Eat Vegetables to Prevent Global Food Scarcity

The content of phosphorus invegetables and grains not only beneficial to human bone. Once issued with human waste, this element is still beneficial for the environment and can even save the earth from global food shortages.

Phosphorus for plants useful for the formation of seed, root development and growth in other parts in general. Apart from manure originating from animal dung, crop can also get phosphorus from chemical fertilizers.

However, the use of chemical fertilizers are not considered environmentally friendly, because the phosphorus comes from phosphate rock mined. Believed in the next 2033 years, rock phosphate will be increasingly scarce and expensive due to continuous use for fertilizer.

Yet every year, people around the world produce more than 3 million metric tons of phosphorus contained in the feces. It is estimated, only about 10 percent of phosphorus that has been used for agriculture and farming.

An observer organizations organic food in the UK, Soil Association calls for human biological waste is used as an environmentally friendly organic fertilizer. In history, Europe also use human waste before resorting to chemical fertilizers in the mid-19th century.

Since then even the European Union to limit the use of human waste as organic fertilizer. The reason, feared human feces contain many heavy metals have been due to modern human diet is not healthy.

“Heavy metals in human feces have been declining in recent years. This is a good time to think about the use of phosphorus from human waste as fertilizer, of course, with rigorous standards,” said Soil Association representatives in its report recently, as reported byReuters on Tuesday ( 30/11/2010)

In the report, the Soil Association also recommends that people increase consumption of vegetables for their droppings can be used as fertilizer. Plant foods such as vegetables and grains contain more phosphorus than the fat content of livestock products is more dominant. 

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Food poisoning, tips to avoid it

Food poisoning in most cases it is not a serious thing, because it is mostly due to spoiled foods, the symptoms are those that we know well, stomachache, diarrhea and vomiting, let us see some tips to avoid it.

The main cause of food poisoning is the recruitment of spoiled food or poorly preserved, the classic example is the food in the fridge for too many days, expired food, the food left in the refrigerator when it went off the light and the refrigerator not working well.

A quick way to recognize the food poisoning is to see if people who ate the same food you feel bad or otherwise if there is something that only you have eaten. Poisoning staphylococci is due to foods stored at room temperature, in this case you feel ill about two hours after eating with vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and sometimes fever.
 Serious and often deadly botulinum toxin poisoning, which develops with food stored at room temperature, or with olive oil and canned meats, in these cases we must now go to the doctor. Induce vomiting without them nothing can help but in any case you must go immediately to the emergency room.
 Foods that commonly cause botulism poisoning are:

1. spoiled meat
2. poorly preserved canned foods
3. seafood harvested in unclean water

 It 'a good idea to throw away canned foods that appear swollen when they are opened or emit a puff of gas, the seafood harvested near the ports where the water is obviously dirty, usually those packaged and frozen foods are subjected to Hard controls are therefore safe.
 The symptoms of food are:

1. bellyache
2. stomach ache
3. diarrhea
4. vomiting
5. impaired respiration
6. strong salivation
7. intense sweating
8. dizziness

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tips and recipes for the heart

Today we are speaking of heart, but not for Valentine's Day. Heart disease is the first most common cause of death, but the right food choices can help prevent them. 

Everyone certainly knows the importance of reducing animal fat and the contribution of calories, and therefore also reduce the consumption of sugar, but now we want to introduce you all the tips 

and other well-known classics to lesser-known nutritional benefit for the health of your heart.

Furthermore, we suggest some tasty recipes for preparing food and qusti to eat in a healthy way without having to think of being on a diet or deprived of good food. 

Here are our tips for a healthy diet for your heart.

Five foods to avoid,

obviously you can not eliminate them completely from our diet but we try to limit as much as possible.

saturated fats (other than those of animal origin such as butter and fatty meat, but are also present in palm oil, cocoa butter and coconut fat, saturated fat careful these plants are found in many packaged products )

trans fat, saturated fat is subjected to chemical changes (they are listed as partially hydrogenated vegetable fat in the ingredient list of packaged foods)

added sugars, controlled the composition of foods, can be found as glucose, sucrose, corn syrup)

Cereals that are not full (you know that there are also brown rice, whole wheat cous cous and polenta full)

Try the rustic maltagliati based on whole-wheat flour.

Eat fish

Many fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids that help lower bad cholesterol and have many other beneficial effects. Among the richest in omega-3 have the salmon and trout (salmon and white), even the canned salmon to natural right.

Try the salmon with lemon and carpaccio of salmon and fennel.

Eat vegetable fats

The omega-3 can also be found in many vegetable oils such as linseed oil walnut oil. Linseed oil is not as good to use in the kitchen (but you can take a spoonful at a time like good old cod oil, drink it, thinking that it is very good), while the walnut oil has a delicious flavor and lends itself well to be used in salads and to flavor cold.

Try the ricotta and walnut.

Drink a glass of flavonoids

Red wine is rich in flavonoids, antioxidants that help protect the heart, but they are also so many tomatoes, broccoli, chocolate and any other colorful vegetable. For a drink rich in flavonoids tested quite a seasoned tomato juice.

Spices, spices, ...

Many spices have anti-inflammatory properties, such as turmeric, which is the yellow spice that gives curry, the use of spices also helps reduce the amount of salt, and then to have other beneficial effects on blood pressure. We suggest the tuna pate turmeric and red lentil curry.

Look beyond the bad cholesterol

Not enough to control the bad cholesterol, there are many other factors to consider, such as blood pressure, the total amount of food eaten, the calories, smoking, the (lack) of physical activity. So in addition to choosing the right foods, also try to improve the balance between calories consumed and those consumed.

Change your attitude towards food

There is no clear separation between the food good for the palate and good for food, for example, a nice plate of pasta or rice with a vegetable sauce can all be very good, a pizza covered with lots of vegetables and a little cheese is back a good choice on both sides, the fish can be used to superb main course or a new topping for pasta. Try the vegetable sauce and pappardelle pasta with fresh tuna.

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Strong Bones with Tomato Tips

This is a good way to make bones stronger so that we will avoid the risk of osteoporosis, ie drink tomato juice every day.Lycopene, the antioxidant content in tomato fruit, believed to be the experts as the cause bones to grow stronger. Previously known lycopene beneficial to prevent prostate cancer in men and also prevent heart disease.

In a study conducted in Canada, the experts asked for 60 people or post-menopausal women around the age of 50-60 years to stop the consumption of tomato products from the daily menu for a month.

Apparently it does increase levels of N-telopeptide in the blood, which is a chemical that is released the body in the blood when there is a broken bone.

Then, during four months of study respondents were given tomato juice containing 15 mg of lycopene per day, as well as plus 35 mg capsule of lycopene. As a control group is respondents who received a placebo capsule.

The result is N-telopeptide levels in women who drank tomato juice or lycopene capsules dropped dramatically. But the benefits were not obtained by women who consumed a placebo capsule.

As a precaution, experts recommend the consumption of two glasses of tomato juice every day. Results were published in the journal Osteoporosis International.

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