The benefits of bananas to treat Stroke

Stroke is the threat of a terrible disease because the process can take place quickly. If it is not at risk of death can be helped quickly, otherwise if it still can be saved will experience disability. The new study found that eating 3 bananas per day can help you lower your risk of stroke.

Researchers from Britain and Italy have found that eating three bananas a day can reduce stroke risk.

Researchers say that eating a banana for breakfast, a banana for lunch and a banana for the evening will provide adequate potassium to reduce the likelihood of suffering blood clots in the brain about 21 percent.

Besides bananas, the findings also show that stroke can be prevented by consumption of potassium-rich foods such as spinach, beans, milk fish and lentils.

In a recent study, researchers analyzed data from eleven different studies and collect the results to get the overall result.

Researchers found a daily intake of about 1,600 mg of potassium, less than half the recommended daily amount for adults England 3500 mg, is enough to reduce the risk of stroke more than a fifth.

The average banana contains about 500 milligrams of potassium, which helps lower blood pressure and control the fluid balance in the body.

Too little potassium can cause gastrointestinal irritability, nausea, irregular heartbeat and diarrhea.

"Intake of potassium in most countries is far below the recommended daily amount," said researchers from the University of Warwick and University of Naples, as reported by Indiavision, Friday (8/7/2011).

And if people eat foods rich in potassium and also reduce salt intake, the global annual death rate from stroke could be cut more than one million people per year.

Walnuts can reduce stress

Walnuts can reduce stress


Having a bad day this Monday? Foods such as popcorn and walnuts can help you relieve stress without damaging your diet program. The mind is more relaxed body will not gain weight afterwards.

Report weekly to be completed today, the streets are crowded or make your day so unpleasant. Emotions sometimes surrounding you all day. To ease it, how easy. Some foods can help you relieve stress after a day of work. If smart to choose the type of food, you need not fear the excess weight afterwards.

Such as lentil soup, pop corn, and walnuts can help relieve depression, aches, and bia restore your mood as usual for these types of foods also contain serotonin and dopamine. Well, here are the types of foods that can help you reduce stress without damaging diet:

1. Popcorn
People who are depressed body contains tryptophan in the low scale. In order to increase levels of tryptophan, try eating popcorn (without added flavor) or eating foods containing high tryptophan such as cabbage, pumpkin seeds, and bananas.

2. Walnut
DHA and EPA, are two types of omega-3 fatty acids which are found in salmon, tuna and fish oil supplements. These types of fatty acids may reduce the sense of depression that affects women after giving birth or menstruating. Omega-3 fatty acids can be obtained from vegetable walnuts, almonds, and soy.

3. Sunflower Seed
Foods derived from sunflower seeds pumpkin seeds are known by name. Watermelon seeds is not just food friends while watching the movie alone, but can improve mood that had been in the low position increases. This is due to selenium contained in sunflower seeds to make sense of calm when the depression.

4. Avocado
Avocados are one of the foods that are high in fat. Nevertheless, the fat it contains is a type of fat is good for health as contained in olive oil. Oleic acid, a type of omega-9 fatty acids found in avocados increases serotonin in the brain that makes you feel more calm and relaxed.

Type of People Not Allowed Wear Contact Lenses

Current soft contact lens is used not only to improve visibility, but also for style. But not all eyes can use a soft lens, especially on the types of people below.

"Not all can use a soft contact lens eye," said Dr. Tri Rahayu, SpM, FIACLE in talkshow Use Soft Lens Over 8 Hours Potentially Making Eyes Lack of Oxygen in the restaurant Bridges with Africa, Jakarta, Monday (07/11/2011).

Types of people who should not use this soft contact lens, according to Dr. Tri is:
1. Those with eyes who are experiencing active infection
2. Those with eyes who are experiencing active inflammation

"There are also people who have relative contraindications that need monitoring carefully," said the doctor who became head of the Division of Refraction and Contact Lenses Eye Department, Faculty of medicine RSCM.

Type of people who experience relative contraindications are:
1. People with dry eye disorders.
To experience a mild dry eye is still allowed to use contact lenses but with strict supervision, but if you have severe dry eye it is advisable not to use contact lenses.
2. People with eye disorders such as palpability decreased corneal sensitivity.

"People with reduced sensitivity will not feel anything when something is not comfortable with the cornea," said Dr. Tri.

Generally, these conditions are caused by several diseases such as neurological disease or minor stroke, and rarely occurs at birth.

Dr. Tri warned not to carelessly use contact lenses, eye examinations therefore needs to be done beforehand to determine whether he is suitable to use contact lenses or not, prevent the problem and diagnose the problem.

"As long as the use of a contact lens wearer should perform routine checks every 6 months, but if there are complaints do not wait until 6 months," said Dr. Tri who is also chairman of the contact lens center in Jakarta Eye Center.

Prevent diabetes by eating nuts

Diabetes is largely triggered by an unhealthy lifestyle. To prevent and control it, there are easy ways you can do, eat almonds every day on a regular basis.

"Eating almonds can reduce bad cholesterol and improve insulin sensitivity. So, it can reduce the risk of diabetes," said Ritesh Gupta, head of clinical operations of C-Doc at the Fortis Hospital, was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

Diabetes is caused by a person to lack the hormone insulin which controls blood sugar levels. Symptoms include headaches, frequent thirst, especially at night and excessive urination.

"A handful of almonds contains 164 calories and 7 milligrams of protein, which makes you full longer and help control the desire to eat. Almonds also help the formation of strong bones in children," said Gupta.

The research team from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, and Loma Linda University of California, also shows regular consumption of almonds can control diabetes.

"A diet consisting of 20 percent of calories, such as consumption of almonds for 16 weeks, could effectively improve insulin sensitivity and showed significant clinical improvement in LDL cholesterol levels in adults with pre-diabetes," wrote the researchers.

How is the diagnosis and treatment of cancer

How is cancer diagnosed and staged?

Early detection of cancer can greatly improve the odds of successful
treatment and survival. Physicians use information from symptoms and
several other procedures to diagnose
cancer. Imaging techniques such as X-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, PET
scans, and ultrasound scans are used regularly in order to detect where a
tumor is located and what organs
may be affected by it. Doctors may also conduct an endoscopy, which is a
procedure that uses a thin tube with a camera and light at one end, to
look for abnormalities inside the body.

Extracting cancer cells and looking at them under a microscope is the
only absolute way to diagnose cancer. This procedure is called a biopsy.
Other types of molecular diagnostic tests
are frequently employed as well. Physicians will analyze your body's
sugars, fats, proteins, and DNA at the molecular level. For example,
cancerous prostate cells release a higher
level of a chemical called PSA (prostate-specific antigen) into the
bloodstream that can be detected by a blood test. Molecular diagnostics,
biopsies, and imaging techniques are all used
together to diagnose cancer.

After a diagnosis is made, doctors find out how far the cancer has
spread and determine the stage of the cancer. The stage determines which
choices will be available for treatment and
informs prognoses. The most common cancer staging method is called the
TNM system. T (1-4) indicates the size and direct extent of the primary
tumor, N (0-3) indicates the degree to
which the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes, and M (0-1) indicates
whether the cancer has metastasized to other organs in the body. A
small tumor that has not spread to lymph
nodes or distant organs may be staged as (T1, N0, M0), for example.

TNM descriptions then lead to a simpler categorization of stages, from 0
to 4, where lower numbers indicate that the cancer has spread less.
While most Stage 1 tumors are curable, most
Stage 4 tumors are inoperable or untreatable.

How is cancer treated?

Cancer treatment depends on the type of cancer, the stage of the cancer
(how much it has spread), age, health status, and additional personal
characteristics. There is no single treatment
for cancer, and patients often receive a combination of therapies and
palliative care. Treatments usually fall into one of the following
categories: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy,
immunotherapy, hormone therapy, or gene therapy.

Surgery

Surgery is the oldest known treatment for cancer. If a cancer has not
metastasized, it is possible to completely cure a patient by surgically
removing the cancer from the body. This is often
seen in the removal of the prostate or a breast or testicle. After the
disease has spread, however, it is nearly impossible to remove all of
the cancer cells. Surgery may also be instrumental
in helping to control symptoms such as bowel obstruction or spinal cord
compression.

Radiation

Radiation treatment, also known as radiotherapy, destroys cancer by
focusing high-energy rays on the cancer cells. This causes damage to the
molecules that make up the cancer cells
and leads them to commit suicide. Radiotherapy utilizes high-energy
gamma-rays that are emitted from metals such as radium or high-energy
x-rays that are created in a special machine.
Early radiation treatments caused severe side-effects because the energy
beams would damage normal, healthy tissue, but technologies have
improved so that beams can be more
accurately targeted. Radiotherapy is used as a standalone treatment to
shrink a tumor or destroy cancer cells (including those associated with
leukemia and lymphoma), and it is also used
in combination with other cancer treatments.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy utilizes chemicals that interfere with the cell division
process - damaging proteins or DNA - so that cancer cells will commit
suicide. These treatments target any rapidly
dividing cells (not necessarily just cancer cells), but normal cells
usually can recover from any chemical-induced damage while cancer cells
cannot. Chemotherapy is generally used to
treat cancer that has spread or metastasized because the medicines
travel throughout the entire body. It is a necessary treatment for some
forms of leukemia and lymphoma.
Chemotherapy treatment occurs in cycles so the body has time to heal
between doses. However, there are still common side effects such as hair
loss, nausea, fatigue, and vomiting.
Combination therapies often include multiple types of chemotherapy or
chemotherapy combined with other treatment options.

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy aims to get the body's immune system to fight the tumor.
Local immunotherapy injects a treatment into an affected area, for
example, to cause inflammation that causes a
tumor to shrink. Systemic immunotherapy treats the whole body by
administering an agent such as the protein interferon alpha that can
shrink tumors. Immunotherapy can also be
considered non-specific if it improves cancer-fighting abilities by
stimulating the entire immune system, and it can be considered targeted
if the treatment specifically tells the immune
system to destroy cancer cells. These therapies are relatively young,
but researchers have had success with treatments that introduce
antibodies to the body that inhibit the growth of
breast cancer cells. Bone marrow transplantation (hematopoetic stem cell
transplantation) can also be considered immunotherapy because the
donor's immune cells will often attack the
tumor or cancer cells that are present in the host.

Hormone therapy

Several cancers have been linked to some types of hormones, most notably
breast and prostate cancer. Hormone therapy is designed to alter
hormone production in the body so that
cancer cells stop growing or are killed completely. Breast cancer
hormone therapies often focus on reducing estrogen levels (a common drug
for this is tamoxifen) and prostate cancer
hormone therapies often focus on reducing testosterone levels. In
addition, some leukemia and lymphoma cases can be treated with the
hormone cortisone.

Gene therapy

The goal of gene therapy is to replace damaged genes with ones that work
to address a root cause of cancer: damage to DNA. For example,
researchers are trying to replace the
damaged gene that signals cells to stop dividing (the p53 gene) with a
copy of a working gene. Other gene-based therapies focus on further
damaging cancer cell DNA to the point
where the cell commits suicide. Gene therapy is a very young field and
has not yet resulted in any successful treatments.

Genes - the DNA type of Cancer

Genes - the DNA type

Cells can experience uncontrolled growth if there are damages or mutations to DNA, and therefore, damage to the genes involved in cell division. Four key types of gene are responsible for the cell division process: oncogenes tell cells when to divide, tumor suppressor genes tell cells when not to divide, suicide genes control apoptosis and tell the cell to kill itself if something goes wrong, and DNA-repair genes instruct a cell to repair damaged DNA.

Cancer occurs when a cell's gene mutations make the cell unable to correct DNA damage and unable to commit suicide. Similarly, cancer is a result of mutations that inhibit oncogene and tumor suppressor gene function, leading to uncontrollable cell growth.
Carcinogens

Carcinogens are a class of substances that are directly responsible for damaging DNA, promoting or aiding cancer. Tobacco, asbestos, arsenic, radiation such as gamma and x-rays, the sun, and compounds in car exhaust fumes are all examples of carcinogens. When our bodies are exposed to carcinogens, free radicals are formed that try to steal electrons from other molecules in the body. Theses free radicals damage cells and affect their ability to function normally.
Genes - the family type

Cancer can be the result of a genetic predisposition that is inherited from family members. It is possible to be born with certain genetic mutations or a fault in a gene that makes one statistically more likely to develop cancer later in life.
Other medical factors
Holding hands

As we age, there is an increase in the number of possible cancer-causing mutations in our DNA. This makes age an important risk factor for cancer. Several viruses have also been linked to cancer such as: human papillomavirus (a cause of cervical cancer), hepatitis B and C (causes of liver cancer), and Epstein-Barr virus (a cause of some childhood cancers). Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) - and anything else that suppresses or weakens the immune system - inhibits the body's ability to fight infections and increases the chance of developing cancer.
What are the symptoms of cancer?

Cancer symptoms are quite varied and depend on where the cancer is located, where it has spread, and how big the tumor is. Some cancers can be felt or seen through the skin - a lump on the breast or testicle can be an indicator of cancer in those locations. Skin cancer (melanoma) is often noted by a change in a wart or mole on the skin. Some oral cancers present white patches inside the mouth or white spots on the tongue.

Other cancers have symptoms that are less physically apparent. Some brain tumors tend to present symptoms early in the disease as they affect important cognitive functions. Pancreas cancers are usually too small to cause symptoms until they cause pain by pushing against nearby nerves or interfere with liver function to cause a yellowing of the skin and eyes called jaundice. Symptoms also can be created as a tumor grows and pushes against organs and blood vessels. For example, colon cancers lead to symptoms such as constipation, diarrhea, and changes in stool size. Bladder or prostate cancers cause changes in bladder function such as more frequent or infrequent urination.

As cancer cells use the body's energy and interfere with normal hormone function, it is possible to present symptoms such as fever, fatigue, excessive sweating, anemia, and unexplained weight loss. However, these symptoms are common in several other maladies as well. For example, coughing and hoarseness can point to lung or throat cancer as well as several other conditions.

When cancer spreads, or metastasizes, additional symptoms can present themselves in the newly affected area. Swollen or enlarged lymph nodes are common and likely to be present early. If cancer spreads to the brain, patients may experience vertigo, headaches, or seizures. Spreading to the lungs may cause coughing and shortness of breath. In addition, the liver may become enlarged and cause jaundice and bones can become painful, brittle, and break easily. Symptoms of metastasis ultimately depend on the location to which the cancer has spread.
How is cancer classified?

There are five broad groups that are used to classify cancer.

1. Carcinomas are characterized by cells that cover internal and external parts of the body such as lung, breast, and colon cancer.
2. Sarcomas are characterized by cells that are located in bone, cartilage, fat, connective tissue, muscle, and other supportive tissues.
3. Lymphomas are cancers that begin in the lymph nodes and immune system tissues.
4. Leukemias are cancers that begin in the bone marrow and often accumulate in the bloodstream.
5. Adenomas are cancers that arise in the thyroid, the pituitary gland, the adrenal gland, and other glandular tissues.

Cancers are often referred to by terms that contain a prefix related to the cell type in which the cancer originated and a suffix such as -sarcoma, -carcinoma, or just -oma. Common prefixes include:

• Adeno- = gland
• Chondro- = cartilage
• Erythro- = red blood cell
• Hemangio- = blood vessels
• Hepato- = liver
• Lipo- = fat
• Lympho- = white blood cell
• Melano- = pigment cell
• Myelo- = bone marrow
• Myo- = muscle
• Osteo- = bone
• Uro- = bladder
• Retino- = eye
• Neuro- = brain

What is Cancer? What Causes Cancer?

What is Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth. There are over 100 different types of cancer, and each is classified by the type of cell that is initially affected.

Cancer harms the body when damaged cells divide uncontrollably to form lumps or masses of tissue called tumors (except in the case of leukemia where cancer prohibits normal blood function by abnormal cell division in the blood stream). Tumors can grow and interfere with the digestive, nervous, and circulatory systems, and they can release hormones that alter body function. Tumors that stay in one spot and demonstrate limited growth are generally considered to be benign.

More dangerous, or malignant, tumors form when two things occur:

1. a cancerous cell manages to move throughout the body using the blood or lymph systems, destroying healthy tissue in a process called invasion
2. that cell manages to divide and grow, making new blood vessels to feed itself in a process called angiogenesis.

When a tumor successfully spreads to other parts of the body and grows, invading and destroying other healthy tissues, it is said to have metastasized. This process itself is called metastasis, and the result is a serious condition that is very difficult to treat.

In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. Physicians and researchers who specialize in the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer are called oncologists.

What causes cancer?

Cancer is ultimately the result of cells that uncontrollably grow and do not die. Normal cells in the body follow an orderly path of growth, division, and death. Programmed cell death is called apoptosis, and when this process breaks down, cancer begins to form. Unlike regular cells, cancer cells do not experience programmatic death and instead continue to grow and divide. This leads to a mass of abnormal cells that grows out of control.

What is cancer? - Video

A short, 3D, animated introduction to cancer. This was originally created by BioDigital Systems and used in the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon.

see the video about cancer

3D Medical Animation - What is Cancer?

5 Signs of Unhealthy Heart

The heart is one of the vital organs that can affect other body parts. For that to know five symptoms that could be a sign that the heart is not healthy.

"The
heart together with arterial function is to provide meals for the
various organs of the body, when these organs start experiencing the
symptoms appear disturbances can arise in various parts of the body,"
said Jonathan Goldstein, a cardiologist from St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, as quoted from MSNHealth, Friday (06/24/2011).

Here
are 5 signs that your heart is not healthy, if you have more than 2 of
these markers should contact your doctor for examination, namely:

1. Neck pain
If neck pain is often felt as interested, especially if continuous then it should begin to think about. Patients
who have suffered heart attacks were only aware that she often felt
sore, sore and feeling as interested in the neck due to muscle tension. These marks are often overlooked because patients are more focused on the tightness or pain in the left chest.

This
condition occurs because the nerves of the heart tissue that transmit
pain signals up and down the spinal cord that stretches to the neck and
shoulders. This pain does not lie in one specific place and usually does not disappear with cold compresses, or massage the muscles warm.

2. Sexual Disorders
Having difficulty in achieving or maintaining an erection may be one sign of coronary heart disease. Current physician will perform a cardiovascular when there are men who complain of erectile dysfunction.

This
condition occurs because the arteries around the heart are narrowed or
hardened will affect the supply of blood to the penis, so that would
make it difficult to achieve or maintain an erection.

3. Often feel dizzy, shortness of breath, or fainting
Journal
of the American Heart Association reports that more than 40 percent of
women reported experiencing shortness of breath are often the early days
before the heart attack. A person may experience
can not breathe, dizziness or fainting even during the middle of doing
the ordinary like walking or cleaning the house that had not previously
been problematic.

This condition occurs because the blood through the arteries to carry oxygen to the heart is insufficient. Plaques
that accumulate will make the heart difficult to get enough oxygen, so
that sometimes a person feels sick when I had to draw a deep breath. Usually occurs more abruptly and be lost while resting.

4. Pain in the jaw and ear
Jaw
pain is a symptom of the mysterious because it could be due to several
reasons, but sometimes can also be an indication of coronary heart
disease and heart attacks. The pain that comes along the jaw to the ear and hard to find out where the pain is coming from.

This
condition occurs due to damaged heart tissue sends signals to the
spinal balakang to affect the nerves along the jaw to the ear. The
pain that appears different from toothache or ear infection that is
usually at one point, but is more diffuse and sometimes affecting the
shoulders and arms, especially on the left.

5. Indigestion, nausea or pain in abdomen
Nd severe attacks of nausea indigestion could be an early sign of heart attack or myocardial infarction, especially in women. In
one study of women known to 2 times more likely to experience vomiting,
nausea and indigestion for a few months before the heart attack than
men.

This condition occurs due to
blockage of fat in the arteries reduces the blood supply to the heart
that normally occur in the chest can sometimes arise in the stomach. It depends on which part of the heart is broken, so he sends pain signals in the lower body from the chest.

Chest Pain More than 15 Minutes, Beware of Heart Attack

Although may appear suddenly without any symptoms, heart attack can also be preceded by complaints of chest pain. Seek counseling at the hospital when a sudden chest pain and not lost by more than 15 minutes.



Chest pain that indicates the occurrence of heart attack is usually felt just behind the breastbone, or retrosternal pain in medical terms. This type of pain varies, can be like a heavy object pressed, squeezed (squeezed) or tingling.

Although everyone is not always the same, sometimes chest pain that is felt before the heart attack can also be accompanied by disordered breathing until you feel tightness. Other symptoms that often accompany a cold sweat and the skin is pale.

"If the chest pain lasting more than 15 minutes, watch out for heart attacks. Especially if it had known risk factors," said cardiologist from the RS Premier Jatinegara, Dr. Pradana Tedjasukmana, SpJP press conference "3 Ring Pfizer Cholesterol Care" in Senayan City, Friday (07/01/2011).

The risk factors referred to Dr. Tedja include being overweight or obese, had a habit of smoking and aged 40 years and over. In addition, families who have a history of heart problems and excess levels of cholesterol also increase the risk factor.

If you experience for yourself or find people with such symptoms, the most appropriate step is to take him to hospital as soon as possible. The longer the time wasted, it is feared will be the more heart muscle is damaged.

However, heart attack can also appear suddenly without a preceded by chest pain. An estimated 80 percent of cases of heart attacks that cause sudden deaths occurred, 50 percent of them without any prior specific symptoms.

Groups at high risk for sudden heart attack without any prior symptoms as noted Dr. Tedja are as follows.

• (Elderly), ie over 72 years
• Mothers
• Had a history of diabetes mellitus

Benefits of drinking water for health

We all have them know that our bodies are mostly filled with water then drink lots of water preferably mineral water

1. Drink 2 cups 30 minutes before a meal helps digestion is good,
2. Drink 1 cup after waking up to replace lost body fluids while sleeping
3. Drink a glass before bath help lower blood pressure
4. Drink a glass before bed can prevent strokes and heart attacks
5. And drink water after drinking juice, tea, coffee or soda to taste in the mouth back to normal
If the minerals in the body's water needs are met well and drink it effectively then we will rarely sick because your immune system becomes active so that areas of the bronchi (respiratory tube), gastric and intestinal mucosa difficult attacked by a virus or bakteri.Don 't forget , always drink mineral water

Any suitable beverage after exercise

Tired after exercising? Usually you will drink isotonic drinks or plain mineral water to restore lost fluids. However, did you drink the most powerful way to
restore the conditions after exercise?

According to research conducted by the University of Texas, United States, milk chocolate is the ideal drink after exercise. "Professional or amateur athletes enjoy the benefits of physical recovery when drinking low-fat chocolate milk after a strenuous exercise," says Dr. John Ivy, head of research, was quoted by the Daily Mail.

This is because milk chocolate gives better body composition, with compositions more muscle and less fat. With exercise, body shape obtained will be better than people who only drink sports drinks that contain only carbohydrates.

Ivy doctor and his team compared the effects of recovery from drinking low-fat chocolate milk after exercise with the effects of carbohydrate drink with the same ingredients and calorie-free.

They also conducted a survey of 10 athletes bike. The athletes were asked to ride for 90 minutes of moderate intensity and 10 minutes of high intensity.

The researchers found that athletes who consume low-fat chocolate milk is more powerful and faster pedaling. It compared those who consumed a sports drink calorie-free.

The research team also tested 32 male and female amateur cyclists. They were asked to cycling five times a week round. The result, chocolate milk drinkers have 2 times more oxygen uptake than others.

Oxygen uptake is one indicator of an athlete's endurance for exercise. They were more muscular body and fat is lost too much.

"We do not yet know the exact mechanism that causes the low-fat chocolate milk provides more benefits than sports drinks," said Dr.. John.

He added that there is something in the mix of proteins and carbohydrates that occur naturally, so it has significant benefits. Three minutes of recovery after exercise is as important as nutritional supplements.

Tips on diet, by eating foods lowering the desire to eat

Want to slim body ideal do not have a strict diet of torture. Without having to perform in the extreme restriction of food intake, you can realize the obsession with the appropriate menu selection.

Choose foods that create a sense of satiety last a long while enhancing metabolism. Try adding the following super foods in your diet, in order to realize the slim body ideal, as quoted from pages Shine:

1. Eggs
The content of protein in eggs helps you feel full longer. The study involving 30 women with overweight or obesity showed, suggesting that the proteins can prevent blood sugar spikes, which can suppress appetite.

2. Beans
Nut consumption may increase the production of hormones cholecystokinin, which can suppress appetite naturally.

Based on the research of University of California at Davis to eight respondents, the consumption of peanuts that triggers an increase in hormones make the stomach full longer. Consumption of nuts may also stabilize blood sugar levels and is a high-fiber foods that help lower bad cholesterol.

3. Green tea
Content of antioxidants called catechins in green tea helps speed up metabolism and fat burning. Green tea also affects the hormone leptin, which is responsible for controlling appetite.

In a study in Japan recently, 35 men who drank a bottle of oolong tea blended with green tea catechins have significant weight loss, including body mass index. Those who consume green tea kolsterol also succeeded in reducing bad (LDL) cholesterol in the body.

4. Pears and apples
Pears are claimed to contain more fiber than apples. Based on the calculation of the amount of fiber that made the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the fiber content of pear four grams more than the medium-size apple contains only three grams of fiber.

Pears and apples contain pectin fiber, which helps lower blood sugar levels and appetite. A Brazilian study that lasted 12 weeks, obese women who ate three small pears or apples per day experienced more weight loss than those who do the diet without fruit.

5. Lean beef
The content of the amino acid leucine is abundant in protein foods like meat, fish, and dairy products, can help the erosion of fat while maintaining muscle elasticity. It also effectively reduce the appetite.

The research team of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, conducted experiments on 24 middle-aged women who are overweight. They asked respondents to consume 90-10 ounces of lean beef per day. The result, they were able to scrape the fat and reduce muscle Masaa more compared with the control group who consumed the same amount of calories, but little protein.