How to Keep Meat | Beef Saving Tips

How to Keep Meat | Beef Saving Tips - Beef is one of the types of food favored by many people and it contains a lot of nutrients and vitamins. Beef also includes foods that can be combined for a variety of tasty and delicious preparations as well as durable. For maximum results consider the processed beef to save.

"That is often a problem for many people is the proper storage of beef, so as not to lose its juices and remain good to eat,"

said Wanda Gunawan, Executive Sous Chef Plaza Hotel Jakarta told Compass Female, in the event Wagyu Beef Sunday Brunch at Java Restaurant , Hotel InterContinental MidPlaza, Sunday (1/15/2012) ago.

How to Keep Meat | Beef Saving Tips

According to Chef Wanda Gunawan, the temperature has an important influence in the storage of beef, which affects the freshness meats and durability. "The most optimal temperature to keep the meat is to a temperature of minus one degree Celsius," he explained.

Avoid storing beef in five degrees Celsius or more. Because of this temperature would be damaging the meat and allow meats could be contaminated with bacteria that exist in the refrigerator and the air outside. Five degrees is the optimum temperature for bacteria to multiply and poison the meats.

The best place to store the meats is: chiller and not in the freezer.

"Earlier this meat should be wrapped in plastic wrap to avoid contamination,"

he added.

Freezers should be avoided for storage of beef. When stored in a frozen state, no longer fresh and the meats becomes dry. If the meat too frozen, the meats juices will come out together with the melting of ice that exist in the frozen meat. This is what makes the meat was not fresh, not juicy, and the quality is declining. "And the worst, meats smelled sour," he concluded.

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Tricks to Eliminate Fat in Meat

Tricks to Eliminate Fat in Meat - You're on a diet, you will definitely avoid eating meat, because you are afraid of the fat in the meat.

"Actually, you need not fear fat, because the meat does not actually make you fat. Which makes fat is fat," said Veronique Droulez, Nutrition Manager Meat and Livestock Australia, Innovation Workshops at Regional Banquet in Jakarta, some time ago.

He added, the fat on the meat is quite a lot, which is about 13.9 grams per 100 grams of beef. To reduce the fat content in the meat, you have to trim all the fat meat thoroughly. Meat that has been cleaned (lean meat) was just leaving as much as 2.8 grams of fat per 100 grams of meat.

There is one trick that applied Veronique while eliminating the meats fat.

"Fatty meat is white and usually exist in some parts of the meat. However should only remove the white part on the surface of the meat alone,"

he advised.

Avoid cutting the white fat that still exist in the flesh, because it will make the meat be cut too small and does not match the size that you want.

Anyway a bit of fat in the meat will usually melt when heated. A little fat is what makes meat tasted more savory.

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How Red Meat Damage Heart

How Red Meat Damage Heart - If you want to avoid heart disease and stroke, experts advise to avoid the consumption of red meat. But the newly revealed how the mechanisms of red meat harmful to health.

The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine suggests that carnitine compounds in red meat will be destroyed by the bacteria in the digestive tract. Destruction of these compounds will produce cholesterol levels higher body thereby increasing the risk of heart disease.

Had been a lot of research that says that consuming red meat on a regular basis can damage heart health because of the high saturated fat content. Dangers of saturated fats and processed meats have long been known to have adverse effects, but not only these causing red meat is harmful to health.

"The content of cholesterol and saturated fat in red meat is not the only danger, still there are other things that contribute to increased cardiovascular risk,"

said lead researcher Dr. Stanley Hazen, of Claveland Clinic.

Experiments conducted in mice and humans showed that bacteria in the digestive system can break down carnitine. Carnitine is broken down into gas converted in the liver into a chemical compound called TMAO. In this study, TMAO strongly associated with the accumulation of fat in the blood vessels. So can lead to heart disease and death.

Hazen said TMAO commonly ignored because it may be a waste product of metabolism. "But can significantly affect cholesterol metabolism and accumulation," he said.

This research concludes that reducing the frequency of eating red meat is highly recommended. In addition this study also emphasize the use of probiotic yogurt to change the balance of bacteria in the digestive system.

"Reducing the number of bacteria that break carnitine in theory be also reduce the dangers of red meat,"

said Hazen.

People who do not eat red meat or vegetarian has a number of bacteria breaking carnitine less than meat eaters.

Although red meat is a source of protein and some good nutrients, but should not be eaten too much. UK government recommends consumption of red meat no more than 70 grams per day.

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4 Great Drinks to Destroyer Fat

4 Great Drinks to Destroyer Fat - You feel exercise is crucial in destroying the fat that accumulates in the body, is true. But not only sport that you can do to get rid of fat in your body.

Basically fat accumulate in the body due to several factors, such as drinking soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, oily foods, fruit juice. For that, you can destroy fat by changing your drinking style. So, what are these great drinks, so the drinks can destroy fat.

4 Great Drinks to Destroyer Fat

1. Water
White Water has long been recognized as the best drink that helps reduce levels of fat in the body. Besides the price is relatively cheap, also helps cleanse toxins from the body, and speed up metabolism. Then drink enough water every day.

2. Green tea
Green tea has a lot of the chemical compounds that may help shed body fat. Caffeine is one of the main content. However, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and catechins are two content of green tea that function to burning fat. A study published in the Journal of Nutrition found that green tea combined with regular exercise helps to stimulate lower levels of body fat.

3. Milk
Who says milk make you gain weight? Low-fat milk will actually help you slim fast. Milk contains calcium that makes bones strong so that you maintain a healthy diet. In addition, milk is good source of protein, which the body needs to create energy, burn calories in the process.

4. Tomato juice
Tomato fruit contains fewer calories and high antioxidant content. In addition, its high fiber content helps you to feel full.

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Cancer is not Triggered by Gadget Radiation

Cancer is not Triggered by Gadget Radiation - We often play with gadgets, whether phone or other gadget. Only our attachment with gadgets makes us a little afraid of the radiation produced by the gadget. Because "radiation from gadgets" danger to health.

Radiation oncology medical specialists from Ciptomangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) Arie Munandar said radiation produced by the gadget up to now there is no relation to dangerous diseases such as cancer. Some scientific research suggests, the radiation from mobile phones has not been proven to produce cancer

Arie explained, all objects have radiation, including gadgets. But there are two types of radiation released earlier objects, ie non-ionic radiation and radiation ionasi. Both types of radiation have different effects on the body's cells.

"Radiation does not damage the non-ionic deoksiribonukleid acid (DNA) in the cell, so it does not trigger cancer., So that the radiation can damage DNA is ionasi,"

said Arie in a seminar to commemorate World Cancer Day on the theme 'Cancer, Did You Know?' Thursday (21/03/2013) yesterday in Jakarta.

In general, these objects emit only non-ionic radiation, as well as gadgets. Only certain objects can emit radiation ionasi include: CT scans, radiotherapy, and tools like. A large study in Denmark, said Arie, have examined about relationships using gadgets with a brain tumor.

The study involved about 400,000 participants who were followed for 20 years. As a result the researchers found no significant relationship to the risk of developing brain tumors. Other studies involving 5,000 participants also said there was no link between the use of gadgets in a long time with the disease of the brain.

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