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Rules to follow if you want to eat right
Tags: healthy diet, healthy food, Lose weight
Posted in Diets, Weight Loss on November 21st, 2011
There is really no secret when it comes to keeping a healthy diet. There is no list of magic spells and mysteries but simple things that you can do starting with the following:
Have smaller plates
If you have already trimmed down or planning to lose weight, one good way to help your body is by getting smaller dishware. Smaller plates lead to smaller calorie intake.
Eat more fruits and vegetables
Ideally you need to make half of your everyday meal fruits and veggies. Let’s say for breakfast, fill your bowl with cereals until half and top it off with berries and banana. During lunch get half a sandwich plus two kinds of fruits. At dinner, make sure half of your intake are veggies.
Avoid eating on the run
If you love eating on the run during hectic days, most likely you will be settling for fast food. The usual burger and fries combo gives you a bit short to 1,000 calories. You will tend to over eat as your brain thinks of it as a snack.
Shorter recipes are better
The lesser the ingredients, the better. When you deal with longer ingredients list means more salt, artificial flavors, and more sugar. It might mean more unhealthy stuff in the food. Simpler one ingredient deals like broccoli, blueberries, or spinach always gets a green light.
Healthy food should not mean expensive food
The smart choices from the supermarket do not differ much from all the usual junk foods that fill up the grocery cart.
Eat with your family
Make meal time as a holy hour for the family where everyone sits around the dining table. You will have more control and avoid overeating when you are with everyone. You are what you eat so make the wises decision for a healthy body and a good life ahead.
3 Great Healthy Snacks
Tags: Calories, Celery, Eating, Food, health, Pretzels, Snacks, Vegetables
Posted in Diets, Weight Loss on March 23rd, 2011
A-lot of times people get hungry between meals and want to grab a snack. There is nothing wrong with snacking as long as one is eating something healthy. Our cravings are what drive us to pick out the wrong foods, but there are just as many healthy snacks as there is unhealthy snacks. Three 3 great healthy snacks are: pretzels, celery and peanut butter and vegetables chips. In the subsequent paragraph, each one will be discussed, respectively.
Sometimes, we crave things that are salty. Many of the snacks that are high in salt are also high in fat and calories. Generally speaking, those type of snacks should be avoided as much as possible. Pretzels are a healthy replacement snack. They are low in fat and calories and will satisfy any salt craving that one is having. All of us have suffered from the case of the sweet tooth. When one has a sweet tooth, there is temptation to run to the store and buy a pack of cookies or cupcakes. Those things are not only high in sugar, but high in fat and calories. Instead, one should try celery and dip it in peanut butter. The celery is high in the fiber that the body needs and the peanut butter can satisfy those sugar cravings that we all get from time to time.
Many of us like to eat potato chips and they are not the healthiest choice for a snack. If one absolutely has to have chips, he or she should try vegetable chips. They are made from real vegetables and are filled with the nutrients that the body needs. There are many different brands of vegetable chips and they all average around 130 calories per bag, which is must less than the average bag of potato chips.
When one gets the urge to snack, he or she should try one of the above delicious and nutritious foods.
Eating Heathy: Pasta Salads for picnics or for day to day dining
Tags: eating healthy, healthy diet, pasta salads
Posted in Diets on July 4th, 2010
Eating healthy does not mean not eating yummy. We browsed the internet for some pasta salads which are perfect for your waist, really rich in flavors, and perfect for the summer.
Here are our suggestions:
White and Green Pasta Salad
How about a great pasta dish for just 200 calories? The secret is not really in the color of the pasta ut in the combo of cottage cheese, pesto, and a pack of sour cream that is fat free. Add the green peas and you will have about half of your daily dose of Vitamin K responsible for your healthy bones. If you want some protein boosts, toss in some grilled chicken or some shrimp.
Diet Dogma: Calories In, Calories Out
Tags: Dieting, Diets, Obesity, Weight Loss
Posted in Diets, Obesity, Weight Loss on May 28th, 2009
Scientists reveal that it doesn’t really matter if people will have a low carbohydrate or low fat diet but what matters most is to get rid of the calories you take in.
Through the years, amid the struggle of millions of people against obesity,
popular diets like Zone, Ornish, South Beach, and Atkins diet regimens were fighting over the other as the best in helping one get rid of the extra poundage.
Experts from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Harvard, and Pennington Biomedical Research declare that the most vital factor in losing weight is controlling ones intake of calories and burning them off through regular exercise.
The study subjected 811 overweight individuals to one of four diets that had varying amount of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. The study did not directly compare the commercially popular diet plans.
About 66 per cent of the subjects were adult females. The subjects were asked to cut 750 calories per day from their diet and were asked to have exercise activities amounting to 1.5 hours per week. They were also required to maintain a food diary online and consult on a regular basis with their counselors.