Nutrition

Definition of Nutrition; nourishment, or the supply of materials, food, required by organisms and cells to stay alive.

Nutritional science studies how the body breaks food down (catabolism) and repairs and creates cells and tissue (anabolism) – catabolism and anabolism = metabolism.
What are nutrients?
Nutrients are substances that the body needs to live and grow. The body requires more than 45 nutrients, and the ways they are used are as different as the molecules, cells, and tissues they help to create. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats — called macro-nutrients – are broken down (metabolized) to provide energy. Vitamins and minerals; called micro-nutrients, which are not used for energy themselves, but are needed to help macro-nutrients be used for energy.

Vitamins and minerals play an essential role in the body’s normal metabolism, growth, and development. For example, while a vitamin is not a source of energy by itself, it can provide the key the body needs to unlock energy stored in food. -University of Maryland Medical Center.

 

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The human body is made up of thousands of different chemicals that create nutrition.

It is incredible that fed sufficient food and given enough calories, the body is capable of manufacturing nearly all of its needed nutrients. There are, however, some 45 or so essential nutrients that the human body is incapable of manufacturing. The essential nutrients can be divided into seven general categories: water, proteins, fiber, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals.  Fiber is not an essential nutrient, but it is also extremely important in prevention of certain diseases.

The human body is made up of thousands of different chemicals. It is incredible that given enough calories, the body is capable of manufacturing nearly all of its needed nutrients. There are, however, some 45 or so essential nutrients that the human body is incapable of manufacturing. The essential nutrients can be divided into seven general categories: water, proteins, fiber, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Fiber is not an essential nutrient, but it is also extremely important in prevention of certain diseases.

  • Water.  Approximately 60% of the adult human body is composed of water.
  • Calorie Sources. There are three sources of caloric energy: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Proteins make up the structural foundation of the cells, tissues, and organs.
  • Vitamins.  Fourteen vitamins have been identified to play key roles in the metabolism of the healthy body. These vitamins include vitamins A, D, E, K, B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 (cyanocobalamine), C, biotin, folic acid, niacin, and pantothenic acid.
  • Minerals.  Minerals are inorganic (not made by living things) substances that are essential for the proper functioning of the body. Minerals are divided into two general categories: electrolytes and trace elements. Electrolytes must be consumed in relatively large quantities, but trace elements are needed in very small amounts.
  • The trace elements include iron, zinc, copper, manganese, fluoride, iodide, sulfur, molybdenum, and a few relatively unimportant minor elements. Iron is the most important of all the trace elements because it is essential in the structure of hemoglobin, the red blood cell molecule that carries oxygen to the tissues.
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Here is a list of the seven major types of nutrients that the human body requires.

  1. Carbohydrates,
  2.  protein
  3.  fat,
  4.  vitamins,
  5.  minerals,
  6.  fiber
  7.  water.

Carbohydrates.  Molecules consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Carbohydrates include monosaccharides (glucose, fructose, glactose), sisaccharides, and polysaccharides (starch).

Proteins.  Molecules contain nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Simple proteins, called monomers, are used to create complicated proteins, called polymers, which build and repair tissue.

Fats.  Molecules consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. Fats are triglycerides – three molecules of fatty acid combined with a molecule of the alcohol glycerol. Fatty acids are simple compounds (monomers) while triglycerides are complex molecules (polymers).

Fats.  Fiber consists mostly of carbohydrates. However because of its limited absorption by the body, not much of the sugars and starches get into the blood stream. Fiber is a crucial part of essential human nutrition.

Water.  About 70% of the non-fat mass of the human body is water. Nobody is completely sure how much water the human body needs – claims vary from between one to seven liters per day, drink plenty of clean fresh water to be on the safe side, and keeps things operating and cool.

Minerals (Micro-nutrients).  Dietary minerals are the other chemical elements our bodies need, apart from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen: Potassium, Chloride, Sodium, Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Zinc, Iron, Manganese, Copper, Iodine, Selenium, Molybdenum.

Vitamins (Micro-nutrients).  These are organic compounds we require in tiny amounts. An organic compound is any molecule that contains carbon. It is called a vitamin when our bodies cannot synthesize (produce) enough or any of it. So we have to obtain it from our food.
Vitamins are classified as water soluble (they can dissolve in water) or fat soluble (they can dissolve in fat). For humans there are 4 fat-soluble (A, D, E, and K) and 9 water-soluble (8 B vitamins and vitamin C) vitamins – a total of 13.

Water soluble vitamins need to be consumed more regularly because they are eliminated faster and are not readily stored. Urinary output is a good predictor of water soluble vitamin consumption. Several water-soluble vitamins are manufactured by bacteria.

Fat soluble vitamins are absorbed through the intestines with the help of fats (lipids). They are more likely to accumulate in the body because they are harder to eliminate quickly.

Vitamin A.
Vitamin B,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,12.
Vitamin C.
Vitamin D.
Vitamin E.
Vitamin K.

Some vitamins and minerals work together, such as the mineral zinc and vitamin A. Zinc enables the body to use vitamin A to promote good vision. Not getting enough vitamin A may lead to night blindness, a condition in which the eyes have trouble adjusting to darkness.  -University of Maryland Medical Center.

 

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A balanced diet of the essential Nutrients is vital for the optimal supply of the building blocks of good health, along with plenty of physical activities outdoors in clean fresh air. Also important is healthy sleeping patterns and a positive state of mind, being relaxed physically, spiritually and emotionally does affect your overall state of wellness.

How to ensure a balanced diet of nutrition?

  • Get a nutrition guide for your self/family.
  • Write a list what foods you need for 7 days.
  • Write a 7 day menu for your self/family.
  • Make a shopping list, 2 per week.
  • Learn and train your family to eat lots of fruit and vegetables, even if the vegetables are bought frozen.
  • Stick to a healthy eating plan, and also stay physically active outdoors.

The above is a general common sense advice only, it is not intended for those with serious medical condition, always seek medical advice when health problems occur.

 

Study Human Anatomy and Physiology

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Car Free Day, September 22, 2012.

Today is the car Free day here in the Nordic region, the car free day has been on going since the 1970.

The car free day stared early in the 1970, after the price of crude of spiked, and people became more aware of the rise in the cost of petrol.  During the car free day people are encouraged not to drive a car, but to walk instead and to use push bikes during that day.

The motor vehicle is often overrated, people often rely on it so much, that they can not do anything without driving a car from point A to point B.  Some people will build their personality around a motor vehicle, i guess they do the same around their equestrian hobbies, horses are more environmentally friendly.

Car free day is a great idea, it can make people more aware of the benefits that can be gained by walking and by using a push bike, both of these means of travel can help to maintain good physical fitness.  Walking more between the point A and B, push bike can also connect the A, B to the C and D. A pushbike can also recreate the whole concept of trivial driving, from being a useless preoccupation to making travel by a bike health benefiting exercise.

On the free car day people can walk and cycle more, by doing these exercises there are many benefits to many systems of their body.

  1. Cardiovascular system
  2. Respiratory system
  3. Skeletal system
  4. Limbic system
  5. Muscular system

Car free day encourages physical activities and down to earth real time, realistic speeds of travel.

 

 

 

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Prime Colors and Prime Health.

What is it about the primary colors that is so attention attractive.


Why do flowers have such Prime Colors and Prime Health, to attract insects, bees and the birds.  What about the fruit, most fruit are brightly colored also, indicating Prime Colors and Prime Health.

 

 

Nordic nutrition and the availability of regional ingredients is at it's best during the summer season. Fresh food ingredients and nutrition is abundant during the summer season. (Vesa Leinonen)

 

Here is an alphabetical list of fruits and some related facts about each one, A to Z.

Apple - a global favourite fruit and a good source of vitamin C. Red.

Apricot - soft, sweet and juicy orange coloured fruit packed with beta-carotene. Orange.

Avocado - Fatty soft flesh and a large stone in a thin outer casing. These trees produce hundreds of fruits which taste buttery and rich.

Breadfruit- a single Malayan tree produces up to 200 or more grapefruit sized fruits each season. Breadfruit flesh can be roasted, baked or fried and the taste is like bread (hence the name).

Banana - yellow curved tropical fruit beloved the world over. In terms of global sales this tops the list of fruits. Originally from tropical Southeast Asia bananas grow pointing upward on the worlds largest herbaceous flowering plant. Most people mistake the plant for a tree, but once the fruits are ripe the main stem (which may have grown to 25ft tall) dies off and a new one starts growing. Although the common yellow banana is a sweet tasting fruit the starchier common plantain is also popular, but often makes an appearance in savory dishes, particularly in the West Indies. Yellow.

Blackberry – The fruit of the bramble bush which is a very common european wild bush, blackberries are also cultivated and blackberry jam is a british favourite. Picking blackberries is enjoyable, but the bush has sharp spines. Blackberries find their way into wines and liqueurs, but apart from jam, their most common use is in blackberry and apple pies. Black.

Blackcurrant – A european native currant also popular for jams. Black.

Blueberry – A north American fruit high in antioxidants. The small bushes grow in acidic soils, producing hundreds of small blue fruits in early summer. Dark blue.

Cherimoya- or custard apple. A delicious south american fruit with a white flesh which does indeed taste of apples and custard. The seeds and skin are toxic, but the flesh is utterly delicious. Yellow/white.

Cherry – Related to both plums and apricots, the cherry tree produces small red fruits with a distinctive taste. Sweet and fragrant, cherries are a midsummer treat. Bright red.

Clementine – A sweet orange citrus fruit from the mandarin family. Clementines are much easier to peel than oranges.

Coconut – Should this even be in a list of fruits? The fruit of the coconut palm is harvested throughout the tropical world for food, oil and Coir (the brown fibrous husk of the coconut). Brown.

Cranberry – American bog berry, high in vitamin C. An astringent taste makes it a great breakfast fruit.

Custard Apple – soft mushy apple.

Durian – A thorn-covered outer layer reveals a strong smelling fruit that is most definitely an acquired taste.

Fig – The fruit we know of as the fig is actually the flower of the fig tree. Sweet and delicious, color brown.

Grapefruit – A breakfast favourite, The large sharp but succulent grapefruit has a yellow skin and is about three times the size of an average orange. Much more sour than an orange and with a bitter tang too, the grapefruit needs to be fully ripe or alternatively a little sugar can be added.

Grape – Clusters of green, yellow or red fruits grow on vines in many parts of the world. Eaten fresh or turned into wine, grapes are a very popular fruit.

Guava- Round or oval fruits between 4 and 12 cm long. The taste is slightly perfumed and sweet and Guavas are packed with vitamins A and C.

Jackfruit – Related to Guava but much bigger fruits that can grow to 80 lbs in weight. the taste is unique and many westerners find they cannot enjoy them, but in Asia jackfruits are hugely popular.

Kiwi – Green to brown skinned fruit with a hairy surface. Inside is a sharp but sweet flesh that goes equally well in a traditional sweet fruit salad as it does in a tomato salad. Try slicing kiwi and tomato and layering them alternately in a dish. A sprinkle of salt is all you need to complete this surprisingly good salad.

Lemon – The king of citrus fruits and essential in Mediterranean cookery. Southern Italy is particularly famous for cooking with lemons.

Lime – Green relative of the lemon. Vitamin C rich limes were given to british sailors to ward off scurvy, which kept them healthy but led to the nickname ‘Limey’ being used as an insulting term for a british person.

Loganberry – A cross between raspberries and blackberries and like both parents is high vitamin C.

Mandarin – Relative of the satsuma

Mango – Tropical fruit

Mangosteen -

Melon- In Italy the melon sellers walk the beaches selling slices of cool watermelon to sunbathers. The massive heavy round green fruits are cut open to reveal a deep red watery sweet flesh that seems to dissolve in the mouth. One of the worlds great summer pleasures is spitting the inedible watermelon seeds out as far as possible.

Nectarine - A hairless form of peach that grows in slightly more northern latitudes than its more tender cousin. Delicious to eat freshly picked from the tree. Nectarines have a sweet orange coloured flesh full of juice.

Orange- Popular citrus with many varieties. The navel orange is so called because the depression at the end looks like a bellybutton.

Papaya – Large central american fruits generally eaten raw.

Peach – The fine experience of picking and eating a fully ripe peach from a tree and eating it there and then has little competition for unalloyed pleasure. A thin downy skin parts to reveal rich succulent flesh that is sweet and delicious.

Pear – A northern European native, the pear is a wonderful fruit although not as popular as apples these days, largely due to shorter shelf life.

Persimmon – see Sharon Fruit

Pineapple – Very popular in the 17th Century when first imported into europe. Sir Christopher Wren wanted to replace the ancient Gargoyles on the roof of St Georges Chapel in Windsor with a row of stone pineapples, but thankfully, wiser heads prevailed.

Plum – Plums are small stone fruits that taste wonderfully sweet when very ripe, but quite tart while ripening. The can be found in many colours including yellow, white, green or red, but most commonly they are a deep purple shade (often with a white waxy bloom on the outside).

Pomegranate – These fruits have been popular in tropical regions for thousands of years. The juice is now sold as having health giving high antioxidant levels.

Quince – The quince is related to apples and oranges, but unlike its relatives quinces are too hard to eat raw and taste pretty poor too. They need to be ‘bletted’ (softened by frost and then a little decay) before being eaten. They are generally used to make jams and jellies which have a certain ‘christmassy’ scent that sets them apart from other fruits.

Satsuma – A citrus fruit smaller than an orange, which is both seedless and easy to peel.

Sharon Fruit  (Persimmon) -

strawberry plant

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Strawberry  – So easy to grow and so delicious to eat.  Very popular in the Nordic region during the summer season.

Tamarillo  -

Ugli Fruit – It is very ugly. A huge great lump of a citrus fruit that is apparently a hybrid cross of grapefruit, orange and tangerine. Jamaican tangelo is the kinder, but less memorable name.

Watermelon  – A large melon with sweet and extremely watery flesh. Very refreshing and sold on beaches to sunbathers throughout europe.

A to Z list of fruits.

Interacting with the wonders of Nature

There are many ways to interact with the Natural environment, it can be found almost everywhere.



The natural environment does ebb and flow with the various seasons, and there are many climates and variations from steady stable to extreme. Obviously the growing seasons are more active, dynamic, colorful (also autumn) and interesting. There are also optimum conditions for vegetation, plants and trees to grow. Most common conditions are warmth, water, sunlight, nutrients, oxygen.

One way for interacting with the wonders of nature, is by using the hobby of photography.

Capturing quality images of plants and flowers for example. The spring season and the summer is really interesting in the visual Art sense, there are colors, textures, shapes and sizes in the plants, shrubs, trees and flower, and it is on going for many weeks if not months.

If you are a new starter in photography, or maybe you were photographer from the film camera days, then here is a suggestion for what type of camera gear to setup with, and how to start interacting with your camera and the environment. There are hundreds of topics that you can choose from, e.g. plants, flowers, butterflies, bees, bugs, spiders, grass, shrubs, trees, seasons, water, lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds, sea, hills, mountains, sky, clouds, storms, rain clouds, sunshine, moonlight, there you have 27 already to get you started, and get inspired and start, Interacting with the wonders of Nature.

 

Interacting with the wonders of Nature

If you have ever been a collector, e.g. stamps, coins, butterflies, bird eggs, antiques, or any other hobby, then you know how to get organized, and to have information filing system and overall plan for collecting information from your new project and hobby. Being well organized will make it more productive and enjoyable, whether it is only a small amount of information, and gradually build it over time.

What you need is decent computer, a reasonable well working operating system (Updated), a remote hard-drive for storing your images, over time they build up, and you don’t want to have all your images on your active computer. A camera, a camera bag, memory cards, at least one lens (prefer 2-3), extension tubes (close up photos), and a tripot, that should get your started, motivated to go out to explore the wonders of Nature.

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Here is a list of products that you can purchase straight away online from Amazon, the whole caboodle for less than $1000.00 (not including the computer).

The Computer is really important also, it is the other half of the fun in photography.

You can store digital images, edit images, send images to your friends through email, post images on social media sites like Facebook, and other sites. Also take part in sharing your images with the wider world through Picture Gallery sites e.g., creating your own hobby picture gallery on the web. Also by having your own blog, built around your hobby, this is where being organized really helps, and makes your blog content the more interesting.

Here are some computer purchase suggestions, starting from the PC-best rated. They are ready and available for purchase online from Amazon.


 

There are many brands to choose from:

Eurocom Leopard 2.0

Asus N56VM

 

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Also the screen size is something you need to consider.

A Smaller monitor screen size is more convenient when on the road, but not so much fun at home on the desk.  Also the desk top computer with a large screen is another option to consider, if your desk top is deep enought. Sizes vary from 13 inch to 22 inch and bigger. I personally use a 17 inch screen, and i would not go any smaller for my photography work.  Bigger screen also means you can view more thumbnail size images of the entire gallery.  Energy consumption is also something to consider, a bigger screen may use more power, it will if they are equal brand, model and year of production.  There are computer monitors that are specially made for professional photography work in mind, true color representation and fine quality details without the jagged pixel edges on images, here are some samples to consider.

How to Buy a Monitor.

 

 

 The 5  Best Monitors for Photography.

The are many ways for Interacting with the wonders of Nature, with the help from the modern technology, it is possible to capture images and impressions from Nature and to take it home, to see and study the details, to learn more about the wonders of Nature.

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And finally you may like to have a picture Gallery on the internet.

As a part of Interacting with the wonders of Nature, there are many reasons why photographers should have a picture gallery on the web.
Reason 1. It is a convenient way to store and share your images over the internet, it not mean that it has to have public access/visibility.  You may want to make some public, and sone galleries friends only, with a password.  Reason 2. It motivates you to make a better effort, to present your pictures in a way that is more creative and interesting.  Reason 3. It challenges you to explore and to see the world in a meaningful way, with objective goals to find, seek and capture the moments of time in a graphic image.  There is no other more effective way to travel back in time to a memorial moment or a place with such accuracy as a quality digital image.  Here is a Photography host that i recommend, it is called Zenfolio.com.  Very good quality hosting for anybody, whether just starting out in photography, semi-pro or a seasoned professional photographer.  I highly recommend Zenfolio for several reasons, a), they know what they are doing, b),  they have a really good attitude for customer service, and c), it is very much affordable for most people.

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Nordic Nutrition.

What is Nutrition

The word Nutrition means different things to different people.



Family meal times, tradition, childrens health and nutrition, culture, education and the regional climate, has generally determined what food types were present, what was favored, what was available and the amount of food laden energy required (more so in the previous generations). As time went by the negative eating habits became known initially by lack of motivation/energy, overweight, pains, aches, complaints and at times fatal heart attack or illness of malnutrition. As Science grew legs to stand on, and there was general consensus of the human anatomy, and the many systems and organs, then nutritional education became more acceptable in the society. People generally are grateful when their health is optimized and the state of their mind is positive with strong will to live a happy healthy productive life. Continue reading →

Amazon kindle fire

Amazon kindle fire for Mothers day surprise.



Amazon kindle fire has many features;

  •  Movies
  •  Applications
  • Photographs
  • Games
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Amazon’s revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser
  • + much more

AMAZON KINDLE FIRE is truly a modern multi media reading device:

  • Over 20 million movies
  • TV shows
  • Song
  • Magazines
  • Books
  • Thousands of popular apps and games
  • Including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, and more
  • Amazon Silk – ultra-fast web browsing over built-in Wi-Fi
  • Free cloud storage for all your Amazon content
  • Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle
  • Fast, powerful dual-core processor
  • Favorite children’s books, graphic novels, and magazines in rich color

Amazon kindle DX, with a large screen, follow the prompts.

Bilberries

Blue bilberry contrast to the green foliage of the forest (Vesa Leinonen)


Bilberries are plentiful in the Nordic region, they grow wild on the fields and also thin forest areas.



 

The antioxidant properties of bilberries are tremendous, it is said to be more than those of cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, plums, . They contain remarkable compounds such as anthocyanins, vitamin C, resveratrol (health benefits of red wine),
vitamin E, and ellagic acid.


Bilberries are great for the skin, they help your skin and prevent the skin cellutite from wrinkling.

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