Tag: meat
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Plant-Based Diet Improves Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease that attacks and destroys a specific group of neurons in the basal ganglia of the brain, called dopaminergic neurons. Dopaminergic neurons secrete dopamine and its lack creates the characteristic symptoms of the disease, which are tremors and slowness in the execution of movements, muscle stiffness, loss of automatic movements,…
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Vitamin B1 Deficiency and its Crucial Role in Diabetes – New study
In the recent article published on February 1, 2026 in MDPI entitled Thiamine Deficiency in Diabetes: Implications for Diabetic Ketoacidosis, we see that vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency can create many complications in people with diabetes, complications that do not have a good prognosis. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening complication of diabetes. Thiamine deficiency is particularly…
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HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 377 BC) – ON DIET VI – Constipation and Obstructive Ileus
In the case of dry stools that cause burning, the mouth becomes dry and later takes on a bitter taste, retention of feces and urine occurs. For when the intestine loses its moisture, it swells around the feces and blocks the outlets, causing pain, fever and whatever one drinks or eats, it expels it with…
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HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 377 BC) – ON DIET II – Foods containing flesh (meat, fish, seafood)
Meat ¨Regarding animals intended for food, everyone should know the following: Beef is tonic, astringent and indigestible. Its meat is heavy for the body, as is its milk. Goat meat is lighter than beef and more laxative. Pork gives the body more strength than beef and goat meat and facilitates bowel movements quite a bit.…
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Essential and BCAA Amino Acids as a Valuable Supplement in Cancer Treatments
Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential for many functions of the body, such as tissue growth and repair, nutrient transport and muscle performance enhancement. Amino acids are divided into essential (which the body must obtain from food) and non-essential (which it can synthesize on its own). The essential amino acids are: leucine,…
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Better food management at home
Finding ways to reduce food waste at home can help us better manage the food we buy and have in our home and save us money. 1. We buy less food One of the simplest ways is to buy less food, food that we really need, e.g. this week or the week after. Usually if…
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Foods that help with Hypokalemia
Hypokalemia is a low concentration of Potassium (K+) in the blood, below 3.5 mEq/L or mmol/L. (Normal values 4 to 4.5 mEq/L). If the concentration of Potassium in the blood is less than 2.5 mEq/L then Hypokalemia is life-threatening. Hypokalemia is the most common electrolyte disorder and is common in those who are hospitalized or…
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15 Nutritional Advice for Kidney Patients on Dialysis
Nutritional support for patients undergoing dialysis is not only of great importance but also crucial for the course of the disease. The diet of kidney patients is very restrictive, but in the dialysis stage there is considerably more freedom in forming the nutritional plan that the patient will follow compared to the previous stages of…
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Nutrition for Healthy Preschoolers (PART 1 – the content of nutrition)
In the last 20 years, lifestyle has brought significant blows to the nutrition of preschool children. Nowadays, our young children eat less breakfast, consume less homemade food, while the intake of ready-made food that is not prepared at home has increased. Unfortunately, they now get more calories from snacks, consume more fried foods and foods…
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PROTEIN FOODS and the amount of protein, carbs and lipids in them
Amounts of protein, carbs and lipids contained in the most well-known protein foods of animal and plant origin. Ηigh protein foods without carbohydrates 1 medium egg : 6.3 grams of protein, 5 grams of lipids, 0.4 grams carbohydrates (71.8 calories) lean meat cooked without oil (content per 100 grams) pork : 27.3 grams of protein,…
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