Strawberry, Not Only Beautiful but Also Useful For Our Health!

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I love everything about strawberry. As i told you before, that i adore little pretty sweet and sour strawberry. I love drinking strawberry’s juice, i love eating strawberry cheesecake, i love eating strawberry cake, i love eating fresh strawberry. The taste of strawberry for me is sexy. Sweet and sour. Moreover the strawberry is beautiful outside. And the shape of strawberry is also sexy for me. And i love something that’s shaped strawberry. I have the strawberry’s pillow, i have strawberry’s mirror and other thing that’s shaped strawberry.

Strawberry is useful for our health. Because it has an antioxidant to prevent us from the substances that can be dangerous for our body. As Madam Tallien, a great figure of the French Revolution, said “I always take bath full of strawberries to keep the full radiance of my skin.” Fontelle, centenarian writer and gourmet of the 18^th century, considered his long life was due to the strawberries he used to eat.

For medicinal purposes all parts of the plant are used, especially the fruit. In this content authors do not distinguish between wild and domestic sorts of strawberry. The fruit is gathered in dry weather in the morning when the dew disappears or in the evening as the wet fruit is apt to spoil. The ripe whole fruit is gathered and dried in special ovens. If dried correctly the fruit keeps its bright red color. The fruit loses its qualities if over-dried. The leaves are dried in cool, windy place and stored in boxes covered with paper from the inside. The dried fruit is stored in tin boxes. They are best before 1-2 years. Strawberry is known as medicinal plant since 13^th century. It is widely used by different countries of the world. In Armenian folk medicinal practice strawberry was used for better appetite, and to stabilize digestion. It is also used against urolithiasis and gallstone diseases, podarga, hepatitis, etc. The leave decoction is used against menstrual bleedings, ulcer, gastritis, anemia, hypertonic and heart diseases, and atherosclerosis. In Germany the leaves are used against gallstone, neural and spleen diseases, gastritis, bronchial asthma, sleeplessness, haemorrhoids, bad mouth smell, etc. In a number of countries strawberry is used against colitis, jaundice, ulcers, reachitis and other diseases. According to N.G. Kovaleva, fruit decoction has positive affect on high blood and excessive heart beat. In scientific medicine it is proven the diuretic, resolvent qualities which are effective to cure gallstone and gastritis. The plant is also proven to have antibiotic and fitocidic qualities.

Strawberry has good antioxidant that is useful to prevent us from cancer. Its useful antibiotic, antioxidant and fitocidic is very good to against cancer. They can destroy the dangerous substances that cause cancer. From some researches, strawberry is believed can make our life longer.

Strawberry is also widely used in cosmetics to get rid of pimples, spots from the face. In these cases strawberry juice is mixed with egg yolk (1 tea-spoon of juice to 1 egg yolk) and put on the face. It is useful to  smooth your face too.

Strawberry can be made a juice for our daily consuming. Just mix some fresh strawberries with sugar , honey and a cup of mineral water. The quantities of sugar and honey is depend on  you. And for better, you can add some ices into. By adding sugar and honey, you get energy from them. The other serving of strawberry is by eating them as your fruit. Strawberry can be made a pudding too if you like. Strawberries are often used to flavor other foods, such as ice cream. Apart from its interest as a desert fruit, the strawberry draws interest due to the peculiarities of its structure, its tendency towards variation, and the gardener’s success in exploiting this tendency. There are so many ways of serving strawberry as your daily consuming.

So, i’m not wrong loving strawberry, right

Source:

Darrow, George M.(1966). The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology.New York: Holt Rinehart &  Winston.

Schindler, M.(2007). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :Strawberry  Garden Strawberry. Online. Available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Strawberry.html

Schindler, M.(2007). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Fragraria Vesca.  Online. Available:

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Fragraria_vesca

Calculating our Body Mass Index (BMI) and Ideal Weight

I just blog-walked there , and i read a post about how to calculate the ideal weight for people. It’s important i think especially for women. For further information please click this link tanya dokter. It calls Body Mass Index (BMI) . Here’s the formula:

BMI = Weight (kg) / ( Height * Height )

Ps:    Weight in Kilograms

Height in Meters

And here’s the BMI’s Explanation:

The Explanation of BMI's result taken from tanyadokter.com

My BMI is : 48/ (1.61 * 1.61) = 18.51780409

and Alhamdulillah my BMI includes to Normal. But for knowing how normal my BMI is, there’s a formula.

A = Height (Centimeter) – 100

B = A – (10% * A) kilograms

B is our ideal weight. Let’s see the calculation of mine:

A = 161 – 100 = 61

B = 61 – (10% * 61) = 54.9

My ideal weight is 54.9 Kg but actually my weight is 48 Kg (Alhamdulillah). Because the most important one is keep being health by eating healthy foods, doing sports, eating more fruits and vegetables,  drinking more mineral water, not smoking, and live a healthy life. So let’s calculate your BMI and your ideal weight, friends!

This post is taken from several sources. Here are there!

http://www.tanyadokter.com/tools-bmi.asp

http://blu3vanda.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/berapa-berat-badan-idealmu/

http://lifestyle.okezone.com/read/2008/10/06/81/151336/81/cara-mengetahui-berat-badan-ideal

Honey, not only sweet but also useful!

Several days ago i had my tonsillitis relapsed. It was so painful. I did so many ways to recover it. Started from brewed “Daun Lidah Ular” and then i drank it, took a medicine, and many other ways, but it all had no result. I still had this pain. Uhh,, it tortured me so much.

But then i thought what my mother ever said to me, “please take and eat honey if you wanna always keep your stamina fit. Not only for guarding your stamina but honey can be used as a medicine. Honey is medicines all medicines.”. Then i took honey and eat it as soon as possible. I had to use Pure Honey. Because it’s more natural for its huge special quality. The way i used honey as my tonsilitis’ medicine is : i took 3 spoons of honey, put it all on a glass, then i added hot water just a quarter of the glass, after that i read Shalawat 7 times for The Prophet Nabi Muhammad saw, then lasted by reading Bismillah. I drank honey twice a day.

And Alhamdulillah the more i drank this honey, the more my tonsillitis is decreased. Now i feel much better. The pain disappears. So Honey can be used as a medicine for the whole diseases.