Health tips for better life

Many people only eat turkey over the holidays or during special occasions. Yet turkey is extremely nutritious and offers numerous health benefits. The turkeys that we eat today are descendants of wild North American turkeys that were trapped by the early explorers, settlers, and pioneers. Hundreds of years ago, turkeys were sent overseas from North America to Europe where they quickly became a popular food. In fact, the delicious reputation of wild turkeys nearly ended with their entire species becoming extinct, were it not for the United States government intervening to protect the bird. Fortunately today, turkey can easily be found in many grocery stores, and turkey meat is recognized as a healthy substitute for red meat.

Turkey is a rich source of protein. Yet unlike red meat, consumption of turkey meat does not seem to be linked with an increased risk of cancer and blood disease.

Protein is a vital component of every cell in the human body, and an important part of the human diet. Proteins build and repair the body structure and tissues, and aid in the formation of antibodies and hormones.

Turkey meat contains high amounts of selenium, a trace mineral that is necessary for the proper functioning of the immune system. Selenium acts as an antioxidant to protect your cells from the damaging effects of free radicals.

Turkey is an excellent source of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), which plays in important role in metabolism, immune function, and cell growth. Vitamin B6 is also required for the formation of myelin (in nerve cells), and synthesis of neurotransmitters (serotonin and norepinephrine).

Tryptophan, also found in turkey meat, is an essential amino acid that promotes relaxation and regulates the sleep cycle. It may also help people fall asleep faster and remain asleep for a longer duration. Tryptophan is a mood enhancer that may play a role in the prevention of anxiety, depression, and headaches.

Turkey is associated with the first Thanksgiving meal in the United States. Almost all of the fat found in turkey is located in its skin, which is easily removed after baking or roasting. The white meat has a lower fat content than the dark meat. Delicious dishes made of turkey include chili, salad, casserole, pot pie, enchiladas, quiche, curry, a la King, and slow cooked soup.

Individuals suffering from gout or kidney stones should limit their intake of turkey. Persons who are allergic to turkey should also avoid this food.
 

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Do you enjoy a good steak, a hefty hamburger and a big hotdog? Your arteries, your heart, your eyes, and your immune system may wish you had made other choices. It seems that high intake of red and processed meat can be deadly. 

Red and Processed Meat Intake is linked to higher mortality rates from cancer and cardiovascular disease as well increased risk of age related macular degeneration, retinal damage in the eyes. Chicken seems to be inversely related to macular degeneration, according to a recent Australian study, while eating fish was not associated with macular degeneration.
 
“High meat intake has been associated with higher levels of N-nitroso compounds, heme iron, and advanced glycation end products, which could result in oxidative damage and could be toxic to the retina.” Dr. Elaine W. T. Chong at the University of Melbourne and others, American Journal of Epidemiology, April 1, 2009. High levels of meat consumption may be the cause or perhaps a marker for people who are at risk due to other lifestyle factors.

 
“High intakes of red or processed meat may increase the risk of mortality,” says Rashmi Sinha, PhD, from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues. He is citing results of a large, prospective study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, March 23, 2009.
 
This study, The National Institutes of Health-American Association for Retired People Diet and Health Study, included about half a million men and women, aged 50-72 years at the start. The study began with a food frequency questionnaire to determine how much meat each person was eating as the study began.
 
The food was categorized as follows:
Red meat: beef and pork, including bacon, coldcuts, hamburgers, hotdogs, steaks and meats in pizza, lasagna and stew.
White meat: chicken, turkey, fish, poultry cold cuts, canned tuna, low-fat hotdogs
Processed meats: either red or white sandwich meats, cold cuts, bacon, sausages (red meat and poulty), regular hotdogs and low fat poultry hotdogs

During 10 years of follow-up, 47,976 men and 23,276 women had died. Overall death risks were increased for those who ate the largest amount of red meat. Red and processed meat consumption was associated with modest increased in total mortality, cancer deaths, and cardiovascular disease deaths. On the other hand, high white meat consumption and low-risk meat consumption was associated with a small decrease in total deaths and cancer deaths.

Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers

We have known for some time in the developed world that diet, particularly meat and fast food consumption, coupled with the sedentary lifestyle that goes with urban living, work patterns and less active leisure activities involving TV and video games are far from healthy.

Now diets are changing towards the so-called “western” model of eating more meat and a more sedentary lifestyle in countries where affluence is rising, like China and India.

There are already indications that the rates of diabetes, heart disease and obesity are dramatically escalating, particularly in India as a result.

The WHO (World Health Organisation) estimates that diabetes, heart disease and strokes will together fost about £333.6 billion over the next 10 years in India alone.

Recent research by Oxford University commissioned by Friend of the Earth has also found that red meat can be linked to around 45,000 premature deaths in the UK annually and that it is strongly linked to bowel cancer,while meat and dairy products high in saturated fats contribute to obesity and heart disease.

Reducing meat consumption to perhaps three meals per week and choosing a more balanced diet, it says, could contribute significantly to reducing these deaths.

Rearing cattle has long been regarded as the most energy-inefficient form of food production, not only because of the acreage of land needed for each animal.

The increased demand, particularly for red meat, is also adding to the pressure on land resources and by extension on biodiversity as more rainforests are cleared, particularly in Brazil, to grow feed and rear cattle for export.

Put all this in the context of a recent WWF (World Wildlife Fund) report that found that the planet.s resources are being used at 1.5 times the rate that nature can replace them and the countless studies from the UN showing that more than a billion people on low incomes are either starving or malnourished and one has to question human priorities.

All this gives added weight to the urgency of tackling the loss of the world’s biodiversity, currently being discussed in Japan at a two-week UN biodiversity conference in Japan (October 2010).

It has been estimated that the loss of diversity is costing the global economy several trillion dollars a year and that if targets for conserving species’ life are not agreed soon the situation could soon become irreversible.

It is not being suggested that everyone gives up meat altogether, but it is in the interests of our health to reduce red meat consumption and to have a more balanced diet.

There are already techniques acailable for nesuring enough food for all without the need for more land.

The jury may still be out regarding the advisability of genetic modification but other sustainable farming techniques already exist.

A raneg of low-chem agricultural products has been devised by biopesticides developers that are kinder to the environment. They include biopesticides and biofungicides as well as yield enhancers that allow farmers, large and small, to grow more on the same acreage without leaching all the goodness from the soil.

The problem lies with the powerful vested interests, the time it takes to get such products through the licensing procedure and their availabilty in terms of cost and training to small farmers, particularly in the developing world, who could arguably make best use of them.

The question is whether ethics and morality can outweigh the economic self interest of individual nations in grim global economic climate that is already showing signs of protectionism and arguments about currencies.