Antioxidants to the Help You When You Quit Smoking.
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Smoking was a once considered to a fashion and luxury, which may be bring to a touch of the class and coolness to your attitude, but the habit costs to your health and well-being in a return. Surveys show that are almost 90% of the regular smokers want to get out of the addiction and wished they are never started. Smoking harms to your lungs, sleep, mental health and over all the well-being. But there are several ways you can be a pick in the process of the quitting smoking that will be help to your body heal faster with a time. We all are aware of the magic word antioxidants, but how many of us know how antioxidants help to repair in the body from the damages post smoking?
Antioxidants and Free Radicals
When a person smokes, high amounts of the free radicals are formed in the body, which cause a oxidative stress or a damage. Free radicals are a group of the atoms with an a odd number of the electrons and is a formed when oxygen interacts with a certain molecules. They are highly unstable and they are start to a chain reaction to be a stable. This chain reaction damages in the components of a cell in the body such as a DNA and the cell membrane. This causes malfunctioning and death of the cell and leads to the several diseases and disorders.
How do we are prevent our body from such a damage?
The answer is, by a consuming enough antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules which are safely interact with a free radicals and terminate the chain reaction before any of the vital nutrients and cell organelles are damaged. Micro-nutrients such as a vitamins, beta-carotene, selenium and copper are some of the constituents of the antioxidants. They are not formed inside our body and hence we have to take them externally. Hence, we can say that antioxidants can be heal the body even if you are smoking, however, it is not as a potent as a complete cessation of the smoking.
How Antioxidants Can be Help
Antioxidants can be help stabilize in the unstable free radicals that were introduced to the body due to the smoking. Risks of the diseases and disorders such as a fatigue, oral problems and lung cancer post smoking can be a minimized with a antioxidants. Scientists from University of the Rochester are trying to find out the potential of the antioxidants in a reversing the oxidative stress or a damage done by a free radicals. They are trying to the extract sole restorative from red grapes to see how fast antioxidants can be work to the prevent lung cancer. Scientists believe in that this novel study might help millions of the people who are seeking help to repair in the body after quitting smoking.
Tips to Take a Antioxidants
There are several tips and recipes you can try at the home to get the benefits of the antioxidants and repair in the damaged cells of the body. Some of them are:
Beans: Colorful beans such as a red, black, or a kidney beans are rich sources of the antioxidants. They contain eight flavoring and health are experts recommend in these have to be a eaten at least once a week.
Do you like to a traditional sprouted bean dish that is a cooked as a kind of the popular Indian salad called in the Chat! Mix some sprouted beans with a onions, tomatoes, salt, some fresh chilies, few drops of the olive oil and lemon juice and a seasoning of the fresh chopped coriander and have it as an a evening snack. To add more colors on your plate, go for a red and black beans that are more potent in a nutritional boost.
Blueberries: Blueberries are a darling fruit for those wise women who know how to keep ageing at the bay. They are one of the richest sources of the antioxidants and do wonders to your skin and body. Eat a blueberries to keep away the harmful effects of the smoking.
Is a availability to a question in a countries like India?
Who said you have to just eat in the fruit, blueberry ice creams are available in all ice cream parlors. Nowadays, blueberry juice is also a being introduced to the Indian market. Go out for a cup of the ice cream or have a glass of the blueberry juice in a breakfast. If the natural berries are available in your city, you can add them in your bowl of the favorite fruit salad and munch them in the evenings.
Broccoli: Broccoli comes with a very impressive nutritional profile which are includes folates, vitamin C, vitamin A, fiber and petrochemicals. They need no cooking or a any special recipe to make them palatable. Just toss some pieces of the broccoli in a bowl with a salt and vinegar and eat it as a salad with a meal. You can also a use them for a seasoning on soups, steaks and other dishes.
Tomatoes: Many of us do not like a tomatoes for in their tangy flavor and runny texture, but tomatoes are rich in a lycopene which are increases four times when they are grilled or a heated.
Love soups?
Try some spicy tomato soups with your favorite toppings such as a broccoli, sweet peas, coriander, cream to name a few. You can also a grill in the tomatoes in your microwave oven and season it with a pepper, salt and dry herbs to the eat with your lunch.
Dark Chocolates: Dark chocolates are one of the best sources of the antioxidants. Studies show that dark chocolates are good for your heart and body, but not in the milk chocolates or the white ones. Dark chocolates are rich in a flavoring.
Now you can be a dig in the dark chocolate cakes and truffles. You can be a also make to a chocolate milk shakes and have it at the least twice to a week.
Smoking is an a addiction that cannot be a stopped so easily. But there can be no second opinion on the urgent need to kick in the habit however old or a young you are. So make up your mind and stay determined to the quit smoking. While you are at it, try taking advantage of the antioxidants to the heal your body faster.
“The true face of the smoking is a disease, death and horror-not in the glamour and sophistication in the pushers in the tobacco industry try to the portray.” -David Byre
References:
Smoking Quotes -
(http://www. brainy quote.com/quotes/keywords/smoking.html)
Researchers Studying in a Antioxidants To the Reverse Lung Damage Caused By a Smoking -
(http://www. medical news today.com/releases/94982. PHP)
