Nutrify By Saniya

30/01/2024

A Nutrition Game!
Who else like snakes and ladders!
Refocus and find diversity and inter-relate it with symptoms and relevant disease.

04/12/2023

Saffron (زعفران) is the dried "stigma" or threads of the flower of the Crocus sativus plant.

Saffron has more than 100 bioactive compounds that have many health benefits. These compounds have several properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammation, antidepressant, and hypolipidemic (molecules that lower lipid levels).

Saffron contains several plant-derived chemical compounds that are known to have antioxidant, disease-preventing, and health-promoting properties.

🟣 Help protect the human body from oxidant-induced stress, cancers, and infections and act as immune modulators.

🟣 Excellent source of minerals like copper, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, selenium, zinc, and magnesium.

🟣 Rich in many vital vitamins, including vitamin A, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin C which is essential for optimum health.

🟣 Lower blood sugar levels and raise insulin sensitivity, both of which are important in preventing and managing diabetes.

🟣 Saffron extract has been shown to suppress appetite and reduce stomach obesity.

🟣 Help treat PMS symptoms.

🟣 Saffron’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties may help maintain a healthy heart and blood vessels, supporting healthy blood pressure and reducing the risk of heart disease.

🟣 Improve cognitive function in adults with Alzheimer’s disease. It may even help prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson

14/11/2023

This year, 2023, the World Diabetes Day theme is “Access to diabetes care”. This theme highlights of the importance of having equal access to the right information and essential care to ensure timely treatment and management.

This year 2023 theme is focused on intensive diabetes education for the healthcare professionals and the people living with diabetes which would enables better accessibility to quality educational platform educating and encouraging for early diagnosis and adhering better lifestyle and preventive tips to fight the escalating prevalence of diabetes worldwide.

It also focuses on providing better educational content and coaching to the healthcare professional on effectively detecting and diagnosing the diabetes and utilizing their precious time to impart education to the diabetes patients on how to prevent this disease by having lifestyle changes. This would definitely provide a mental support to the patients and help the patient to understand its current situation to help prevent any further complications.

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12/10/2023

"CARBOHYDRATE AND BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL"

Foods with carbohydrate or "carbs" give your body the energy it needs to keep you healthy. Some carbs raise your blood sugar quickly. Other carbs raise your blood sugar more slowly.

Carbs that raise your blood sugar slowly are the best kind to eat. Eating too many carbs or too many carbs that raise blood sugar quickly can make it harder for you to control your blood sugar.

Below is a list of some of the many foods with carbohydrate that raise blood sugar slowly. Eating these foods in the right amounts, at the right time for your meal plan, can help you control your blood sugar and diabetes.

Make sure to go through from the listed items.


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12/10/2023

"Zinc and it's importance in human body"

It's first discovery in an Iranian male in 1961, zinc deficiency in humans is now known to be an important malnutrition problem world-wide.

_ Adults, infants, children, adolescents, pregnant, and lactating women have increased requirements for zinc and thus, are at increased risk of zinc depletion.

_Zinc deficiency during growth periods results in growth failure. Epidermal, gastrointestinal, central nervous, immune, skeletal, and reproductive systems are the organs most affected clinically by zinc deficiency.

The diet may not necessarily be low in zinc, but its bio-availability plays a major role in its absorption. Phytic acid is the main known inhibitor of zinc.

_ Four main intervention strategies for combating zinc deficiency include dietary modification/diversification, supplementation, fortification, and bio-fortification.

_ About 70% of the zinc in circulation is bound to albumin, and any condition that alters serum albumin concentration can have a secondary effect on serum zinc levels.

Take your mineral From the food listed in the infographics.

11/08/2023

11/08/2023

We're in the second week of Kids Eat Right Month! ✌️ 🎉

Check out these materials, including social media, infographics, press releases and more, to help continue the celebration: sm.eatright.org/KERmedia

30/01/2023

We usually think in terms of getting enough water in the heat of the summer, or when we exercise. It’s just as important, if not more so, to make sure to get a balance of liquid in the cold.

Staying hydrated in winter involves more than drinking more water..

12/10/2022

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women around the world.

Unfortunately, Pakistan has the highest incidence of breast cancer in Asia. It is estimated that each year more than 83,000 cases of breast cancer are reported in Pakistan. Nearly 40,000 women die, just due to this deadly disease, mainly due to the lack of awareness.

29/10/2021

Saccharin, acesulfame, aspartame, neotame, and sucralose are the five main types of artificial sweeteners that have been approved by the FDA.

▫️They may not help with weight control
▫️They may lead to temptation to eat more
▫️They may overstimulate your sugar receptors
▫️They may be highly addictive