Rosy Fruits The Best Lycopene Source

The word lycopene is probably quite familiar enough in our ears. I my self often find this word in commercial break for some beauty and health products, like how lycopene can help us out to have a brighter complexion and how lycopene support the detoxification process in human body.

But what is lycopene anyway, how can lycopene do all those things and where can we find lycopene ? well, I found the answers in some articles I read, and already make some short summary of it. Lycopene is a red pigment, and this red pigment is abundantly found in rosy fruits. Some examples of those rosy fruits are tomatoes, watermelon, red guava, papaya and red bell paper.

A research by Havard Medical School has found that consuming lycopene will lowering the risk of cancer and heart attack. Lycopene contributes a stronger antioxidant compared to vitamin C (Rui Hai Liu, Professor of Food Science, Cornell University).

A study which was revealed in 2002 also mentioned that the lycopene in tomatoes will have an increasing level by cooking. Read more

Fasting and Body Detoxification

Waste dump has caused so many troubles in our body. Constipation problems, fever, flu, excessive weight, cellulite, excessive blood cholesterol rate, sluggish chronic, disease / interference skin, pre-menstruation syndrome, losing the joy of sex, early aging, tumors, degenerative diseases, etc

Toxic is not only coming from the dregs of the food we consume, but also can comes from substances like additive food, polluted air, chemicals such as pesticides, heavy metals in the drinking water, residue pharmaceutical drugs, etc. Even the negative thoughts and emotions is also toxic to the cells our bodies. All waste or substances that are not required by our body will be treated as a poison (toxin) or disease. Dregs or toxin is also produced naturally by the body of our own. This is a metabolic process so that we can not avoid. Every day in our body of the division of new cells happens.

Detoxification is the process of getting rid the toxic substances our of our body, or the substances that are toxic from the body. Fasting is said one effective method of detox. Fasting can clean intestine, and we all know that the whole body’s cells getting its’ food from blood. Read more