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Friday, January 29, 2016

11 Extraordinary Caffeine Benefits for Body Health

Caffeine is a stimulant substances can be found in some foods. Besides contained in tea, coffee, energy drinks and carbonated drinks, caffeine was also to be found in almost every type of beverage. In fact, caffeine is naturally also on the seeds, leaves and fruit of some plants.

Meanwhile, many thought that says that too much caffeine is harmful to your body. However, it is not entirely true. In a portion or the appropriate dosage, caffeine actually has some benefits as well. Based on research conducted over the years, caffeine has a very positive effect for the body.

Well, in this article, we will discuss a wide range of benefits or advantages of consuming caffeine. Want to know what it is? The following 11 positive effects of caffeine for your body.

11 Extraordinary Caffeine Benefits for Body Health


Caffeine Benefits for Body Health

1. Caffeine helps boost your memory. Studies in Japan have shown that intake of 200 grams of caffeine can significantly improve memory or memory.

2. If you exercise or go to the gym, the combination of caffeine and carbohydrates as a post-workout meal is a very appropriate choice. The combination of both helps fill muscle glycogen which assist in accelerating the process of muscle regeneration after a strenuous workout.

3. Caffeine as a post-workout meal also helps in restoring muscle soreness after exercise.

4. Caffeine also helps in improving and enhancing stamina during exercise or sports.

5. Caffeine stimulates hair growth so that it can be used as one way to prevent hair loss or baldness.

6. Caffeine can stimulate the secretion of a chemical called dopamine in the body. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that activates the pleasure centre in the brain. It also helps you in preventing depression or a psychological illness effectively.

7. Caffeine makes you alert and prevent sleepiness when you need to concentrate on one thing, for example, while driving or being studied.

8. In a medical procedure called enema caffeine, caffeinated liquids such as coffee used to cleanse the colon of toxic substances. In addition, caffeine helps in detoxifying the liver effectively. Caffeine also helps to prevent non-alcoholic liver disease.

9. Caffeine in certain doses can also help in preventing serious diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Those who consume caffeine are also a small risk to commit suicide.

10. Caffeine also helps in avoiding eye diseases such as cataracts and eye strain.

11. Research has shown that caffeine was also to prevent skin cancer.

Well, that was some of the tremendous benefits of caffeine for health. If you consume caffeine in reasonable quantities and the appropriate portion, there are certainly a lot of benefits that you will gain as mentioned above.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Fennel Benefits for Health

Fennel is one type of herb plants that have efficacy as a medicinal plant in addition to its primary function as one of the herbs that has many benefits other than as a spice in cooking.

Fennel is a plant that fall into one shrub. The spread of this plant was first estimated in the region of the Mediterranean Sea. Plants that have a Latin name "Foeniculum vulgare Mill" has a fairly long lifespan.

General characteristics that can be recognized from the fennel plant:

  • Fennel tree has a height of 50 cm to 2 meters.
  • Having a clump rod structure, where each cluster generally consist of 3-5 rod.
  • Rod has a bluish green color, shape grooved rods, segmented, and potholes. When crushed stem will release a fragrant aroma.
  • Leaf fennel grows up to 40 cm, the position of the leaves each take turns, double compound two with fins narrow, needle shape, tip and base pointed leaves, leaf edges are flat, have a sheath with white, sheath is webbed and uppers have shape like a hat.
  • Fennel flower arrangement shaped compound and consists of 6-40 peduncle, mother peduncle length between 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 5 mm, yellow petals and grow out from the stem end.
  • Fennel plant has oval-shaped fruit, ribbed and length between 6-10 mm and 3-4 mm wide.
  • Green fruit for the young and dark brown for the pieces that are old (actually a relative of fennel fruit color, this is influenced also of the origin of the fennel plant derived)
  • For the fruit is ripe, it will issue a distinctive aroma, when you taste the fruit of fennel, will feel like camphor.


Some benefits of fennel
In fennel fruit, essential oils contained, the content of which is why fennel fruit has a distinctive aroma. The oil comes from the fruit is often used as a material for triple oil.

Benefits of fennel for body health
Substances contained in fennel fruit can help stimulate the digestive organs work, helped launch a waste of angina, can warm the body, as well as dilute phlegm, helps to increase appetite, insomnia, and launch coming months. Fennel seeds can also be used as an herbal remedy kidney stone crushers. Substances and compounds in the oils of fennel can help shed kidney stones and remove it through the digestive tract.