Healthy Food

By Anna Dean

Healthy raw food is the best way to maintain your health and life. Every time someone suffers from a major health issue in their life they are immediately asked to go back to eating raw food, the question is - if raw food is so good for a diseased body, why shouldn't it be taken early on? The fact is that raw food is very high in vitamins, minerals and yes even protein.

A common complain that people starting into raw vegan food is that it is so time consuming and complicated. Let me make this very clear, it is not! How can it be time consuming when you are not even cooking anything? Quite to the contrary, raw vegan food recipes and very simple and can be made even by 6 year old. Probably the biggest advantage that you get by eating this kind of food is that it keeps the level of fiber in your body at an optimal rate. This is simply too important for your digestive system and also for maintaining your energy level always at a high.

Healthy raw, vegan food recipes also help you conquer obesity, heart problems and asthma, apart from heart burns, gastritis, and constipation which are all too common in a cooked food diet.

While starting out on a vegan food diet you can try one of the many books available online which offer a lot of delicious raw food recipes to start out with. These books are written by experienced health coaches and fitness professionals who had witnessed amazing changes in their life after they switched onto a vegan food diet.

Raw food has remained way too underrated however eating raw vegan food is becoming more and more popular these days as it is the most healthiest choice of foods available. Raw food is both delicious and incredibly nutritious. Try some raw recipes and see the difference it makes! Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Anna_Dean

By Sandra Wosko and Ted Wosko

Hi everyone

Detoxing is big business nowadays through diets, scrubs and fasting. Salons are popping up everywhere with the latest 'star' of the moment and their 'new' detoxing programme promising wonders.

Keeping your liver in a healthy state should be a priority and by eating a healthy varied nutritional diet of good food for good health keeps our own personal detoxifier - our liver, working to rid our body of toxins and to go about its endless tasks.

Looking after your organ is vital, as everything we ingest, inhale or absorb through our skin has to be detoxified and refined.

Damage can be caused to the liver through a poor diet made up of high fatty foods, high alcohol intake, chemicals - in the air we breathe or apply to the skin, and through drugs.

Obviously we all need to take prescribed drugs at some time in our lives so whilst taking the medication make sure you are eating a diet of good high nutritional food to help the liver detox. Drugs taken regularly for recreational use have been shown to cause serious problems.

Fatty degeneration of the liver is caused by excessive fat build up and impairs the ability to function and handle fat properly, this allows fat to be stored around the body accumulating often around the waistline or being deposited as cellulite under the skin.

50 per cent of people aged 50 and over now suffer with fatty degeneration; this is a much higher rate than at any time before.

Common symptoms of this are having 'a spare tyre' or potbelly and being unable to lose weight. The size of our nations waistlines has hit the headlines many times recently due to poor diets and lack of exercise, even though today we have access to so many good foods all year round.

If your liver is damaged through fatty degeneration the proper regulation of cholesterol levels is hampered -therefore failing to manufacture enough 'good' HDL cholesterol and allowing bad LDL cholesterol to build up in the arteries. This has been associated with increased risk of having a stroke or heart attack.

You can help yourself to help your liver detox itself by eating the right kind of fat and types of food necessary to repair itself and start working properly.

Helpful detoxifying foods for the liver are easy to add to your diet and if you are already eating a healthy diet of good food including plenty of fruit and vegetables - best lightly cooked - you are all ready giving yourself a head start to good health.

By adding the other foods listed below regularly into your diet will help to keep your liver working at it's potential.

Mushrooms contain glutamic acid that is needed to produce glutathione and aid liver detoxification.

Avocado and papaya helps the body produce glutathione.

Onions and garlic - the sulphur compounds and methionine in these are important for detoxification, also contain glutathione a powerful anti-oxidant. Cabbage, broccoli and eggs also a good source of methionine.

Asparagus and watermelon are also rich in glutathione.

Beets and tomatoes contain anti-oxidants such as beta-carotene, caratenoids and flavanoids that help limit damage by free radicals, helping to cleanse and heal the liver, also a good source of folic acid.

Brazil nuts are high in selenium a good anti-oxidant needed for detoxification.

Protein is helpful for the liver so include fish and chicken etc.

Another excellent food for general liver health is soy-beans as these contain lecithin - this helps to break down fats and help to reduce high cholesterol levels, also helps maintain healthy membranes around liver cells.

Walnuts contain arginine that helps detoxify ammonia and are rich in glutathione.

It is best to limit the amount of foods that makes the liver work harder to sensible amounts, saturated fats as in sausages, hot dogs, salami and bacon and also high fat dairy products - cheese, butter and ice cream.

Saturated fat is also found in many snack foods including fast foods, doughnuts, crisps and french fries. Processed food should also be limited.

Caffeine from tea and coffee should be limited to 2 or 3 cups a day. Caffeine is broken down by the liver but can make it more difficult to cleanse itself, so why not try a 'half caf' variety and then you can still enjoy your cuppa, this is what I always buy and cannot taste the difference. You could use 'decaf', but some caffeine is useful to give us a perk.

We all know alcohol stresses the liver and its detoxification process, and that when consumed regularly in large amounts can cause actual damage and immune suppression.

Not only heavy drinking, binge drinking can cause the same effect. It is far better to drink 'little and often' than bingeing.

Alcohol in moderation is the best course to take with regular periods of no alcohol at all. If you feel better after abstaining from drinking then it is a good indication that your liver was not coping with the amount of alcohol that you were consuming before.

Refined sugar such as sucrose, dextrose, glucose, maltose and other syrups that end in 'ose' are hard on the liver. Natural fructose that is still in food such as 'fruit con fructose' etc is perfectly ok.

We never say that you cannot eat and enjoy any type of foods, it is just the amount and the frequency that they are eaten that can do damage, so keep these 'bad' types of foods as treats - there is nothing better than walking along the sea front on a cold blustery day eating a hot freshly cooked doughnut.

Try hard not to use these foods for comfort eating as this is generally when we can go astray on our diets and use them as a crutch, as with alcohol and then find it difficult to amend our ways.

Chemicals that get into our body through food should also be cut down, food colourings are a good example, but what are often overlooked are pesticides. Pesticides are sprayed several times through the growing life of our fruit and vegetables, so make sure that you thoroughly wash them before consuming.

So remember 'good food good health' is the best way to keep your body working like clockwork, and a diet made up of a variety of good nutritional food will give you all the vitamins and minerals you should need.

Happy eating for a healthy liver

Sandra and Ted

This article was composed by Sandra & Ted Wosko. We have always been interested in health issues especially having children, and as with most people, we all suffer with some type of ailment. We are always researching on more and more topics in the endless task of gaining more knowledge to increase our expertise, benefiting ourselves and other people alike. http://www.goodfoodgoodhealth.com http://www.thetalkingbooksite.com http://www.quantum-mind-power.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sandra_Wosko

By Pauline Go

Just eating healthy is not sufficient. You should also pay special attention to the way you cook. Here are some tips for cooking healthy food so that you eat healthy.

• It is important to use less fat in your cooking. The best way to do this is by using the 3-R method, which stands for remove, replace and reduce. Where ever possible, you should remove the food item that is instrumental in introducing fat into your food. A good example of this is sausage. You can either do away with the sausage in the food you are preparing or you can replace it with turkey kielbasa. If this not good enough for you, think of reducing the quantity of sausage you use so that the fat content in the food reduces.

• Use mono-saturated fat for cooking. A good example is olive oil. Avoid saturated fats as much as possible.

• Use less sugar in your recipes. Americans are eating more sugar than ever. A good for cooking healthy is to reduce the amount of sugar. This means less calories. Also avoid candy, soft drinks and frozen milk desserts. You should get around 6 percent to 10 percent of your daily caloric intake from sugar according to the USFDA. This amount to 9 teaspoons a day.

• Switch to whole grains, which would include brown rice and whole wheat flour among others. Whole grains have more nutrients, fiber and beta carotene.

• Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. They are good source of essential nutrients, vitamins fiber and beta carotene. You can introduce fruits and vegetables like cantaloupes, bananas, winter squash, oranges, berries, mustard greens, cabbage, kale, spinach, tomatoes and Brussels sprouts in your recipes.

• Eat lean meat like chicken and turkey breasts, pork tenderloin, ground sirloin, center cut pork loin and extra lean ham. Just limit the serving to 3 to 4 ounces per person.

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For all who love eating Maggi!
DO NOT IGNORE THIS ……. Especially those fond of Maggi…….

 'CORRECT WAY OF COOKING NOODLES'
The correct way to cook instant noodles without harming our bodies and health. `Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles
into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 3 minutes and then it's ready to eat.

This is the WRONG method of cooking the instant noodles.

By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder, normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structures of the MSG
causing it to be toxic.

The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to
excrete the wax after you have taken the noodles.

CORRECT METHOD :

1. boil the noodles in a pot with water.
2. once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
3. boil another pot of water till boiling and put the noodles into the hot boiling water and then shut the fire.
4. only at this stage when the fire is off, and while the water is very hot, put the ingredient with the powder into the water, to make noodle
soup.
5. however, if you need dry noodles, take out the noodles and add the ingredient with the powder and toss it to get dry noodles.

Dietician's Note: If you buy plain hakka noodles which you make initially need to boil in water and discard the water. This will soften
the noodles but to prevent it from sticking we need to add a tbsp of oil and also the noodles are deep fried partially to make it crunchy and
then dusted with flour to prevent it from sticking while boiling. Hence when you buy the noodles they are already made unhealthy and this
is the type we use to make stir fry noodles and the regular maggi too is made the same way plus they add MSG/ ajinomoto and other chemical
preservatives.

 
 

A large number of patient with the ages ranging from 18-24 years are ending up with pancreatitis either as a swelling or infection of the
pancreas due to regular consumption of instant noodles….. If the frequency is more than 3 times a week, then it is very hazardous…

 

By Emily Cressey

It's not a good idea to eat same fruits, vegetables or salads every day. Or at least, variety is better... This spoils the rules of regular food rotation and there is a risk of developing allergy towards food, you are over exposed to to. But with juicing, you can add a lot of variety to your diet, that would let you enjoy many refreshing fruit and vegetable flavours, in one go.

Many people might feel juicing to be a real hard work, but it is quite quick, hassle, simple and a great fun, too. If you don't like eating fruits and vegetables, you can simply enjoy a quick drink of fresh juice, in order to maintain a healthy balanced diet.

Various vegetable and fruit juices are a highly recommended way of natural treatment, by many health professionals. They are a great boost to our body's metabolic processes and give strength to fight against diseases.

Juicing allows you to enjoy the delicious flavours of the fruits and vegetables, which you don't normally prefer eating. Regular intake of fresh juice, makes your stomach feel good, especially in the morning. Vegetable juice, with some essential oils and chlorella in breakfast, give us a balanced diet and a perfect start, towards a hectic day ahead. These fresh juices also help many people suffering from impaired digestion problems.

Raw cream, raw butter, raw eggs, avocado, coconut butter, or freshly ground flax seed are the sources of raw fat, that can also be added to these juices for extra energy. Fresh juices help your body to absorb all the essential nutrients, quite quickly and effectively. With a quick glass of fresh juice, you can easily have your five fruits and vegetable a day. This is the best way to consume an optimal amount of fresh fruit and vegetable, in one glass.

Many shop juices are heat treated, usually extracted from pasteurized products, containing a large number of dangerous preservatives etc. These preservatives destroy all the exotic flavours and nutrients of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Fresh juices are best for your weight loss and their nutrients would make you less susceptible towards colds or any other viruses.

Breville juicers are one of the best, most reliable and most efficient juicer available around. Breville juicers have a high power motor, which makes them quick and very effective in extracting juice from fruits and vegetables. They have variable speeds, a built in electronic smart chip, which regulate the power and allow more control in juicing, for soft and hard fruits. If you're serious about juicing, it's a lot more fun and easier with a great juicer in your kitchen. Breville juicers are high-powered, and fast to use. They can take whole apples through their 5" feeding tube, and produce an entire glass of juice in just 5 seconds. If you are looking for a great juicer to take advantage of all the health benefits of juice, you should definitely consider a Breville Juice Fountain! Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Emily_Cressey