Benefits of Egg

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Benefits of Egg

After Doing Some Research on the Internet: I Found Out These About Eggs

1. Eggs are great for the eyes. According to one study, an egg a day may prevent macular degeneraton due to the carotenoid content, specifically lutein and zeaxanthin. Both nutrients are more readily available to our bodies from eggs than from other sources.

2. In another study, researchers found that people who eat eggs every day lower their risk of developing cataracts, also because of the lutein and zeaxanthin in eggs.

3. One egg contains 6 grams of high-quality protein and all 9 essential amino acids.

4. According to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health, there is no significant link between egg consumption and heart disease. In fact, according to one study, regular consumption of eggs may help prevent blood clots, stroke, and heart attacks.

5. They are a good source of choline. One egg yolk has about 300 micrograms of choline. Choline is an important nutrient that helps regulate the brain, nervous system, and cardiovascular system.

6. They contain the right kind of fat. One egg contains just 5 grams of fat and only 1.5 grams of that is saturated fat.

7. New research shows that, contrary to previous belief, moderate consumption of eggs does not have a negative impact on cholesterol. In fact, recent studies have shown that regular consumption of two eggs per day does not affect a person's lipid profile and may, in fact, improve it. Research suggests that it is saturated fat that raises cholesterol rather than dietary cholesterol.

8. Eggs are one of the only foods that contain naturally occurring vitamin D.

9. Eggs may prevent breast cancer. In one study, women who consumed at least 6 eggs per week lowered their risk of breast cancer by 44%.

10. Eggs promote healthy hair and nails because of their high sulphur content and wide array of vitamins and minerals. Many people find their hair growing faster after adding eggs to their diet, especially if they were previously deficient in foods containing sulphur or B12.

11. Eggs are packed with a range of nutrients including protein, essential vitamins A, D, E, and B group as well as minerals iron, phosphorus and zinc. They’re relatively low in saturated fat, making them a healthy fast food for all the family.They’re low in calories with only around 80 kcals per medium egg – so they are great if you’re on a diet, especially combined with vegetables and salads as part of healthy balanced meals!

12. Eggs are one of the most nutritious foods money can buy. They contain a wealth of vitamins, minerals and protein. In particular, they contain B vitamins that perform many vital functions in the body and are especially rich in vitamin B2 riboflavin, important in the release of energy in the body, and vitamin B12 needed for normal blood formation.

13. Eggs are a source of vitamin D, which is involved in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and is necessary for bone health. They also contain vitamin A – essential for normal growth and development and vitamin E that is necessary for cell protection from the damage caused by free radicals.

14. Eggs contain many essential minerals, in particular phosphorus, essential for healthy teeth and bones, as well as iron, which is essential for red blood cell formation and zinc, for the normal function of the immune system.

15. Trace elements are also present in eggs, especially iodine, required to make thyroid hormones, and selenium, an important antioxidant. Antioxidants work by preventing the damage caused by uncontrolled oxidation in the body and are believed to help protect against diseases such as heart disease and some cancers.

16. Eggs are a great source of choline. Although not an essential nutrient, because it can be made by the body, dietary choline has become the focus of recent interest because of its role in brain function. Studies in animals suggest that choline intake during pregnancy might influence development of the baby’s brain in the uterus, but this has not been proven in humans.


Source:

http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-eggs.html

http://www.britegg.co.uk/nutrition05/startnutrition.html

先知先觉的经络中里巴人

（此文转载自求医不如求己 真心就是大智慧，谢谢。）

中医之所以伟大，就是因为中医有经络这个精髓。

抛开经络谈中医，中医就成了偏方。就成了小术，就成了民间技法。

有人怕夸大经络，怕以偏盖全，埋没了针灸，中草药。

岂知针灸需明经络穴位，才会立竿见影。用药需按脏腑归经才能药到病除。否则扎针如插秧，熟练就好。用药似乱炖，以多取胜。《扁鹊心书》说的好：学医不知经络，开口动手便错。

《黄帝内经》更言经络为‘学之所始，工之所止’。一语道破，经络既是入门之径，又是终极目标。

砭、针、灸、药、按跷、导引，此中医六法，若无经络贯穿，便如：有利剑而无剑法，有碗筷而无饮食。

知剑法，任刀枪皆可当剑。俱饮食，无碗筷照样用餐。

经络在我们每个人身上，徒手便可操作。能自助天助，就可先知先觉。

《灵枢》言经络为：“粗之所易，上之所难”，想简单了解，三岁顽童可略知一二。若精深研究，百岁药王也道：所疑更多矣。

我们可依靠书本，探索世界，也可反求自身，找回本真。经络就是连接人与宇宙的天然通道。人是宇宙的细胞，知道了一滴水，就懂得了整个海洋。

Healing And Cleansing with Barley

High in fibre, barley is also a kidney cleanser. Better yet, regular intake of it helps prevent heart disease. B ARLEY water was always a regular drink when we were still living at home. Whenever we had to go for a medical exam that included a urine test, my mum would make us drink barley water a day before it to make sure we got a positive result!

My mother was a wise woman. I later found out from an Australian naturopath that barley is known to be a kidney cleanser, and he happily downed glasses of it at a meal we had in a coffee-shop here.

Barley is good for your intestinal health too. Try to eat the barley grains you find in your drink or sweet broth with fu chook (beancurd skin) and ginkgo nuts.

It’s high in fibre which feeds the friendly bacteria in the colon and helps speed up the transit of fecal matter in it. In this way it helps prevent haemorrhoids and colon cancer.


The propionic acid and beta glucan from barley’s insoluble fibre also help lower cholesterol and prevent the formation of gallstones.

Eating barley regularly is a preventive step against heart disease as, besides the fibre content, it is also high in niacin, a B vitamin good for lowering cholesterol.

Diabetics should eat more barley as the fibre will prevent blood sugar levels from rising too high. It also provides relief from constipation or diarrhoea for those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Barley is rich in selenium which prevents cancer and relieves symptoms of asthma and arthritis. It is a good source of manganese, copper and phosphorous.

Malt sugar comes from sprouted barley which, when fermented, is an ingredient in beer and other alcoholic beverages.

Barley, whose Latin name is hordeum vulgare, has been cultivated for more than 10,000 years.

Since ancient times, barley has been used for healing purposes and has been known to the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Athletes in Greece and Rome in those days were known to eat barley bread to give them strength.

Besides the usual things we do with barley, I enjoy having it in a western soup. The larger pearl barley is used and I love the sticky bite of it.


Here’s a recipe for barley soup:

Barley soup with roasted garlic
1 cup pearl barley
5 cloves whole garlic, roasted
2 litres chicken stock, steeped from 1 chicken breast simmered in three litres water
2 tbsps vegetable oil
2 large onions, diced
2 carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
150g turkey ham, cut up
1 tsp ground white pepper
1 tsps sea salt or to taste
1 tbsp chopped parsley

Method
1. Wash barley and soak it in a bowl of water for three hours. Drain.

2. Heat oil in pan and fry onions. Add carrots and celery, then the barley and fry for three minutes.

3. Add chicken stock, pepper and roasted garlic and simmer over low heat for at least an hour, or until barley is soft.

4. Add salt to taste and serve the soup garnished with chopped parsley.

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褪黑激素﹙Melatonin ﹚的功用

褪黑激素﹙Melatonin ﹚的功用 ：維持人體生理時鐘的動力。

褪黑激素是由松果體所分泌的，在正常情況下夜晚11:00到凌晨2:00為分泌最旺盛的時段，人們會因而想睡覺，之後分泌量慢慢降低，直到約清晨8:00當一睜開眼睛，松果體就停止分泌了。

松果體的分泌非常的非常規律， 只要有一天熬夜，次日褪黑激素分泌量就會減少，約要 11天才會恢復正常，因此在這段時間中會出現失眠、白天想睡、哈欠連連的不正常情況。

晚上睡覺時妳有開小燈的習慣嗎? 深夜開燈睡覺者，免疫功能會下降喔。

根據一項研究顯示，深夜開燈將抑制人體分泌褪黑激素，會降低人體免疫功能，因此，挑燈夜戰後極易受病毒的威脅。

國外有研究顯示，常值夜班的小姐，乳癌的發生率將大幅成長二倍。

因為人腦中有一種稱為松果體的內分泌器官，於夜間睡眠時，會分泌大量褪黑激素，這個激素在夜間 11時，至隔日2時分泌最旺盛，到清晨(約8時)停 止分泌。

褪黑激素的分泌，可以抑制人體交感神經的興奮性，使得血壓下降、心跳速率減慢，心臟得以喘息，具有加強免疫功能、毒殺癌細胞的效果，可是一旦眼球見到光，褪黑激素就會被抑制住，因此深夜開燈睡覺者，免疫功能會下降、也就比較容罹患癌症。

●閱後傳知他人，添福添壽，也 可減輕家庭負擔，為社會謀福。

●晚上睡覺還是把燈關了，暗暗黑黑的卡好喲 !

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Ginger: an ovarian cancer cell killer

(This article is re-directed from the CANCER BLOG. Thanks.)

Ginger has been prized for its medicinal properties in traditional health practices for centuries. New interest in the health benefits of ginger has led The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health to fund an investigative study into the possibility that ginger has the extraordinary potential to treat ovarian cancer. University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have discovered that ginger causes ovarian cancer cells to die by several processes. The first is apoptosis, a cellular pathway cancer cells follow leading to a cancer cell suicide. The second process of cancer cell death is autophagy, a result of cancer cells digesting or attacking themselves.

This is an important discovery for ovarian cancer patients because ovarian cancer cells tend to develop a resistance to chemotherapy, leaving few additional options for treatment of recurrent ovarian cancer.

As Dr. J. Rebecca Liu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the U-M Medical School and a member of the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center explains, “Most ovarian cancer patients develop recurrent disease that eventually becomes resistant to standard chemotherapy – which is associated with resistance to apoptosis. If ginger can cause autophagic cell death in addition to apoptosis, it may circumvent resistance to conventional chemotherapy.”

In addition, researchers have stated that ginger induced cell death at a similar or better rate than the platinum-based chemotherapy drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer. Ginger will still have to go through more studies beyond the laboratory setting to confirm the initial findings, but if ginger holds up in the power it has to kill ovarian cancer cells, treatment with ginger would simply involve taking capsules of powdered ginger. How cool is that!

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A Cancer Killer in the Kitchen - Ginger

The powerful healing effects of ginger have been well documented. It's a proven remedy for upset stomach. Reams of studies show that it inhibits inflammation. And there is substantial evidence that it fights cancer too.

For instance, a recent Universityof Michigan study showed that when ginger was added to ovarian cancer cells in the laboratory, it caused the cancer cells to self-destruct (a process known as "apoptosis"). In a separate study at the Universityof Minnesota, researchers injected colon cancer cells into mice that were bred to have no immune system.

Half of these mice were routinely fed gingerol, the main active component in ginger. The researchers found that the mice that were fed gingerol lived longer, their tumors were smaller,
and the cancer did not spread as widely as in the control group.

With all these health benefits, you should be using ginger as often as you can. The best way I've found to get a healthy serving of ginger is to juice it. (The brand of juicer I use is an Omega.) Two or three days a week, I juice an apple or two, some carrots, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, and a big piece of ginger root.

The ginger gives the drink a great flavor and a powerful anti-cancer kick.

I highly recommend that you try it.

5th Batch of Photos for the 7th "以茶会友“ Tea Partrd

Photographer: Mr. Yap Chee Keong

八种东西吃多会死人!!

(1) 皮蛋：一般制造商在制作皮蛋时，常添加定量的铅，我们若经常食用，会引起铅中 毒。同时，还会造成身体内钙质的流失。

(2) 臭豆腐：臭豆腐在发酵过程中，极易被微生物污染，同时又会挥发大量盐基氮。

(3) 味精： 每人每日对味精的摄取量，以不超过六公克为原则，多则有害无益。(4) 菠菜：菠菜营养丰富，但因含有草酸，致食物中宝贵的元素锌与钙之结合，而被排出体外，而引起人体锌与钙的缺乏。（男人缺锌，会无法抬头作人，恐怖啊！） ，以及硫化氢等；这些都是蛋白质分解的腐败物质，对人体有害。

(5) 猪肝：一公斤的猪肝，其含胆固醇高达四百毫克以上，而一个人若摄固醇，会导致动脉硬化。


(6) 烤肉：由于烤肉在熏烤过程中，会产生如「苯」等有害物质，是诱发癌的因子。

(7) 腌菜：腌菜若制作不得法，含致癌物，并含硝酸胺，久吃因而致病。

(8) 油条：油条中的明矾，是含铝的无机物，不可经常食用。

4th Batch of Photos for the 7th "以茶会友“ Tea Partrd

Photographer: Mr. Yap Chee Keong