Slice of Pizza!

Everyone loves pizza. The crispy dough, the flavorful toppings and the creaminess of the cheese is so mouth-watering, that no one will refuse to eat this. In different countries pizza serves as a treat, snack or sometimes it is served for dinner time. This pizza is loved by anyone, from children to elderly. Some occasions served pizza for visitors.

Pizza is made from round, flat, thin dough topped with tomato sauce, cheese, meat and other vegetables. Pizza is an oven baked. Pizza is popular in every country; they have different recipes to offer. Different restaurants have their own specialties. The truth is it’s healthier if the pizza is homemade. It is less in oil and fat. You can control the other ingredients that you want to put in your homemade pizzas.

Pepperoni Pizza

Pizza is associated to be one of the unhealthiest foods in the world.  Pizza is related to the group of food that you can buy from fast food restaurants and supermarkets. Hamburgers, fries and so on are the food related to Pizza.

I’ll let you know that Pizza have its nutritional benefits also. Even Pizza is group to fast food chains offers, pizza have nutritive and healthy elements. Pizza ingredients are crispy yeast dough, cheese, tomato sauce, meaty toppings and vegetables.

Pizza Nutritional Benefits: From its Ingredients

• Lycopene- from the tomato sauce of a pizza. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant; it also helps our body to fight against different cancer. Person who eats pizza once a week were much less to develop colon cancer, mouth cancer, stomach cancer and lung cancer. It is very helpful to fight against prostate cancer.

•  Onions helps lower blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. Onions are also rich in Vitamin C and fiber.

• Fiber that is good for our digestion

• Olives contains minerals that is good for the heart and helps lower cholesterol

•    Red pepper contains Vitamins A, c and B6

•  Pizza dough is also high in antioxidants because of the ingredients used.

•  Good source of Carbohydrates

• Cheese contains calcium that is good for our bones and teeth

Here are samples of easy healthy Pizzas:

Vegetable Pizza

•  Vegetable Pizza topped with cheese           
•    Pizza topped with grilled chicken

There are a lot of nutritional benefits that we can get from eating pizza; it can no longer be one of the unhealthiest foods.

Meaty Pizza

On the other side, eating pizza all the time can cause problems.

•   Pizza can cause heart disease
•  Having high cholesterol
•  High fat content because of the cheese
•  The cheese, meat and fat is the one you causes pizza to be unhealthy
• Weight gain if not consume in moderation

 Eat pizza in moderation. It’s better to share your slice of pizza with friends. It can be your bonding time and sharing.

We all know that too much is not good for our health, but less than enough is also bad for our health. Let us stay fit and be healthy! Start to be conscious. Exercise!

Happiness is Just a Piece of Cake

Who wants to be happy? Do you want a wonderful feeling that only one can give you? If you ate just a piece of cake, your world is starting to become great.

Cake is the number one important thing in every occasion such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, baby showers, parties and retirement celebrations.

Every birthday, Cake is present. Without cake in a birthday party it’s not totally a party, because something is missing.   Children who are having their parties’ wishes to have the best birthday cake they could ever have. Honestly, for me cake can make every single child have their big smile.

We all know that cakes should be eaten in moderation. Its ingredients are sugar for the sweetening part, flour, fruits for filling, butter for its creamy taste, eggs for binder, liquid for mixing, leavening for the dough, icing of frosting for final touch. With these ingredients we already have an idea what nutritional benefits we can get from eating cake.

Strawberry Cake

Carrot Cake

Apple Cake

Experts said that cakes are healthy, it just depend in what kind of cake we’re talking about. For chocolate cakes, the dark chocolate cake is better to our health but should be consume in limitations.

Nutritional benefits of cake:

•  Carbohydrates – from the flour and sugar we are sure that we can gain energy from eating cake
•          Fiber- from some fruits that we can top to the cakes like apples, strawberries and bananas, fiber is good for our digestion.
•         Fats – it is also needed by our body for energy and warmth. Cakes have these fats and oils from its frosting
•          Proteins – it’s good for our body building, cake also contains milk that contains nutrients needed by bones and teeth.
•          Vitamins- from fruits in the cake which helps our body to fight against diseases and strengthens our immune system
•           Serotonin and Endorphin- it’s from the frosting of a chocolate cake and cake with nuts also. It’s the reason why we get happiness when we eat cakes because nuts increase the serotonin and endorphin in our body.

Bad Effects of Cake:

•  We all know that cakes are bad.  With its ingredients such as sugar that gives calories and fats.    They are known to be sinful. They are sinful because they tempt people to eat them.
•   Cakes contains carbohydrates  that can cause weight gain
•   Poor blood circulation control
•   Brain Fog- falling out sugar levels

The joy that brought by cakes to us is a great power that can changes everyone’s belief and source of happiness.

Keep in mind, when planning to enjoy that slice of cake; like everything else, it is important to keep it in moderation. We already know what the consequences of having too much cake can do.

Make sure you tell yourself that it’s just one slice of cake you are having and that you will stick to that rule no matter what.

Always remember that cakes should be eaten in moderation and let’s start to be conscious to your health.

Who Love French fries? The Good And Bad Side!

Who hate French fries? Who are the enemies of French fries? We all know that French fries have different bad effects for our body. We all know that this potato snack is one of the unhealthiest foods we could buy in fast food chains. People who are conscious about their diet hate French fries.

                  

French Fries are loved by young children to elderly. They don’t have hesitations in eating French fries. It is popular in fast food chain, bistros, cafes and mid-restaurants that we can buy or order in less than a minute.

  

No can refuse to eat French fries. We all know that it really taste good and delicious with salt and a dip of ketchup and mayonnaise. Fries are made from a thin strip of potatoes deep fried in vegetable oil. Fries are full of tasty flavor and it’s a mouth watering food that nobody can refuse from eating this treat.

When we eat fries, we thought that we are also eating food that is totally unhealthy for our body, thus, we are all wrong! Eating fries have also some nutritional benefits, but do always remember that eat with moderation and limitations.

Health Benefits of Eating French Fries:

•  It’s a good source of Fiber – potatoes are good source of fiber that can help us to pass waste through our system and it helps for lowering cholesterol.  If you have fiber deficiency you may suffer from stomach and bowel problems, it can cause you to have a poor digestion.

•  Potassium- from potatoes we can have potassium that gives and provide us energy that we can use for our daily life. Lack of potassium in our body we notice that we feel more tired, our muscles are weak and our reflexes are slower, we also feel depression and anxiety.

•   Pyridoxine- it is also known to be Vitamin B6 that can help us to fight from several little diseases and some large illnesses. Not enough Vitamin B6 in our body, we feel irritable and tired.  Vitamin B6 has good benefits for women because it can fight against bloating, menopause and hormonal swings. It also gives us healthy and shiny looking hair.

• If French Fries have some nutritional benefits, it also gives us bad effects for our body. I already said above that French fries is one of the Unhealthiest food in the world.

Here are reasons why French Fries is bad for you:

• ·           French Fries are source of Bad Carbohydrate

                       There are Different carbohydrate and different glycemic index.

• ·         French Fries are deep fried sometimes in TRANS FAT . Trans fat is bad for our heart, it increases the level of our cholesterol and it makes our   platelets in our blood more stickier it can clogged our arteries and causes heart disease.

• ·         French fries have high content of Acrylamide- it a chemical formed when frying. According to research it can cause of having cancer

• ·         Buying French fries in restaurant we can have a high dosage of sodium from the salt they putting in our fries, addictives are may be present.

• ·        French fries seem to increase the risk of having Type 2 Diabetes, commonly to women who are already obese.

• ·         Women who ate French fries once a week in their childhood days have 27% possibility to develop Breast cancer.

French fries is a snack that needs moderation in eating. You can treat yourself with Fries but you order the smallest size in restaurants and eat it slowly. There are alternatives if you are craving for French fries. Think and be conscious about your health, it’s better to prevent than to cure. Eat healthy and be Healthy.

Globally favorite, Doughnuts! Names and Its Benefits

“Doughnuts are like peanuts, you can’t eat just one.”

If you really love doughnuts, one of your favorites could be the Glazed Doughnut.

Doughnut it is a treat that nobody can deny from it. Doughnut is loved by everyone. It’s a fried dough confectionery. Doughnuts are famous in every country. They have their traditional recipes to offer. We categorize doughnuts as our snacks and treats.

 Doughnut can be homemade and can be purchased in different bakeshop, supermarket and food stalls.  It is usually deep fried dough in a shape of flattened sphere or ring. It is coated with sugar; it comes with filling, batter and other various toppings and flavorings.   

Why can we say that doughnut is good for our health? Doughnuts are:

·         Comfort Food

·         Relieves Stress

·         Make you feels good

Notes: Doughnut is a leading food that can cause Diabetes. Doughnuts are considered a treat if eaten once in a while but if too often it can cause some health problems.

            

The common types of doughnut are:

·         A ring doughnut is a doughnut with hole in the center and comes with sugar coating and sometimes nuts in the top. It is formed by joining the two ends of thin long, fierce dough to a ring.

·         Filled doughnuts are flattened sphere shape doughnuts filled with fruit syrups, chocolate syrups. Creams and custard.                                           

In the new generation Doughnut comes in different shapes, such as rings, balls, twisted and other shapes. Every Valentine’s Day it is usually where doughnuts are in shapes of hearts, every Christmas season the bakers are using the Christmas tree shape.

Some Doughnut names in other countries:

• ·         In Africa, their famous doughnut is called Lagaymat
• ·         South Africa (Koeksister) soaked in a spiced syrup and coated with coconut
• ·         Morocco (Sfenj) sprinkled with sugar and soaked in honey
• ·         Tunisia (Yo-Yos) covered with honey syrup and some frosting.
• ·         India (Vada) made from potato instead from wheat flour
• ·         Indonesia (Donat ketang) is another potato doughnut
• ·         Japan (An-Doughnut)  contains red azuki bean paste
• ·         US (Donut)
• ·         UK (Doughnut)
• ·         Italy (Zeppole)
• ·         France and Lousiana (Beignet)
• ·         Gemany (Berliner or Bismarck
• ·         Hungary (Pozsonyi) is a traditional sweet cake
• ·         Latin America (Churros)
• ·         Israel (Sufganiyah) topped with icing sugar and filled with red jelly
• ·         Iran (Bamiyeh) fritters coated with sugar syrup

Europe Part:

·         Austria (Krapfen) doesn't have the common ring shape but its solid and filled with apricot jam or vanilla cream.

·         Belgium (Smoutebollen) does not contain fruits except for apple chunks sometimes.

·         Czech Republic is an American style doughnut. Before they were solid and filled with strawberry jam and peach jam.

·         Denmark they have also the American style doughnut. Berliner is also available in their bakeries.

·         Finland (Munkki) eaten in cafes. Doughnuts were sold cold and filled with jam or vanilla sauce.

·         Greece (Loukoumas) doughnut with sugar. They have two shapes like the number 8 and torus. Doughnut shape 8 is crispier and the torus is larger and softer.

·         Netherlands(Oliebollen) it’s a fritter with or without raisins and usually sprinkled with sugar

·         Romania (Gogosi) it is fried like a pancake, without holes and it is filled with chocolate, cheese or jams. Also covered with sugar

Check for MSG in Doughnuts and Eat with Moderation.

What Makes Me Smile? I Just Eat Ice Cream!

Who doesn't love ice cream? Just let me know. I’m pretty sure everyone loves this dessert. From children up to older ones, they really crave for ice cream.  

There are lots of new products for ice cream. If you want to eat ice cream but you’re conscious about your diet, there is low fat ice cream. Ice cream also contains health benefits not just milk, sugar and flavorings. 

Many people do not know that ice cream has these health benefits. Ice cream is not known to be eaten because of its health benefits but for having smile in our face. Ice cream is also associated with high calorie, sugar and fat content.

Ice cream contains Calcium that is important in building up bones and for stronger body. The calcium you can get from eating ice cream helps lesser the risk of having illness such as colon cancer, high blood and kidney stones. 

Ice cream also contains Protein, a building blocks for our body. Protein is important for our bones, muscles, tissues, blood, skin and cartilage. It has also an important role in repairing and building up our tissues. Our nails and hair are made of protein.

Vitamins are also present in ice cream.  Ice cream contains Vitamin A, Vitamin B2 and B12. It is to be taken in small amount. Vitamin A is good for our eyes vision, healthy skin and bones. Vitamin B2 and B12 is important for breaking down proteins, carbohydrates and fats in our body.

Knowing that ice cream has health benefits but we cannot abuse it. Eat with moderation and avoid over sugar and fat intake.

Eating ice cream benefits

•     It helps in losing weight, shedding belly fats
•         Regular calcium intake from ice cream can lower the risk of having osteoporosis, a disease related    to fracture of bones.                      
•      Vitamin A, Vitamin B2 and b12
•       Contains Proteins for tissues
•        Contains Calcium for the bones

Here are the healthy options of Ice cream:

•     Low- fat Ice cream – less fat and less calorie content than the regular ice cream
•        Non-Diary Ice cream – usually soy based ice cream
•         Sherbet- contains less milk than the regular ice cream. Comes along with egg whites and gelatin for thickness, but it contains more sugar than Low-fat ice cream.
•       Soft Served Cce cream- it contains twice the air as the regular ice cream. Less sugar and fat but sometimes contains additives.

Risk for eating too much Ice Cream:

Regular or the traditional ice cream is loaded with sugar, saturated fats. It adds more calories because of the toppings added to this delight sweet. Nuts, mallows, chocolate chips, fudge, brownies and cookies are the traditional added toppings in ice creams.  Too much take of ice cream with high sugar and calorie content may result in having diabetes, high blood, high cholesterol and obesity.

Nowadays, a lot of ice cream manufacturer, produces healthier ice cream. They include fruits in ice cream and they make original flavors from fruits. 

There are reasons for your cautious ice cream eating

•   It contains sugar, fat and calories.
•   You may suffer from dreaded ice cream headache if you eat it too fast, like having a braid freeze
•  Overwhelming and desire for ice cream can cause people to do crazy things. 

Crohns Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestines. Its major types are the Crohns disease and Ulcerative colitis. It is an ongoing inflammation in one’s digestive tract.

Crohns disease is also known as regional enteritis, it affect the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus. Crohns disease is caused interactions between environmental, immunological and bacterial factors.  This causes for some chronic inflammatory problems, it results the immune system to attack our gastrointestinal tract.

Patient can feel pain and the condition that the intestines is empty frequently that results to diarrhea.

Crohns disease affects women and men in the age between 13 years old-30 years old. Smokers’ women or men have the chance to have Crohns disease than the non smokers.  Jewish people have a high risk of having the disease. In Africa they are the least risk to have Crohns disease.

Crohns disease is very difficult to detect. Other symptoms occur with other gastrointestinal disorders. Having test to detect Crohns takes a lot of questioning because it’s important for the diagnosis of the disease. Your health care provider is going to conduct some interviews, about your symptoms, medical problems you had in the past, if you undergo some surgeries too, medications you’re taking and some family history, your lifestyle and your habits.

 It gives symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be bloody if its inflammation is at its worst), vomiting can be continuous, weight loss and there are some symptoms outside the gastrointestinal tract like the skin rashes, arthritis, eye inflammation, tiredness and lack of concentration. Its symptoms are same with IBS or Irritable Bowel Movements. Fever, weight loss, bloating, anal pain, skin lesions and joint pain are some basic signs of this disease.

Crohns disease also affects the other organs of the body. It affects the skin, blood and the intestines. Crohns disease can cause neurological complications such as headache, seizure, stroke, and depressions. Crohns patients also can have small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome.

Crohns disease can cause bowel problems.  Crohns disease can be a problem for pregnant mothers because there are medications by the medical doctors that can cause adverse for the fetus or the mother. Inflammation may make scar tissue that builds up inside the intestine to make stricture. A stricture is a narrowed passageway for the food that slowing the movement through the intestine that cause pain and cramps.

Treating Crohns disease is always start with medication. The truth is that there is “NO CURE” for this disease.  Other therapy and with one or more medications can treat the early stage of Crohns disease.  

There are also medications to relieve pain and symptoms. These are the common drugs prescribed by doctors are corticosteroids, like methyl prednisone, prednisone and other anti- inflammatory medicines.

In the late diagnosed of having Crohns disease, surgery is recommended. Surgery is necessary when complications occur. Complications such as blockage of the bowel, significant bleeding and perforation of the intestines needed surgery. Not all Crohns disease patients are recommended to undergo surgery. This decision is needed to be consulted to their attending physicians.

Where are the medical clinics? Cheers to Volunteers

In our world, we have many countries, regions, provinces and we also have different people, woman, man and children.   People are suffering some sickness or disease. There is the different lifestyles and standard every citizen of a one country. There are also fortunate and unfortunate in having good life. There are rich and there are also people what to eat is their everyday problem.

They are also need medical attentions. Every country with their provinces, industrialized or not. There should be medical clinics near to every region for them to give residents medical care. For their vaccines for babies, to have monthly check ups.

Every people, individual or citizens have the right to have medical assistant. Barrios in every country have problems for that issue. There should a lot funds for building medical clinics.

There are healthcares organizations in every place in the world. They are one who helps to build medical clinics for the use of the every individual. Medical clinics should have medical doctors, medicines and complete equipments to be used for every emergency.

Healthcare providers are helping unfortunate people to have a good health and to be healthy. We should be knowledgeable about what’s happening in our medical needs. Many people are suffering because of having diseases, mothers are giving birth to their child just in their houses, others die in infections and all of that is happening because of not focusing in the medical needs of their people.

In every medical clinic in barrios there are also wonderful volunteers that are willing to help.

A lot of people in a community have a good heart. They are the one who is voluntarily joining some community services and rescues. People are volunteering to fight fire, to be firefighters. Also people are volunteering for some community services like medical missions, feeding programs, teaching street children and rescuing abuse animals.

Volunteers in healthcares are people who love to help people to have a good health. They are the one who knows the true meaning of helping. They can make other people happy in just helping them. They are doing it even without salaries. It is from their heart.

Medical missions are all important because it is the only chance for the people in the barrios to have their medical needs. Medical missions are so helpful for the people who are sick. Medical missions can reach people in different places who are not capable in going to hospitals. People in the barrios are also taught with different healthy tips. For mothers they are taught how to take good care of their children.

Volunteers are gifted to have a golden heart. They are willing to sacrifice their own lives to save others life.  Everyone is capable to help, it just differ from ways how we reach people that we want to help.

Everyone has the chance to help others. It is free. No payments in helping other people then go and try to volunteer. Share your blessings and be happy! Smile!

Bad Effects of Using Cell Phones Use it with Limit and Not a Habit

                                               

Using of cell phones is both useful and harmful for us. It is useful for easy contacting other family members, friends and for employees. It is harmful for us because it causes health problems.

Teenagers nowadays or even the young age, having cell phones with them is commonly accepted by their parents. There are health risks, bad effects and negative effects of using cell phone. Excessive use of cell phone is harmful.

In using of cell phones here are some health risks.

It’s bad for our health. Cell phones are receiving and transmitting radiofrequency like a radiation of using microwaves. Cell phone usage for male can cause infertility, Alzheimer’s disease and other health complications.

Cell phones are receiving radiation that can affect our memory. According to some researchers, radiation caused to leak in our brain tissues. Cell phone waves can affect our hearts, internal organs and also the reproductive system of an individual. The risk of having brain tumor is higher. Having tumor on the same side of the head where we usually held the phone when someone is calling. Studies show that cell phone waves can also damage our DNA. The use of cell phone for more than 10 years has the risk to have Glioma. Some nations are allergic to nickel. Nickel can be found to some mobile phones. Rash breakout comes when someone’s skin is contacted to the phone.

Using too much of cell phones can also affect our sleeping habits. Using of phones before going to bed can cause disturbances and insomnia and lack of deep sleep. It also causes lack of concentration, headache and fatigue. It increases blood pressure.

Addiction in using cell phones for teenagers, like using it for texting, calling and gaming can affect their academics.

Cell phones are also distracting for churches, offices and schools. Bringing of cell phone in schools is banned by some school regulations. If faculty members caught you of bringing phones are automatically confiscated and will be given back after the school year.

Cell phones are also an environmental unfriendly because disposing of phones is not that easy. Phones contains hazardous chemical that can damage our environment if not disposed properly.

Other abnormalities that can cause by using of cell phones are irritability, abruptness and lack of patience.

Cell phones are also expensive and costly. Buying of the latest brand new phones is expensive and it’s not yet the end. Prepaid loads and some maintenance are also present.

People using of phones at least 1 hour a day can cause you to have mouth cancer.

People using of cell phones for calls 60 minutes every day can caused hearing loss.

Having a new phone and being attached to them because of entertainment you get can limit family bonding and conversations.

Children using phones should have limitations, because they have thinner skull and undeveloped nerves.

Road accident topped many countries and some of these accidents are caused by using of cell phones while driving.

Use cell phones in the right way and with limitations.