Health Care

Some foods that are familiar with our daily life, turned out to be the cause of why our stomach becomes stretchy. The distended stomach is often only happen temporary, due to a sense of bloating after eating these foods. The worse thing is that if the content in these foods can cause health problems if consumed too much.

Here are three types of foods according that according to the experts, could cause our stomach distended: Popcorn, snack that is made from corn is actually quite healthy, because of having high fiber and low calories. What makes it unhealthy is when you ask for additional saturated fats like butter or salt, like when bought it at the cinema. High salt levels can make the stomach bloating because of water retention.

In a long time, the combination between salt and fat can increase the cholesterol, which later lead to the risk of heart diseases (such as heart attack or stroke). Soy Sauce, As for information, one tablespoon of soy sauce containing an average of 1000 mg of sodium. This means that the salt content is quite high in the soy sauce.

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Seeing the various nutrients content in red beans, then it can be described about its various advantages, which are:

• Preventing the bad cholesterol and facilitate our digestion (anti-constipation). Its high fiber content of is fermented in the large intestine and produced short-chain fatty acids, which can inhibit the synthesis of the liver cholesterol. Not to mention the content of Omega-3 and Omega-6 which are also will be helpful;

• Preventing the risk of diabetes because red beans has low index of complex carbohydrates and they are also slowly digested;

• Assisting the maturation of red blood cells, helps the synthesis of DNA and RNA, and lower the levels of homocysteine in the arteries (thus reducing the risk of heart disease) with the content of foliate and vitamin B6;

• Assisting the diet because its fiber will make you feel satiate and also has very low calorie. Moreover its concerning protein content would be useful for the development of muscle mass;

• Maintaining the function of the nervous system, carbohydrate metabolism, and prevent the disease of beriberi with the content of thiamin;

• Assisting the metabolism of amino acid, fatty acids, lipids, gluconeogenesis, synthesis of the neurotransmitter, histamine synthesis, synthesis and function of hemoglobin as well as maintaining the health of the skin with vitamin B6;

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Kidney is an organ inside the body which has important function. Kidney has function to filter the waste (especially urea) from the blood and throw it away with water in the form of urine. Considering its important function, the kidney health must be maintained. Even minor damage on the kidney might disrupt other organs, including the heart.

According to several experts in acupuncture, the kidney has a very special relationship with the heart so that if the kidney has a problem, then the heart would have a problem as well. Although there are two kidneys in the human body, it is possible someone could damage those two. Kidney failure is he most feared problem because it must continuously having dialysis, or the other option is transplantation.

If the patient who experience kidney failure try to use herbal treatments, it is usually just to reduce the frequency of dialysis. Accelerate the urinating, contrast with those who ‘only’ have kidney stone. People with kidney stones can still be helped with herbal medicine. Some medicinal plants can help to clean the kidney stones that clogged the bladder channel (urinary calculus).

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