99. Detailed Look at Vitamin C

Vitamin C is the repair-man in our body. It repairs our cells, and generates several other ingredients essential to transmit our brain signals to other cells. It is involved in maintaining our immune system, so we don't get sick so easily.

Our body can only hold a certain amount of vitamin C, and throw them away after one to six months of storage. It is recommended to consume around 65 mg to 2000 mg each day, and you're required to top up regularly, to get a fresh supply. Regular consumption of Vitamin C has been proven to shorten the length of colds. However, please note that regular consumption of vitamin C doesn't prevent you from getting cold.

Try to eat raw bell pepper to see the benefit of Vitamin C when you have canker sores. It will heal in no time. You can also try to consume Vitamin C whenever you have infections, to spike your immune system to work harder as a natural killer, antimicrobial cells in your body.

There are many sources of Vitamin C, but here are the list of food that are common and rank higher in Vitamin C:

• One guava, 100 gram, 228 mg of Vitamin C
• One cup of red bell pepper, 250 grams, 300 mg of Vitamin C
• One cup of kiwifruit, 125 grams, 100 mg of Vitamin C
• One orange, 225 grams, 100 mg of Vitamin C
• One cup of broccoli, 180 grams, 160 mg of Vitamin C
• Ten strawberries, 120 grams, 70 mg of Vitamin C

Too much of Vitamin C can lead to stomach complaints, headache, insomnia, and skin redness. This flushing of the skin is favourable especially when you want to have a lighter skin with a touch of crimson on your cheek to give an extra freshness look.

Without vitamin C, the body cannot heal wounds, as it needs vitamin C to stabilise the ingredients used to heal the wounds (i.e., collagen is too unstable to perform its functions). The body starts to show brown spots, mouth and gums start to bleed and teeth starts to fall out (just like in the pirate movies).

Vitamin C also plays a role to affect skin colour indirectly. Vitamin C can increase the production of substances that prevent skin to react with oxygen. Without reacting to oxygen, skin cannot produce melanin. When skin is exposed to sunlight, with high temperature there isn't melanin to produce darker skin. Consequently, you have lighter skin colour naturally.

See also:

• Detailed Look at Vitamin K
• A Good Time for Sunbathing Is 8 AM For 30 Minutes For 2 Years
• Eating Oranges Worsens Cough, Dried Oranges Peel Cures It

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103. Detailed Look At Calcium

Calcium is an element that is found abundant on earth. It is the third largest metal following iron and aluminium. Calcium is present in limestones and in animal fossils at sea. When limestone is heated, it will form calcium and that's how we obtain calcium. (Calcium comes from Latin word, calx, which means lime.)

Calcium is vital to bone formation. It also acts as a messenger that transmits signals within the cells. It plays a role in making a muscle cell to move in such a way it is in coordination with the other muscle cells based on signal from the brain (carried by potassium). Calcium helps to regulate blood circulation and digestion system too.

Most elements in the body binds with calcium so they can activate a certain enzymes. The intestines take one-third of calcium elements we've consumed, and the kidney regulates the level of calcium that gets distributed across the body. When the level of calcium isn't enough, the body will take calcium from kidney and bones.

Too much of calcium can lead to bone tumour, or other diseases which involves a pile of calcium deposited in the veins, hearts, kidneys, brains, etc. Lack of calcium can lead to seizures, or involuntary muscle movement, osteoporosis, and bone softening.

Calcium reacts well with air, and water. Drinking calcium metal can be corrosive to our body, as it may calcify kidney stones and arteries, which leads to death. Suggested daily intake of calcium is around 2000 mg to 3000 mg each day.
It is advised for children to take around 3000 mg each day, and for adults beyond 51 years to take 2000 mg each day.

See also:

• Why We Need Potassium
• Decreasing The Level of Carbohydrates Naturally
• Not Too Much of Everything

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102. Detailed Look At Vitamin E

Vitamin E acts as a vitamin that can break down unbalanced cells, by donating its hydrogen atom to create a more balanced cells. Unbalanced cells can be very dangerous, because it may react with another cells, and transform into something else.

Some studies show that people who consume more vitamin E (according to suggested dietary intake, not more than that) have less chance of getting cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer, dementia, and other diseases. It is advised to take 7 mg to 15 mg per day. (Several studies show that too much vitamin E may cause the body to stop absorbing vitamin E, and the effect was unknown. It's best to follow the suggested daily intake.)

Vitamin E together with LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein, or good fat that won't cause cholesterol), connect cells together for a smoother muscle growth. Vitamin E deactivates a certain enzyme that can slow down muscle growth, while activating another enzyme that assists muscle growth.

Below is a list of natural source of Vitamin E:

• 3 1/2 tablespoons of wheat germ oil, 50 grams, or 75 mg of Vitamin E
• 1 cup of pistachio nuts, 250 grams, or 7 mg of Vitamin E
• One avocado, 170 grams, or 4.5 mg of Vitamin E
• 1 cup of broccoli, 150 grams, or 2 mg of Vitamin E
• 1 cup of cashew nuts, 250 grams, or 2.25 mg of Vitamin E
• 1 serving of fish (cooked), 6 ounces or 170 grams, or 1.7 mg of Vitamin E
• 1 serving of oysters (cooked), 24 grams, or 4 mg of Vitamin E
• 1 egg, 30 grams, or 0.3 mg of Vitamin E

A lack of vitamin E is very rare, but it can affect how the body absorbs food, how the body coordinates together to transmit signal (problems vary from muscle weakness, poor coordination between muscles, loss of sensation, seizures, confusion, altered levels of consciousness), and how the body reacts to viruses. It could also lead to destruction of red blood cells.

See also:

• Detailed Look At Vitamin K
• Detailed Look At Vitamin C
• Egg Digestion

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101. Cancer - Explained

Cancer is a disease where cells began to strangely grow and mutate to invade and spread around the body.

It can mimic the original organs to penetrate the body, and spread to nearby body structures, even to other sites of the body. It grows bigger, stronger and interrupts the host's organs to function properly. Finally, the body succumbs to this mutation (read: cancer) and die.

This is a familiar situation with what's been depicted in movies like Alien vs Predator with Alien being the cancer cells and predator being the cancer cure treatment, zombies who spread exponentially just like cancer cells do, or X-Men who mutate their genes just like cancer cells do.

Tumour cell is a lump, just like cancer cells, but it won't spread to other site of the body. It stays there.

Here is a tumour we normally see:

Here's a tumour cell inside our body, just to give you an image of what a cancer cell looks like inside.

Here's a look at colon cancer (you know this one spreads, right):

Can you see it's like canker sores, and it spreads, and it's massive, and it can penetrate our organs? That's why, when we undergo operation to remove cancer cells, normally the doctors can't help it but to also take some of our meat along.

How to cure? We can't because it's inside our organs. One way is to weaken the cancer cells, by radiation, which also weakens the host. Can we starve cancer cells? No, we can't.

You see, our cells divide itself into two daughter cells automatically. They don't need to eat, they just reproduce itself. The parent cell divides itself into two daughter cells, to fix a broken cell (replace cells that are about to die), or for other purposes. Healthy cells stop producing when there's enough daughter cells. Cancer cells can't stop producing, they just keep regenerating and spreading and fill the whole body and more.

Some people say, cancer cells become more fierce when a knife cuts it through operation. That's because the cancer cells feel a lot of their parts have been missing, and so, they speed up their regeneration process (read: to fix broken cells or heal themselves).

Scientists are still looking for ways to cure cancer once and for all, and for the time being, all we need to do is to decrease the risk of cancer cells playing naughty in our body.

The consumption of more vegetables, fruit, whole grains and fish should lower the risk. Besides, it is also recommended to:

• Quit smoking
• Quit drinking alcohol
• Quit mating with different partners
• Quit eating processed food, like sausage, bacon, ham, etc
• Eat balanced healthy food
• Have a balanced body weight
• Exercise regularly
• Move away from polluted area (i.e., smoke polluted area, nuclear polluted area, etc)

See also:

• Preventing Prostate Problem
• How to Happily Prevent Cancer Naturally
• How to Pick Healthy Food

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100. Why Do You Need Whitening Toothpaste?

I don't like whitening mixture, because it contains chemical. So, I always use herbal toothpaste.

Whitening mixture contains bleach, which is abrasive to the teeth. Overtime, your teeth gets thinner as the whitening toothpaste removes the outer layer slowly and your teeth becomes darker and beyond help.

Teeth is a very important factor towards your health, as food enters your body through your mouth, not your eyes (unlike love, which enters your heart passing the eyes).

Try to brush your teeth with regular toothpaste (without whitening mixture) more often, and overtime you'll see a whiter teeth because the teeth are cleaner. I suggest not to aim for a whiter teeth but cleaner teeth, because your teeth colour is your bone colour. It's beautiful in its original way. It's God's gift.

One other way, is to temporarily limit the use of red lipstick because the colour tends to make the teeth seem more yellow.

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• Diabetes - Explained
• How to Avoid Tartar on Your Teeth, LOL Confidently
• Tea or No Tea

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