Posts Tagged ‘colors’

Food Colors also affect health

Monday, May 31st, 2010
Food Colors

Food Colors

The researchers have long known that colors influence in a particular way of mind and health. No matter how strange at first glance, the color of the products we eat may also cause different reactions in the body.
- White products (milk, curd, cheese, etc.. Dairy products, rice, garlic, cauliflower) soothe, irritability and remove the body out of toxins.
- Blue (grapes, plums, potatoes with blue-violet peel) contain biologically active compounds – anthocyanins, which protect blood vessels and vision.
- Greens (lettuce, broccoli, green peas) nourish the brain, increased activity, remove tensions. Chlorophyll contained in vegetables and fruits are green, stimulates the development of erythrocytes (RBCs) in the blood and activates the immune system.
- Red (beets, peppers, tomatoes, strawberries) promote metabolic processes, improve circulation and increase efficiency. But if consumed in large quantities, they could cause over-stimulated and problems sleeping.
- Orange (peaches, apricots, pumpkin, tangerines, carrots) contribute to the restoration of nerve cells and muscle tissue renewal, enhance sexuality, improve mood, help fight fatigue and apathy, soothe headaches.
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What Exactly is Color-blindness

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Colors

Colors


The human eye distinguishes color and a huge amount of nuances, thanks to special receptors that are about seven million. It is curious that the perception of eye device contains only three types of pigments sensitive to three colors – red, green and blue. What we see is a result of their incorporation. However, there are people, where some of the pigments is absent or in insufficient quantities. From birth, they see the world around her in the other colors. These are color-blind. People with impaired color vision deficiency is often not noticed, because we are used to designate the colors of objects using conventional adjectives. The grass is green, sky – blue, blood-red. But these adjectives adopt color-blind in its own way. English scientist John Dalton, who first described the color blindness does not differ red color. He found out about his shortcomings only when he was 26 years. The Color-blindness is a hereditary defect of visual transmission which is connected with the X-chromosomes. So the mothers are often caused a victim – his sons. Suffer from this pathology, about 8% of men and 0,5 per cent of women. Many people think that color-blind do not see colors. In fact, only 0.1% of them see the world as black and white film. In most cases there is reduced color vision: PROTANOMALIYA (reduced perception of red color) or DEYTERANOMALIYA (low uptake of green). Full color blindness, one of two colors occurs very rarely. In such cases, the first mistake the color red with black, dark gray, brown, sometimes with green. In the second, the green color is mixed with light-pattern, pale red.

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