If you are a smoker or someone you love is a smoker, or if you are often exposed to secondhand smoke, then consuming foods that rich contain of vitamin A, such as carrots, part of your healthy way of eating possibly will save your life.

A research to studying the relationship between vitamin A, lung inflammation, and emphysema, have made a surprising discovery: a common carcinogen in cigarette smoke, benzo(a)pyrene, induces vitamin A deficiency. Earlier research had shown that laboratory animals fed vitamin A-deficient diet developed emphysema. This studies indicate that not only does the benzo(a)pyrene in cigarette smoke cause vitamin A deficiency, but that a diet rich in vitamin A can help reduce this effect, therefore significantly reducing emphysema.

Vitamin A’s protective effects may help explain why some smokers do not develop emphysema. If you are smoker, or if your work necessitates exposure to second hand smoke, protect and keep yourself by consuming the world’s healthiest foods rich in vitamin A (carrot’s beta-carotene is converted in the body into vitamin A) is a daily menu of your healthy way of eating.

Long-Term Cough (Hundred Days Cough)
Get ready with 200 gram fresh organic carrots and 13 pieces of jujube (Chinese red dates). Cook with slow fire. Make sure the amount of water is not too much or too little. There should be approximately 8 bowls of water (measured with a small Chinese bowl) for approximately 30 minutes. It should be one serving per day.

Hypertension
Drink 100milliliter of fresh organic carrot juices everyday and it should be two servings per day. The therapy should proceed constantly for 30 days.

Suffer From Scalp Itching and Dandruff
Get ready with 200 gram fresh organic carrots. Use slow fire to stew the carrots. Add in appropriate amount of sea salt according to your taste. It should be one serving for a day. (more…)

Carrot juice has a number of health benefits. The carrot provides what is certainly the most important basic juice. The yellow color is due to carotene. Another name for this form of carotene, the transform, is pro vitamin A. Many authors write that carrots contain a lot of vitamin A. This is not actually true; what the carrot does contain is the pro vitamin. Carrot juice plays the most important part in an infant’s supply of vitamin A. When carrot juice is consumed jointly with milk, the utilization of carotene as vitamin A is considerably increased. A carrot and milk juice is the ideal vitamin A source for infants and can in no case lead 10 the risk of the child having too much A.

Carrots are widely used. Indeed it is estimated that in Germany carrots account for 10% of the total vegetable consumption. From the carrot juice point of view, the varieties to be employed are ideally those with the most carotene. It is fortunate that the pro vitamin is strongly colored for this means that so long as you use good colored carrots they are likely to be the best nutritionally speaking too. (more…)

Although best known for their high content of beta carotene, carrots also contain a phytonutrient called falcarinol that may be responsible for the recognized epidemiological association between frequently eating carrots and a reduced risk of cancers.

Falcarinol provides protection against colon cancer, suggests a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Three groups of laboratory animals in whom precancerous colon lesions (aberrant crypt foci) had been chemically-induced were fed a standard diet, one supplemented with freeze-dried carrots naturally containing falcarinol, or one supplemented with an extract of falcarinol. After 18 weeks, precancerous lesions in the animals given diets containing carrots or falcarinol were much smaller than those in the control animals, and far fewer of the lesions had grown in size or progressed to become tumors.

Carrot is Daucus carota sativus of the parsley family. Carrot is a vegetable grown for its edible root. While we usually associate carrots with the color orange, in fact, carrots grow in a host of other colors including white, yellow, red, or purple, the latter being the color of the original variety. The carrot is a plant with a thick, fleshy, deeply colored root, which grows underground, and feathery green leaves that emerge above ground. Carrots belong to the Umbelliferae family, named after the umbrella like flower clusters that plants in this family produce. Carrot roots have a crunchy texture and a sweet and minty aromatic taste, while the greens are fresh tasting and slightly bitter.

The carrot is recorded as being used in medicine by the early Greeks and has been cherished ever since. The carrot can trace its ancestry back thousands of years, originally having been cultivated in central Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Carrot is an edible root vegetable which is originated from Asia. Even Dutch have listed carrot as one of their national dishes.This coloration was a reflection of the anthocyanin phytonutrient pigments these carrots had. (more…)