healthy food : April 2021

4/30/21

Ten Recommendations to Keep Diabetes Under Control

Diabetes is a chronic disease that implies the modification of lifestyles, an adequate diet, physical exercise, and the use of drugs. For its treatment, it is essential that people learn to handle it correctly in order to have a good quality of life and avoid possible complications.
Mercedes Galindo, the advisor to the Diabetes Foundation, offers us a series of recommendations to maintain optimal control and so that people with diabetes can enjoy their day to day normally:

1. Learn to live with diabetes

It is important to know what diabetes is, the main care, and makes the necessary changes for good control. The person with diabetes and their family members should receive diabetes education and emotional support. Highlighting the importance of the role of the diabetes educator and the commitment to educating the person as an essential tool to facilitate self-care, adherence to treatment, and metabolic control.

2. Adapt power

Diet is an essential part of managing diabetes and helps to delay or avoid the onset of complications. The diet of the person with diabetes is similar to that of any person: the food must be distributed throughout the day, that is, take between 3 to 5 intakes according to personal characteristics and treatment regimen (breakfast, mid-morning, lunch, snack and dinner), avoiding meals with a high amount of carbohydrates or that are quickly absorbed, since they raise glucoseconsiderably. Taking care of your diet is part of your treatment, therefore, you cannot talk about types of food and amounts without also talking about the physical activity you do, the medications you take or whether or not you suffer from other diseases such as cholesterol or hypertension. In short, it is a set of factors that must be considered globally and that make each person with diabetes have a unique and personalized diet, which must be prepared with the support of the healthcare team.

3. Maintain adequate hydration

People with diabetes are at higher risk of dehydration because high blood glucose causes the kidneys to try to eliminate it as urine. For this reason, people with diabetes tend to be more thirsty when hyperglycemia occurs. Water should be the basis of hydration for a person with diabetes. There are other drinks that help improve hydration such as natural juices or without added sugar, "light" or "zero" soft drinks that contain sweeteners instead of sugar and therefore do not increase blood glucose, sports drinks or infusions, but always the occasional way.

4. Exercise regularly

The practice of physical exercise is one of the fundamental pillars of the treatment of diabetes and prevents the associated complications. Its benefits occur at many other levels: it improves blood pressure, cholesterol and cardiovascular function. The type of exercise and intensity should be adapted to the age and physical condition of each person with diabetes.

5. Perform glucose checks frequently and in a structured way

The analysis of blood glucose levels carried out by the person or a family member allows to know the blood glucose levels at any time and detect possible acute complications, hypoglycemia ( glucose drops ) or hyperglycemia ( glucose rises ). It is recommended to carry out between 5 and 6 controls a day, before each meal and before going to sleep to have information and adjust the insulin regimen or the treatment in general, if necessary. If you exercise, it is recommended to perform an analysis before the start of the activity, some extra measurement while practicing long-term exercise, as well as once it is finished.

6. Act fast when faced with hypoglycemia

It is common during hypoglycemia to eat uncontrollably and with great voracity. This entails a total carbohydrate intake higher than the indicated grams, which is usually the cause of a rebound or hyperglycemia in the hours afterward.

7. Avoid complications of diabetes.

It is important to keep your blood glucose levels at the optimal level before and after meals. Likewise, it is necessary to control blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

8. Perform ophthalmological reviews.

It is essential that people with diabetes carry out regular reviews especially of the state of the retina to prevent, detect and successfully treat any type of complication.

9. Take care of your feet

People with diabetes may have alterations in sensation and circulation. It is important to carry out a daily inspection of the feet checking the absence of injuries and visit the podiatrist regularly.

10. Be adherent with medication.

Medication is a part of the treatment that together with food and exercise are fundamental pillars, so it is necessary to agree and follow the recommendations that are prescribed together with health professionals. Insulin is the pharmacological basis for treating type 1 diabetes, and other oral and/or drugs insulin in type 2 diabetes.

4/26/21

Poisoned food

While healthy and non-toxic foods must be labeled - and they make us pay dearly for it - those that are sprayed with poison pass for normal and it is not necessary to declare it on any label.

This is how foods produced with pesticides are sold (euphemistically called agrochemicals to make them appear more neutral and that we do not protest). Who benefits from this deception of the public, from this outrage on health and the environment, from seizing public money on a large scale for the costs of pollution and disease? The 10 multinationals that control 90 percent of the sale of pesticides worldwide, of which Syngenta, Bayer, Basf, Monsanto, Dow and DuPont are the largest. Sound familiar? Of course, they are exactly the same ones that control one hundred percent of the transgenic seeds. It is no coincidence: they created transgenics to sell more poison.

GMOs are a paradigmatic example of this scam to the public: more than 80 percent are manipulated to tolerate greater use of pesticides, so that everything around the plant dies, but that the transgenic plant remains alive after the intensive poison bath. That not only remains in the earth and water: it also leaves a high content of toxins in the food that is made with them. In most countries that grow transgenic soybeans, they had to change health laws to increase up to 200 times the level of pesticide residues allowed in food, otherwise it would be illegal food as it is a health risk.

The cultivation of transgenics has meant the greatest use of the herbicide glyphosate in the history of agriculture. Because its use is so intense, it has caused resistance in the herbs it claims to fight, finding more than 20 invasive herbs that are now totally immune to glyphosate. For this reason, companies sell the product more and more concentrated, adding surfactants and other chemicals to make it penetrate better (turning glyphosate, which the industry claims is moderately toxic, into a high-powered poison). But in the face of increasing inefficiency, they are spreading even more toxic poisons on crops (such as endosulfan, atrazine, dicamba, and the famous 2,4 D that is a component of the chemical weapon Agent Orange). Now companies are going for GM corn and soy resistant to dicamba and 2.4 D, which will further increase their use.

In Argentina, the world's third largest producer of transgenics, the towns of several provinces have begun to organize against the spraying of the areas of transgenic crops, a situation related to the increase in cancer cases and various allergies and serious diseases, including the deformation of neonates.

While in that country the first trial against the fumigation of transgenic soybeans was recently carried out in Ituzaingó, Córdoba, due to the diseases and contamination that have been demonstrated, in Mexico the commercial planting of 235 thousand 500 hectares of this crop has just been authorized in several states of the Yucatan peninsula, in Chiapas and the Huasteca region, condemning to death the production of organic honey and the livelihood of more than 40 thousand families. Added to this is the approval of new open field tests of transgenic corn in northern states, continuing the attack against peasant corn in its center of origin.

In addition to direct damage to producers, bees, pollination, biodiversity and soils, the massive planting of transgenics in the Yucatan peninsula, due to its particular porous soils and karst systems, will lead to the rapid contamination of aquifers and underground systems, for so the entire population of the peninsula is directly threatened with contamination.

Due to these serious impacts and others, the release of transgenic soy had a negative opinion from Conabio, Ine and Conanp, official institutions that must participate by law in the decision process. But against the grain of abundant data and these opinions, his release was still approved. Greenpeace filed a lawsuit against the responsible officials and several beekeepers and farmers organizations defended themselves against this decision, clearly unfair and illegal. A decision against health, biodiversity and the economy of the population, only to favor a transnational and a few industrialists.

This agricultural model based on pesticides - of which transgenics are its greatest exponent -, the role of the six corporations that hold it, the complicity of governments and the deaths and violence they have generated, were presented to a session of the Permanent Court of the Peoples in Bangalore, India, in December 2011. The verdict concluded, among other points, that it is a model that implies a clear global injustice, where six transnationals are responsible for the systematic and widespread violation of the right to health and life, economic, social and cultural rights, as well as other political and civil rights, and of women and children.

To justify pesticides, they told us that they were to feed the world, just as with transgenics. There are more hungry than ever and millions of children are born into a toxic future. But the lie is exposed and resistance continues to grow.

4/25/21

Simple Christmas Cake Recipe

At RecetasGratis.net we help you with your Christmas menu and, therefore, we offer you simple, fast, and flavorful recipes. This time we want to teach you how to prepare a very popular dessert around the world, the Christmas cake with fruits. Read on and discover the step by step.

8 diners 1h 30m Dessert Low difficulty

Additional Features: Medium Cost, Christmas Recipes, Baked Recipes

Ingredients to make a simple Christmas cake:

2 cups of Flour (280 grams)
2 units of whole eggs
1 cup of brown or white sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 glass of warm water
200 grams of soft margarine
2 cups of macerated fruits
1 pinch of Essence of almonds (optional)

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How to make a simple Christmas cake:

Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix them together. Besides, dissolve the margarine in a glass of water and reserve.

Lightly beat the eggs and add them to the previous mixture of margarine and water, mix well. For this step, you can use both manual and electric rods.

Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ones, little by little, and mixing with a spatula making enveloping movements. Add the macerated fruits and integrate them into the doughTip: Preheat the oven to 170ºC.

Grease and flour the mold that you are going to use for the Christmas cake and pour the dough inside. Bake the fruit cake for about an hour, or until when poked with a toothpick it comes out dry. Keep in mind that depending on the power of your oven it may take more or less to do so, so you should be aware.

When it is ready, remove it from the oven and wait for it to warm to remove it from the mold. Serve the Christmas cake as a dessert dipped in chocolate or with icing sugar on top. To enjoy!

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