Black tea helps to fight stress, says British study

Black tea helps to fight stress, says British study

The typically British tradition to take a chávena of tea of regular form helps to fight stress daily. The conclusion is of a study of University College London (UCL) published in the specialized magazine Psychopharmacology.

The presence of the cortisone, hormona responsible for stress, in the sanguineous circulation is reduced in about 47% through the ingestion of black tea.

“We proved that the components of the tea, as the catequinas, polifenóis, flavonóides and amino acids help to reduce stress, sending signals to the brain”, explained Andrew professor Steptoe.

The scientist directed the experiences carried through with 75 volunteers who had taken tea of regular form and had been examined during six weeks, disclosing that other drinks do not have relaxante effect the same.

The British study he confirmed thus the idea of that to take tea “traditionally is associated with the act to pass a good bit without stress of the quotidiano and many believe that this drink helps of fact to relax”, added.

How much salt we can consume to the day?

Currently the specialists recommend not to more than consume 2,3 grams of salt to the day for healthful people, and in the maximum 1,5 grams daily if we suffer renal illness, diabetes or hipertensão. To make the calculation it does not have that to have in account only the salt with which we temper our meals, senão also the present salt in processed and packed foods.

Rachel Wagner, nutritionist of the University of Cincinnati (U.S.A.) assures that the majority of the people is unaware of “the occult” sources associates, as the saladas gravies of tomatoe, temperos for, the cheese, the cereals and certain condiments as the soy gravy. A spoonful of the soy gravy only can contain 1,8 gram of salt.

To eat cool fished meat and, and to prove that the packed or congealed vegetables do not have added salt, are two advice given for Wagner to prevent to consume more salt of what it is considered healthful.

The potato most expensive of the world

The exotic caviar of white rare beluga enters and trufas, in a list of more expensive foods of the world, is difficult to imagine the presence of a common food as the potato.

However, we are not saying of a potato any and yes of, There Bonnote, the potato most expensive of the world. This almost extinct potato species is cultivated only in a place of the planet, the French island of Noirmoutier, for a group of enthusiastic it saved that it of the total extinguishing, the one that was displayed during the two world-wide wars.

Fragile and cultivated only in fields fertilizados for kelps, responsible by the characteristic salty flavor levemene, the variety is planted in harvested February and manually during the ten first days of May.

With an annual harvest of approximately 100 tons, delicate and demanding the Bonnote can There reach prices of up to 700 dollars the kilo. The exotic potatoes generally are found in plates special of restaurants of luxury of France and Holland in May middle.

To drink coffee really diminishes the drunkeness?

It diminishes. The alcohol is a depressive substance of the central nervous system, because it reduces its activity when making it difficult the ticket of messages between the neurons of the brain. It is not known accurately why this happens, but gives credit that the alcohol modifies the composition of the membrane of the neurons, making it difficult the transmission of the nervous impulses. This makes with that the person is sleepy, unbalanced and without motor coordination.

Already the present caffeine in the coffee has the opposing effect accurately. “It intensifies the ticket of these neuronais messages, brightening up the effect provoked for the alcoholic beverage ingestion”, affirms the pharmaceutical biochemist Robert De Lucia, of the University of São Paulo. To reduce the effect of the drunkness, the coffee must be ingested without sugar, therefore this substance makes it difficult the absorption of the caffeine for the organism, harming its action.