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Natural Food Preservatives

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In the modern days, when everything mobile, instant foods become efficient choices since peoples no longer have times to cooks from the very beginning, and also doesn't have times to shop groceries every morning or plant them in the backyard. But instant foods never leaves the synthetic preservatives behind. They're going together most of the times, and leave their effects to our body. The effects are mostly negative, such as cancer. Scientist actually suggests that if a substance can kills bacteria, it's also can kills you.
Preservative extends the shelf life of both raw and cooked food for a longer period compared to their natural shelf life. Most of food industries use synthetic material such as Natrium Benzoat. But some of them are evil and use the cheap formaldehyde that actually is used to preserve dead bodies.
There are actually some substances that can preserve foods without damaging our body. Natural food preservatives are natural substances that can create a hostile environment for microorganism. Therefore, the foods will be fresh for longer times. The following is a list of natural food preservatives:

  1. Salt: Salt dehydrates microbes through the process of known as osmosis. Thus, the microbes cannot lives. Salted meats sometimes can last for many years. The use of salt may not suitable for people who don't like salty foods or not allowed to eat salt for certain reason.
  2. Sugar: Sugar can preserve foods using the osmosis strategy as salt do. It mostly used to preserve fruits.
  3. Vinegar: Vinegar is acidic, and can inhibit the growth of bacteria. There are many kinds of homemade vinegar in your local grocery stores. 
  4. Antioxidant: Antioxidant is a kind of substances that can counter the effects of oxidation. Vitamin E and citric acid are the common antioxidant to preserve. Rosemary extract is also included on this list.
Apparently natural preservatives list above can change the taste of the foods. This makes people prefer to use synthetic preservatives. But actually there is a way to preserve foods in a natural way without changing the taste, such as ultra high temperature cooking.

Balanced Diet

Balanced diet means getting the right amount and composition of foods and beverages according to your condition. Different people might need different amount and composition of foods. For a standard, a healthy adult usually need 2000 calorie per day. If you work harder than average person, you need more calorie.
Basically, our need of food can be represented as the following pyramid:

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According to the pyramid, foods are divided into four major groups:


  1. Rice and alternatives (starchy foods): rice, potatoes, breads, noodles, corn flakes, etc. These kinds of food must be consumed in higher quantity comparing to other groups (see the pyramid). Our body needs 5-7 servings of this starchy foods per day (one servings of rice equals to 1/2 cup). 
  2. Fruit and vegetables: spinach, broccoli, apples, etc. These kinds of foods supplies vitamins and minerals to our body, since most of vitamins and minerals cannot be self-produced. 2 servings of fruit and vegetables are important for our body each day. Specific kind of fruits may not be consumed too much, such as banana, papaya, and mango, since they'll make you have stomach ache if eaten to much.
  3. Meat and alternatives: fish, meats, milk and other dairy products. These kinds of foods only need to be consumed a little. About 2-3 servings is enough. Too many meats can increase blood pressure and other disease.
  4. Fats, oil, sugar, and salt: Apparently, sugar sometimes consumed in high amount through chocolates, candies, and sweet desserts. Too much sugar can increase sugar level in blood which cause diabetes. Too much fats also not good. Fats can clog our veins and also make us fat. Salt also can increase blood pressure. Fat, sugar, and salt should be consumed only in small amounts per day.
If you have certain disease, the composition of foods might be changed. For patient with diabetes, starchy foods must be reduced to only 3 servings per day, since carbohydrate on starchy foods will turn into sugar in our body. For patient with high blood pressure, meats and other dairy product must be avoided. In contrary, person who have low blood pressure must eat a lot of meats.
Supplements can also be taken if you cannot fulfill the necessary amount and or composition of balanced diet, or you need certain nutrition in higher amount than average people. But it must be noted that supplements can never really substitute the necessary of foods to our body. You cannot only ear supplements but not eat foods, since natural vitamins/minerals/other nutrition are in the best form that can easily digested and absorbed by our body.
Eating supplements is a tricky things to, since supplements sometimes depend on another. Vitamin A, D, E, and K cannot be digested if there is no fat. They're known as fat soluble vitamins. Vitamin B and C is water soluble, and more effective if you also eat enough foods with bioflavonoids along with those vitamins. Zinc and iron also work as a team in our body. If you really not sure about supplements you're taking, drinking milk might be easier since milk contains more balanced nutrition.

Gold is Not Healthy for Men

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According to Islam, men are prohibited from wearing gold in any form, while women are not. Muslims are familiar with this prohibition. But actually there are some science facts that prove this prohibition is reasonable. Aside from all wisdom about men not allowed to wear golds, some physicist found out that gold atom can actually migrate to the inside of our body, mixing with our blood. This migrations tends to give a high level of metal to men's blood. This high level of metal in blood stream can leads to alzheimer later on the man's life.



What about other metal, such as silver, platinum, and the others? Well, they'll not easily migrate to our body as gold does.
And what about women? Why do women allowed to wear gold? There is no reasonable prove yet, but since women body are naturally supposed to wear jewelry, I think Allah makes their body can handle the gold migration. Actually there is a theory that women can cleanse their blood through menstruation, while men cannot. But as long as we know, menstruation blood comes only from the uterus.

The Top 10 Causes of Death

Disease can lead to death. Even as simple as influenza can lead you to severe respiratory disease that can kill you. These are the top ten causes of death reviewed by World's Health Organization (WHO). (Click the table to enlarge)


How To Prevent Cancer

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Cancer is modern disease that has becomes so popular nowadays. Cancer is not caused by virus or bacteria, it is caused by the human itself. Bad habits physically or mentally in long period of time can cause cancer. Since cancer is not easy to be healed by medication, preventing cancer from happening is the very best way for those who have risk of cancer. But I assure you, everybody is in a risk of cancer.




How to prevent cancer? Change your habits!! Especially for these things:

  1. Do not sleep too late. 9 PM -- 11 PM is the time when our body detoxify our immune system. It will be optimally done when our body is at relax condition. 11 PM -- 1 AM is the time when our body detoxify our liver. It will be done well if we sleep. 1 AM -- 3 AM is the time when our body detoxify gallbladder, and also done while we are asleep. Within 3 AM -- 5 AM, our lungs are detoxified. At those time, you really need to wake up and take some small exercise or take a deep breath. 5 AM -- 7 AM is time to poop, because our body detoxify the colon. After that, you better exercise until become sweaty.
  2. Do not forget to eat breakfast. Eat calorie-rich breakfast and a cup of tea. Do not forget milk or fruit juice.
  3. Reduce the fatty food
  4. Minimize the use of drugs when you sick, and do not misuse drugs.
  5. No smoking, no alcohol. Wear mask when you ride motorcycle or take a walk on a crowded road.
  6. Eat more honey, dates, or nigella sativa seeds.

Simple Detoxification You Can do By Yourself

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Pollution, junk foods, stress, and other unhealthy life-style gives a lot of toxin to your body. Within several years, or sometimes months, it will turn against your body to mess up your health. Look for these signs to make sure you don't have too much toxin :



  1. Irregular menstrual cycle
  2. Headaches
  3. Flu
  4. Constipation or diarrhea
  5. Get tired easily for no reason
  6. lack of spirit and motivation
  7. Random pain in parts of our body
  8. Urine color gets darker
Our body actually able to clean itself through sweat, urine, poop, and sneezes. But sometimes you have too much toxins that our body can't deal with it.
If you have some of the signs above, consider these steps:

  1. Have more sweat through regular exercise. Sweating through exercise is much better than sweating on sauna. Toxin will come out carried by sweat.
  2. Fasting (not eat and drink) from sunrise until sunset. It will clean your digestion system. Make sure you don't eat too much after the sunset, and drink much water. Veggies and fruits do you good too.
  3. Be a blood donor, every 4 months. It will renew you blood cells and save other people's life.
  4. Do not sleep late, and wake up early. Also wake up at around 2-3 AM and drink water or pray (for Muslim).

Sitting Too Long Can Kill You


Sitting is form of resting. It's good for your body, but only in a certain condition. As reported by http://www.enriquesantos.com, sitting can be more harm than smoking.

"Going to work could be more harmful than smoking, a new study shows. That is if your job involves sitting around for long periods of time. Research carried out by the American College of Cardiology shows that prolonged sitting is linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer and even early death and could be just as dangerous, if not more so, than smoking. Cardiologist Dr David Coven said: ‘Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases. The fact of being sedentary causes factors to happen in the body that are very detrimental.’ He told CBS that when you sit for long periods of time your body goes into storage mode and stops working as effectively as it should. And just like smoking, the more you do it, the greater the likelihood of developing one or more of the diseases.  Paul Golin told CBS he was sitting up to eight hours a day until he had a health scare which he believes was largely brought on by sitting down all day. "

Our body is just not meant to sit all day. We need to move to help circulating our blood and exercising our bones. The most common disease caused by too much sitting is anus muscle inflammation. The symptoms includes pain in the anus that makes you can't sit well. Scientists also suggest that sitting for long period can increase the chance of having diabetes.