Fall dietary health: the U.S. presidential favorite polenta _ healthy recipes _ China Agricultural Information Network

Fall diet health: U.S. President favorite polenta 2009-09-18 Renmin

After a long, hot summer, the body energy consumption and eating less, and thus the temperature gradually fall, it is necessary to tune up your body, but also build good energy for the arrival of winter. It is often due to the fast-paced life and ignore the diet, a lot of people just content to simply eat like, ignoring a reasonable mix of nutrition. A fast-food bottle of pure water, a hamburger and a cup of Coke may have inadvertently fool our stomach, but so often pose a threat to health. Living at home Xiaobian specially for you collecting suitable for this autumn types of dietary health information so that you and your family can be healthy and happy every day! According to U.S. media reports, the White House nutritionist to U.S. President Barack Obama should arrange meals weekly recipes polenta. It is said that Obama polenta soft spot for his college daily breakfast must have a bowl of polenta. This is reminiscent of the Obama shapely and abundant energy. Nutritionists agreed and, in all human staple food, the nutritional value and health effects of corn is the highest.

All times, whether it is expensive for the imperial phase, or civilians, like to eat corn no shortage of foods, ancestors developed many kinds of corn to eat, and left us with a valuable heritage of diet.

■ corn contained vitamins are rice, wheat, 5-10

Corn, also known as corn, cobs, corn. The corn contains a lot of nutritional substances, in addition to containing carbohydrates, protein, fat, carotene, also contains riboflavin.

Experts on corn, rice, wheat and other staple Comparison of the indicators of the nutritional value and health effects, and found that very high vitamin content in the corn, rice, wheat, 5-10 times, while specialty corn The nutritional value than ordinary corn. Protein of sweet corn, vegetable oil and vitamin content 1-2 times higher than normal corn, "life element" selenium content is 8-10 times higher, which contains 17 kinds of amino acids, 13 kinds of higher than normal corn.

Scientists think that people eat corn oil than to a large consumption of peanut oil and other vegetable oils benefits from a health standpoint. Contains a lot of very coarse ground cornmeal leucine and glutathione, can inhibit the side effects of anti-cancer drugs on the human body, can inhibit tumor growth. Glutathione as shackles locked the growth of carcinogenic substances it lost toxicity, will eventually excreted.

The ■ eat corn has anticancer prevention of diabetes and other role

Corn contained a longevity factor glutathione, selenium participation, generate glutathione oxidase, restore youth, anti-aging functions. The anti-cancer factor, it can be combined with some other substance, lost carcinogenic. Corn contains carotenoids, absorbed by the body into vitamin A, also has a role in cancer prevention; corn contained more plant cellulose in laxative power, can accelerate the carcinogens and other The poison the discharge, thereby reducing the likelihood of occurrence of colon cancer.

Corn is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, especially linoleic acid content of up to 60% or more, the synergistic effect of vitamin E and corn germ, it can reduce blood cholesterol levels and prevent its deposition in the vessel wall. Therefore, the corn, such as coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension have some role in prevention and treatment. Vitamin E also promote human cell division, aging. Rich in calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, selenium, and vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, E and carotene such as the role of adjuvant therapy for cholecystitis, gallstones, jaundice, hepatitis and diabetes.

Scientific testing confirmed that nearly 300 milligrams of calcium per 100 grams of corn can provide almost the calcium contained in dairy. Rich in calcium lowering blood pressure can play. If the daily intake of 1 g of calcium, six weeks after the blood pressure can be reduced by 9%. Plant cellulose can accelerate the discharge of carcinogens and other toxic; natural vitamin E promote cell division, anti-aging, and prevent the function of the skin lesions, can alleviate atherosclerosis and brain function decline. Corn contains lutein and zeaxanthin can fight aging eyes to stimulate the brain cells, enhance human mental and memory.

U.S. researchers in the study also found that regular consumption of corn bran and corn oil is very beneficial to lower cholesterol. They had chosen an average age of 55 years old, 70 elderly people, including 50 male and 20 female, these people have higher cholesterol levels, and hospitalization time in more than 2 years, and the result is not ideal. These test, the researchers corn through the fine ground research and served with garlic powder, black pepper, celery and other condiments, food reconcile with tomato soup month and a half before the test, eat 20 grams per person per day after one and a half to eat 40 grams per person per day, three months, then checked and found to have declined in triglycerides in the blood of 70 people, 60 cholesterol lowering.

■ corn, soybean 3:1 mixed edible method is recommended by the World Health Organization

Chinese medicine, the corn sweet natured, appetizers, spleen, dehumidification, diuretic Indications diarrhea, indigestion, edema.

And any other kind of food, the corn nor is it contains all the nutrients needed by the body. The protein contained in the corn is not complete protein contained the amino acid imbalance, in particular, the lack of lysine and tryptophan. Therefore, it can not only as a daily staple, otherwise, it will cause human malnutrition.

Eat a lot of corn, tender corn market day, chew on a "cook stick" the most ideal; doing buns and corn flour steamed buns; rice (or millet), cornmeal porridge.