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KOMPAS.com – Try to measure the consumption of fruit back to you every day. Have varied, from the type, color, and its portion? Talk servings should ideally be 10 servings of fruit every day. If not, time to train yourself, get used to eating fruit portion is close to or exactly ideal. That’s if you want the skin is always young and fresh, and delay the aging come too early.

Clinical nutrition specialist, Dr. Samuel Oetoro, SpGK, explaining that the fruit is not only a source of vitamins, but also contains high antioxidants. Content of antioxidants derived from fruit pigments. So make sure you eat the appropriate portion of fruit is ideal, with the variant type and color of the fruit so that the benefits of antioxidant antiaging more optimal.

“One of dyes from fruits contain antioxidants which can counteract free radicals. This benefit can be overcome various illnesses, including also make the skin fresher, brighter, and not wrinkled. Especially if the day-to-day activities more contact with sunlight,” said Dr. Samuel on the sidelines of the commemoration of World Fruit “Fruit Buavita Hour” at Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, Thursday (07/01/2010).

By routinely eat fruit, either whole fruit, crushed (blender), or made of fruit juice every day, 10 servings, 10 species and 10 different colors of fruit each day, intake of antioxidants could be fulfilled. Try at least five servings a day, added Dr. Samuel.

“The more eating the fruit, the greater the antioxidant effect. Latih eat three servings of fruit, increased to five, seven, ten servings each day. Try to eat fruit which varies because of the kind of fruit are abundant and cheap,” said Dr. Samuel. Bananas, watermelons, and papayas, according to him, easily and inexpensively available to meet the needs of fruit intake every hari.un illness. Watermelon, papaya, among others.
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KOMPAS.com – If every day you should eat 10 servings of fruits, different kinds and colors, and then how to choose? Especially if you suffer from certain diseases, like diabetes or gastric problems (ulcer). Not all fruits are safe to eat every day, right?

Because we live in different varieties of fruit-producing country, would not be difficult to actually select it. About the price, certainly not as expensive as blueberries, for example. Options are safe to eat fruit every person, whatever his illness, also not hard to find. Price is so cheap.

Clinical nutritionist, Dr. Samuel Oetoro, SpGK, mentioning that 10 servings of fruit daily are safe to eat apples, pears, citrus, guava, grape, watermelon, cantaloupe, papaya, passion fruit, and tomatoes.

“Carrots and plantains are also safe to consume. Carambola can occasionally, but less for patients with kidney disease,” said Dr. Samuel told Compass Female fruit after the commemoration of the World in Grand Indonesia, Jakarta on Thursday (07/01/2010).

Dr. Samuel explains, some fruits are not consumed either a particular disease. Jackfruit, durian, banana, and pineapple containing high glucose to avoid diabetic. Ulcer sufferers should not eat bananas, but safe for other banana species, such as plantains. In fact, any fruit that is not healthy, said Dr. Samuel, that is ripe durian which contain high alcohol content.

Then how the measuring? Dr. Samuel explains, passion fruit such as apples or eat one serving means intact. While a serving of wine grapes measuring five points. While papaya and watermelon, a portion equal to one piece of sliced, not a single fruit.

KOMPAS.com – abdominal circumference measurement actually is one method of assessing abdominal fat tissue. “The objective is to determine whether a person has been included in the category at risk of obesity and metabolic complications,” said Ralph Girson, SpPD, Progress of the Royal Hospital, Jakarta. Such conditions increase the potential for metabolic syndrome such as diabetes mellitus (diabetes), hypertension (high blood pressure), dyslipidemia (disorders of blood fat / cholesterol), and can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and clogged blood vessels.

Abdominal circumference limitation defined by WHO, for the Asia Pacific region is below 90 cm for men and below 80 cm for women.

The cause of this increase in abdominal circumference can be various kinds, among them;
Lifestyle
Improper diet is the main cause of abdominal circumference added. Habits of life that is less activity and excessive food consumption of energy is required, making the rest of the calories stored as fat in fat cells.

Accumulate fat around the body, including the abdominal area, and will increase as body weight and poor lifestyle.

These excess calories are stored in many foods low in saturated fat and high fiber. Foods such as processed meats, some types of margarine, fried, especially with repeated use of cooking oil, canned vegetables, some snack foods, red meat pie, and much more.

Age
Naturally, the activity will be reduced in line with age. Not only activity is reduced, muscle mass will decrease when the exercise was less intense. This all lead to weight gain and abdominal circumference, let alone the reduced activity is not counterbalanced by reducing calorie intake. The result, increasing age increases abdominal circumference.

Genes
Some opinions say, if a parent or grandparent has a distended stomach, then the potential to have a distended stomach even bigger. In other words, people can tend to accumulate fat in the abdomen is genetic. However, if you do not have the weight of the radical, the middle part of your body will not grow too rapidly.

Besides, most men tend to store fat in the abdomen and pelvis above (apple body shape), so it is said to have better men have belly fat.

While most women before menopause tend to store fat in the lower abdomen, the thighs, hips and buttocks (pear shape). After menopause, the more fat will be stored in the abdomen. This has been coded in genes and can not control where fat is stored. The only possible solution is to avoid excess weight gain.

Alcohol
The phrase “beer belly” (beer belly) is not a myth. In fact, consuming too much alcohol can cause the body less efficient in burning fat. Fat even more and more buried in the body over time and the habit of consuming alcohol that kept walking.

Hormone
Increased stress in daily life such as lack of sleep, can cause increased belly fat. Conditions of sleep deprivation increase the production of the hormone cortisol in the brain and increases the accumulation of abdominal fat.

Stomach Fat
A study by Lawson Health Research Institute said the appetite stimulating hormone and regulating the proportion of energy stored as fat, or neuropeptide-Y NPY is also produced by abdominal fat. NPY producing cells re perkusor fat cells, which then turned into fat cells.

Can be said, obesity became a kind of vicious circle in which a person becomes to eat more because the hormone NPY produced by fat belly. Whereas NPY cells also produce more fat to be piled into abdominal fat.