Jakarta, the meat is known to contain the animal protein needed by the body. But you should not eat meat too often. Why meat intake should be restricted?

Studies conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found a strong association between red meat consumption and increased risk of type 2 diabetes, particularly meat that had been processed.

The study, led by An Pan, a researcher at HSPH Department of Nutrition suggests that replacing red meat with healthy proteins, such as low-fat dairy, nuts, or seeds, can significantly lower the risk.

The study found consumption of 100 grams of raw red meat every day can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 19 percent. The results of this study have been published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on August 10, 2011.

"The results of this study clearly has health implications are that consumption of red meat could increase the epidemic of type 2 diabetes," Hu said, as quoted from esciencenews.com, Friday (08/12/2011)

The researchers advise people to minimize the consumption of processed red meats like hot dogs, bacon and sausage because it contains sodium and nitrite levels are high. And replace it with another, more healthy choices such as nuts, grains, low fat dairy products or fish.

While the risk of red meat that has not been processed until now not known with certainty. In previous studies HSPH researchers have not found clear evidence about the relationship between eating red meat raw with the risk of coronary heart disease or type 2 diabetes.

Support for this study was conducted by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in the United States.

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People who have suffered heart attacks often experience muscle injury and reduced cardiac function. A study done post-heart attack treatment trials using intralipid fat. The results of further damage caused by heart attacks can be prevented.
Intralipid is the essential fats that can not be made by the human body but obtained from foods such as soy or supplements. Fat is necessary for the regulation of nerve impulses. These fats can increase blood circulation to the brain by clearing the fat that accumulates along the walls of the circulatory system.Usually used as a nutrient that intralipid administered through the blood vessels to treat symptoms of overdose of local anesthetic.
But the discovery made Dr. Siamak Rahman, professor of anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA found that intralipid can also protect the heart from the damage of heart attack patients.
Quoted from ScienceDaily, Monday (08/08/2011), for the treatment of heart attacks focused on limiting the duration of the ischemic period, when blood flow to tissues is reduced. Treatment is then performed by opening the arteries to normalize coronary blood flow. But the injury to the heart muscle can occur after oxygen and nutrients in the bloodstream back to the cells undergoing shortages. This phenomenon is known as reperfusion injury.
But this new study conducted to identify how Intralipid, can prevent heart damage and help maintain cardiac function. Fat is used when blood flows back to the heart immediately after a heart attack.
This study shows intralipid may help maintain cell function when the body is stressed. This study introduces a new way to reduce heart muscle damage due to reperfusion injury or extend the tolerance due to oxygen-deficient organs.
This finding has the potential to be developed as a therapy in the future because this technique is not limited to the heart alone. The researchers say that this method can be used for each organ blood flow becomes blocked or used in organs for transplantation.

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