Archive for February 4th, 2007

Health Benifit of alkaline foods- 酸性鹼性的食 物

酸性鹼性的食

有人 說蔬菜是鹼性﹐蛋白質是 酸性的。不對。 蛋白質是氨基酸合成﹐有酸性有鹼性在腸子裡﹐多 半蔬菜的成份是 不被 ﹐不吸收。能吸收的﹐消 化了後﹐大半 。當然是酸性的。

蔬菜的優點﹐就是多 ﹐不吸收。不太增加體重。在物質豐富的的地區﹐很好。如果是身體虛弱的人﹐那就不能吃太多.

Too much of good thing?- drinking water

According to UPI news , a young woman in California died shortely after entering drinking contest.

http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_9055-Woman-Dies-After-Water-Drinking-Contest.html

It is a tragic event that should not have happened.

Water drinking has become a fad in health industry. It is being promoted as a necessary step in maintaining a good health. Water bottling industry has prospered so fast in the last few years. Is there any medical study done to support it? I don’t think so, because it is bound to fail.

As we drink in water, immediately, our blood volume increase. The concentration of all components in the blood is diluted. Notes that we have about 4-5 liters of blood in the entire body. If we drink one liter of water, our blood will be diluted 1/4 to 1/5 in less than half an hour. The concentration of every components of blood, like electrolytes, blood cells all would be diluted. We will be very sick if we don’t get rid of it within this period of time.

This is what happened to this poor woman.

水, 行嗎﹖

 

身體健康的人﹐多喝水﹐ 馬上(20-30)﹐水就從尿道排出。我們的身

體是沒辦法貯藏多餘水的。

 

上吐下泄時﹐ 排出的是電解質-鈉﹐鉀等。 只喝白開水﹐會稀釋血中

的電解質﹐造成紊亂。會有休克的危險。

 

昨天在美國就有一個年輕女人比喝水。只喝了四瓶(32 once) 幾個小

時後就死亡了。

Cold food and your health

In the Far East, childern are raised to avoid eating or drinking cold stuff. As kids grow up and spend more and more time watching television﹐t hey are exposed to a different value system in which “cool” is good, and icy cold is exciting. They begin to question the validity of the tradition.  Afterall, ice cream tastes so good and  icy drink tastes so satisfying. What can possibly be wrong?

Many things happen when our body is exposed to cold: blood flow slows down, muscles contract. Therefore, if we ingest large amount of cold food, our intestine motility slows which increases the absortion of foods. This tends to increse body weight. Worst off is often the coldness decends to the lower abdominal area and causing dysfunctions of ovaries and uterus of females. One typical problem is the painful menstruation.

We are not saying cold stuff can not be used at all. Knowing the consequences, for most people, moderation is the rule of the thumb.