In order for Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Autos

Most housewives make a stock of vegetables and fruit in the refrigerator for a few days needs. But unfortunately, sometimes the freshness to be reduced, even though new wilt be saved a day. What causes it?

This case could have occurred because of the way you store less precise. If so, how to keep fresh fruit and vegetables in a long time? Follow these guidelines, taken from the pages of the Times of India.

- Never store apples mixed with vegetables or other fruits

Apples release of certain gases that trigger fruit and vegetables in the surrounding areas easily decay. Similarly, tomato, and cucumber. Never store them in the same place. Tomatoes release gases that can make a rotten cucumber.

- Keep cheese in an airtight jar

Cheese store in an airtight container can help absorb moisture from the cheese. Moreover, it can keep him fresh for a longer period of time.

- Keep potatoes in the refrigerator

Potatoes absorb odors from food cooked or even vice versa. It also absorbs the gas in the fridge so it helps in the surrounding vegetable and fruit stay fresh. But you have to replace the potatoes every few days.

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Add Weight 127 Kg Cure For Diabetes

Chips, burgers, fatty foods, and high in calories are the enemy of people who want to reduce weight. However, Darin McCloud who suffer from obesity just gobble it all for the sake of adding weight to 127 pounds again. Why?

Darin who now weighs 117 kilograms and 173 centimeters had to fight increasing the weight of the body for sustained treatment of diabetes.

He needs 127 pounds of additional weight in order to be able to undergo gastric reduction surgery (gastric bypass). This is a surgery to reduce the size of the stomach and digestive tract in order to improve blood glucose control.

In order to surgery, Darin decides to change his diet. Former traffic controller is to eat bags of chips and bacon-fat bread every day. He also regularly eat fast food as a friend of high-calorie sweet drinks.

Portmouth 45-year-old man said, "I want surgery to alleviate diabetes. I want to stop using insulin, which also would reduce dependence on me," he wrote in The Sun.

Darin had diabetes for 15 years. His desire to alleviate the burden of family operations in the future.

Health institutions in the UK set out the rules for diabetics who can perform gastric bypass surgery must have a body mass index (BMI) of about 45. Darin operation request is rejected because BMI was only 40 when the examination in February 2009. Now, the weight Darin has added 10 pounds with a BMI reached 43.5.

Dr Lorraine Albon, diabetes consultant at the Queen Alexandra Hospital Darin backed plans to immediately perform gastric bypass surgery. "If he did not undergo surgery soon, there will be complications in diabetes," he said.

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One Save Nuts may trigger cancer

Be careful if you have a habit of storing nuts, especially peanuts, in the kitchen. When you run or wrong way to keep it, could be contaminated with mold-(fungi) that produce toxins called alfatoksin.

Alfatoksin not cause acute poisoning, but will cause abnormalities in chronic liver disease and can lead to liver cancer.

This was stated by Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) and the Staff of the Division of Hepatology Department of Medicine Faculty of medicine, Prof. Dr. H. Ali Sulaiman Ph.D., SpPD, KGEH, FACG, in Jakarta.

Alfatoksin acronym derived from Aspergillus flavus toxin. The toxin was first known from the fungus Aspergillus flavus was isolated in 1960.

Professor Ali added, people are most vulnerable are children alfatoksin. However, it also depends on the capabilities of individuals alfatoksin detoxify the body through biochemical processes. In addition it depends also on sex, relation to the concentration of testosterone and nutritional factors.

The symptoms that usually arises when a person has liver cancer is the presence of nausea, vomiting, weight loss drastically, the pain on the right just below the rib cavity as well as itching.

Professor Ali added easiest method to detect it is to perform ultrasound (USG) or had found a kind of bulge then can do the Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP).

In Indonesia, alfatoksin are mycotoxins (toxins produced by fungi in certain conditions of humidity and temperature) are often found on agricultural products and processed products. In addition, alfatoksin residues and their metabolites are also found in products such as dairy farmers, eggs, and chicken meat.

"But do not worry, the risk of liver cancer (only) if a person is constantly eating foods that contain alfatoksin. However, if only occasionally, toxins carried by the urine can be lost, "said Prof Ali.

Therefore, make it more secure, Prof. Ali suggested should be eating peanuts when conditions are still fresh, so a small possibility of mushrooms grown. "Avoid eating nuts with the conditions already rotten," he said.

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