14 December 2010

Healthy Food for Diets


As was reported by some nutrition experts in the world, food has a major contribution to health. Therefore, accuracy in selecting food ingredients including process into the most important key nutrients. Now people have started to train myself to find and choose a food that is a great benefit to the body.

Olive Oil: From 40 years ago, the researchers found that the content of polyunsaturated fats in olive oil is excellent for heart.Because it is highly recommended for those who have high cholesterol levels in the blood. Last Panelitian olive oil contains pholyphenol prove that function as antioxidants. Olive oil can be used for sauteing or as a healthy salad dressings, especially the extra virgin olive oil.

Yogurt: Yogurt is made from fresh cow's milk because it is rich in calcium which is very good for the bones. Except that the bacteria were added in yogurt is an excellent bacteria for intestinal health. If you want to reduce fat can consume low-fat milk or non fat.

Fish: Based on a variety of marine fish research mainly originating from the deep sea is very good for heart health because they contain omega-3 fats. Fat is what makes the content of cholesterol in the blood remain stable. We recommend grilled fish, steamed or roasted so as not to contain additional fat in the ripening process.

Chocolate: Chocolate? Everyone would love it. Chocolate is not only delicious to the tongue but is also very good for our bodies. Chocolate contains flavanols are very good for the performance of blood vessels thus preventing the occurrence of high blood pressure. Look for chocolate that does not contain too much sugar, have a minimum 40% cocoa content.

Nuts: Nuts since long ago has become a mainstay source of nutrition for vegetarians. Nuts are not only tasty and delicious but also contain many vitamins, fatty and some minerals, including antioxidants. In addition to extra material, beans can also be directly as a snack.

Wine: Alcoholic beverages are there since thousands of years ago is when taken in reasonable doses can prevent heart disease, diabetes and memory loss. Based on the results of research, red wine contains resveratrol can activate genes that inhibit the aging process.

Blueberries: Fruit berries and purple round since 1999 became popular knowledge. Because the research is made about this fruit has been shown that blueberries can give a good effect on health. Especially the content of antioxidants that can make her stay young and healthy heart.
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13 December 2010

Healthy foods that Entrapment


Beware of foods labeled stuck with a healthy but not necessarily good for health. Instead of adding even make your body healthy food is a trap for your own health.
If you have this, you must be observant attention to every kind of food you eat. Do not immediately tempted by the sort of 'healthy' only. But make sure the measure in the presentation. 
Here are 9 types of healthy foods that you should watch carefully.

1. Nuts
Almost all types of nuts have high fat content. Almost 50% vegetable fat content is greatest. Although most of the fat content is good fats and partially useful as antioxidants, but should the consumption of nuts in small amounts for good benefits remain intact. A little nuts can be added to your breakfast menu for your daily nutritional intake is maintained.

2. Fruit juice
Fruit juice is a beverage that will be energy dense. We recommend that you eat whole fruit compared to fruit that has undergone a process to be a fruit juice. The resulting calorie fruit juice is much higher, this could be due to additional material that is inserted into the fruit juice. Also, if eating fresh fruit is much higher fiber content. If you like fruit juice, you should limit daily consumption. Just one glass per day.

3. Olive Oil
Minyal one teaspoon or one teaspoon butter both contain 5 grams of fat. Olive oil is the oil that has a type of fat that much better. Although olive oil is healthier, does not mean you can arbitrarily add olive oil in cooking. Stay there are rules!

A teaspoon of olive oil contains 173kJ fat. In order to gain the maximum benefit, you should half olive oil mixed with half the balsamic to be used as salad dressing (salad dressing).

4. Canned Fish
Fish to be one good source of animal protein consumed. Not only proteins, but also rich in calcium and omega-3 for several species of fish. If you want to buy fish in the box, you should choose fish, tuna or salmon.

5. Muesli bar
Muesli bar is made of a light snack of nuts or dried fruits. The shape and size also varied. If you really like this kind of food you should choose fruits that have been roasted. Choose a size small, because the calorie content of less than 600kJ, less than 5 grams of fat, and less than 9 grams of sugar.

6. Muffin or Carrot Cake
If you love to make cakes at home, you should note the recipe you use. Choose the cake recipes that use fruits or vegetables such as carrots. We recommend that you replace some types of cake with more healthy ingredients whenever possible.

7. Chips
Potato chips or other chips that are usually sold natural thin crispy packaging that has been given extra salt. Snack of this type still contains about 50 grams of fat in a small package. But avoid these foods, and replace them with vegetables or fruit biscuits.

8. Baked not Fried
Every cuisine is not always low-fat baked goods. If you buy packaged foods, pay attention beik information on the back of the pack. Perikasa fat content [er 100 grams and compare with other similar products. Whether baked or fried, chips usually have a fat content of more than 25%.

9. Salad
Salad is healthy because terdir of fruits and vegetables. But wait, look carefully dressing (salad dressing) are used on your salad. Because if you are not smart to choose a salad dressing, can-can you get fat storage.
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