Category: Nutrition and Diet

It is not the fat in the foods we eat but, far more, the excess carbohydrates from our starch- and sugar-loaded diet that is making people fat and unhealthy.

If you or people in the family or friend circle are experiencing any of the below mentioned symptoms, the possibility is that may be the excess carbohydrates in your body is responsible for symptoms like:

• Gaining weight
• Fatigue and feeling sleepy all the time
• Depression
• Fog like feeling in the brain
• Low blood sugar
• and high blood pressure etc.

Continue reading “What Harm Can Excess Carbohydrate Cause?”

They are being banned in restaurant and fast food joints, there are the trans fatty acids that lead most to cholesterol and heart disease. It is now mandatory for food manufacturers to declare trans fats on food labels.

Fats are usually saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated fats. Trans fats are mostly artificial fats but can occur naturally in dairy and meat products.

There is a process called partial hydrogenation through which trans fats are made. Liquid vegetable oil is a healthy monounsaturated fat. It is full of hydrogen atoms that can be changed into fats. The food industry found this an ideal fat to work with because it had a smooth texture and could be reused for deep-frying. Continue reading “Trans Fatty Acids – The Dangers of This Fat”

Our body is the smartest ‘machine’ ever created. And how we fail to take even basic care of it. Especially when it comes to children we need to be extra careful but many of us aren’t.

We ourselves are responsible when it comes to creating an environment for disease in our own bodies and of our children. Eating and encouraging fast food or a diet that consists primarily of highly processed foods, not going for enough fruits and vegetables and having soft drinks. This is how we set the stage for disease to grow in our bodies and our children’s as well. Continue reading “Wrong Type of Foods For Kids”

We all know that calcium is very important and helps keeping our bones strong. We my be 15 or 60- either way calcium has a significant role to play.The easiest source, when one thinks of calcium are dairy products. But sometimes, dairy products don’t agree with our body.

The other possibility is that may be we are following a certain diet and trying to cut calories to lose weight or we just don’t like the taste of milk, we don’t agree with the way the cows are bred and milked in terms of hygiene etc.

Under such circumstances how do we get our calcium? It is possible! Provided we are resourceful and determined.

I am emphasizing on being determined because you will agree that drinking milk or eating your bowl of yogurt are easy and quick and get you to the daily goal faster than having broccoli, almonds, sardines and so on. Continue reading “Where To Get Our Calcium?”

Women (and men alike) can their get calcium from raw milk, vegetables, almonds, yogurt, and sardines etc. Some people also make calcium citrate at home. Eggshells are also considered high in calcium.

Calcium from food is absorbed and utilized better by our body than calcium from a pill. Supplements are supplements as the name suggests. And food is food. Let us not think of replacing food with supplements at any stage or given point of time. It does not work.

Raw milk, green veggies are the biggest and best sources of calcium. Your best choice is always to opt for nutrients the way nature intended in the first place. Which certainly is not by swallowing pills. Go for a healthy balanced diet. Continue reading “From Where Should Women Get Their Calcium and Why?”

There are many ways in which you can cut fat from your everyday cooking. Things you don’t realize and follow as a routine because you saw your grand ma doing it may be actually causing your body a lot of harm to your body. So let us take a good look at what we can do to make our meals healthier by way of cutting fat.

If you have more ideas, let them pour in. The more useful the article, more people can be benefited from it. So here we go.Replace butter or oil with nonstick cooking spray or opt for liquid oils over solid fats. Cooking oil may contain fat.

Depending upon the type of oil one uses in cooking the degree may vary. That is the reason one is always encouraged to try canola oil or olive oil whose bad fat content is comparatively much less. Continue reading “How to Cut Fat While Cooking?”

Through this article I will share the most important fact with you about putting your children on diet.

Let me tell you that it’s not right to put your child on a diet. If your child is obese, the solution does not lie in restricting his/her calories.

During this time kids are rapidly growing and developing their skeletal structure. And by opting to watch and limit their calories intake may affect children overall health adversely.

The result of this exercise may be that they do not develop their full bone and muscle mass.

I have come across several parents who are so worried about their children obesity that they are even considering commercial weight loss programs for them.

What they have to understand is that these commercial weight loss programs are designed for adults with fully developed bone mass. Continue reading “Putting Children on a Diet – Not Done!”

Calcium helps to strengthen our bones. Women are especially recommended to include calcium in their diet all the time.

The first and the most important thing to remember while trying to include calcium in the daily diet is that getting calcium from food is better than getting it from a pill.

Calcium that is gotten directly from food is absorbed and utilized by the body better than synthetic calcium that a calcium pill.

Quality has proved to work better than quantity. In some cases women taking calcium supplements had higher average levels of calcium.

But still calcium that one can get from foods in their natural form proved to be more beneficial. And why just calcium all other nutrients also prove to be more beneficial in their pure and direct form than simply gulping pill.

However simple and uncomplicated the pill thing may sound it cannot be compared with the effect and benefits food in their natural form have to offer. Continue reading “Choose Calcium Rich Food – Not Pills and Supplements For Stronger Bones”

Before deciding to go with a particular diet so that you can get optimum health benefits and returns it is important that you identify which Nutritional Type are you. Otherwise there is no point in taking such an effort. What you eat should blend with your metabolism and you should feel energetic, healthy and fit.

Suppose you took a friend’s advice and simply decided to follow an Atkins Diet you may notice improvement in the beginning but gradually your system would give up because it is not getting nutrition as per your nutritional type. Continue reading “Fixing Meal According to Your Nutritional Type For Maximum Health Benefits”