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The researchers at the University of Toronto have recently completed a new study on the strawberries and its effect on cholesterol.
The study examined 28 men and women with high cholesterol that took a diet low in cholesterol and gave half of the group three cups of strawberries a day for 30 days and the other half more bread of oat bran.
At the end of the month, the subject that ate the strawberries lowered cholesterol, which also had a reduction of oxidative damage that generates the LDL or bad cholesterol.
“In the excess, LDL (bad) is detrimental to our arteries, but it is even more harmful if it is oxidized, therefore the antioxidants contained in the strawberries help reduce the free radicals that cause oxidation in the body.
This small study was supported by the California Strawberry Commission, although the study clearly contributes to the promotion of the sales of strawberries, but they help these new findings to demonstrate that the strawberries, as well as other antioxidants that are very rich in fruit and berries, represent an important part in a healthy diet and disease prevention. Read the rest of this entry »

For that including to your diet low in calories, prepare some delicious plants of station with salsa white low in calories and gratin in the last moment.
Ingredients:
1 Tied asparagus or other vegetable election
30 grs of vegetable margarine
200 cc skim milk
3 Tablespoons grated cheese (low-calorie)
1 Tablespoon flushes of corn starch
Salt and nutmeg, to taste
Preparation:
The white sauce low in calories is produced from the follows: placed in a pot skim milk along with the corn starch and mescals well. Kitchen is preparing to low heat until it thickens. Then withdraw of fire and you up vegetable margarine and spices with salt and nutmeg, to taste. Read the rest of this entry »

So the researchers saw similar results in women, in both countries both for the high, as the low ends of the spectrum evaluated.

This prevalence of low intake as regards to fruits and vegetables increases with age and the decline in income, as evaluated on the results surprised Moore, as the surveys of the United States and other developed countries show that the intake of fruits and vegetables increases with age.

“The majority of people regardless of the country in which they live, simply do not conform to the guidelines recommended as appropriate to the consumption of fruit and vegetables,” said the co-author Justin Hall, a graduate student of the Queen’s University.

“Some countries seem to be better off than others, in relative terms but the overall prevalence of low consumption of fruit and vegetables is very high throughout the world.” Read the rest of this entry »