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Cebu City - What is the relationship between potassium and sodium? Are they good for the body?
All body tissues require the mineral potassium. It is also called an electrolyte since it carries a small amount of charge that activates cells and other nerve functions. The main role of potassium is to help maintain the fluid inside the cells of our body.
While sodium, being the counterpart of potassium maintains the regular fluid levels outside of the cells.
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Cebu City – Nutrition is a pivotal concept, and over the years has always highlighted its role in maintaining and improving physical health. With the recent studies published, providing your body with good nutrition has also been shown to have effects on your mental and emotional well-being. With food as a source of energy for how our bodies cope with daily activities, it also fuels the brain to secrete chemical compositions to keep our nervous system at its optimum function.
Our gut, or what others refer to as our second brain, partially determines the fate of our moods. In physiology, the GI or the gastrointestinal tract is home to millions of microbiomes, in which the production process greatly influences the secretion of chemical messengers that carry signals from the gut to the brain (like serotonin and dopamine). Consuming foods that are nutritionally dense is shown to promote the production of good bacteria in the gut, and directly affects the production of previously mentioned hormones to improve the mood. Halting the production process of these chemical messengers would negatively affect your mood. Feelings such as evidence of energy slumps, irritability, and even difficulty in sleeping are shown to be associated with one's poor choices of food.
So, what foods should you include in your diet to help give your mood a boost?
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Tagbilaran City - The most common morning beverage consumed worldwide is coffee. More than 160 million bags of coffee are consumed globally. Coffee drinkers all around the world generally don't consider the advantages or disadvantages of this favorite morning brew.
The World Health Organization listed coffee in a catalog of potential carcinogens in 1991. However, in 2016, research concluded that coffee consumption was not linked to an increased risk of cancer. On the contrary, once smoking history was correctly taken into consideration, regular coffee drinkers had a decreased risk of several malignancies.
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Cebu City - What are the effects of iodine in the body? Is this trace mineral essential? Can this cause some adverse effects to our health?
Iodine is a vital trace mineral that the body cannot produce on its own and must be received through food or supplements. It is added to vitamins and some salt seasonings, and it is naturally present in some foods.
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Cebu City – “Good job NNC 7 Amazing Team! Keep up the good work!” These are the words of NPC Dr. Mission during the 2022 program implementation review held on 09 January 2023 at the Golden Valley Hotel, Cebu City as she applauded the team for its excellent performance for the year under review.
Aside from the successful implementation of nutrition programs, projects, and activities (PPAs) planned for the year, the team was also able to fully utilize and liquidate the 2022 budget allocation for the regional office. Dr. Mission also expressed her gratitude to the members of the regional staff – both administrative and technical staff for all their efforts and hard work in making sure that the region’s targets are accomplished.
Read more: NPC Dr. Mission commends NNC 7 team for its excellent performance
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Cebu City - With the pressure brought upon social media in different platforms on having the ‘ideal body’ most of the time people tend to cut off their food intake or choose diets that may eventually lead to bad relationship with their food.
Often times with prolonged negative approach when it comes to food, it would lead to a more serious eating disorder. Signs of bad relationship with food is as simple as feeling guilty when eating, or that you tend to avoid or binge eat, following the latest fad diets, ignoring the feeling of hunger is also a sign. A big red flag sign is when you feel stressed or that the feeling of anxiety rises when you are eating out with a group of friends, you feel pressured that you have to eat more or the same as the group in order to fit in.
Read more: Learning to have a positive relationship with food
