Superfood: Chilli

Men’s Health: Learn the benefits of chilli – plus make a sexy salsa

Why you want it:

Next time you unwittingly crunch through a piece of chilli while eating a stir-fry, take those few moments as you wait for the impending inferno in the back of your throat to reach full force, to consider this. The heat you’re feeling is due to capsaicin, a compound that’s been found to fight prostate cancer cells, help prevent cardiovascular disease and assist with insulin control. Sure, it’s small comfort when your mouth is burning like a Brit at Bondi, but hey, if you can’t handle the heat, get out of the Thai/Mexican/Korean restaurant, you fool. Use chilli to spice up marinades, salsas, casseroles, dips, pasta sauces and salads.

Sexy Salsa

1 tbsp olive oil
1 brown onion, finely chopped
1 long red chilli, finely chopped
1 small green capsicum, finely diced
1 tbsp tomato paste

500g tomatoes, diced

Method
Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, for three to four minutes or until soft. Add chilli and capsicum. Cook for two minutes or until tender. Stir in tomato paste and tomatoes. Bring mixture to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer uncovered for 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Cool and serve with nachos, crackers or bread.

Published on May 31, 2010 5:38 pm.
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Published on May 30, 2010 10:58 pm.
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Can we eat to starve cancer?

William Li heads the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit that is re-conceptualizing global disease fighting. He presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

http://www.angio.org/

Published on May 1, 2010 6:56 pm.
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Is Your Feces Healthy?

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Published on October 29, 2009 10:29 pm.
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Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?

Because most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone — is not really eating. Instead of food, we’re consuming “edible foodlike substances” — no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. Details »

Published on October 20, 2009 8:18 pm.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PALEOLITHIC DIET

Eat the following:

· Meat, chicken and fish

· Eggs

· Fruit

· Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)

· Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family of their own)

· Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.

Try to increase your intake of:

· Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes

· Organ meats- liver and kidneys Details »

Published on October 11, 2009 6:46 pm.
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52 Proven Stress Reducers

National Headache Foundation
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  1. Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.
  2. Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table, make lunches, put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.
  3. Don?t rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc. (“The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory.” – Old Chinese Proverb)
  4. Do nothing which, after being done, leads you to tell a lie.
  5. Make duplicates of all keys. Bury a house key in a secret spot in the garden and carry a duplicate car key in your wallet, apart from your key ring. Details »

Published on September 29, 2009 11:36 am.
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Heat for the Heart: Chili Chemical May Cut Post-Attack Cell Harm

WALL STREET JOURNAL | RESEARCH REPORT | NEW MEDICAL FINDINGS

A peculiar use of capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers spicy, could dramatically reduce damage from heart attacks, according to a study in Circulation. The researchers applied capsaicin on part of the abdominal skin of mice before cutting off the blood supply to their coronary arteries for 45 minutes—in effect, mimicking a heart attack. Twenty-four hours later, these mice had lost only 15% as many heart cells as mice that had instead received a placebo gel before the same procedure. The researchers suspect that capsaicin applied to abdominal skin aids heart recovery by stimulating nerves connected to the spinal cord, which in turn activate survival-oriented nerves in the heart muscle.

Caveat:The researchers did not test their methods on human subjects. (Read more.)

Published on September 22, 2009 12:37 pm.
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Food Cravings Defined

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Check out this list of all the various food cravings, and what the cravings actual mean. Our bodies are always talking to us, we just have to figure out how to listen. Hope this helps.

If you crave this… What you really need is… And here are healthy foods that have it:
Chocolate Magnesium Raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits
Sweets Chromium Broccoli, grapes, cheese, dried beans, calves liver, chicken
Carbon Fresh fruits
Phosphorus Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, legumes, grain
Sulfur Cranberries, horseradish, cruciferous vegetables, kale, cabbage
Tryptophan Cheese, liver, lamb, raisins, sweet potato, spinach
Bread, toast Nitrogen High protein foods: fish, meat, nuts, beans
Oily snacks, fatty foods Calcium Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame
Coffee or tea Phosphorous Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, legumes
Sulfur Egg yolks, red peppers, muscle protein, garlic, onion, cruciferous vegetables
NaCl (salt) Sea salt, apple cider vinegar (on salad)
Iron Meat, fish and poultry, seaweed, greens, black cherries
Alcohol,
recreational
drugs		 Protein Meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, nuts
Avenin Granola, oatmeal
Calcium Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame
Glutamine Supplement glutamine powder for withdrawal, raw cabbage juice
Potassium Sun-dried black olives, potato peel broth, seaweed, bitter greens
Chewing ice Iron Meat, fish, poultry, seaweed, greens, black cherries
Burned food Carbon Fresh fruits
Soda and other carbonated
drinks		 Calcium Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame
Salty foods Chloride Raw goat milk, fish, unrefined sea salt
Acid foods Magnesium Raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits
Preference for
liquids rather
than solids		 Water Flavor water with lemon or lime.
You need 8 to 10 glasses per day.
Preference for
solids rather
than liquids		 Water You have been so dehydrated for so long that you have lost your thirst. Flavor water with lemon or lime.
You need 8 to 10 glasses per day.
Cool drinks Manganese Walnuts, almonds, pecans, pineapple, blueberries
Pre-menstrual
cravings		 Zinc Red meats (especially organ meats), seafood, leafy vegetables, root vegetables
General
overeating		 Silicon Nuts, seeds; avoid refined starches
Tryptophan Cheese, liver, lamb, raisins, sweat potato, spinach
Tyrosine Vitamin C supplements or orange, green, red fruits and vegetables
Lack of appetite Vitamin B1 Nuts, seeds, beans, liver and other organ meats
Vitamin B3 Tuna, halibut, beef, chicken, turkey, pork, seeds and legumes
Manganese Walnuts, almonds, pecans, pineapple, blueberries
Chloride Raw goat milk, unrefined sea salt
Tobacco Silicon Nuts, seeds; avoid refined starches
Tyrosine Vitamin C supplements or orange, green and red fruits and vegetables



1.Lectures, Cheryl M. Deroin, NMD, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Spring 2003 (healthy food recommendations)
2.Benard Jenson, PhD, The Chemistry of Man B. Jensen Publisher, 1983 (deficiencies linked to specific cravings and some food recommendations)
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Published on August 8, 2009 7:08 am.
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Capsaicin Shows Promise In Inhibiting Growth Of Pancreatic Cancer

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A new study suggests that capsaicin, an ingredient in red chili pepper has cancer-fighting properties that prevent or slow the growth of pancreatic cancer tumors implanted in mice. The study found that capsaicin, the “hot” ingredient in red chili pepper, caused pancreatic cancer cells to die through a process called apoptosis. Apoptosis, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted or unneeded cells, is often defective in cancer cells, causing them to continue to thrive. Results of the study, abstract number LB-351, are being presented in the Late Breaking Session at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) April 1 to 5 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

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Published on July 8, 2009 8:39 am.
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