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Onion can increase muscle performance, reduce coffee, to a certain extent, the skin cancer risk. The food as medicine.

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Some even turn up at the idea of ​​"healthy eating" nose. Because they combine healthy with bland. Far from it. The Onion example, may well say of any taste. But the plant is something of a health-trades. Only because of their high content of flavonoid quercetin. "It is the only natural substance that mitochondria, so multiply the power plants of our cells, and thus increase the power of the muscles can," says Markus Metka, gynecologist and President of the Austrian anti-aging society.


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The beauty of quercetin: There is heat stable, so even cooked onions give our muscles power. "The good old goulash is thus a healthy food," says Metka. Also because quercetin - can dramatically reduce chronic inflammation - in association with the onion ingredient anthocyanin. "Also, recent research indicates that soy seems an anti-inflammatory effect to have," says John Huber, often referred to as Austria hormone Pope. With anti-inflammatory foods of course fish must be missing their wealth in omega-3 fatty acids have a positive effect on inflammation. "One to two fish meals per week plus regular linseed and rapeseed oil, and flaxseed can effectively prevent inflammation," says Petra Rust, a professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of Vienna. "Even the allicin in garlic may have anti-inflammatory."

This can also the curcumin, the yellow dye of the root. You can also score points when it comes to protection against cancer. "Since curcumin inhibits growth factors that can lead to cancer," says Huber. Offer cancer protection but also capsaicin (in chilli and ginger contain approximately) and green tea. Huber: "Its antioxidant epigallocatechin gallate can engage in the development of a cancer and inhibit its growth." Rust brings the lycopene of tomatoes and rose hips in front of the curtain, when it comes to edible cancer prevention. Lycopene also increases the protective mechanisms of the skin from excessive sun exposure. Rust's special advice: "lycopene is more effective when it is processed." Paradeissuppe is therefore still healthier than Paradeissalat.

Anti-aging bomb parsley. Cancer prevention can also operate the Coffee Party: "The caffeine and other anticarcinogenic agents from three cups a day reduce the risk of skin cancer," it says in the book "Food as Medicine. 140 foods for better health "(Dr.Marcela Ullmann, Friedrich Bohlmann, publishing Grafe and undissected, 256 pages, € 13.40). Italian researchers have investigated a protective turn, prebiotic effect of coffee, which should reduce the risk of colon cancer.

But even in our home growing "medicine" from the Earth: Current research indicates that the beta-glucan in the barley is the most powerful natural immune modulator. "This polysaccharide has the same cancer as well as infectious brake," says Metka, who for years has dealt intensively with herbs and spices. He adores downright of parsley and chives: "He who eats much of it takes a lot of polyphenols to be acting anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and will also protect against cancer."

Moreover, they are true "anti-aging bombs," says Metka and airs one of several secrets of anti-aging effect of the wine. "His Resveratrol is not only strong anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, but also prolong life. Because it affects the sirtuin mechanism and is able to put the cells in our body into a kind of delicate hibernation. Then you were not really running at full speed and age more slowly. "Red wine by the way has much more resveratrol than white wine, red wine and grapes with thick shells offers even more of this wonder drug. "One of the healthiest wines of Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon, the grapes have thick skins that grapevines are exposed to strong climatic changes and produce resveratrol to protect even more," says Metka. Also on the red juice of the grape sugar Counter positive. "100ml have the same effect as a tablet of the diabetes drug metformin."

Finally reveals Metka still a hitherto kept secret recipe for a spice mixture, which affects both the sugar and fat metabolism favorable: chili powder, pepper, coriander seeds and cumin mix to each quarter, a little nutmeg, and ready is the effective mix . "An ideal fat and Zuckerverbrenner" said Metka, "and it tastes good too, both with meat as well as vegetables." Should one say, healthy food is bland.