Wednesday, October 15, 2008

 


Save your life through eating fibrous food


By Erny Setyawati


The improvement of Communication Telecommunication and information Technology
(ICT), make people always stay in front of their computer for long time. Instant
way of life, making people is lazy preparing health food. We tend to consume
junk food that serves quickly. We seldom do sport, is one reason our health
becoming worst.

Becoming common, people has high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart, obesity,
high triglyceride and cancer.

Based on survey from Health Department stated that consume fibrous food was
one way to avoid illness above. You can find fibrous vegetables and fruits in
our daily live. There are two kinds of fibrous food, fused fibrous (gel) and
not fused fibrous, although they have the same function,

1.Fused fibrous

Dissolved in water, tie fat, fat can not be absorbed in our body.

Finally the fat defecates through fesses.

2. Not fused fibrous.

The fibrous can help defecate smoothly, absorb water so that your fesses become
big, smooth and easy to defecate.

We are recommended to eat fibrous at least 25 gram / a day. There are few advantages
to consume fibrous in our daily life,

1.To control cholesterol (fibrous can absorb cholesterol and defecate through
fesses )

2.Decrease heart attack risk ( because the mechanism can help decrease triglyceride)


3.Avoid from hemorrhoids and colon cancer.

4.Avoid obesity.

You can combine vegetables and fruits that have fibrous content so that you
can get 25 gram / a day.

1.Apple 2,4 gram

2.Spinach 3,57 gram

3.Lemmon 2,29 gram

4.Broccoli 3,41 gram

5.Green peas 5 gram

6.Papaya 1,43 gram

7.Parrot 2,78 gram

8.Banana 1,75 gram

9.Black peanut 8,72 gram

10.Tomato 1,63 gram

11.Beans 1,2 gram

12.Strawberry 2,68 gram

13.Rice 2,1 gram

14.Vegetables 1,1 gram