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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Make Optimistic Routine Eat Fruit?

Although we all have to understand that the body needs a supply of fruits and vegetables every day, but often most of us do not fulfill. Maybe a new study will change your mind.
Researchers from Harvard University found that people in the body has a high carotenoid content tend to be more optimistic. Another study also found that optimistic people not only have a fresh look, but also tend to live longer and suffer fewer heart-related diseases.
Carotenoids are compounds commonly found in fruits and vegetables. Carotenoids are a type of antioxidant, good for improving health care quality because kartenoid can keep the molecule in the body of the production of free radicals that can cause disease and other health problems.
The study, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine examined 982 men and women aged 25 to 74 years, enrolled in the Midlife in the United States Study. The participants were asked to perform a blood test to analyze the concentration of antioxidants, including carotenoids such as beta-carotene found in vegetables such as carrots and spinach and Vitamin E.
The participants were also asked to fill out questionnaires to examine the everyday attitudes and their level of optimism. The study found that people who are more optimistic have up to 13 percent more carotenoids than those who are less optimistic. Almost the same as the earlier conclusion, researchers found that people who ate three or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day is more optimistic than those who ate fruits and vegetables only two servings or less. However, researchers found no link between optimism and Vitamin E, which is obtained in foods such as wheat germ and peanut oil.
Because the researchers examined blood concentration and the level of optimism only once, they can not be sure whether to eat more fruits and vegetables cause people to be more optimistic, or otherwise, does optimislah attitude that makes people eat more fruits and vegetables. Previous studies have shown that optimistic people tend to choose a healthy lifestyle, such as smoking abstinence.

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