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The term healthy diet has a different meaning for people suffering from cancer. They need to follow a diet that suits your needs, depending on what type of tumor in question, where you stay and how far along you are. In addition, treatments such as chemotherapy can make meal time to really become a problem. Here are some tips to keep in mind, if you want to bring good nutrition when you have cancer.

Just knowing you have cancer can take away your appetite or, conversely, do not you stop eating. Possibly, since you received your diagnosis and your priorities have changed your way of seeing the world is no longer the same. It can not be again. This is natural, but is only part of the changes you will notice throughout this process.

The disease and treatment may cause new sensations, not only physical but also emotional, but sometimes annoying, and if not you offer the necessary care can become a problem, something no one wants to happen, when the cancer and is a revolution in itself for your life. Read the rest of this entry »

If the fall or thinning hair, or change in color is caused by a biotin deficiency detected by its symptoms, the solution is to improve the diet and take a supplement of this vitamin. That should not take it lightly or in quantities not recommended. The appropriate dose of biotin depends on the age and health status of the person. Please note the following:

- The recommended daily dose for adults 18 and older is 30 mcg.
- If you are pregnant or nursing, the dose is 30 mcg and 35 mcg respectively, but consult your doctor. Read the rest of this entry »

Why there may be a biotin deficiency? The causes are many, among the most important are:

- Crash diets to lose weight, they do not include sufficient amounts of biotin, iron and other nutritional requirements (these deficiencies accelerate hair loss).
- Pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re like most mortals, you want a healthy and abundant hair, after all, is the frame of the face. And for that frame is always ready to invest time and money to go to the salon, to sport a trendy hairstyle and care products. Where for any reason you are weak or you drop it in larger amounts than usual, it is normal to worry and you begin to find a solution to the problem.

If you’ve read in a magazine or advertisement on the qualities of biotin to combat hair loss, or a friend has recommended you take it, wait a minute before leaving to run to buy a bottle. Find out here so you can make an intelligent choice. Read the rest of this entry »

Made up of chains of carbon atoms linked by single bonds, this lets you easily crystallize and become solid at room temperature. Our body can synthesize from acetate by what they are not essential nutrients. All animal fats, except that from fish, are saturated.

In the plant kingdom, only coconut oil, palm kernel oil are high in saturated fats. High intake of saturated fat raises total cholesterol and epidemiological correlates with the high incidence of ischemic heart disease. The chain saturated fatty acids than 12 carbon atoms pass directly from the intestinal lumen to the portal system and have no effect on cholesterolemia, but can raise triglycerides. Read the rest of this entry »

Those with several links in the molecule is not saturated. They are essential nutrients and their daily needs represent about 2 per 100 of the total energy of the diet. They are also an important component of cell membranes.

The presence of double bonds interferes with the formation of crystals and keeps sense these fats in liquid (oil) at room temperature. The two types of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids have the configuration as n-6 or n-3. The n-6 series is the most important linoleic acid, a major constituent of corn oil, while the number of n-3 representative is the most characteristic representative linolenic soybean oils and flax, among others. Read the rest of this entry »

Those in the molecule have only one unsaturated bond.

The main representative of this class in the diet is oleic acid, abundantly distributed in nature. Foods with higher content of oleic acid is olive oil (65-80 per 100) and pork (40-45 100). Oleic acid on cholesterolemia exerts a neutral effect, but has been that diets rich in oleic acid raise HDL “good” cholesterol and may reduce the rate of LDL-C “bad” cholesterol. Read the rest of this entry »

The man does not have some of the enzymes involved in the formation of polyunsaturated fatty acids so it must be taken with food. These are linoleic acid (W6), linolenic acid (W3) and arachidonic acid.

The latter is synthesized from linolenic acid by the action of an enzyme called desaturase and becomes acid and arachidonic acid ganalinoleico by which arachidonic acid is not considered essential unless there is a deficiency of linolenic acid. Read the rest of this entry »

Sodium

ROLE Sodium, together with potassium, regulates the fluid balance. Digestive process contributes to maintaining a proper osmotic pressure. Finally, by acting within cells, participates in the conduction of nerve impulses.

Deficiency is rare, but if there appears to dehydration, dizziness and low blood pressure. Sodium losses may be due to diarrhea, vomiting and excessive sweating.

PLEASE NOTE: The use of diuretics to lose weight, sauna and vigorous exercise in hot weather leads to fluid loss is not compensated by the simple ingestion of water, it can actually be harmful, and we need to take fluids enriched with sodium. Read the rest of this entry »

Potassium

Potassium power FUNCTION kidney activity helping to eliminate toxins. Essential for the storage of carbohydrates and their subsequent conversion into energy. Helps maintain a proper heart rate and blood pressure normal. It is an essential mineral for the transmission of all nerve impulses.

DEFICIENCY muscle weakness, fatigue, dizziness and confusion. Most diets contain enough potassium, but those who consume large amounts of coffee, alcohol or salty foods can reach a certain deficiency of potassium.

PLEASE NOTE: Potassium and sodium are closely linked to participate both in the control and level of body water level.

FOOD SOURCES green leafy vegetables, fruit and potatoes in general.  Read the rest of this entry »