[ The Green Leaf ]

Green tea contains high polyphenols, catechin, Phytochemicals, and caffeine. Polyphenols have antioxidant one hundred times more than vitamin c. Catechin in green tea is useful to prevent the damages of heart and aglomeration blood. Laboratorium research tells that catechin can kill cancer cell without damaging healthy cell.


If we often to drink green tea, we can get some benefits, they're:
1. can burned fat
2. can prevent heart disease
3. can decrease blood pressure
4. can protect from diabetes disease
5. can increase immune body

Green tea is good drink for people who want to loss their weight because it contain Phytochemicals. If Phytochemicals are combined with healthy diet and physical exercise can lossing body weight. Caffeine in green tea can stimulate brain, change to better mood, and make us wont easy to get stress.

So, you should drink a cup of green tea every day!! But don't drink green tea in a pack because it has been added much sugar and original contens of green tea have been loss when packing process. The better way to consume green tea is by pour boiling water our self.

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Snacking can increase body metabolism and reduce high desire to eat. But you must pay attention for your snack that you consume. You should choose healthy food for snacking and maintain total calorie not more than 200 in one day.Some of Healthy Snacks are:


1. Oatmeal

Oatmeal is super healthy snack because almost doesn't have negative contains. Consuming oatmeal can decrease the degreee of cholesterol in blood and decrease risk of heart disease. Beside that, oatmeal is very good to low fat diet and many athletes consume it.


2. Cereal

Cereal has high vitamin and mineral, but we should pay attention to the degree of sugar in cereal and choose low sugar cereal.


3. Almond

Almond rich of protein and vitamin E that very useful for body. But almond contain high calories, so don't consume too much almond, and you should eat unsalted almond, it's better than salted almond.

4. Sunflower seed (Kwaci)

Sun flower seed has high protein, vitamin E, B, mineral, and phytosterols that can decrease cholesterol

5. Baked Potato Chips

The safe way to consume potato chips is by baking the potato on the oven.


6. Crackers

Crackers that contain vegetables or fruit are good for people.


7. Jelly / Low Fat Pudding

low fat Jelly and pudding is good for snacking. Jelly and pudding contain low fat and synthetic sugar.

8. Non Fat Yogurt

Original yogurt is very sour. Many products of yogurt have been added much sugar. So you should choose non fat yogurt that contain synthetic sugar.

9. Fruit bar

Fruit bar contain organic fruits that has been dried. Fruit bar rich of fiber and vitamin. Mix fruit bar with soybean is very good for health.

Broccoli contains isothiocynates, sulphoraphane, indole-ecarbinol, fiber and lutein. Isothiocynates and sulphoraphane useful to prevent cancer and Indole-ecarbinol useful to prevent breast cancer cells, so broccoli are very important for woman.



Research in Holland tell that if we often to consume broccoli, we can get some benefits, they're:
1. can prevent intestines cancer
2. can prevent stomach cancer
3. can prevent prostate cancer

Lutein and fiber in broccoli can detoxify body from oil and cholesterol. Beside that broccoli is rich of vitamin K, C, and beta carotene. We can consume brokoli by mix it to capcay food, nugget and soup. Baked potato chesse contains chesse, potato and broccoli. Broccoli more useful if we consume it on unripe condition with mayonaise and sauce.

The causes that make teeth color can change are :

1. Age
More long people live, it means they have been eating more foods. More foods that people consume make teeth color automatically change to yellow color.

2. Eating Habit
If people eat foods and drinks that have color,it can make teeth color change too.

3. Cigarette
Cigarette has contain nicotine. Nicotine can make white teeth change to brown or yellow.


Teeth Whitening Technology

There are some techniques for whitening teeth, one techniques is bleaching. And two kind of Bleaching technique are:

1. Internal Teeth Whitening
Internal teeth whitening is doing by dentist, it's only for dead teeth and for teeth that has been getting endodontic treatment.

2. External Teeth Whitening
External teeth whitening technique is using mouth guard tool, we can do that alone. But now, teeth whitening products are available on market. Teeth whitening product usually has contain carbamide peroxides, carbamide peroxides are using to oxidation spain in teeth and to know the result need two weeks. You must review this technique one times in six months. External teeth whitening only works in outside teeth stratum so it wont effective.

If you want to try external teeth whitening, you must know all of risks. The matter of teeth whitening are contains hydrogen peroxide, natrium perborat, and karbamit peroxide. Research tell that karbamit peroxide can make mouth of mukosa inflamed and material of teeth whitening can make the teeth brittle. So if you want to try bleaching technique,you must go to dentist for checking and getting consultation.

Tips for getting health teeth and mouth :

1. Brush your teeth 3 times every day

2. You should to consume vegetables and fruit like apple, carrot, celery. They're can whitening your teeth naturally.

3. You should to consume broccoli, spinach and lettuce. They're good to prevent stain on your teeth.

4. If you like drink cofee, tea and soda, you should use a straw. So the water of coffee, tea, and soda don't touch you teeth.

5. Don't consume drink that contain high of soda because the research tells that soda can make your teeth porous.

6. Chew a gum that contain xylitol after eating can make keep smoot the mouth and make teeth more cleaner.

1. Indonesia has 316 ethnic groups, totally 670 languanges exist.

2. Indonesia has beach line that its long is 54,716 km. Long of beach line Indonesia is the third longest beach line in the world.

3. Indonesia has 17.508 islands and archipelago in Indonesia is the biggest in the world. From 17.508 islands only 6000 islands that being lived.

4. Indonesia contributes 25% coral in the world, 3500 of 4500 fish species in the world are from Indonesia. Indonesia has the second largest global diversity of sea and land after Brazil.

5. Indonesia has unique animal and plant
- Komodo is the biggest lizard in the world
- Rafflesia Arnoldi is the biggest flower in the world

6. Three of ten biggest islands in the world are from Indonesia. They are Borneo, Papua, and Sumatera.

7. The amount of Batik motives reached more than 4000 and every year, Indonesia export 30 tons of batik.

8. Borobudur temple is the biggest buddhist temple in the world and Borobudur is one of seven wonders in the world. Angkor Wat in komboja was inspirated from borobudur temple.

9. Indonesia has 3 of 20 deepest lakes in the world. They are Matano lake, Sulawesi (590 km), Toba lake, Sumatera (529 km), Poso Lake, Sulawesi (450 km). Toba lake is the biggest lake in south east asia.

10. Indonesia has 28.000 plant species, they are 2500 kinds of orchid and 6000 kinds of medicine traditional plant.

11. Indonesia has 400 fire mountains. 150 of 400 is active mountains. Active mountain in Indonesia represent 75 % active mountains in the world.

12. Indonesia is the fourth biggest producer coffee in the world.

13. Indonesia is the fourth biggest exporter of polio serum in the world.

Spinach is the best vegetables for people to consume. Spinach has more nutrient
than other vegetables and meat. Some benefit of spinach are:
1. Spinach contains more Fe substance than other vegetables and Fe substance are useful to prevent anemia
2. Spinach contains lutelin.

Lutelin in spinach are useful for :
1. Prevent decreasing eyesight because aging
2. Prevent cataract
3. Prevent intestines cancer
4. New research about lutelin tell that it can protect body from sunshines, prevent dehydration, prevent coarse skin, and can delay appearing of wrinkle.

Spinach is sources of calcium, potasium, omega 3 fat, vitamin A, B2, B6, C and K. They are very important for our bones. One cup of spinach only contain 41 calorie and no fat. We can consume spinach by boil it, mix it with sandwich, pasta, soup and salad. In Indonesia we can eat chip of spinach, it's delicious...

Fermentation process of Yogurt can produce L.Bulgaricus antibiotic. L.Bulgaricus antibiotic useful for kill virus and fungus. Antibiotic works very well, just kill mikroorganism that damage body.


Fermentation process can increas the degree of vitamin A, B2, B3, Biotin, Folad acid, and Amino from milk. They have a good nutrient. While fermentation process, sugar in a milk is decreasing 20%-50% and the mineral will easier to absorb in body.

If you change somefood with yogurt, it can help you to lost your fat. So, yogurt also useful for obesity person, they should to consume a yogurt three times every day during 12 weeks. The degree of fat in body can decrease to 61%.

The best yogurt to consume are pure plain yogurt and frozen yogurt. Dont forget to check the degree of sugar in yogurt before you consume it!!

Why Blueberry is super?

Blueberry has rich antioksidan and anthocyanin.
The benefits of Anthocyanin are :
1. it can increase brainpower
2. it can stimulate brain work
3. it can increase memory capacity
4. it can increase motoric ability


Now, Blueberry can decrease the descent memory that caused from Alzheimer disease. Beside that blueberry contains anti-infection substance. If people free from infection, it can make circulation of blood very good, energy and mood will stable, prevent strengthening of artery wall, and will decrease the heart disease risk.

Blueberry contains vitamin A,C,B6,K,fiber,and potasium those are purposed for balancing the degree of mineral and for stability of blood pressure.

So, People can consume blueberry by eating blueberry fruits, make a juice by blueberry, consume blueberry jam, ice cream blueberry, jelly, blueberry syrup, smoothies, sereal, mix blueberry fruit into muffin, cake, pie, or pancake.

1. Nut is a substance for make a dynamite.

2. Ice cream is a chinesse food, when Marco Polo came back from China to italy, he brought a food that called milk ice. The European people changed "milk ice" with ice cream. So, ice cream appear until now in the world.

3. During the people live, they eat average 35 ton of food.

4. We can read character people from their favorite food.
- The people who like hot food, usually they are expressive, brave, and like a chalenges.
- The people don't like hot food, usually they are afraid to take a risk.

5. France people eat more than 500.000 snail every year.

6. Fast food like Mc Donald's at New Delhi not use cow meat but it use goat meat.

7. In 1610, Crawcow, Polandia publish a new rules. The rules explained that bread is formal food for the mom while she pregnant.

8. Mc Donald's have been made 7 triliyun hamburger until now. And if you arranged 7 triliyun Hamburger, Its same with the distance from earth to the moon.

9. There're goods for symbol in Birthday cake on England. That's customary from the middle century. The goods like coins, ring, button, or thimble are mixed with batter. The people who get coins, will be a rich people and the people who get a thimbel will have a bad destiny, maybe he/she never been marry forever.

10. The most rare coffee is luwak coffee from Indonesia. The price of one kilogram is US $ 300-600 .

11. Habanero chilly from south america is the hottest chilly in the world.

12. Name of 'Sandwich' is take from a noble, The 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792).
Sir Earl like playing chess with his friends and he don't like if there's something disturb him when he play chess and even just for eat, he always requests to other people for made practical bread. In the end, more people in the world called practical bread by sandwich.

13. Chocolate is contain by Phenyl ethylamine. Phenyl ethylamine can make happy and peace from our heart,like people falling in love.

14. The original color of coca cola is green.

15. Honey is the only one of foods which has never been expired. For make one spon honey, needs 12 bees and for make 1 kg honey, bees must absorp 4 million flower and fly around the earth 4 times.

Cervical cancer is the only one cancer that you have to know about the symptoms and you can prevent this disease with vaccine. Vaccine Quadrivalent is the one of HPV vaccine that is used in 84 country. This vaccine give protection from infection of cervical cancer. Some countries in the world give HPV vaccine to the young girl from the age 12th.



Vaccine is given with three times injection. The distance between first injection and second injection is two months, the third injection will be done on the sixth month. Vaccine for adolescent or young girl is very important because at this age, the uterus mouth in a ripe process. In Indonesian the price of HPV vaccine is Rp. 900.000 until Rp. 1000.000 for one injection. But, this vaccine just for preventing cervical cancer.

The prevention cervical cancer

1. Dont smoking because ciggarete contains much carcinogenic substances, this substance is the cause of all kind of cancer

2. Dont wash vagina with antiseptic medicine without doctor prescription. It can make iritation and too much iritation can change cells to cancer.

3. Dont often to eat fat food and do diet low fat.

4. Cervical cancer is easy to attact body that less beta karoten, folat acid, vitamin A and C. Carrot contains Beta karoten and vitamin A. Seafood contains folat acid and all fruits that have orange color are contains vitamin C

5. In adolescent, all of mukosa cells in cervical hasn't matured yet. The chemist substance from sperm can disturb balances mukosa cells and can change mukosa cells to cancer cells.

6. Prevent and protect with vaccine before late.

Cervical is a part in reproduction organ that relating the top part of uterus and vagina. The cervical cancer is very frightening because this disease can attack a young girl and an old woman. Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) is the 95% causes of cervical cancer. HPV can damage cells in uterus and make cells growing abnormal. The most people whom have infected this virus are old woman, but statistic data tell that this infection also can attack a young women (18th until 28 th).


From the infection process until positive to be a cervical cancer needs 5 till 20 year. MOst of sufferer will know that they have a cervical cancer when it has been on advance stadium and very difficult to recovering this disease. HPV can infection to body through genital contact, seks activity, petting and oral sex. In fact, hand with HPV viruses can causes cervical cancer, if touch an uterus.

Cervical cancer grow in uterus mouth area and for beginning stadium, the suffer can't see the symptoms.
The symptoms of cervical cancer are :
1. Fluor Albus smell not good and it has a color
2. Pelvis feeling ill
3. bleeding outside menstruation cycle
4. fell pain when defecate and urine
Periode of menstruation longer than usual is the symptoms too for the sufferer in advance stadium.

The young girl or old woman who have a risk for this disease are :
1. the girl do sex for the first time when her age is too young.
2. always change boyfriend or do sex more than one people
3. smoker

Detecting cervical cancer is for the best preventive. Now, much methods for detect this disease, such as pap smear and IVA (Inspeksi Visual Asam Asetat). IVA more practical than pap smear. They are the methods to know whether someone has a cancer cycle or not. If you know early about the symptoms in body, it make easy to recover it.

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels, that result from defects in insulin secretion, or action, or both. Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes was first identified as a disease associated with "sweet urine," Elevated levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) lead to spillage of glucose into the urine, hence the term sweet urine.

So, what are the causes of Diabetes Melitus and What are the tips of diet for Diabetes Melitus sufferer?... Lets check it out..!!

The Causes of Diabetes Melitus

Insufficient production of insulin (either absolutely need for body), production of defective insulin, or the inability of cells to use insulin properly and efficiently leads to hyperglycemia and diabetes. This condition affects mostly the cells of muscle and fat tissues, and results in a condition known as "insulin resistance".

How the diet for Diabetes Melitus Sufferer?

Things that have to be avoided are :
1. Natural sugar like a refined sugar
2. Foods and drink who made by natural sugar like cake, taart, ice cream, chocolate, jelly, soft drink, candy and sweets.

Things that have to be limited

Foods who contain carbohydrate like a rice, sweet potato, bread, cassava, noodle, corn, potato, and the other food who made by flour.

What is obesity causes?

Most researchers agree that a combination of excessive calorie consumption and a sedentary lifestyle are the primary causes of obesity. The other causes are :

Environmental Factors

Environmental factors that very closely correlate with an increased risk of obesity are increased food consumption/ fast food, and sedentary lifestyle. Obese people are less active than those of normal weight. Physical activity of human is decreases so all the calories our eat are not utilized, or burned off. It stored as fat tissue, which can lead to weight gain.

Genetic factors

1. Inherited genetic variation is an important risk factor for obesity. Evidence from twin, adoption and family studies strongly suggests that biological relatives exhibit similarities in maintenance of body weight. Genetic factors also are beginning to be implicated in the degree of effectiveness of diet and physical activity interventions for weight reduction.

2. Obesity is the result of interplay two kinds of genetic effects, there are the additive genetic effect and the genotype-environment interaction effect.

3. The additive genetic effect in amount of subcutaneous fat is quite low but that it is higher (around 25 to 30 per cent) for fat mass and regional fat distribution. These results suggest that visceral fat, perhaps, is more influenced by the genotype than subcutaneous fat.

4. a genotype-overfeeding interaction component exists for body fat, which suggests that sensitivity of individuals to changes in body fat following overfeeding are genotype-dependent.

5. one finds a slight genetic effect for the proportion of protein, fat, and carbohydrate in the diet. (Physical Activity Sciences Laboratory, PEPS, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada)

Psychological factors

Obesity can be caused by psychological factor, studies have found some people eat more when they are affected by depression, anxiety, binge eating, or other emotional disorders.

Illness

There are some Medical illnesses that can increase obesity such as hypothyroidism (poorly acting thyroid slows metabolism),Polycystic ovary syndrome, cushing's syndrome,growth hormone deficiency,the eating disorders, binge eating disorder and night eating syndrome, depression, and etc.

Foods give a nutrients and calories for our body. They are very useful to make our healthy, but if we eat to much foods, it's stored in our body and make our body is having too much body fat and we may become obese. If someone have weight 20% or more above normal weight, it means this person considered obese.



So, what is obesity and how to measure it?

Obesity is a condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health, maybe negatively affected. Obesity is considered chronic disease like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and etc. The most common measure of obesity is the body mass index or BMI.

Category of BMI are :
underweight BMI is under 18,5
Normal weight BMI is 18,5-25
Overweight BMI is 25-30
and people who have obesity, body mass index or BMI is over 30.

As you know above, we use BMI to measure obesity. The calculation is : body weight (Kg) divide by body height quadrate (M²)

What is obesity causes?

Most researchers agree that a combination of excessive calorie consumption and a sedentary lifestyle are the primary causes of obesity. The other factors are genetic factor; environmental factor; psychological factor; and illness.

On my next posting, i'll explain more about the cause of obesity. So keep reading it, OK..!!