Healthy Aging Month
Doctors often need to give patients dietary advice. I talked to countless patients who are confused about the huge How much information do you stay healthy, what keeps you thin, and what keeps you young. In addition, the latest news on diet sound often changes from year to year and even month to month.
To make life easier for my patients, I am the latest research on nutrition and healthy eating. A food that is constantly in the headlines has been done for hundreds of years. I speak of kefir, fermented milk drink.
This yogurt drink is more like a healthy drink and delicious – is the closest thing to a miracle food that you can get! Let me share with you what I have learned that you can make kefir an intelligent decision about incorporating in your diet.
Carry bacteria on the "good"
At the same moment, billions of beneficial bacteria are at work in their intestines to digest food and fight against "bad" bacteria that can cause disease. These bacteria are essential to digestion sound, keep it free from infection. Sometimes the bacteria are depleted and the balance changes for harmful bacteria. This often happens when you are taking antibiotics to fight infections. The drugs can not distinguish between good and bad bacteria, so that both ends leaving more vulnerable to future problems.
That's where comes in kefir
Kefir contains probiotics which are friendly bacteria that result simply from the fermentation process. Like yogurt, kefir is a great source of probiotics. Both contain live cultures such as Lactobacillus, and both provide an ideal mechanism to supply probiotics for the digestive system.
These nutrients protect the bacteria probiotics from acid and bile in the body and probiotics contain compounds that help to thrive in the intestines. Kefir, however, has a feature that yogurt does not. Is more effective at creating new colonies of beneficial bacteria in the gut by opposed to only strengthen existing settlements.
Kefir originated in the Caucasus mountains, where it has been used for centuries to increase longevity and treatment of diseases such as atherosclerosis, allergies, tuberculosis and digestive disorders. Kefir taste nice and sweet that is both sweet and slightly tart. The gas has a texture too, through self-carbonation properties of yeast inside.
The West has finally caught in the food delicious and healing, and it is now readily available in health food stores and natural supermarkets.
Drink to your health
Kefir can help treat many different conditions. Here are ways you can use kefir for improving their health and staying young:
1) treat digestive disorders – Kefir has been shown to affect the people have irritable bowel syndrome. You may reduce abdominal, constipation, and distention of the abdomen. It also contributes to normal digestive function in healthy people.
2) defend against inflammation – used long by Russian doctors to treat allergies, may also improve eczema.
3) anti-ulcer – Kefir can inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria such as H. pylori, which has been shown to cause ulcers.
4) Keep the Youth Council – Kefir contains a good dose of calcium, which keeps bones strong and the fight against osteoporosis. It also maintains healthy teeth.
5) Assist in weight loss – Investigators believe dairy products such as diet kefir help you lose fat faster than diet, which normally do not eat dairy products.
To get the most benefit from the addition kefir to your diet, I recommend drinking at least a portion (about 1 cup) per day. Look friction kefir without sugar instead of one products rich in sugar and artificial flavors. Then kefir natural flavor of fruit juices, berries and honey. This is an excellent base for smoothies. I love taste and creamy texture of kefir So I drank, even if it is good food!
I hope you give it a try and see for yourself.
Healthy Aging Month Dr Ebanks WTNH CT 9 12 09
