Fitness Tips
They may not be glamorous, but canned beans are convenient, cheap, and versatile. They’re also highly nutritious—and a powerful way to lower cholesterol. Here are a few ways to work them into your diet. Just be sure to rinse them before using, since many packers add lots of salt.
1. Use one half-cup of black beans and jarred salsa as a filling for your omelet.
2. Make a bean salad with canned black beans, corn, chopped cilantro, chopped onion and chopped tomato. Drizzle with olive oil and a dash of vinegar, salt and pepper.
3. Spread non-fat refried beans on a whole-wheat burrito and sprinkle with chopped chicken and low-fat shredded cheese.
The Healthiest Fruit for Diabetic Patients
The best blood-sugar stabilizing fruits are in summer season—and the undisputed kings of summer fruits are berries.
Berries, from ruby red strawberries to deep maroonish raspberries to midnight blue blueberries, may be candy to your taste buds, but they’re magic for your blood sugar. They’re loaded with red-blue plant compounds called anthocyanins that help keep blood-glucose levels in check by boosting insulin production.
Anthocyanins also stop free radical damage to your cells and tissues—preventing cataracts, glaucoma, hemorrhoids, ulcers, heart disease and cancer. They also improve your entire vascular system. So to anyone out there who might be suffering from benign, but unsightly varicose veins: Eating a steady diet of berries may actually help to prevent them! Anthocyanins have also been shown to enhance the effects of vitamin C (they contain quite a lot of it themselves), and repair capillaries and collagen—which makes your skin look healthier and younger.
And the benefits don’t stop there. Though they’re tiny, berries also contain a large volume of fiber, both soluble and insoluble—incredibly powerful tools for blood-sugar control.
Berries of all kinds prevent macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness in elderly adults), reduce your risk of heart disease and a slew of cancers including colon and ovarian, and keep your brain and memory in tiptop shape by preventing age-related conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
There’s not much that berries can’t do for you. They even satisfy the biggest sweet tooth. Strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries are often cited as people’s favorite fruits, less for their health benefits and more for their incredible sweet-as-candy flavor and summertime childhood memories (is there anything more delectable than strawberry shortcake?). Make them a daily indulgence, especially during the warm weather months when they’re in season, You will surely enjoy.
General Information:
Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day
Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and
take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day,
without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between
hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and
has over 100 billion nerve cells.
We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
We have over 600 muscles.
We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70 percent water.
We make one liter of saliva a day.
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood
vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
