tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12524658084947551122024-03-13T05:51:40.993-07:00Health Nutritionalexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-28531317012448418082012-03-01T21:24:00.000-08:002012-04-16T21:25:22.021-07:00Health Nutrition Food That Isn't<div style="text-align: justify;">It can be hard enough keeping to a healthy diet; what happens these days though is that the major restaurant chains come and try to mix up our personal definitions of what we can safely call "healthy". A restaurant staple at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's or Ruby Tuesday's can easily get called "healthy" even when it is saturated with calories, fat and salt. Let's take a look at the worst offenders on the restaurant menus around the country that promote their products for their health, nutrition, food value all at once.<br />
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The Ruby Tuesday Avocado Turkey Burger should actually have been a really healthy meal. Turkey is great for your heart's health - nutrition food that actually heals. But not here. The burger has nearly 100 g of fat (that's nearly a fifth of a pound of fat), and heaps of salt held together with more than 1000 calories.<br />
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Okay, is there any way that you can not be making the right choice with a salad? Well, at the California Pizza kitchen, the Waldorf chicken salad actually comes with even more calories than the burger above. How did they even manage to do this in a salad? It's all in the dressing, of course. But you will need to be on the lookout across their entire menu.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
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You couldn't possibly do the right thing for your health, nutrition food being the way it is in this country. Consider Applebee's Grilled Shrimp and Spinach Salad - a name that's filled with health and nutrition. They've managed to bring the salad up to more than 1000 calories - as they have with lots of other salads on the menu. If you have to go to Applebee's, choose from the Weight Watchers list.<br />
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Compared to this next salad, you could do better for your health with a slice of pizza. And fittingly, this chicken chopped salad lives on the menu of California Pizza Kitchen, dangerous ground for any dieter if you need a warning. This little gem has nearly 1200 calories, and 15 g of unhealthy fat.<br />
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There's no way you would want to see this next winner left off this list. It's the Mex Tostada salad with chicken at Chevy's Fresh. You could eat a dozen cupcakes and not get as much fat and calories as with this artery clogger. It actually has nearly a fifth of a pound of fat and more than 1500 calories.<br />
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Seafood is supposed to be healthy isn't it? Well then, consider the Cod Filet dinner at Culver's. It has the most fat of any of the health nutrition food examples we've covered so far - a third more. But that's because this little heart attack machine is fried, and there's butter and french fries on the side too.<br />
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Food corporations will always try to hitch a ride on a health fad that's doing the rounds at the time. How about the way Nestl?calls its sugar-hopped Juicy Juice line actually healthy for children? This was so egregious to the authorities, the federal government actually called their bluff.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-86111260342445077392012-02-14T21:23:00.000-08:002012-04-16T21:24:19.862-07:00Health, Nutrition and Easy Diet - Getting the Most Out of Our Regular Food Intake<div style="text-align: justify;">We eat and drink to promote growth, especially in younger years, to supply fuel needed for the energy used to operate the physical mechanism, and to maintain the body structure and systems operating at peak efficiency. In order to maximize the benefits of our food intake, there are some simple things we need to do. Unfortunately we don't usually do these any more in our busy and stressful society, but if we want to regain and maintain good health, we need to change some habits.<br />
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First, we should eat quietly and without rushing, and not when we are emotionally upset, excited, tired or in pain. The body needs to work on the processes of digestion. Digestion begins in the mouth where foods need to be chewed thoroughly. For optimum benefit, we should use fresh food, and organically grown, and vegetables in raw state as often as possible. Frozen food is better than canned food but not as good as fresh food. We should eat when hungry and not too much so as not to overload the body.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
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Foods to avoid are processed, devitalized and chemically treated, white sugar, sweets, white bread and other white flour products, prepared mixes, ready-to-serve products, commercially prepared cereals and canned, pickled, preserved or otherwise adulterated foods. Ok, I can hear most of you say, "but that's impossible!" I know, it's not easy if you're working, etc. However, begin to change what you can little by little.<br />
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In the meantime, while you're making this gradual change, get yourself a good quality multi-vitamin, multi-mineral and B-complex supplement to take every day, starting immediately.<br />
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The plant kingdom is considered to be the perfect source of nourishment for essential food elements. Especially eaten raw or lightly cooked. Complete protein foods are, beans such as navy, kidney, pinto, red and mung; garbanzoes (chickpeas), lentils, peanuts, soybeans, cornmeal, oats, whole-grain and wheat, wheat gluten, brewer's yeast.<br />
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Of course for any allergy problems take out of these lists the foods that don't agree with your system.<br />
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There is no protein problem when using a wide variety of non-meat foods such as grains, legumes, raw nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, wheat germ and dairy products. Incorporate whole grain cereals and breads, cornmeal, barley, buckwheat and rye, brown rice instead of white.<br />
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However, fish, poultry and organically grown meat - in that descending order - can be eaten two to three times a week. Pork and fish without scales should be avoided. A deficiency of protein can cause anaemia, reduced resistance to disease, loss of stamina, muscle deterioration, fatigue and difficulties in healing bruises and wounds. Excessive protein intake over a long period can aggravate or cause various chronic disease states.<br />
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For maximum digestion efficiency avoid wrong food combination, such as acids and starches, proteins and simple carbs, sugars and proteins, starches and sugars. These cause all sorts of intestinal problems such as gas, food allergies, putrefaction, bad stools, etc. Some foods are best used in combination, such as rice and legumes; rice and soy; whole wheat and legumes; sesame and legumes; legumes and seeds; rice and dairy products; cornmeal and beans; whole wheat and soy; whole grains and dairy products; protein and complex carbs (vegetables).<br />
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The best sources of carbohydrates are sugar and its products, honey, raisins and other dried fruits, potatoes, cereals, pasta and dried beans. But these are to be kept at minimum intake. Sugar is # 1 enemy, so use only sparingly. Carbohydrates provide the heat and energy required daily. There are no official Recommended Dietary Allowance for carbohydrates but the body can function with considerably less carbohydrate than presently in most diets.<br />
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The principal sources of fats are vegetable oils such as safflower, soybean, corn, peanut, olive); milk, eggs, butter, cheese; peanuts, nuts; avocados, margarine, coconuts, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds. Fats produce heat and energy needed daily, protection from cold and injury to body organs, long-term energy reserves stored in various parts of the body. Here too, there are no official RDA but nutritionists suggest that the intake of fat more compatible with good health should stay below 25% to 30% of the calories.<br />
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A good diet will provide necessary minerals such as iron, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, iodine and vitamins like A, B's - thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, cyanocobalamin, C (ascorbic acid), D, E, K.<br />
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A person who adheres to a diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains is called a pure vegetarian or vegan. Those who add eggs, milk and dairy products are called lacto-ovo-vegetarians (milk-egg-vegetarians).<br />
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Nutritionists say that a vegetarian diet could avoid arthritis problems such as gout, osteosporosis, other diseases such as heart and arteries problems, colon cancer and various other ailments such as colds and allergies. This kind of eating could also promote relief from stomach disorders and constipation, sleep, intuition, reduction in body odor, lighter and cleaner feeling, increased sensitivity, endurance, overall vitality, health and strength.<br />
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Meat eating diets are considered inferior and even dangerous because of several reasons such as the rapid decomposition of the meat; the impurities within the body of the animal; the dangerous residues of pesticides and chemical additives in meats. And last but not least eating meat always involves the killing of animals. If it was kept to the bare necessity of man's survival, that's one thing, but in this western world, we slaughter the animals by the hundreds each hour in over-crowded and over-productive slaughterhouses only to satisfy the demand of greed and obesity.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-57419297444318490892012-01-16T21:22:00.000-08:002012-04-16T21:23:24.750-07:00How to Plan Your Perfect Health Nutrition System<div style="text-align: justify;">Most people are only vaguely aware of the need to be physically fit. If they want to put the idea into practice they should develop a personalized health nutrition system that they will be able to incorporate into their daily routine. Given below are some guidelines on how you can go about it.<br />
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The fist rule here is to fully analyze your current eating pattern. Note down consistently on a daily basis, at least for a week, all that you are eating. It is possible that you will be taken aback when you see that much of what you are eating every day are things that hardly provide you with any nutrition. On the contrary, many of it could be putting you in the red zone by stuffing you with unwanted calories by its fat content.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
Once you get a clear picture of your food intake, you can set about designing your health nutrition system. It is possible that in the new plan you could be retaining many of the things that you have been eating all along.<br />
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For example, milk, eggs, bread, meat, vegetables, are all things that people consume on a daily basis whether they are concentrating on a balanced diet or not. All you have to do is increase certain foods and decrease certain other foods in the diet in a way as to make the diet perfectly suitable for your requirements.<br />
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A health nutrition system is a diet chart, or a meal plan that will contain all the nutrition that the body needs and it will also help you to resist the temptation to eat out or have junk food or gorge on chocolate every now and then. By regularly noting down what you eat, you will be able to keep track of the wrong foods that are a part of your diet. One way of avoiding them is to remove such foods, and even the ingredients necessary for cooking it, from the shopping list altogether.<br />
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Though getting started with a health nutrition system may be a little difficult, once you manage to get one in place, sticking to it is generally not much of a problem. If you find it difficult to choose one or to follow one the way you should, it is better to take guidance on the matter from professionals.<br />
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There are nutritionists and dietitians trained in the discipline who can advise you on the matter after understanding your level of physical fitness, and the areas where you need to improve. Their help will be good for starters.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-12695328749391998782011-12-13T21:21:00.000-08:002012-04-16T21:22:31.259-07:00Health, Nutrition and Easy Diet - Wrong Foods Combination<div style="text-align: justify;">One of the most important systems in our body takes place in the digestive tract. That is where all our food intake is physiologically changed into nourishing and healing fuels and substances that make the zillions of cells work together for good in our fearfully and wonderfully made body. Health, nutrition and easy diet begin with avoiding wrong foods combination.<br />
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Wrong food combinations from too much varieties taken at the same time will cause too many different enzymes for effective processing in our digestive system. And if these are from bad foods, i.e., junk foods, sugars and processed foods, it will actually not provide enough enzymes for proper digestion. Enzymes are the essential protein molecules that break down the foods into the necessary chemicals for the proper healthy operation of the body system.<br />
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Wrong foods combination will inhibit digestion and create various degrees of digestive distress from fermentation and putrefaction, to food allergies, foul gas and stools, loose, impacted and pebbly stools and if persistent, even blood in the stools.<br />
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Experts tell us that undigested substances such as monosaccharides created in the digestive track become poison to the bloodstream. Alcohol, acetic acid, ptomaines (carbs), leucomaines, hydrogen sulphides become putrefied proteins and poison. Decomposed foods are created by rancid fats; carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alcohol and fermented carbohydrates (starches and sugars). If this isn't enough to scare us into changing our bad food habits, nothing will.<br />
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Eventually, these dangerous elements cause complicated common place problems such as painful hemorrhoids, diverticulosis, colitis, etc.<br />
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To avoid these, there are simple foods combination rules that should be followed:<br />
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First, we to eat at separate meals the following items: acids & starches; proteins & carbohydrates; proteins & acids (to avoid putrefaction); fats & proteins (fats stop gastric juices from performing); sugars and proteins (sugars digest only in intestines and ferment in the stomach); starches & sugars (they invite fermentation). I bet you're eating these together in one meal all the time! Well, truly most of us do.<br />
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Some example of acid and alkaline foods are:<br />
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Acid: meats, dairy products, fish, grains, wheat, nuts (except almonds and brazil nuts), cheeses, lentils, peanuts... these are high protein foods.<br />
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Alkaline: beans and bean sprouts, turnips, carrots, celery, cucumbers, lettuce, watercress, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, millet; apricots, figs, prunes, raisins, dates, grapefruit, peaches, apples, grapes, bananas... in other words vegetables and fruits.<br />
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Experts recommend an alkaline-acid food ratio of about four to one, or eighty percent alkaline foods and twenty percent acid foods for a healthy body.<br />
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Eat one at a time: concentrated protein. In other words don't mix beef and fish, or pork and chicken, etc. Have one or the other at a meal.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
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Eat alone, at least 1/2 hour after a meal: melons (digests only in the intestine); milk; desserts. Desserts have no food value except if they are specifically made of wholesome and nutrients ingredients.<br />
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Factors to watch for which will create bacterial decomposition of foods during the digestive processes are: overeating (beyond natural enzymic limitations); eating when tired; eating just before heavy or stressful work; eating when too cold or too hot; eating when there is fever or inflammation; eating when in pain, angry, worried, anxious, fearful, etc.<br />
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The use of alcohol, vinegar, condiments will retard digestion and cause bacterial activity and decomposition of foods. Excessive bacterial activities can produce long-term health problems, diarrhea and nutritive losses.<br />
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Circumstances that will reduce bacterial decomposition of foods are: choices of alkaline groups of foods as opposed to acid, and a simplicity of foods as opposed to mixture; the removal of factors such as stress and anger. Taking care that the foods are digested properly in order to avoid rotting in the digestive process and seeing that foods are properly combined will reduce or eliminate gas, bad breath (caused by gastro-intestinal fermentation and putrefaction), foul stools and gas. Proper food combination will produce a sweet breath, odorless stools and no gas.<br />
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The following is an example list of some of the best and worst food combinations:<br />
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Good combinations are: protein and vegetables; complex starches, legumes, vegetables; oil and leafy greens; oil and acid.<br />
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Fair combinations are: proteins and<br />
acid-fruit; leafy greens and acid-fruit; leafy greens and sub-acid fruit; acid, sub-acid and sweet fruit.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-26765905417528882062011-11-10T21:20:00.000-08:002012-04-16T21:21:29.283-07:00Prebiotic Natural Nutritional Health Supplements And Balanced Digestive Health<div style="text-align: justify;">Prebiotics are extremely important to your digestive tract, by nourishing your good bacteria so they can thrive and keep harmful bacteria from causing health problems. But your system also needs other critical elements to provide what can be thought of as balanced digestive health - these additional elements can be provided by a prebiotics digestive health supplement.<br />
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Including the prebiotics, there are 4 key components to a prebiotics supplement that are necessary:<br />
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· Prebiotics<br />
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· Soluble Fiber<br />
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· Digestive Enzymes<br />
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· Phenolics<br />
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Soluble Fiber is not the same as the insoluble fiber in dietary supplements that 'speeds up' your digestion to keep help keep your regular and not become constipated, and a kiwi fruit prebiotics supplement contains this from the seeds. Psyllium husk supplements are a good source of soluble fiber - however, a kiwi fruit prebiotics supplement includes more fiber, and also has the additional digestive benefits.<br />
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Soluble fiber actually works in your digestive system in a way that allows your body to be able to absorb more of the nutrients coming from the foods that are eaten. But it will also bind the fats in those foods in a way that they aren't as absorbable, which is going to lead to having lower amounts of cholesterol and triglycerides in your blood.<br />
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Digestive enzymes also assist in how food is digested by 'breaking' it down in a way that makes it more available as nutrition. And by having food completely digested, it will keep the colon from having undigested food sitting in it.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
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These digestive enzymes are especially important for the digestion of proteins, which are the hardest foods to digest. Undigested protein carries many health risks. This is because these proteins can rot in your colon and actually pass through the walls of your intestine into your blood stream, and this can lead to many different digestive health problems, along with increasing the risk for getting colon cancer.<br />
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Phenolics work with the prebiotics and the bacteria in your system. While the prebiotics are feeding and strengthening the good bacteria - the phenolics are preventing the bad bacteria from being able to reproduce. This combination leads to providing an environment in your colon for the good bacteria to flourish and take over the bacteria, instead of allowing the bad bacteria to be harmful and causing illness.<br />
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Clearly, prebiotics supplements are far more than prebiotics, and provide important digestive health benefits than prebiotics alone - and all these additional components will help you to have the best balanced digestive health possible.<br />
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Prebiotics nutritional health supplements are very important to your digestive health from including four very necessary digestive components.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-74212574377350670972011-10-17T21:20:00.000-07:002012-04-16T21:20:42.832-07:00Reviewing Health Nutrition Supplements For Women<div style="text-align: justify;">Having a healthy body is very important for most people, and one way for women especially to stay in good health is to take advantage of all the health nutrition supplements that grace the retail market today. With so many products on the market a person may have a difficult time deciding on the best items for one's body. As well, by taking advantage of all the information on the internet, a person can become very knowledgeable about supplements that one would use in conjunction with a healthy diet.<br />
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If a woman is serious about exercising and finding the best health nutrition supplements on the market, then perhaps a good place to start is at the gym. To begin that journey, a woman should first look at Industry Health Club. From this Australian site, a woman can learn how to increase her supplemental intake and health. Protein is usually thought of as a man's supplement, but women usually lack this in their diet.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
Another great website that can help women is Women To Women. This site is made especially for women who are looking for answers on a variety of topics including herbal nutrition supplements, healthy diets, and other items that can help to keep a woman healthy and happy for years to come. One can look up a variety of items here and the majority of the information comes from medically certified women who specialize in helping females to better themselves.<br />
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Women are a forgotten clan when it comes to health nutrition supplements. Usually, if a woman is not in menopause, exercising at a gym or pregnant, then her needs are forgotten. However, a few websites are available that can help them to become healthier by taking the best vitamin supplements on the market. Finding a site that provides enough information to help choose the best supplements is a proverbial gold mine.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-45073212420781658172011-09-12T21:18:00.000-07:002012-04-16T21:19:36.962-07:00Importance of the Nutrition Health Wellness Triangle in Our Life<div style="text-align: justify;">Regarding nutrition health wellness, unlike what most people think, life is not a matter of living and dying; it is not measured by absolute life and death. Rather, it is being measured by a spectrum of health - a spectrum of health where one side of the extreme is death and the other is that of a healthy well-being, not just of being alive. So, taking that spectrum of nutrition health wellness as a basis, we may say that the healthier one is, the farther he is from death. In this matter, the passage of time is automatically included since one's heath would usually begin to deteriorate at a certain point in his age.<br />
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But even if the deterioration of health is inevitable as time as passes by (at least practically, but not theoretically), we can still do something with personal health nutrition wellness lifestyles and habits to slow down the deterioration of health in a number of ways - or rather in many ways that has to be integrated. Some of these nutrition health wellness improvement ways include proper physical activity, a healthy psychological disposition, and a carefully planned nutrition, with the last one being the focus of below.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
Why the proper food is vital for health nutrition wellness and longevity? Our body is being fed and maintained by using different chemicals, primarily with oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, along with some other elements needed like calcium, iron, zinc, etc. All of these can only be taken from eating and drinking, or in other words, through nutrition, with the exception of oxygen which can be taken in by breathing. These chemicals are what promotes and helps both our mind and body function, so we could say that nutrition is the foundation and the corner of the health nutrition wellness triangle. This is because without proper nutrition, the body cannot have any form of energy needed to utilize its movements, thus hindering the possibility of having a proper physical exercise or wellness activity, thus decreasing health.<br />
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On the psychological part, a person without the proper nutrition needed by the mind wouldn't be capable of higher psychological processes, so the necessity of having a healthy psychological disposition also becomes far from achievement. But, it is important to take note in terms of one's own nutrition health wellness that scientists are also accepting the idea that the mind, particularly the consciousness of a person, is capable of over-riding its own design. While this may be true, the contribution of the proper food intake toward raising our own nutrition health wellness triangle is undeniable.<br />
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Zoe Merwin is a healthy lifestyle enthusiast, authored more than a hundred health improvement tips, advices and contributed with her knowledge to the fat belly fat resource to reveal various options and possibilities for loosing belly fat, also has written many tips on how one can boost their own nutrition health wellness.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-73307868752861085512011-08-11T21:17:00.000-07:002012-04-16T21:18:48.710-07:00Health Nutrition & Nutritional Advice For Health and Wellbeing<div style="text-align: justify;">It is possible to spend hours, days, even months or years trying to understand nutrition, how it connects to you individually and how you can improve your own diet and wellbeing with it!<br />
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Most of us want to lose some weight, look younger, feel better and stay well in order to enhance our vitality and health in general. We read endless articles and news on what is the new super food and why we need it. But do you really ever get it? Do you ever really understand what a vitamin is, or a mineral, or an antioxidant, or a free radical, why we need them all (or not), and what effects that can be caused if we do not have them?<br />
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As a human being, like it or not, you will change with age, stress, environment and circumstance, meaning that what you need nutritionally needs to change too! On top of that, holding onto unwanted toxins throughout stressful situations and life itself build up to make a difference to how we feel and how we look.<br />
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So what is this article about? Within this article I want to explain, as simply as possible, why health nutrition is vital to your life, wellbeing, energy, looks, children and future; what vitamins and minerals actually are and why we need them; how the environment has an effect upon us (like it or not) and what you can do to enhance your health and wellbeing on an individual level.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
What is health nutrition?<br />
Health nutrition is seeing what you eat as a way to enhance your health. It is understanding that you are what you eat, therefore making total sense to optimize your diet to get the most from your true health potential!<br />
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Taking this a step further, we therefore see that poor nutrition could damage our health and prevent us from reaching our true possibilities both emotionally and physically! As intelligent humans (really!), we have vital choices about our own health by what we consume? We are becoming fast more and more aware that diet and nutrition really is the key to true health potential and wellness.<br />
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What is a Vitamin?<br />
Vitamins are micronutrients that are essential to human health nutrition. Most of the vitamins cannot be made by the human body and therefore need to be obtained via foods and supplements. Some vitamins are fat soluble and some are water soluble.<br />
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Fat soluble vitamins are found mainly in fatty foods such as animal fats, vegetable oils, dairy foods, liver and oily fish. These fats are stored in the liver and fatty tissues for future use and there for when you need them. These vitamins are vitamin A, D, E & K. Too many fat soluble vitamins could be harmful.<br />
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Water soluble vitamins are found in fruit, vegetables and grains. Unlike fat-soluble vitamins, they can be destroyed by heat or by being exposed to the air; they can also be lost in the water used for cooking (this is why some raw foods daily can really enhance your vitamin intake and therefore health potential). This means that cooked food, especially boiled, will lose lots of these vitamins, the best way to keep as much of the vitamins as possible inside the food is to eat raw, lightly stir fry or steam, gently grill, or heat on a very low temperature for a longer period of time, any of these will help to contain the water soluble vitamins much more.<br />
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Water soluble vitamins are: vitamin B6, B12, C, Biotin, Folic Acid, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, and Riboflavin & Thiamin.<br />
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What are minerals?<br />
Minerals are essential nutrients that our bodies needs, in varying amounts, to work optimally. Mineral nutrients consist of two categories: the major essential elements which are: calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine, and potassium; and the trace elements such as: copper, cobalt, manganese, fluorine, iodine, Chromium, selenium and zinc. All of these must be supplied in our diet because the body is unable to manufacture its own and can only maintain its mineral balance for short periods of time.<br />
Minerals can be found in varying amounts in a variety of foods such as meat, cereals (i.e. bread), fish, dairy foods, vegetables, fruit (especially dried fruit) and nuts.<br />
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Minerals are necessary for three main reasons, a) to build strong bones and teeth, b) to control body fluids inside and outside cells and c) to turn food we eat into energy.<br />
The trace elements are also essential nutrients that your body needs to work properly, but these are needed in much smaller amounts. Trace elements are found in small amounts in a variety of foods such as meat, fish, cereals, milk and dairy<br />
foods, vegetables and nuts.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-68623039153249186662011-07-06T21:16:00.000-07:002012-04-16T21:17:14.593-07:00A Balance Intake Of Health Nutrition<div style="text-align: justify;">Health nutrition from food you eat and drink is your health and strength. What you eat is part of what you are and what you will become. What you choose for a meal has an impact on our body either positively or negatively. The quality of food you take affects the length and quality of your life. Many life threatening diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancers, are often, at least in part, linked to poor nutrition. Much of these diseases could be prevented with sufficient health nutrition intake.<br />
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We are often told that we must eat a balanced diet to obtain health nutrition for our wellbeing. However, what is a balanced diet? How do you know you are achieving the correct balance? Many of us do not eat enough healthy carbohydrates. Many of us are unaware of a diet which is very low in fat can cause as much harm to our body as a high-fat diet. Many of us do not know that we eat more protein than we really need, and that too much can be bad for us. Many of us fall short on the daily requirement of vitamins and minerals that our body need.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
A perfect diet should contain all needed health nutrition such as carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, fibre, in the right quantities. The WHO suggests at least fifty per cent of calories in our diet should come from complex carbohydrates, no more than thirty five per cent comes from fat and up to fifteen per cent comes from protein. The allowance for alcohol consumption is no more than five per cent.<br />
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To get fifty per cent or so of carbohydrates you need to ensure that at every meal you have a good portion of starchy carbohydrates food such as rice, pasta, potatoes, or bread. At most meals, you need good portion of vegetables and/or fruits. You should also include small portion of low- or moderate-fat protein such as fish, poultry, pulses and lean meat in our diets. High-fat protein such cheese, dairy product and fatty meats should be eaten less frequently and in even smaller portions. As all fat is a calorie-dense food, ideally you should include only small quantities of oil such as olive or corn oil in your meals. The majority part of your daily calorie needs have been taken up. There is only little room for alcohol and for the sugars. So, add these to your diet in moderation, if at all.<br />
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A variety and a balance intake of health nutrition is the most important element of a healthy diet for life. To ensure adequate amounts of all necessary vitamins, minerals, fat, protein, carbohydrates and fibre, eat as wide a variety of foods as you can. You should eat different sources of carbohydrates, varying types of protein, lots of different vegetables, salads and fruits.<br />
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There is no need to worry too much about the exact nutritional content of every morsel of food you eat. The fact is that almost any kind of meal can be adapted to form part of a healthy diet if you follow the abovementioned guidelines.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1252465808494755112.post-63741340285950975392011-06-01T21:12:00.000-07:002012-04-16T21:16:13.872-07:00Fitness Health Nutrition Tips<div style="text-align: justify;">There are times when even the most fitness and health conscious diner succumbs to the temptations of the buffet and calorific sweet meats. But is pigging out occasionally a harmless indulgence or a real health worry? Here are some fitness health nutrition tips to lose weight healthily.<br />
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Firstly we need to stay clued in. Knowledge is power. In other words, we have to arm ourselves with the facts about fitness, health and nutrition. For instance we need to know what a healthy diet is and ignore the fads. This way we are more likely to build confidence in our abilities and achieve our fitness goals. Long term weight control is about being realistic, and enjoying healthy eating and exercise habits for life and reaping all the benefits.<br />
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It is absolutely important to have clear motivation. It will be better to write down the reasons for wanting to achieve fitness by following a nutritious and healthy eating pattern .It definitely helps our feeling of commitment. We have to include reasons that are not just about appearance. For instance, will it help us feel fit enough to do more things that we want to do or will it cure the back pain etc.It can be a useful motivator if the going gets tough.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
It helps us to become more aware of our eating habits and problem areas if we write down what we eat and drink. It is a powerful way to kick off planning and bringing changes to the diet and put us in control as it paves way to recognize what is going on and understand more about our self. Keeping a food diary helps to stay on track and see the great progress made.<br />
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Another important fitness health nutrition tip is to set realistic goals. Losing five to ten percent of the weight is an ideal target. Losing modest amounts of weight are not just easier to keep off but bring big health benefits. If the goals are realistic they are likely to be achieved and we stick with them and feel successful, which in turn boosts our self confidence.<br />
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We need to work out as to how to achieve the goals. Writing the goals and action plans helps enormously. Much of the eating we do when we are not hungry is a habit like response to a variety of triggers. We need to plan ways to avoid these triggers like keeping the binge foods out of the house or joining an evening class instead of watching TV etc.<br />
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One of the main fitness health nutrition tips is to be a conscious eater and make choices about what we eat. It will not only help us feel in control and achieve our goals, it will stop us from feeling deprived. If unwanted food cravings do strike, acknowledge them and distract oneself with a chore or a more involving task.<br />
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Finally eat regular meals, starting with the breakfast. It helps us to regulate how much we eat by stabilizing blood sugar levels and allowing us to recognize natural feelings of hunger and fullness. They also stop us from worrying about hunger as we know our next meal or snack is not far away.alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05682492046485077599noreply@blogger.com0