Sunday, March 25, 2012

Popcorn: Snack with much more Antioxidants than even Fruits and Vegetables

The Popcorn's have well versed Reputation as a demanding Snack Food for most of the time has now actually flourished and reached the higher levels as the recently reports concluded that this snack food actually contains more of the healthful antioxidants known as "poly-phenols" than most of fruits and vegetables have.
 
All this has been in accordance of the words spoken at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), in San Diego on March 25.

Vinson also added "Air-popped popcorn has the lowest number of calories, of course,".  "Microwave popcorn has twice as many calories as air-popped, and if you pop your own with oil, this has twice as many calories as air-popped popcorn. About 43 percent of microwave popcorn is fat, compared to 28 percent if you pop the corn in oil yourself."

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Fight Genetic Obesity via Brisk Walk

By engaging to some comfertable exercise or an hour to light walk every day can halve the genes' effect.
Studies has shown that obesity is now one to those common health concerns in our modern society that is associated with a wide range of health and metabolic diseases that result in risks like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, some cancers and arthritis.



Revelations of the study
Those people who were found physically very active during study exhibited a lowered effect of the gene as compared to those who had sedentary lifestyle (0.08 versus 0.15 kg/m2).