Living a healthier longer life is a matter of informed choices of your diet and exercises.Most health related problems can be alleviated by taking into consideration a healthier lifestyle that come from first or all good nutrition, medical and self care.
How do I keep diseases away?
Best way to keep diseases away is by keeping active i.e exercising a lot whenever possible eg. swimming, walking, hikes, aerobics and all other kind of activities both indoors or outdoors.
The other would be to check on your diet, you can have a nutritionist help or if you do not have that you can find a whole choice of information on nutrition and healthy
high protein snacks online. The secret to being health is being informed by reading etc.
Medical checkups every now and then are also helpful in checking that you are in health.
Safety and food handling, keep off smoking and drugs.
As you can see disease prevention is not always in your control, but you can help your self by watching on the areas that you can control eg exercise, good nutrition, preventive health practices and personal safetythis will help you a lot.
Here is your golden rule for a good nutrition and better personal health.
- Drinking plenty of water everyday.
- Eating a varied diet -all food groups.
- Eating fruit and vegetables everyday.
- Getting enough sleep and also doing things that you enjoy
But avoid:
- Smoking
- Excessive drinking
- Drugs
- Stress
Jan 31, 2010
Be My Beautiful Valentine: Mango Passion
Mango Passion recipe is an easy drink for you to try and make for the loved ones this Valentine's:
You will need 2 mangoes, 1 packet of condensed milk, 20 cl of Passion fruit juice, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg and shredded ice.
How to go about it:
In a mixer add the passion fruit, ice shavings and nutmeg. Mix milk and mango then mix them together and serve fresh.
This will serve 4 persons (2 couples for Valentine's day special)
You will need 2 mangoes, 1 packet of condensed milk, 20 cl of Passion fruit juice, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg and shredded ice.
How to go about it:
In a mixer add the passion fruit, ice shavings and nutmeg. Mix milk and mango then mix them together and serve fresh.
This will serve 4 persons (2 couples for Valentine's day special)
Valentine's Specials: What gifts to think about this Valentine's
Healthy Living kit
This Digital Pedometer will make a perfect gift for your loved ones this Valentine's, Putting Valentine's day health first. Get a healthy body by walking and doing exercise everyday with the help of a pedometer.
Jan 28, 2010
Dietary fiber: The importance of dietary fiber in our bodies
Let's see what wikipedia says about dietary fiber
Dietary fiber (fibre), sometimes called roughage, is the indigestible portion of plant foods that pushes food through the digestive system, absorbing water and easing defecation. It acts by changing the nature of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract, and by changing how other nutrients and chemicals are absorbed.[1]
Dietary fiber can be soluble (able to dissolve in water) or insoluble (not able to dissolve in water). Soluble fiber, like all fiber, cannot be digested. But it does change as it passes through the digestive tract, being transformed (fermented) by bacteria there. Soluble fiber also absorbs water to become a gelatinous substance that passes through the body. Insoluble fiber has bulking action but is mostly unchanged by fermentation as it passes through the body.[2]
Chemically, dietary fiber consists of non-starch polysaccharides such as cellulose and many other plant components such as dextrins, inulin, lignin, waxes, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans and oligosaccharides. The term "fiber" is somewhat of a misnomer, since many types of so-called dietary fiber are not fibers at all.
Food sources of dietary fiber are often divided according to whether they provide (predominantly) soluble or insoluble fiber. To be precise, both types of fiber are present in all plant foods, with varying degrees of each according to a plant’s characteristics.
Potential advantages of consuming fiber are the production of health-promoting compounds during the fermentation of soluble fiber, and insoluble fiber's ability (via its passive water-attracting properties) to increase bulk, soften stool and shorten transit time through the intestinal tract.
Dietary fiber (fibre), sometimes called roughage, is the indigestible portion of plant foods that pushes food through the digestive system, absorbing water and easing defecation. It acts by changing the nature of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract, and by changing how other nutrients and chemicals are absorbed.[1]
Dietary fiber can be soluble (able to dissolve in water) or insoluble (not able to dissolve in water). Soluble fiber, like all fiber, cannot be digested. But it does change as it passes through the digestive tract, being transformed (fermented) by bacteria there. Soluble fiber also absorbs water to become a gelatinous substance that passes through the body. Insoluble fiber has bulking action but is mostly unchanged by fermentation as it passes through the body.[2]
Chemically, dietary fiber consists of non-starch polysaccharides such as cellulose and many other plant components such as dextrins, inulin, lignin, waxes, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans and oligosaccharides. The term "fiber" is somewhat of a misnomer, since many types of so-called dietary fiber are not fibers at all.
Food sources of dietary fiber are often divided according to whether they provide (predominantly) soluble or insoluble fiber. To be precise, both types of fiber are present in all plant foods, with varying degrees of each according to a plant’s characteristics.
Potential advantages of consuming fiber are the production of health-promoting compounds during the fermentation of soluble fiber, and insoluble fiber's ability (via its passive water-attracting properties) to increase bulk, soften stool and shorten transit time through the intestinal tract.
Jan 21, 2010
Slimming Down Naturally: How about a Green tea diet
The Belly Fat Cure: Discover the New Carb Swap System and Lose 4 to 9 lbs. Every Week
Slimming Down With Green Tea Diet Products
Author: Julie Health
Are you one of those people who have been on every single diet that has become popular? Maybe you have been told that this supplement will work, that combination will be the best, or you definitely need to use this for thirty days in order to benefit. Sooner or later, you find yourself back on another diet and back to the same weight you were. Why does this happen?
The supplements that you are using are not natural. Why not turn to green tea diet products as a natural supplement to enhance your dieting skills.
Green tea works with your body in several ways in order to help you loose weight. It clears the digestive system, increases the metabolism, and takes care of the extra calories that your body should not be handling. It also takes out the carbohydrates that you do not want pushing your system around. It is a completely natural diet supplement that has not been able to be reproduced.
If you are looking for green tea diet products, you do not have to look any further than a cup. No matter what type of green tea you decide to use, it will activate and balance these different parts of your system. If you do not want to take tea time every day, you can find different variations to help you loose the weight.
One of the most well known green tea diet products comes as a supplement. You can find these in almost every store, presented as a capsule for you to take with any other multivitamin that you are using. This is the most popular product that is used for loosing weight with green tea. The major part to look at when finding these products is on the back. You will want to make sure that the majority of the capsule is not only green tea, but also the EGCG that is used to help your metabolism.
From this major concept, several companies have developed even stronger green tea diet products. They have done this by combining this miracle in a cup into a formula that will significantly enhance weight loss. If you want to loose fast, you can look at diet places that have large amounts of green tea mixed with other substances. Whether it is in a shake or a pill, it will be effective in helping you to use the substance as a diet material.
Once you know the benefits of green tea, you will not want to wait for something else to come along. Green tea diet products are an all natural answer for you to slim down at a quicker rate. When you combine this with a balanced meal and exercise you will be certain to get rid of what you do not want and keep what you do.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/slimming-down-with-green-tea-diet-products-144505.html
About the Author:
Julie Health writes about the benefits of drinking green tea at her website. You can learn more about green tea & losing weight .
Ragù alla Bolognese: Bolognese recipe
Ragù alla bolognese ingredients
-300 g of minced pork meat (some mix half beef and half pork) do with whatever of the 2 you have.
- 100 bacon
- Glass of red wine
- Broth just enough
- 5 spoons of double concentrate tomato (in the world)
- 1 onion, 1 carrot and 1 piece of celery
- 1 spoonful of cream (optional)
- salt and pepper
Cook the bacon and vegetables for a few minutes then add the minced meat, when the meat brown a bit add the wine.
Let the wine evaporate then add the tomato paste, salt and pepper then the broth in slow heat for about 2 1/2 hours then add the cream at the end.
(A friend adds some parmesan and blue cheese at the end then cooks for about 20 minutes mixing so that the cheese does not burn at the bottom, the result was awesome)
-300 g of minced pork meat (some mix half beef and half pork) do with whatever of the 2 you have.
- 100 bacon
- Glass of red wine
- Broth just enough
- 5 spoons of double concentrate tomato (in the world)
- 1 onion, 1 carrot and 1 piece of celery
- 1 spoonful of cream (optional)
- salt and pepper
Cook the bacon and vegetables for a few minutes then add the minced meat, when the meat brown a bit add the wine.
Let the wine evaporate then add the tomato paste, salt and pepper then the broth in slow heat for about 2 1/2 hours then add the cream at the end.
(A friend adds some parmesan and blue cheese at the end then cooks for about 20 minutes mixing so that the cheese does not burn at the bottom, the result was awesome)
Jan 19, 2010
Spaghetti alla Bolognese: Is yours authentic?
Italian chefs campaign for better spaghetti bolognese
Looks like everyone is getting this recipe wrong find out how here spaghetti bolognese
Jan 15, 2010
Improvised Tiramisu: Tasty and everyone loved it
I heard someone say he does not like changing recipes and he will only prepare recipes strictly to originals..I say fine...that is up to you, But, come to think of it you find yourself in a country where you cannot find all original ingredients what do you do?
Ok, this is what I have been working on lately doing tiramisu differently and guess what they all loved so can you.
My Tiramisu recipe
Ok, this is what I have been working on lately doing tiramisu differently and guess what they all loved so can you.
My Tiramisu recipe
Jan 14, 2010
Cape Goose Berries: Rich in Vit. A, C, Iron and Phosphorous
Cape Goose Berries: Rich in Vit. A, C, Iron and Phosphorous
This is going to sound crazy, I went to the supermarket to do my weekly shopping and was really surprised to find this fruit in the shelves.
My father cultivates lots of fruits and he also likes to keep some really wild fruits like this one as we used to call it. I personally hated this fruit...Im about to change my mind and might ask my Dad to start cultivating it seriously.
This is the fruit: Image from the net.
a nice resource I found is this
http://capegooseberry.com/recipes.html
Make marmalade, jam etc
This is going to sound crazy, I went to the supermarket to do my weekly shopping and was really surprised to find this fruit in the shelves.
My father cultivates lots of fruits and he also likes to keep some really wild fruits like this one as we used to call it. I personally hated this fruit...Im about to change my mind and might ask my Dad to start cultivating it seriously.
This is the fruit: Image from the net.
a nice resource I found is this
http://capegooseberry.com/recipes.html
Make marmalade, jam etc
Jan 12, 2010
Chocolate Cake Recipe: Chocolates are forever
My Chocolate Cake
Ingredients are 200g of dark chocolate, 4 eggs, 180g of flour, 180g of sugar,180g of butter and baking powder 14g
mix yellow with sugar add butter and chocolate(melt butter and chocolate) then baking mixed with a little bit of milk and flour. Add finally beaten whites and bake for 45 minutes at 200°
Jan 7, 2010
Best Food Advertisement of the year 2009?...I do not think so
Advertising goes home.. or Advertising goes homemade
Forget about 'Emma Watson ad without a leg for Burberry?
This is even better!!!
Simple Easy Italian recipes...a small piece of tiramisu will do please
I could not help it this Christmas but lift myself and friends from 2009 the year of economic depression which Im still experiencing up to date. Anyway, together we had just small (not very small) portions of Tiramisu for dessert on Christmas Eve dinner.
Well, you can follow the Tiramisu saga here on Easy simple Italian Tiramisu recipe
If you are in Bangkok, and would love to see how I make my delicious tiramisu give me a shout and I can organise a class for you. Of course you will pay it is not free as I will need ingredients...ahaaa see you!
Jan 6, 2010
Easy simple delicious fruit cake..but 'I hate fruit cakes'
I tried the day before yesterday to make a simple apple cake since I had extra apples in my fruit basket in the kitchen. I think it was nice, but my son said that he did not like to eat pieces of fruit in the cake he likes the classic chocolate one better.
My husband said he hated apple cake since he was young....so now I have a cake halfway all being pushed from one side of the table to the other what a waste...If you like to make it then feel free to ask me for the recipe.
My husband said he hated apple cake since he was young....so now I have a cake halfway all being pushed from one side of the table to the other what a waste...If you like to make it then feel free to ask me for the recipe.
Jan 4, 2010
Cooking in the year 2010
My cooking in the year 2010 will be mostly Italian delicacies with all locally produced products of wherever I will be.
And I have made up my mind, when we move from Bangkok wherever I will settle I will open up a coffee place where you can eat home made cakes, biscuits and pizza and lasagne hopefully tiramisu
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