CASHEW red bean plant is a much branched shrub. Plants that can grow in areas of low and high. Guava tree to 12 m tall with a large fruit diameter ranged from 2.5 cm to more than 10 cm. Generally favored guava flesh is soft, thick, and colored red with a sweet taste and fresh, a little seedy, and large.
Red guava contains many nutrients that can be used as medicine. Parimin (2007) states, 100 grams of fresh ripe guava contains 0.9 grams of protein, 0.3 grams fat, 12.2 grams carbohydrates, 14 mg calcium, 28 mg phosphorus, 1.1 mg of iron, and 86 grams of water with total calories 49 calories. Vitamin C content of red guava double from sweet orange that just 49 mg per 100 grams of fruit. Optimum vitamin C content when the fruit will be ripe.
Besides vitamin C, red guava contain lycopene. Lycopene is a carotenoid compounds (important in plant pigment that gives red color) that have antioxidant activity to ward off free radicals, thereby protecting the body against some types of diseases, including cancer. Lycopene content of red guava abundant, ie, 5200 mg per 100 grams of fruit - ranked second, after tomatoes. Lycopene is also one of phytochemical compounds or phytonutrients that are beneficial to health, such as other carotenoid compounds, namely xanthine and lutein.
Usefulness Lycopene
The main purpose of lycopene inhibits physical function and mental deterioration, among others, make people not easily confused. Lycopene also prevent cancer of the pancreas, cervix, and gastrointestinal tract. Epistemological Research lycopene by Italian researchers included 2706 cases of oral cavity cancer, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum, if the increased consumption of lycopene, especially on the guava red fleshy fruit, providing a protective effect on the body.
Lycopene in red guava potent cancer prevention, particularly prostate cancer. Studies from Harvard University found evidence in a study of 48,000 men, respondents most widely add lycopene intake in the diet decreases the risk of prostate cancer 45%. Yale University study involving 473 men show evidence of prostate cancer-free men who had more than the blood levels of lycopene in cancer patients.
Real men do not need strong medicine to boost sexual desire. By increasing the consumption of regular red guava, healthy and happy life is not a dream for them. Lycopene is believed to increase the number and improve the structure of the sperm and increase vitality. So automatic lycopene enhance male fertility.
A study in India of 30 infertile couples who can not prove, sperm men who ate lycopene 20 mg three months continuously increased 67%. Improvement of sperm structure they had increased by 63% and sperm velocity increased 73%.
Giving red guava juice as a way to increase platelet arguably have become tradition in the community when stricken with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Because, during the treatment of DHF patients continues to be supportive, that is to overcome the plasma fluid loss due to increased permeability of capillary blood vessels. Doctor Ety from RS Mitra Keluarga states, red guava juice only improve your physical condition in order to keep fit, so avoid the attack of DHF. There was no correlation between red guava juice and DHF.
Now, the red guava processed products are numerous and easily available in the market with different brands. Refined products in the form of juice in a glass cup, plastic bottle, and bottle paper facilitate the public to consume. There are made jelly in a plastic cup and cooled in a refrigerator. Once thickened, red guava jelly can be drunk directly.
Red guava can also be made of flour for making instant beverages, food supplements in infants, and other products. All products are processed it is a useful source of lycopene for the health of our bodies.
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http://suaramerdeka.com/v1/index.php/read/cetak/2011/05/09/145916/18/Jambu-Biji-Merah-Sumber-Likopen-
Danger of drinking hot tea
Results of recent research by Iranian scientists say, drinking tea in a state still hot (more than warm) may cause Throat Cancer.
In previous studies, in the British Medical Journal suggested the potential to cause tumor hot drinks. Drinking hot tea with temperatures above 70 degrees Celsius with an increased risk of throat cancer eight times greater than you drink it in warm, which is below 65 degrees, explains researcher, told Reuters.
Together with his team, Reza Malekzadeh from Tehran University studied the drinking habits of 300 people diagnosed with throat cancer, while 571 others were in good health. They all come from the same region, in Golestan province, in northern Iran.
Malekzadeh makes this area as the study sample because of Golestan is one of the areas with the highest level of throat cancer in the world. But otherwise the level of smoking and drinking alcohol in this area is very low. To note, almost all the inhabitants drank black tea regularly, as much as one liter per day.
As a result, people who regularly drank tea less than two minutes after pouring, likely to lead to faster development of cancer compared to those who wait four minutes or more. There is no definite information on how hot the temperature of the tea that cause cancer, but researchers concluded the hurt caused by heat from the tea will cause irritation of the throat.
Compared with drinking warm or lukewarm tea in temperatures 65 degrees Celsius or less, drink hot tea, between 65 and 68 degrees Celsius, with respect to two times the risk of throat cancer, and drinking tea very hot at 70 degrees Celsius or more associated with increased eight-fold.
Impact of throat cancer is horrible. Recorded every year more than 500,000 people worldwide died from the disease. This disease thrives mainly in Asia, Africa and South America. These include deadly cancer, with an average recovery approximately 12 to 31 percent, it also takes a long time, approximately 5 years.
"The study shows a strong increase in risk of OSCC associated with drinking tea hot or very hot,". They recommend that people should wait a few minutes before drinking one glass of freshly brewed tea with boiling water.
The report also gave support to the opinion that the injury because of the heat shock may be a cause of cancer "epithelium", despite how hot enhance tumor development is unknown.
From these studies it can be concluded that consuming hot beverages in keaadaan hazardous to your health. Moreover, coupled with a hot meal as well, such as meatballs, etc.. Better to drink tea or other beverages in a warm state.
Dangers of Drinking Iced Tea For Kidney Health
Who among the visitors who do not like people who drink this one? Well, Iced Tea seems so easy we find a place where we eat, from street stalls to restaurants mewahpun all provide Ice Tea as a drink menu. Iced Tea with its distinctive smell and taste are ingrained in our society, even though packaged in any form, the tea remains tea, and if given the ice, kesegaranlah we get, especially in this fasting month, the menu besarpun opener before the meal is often preceded by drinking ice tea.
But you know, behind the ecstasy, ice tea holds the potential harm to health. Research Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine revealed that iced tea consumption in excess increases the risk of kidney stones.
As quoted from page Times of India, iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate, one of the key chemicals that trigger the formation of kidney stones. "For those who have a tendency to kidney stones pain, iced tea drinks obviously be the worst," said Dr. John Milner, an assistant professor of the Department of Urology, who joined in the research.
Milner said the hot tea was also stores the same ill effects. Only, the dose presentation of hot tea usually smaller. Logically, people drink hot tea would not be as much as drinking iced tea. Rarely people who eat hot tea when thirsty. Unlike iced tea, in which many people could drink more than a glass when thirsty and hot air.
Men, women posmenopause with low estrogen levels, and women who had undergone surgical removal of the ovaries are exposed to the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of ice tea. Therefore, Milner suggests, changing beverage consumption with water, or mix it with lemon. "Lemon citrates rich content, which can inhibit the growth of kidney stones," Milner said.
Kidney stones are small crystals that form from minerals and salts that are commonly found in urine, kidney or urinary tract. Disused mineral that generally get out of the body with urine, but under certain conditions can precipitate and petrified in the urinary tract.
Researchers also uncovered a number of other foods that potentially save ill effects. They call such as: spinach, chocolate, nuts, salt, and meat. Instead, the consumption of iced tea and foods that are moderate for kidney health. Combine well with foods high in calcium can reduce oxalate. And, of course multiply the drinking water.
