Friday, January 19, 2018

Plant Chemicals Known as Flavonoids in Tea: Key to Health Benefits

Tea continues to gain popularity. All varieties, black, green, hot or iced tea drinks are seen everywhere and are a staple in many households as well. Look around in cities and shopping malls. You will find specialty tea shops on many corners. Bottled teas have a special place on store shelves. According to the Tea Association of the USA, the tea market has quadrupled over the past two decades.
Nice Cup of Tea
What fuels this tea drinking trend?
One theory is all the research and evidence of the health benefits for drinking tea. Tea is a good source of catechins and epicatechins thought to be responsible for tea's beneficial health effects. Catechins and epicatechins belong to a group of plant chemicals called flavonoids.
Shinno (Shennong) derivative
Above: A 19th-century Japanese painting depicting Shennong: Chinese legends credit Shennong with the invention of tea.

Research tells us flavonoids help stave off inflammation. Next, is this process may reduce plaque buildup inside arteries. Green tea is said to have slightly higher amounts of these chemicals than black tea. Another positive aspect of tea drinking is that both black and green tea is lower in caffeine than coffee.
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Above: Tea Weighing Station located at the Chakva tea farm and processing plant just north of Batumi, close to the Black Sea coast Georgia. The Chakva farm and plant was one of the major suppliers of tea to all parts of the Russian Empire.between 1905 and 1915

Other possible benefits of tea drinking include:
  • may improve vascular reactivity (how well your blood vessels respond to physical or emotional stress)
  • may lower harmful LD cholesterol levels
  • blood pressure also be lower in people who drink tea
Results from studies producing the above have been mixed.

There are several large, population-based studies showing that people who regularly drink black or green tea may be less likely to have heart attacks and strokes. Some experts believe tea may have cardiovascular benefits, but it is not a for sure thing.
One main point is to not be tempted by green tea extracts or tea supplements to get a higher dose of flavonoids. If you enjoy drinking tea, you may be one who will benefit from the health benefits, but don't go overboard with products promising higher concentrations of flavonoids just to try and reap the health benefits which may not even be in those products and more harmful than good.
To this date, there are no known downsides to drinking one or two cups of tea per day. Excessive amounts may harm the kidneys and even lead to kidney failure. Drink tea if you enjoy it not because you think it is good medicine and always drink tea in moderation. Source: Harvard Heart Newsletter
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Describe Vegetable Recipes in More Enticing Words to Encourage Eating More Vegetables

Beets arrive to us in many colors.....ruby red, golden yellow and candy-striped. Despite the beautiful colors beets are not exactly the most popular vegetable. In a study done at a Stanford University cafeteria, it was found people eat about 25% more vegetables if described in more enticing terms such as "tangy lime-seasoned beets" instead of just plain BEETS for sale to eat.

Even describing vegetables in more healthy sounding terms brought more people to the table of eating vegetables. For example: "lighter-choice beets with no added sugar" were a bigger hit than  just plain BEETS. All the dishes in this study were prepared the same way. Only change was the NAME or LABEL given to each dish containing vegetables. Another example given was "zesty ginger-turmeric sweet potatoes." 
Uncommon beetroot colours
Conclusion  is if you want to entice someone to eat more vegetables, add some enticing adjectives to the describe the recipe. This works especially well with children who are reluctant to eat their vegetables.

Nutrition:
Beets are a good source of B vitamin folate and the mineral manganese. Another plus to eating more beets is that they contain naturally high levels of nitrates. Our digestive system converts nitrates into nitric oxide which is a compound that helps to relax and widen blood vessels. Final impression: Beets can help lower blood pressure due to this process!
There are many ways to get more beets into our diet. You can peel them, then grate or slice into thin rounds to use in salads. You can roast beets wrapped in foil and baked at 400 degrees F. source: Harvard Heart Newsletter
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

The French Paradox: What is it?

Back in the late 1980s, there was an expression widely used that went something like this: "Hey, it's good for my heart, right?" This was the time when experts were telling us a glass of red wine per day was actually good for you, so go ahead and enjoy it. This impression coined also in the late 1980s the phrase: "The French Paradox." I even got aboard during that time and was out tasting red wines, even buying bottles of red wine and then added a piece of cheese for a late night snack even.....
Red Wine Glass

The "French Paradox" refers to the notion that drinking wine may explain the relatively low rates of heart disease among the French people despite how much they liked cheese and other rich, fatty foods. It was supposed the red wine helped them to stave off heart disease from all the other negative foods they loved to eat which could cause heart disease. Just top everything off with a glass of red wine and don't worry about heart disease from anything else you eat kind of thinking.
The French Paradox theory also started the discovery of a host of beneficial plant compounds known as "polyphenols." Polyphenols turns out to be plentiful in red and purple grape skins as well as other fruits, vegetables and nuts, but the keen thing about this discovery was that polyphenols in foods had heart-protecting properties. This meant wine was made from red and purple grape skins, especially red wine and so therefore red wine must be a great tool to help us stave off heart disease. It was an alcohol drink we could drink without feeling guilty.
Another argument came from the fact that the Mediterranean diet helped to ward off heart attacks and strokes and in fact featured "red wine."
Today, new research tells us the evidence of drinking red wine in particular or alcohol in general can help you avoid heart disease is not very strong at all. In fact, a person who does not drink alcohol and may be prone to "addictions" could  become addicted to alcohol just thinking what they were doing was good for their heart. This is the category I fell  into. However, I stopped the practice before becoming an alcoholic. I suppose had I enjoyed alone the buzz from the alcohol, I might have continued on increasing my intake until I was addicted.
Moderate drinking is defined as one drink per day for healthy women and two drinks per day for healthy men and is still widely considered SAFE. However, to this date in 2018 the health effects of alcohol have never tested in long term been true to helping us prevent any kind of disease let alone heart disease. On the flip side of that, there are some studies that suggest wine is better for the heart than beer or hard liquor, so if you are going to enjoy alcohol, the jury votes and tells us wine is probably the least harmful to our health. 
People who drink wine are more likely to drink it as part of a healthy pattern such as a glass or two with a special meal. Whereas hard liquor like beer, whiskey all the rest are drank by those who's sole purpose is to feel the "buzz."
Conclusion: If you enjoy red wine, be sure to limit yourself to moderate amounts. Measure out 5 ounces which is one serving of red wine. Use a regular measuring cup to measure your serving and then pour it into your favorite goblet.

Me being a collector, of course, I collected some pretty goblets for my heart health drinking routine! Believe it or not one serving gave me a buzz. I suppose if a person is use to drinking, or like with any other drug, as you continue to drink, it takes more and more to give you a buzz. Fortunately, I stopped the red wine drinking routine before it took more than just one serving to give me a buzz, and I really was not after the buzz to begin with.
Source: Harvard Health Newsletter February 2018
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