Showing posts with label healthy food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy food. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Bean Sprouts

bean sproutsBean sprouts plants is (sporofit) that recently evolved from embrionik stage in the seed. Sprout usually divided into three main sections: radikula (root of the fetus), hipokotil, and kotiledon (leaves the institution). Two classes of flowering plants, cut leaf is differentiated from the institution: monokotil and dikotil.

Bean sprout is often used as food and are classified as vegetables. In Asia Boga the bean sprouts as part of the menu is quite common. Bean sprout is healthy food that rich in vitamin E

Bean sprouts has health benefits that are useful to cure various diseases such as

1. Slow the process of natural old or make you shoot ageless
2. Increase fertility
3. help digestion
4. improve the health and vitality
5. cure stomach cramps
6. prevent hair fall
7. Anti-boil

With consume sprout in daily life which can be eaten raw, cook or mix with other food and vegetables, it will give health benefit and make you healthier and younger

Thursday, January 22, 2009

9 Tips to Stop Food Cravings and Help You With Your Diet

Emily Clark

Most of us are "regular" people. We don't eat the perfect diet all the time and have our struggles with food, same as everyone else. But having an awareness of this fact and knowing a little bit about our health and food nutrition can help when it comes to making wise decisions.

Many people struggle with food "cravings." Studies tell us that it's fairly common for food cravings to happen at certain times, quite often at around bedtime. Your guard may be down, you may have had an unusually hard day, and off you go on your not-so-merry way to find that tasty treat. Fatigue and stress often combine to take their toll on the best of intentions.

When food cravings are unconstrained, what starts out as a bedtime snack quickly turns into a full blown feeding frenzy...not something most of us fully understand or appreciate. We head to kitchen and every other place where food can hide, clearing a path as we go.

Most food cravings are not about satisfying a nutritional need or imbalance. They seem to be more emotionally related, or God forbid, are caused by plain old gluttony. Exactly why we over-indulge is not completely understood, however our knowledge about this subject continues to grow.

Listed below are some thoughts and ideas about food cravings:

- If the food isn't available, you can't eat it! Empty the cookie jar and keep it that way! Keep healthy food choices on-hand.

- Recognize the feelings and emotions that lead-up to a food craving. Do you have food cravings when you're bored, lonely, or stressed? If you can identify a trigger, you can deal with the emotion that's making you desire a certain food. Try to deal with the triggers in the best way you can.

- Sometimes, even recognizing that a craving is about to happen doesn't seem to help. Don't beat yourself-up. There is always tomorrow. Call a friend, make good use of your support network and share your feelings with someone.

- Get enough sleep. When you're tired, you're more likely to crave things.

- Never give-up. When you "slip", press-in, bear-down, get a grip, do whatever is necessary to re-gain control. Try to practice restraint most of the time, but don't get legalistic and un-balanced in your weight loss approach. Think moderation and not abstinence at all times!

- Understand that self-control and discipline by themselves, won't cut it! If you depend totally on yourself for control, you will fail. Forming caring and supportive relationships is required. If you do not currently have a support network, start building one TODAY.

- Exercise. It increases feel-good endorphins that cut down on your cravings. Try to get at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day.

- Use moderation. Instead of stuffing yourself with every kind of food hoping that your craving will go away, eat 100 to 200 calories of your "craved" food.

- Substitute with low-fat foods and complex carbs. If you're hungry for chocolate, eat non-fat chocolate yogurt. Try fig bars or raisins for a sweet craving.

- Never skip a meal. Eat every three to five hours. Try six smaller meals or regular meals with nutritious snacks.

- Understand that hunger craving are oftentimes stress related. Practice other ways to treat chronic stress a walk in the park, spiritual connections, a cozy fireplace, baths...all these stimulate neurochemicals that activate regions of the brain that stimulate pleasure. Relaxation techniques may work by reducing the psychological drives on stress output, which can be the root causes of stress. Bottom line, substitute pleasurable experiences for comfort foods.

- Beware of certain medications. They can stimulate appetite. Drugs used for the treatment of depression and bipolar disorder can be appetite stimulants. Other drugs, both prescription and over the counter, may influence appetite as well. If you are on a medication, and troubled by food cravings, discuss this with your doctor or pharmacist. You may be able to find an alternative that doesn't send your cravings out of control.

- Distract Yourself. What's that old expression...idle hands are the devils workshop? Get busy. Do anything other than cave-in to your desire for food, and keep doing it until the cravings subside.

- One final thought, take a look inside your refrigerator and kitchen cabinets and do some general "house cleaning." Throw-out all that unhealthy stuff that is waiting to sabotage your diet, and start shopping more wisely. A little forethought and careful planning will go a long way for improving your chances of success.

Eat wisely, be happy, and live long!

The information contained in this article is for educational purposes only and is not intended to medically diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Consult a health care practitioner before beginning any health care program.

About the Author

Emily Clark is editor at Lifestyle Health News and Medical Health News where you can find the most up-to-date advice and information on many medical, health and lifestyle topics.

Food Cravings

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Starfruit as Healthy Food

healthy foodHaving toothache is not fun, especially if we want to see a dentist but the dentist subscription closed because of public holidays, and to overcome any one alternative is to use the starfruit

starfruit known as a health food that contains many health benefits for the body, among others, to treat toothache because of perforated teeth, and ways to overcome are as follows:

take 1 starfruit and a little salt mixed, and then enter into a perforated teeth or chewing teeth are hollow place, do your teeth until the pain disappears

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

How to make your healthy food more interesting

Healthy food is one of the best ways to improve your health. But many people when they hear those two words, they think it is kind of boring, bland foods that are widely available as natural foods. It can be prepared in various ways it is made more interesting, although healthy foods are things that have consumed almost every day.

Healthy food and dietary habits are good for both taste and plate. But one must remember that healthy food is that food is close to its natural state of healthy, it is up to you. First, you can begin to change your eating habits for more healthy foods by reducing the number of prepared foods, which eat. Prepackaged foods are full of preservatives and artificial ingredients. Packaged food is convenient but healthy food can also, especially when you get into the habit of preparing them.

Healthy food is very easy to prepare. In fact, it does not take much time and money to eat healthy food. This is a very simple example of flour, it is easy to prepare, low prices and features healthy foods. Grill "weak" Hamburger patties until well cooked. Tossing a salad of fresh vegetables, green and can easily be done until the meat is about. Add different dishes, try using different healthy foods, you have not tasted before. Checking the production of your local grocer, this is supplied with the full range of health foods, including exotic fruits and vegetables.

You can prepare for healthy foods regularly to prepare fast food meals. Healthy food can also be used for more exotic recipes when you have time. Healthy food can be prepared before time and frozen for later use.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Healthy Foods

healthy foods We can not live without eating, but eating foods without seeing what is clean or not nutritious or no benefit to the body, sooner and later, will cause the destruction of our body and deliver many diseases. So that tries to eat healthy foods. Healthy foods are natural food with nutritious and good ingredients without preservatives and artificial. Healthy food will make our body is healthy and can enjoy our lives better

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