Effect of Genetic Factors on Nutrition

Food preferences vary from person to person (From adults to children). Children’s food preferences play an important role in their establishment. The transitional change from children to adolescent is known by the independence but the relative influence of genetic material and food preferences in the early adolescents’ remains unknown.

The dietary patterns varies from individual to individual varies and the relative of these changed in context with the genetic relationship is yet to be proven. Genetic variability can be reflected in various forms like absorption, metabolism, and excretion.

Inborn differences in the activity of enzymes and other functional proteins determine the biochemical and metabolic factors. Genetic variations can also affect the likes and dislikes for the food in childhood, like inability to taste the artificial sweeteners etc. The contribution of food preferences alter with the environmental and genetic variations in older adolescents. There are no clear factors to determine the genetic factors on the consumption of total calories, fats or carbohydrates consumed

Genetic factors play a role in the occurrence of Obesity. About 100’s of genes have been identified which reflect the Body Mass Index (BMI) of the body. Unlike the functioning of these genes as biological mechanisms is still unknown. The relation between genetic factors and nutrition can shed the way for the genes linked to BMI  to play its role in Nutrition.

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Is an ALKALINE DIET the key to Longevity?

What’s the Impact of the total food you are eating? Almost all the processed foods that we are eating are acidic in nature. Is this what our body needs? A healthy pH balanced diet provides health benefits like healthy Heart, boosts immune system and stronger bones. The foods we take should contain a pH range in between 7.35-7.45. Anything less than the normal pH range are the acidic foods which are too bad for the health metabolism. Wrong pH will raise serious health issues.

How does an Alkaline Diet work:

There is wide range of eating plans than the routine acidic food list. The alkaline foods will make a healthy living, makes a better life span, and fights off infection unlike the processed foods. Much of the discussion surrounding the alkaline food diet focuses on the innumerable changes in the human diet over the last 10,000 years. Till the recent time on our evolutionary timeline, people mostly consumed fruit, vegetables, and small amounts of protein materials. With the advent of Food processing industries, we began eating more refined grains, fattier sources of meat, and processed foods that are high in sodium, saturated fat, and refined sugars — all of which cause inflammation and contribute to serious, chronic diseases. The alkaline diet discourages such foods.

On an average a human consumes a large number of foods that increase our body’s acidity which in turn keeps our body’s immune system constantly active, trying to balance our pH level. This leads to an increased chance of falling sick and getting a disease. Most of the celebs live on Alkaline diets in a bid to stay fit and avoid diseases like cancer and arthritis. Here  is a list of Ingredients for Alkaline Food that you can use to follow your diet. Olive oil, Broccoli, Avacado, Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, Watermelons, Carrots, Cucumber, Green Drinks

Alkaline Diet Benefits: 

1.      Secures Bone Density and Muscle Mass

2.      Brings down Risk for Hypertension and Stroke

3.      Brings down Chronic Pain and Inflammation

4.      Helps Vitamin Absorption and Prevents Magnesium Deficiency

5.      Enhances Immune Function and Cancer Protection

6.      Can Help You Maintain a Healthy Weight

The effect of the alkaline diet may have little to do with pH levels and more to do with the many benefits of eating whole, organic food. In real nutrition affects health and overall wellness more than any other factor. Combining solid, consistent nutrition with regular body cleansing will help your body be its best.  When we avoid foods high in omega-6 fatty acids, we reduce the levels of arachidonic acid, which causes the inflammation associated with heart disease and joint pain. The alkaline diet also encourages you to avoid processed foods and refined sugars; neither offer any nutritional benefits and both are common causes of diet-related diseases. So, let’s start with what the alkaline diet is all about, and the then we’ll look at where it falls apart.

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Increasing Shelf Life: Nano Foods

Nano Technology the developed boon for Health. Nano Technology has poised a better way of Food Packaging. Manipulating Foods in this style gives food of low fats and still tastes great. An ample way of packing more nutrients than the usual way. It reduces the amount of usage of plastic and also builds the sensors where it tells whether the food is still fresh inside.

The Food Industry is unwittingly using the techniques of Nano Technology since years. A variety of Nano Technology products have come into use and few of them have hit the market.The regular way of Food Industries is not likely to adopt Nano technology unless it could benefit the business of their customers. One of the main uses is delivering more amounts of Vitamins and Nutrients through the food we eat.

Researchers have made a new technique where in edible coating is applied with an added functional ingredients applied to the freshly cut foods. This helps in the refrigeration of fruits and vegetables for a longer life. Research studies of years experiments revealed that Nano capsules loaded with alpha tocopherol and beta-carotene in edibles are dispersed, homogeneous film forms a flexible, inhibits enzymatic browning and prolongs the life of the Foods. The micro encapsulated capsules made are designed in such a way that it’s the size of a nanometric ball size ranging between 100-500 nm structured where you can internally place active substance such as Lemon / rosemary achieving through the wall of the fruit maintaining their conservation. Different flavors can be used instead to make the product attractive.Poly hybrid composites are used for the food packaging and membrane filters.

Nanotechnology processes are still in their infancy but has an unbeatable and exciting applications.Nano technology companies are using the applications to test the safety of their products.UK food researchers are running on the project on the conclusions on what will happen if the nano particles are ingested.Few data’s reveal the toxicology of the ingestion of nano particles and it doesn’t really mean that the nano particles are dangerous.

Heal Your Mind and Body: YOGIC NUTRITION

Yoga is a Practice and is solely inherited individually and it solitary confines body’s internal landscape.
In addition to the physical energetic body, when combined with balanced Diet with whole foods makes a sure key of success to perfect Health, longevity and Happiness.

Eating should also be made like a yoga practice, where one can seek universal balance. Like Yoga, Eating should be an addiction where is turns into a personal activity, where you can know how to control your nutritional system and diet. Yoga has many physical and mental benefits. Yoga develops inner awareness and improves the body’s capability and strength. People who practice yoga are mindful eaters and they are into more positive relationship with food and eating. Yoga is personally done to soothe tensions and anxiety, but it also has an impact on a person’s Diet, Health and Nutritional habits maintaining a healthy way of living. Yoga Practice is backed up to 5000years back.

Yogic Nutrition should be combined with diet based on natural and local foods. Yogic Nutrition is a Dietary healing. They back the macrobiotic practices, heal and energize the body with spirit. The results include the practical follow of organized meals and prepare meals individually as per the diet count. Dietary patterns vary for the women relative to their age and yoga practice.

A Holistic and macrobiotic diet of a women’s health reviews specific physical conditions:
a) Cancer (Cysts in breasts and reproductive organs)
b) Weight fluctuations
c) Hypoglycemia
d) Allergies and candid disorders
e) Hormonal changes
f) Osteoporosis
g) Disorders
h) Stress and Pressure
i) Skin problems

Yogic Nutrition is just another way of finding a personal balance of foods to fit into one’s own body constitution. People undergoing cancer treatments find Yogic Nutrition a perfect way of controlling stress levels. Yoga makes our body be controlled in the way we want, it eliminates raw eating patterns. It controls the breath controlling system, which actually is beneficial for people facing situations like craving for junk foods and Drugs. Researchers are finding ways to improve the outcome with Cancer, Arthritis and Depression. Yoga indirectly improves Nutrition.

Yogic Diets are mostly touted as Vegetarianism and veganism avoid killing animals for food. Cultivating mindfulness on mats can make you mind controlled in all the other ways of life including Food. It’s a way of managing weight. Potentially it decreases the risk of weight management, chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, Heart diseases, Hypertension.

Ways to Track your Food: Tech World

Tracking Food is the way where you can monitor your Food. Hunger is the body’s in built Food Tracker and one should not kill their hunger to build a un healthy relationship with the Food. Technology is at our hands where one can count their calories and maintain a healthy life without being Insane. Carefully planned meals make us know the calculation of “Calories in and Calories out” and makes a perfect point of weight gain, weight loss or weight management. We need to ensure the master equation to reach the goal of the nutrition through the latest personalized Nutrition Trackers.

Can Food Tracking be named as “Self-Monitoring of Diet”, there are plenty more to back up the ways of Food Tracking. Scientist’s curiosity has laid a foundational key to the ways of weight loss through Food Tracking. A research review has found the way of positive weight loss and the Food Tracking (Food Intake)  where studies showed the dietary reports. Latest Food Technology gadgets have found a way of tracking food more easier and precise.

Diet Sensor: This has become one gadget where the equipment can scan the food by passing a beam of light and tells the nutrient components in the food along with the amount of Protein, Fat and carbohydrates content. The constituents are calculated by the interaction of the food with the ray of light passed by the Diet Sensor. The sensor passes a beam of infra-red light onto the surface of the food that enables the food molecules to vibrate and allows it to produce optical Signature of the food molecules

The drawback of this Diet sensor is that, the scanner works only for the homogeneous food or foods with one layer, for example foods like bread, cheese slices or chicken but not chicken sandwich. There is a data base due use the Diet sensor for non-homogenous foods.  Diet sensor app displays the nutritional content for you to know the amount of food intake taken by you and also advices the portion of food to be taken by you based on your goals of nutritional intake based on the data bases you provide and conditions your health with Diabetes, high cholesterol and makes you fitness expert. New products like Hidrate Spark, Smart diet scale are out in this technological world where the sensor in the Hydrate Spark makes you know the amount of water intake  and Smart diet gives the nutritional information by weighing the food with more precise and accurate values of the calories and nutrient calculations.

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Nutrition Networking: Brain Psychiatry Impacts

Brain Disease starts in your daily breed. Our Brain is always ON, as it continuously takes care of our thoughts, breathing and movements. It continuously works 24/7. This means it requires constant supply of fuel and this supply of food comes from the stuff which we feed ourselves. This is the reason we need to keep our system in peak working conditions. Nutrition is always linked to the cognitive performance. Recent studies show that monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA’s) a class of nutrients found in olive oils, nuts and avocados are connected to optimum intelligence, and that this relationship is driven by the correlation between MUFAs and the organization of the brain’s attention network, studies are still under the cover in finding out what underlies the connection.

Today’s goal is to understand on how nutrition might be used to support cognitive performance and to study the ways in which nutrition may influence the functional organization of the human brain. The ongoing study is important because if we want to develop nutritional interventions that are effective at enhancing cognitive performance, we need to understand the ways that these nutrients influence brain function. Researchers examined the relationship between groups of fatty acids and brain networks that underlie general intelligence. This was a way to sought and understand if brain network organization mediated the relationship between fatty acids and general intelligence. Studies suggesting cognitive benefits of the General diet, which is rich in Mono saturated Fatty Acids, made the researchers to focus on this specific group of fatty acids. They examined nutrients in the recipient’s blood and found that the fatty acids clustered into two patterns: Saturated fatty acids and MUFAs. The approach was focused on Individual proteins. It was in co-relation with the Dietary patterns and the dietary intake of specific nutrients.

Studies revealed that the General Intelligence was mainly because of the Dorsal Attention network, which plays a critical role in demanding the regular tasks of everyday. The Neural network is well organized in a cluster of regions as well as the globally integrated systems. Studies showed that the Mono saturated Fatty Acids are related to the specific brain networks of dorsal attentional network and these are very well organized. The next level of study is to understand the relationship between the Mono saturated Fatty Acids and the general Intelligence. These findings relate the effect of Nutrition with the general Intelligence

To protect your brain, it’s good to follow the dietary intake which tends to be make the brain networking the superfast. Food ingredients like Sodium increases the risk of high blood pressure, a risk factor for stroke, and saturated fat and cholesterol can clog arteries, triggering a stroke. A heart healthy diet will reduce the risk of a stroke because heart and brain health go together. This means eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and fish and reducing consumption of red meat and fatty foods.

I QUIT SUGAR! Making Sense of Sugar

We have probably heard a million times that sugar affects our system, but still it’s worth repeating. Added sugars in our diet is the worst ingredient that we include in our regular decorum, as it contains whole lot of calories (Sucrose, Fructose) with no essential nutrients. This is the reason it’s called Empty Calories. There is an increasing pressure on various studies to make a move to completely stop the consumption of sugar for a healthy metabolism, as sugar indirectly causes Obesity.

Sugar nevertheless is found in the form of many sources. The natural sugars are found in the foods like Milk (Lactose), Fruits and Honey. These are also called as Free Sugars while other set of Sugars is the Artificial or Added sugars which are high risk when consumed.

World Nutrition and Health Professionals recommend only to an extent of 5% of the added or natural sugar intake in our daily diet. Children can be limited of up to only 19gms of Sugar in their diet. When we consume a greater amount of Sugar (10% – 15%) it leads to nutritional deficiencies and it also causes the bacteria in the mouth and often results in tooth decaying. Sugar also overloads your liver. Sugar becomes an addiction for many, which causes immense pain, nausea, and flu-like symptoms during abrupt withdrawal. Continuous sugar consumption leads to accumulation of fats and liver deposits which leads to problems. The consumption of limited added sugars and the natural sugars from fruits doesn’t give any risk of fat accumulation.

Sugar can cause insulin resistance, which causes cardiovascular risk, obesity, diabetes and other health complications. Studies reveal that insulin resistance is associated with sugar consumption. Studies also warm that high consumption of sugars lead to the risk of cancer. Sugar addictions can be compared to drug addiction as it releases the hormone Dopamine. It causes a 60% chance of obesity risk in children and adults. The source comes from the daily sugar included diet and sugar sweetened beverages. Not surprisingly, people ultimately become overweight and obese. Now the only thing one can do is cut off sugar in every single bite. It’s the Sugar not the fat which is causing the Cardio-vascular effects. Evidences show the effect of fructose on the metabolism leading to cardio risk.

The only thing one can do is to eliminate the usage of 80% of the processed foods, limiting the amount of fructose in your diet. Control your Dopamine and stop your cravings and say NO to Sugar. The best way to avoid high sugar is to pick up Fruits with high water content which are low in sugar. Do not substitute artificial sugars in your Tea or Coffee as latest studies revealed a whole lot of risk of cancer and other Health problems with the addition of artificial sugars in our diet. Keep an eagle eye on all the nutrition and Sugar labeled canned foods for the Sugar.