Eating Asparagus Prevents Cancer

Eating Asparagus Prevents Cancer

Asparagus is one of the foods that have very few calories, because this food contains almost no fat and few carbohydrates, but the asparagus contains a good amount of protein is one of the vegetable with more protein.

Also the studs containing glutathione, this is an antioxidant which reduces oxidative stress. This process is responsible for converting a benign into a malignant cell, presenting uncontrolled growth, characteristic of neoplasms. Glutathione therefore prevents this process is performed, preventing the transformation.

Asparagus is also rich in vitamin C, which also complements the antioxidant, reducing free radical synthesis. These waste products are responsible for oxidative stress. It also participates fighting infectious processes.

Asparagus also contains B vitamins, which are involved in various processes of the nervous system. This means that consumption within unadietacompleta asparagus, balanced, harmonious can help prevent and fight cancer.

As we said the asparagus contain few calories and lots of fiber, so they help to produce satiety in the stomach. People who want to lose a few kilos can consume asparagus and help them lose weight.

Americans throw away up to 40% of their food each year

Americans throw away up to 40% of their food each year

The figure is about 165,000 million dollars in waste, according to an analysis of Defense Council Natural Resources

Washington (EFE). Analysis, a compilation of various studies and statistics, evaluated all types of waste that are created from the production of raw material until the food arrives at the table.

The report notes that most of the waste produced in the household.

"American families throw about 25% of food and drink they buy", especially in the food culture developed abundant and cheap in the country for decades.

Because food represents a very small part of the budgets of families, they are unaware of the amount of food waste arriving, says the report.

An average American family of four wastes up to $ 2,275 on food each year and spendthrift tendencies have been worsened over time, says the study.

The U.S. government estimates that some 15,000 supermarkets lose millions of dollars each year in fruits and vegetables that are not sold. The NRDC attributes some of these losses to overstock products used as a technique to impress clients.

"In the restaurants and other food service establishments also suffer large losses related to waste because the dishes they provide are much larger than those recommended by the government, "said the NRDC.

The report claims that the U.S. government has not devoted enough resources to identify where there are inefficiencies in the system and accuses him of not fighting the problem compared to the efforts put in place in Europe.

Sandwiches with alcohol, the latest craze to celebrate

Sandwiches with alcohol, the latest craze to celebrate

Salume, a sandwich shop in New York has released the first line of sandwiches with gin, whiskey and other spirits. The novelty is that the sandwiches are soaked in alcohol, so what you can eat and get drunk together.

In the menu did not specify whether the sale is prohibited under 21 (legal drinking age in the U.S.), since alcohol is added after the preparation of the food, not cooked with it, and therefore retains all the properties and effects of a drink.

 

In Salume menu is not specified the amount or the alcohol content of the sandwiches, but nobody seems to care. And prices vary between 11 and 18 dollars, depending on the drink you are ready.

 

Black pepper contains a molecule "anti fat" that could help end obesity.

Black pepper contains a molecule "anti fat" that could help end obesity.

Two Korean scientists, and Soo-Jong Um Ji-Cheon Jeong, have found that black pepper naturally reduces fat levels in the bloodstream. In the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry researchers explain that curiously pepper reduces fat and is due to piperine, which is the same substance that gives it its flavor.

Piperine interferes with the activity of forming generates fat cells, causing a metabolic reaction that can be controlled fat naturally. According to the authors of the report claim that extracts of black pepper could fight obesity and diseases related to it.