant formula with DHA or DHA softgels, especially for premature babies. DHA 100 is derived from tuna’s orbital oil; obtain a lot of DHA which can strong the retina, increase memory, and help fetus’ brain, nerves and eyes to develop, which can make the baby smart and have a strong immunity.
腦的發育要經過細胞的增殖、分化、遷移、死亡、突觸的形成與修飾等複雜過程,營養素和能量是腦發育的物質基礎。0~6歲是人大腦發育的關鍵時期。DHA是胎兒和兒童大腦發育的一種必需微量營養素,DHA可以促進神經網絡形成,使神經遞質的釋放和傳遞信息的速度加快;並能對傷亡的腦細胞起到明顯的修複作用。在妊娠的最後三個月,胎兒腦部的DHA會增加3~5倍,從而對兒童的腦發育及功能起著重要作用。難怪老百姓把DHA又稱作"腦黃金"。
DHA對嬰兒視覺發育起重要作用人類大腦所獲得的信息,其中有60%來自于視覺,因此,視覺的功能直接影響著兒童的反應能力、空間知覺和知覺速度。DHA是視網膜的重要組成物質,DHA缺乏時視覺功能受損,表現爲視敏度發育遲緩,對光信號刺激的注視時間延長,從而影響嬰兒的反應能力和觀察能力。有研究顯示:162名非早産兒攝入含DHA的配方乳,1年後視力檢測時在視力表上增加了一行。 DHA對兒童智能發育的重要作用兒童的智能包括觀察力、記憶力、思維能力、想象力和創造力。0~6歲是兒童智能發育的關鍵時期。有研究顯示在這一時期補充了DHA的孩子在認知、語言、運動等方面的能力較其他孩子有明顯的提高。DHA缺乏時胎兒腦細胞的分裂增殖就會發生障礙,嚴重缺乏時則會造成腦細胞發育遲緩和智力水平低下。孕婦DHA嚴重攝入不足可生出極低體重兒,表現爲精神發育遲滯,思維靈活性、語言表達能力、理解能力與精細運動均低于正常兒。
研究發現,日常飲食轉化DHA的效率很低,成年男性不到1%,育齡期婦女可以達到9%;嬰幼兒DHA的來源主要是母乳,如果沒有母乳,則需要從添加了DHA的嬰兒奶粉或DHA膠囊中補充,尤其是早産兒應補充DHA。聰明素萃取自鮪魚(TUNA)的眼窩油,含大量的DHA物質,可強化視網膜,增大腦皮質功能記憶力,有助胎兒的腦、神經、眼睛的發育,使小孩變聰明,增強免疫系統能力。DHA可柔軟視網膜細胞,刺激感光神經,提升視力,改善記憶力,增進智力,大人小孩皆適用。可改善兒童的過度活潑,穩定情緒。