Nowadays more and more people are affected by non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer or prostate. Most of the causes are caused by lifestyle by eating unhealthy foods. For that one way to prevent it is to raise a healthy local food.
"Local Food has the potential to prevent non-communicable diseases," said Prof. Ahmad Sulaeman, food scientists from the ITB event Cruising Nutritalk Nutrition Sarihusada in Bale Raos, Yogyakarta, and written on Monday (11/05/2012).
Prof Ahmad said that local food has been proven good, but needed a brand imaging. It is important to raise the willingness of young people to eat local food-food that is in sekitrnya.
Search the traditional food or find a natural way to influence a person to maintain fitness, improve immunity, reduce toxins that enter the body. Prof Ahmad pointed out for example in the Mount Kidul, Yogyakarta is famous for its mountains and barren rocks appeared to have alternative sources of traditional food that can be utilized by the community.
As well as brown rice contains fiber 2-fold higher in essential fatty acids, iron and vitamin B1 or thiamine. And there are also fried grasshoppers can be a source of protein that is not inferior to beef, and contain vitamin A.
Local food source in other areas such as breadfruit that has good nutrition, especially for carbohydrate source, or root crops such as yams arrowroot a complete vitamin content, as well as iron and mineral content and fiber content is high.
"Support the resistance and nutritional aids priced for families, because local food is grown almost the same as organic, pesticide sprayed rare, rich taste and good nutritional content. Sanitation Only drawback that needs to be fixed," said Prof Ahmad.
Source: health.detik
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