Jakarta - Oolong tea is a type of tea that is unique. Starting from the manufacturing process, to the benefit is that diverse flavor for health.
Making tea from the Wuyi mountains in the highlands, Fujian, China was discovered about 400 years ago. You could say the type of tea most 'young' when compared to other teas that have been discovered since 5000 last year.
Antioxidants in oolong tea has been more complete than the green / white or red tea / black. That's because the manufacturing process is quite complex and unique.
"Green
tea is tea that does not undergo oxidation process (involving oxygen so
the color darkening) at all. While black tea is 100 percent oxidation.
Nah, oolong tea is semi oxidation," explains Ratna Somantri tea experts,
the event 'Oolong Tea' held Suntory Garuda at Cafe Aria, Panin Center Building, Jl. Gen.. Sudirman, Central Jakarta, Wednesday (05/15/2013).
Differences in the process of making each type of tea will yield different antioxidant components. Green tea / white is rich in polyphenols are good for maintaining skin health and elasticity. But does not contain the theaflavins and tea thearubigin like red / black is undergoing a process of oxidation. Two antioxidants are good for preventing high blood pressure and efficacious as protection against cancer.
Instead,
as has been 100 percent oxidized, tea red / black loses the polyphenol
content that does not provide benefits for skin protection. On oolong tea is obtained from semi oxidation process, still has polyphenols and theaflavins also thearubigin.
"Oolong tea has two of them are not owned green tea or black tea," said Emilia E. Nutrisionist Achmadi MS., RD.
What kind of unique tea-making dating back to the Ming Dynasty? This narrative Ratna, who explore the world of tea since 2003.
"In
their home country, plucked tea starting at 7 am. Shoots only 3-5 top
leaves are taken as the highest antioxidant, fragrant and sweet," says
Ratna.
Once picked, the leaves withered by two stages. First dried in the sun for 1.5 - 2 hrs. At this stage, the leaves must be inverted in order to withering evenly and does not damage the quality of the tea. Subsequent withering done indoors and allowed to stand for 8-12 hours.
Further process the leaves in a wicker-shaking at the surface rather pointy. The goal is that the leaves torn or ripped. When this happens the process of oxidation. Then oxidation was stopped by heating in a pan, stirring by hand. At the tea red / black, no oxidation is stopped so that the color black.
Then the tea leaves undergo a process of kneading (destroyed by buffed by hand) so that the aroma out. Last is the baking (reheated) in order to really stop oxidation. Then dried tea leaves brewed ready
June 28, 2013
June 24, 2013
The Genetics of Obesity, Part I
Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean?
In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study demonstrating the importance of genetics in body fatness (1). They took advantage of one of the most useful tools in human genetics: identical twins. This is what happens when a single fertilized egg generates two embryos in utero and two genetically identical humans are born from the same womb. By comparing identical twins to other people who are not genetically identical (e.g., non-identical twins), we can quantify the impact of genes vs. environment on individual characteristics (2).
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In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study demonstrating the importance of genetics in body fatness (1). They took advantage of one of the most useful tools in human genetics: identical twins. This is what happens when a single fertilized egg generates two embryos in utero and two genetically identical humans are born from the same womb. By comparing identical twins to other people who are not genetically identical (e.g., non-identical twins), we can quantify the impact of genes vs. environment on individual characteristics (2).
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Tips on how to water the natural diet green tea healthy diet of fruit juice
HOW WHITE WATER DIET GREEN TEA NATURAL FRUIT JUICE Healthy Diet. Doing exercise and eating healthy foods is key to success in a diet program. Then, what are we drinking? See tips slim fast diet natural healthy way.
Here is the recommended beverage can support naturally slim fast diet, as reported by SheKnows.
Green teaGreen tea is packed with antioxidants known to fight cancer and protect against heart disease. Green tea is also good for your teeth, which prevent cavities and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. You present it in a state of hot, cold, or sweet (choose a natural sweetener), with lemon and honey, or some fresh mint leaves.
Soy milk
Soy milk offers some benefits to your health that can not be found in cow's milk. Unlike cow's milk, soy milk contains almost no cholesterol and zero saturated fat. This helps prevent the symptoms of menopause in women and prostate cancer in men. In addition, soy milk is also good for your heart and eye health, and improve bone health to prevent osteoporosis.
Green juice
Almost everyone seems to choose juices with all the health benefits they provide. Green juices are loaded with fruits, vegetables, lots of vitamins, minerals and blood reaches you faster than you eat raw vegetables.
Tomato juice
Tomato juice is very low in calories (approximately 40 per 8 ounces), although it feels good. Tomatoes may reduce the risk of lung disease and stomach cancer, plus helps prevent cardiovascular disease. Additionally, eating tomatoes is a natural treatment for high cholesterol and a good source of fiber.
Water
Recommendation is 64 ounces per day, but if you live in hot weather or exercise every day, you should drink more. Water helps in digestion, absorb vitamins and minerals. It is necessary to produce sweat and keeps you hydrated. Tips naturally slim diet drink water fresh fruit juice green tea
Here is the recommended beverage can support naturally slim fast diet, as reported by SheKnows.
Green teaGreen tea is packed with antioxidants known to fight cancer and protect against heart disease. Green tea is also good for your teeth, which prevent cavities and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. You present it in a state of hot, cold, or sweet (choose a natural sweetener), with lemon and honey, or some fresh mint leaves.
Soy milk
Soy milk offers some benefits to your health that can not be found in cow's milk. Unlike cow's milk, soy milk contains almost no cholesterol and zero saturated fat. This helps prevent the symptoms of menopause in women and prostate cancer in men. In addition, soy milk is also good for your heart and eye health, and improve bone health to prevent osteoporosis.
Green juice
Almost everyone seems to choose juices with all the health benefits they provide. Green juices are loaded with fruits, vegetables, lots of vitamins, minerals and blood reaches you faster than you eat raw vegetables.
Tomato juice
Tomato juice is very low in calories (approximately 40 per 8 ounces), although it feels good. Tomatoes may reduce the risk of lung disease and stomach cancer, plus helps prevent cardiovascular disease. Additionally, eating tomatoes is a natural treatment for high cholesterol and a good source of fiber.
Water
Recommendation is 64 ounces per day, but if you live in hot weather or exercise every day, you should drink more. Water helps in digestion, absorb vitamins and minerals. It is necessary to produce sweat and keeps you hydrated. Tips naturally slim diet drink water fresh fruit juice green tea
June 21, 2013
How to Eat Green Tea Right
Consume
Consume Green Tea Green Tea Which True Way - Green tea is widely
consumed by people who are on a diet or want to get healthy body. This is because the existing content in green tea is very beneficial for your body. But did you know how to consume green tea right? Here are some ways to consume green tea are true, such as:
One hour before and after mealsFor those of you who are new to the diet should drink tea before eating because by drinking green tea reduced hunger and manage weight. The most suitable time to drink green tea is one hour before eating or after eating the green tea you drink. Because of the caffeine content in green tea also are not coffee alone, if you have a habit of snacking in the afternoon, accompanied by then drink low-fat crackers. As for the morning is not advisable to drink green tea because of the morning, this is likely due to an empty stomach and it was not good.
Right way when drinking green teaWhen you are going to consume green tea brewed hot or cold should try drinking at no more than an hour, more than it's better to just throw it in his tea, and said to the effects of drinking green tea is very hot will cause throat cancer, and the tea is too long shelf will lose vitamin antioxidant, anti-bacterial and will also be lost, because the tea is too long in the store, will be fireworks grounds for bad bacteria, so that side effects can not drink immediately before the passing of the hour also healthier than drinking fresh in the right way .
Side effects of green teaConcentrated green tea contains caffeine and polyphenols are high, the ingredients in tea also has the side effect to the body, concentrated green tea with strong levels can cause digestion in your body, can cause high blood pressure and a heart pounding aqnda make trouble sleeping.
PortionsYou must already know excessive consumption will be side effects, avoid drinking more than 3 cups of tea a day, you should drink 3 cups of green tea a day enough. Because not only coffee contains caffeine but green tea also contains caffeine can be dangerous for you.
Try not to drink tea along with medicationsShould take the medicine with water instead of with green tea for whatever reason do not be in trying to avoid the side effects of the drug and the green tea.
One hour before and after mealsFor those of you who are new to the diet should drink tea before eating because by drinking green tea reduced hunger and manage weight. The most suitable time to drink green tea is one hour before eating or after eating the green tea you drink. Because of the caffeine content in green tea also are not coffee alone, if you have a habit of snacking in the afternoon, accompanied by then drink low-fat crackers. As for the morning is not advisable to drink green tea because of the morning, this is likely due to an empty stomach and it was not good.
Right way when drinking green teaWhen you are going to consume green tea brewed hot or cold should try drinking at no more than an hour, more than it's better to just throw it in his tea, and said to the effects of drinking green tea is very hot will cause throat cancer, and the tea is too long shelf will lose vitamin antioxidant, anti-bacterial and will also be lost, because the tea is too long in the store, will be fireworks grounds for bad bacteria, so that side effects can not drink immediately before the passing of the hour also healthier than drinking fresh in the right way .
Side effects of green teaConcentrated green tea contains caffeine and polyphenols are high, the ingredients in tea also has the side effect to the body, concentrated green tea with strong levels can cause digestion in your body, can cause high blood pressure and a heart pounding aqnda make trouble sleeping.
PortionsYou must already know excessive consumption will be side effects, avoid drinking more than 3 cups of tea a day, you should drink 3 cups of green tea a day enough. Because not only coffee contains caffeine but green tea also contains caffeine can be dangerous for you.
Try not to drink tea along with medicationsShould take the medicine with water instead of with green tea for whatever reason do not be in trying to avoid the side effects of the drug and the green tea.
Food Reward Friday
This week's lucky "winner"... low-carb gluten-free bacon chocolate mocha ice cream cake!!
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June 14, 2013
June 13, 2013
Move Over Big Data – Boundless Information has Arrived
If a mosquito lands on someone’s head and you hit the mosquito with a shovel, is the death of the guy under the mosquito considered an unintended consequence?
So now we know that the government of the United States of America is spying on its own citizens, not specifically on any one in particular, but massively and indiscriminately collecting troves of data on all American people. All perfectly legal, complete with secret courts that must approve each wholesale transaction with government data providers, which they do 4 times every day and twice on Sunday (or something like that). It’s not clear if the government pays for volume or value, or if the data providers are just donating this electronic bounty to the government as an expression of their patriotic duty, and perhaps in lieu of taxes which most of these technology giants (e.g. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Verizon, etc.) are successfully, and also legally, evading.
So those who are being spied upon are actually paying the bills for all spying activities, including fees for services to data providers and taxes to support government processing of such unprecedented amounts of data, but in all fairness we must note that our progressive and open government is trying to save us some money by utilizing the latest open-source technologies for its cutting edge Boundless Informant software (yep, it's in Wikipedia already). The agency engaged in the electronic surveillance of your Facebook likes and dislikes, the National Security Agency (NSA), is a military agency headed by a uniformed soldier, and its job amongst other things is to supply information to “war planners and war fighters”. The war being planned and fought here is presumably the never ending war on terror (with zombies just around the corner), and it seems that the preferred strategy is to replace the possibility of terrorist (or zombie) induced terror, with the benevolent terror of being watched and tracked by your friendly military, for your own good and the good of the Nation.
Another branch of our great government is also very much concerned with our wellbeing and is also waging all sorts of little wars to protect us from the terrors of unhealthy lifestyles, such as being sick or preferring to be left alone, and as is the case with the war on terror, the wars on lifestyles require lots of electronic information. Sadly, the information needed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to successfully prosecute its wars, and keep us safe, is not readily available in electronic format, and although the current NSA data providers did try to collect health data in the past, and some are still trying today, most medical information is either on paper or scattered all over the place in electronic formats unsuitable for processing in the zettabyte data centers of the military. Fortunately, the gentle and caring government who is watching over all of us came up with a great solution.
The government decided to finance the purchasing of computers for medical records holders who agree to collect health data in a format more conducive to large scale processing. To make sure that medical data is useful, the distinguished President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) advised that medical records should be broken down into specific elements with proper metadata attached to each one, to better resemble the electronic data available from Google, Microsoft and other Internet data providers. But even with all these improvements, the collection of medical data is proving extremely difficult. First, there are hundreds of thousands of medical records holders, which is a huge logistic problem. Imagine the nightmare of collecting data from hundreds of thousands of mom and pop phone companies or search engines or social media outlets, each with a few thousand users, and each with a slightly different data format. This problem seems to be resolving itself though, as medical records holders are consolidating into larger and larger health chains and as a handful of medical software vendors are gaining huge market shares within these chains.
Second, health data was not traditionally generated by the public and having only a few intermediaries empowered to generate electronic data creates a serious bottleneck in collectable content generation. This too is being slowly resolved as people are increasingly encouraged to attach themselves to various tracking devices and as the movement to allow patients to create data in their medical records is gaining momentum. One cannot understate the importance of increasing the velocity of health data to customary Internet levels and beyond. Think about the value of correlating metadata from Verizon phone calls with real time changes in blood pressure, heart rate and perhaps even perspiration, or think about the improvements to the “51 percent confidence in a target’s “foreignness”” that could be achieved by simply knowing what targets eat every day. Oh, and let’s not forget that Section 215 of the Patriot Act authorizes the collection of medical records amongst other things.
The third set of problems facing the war on not being safe, are that potential health data providers are accustomed to antiquated oaths and legislation concepts that supposedly prohibit them from becoming government data suppliers, and consumers who have no problem with other electronic data collection, seem a bit skittish when it comes to their medical information. So the government is mounting an all-out effort to liberate medical data from the privacy ball-and-chains imposed by Hippocratic oaths and HIPAA laws. Every government approved medical data collection software must allow consumers to dislodge their information from health care providers’ data stores and send it to roam free and uninhibited on the Internet, preferably over “secure” email, which has been shown to improve consumers’ physical, mental and financial health and wellbeing. To spur consumers into action, the government is conducting a beautiful marketing campaign aimed at fostering “trusted exchange” of clinical information. Our government’s trustworthiness should be evident from our Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, whose “too cute by half” responses to Congress are “the most truthful, or least untruthful”, by his own admission. There surely is no other government in this whole wide world with spy managers so chummy, candid and forthcoming. Like a breath of fresh air….
So when the government tells us that we can opt-in or opt-out or opt halfway in and halfway out of “trusted exchange” of our medical records, we should trust that it is indeed so. Vaguely being aware that information stored in a computer database, connected to the Internet, can be copied, “backed up” or extracted in many ways, regardless of frontend opting preferences, should not in any way give you pause or elicit suspicions that your information may be shipped over to the government zettabyte collection. Besides, as Mr. Clapper eloquently stated, this is really a trifle matter of semantics: “when someone says ‘collection’ to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to him”. The soldier in charge of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, tried to clarify in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday, that there is a subtle difference between amassing data and actually looking at it. President Clinton, for example, had similar nuanced definitions for smoking pot and having ‘sex’.
Speaking of the wisdom of great American leaders, President Obama is reminding us that "We're going to have to make some choices as a society" because "You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience", and you definitely can’t have 100 percent health without making some hard choices. One cannot fault our President for forgetting, seeing how busy he is running our Nation, but we made our choices in 2008 and again in 2012, when we chose a President who said that the previous administration "puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide".
As a society, we don’t want to communicate by ravens instead of email and cell phones, we don’t want to throw our Birkenstocks at computer screens, we don’t want a black market for doctors who are not on the grid, and we are rather tired of having to make “false choice” after “false choice”. Perhaps it’s time for our President to make some personal choices as well.
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| Source: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |
So those who are being spied upon are actually paying the bills for all spying activities, including fees for services to data providers and taxes to support government processing of such unprecedented amounts of data, but in all fairness we must note that our progressive and open government is trying to save us some money by utilizing the latest open-source technologies for its cutting edge Boundless Informant software (yep, it's in Wikipedia already). The agency engaged in the electronic surveillance of your Facebook likes and dislikes, the National Security Agency (NSA), is a military agency headed by a uniformed soldier, and its job amongst other things is to supply information to “war planners and war fighters”. The war being planned and fought here is presumably the never ending war on terror (with zombies just around the corner), and it seems that the preferred strategy is to replace the possibility of terrorist (or zombie) induced terror, with the benevolent terror of being watched and tracked by your friendly military, for your own good and the good of the Nation.
Another branch of our great government is also very much concerned with our wellbeing and is also waging all sorts of little wars to protect us from the terrors of unhealthy lifestyles, such as being sick or preferring to be left alone, and as is the case with the war on terror, the wars on lifestyles require lots of electronic information. Sadly, the information needed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to successfully prosecute its wars, and keep us safe, is not readily available in electronic format, and although the current NSA data providers did try to collect health data in the past, and some are still trying today, most medical information is either on paper or scattered all over the place in electronic formats unsuitable for processing in the zettabyte data centers of the military. Fortunately, the gentle and caring government who is watching over all of us came up with a great solution.
The government decided to finance the purchasing of computers for medical records holders who agree to collect health data in a format more conducive to large scale processing. To make sure that medical data is useful, the distinguished President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) advised that medical records should be broken down into specific elements with proper metadata attached to each one, to better resemble the electronic data available from Google, Microsoft and other Internet data providers. But even with all these improvements, the collection of medical data is proving extremely difficult. First, there are hundreds of thousands of medical records holders, which is a huge logistic problem. Imagine the nightmare of collecting data from hundreds of thousands of mom and pop phone companies or search engines or social media outlets, each with a few thousand users, and each with a slightly different data format. This problem seems to be resolving itself though, as medical records holders are consolidating into larger and larger health chains and as a handful of medical software vendors are gaining huge market shares within these chains.
Second, health data was not traditionally generated by the public and having only a few intermediaries empowered to generate electronic data creates a serious bottleneck in collectable content generation. This too is being slowly resolved as people are increasingly encouraged to attach themselves to various tracking devices and as the movement to allow patients to create data in their medical records is gaining momentum. One cannot understate the importance of increasing the velocity of health data to customary Internet levels and beyond. Think about the value of correlating metadata from Verizon phone calls with real time changes in blood pressure, heart rate and perhaps even perspiration, or think about the improvements to the “51 percent confidence in a target’s “foreignness”” that could be achieved by simply knowing what targets eat every day. Oh, and let’s not forget that Section 215 of the Patriot Act authorizes the collection of medical records amongst other things.
The third set of problems facing the war on not being safe, are that potential health data providers are accustomed to antiquated oaths and legislation concepts that supposedly prohibit them from becoming government data suppliers, and consumers who have no problem with other electronic data collection, seem a bit skittish when it comes to their medical information. So the government is mounting an all-out effort to liberate medical data from the privacy ball-and-chains imposed by Hippocratic oaths and HIPAA laws. Every government approved medical data collection software must allow consumers to dislodge their information from health care providers’ data stores and send it to roam free and uninhibited on the Internet, preferably over “secure” email, which has been shown to improve consumers’ physical, mental and financial health and wellbeing. To spur consumers into action, the government is conducting a beautiful marketing campaign aimed at fostering “trusted exchange” of clinical information. Our government’s trustworthiness should be evident from our Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, whose “too cute by half” responses to Congress are “the most truthful, or least untruthful”, by his own admission. There surely is no other government in this whole wide world with spy managers so chummy, candid and forthcoming. Like a breath of fresh air….
So when the government tells us that we can opt-in or opt-out or opt halfway in and halfway out of “trusted exchange” of our medical records, we should trust that it is indeed so. Vaguely being aware that information stored in a computer database, connected to the Internet, can be copied, “backed up” or extracted in many ways, regardless of frontend opting preferences, should not in any way give you pause or elicit suspicions that your information may be shipped over to the government zettabyte collection. Besides, as Mr. Clapper eloquently stated, this is really a trifle matter of semantics: “when someone says ‘collection’ to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to him”. The soldier in charge of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, tried to clarify in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday, that there is a subtle difference between amassing data and actually looking at it. President Clinton, for example, had similar nuanced definitions for smoking pot and having ‘sex’.
Speaking of the wisdom of great American leaders, President Obama is reminding us that "We're going to have to make some choices as a society" because "You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience", and you definitely can’t have 100 percent health without making some hard choices. One cannot fault our President for forgetting, seeing how busy he is running our Nation, but we made our choices in 2008 and again in 2012, when we chose a President who said that the previous administration "puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide".
As a society, we don’t want to communicate by ravens instead of email and cell phones, we don’t want to throw our Birkenstocks at computer screens, we don’t want a black market for doctors who are not on the grid, and we are rather tired of having to make “false choice” after “false choice”. Perhaps it’s time for our President to make some personal choices as well.
June 07, 2013
Food Reward Friday
This week's "winner" will certainly be the most controversial yet... bacon!!
Bacon is a fatty cut of pork (typically side or back) that has been thinly sliced, cured, then cooked until crispy. This results in a fatty, salty, savory flavor that almost everyone loves. Bacon's extremely high calorie density, saltiness, and savory flavor give it a reward value that competes with chocolate and ice cream. Sometimes it's even used to flavor chocolate and ice cream!
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June 06, 2013
Update
I haven't been putting much effort into blogging these past few weeks. Frankly, a little break has been nice while I take care of other things in my life. But I haven't been twiddling my thumbs. Obesity research hasn't slowed down and there are many topics that I'd love to write about here if I had the time. I'll be starting a new series soon on the genetics of obesity-- a fascinating subject. I also plan to cover some of my recent publications on obesity and blood glucose control by the brain. Last but not least, we will soon roll out a substantially upgraded version of the Ideal Weight Program. Those who have already purchased the program will continue to have access to the new version.
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