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Clermont-Ferrand, Many benefits can be obtained from hobby sun bathing in the morning. Sunlight is needed in the process of formation of vitamin D, which is not only good for the skin and bone but also can reduce snoring during sleep.
Researchers from University Hospital in Clermont-Ferrand, France believes human muscles also need vitamin D to be working optimally. No exception breathing muscles, which weakened in people with sleep disorders like snoring.
The weakening of respiratory muscles constrict making the air cavity that vibrates when it passed through the air. Vibrations that cause snoring sound, which not only disrupt the sleep partner, but also dangerous because it can trigger stop breathing up to 400 times a night.
Obesity has been touted as one of the factors triggering the snores, though the real cause is unknown. The weakening of the muscles around the throat is another cause which is expected to be addressed through the provision of supplemental vitamin D.
Sunlight is not a source of vitamin D, so it does not provide direct benefits in addressing snoring. But sunlight is needed in the process of formation of vitamin D, which is processed from provitamin D in the daily diet.
Some foods that are the main source of vitamin D and provitamin D include salmon, spinach, soybeans and orange juice. Milk and other dairy products like cheese and yogurt are also included major source of vitamin D are easily found everyday.
To prove the benefits of vitamin D for muscle, researchers currently carrying out clinical trials on 80 patients with symptoms of frequent snoring
Ontario, Canada, Eating foods that contain fat are not necessarily good for the body, but if you consume coffee after eating fatty foods, the negative impact will be greater again.
The study conducted by the University of Guelph showed that the combination of fat and caffeine in coffee can be very harmful to the body. Researchers found that healthy people who drink coffee after eating fatty foods increase blood sugar until doubled. The increase in blood sugar is even equivalent to those at risk of diabetes.
"The study tells us that saturated fats can interfere with the body's ability to clean the sugar in the blood, and when combined with caffeine-containing coffee, then the impact could be worse," said Marie-Soleil Beaudoin, who conducted the study along with the professor of University of Guelph, Lindsay Robinson and Terry Graham, as reported by preventdisease, Tuesday (19/04/2011).
According to Beaudoin, the combination of saturated fat and caffeine can make blood sugar stays in for long periods of time, the impact can be very dangerous.
This study is the first study to find out about the influence of saturated fat and caffeine in coffee on blood sugar levels. Studies performed using cocktails (a novel fat cocktail) containing only fat. The drink is specifically designed to enable researchers to accurately mimic what happens to the body when people swallow fat.
In this study, healthy men were asked to drink about 1 gram of fat for each kilogram of beverage weight. Six hours later they were given the next menu that consists of sugar drinks.
As a result, the subject of blood sugar levels rose to 32 percent higher than people who do not mengonsumi fat.
The researchers also tested the effect of caffeinated coffee in combination with fatty foods. For this test, the researchers gave participants caffeinated coffee drinks 5 hours after ingesting the fat. An hour later given a sugar drink.
The results showed that blood sugar levels increased by 65 percent compared with participants who did not consume coffee and fat.
"This shows that the effects of fatty foods combined with a coffee can last for hours. Even the effect can be doubled compared to people who eat fatty foods only," said Beaudoin.
In addition to a blood test blood sugar levels, researchers also saw the effects of gastro-intestinal tract by measuring the incretin hormone released by the intestine after swallowing fat. These hormones signal the pancreas to release insulin to help cleanse the blood of sugar.
"In the end we have found that fatty and caffeinated coffee can destroy the communication between the intestine and pancreas, is why the participants can not clean from their blood sugar easily," said Beaudoin.
According to Beaudoin, the results of this study is very important for people at risk for metabolic disease and type 2 diabetes.
"We've known for years that people with or at risk of type 2 diabetes should limit their caffeine consumption. Drinking decaffeinated coffee is one way to increase one's glucose tolerance. Limit intake of saturated fatty acids found in red meat, processed foods and food fast food is also beneficial, "lid Beaudoin.
The results of this study have been published in the Journal of Nutrition.
The benefits of tea has been more often associated with the content of antioxidants in it that can inhibit cancer and the aging process. And drinking tea on a regular basis also provides other benefits, one of which prevent bone loss.
A recent study in Taiwan prove, industrious women who drank tea less often affected by osteoporosis or thinning of bone mass. Research conducted by experts from Cheng Kung University, published in Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine.
Led by Dr. Chang Ying-fan, this study involving 368 adult women, average age 65 years. Quoted from Timeslive, Monday (19/04/2011), 60 of them have a habit of drinking tea on a daily basis while the remaining 308 rarely or only occasionally when drinking tea.
Based on the results of examination of bone and filling out the questionnaire, 46.7 percent of women who drank tea diligent of osteoporosis in old age. The budget is small compared with the group who rarely drank tea, which is 63.3 per cent.
Dr Ying-fan believe, at least there are 2 components in tea that is beneficial fluoride and flavonoids inhibit the bone loss that increases bone mass density. In addition, polyphenols and tannin compounds are believed to contribute to maintaining bone density.
This finding is contrary to the opinion of several experts who say that the tea dangers of the coffee, because it triggers bone loss. The opinion was based on the nature of the caffeine content in tea and coffee are shed via urine calcium in bone.
Benefits of tea for the bone has also been expressed previously by researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In that study, 3 component of green tea which proved the merit in maintaining bone density is epigallocatechin (EGC), gallocatechin (GC) and gallocatechin gallate (GCG).
Osteoporosis is a type of bone damage suffered by most women especially after menopause. The damage was triggered by a reduction in bone density, so more prone to cracks and fractures, especially in the hip, and wrist.
Clermont-Ferrand, Many benefits can be obtained from hobby sun bathing in the morning. Sunlight is needed in the process of formation of vitamin D, which is not only good for the skin and bone but also can reduce snoring during sleep.
