Reducing the Negative Impact of Cooking Oil

In our culture, fried foods, including favorite foods. It was a tasty, crunchy, plus low price makes many popular fried. However, eating fried food can be harmful to health.

Fried food fried in oil containing saturated fatty acids would be metabolized when consumed, will eventually increase in blood lipid profile. The higher the intake of saturated fat, higher cholesterol. This will eventually lead to degenerative diseases, such as coronary heart disease or stroke.

To prevent these undesirable due to consumption of fried foods, Prof.Dr.Ir.Made Astawan, food technologists, Bogor Agricultural University, share tricks.

1. When you choose to buy cooking oil in accordance with the needs, how to read labels and packaging, with good care. Select which include cooking oil complete information on the label.

2. For high cholesterol, choose oils that contains unsaturated fatty acids (such as peanut oil and corn oil).

3. Do not choose cooking oil just by color and appearance. A clear oil is not necessarily better than the yellow oil concentrated. Color is influenced by the content of carotenoids and other components in the oil. In some cases the very beneficial carotenoids to health.

4. As far as possible gorenglah food gangsa system (less oil) to prevent excessive oil absorption in fried foods, and repeated use of oil.

5. Cooking oil so that is not easily damaged, should not use too high heat. Control the size of the flame.

6. Save the cooking oil in a sealed container, cool, and avoid sunlight to prevent oxidation and rancidity was not easy.

7. Clean the frying pan or wok with a detergent that is free from the crust or other dirt.

8. Do not get used to using used oil that has been used repeatedly to fry.

9. Drain the oil in fried food before eating. If necessary use a tissue or paper to reduce the oil layer on the surface of the food.

In our culture, fried foods, including favorite foods. It was a tasty, crunchy, plus low price makes many popular fried. However, eating fried food can be harmful to health.

Fried food fried in oil containing saturated fatty acids would be metabolized when consumed, will eventually increase in blood lipid profile. The higher the intake of saturated fat, higher cholesterol. This will eventually lead to degenerative diseases, such as coronary heart disease or stroke.

To prevent these undesirable due to consumption of fried foods, Prof.Dr.Ir.Made Astawan, food technologists, Bogor Agricultural University, share tricks.

1. When you choose to buy cooking oil in accordance with the needs, how to read labels and packaging, with good care. Select which include cooking oil complete information on the label.

2. For high cholesterol, choose oils that contains unsaturated fatty acids (such as peanut oil and corn oil).

3. Do not choose cooking oil just by color and appearance. A clear oil is not necessarily better than the yellow oil concentrated. Color is influenced by the content of carotenoids and other components in the oil. In some cases the very beneficial carotenoids to health.

4. As far as possible gorenglah food gangsa system (less oil) to prevent excessive oil absorption in fried foods, and repeated use of oil.

5. Cooking oil so that is not easily damaged, should not use too high heat. Control the size of the flame.

6. Save the cooking oil in a sealed container, cool, and avoid sunlight to prevent oxidation and rancidity was not easy.

7. Clean the frying pan or wok with a detergent that is free from the crust or other dirt.

8. Do not get used to using used oil that has been used repeatedly to fry.

9. Drain the oil in fried food before eating. If necessary use a tissue or paper to reduce the oil layer on the surface of the food.

Five Benefits of Tempe

There have been many studies that prove that tempe is a healthy food. Compared to other foods made from soy, tempeh is made from whole soybeans. That's what makes tempeh so unique with the following benefits:

1. High fiber
One serving of tempeh contains a very high fiber. Fiber is needed for digestive health and prevent various chronic diseases in the future.

2. Easily digested
Tempe is a good food choice for people who have trouble digesting high protein foods of plant origin such as nuts. Tempe fermentation process to make soybean in tempe become tender because the enzymes produced by yeast previously been digested nutrients in soybean seeds.

Tempe fungus Rhizopus in producing phytase enzyme that digests phytates, which increases the absorption of minerals such as zinc, iron, and calcium. The fermentation process also reduces the oligosaccharide that makes soybeans difficult to digest. Research shows, tempeh not cause bloating.

3. Good for low-salt diet
Unlike food fermented soy products like miso which tend to be very salty, tempeh is very low in salt, so safe to eat, people who need to reduce the salt.

4. Containing a natural antibiotic
Rhizopus fungi to produce natural antibiotic substances against a number of harmful organisms. Natural antibiotic substances in Tempe can be a cure for dysentery if taken every day.

5. Good for diabetes
The protein in tempeh is good for diabetic patients who often have problems with sources of animal protein. Protein and fiber in tempeh can also prevent an increase in blood sugar and keep blood sugar levels remain uncontrolled.

Food Saving Tips

Because the technique is not proper storage, waste is estimated to each family for more than 50 pounds of food each month and spend approximately USD 400 thousand for food that eventually rot and must be discarded.

Raw foods such as vegetables, fruits, milk, until the spices are included in the goods that could not last long and easily rot. Therefore, the appropriate storage system is essential to the food not wasted.

Consider the following storage tips:

1. Eggs
Store eggs in the egg-like containers that are sold in the market and then stored in the refrigerator shelves. In this way the eggs can survive up to 4 weeks from date of purchase.

2. Meat
Keep the meat in a special container in the refrigerator closed to be used up to 3-4 days. If the new will be processed in a time long enough to freeze the meat in the freezer.

3. Hard cheese
Cheese in plastic wrap or airtight foil so the cheese can be used 2-4 months from the date of purchase.

4. Milk and yoghurt
Store yogurt in the refrigerator to keep the good bacteria remain alive until they reach the digestive tract and can consume up to 2 weeks post-purchase. In the meantime, you should not store milk in the fridge because the air temperature here tends to be warmer. This will shorten the life of milk.

5. Vegetables
Make sure the vegetables dry when stored. The remaining water in the stems or leaves can be speed up decay. You can also wrap the vegetables with dry paper.

6. Fruits
We recommend that you keep the fruit in a plastic container with ventilation. Separate the fruit that was rotten with the conditions. Especially for a peeled apple, you can sprinkle a little lemon juice to prevent rust. Avoid storing near vegetable apple because apple produces ethylene, a chemical compound that can make quick vegetable rot.

Is Main Factor Activity and Sports

Calcium is only 10 percent influence as a determinant of bone strength back. The main factor is the human habit of activism, whether or not inconveniences bone, also sports. Unfortunately, people rarely comforting bones and rarely exercising.

This was stated Tedjo Rukmoyo, a specialist orthopedic (spine surgery), on the sidelines of Events Seminar handling Spinal Pain, at the University Club Building, University of Gadjah Mada.

"Do not believe the ad explained that by drinking enough milk, then the bones and spine We'll be strong. Akitivitas determined bone strength of human small impact since the new look when the old," said Tedjo.

Activities and habits that do not make pleasant one bone, especially spine, easily observed from a sleeping position. The position of the spine is not straight and not parallel with the neck bones, certainly not the ideal position.

"That's because the mattress foam or uneven, use a pillow is too thick or too thin. In other words, is not okay we have a habit of sleeping on your back, stomach, or side. But do not let your spine tortured," he said.

In addition to these examples, many other activities that are wrong. For example habit when riding bent and bowed as he sat. Too bent and forced himself when lifting heavy objects on the floor, also the wrong activities.

"When lifting heavy objects off the floor, so do not jump up. But first straighten your body position to the upright, a new lift. If too heavy, so do not be forced. Spine, ligaments (bone bonding), or muscle, can be broken," he said .

Tedjo added, estuaries bone problem solving, is to change habits so that activities do not suffer the spine, plus regular exercise. If it was done early, saving humanity's future health investment.