Posts Tagged ‘antioxidants’

5 Healthy Tips for Lovers

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Make a toast with a glass of champagne. This drink is not only festive, as it contains many polyphenols, which are a natural compound in grapes that help maintain healthy blood flow and pressure.

Start your meal with a salad of assorted colors. Carrots, tomatoes and spinach colorful colors obtain their carotenoids, a group of antioxidant pigments that help maintain cardiovascular health. Add avocado as a bonus, it’s a healthy fat that helps your body absorb these beneficial compounds. You can even experience a little nuts Valentine’s Day. Almonds, walnuts and pistachios contain substances called phytosterols, which help maintain healthy cholesterol levels. Tues petals a bit to bring out their flavors and then add them to salads or vegetables.

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The Benefits of Chocolate

the benefits of chocolate

The raw material for the manufacture of chocolate is cocoa. This plant has health benefits as well as with other dark plants of its kind. The benefits of chocolate come from flavonoids, which act as antioxidants. Food Antioxidants protect the body from aging caused by free radicals that cause damage can generate heart disease.

The black chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8 times that found in strawberries and strawberry). Flavonoids also help lower blood pressure through the action of nitric oxide, also balance levels of some hormones in the body.

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