Friday, October 4, 2019

Do you know about Selenium?


It protects your cells from damage and infection, and keeps your thyroid working the right way. Selenium also can keep your muscles strong, and may help prevent age-linked illnesses like dementia, some types of cancer, and thyroid disease. Just one or two Brazil nuts a day should be enough. Don’t overdo it. Too much selenium can make your hair fall out and turn your nails brittle.

Monday, July 15, 2019

Eat non-processed foods

As a rule, the closer to nature you eat, the fewer calories it will take for you to feel satisfied. The reason? Processed foods often have low amounts of fiber and water; a high ratio of calories to nutrients; and a mix of tastes from added sugar, salt, and flavoring that overly stimulates the appetite center in the hypothalamus. Clean foods are the opposite: lots of fiber and fluid, a high ratio of nutrients to calories, and free of added flavors — all of which send signals of satiety to your brain before you consume too many calories. As an example, think of how many raw almonds you eat before stopping, then compare that to honey roasted almonds — that sugary coating spurs you to eat more. By eating clean, you can control your weight permanently without feeling deprived or hungry or having constant cravings.
http://centerforbalancedhealth.com/

Friday, July 12, 2019

Good Sources of Protein

Protein is essential to good health. The very origin of the word — from the Greek protos, meaning “first” — reflects protein’s top-shelf status in human nutrition. You need it to put meat on your bones and to make hair, blood, connective tissue, antibodies, enzymes, and more.

Don't Restrict Fats

Consuming fat is essential to slimming down. Fat also heightens the flavor of foods and enables your body to absorb certain vitamins. Always accompany a carb snack with either fat or protein. For example, have cucumber slices with a piece of cheese.

Monday, December 17, 2018

Nutrient Levels are Dropping

According to research done at Iowa University, typical fruit or vegetable travels thousands of miles over several days to get from the farm where it was grown and harvested to the supermarket. Produce grown in Chile, Mexico, China, and other countries travel even farther. Levels of many vitamins and antioxidants drop as soon as a fruit or vegetable is picked. The longer it takes to go from stem to store, the less nutritious your produce. To ensure that some varieties of fruits and vegetables are not overripe when they reach the store, farmers pick them earlier in the ripening cycle. The less ripe a fruit or vegetable is at harvest, the fewer nutrients it will contain.

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Enliven Meals with Olives

Olives are such a nutritional power-house that we’ve added them to your daily food plan right from the start. They are great snack foods. Three-quarters of the caloric content from olives comes from healthful monounsaturated fat that can lower levels of bad LDL cholesterol and raise good. Olives are a rich source of vitamin E, a fat-soluble antioxidant that disarms dangerous free radicals and help prevent colon cancer. The polyphenols and flavonoids in olives fight inflammation in the body, which can relieve the symptoms of asthma and arthritis.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Eat a heart-healthy diet

Limiting certain fats you eat is important to a heart-healthy diet. Of the types of fat — saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and trans fat — try to limit or avoid saturated fat and trans fat. Aim to keep saturated fat to 5 or 6 percent of your daily calories. And try to keep trans fat out of your diet altogether.

Major sources of saturated fat include:

    -Red meat

    -Full-fat dairy products

    -Coconut and palm oils

Sources of trans fat include:

    -Deep-fried fast foods

    -Bakery products

    -Packaged snack foods

    -Margarines

    -Crackers, chips and cookies

If the nutrition label has the term “partially hydrogenated” or “hydrogenated,” it means that product contains trans fat.