Eat Lychee To Fight Breast Cancer

Eat Lychee To Fight Breast Cancer | Lychee, a fruit that is similar blend of rambutan and longan fruit. That said, the name means lychees good and happy life.

Who would not be happy tasted the sweet taste of this acid?

Well, actually lychee first discovered in Asia. This tropical fruit has a pretty shady trees and comfortable. Often bear fruit in the summer, like longan and rambutan. Lychee fruit vitamin content, not less rich in other fruits.

In fact, a study suggests that lychees contains flavonoids that can help fight cancer cells in the body, as reported by Indiatimes. The content of vitamin C in a lychee is not only good for the skin, but protects the heart, away from the cancer cells, both for bone and skin tissue.

In traditional China, the lychee fruit is used as a drug that can cure a sore throat, flu and fever. In addition, lychees are also rich in fiber, so it is recommended to those who run the diet program.

Here is the lychee fruit nutrition:

• energy 66kcal
• 81.76 grams of water
• 16.53 grams of carbohydrates
• 1.3 grams fiber
• calcium 5 mg
• 0.31 mg of iron
• potassium 171 mg
• 0.07 mg zinc
• 71.5 mg of vitamin C
• 14 mcg folate
• Vitamin E 0.07 mg

Vitamin K 0.4 mcg

Interested to eat lychees? Weve got tips for you to choose a sweet and fresh lychees.

1. There are two types of lychee, green or red-skinned. Both are equally sweet, but generally red-skinned more water content.
2. Be sure to pick lychees, her skin still fresh and not brown. If the color is too ripe lychee brown or even almost rotten.
3. Ripe lychee skin gets thinner.
4. It would be better to choose the remaining lychees trunk than not. Because lychees are still fresh and could last longer if stored in the refrigerator.

Seven Natural Ways To Fight Hot Flashes

If youre looking for a way to end your irritating hot flashes, you might have heard that a nutritional remedy, flaxseed, can be helpful. But so far, study results are mixedand its probably better to stick with easier ways of cooling down.

A Mayo Clinic study, which provided the subjects with two tablespoons of flaxseed daily, concluded that flaxseed did improve hot flashes, but not without unpleasant gastrointestinal side effects like bloating. In another study, at the University of Calgary, women ate large amounts of ground flaxseed or soy flour, or were given a placebo. After the six-week trial, the researchers concluded that none of the substances did any good.

But no matter what the studies show, the good news is that there are plenty of simple ways to cool down. Here are some strategies:

1. Dress in layers, so you can peel off one layer after another as you get warmer.
2. Dont wear wool or synthetics, and be wary of silk. Dress in cotton.
3. Avoid turtlenecks and stick to open-neck shirts.
4. Keep ice water on hand.
5. Substitute soft drinks for alcohol. Wine and liquor bring on the heat.
6. Pass on jalapenos and other spicy foods that can be a hot flash trigger, like cayenne, chili peppers,    wasabi and hot mustard.
7. Use your freezer liberally. A number of women say opening the freezer at home and sticking their head in brings relief.
Robin Westen is ThirdAges medical reporter. Check for her daily updates. She is the author of Relationship Repair.
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