How to Start Eating Healthy

To be able to eat healthy, you need to understand what the body needs to stay healthy and functional. Your body needs food for three main reasons. Firstly as fuel, to keep us warm and supply the energy we need to stay alive and to move about and work. Secondly, food supplies the necessary materials for growth and to repair worn tissues. Thirdly we need vitamins, minerals and other substances that are necessary for the chemical processes that take place inside our bodies.
The energy supplied by food is measured as kilojoules. Two-thirds of this energy is used to maintain our normal body temperature, the normal tone of our muscles and to keep our heart and other vital organs functional and healthy. Even when we stay in bed all day we will still need about two-thirds of our normal food intake to maintain our metabolic systems. Normal activities such as getting dressed, eating, walking, working and playing requires about 3350 kilojoules. A housewife uses about 9200 kilojoules to perform her basic household tasks.
The harder we work and the more we move about the more kilojoules we use up. Whatever kilojoules we use up in our daily activities, is supplied by food, but if we consume more kilojoules / food than the body needs you will gain mass. The aim of Eating Healthy is to get the balance right.
If you are NOT currently eating healthy, it can be difficult to start such a plan. IF you truly want to live the best lifestyle possible, then it is important for you to follow these tips to start eating more healthy. Firstly, rid your home of all foods that do not fall into the healthy categories. Keep junk foods and beverages out of your house, so that you will not be tempted. Keep healthy snacks like carrot sticks, yogurt, fresh fruit, or whole-wheat crackers on hand. In case you cannot bear to toss out the sweets, try keeping something on hand, like chocolate chips. Eating a few of these won't ruin your diet but also will give you that little sugary fix you rave.
Secondly, take a few moments to learn about what foods are the healthiest for you and how they work in the body. Most people understand what fruits, vegetables, and low-fat means and that dairy products are good for you, but few people understand why.

What Does Vitamins and Nutrients Mean?
Vitamins and Nutrients nourishes the body. They consist of micro- and macro-nutrients which is essential for good health and is consumed in small amounts. These are absorbed by the body unchanged and have catalytic functions. Vitamins are classified as fat-soluble (A, D, E and K) or water-soluble (B and C). The former and vit. B12 tend to be stored in the body. Many elements present in food are essential for health such as calcium, phosphorus and potassium. Others termed trace-elements are iron, zinc and iodine.
Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are macro-nutrients and when digested turns into glucose, fatty acids, peptides and amino acids. Macro-nutrients are interchangeable sources of energy. If sufficient non-protein calories are not available, the body cannot produce proteins for tissue maintenance. Tissue replacements and growth does not occur and considerable more dietary proteins is required for positive nitrogen balance. The polyunsaturated fatty acids are termed essential fatty acids (EFA) and must be included in your diet. The EFA and B6 is crucial in the functions of the metabolism.
Fiber mainly a complex mixture of indigestible carbohydrate material is a natural and much neglected component of the normal diet. Fiber components act in various ways for instance, prevention of constipation. Many intestinal diseases ie: colon cancer, Crohn's disease, obesity, varicose veins and hemorrhoids are associated with the lack of fiber in the diet. Fruit and vegetables rich in pectins reduce plasma cholesterol by enhancing hepatic cholesterol, to bile acids and reduces the forming of gallstones. Fiber is the most important part of any diet.


Five Basic Groups of Nutrients
The key is learning about nutrients. When you understand how specific nutrients work in the body, you will be more likely to make healthy choices.

No single food is essential to our diet. What is important is to eat a variety of foods, there are five basic groups:
Proteins for building up the body. Throughout life there is a continuous breakdown and loss of body tissues. If a person does not get enough protein to make up for this loss, some of the less vital protein tissues in the body, such as muscles are broken down to maintain vital organs like the heart and kidneys. Illnesses cause a considerable loss of protein like infections, burns, broken bones and the stress after surgery.
Carbohydrates provide energy. Carbohydrates is a collective term for sugars, starches and cellulose. Most sugars are eaten in the form of sweets, jams, biscuits, cakes and drinks. A small amount is from fruit. Starches are found in potatoes, rice, pastas, wheat and maize. When we eat starches it gets broken down to glucose which is absorbed into the blood stream as a form of sugar. Cellulose is not a source of energy but it is needed in the diet, because of it's major source of fibre or roughage. It stays undigested in the intestines to promote regular bowel movements.
Fats provide energy and flavour. Fat is contained in milk products like cheese, cream, butter and meat (visible around tjops or hidden in the fibres), fatty fish like pilchards, kabeljou and eggs. Fats have several roles in the diet directly because of its nutritional value and indirectly in improving foods and making them easier to chew and swallow. Vitamins like A,D,E and K are found in these fatty foods and following a low fat diet you need to supplement these shortfalls. Fats are very important because of the energy it provides, it is twice as much as carbohydrates or protein. Fatty foods remain longer in the stomach than low-fat foods, so they provide a greater feeling of fullness.





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Food To Body, Nutrition To Health

Health depends to a large extent on nutrition, and nutrition on food. Food, in fact, is the most important single factor in connection with the attainment and maintenance of health. Every drop of blood in the body is conditioned by the food we eat and it is on blood that every tissue, every organ, every gland, and indeed every function of the body fundamentally depends.

By food is meant any material taken into the system that serves to sustain normal bodily processes. It is fallacy of our times to regard that anything and everything called food is good for health.

For any substance to be properly regarded as human food it must be capable of supplying the body with the material needed for the repair of body tissues and maintenance of various functions, while at the same time doing no harm to the body and in no way interfering with its activities. Food in order to replenish the body, therefore, must be food, so in selecting food make sure first that it is really food. We must live on truly nutritious food and not on anything generally considered as food.

To be healthy and in good condition, it is imperative to eat natural, wholesome food making sure that the food supply is in proper proportion and of a character or quality suitable for protecting the body. The chemical elements of the body combine to make brain, muscles, nerve, blood, skeletal tissue and body secretions. The elements of food are spoken of as nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral salts and water. These are often called foodstuffs, indicating that they are stuff from which food is made.

One of the really difficult problems for the present generation is that much of our food no longer reaches us from the field, garden or orchard in the normal state as nature prepared it, to meet man's nutritional needs. Such foods are now very largely collected and taken on the large commercial centres, where they are altered, preserved, pickled, denatured, cooked, sterilized, pasteurized - thus deprived of their most vital elements. Whatever is left which will stand over long distances transportation and keep indefinitely is sold to us in place of the original things which nature provided as food. Such denatured substances have no nutritive value and are far from being satisfactory substitute for natural foods.

By natural food we mean food as provided by Nature containing all the elements, and not flavoured or doctored or devitalized by man. No form of life can be supported wholly upon laboratory products and man is no exception to the fundamental law.

Few people understand the true meaning of natural foods. For they have been fed from childhood on unnatural, artificially prepared and manufactured foodstuffs which are detrimental to the normal functioning of the digestive organs and gradually impair our health. Our food is generally spoilt even before it is gathered.

Plants and trees often suffer from deficiency or excess of certain elements in the soil. Apart from growing mineral starved food we find that much of it is totally altered in composition. Millers have learnt to take from our grain the surrounding skin, the bran, which is extremely rich in health-giving elements, in mineral substances and vitamins.

Many people live largely on denatured, artificial foods. In ever increasing numbers people live on preserved foods. In order to make these artificial foods more attractive to consumers they are dyed with chemical dyes and flavours added. Thus men are made to subsist on scientific abominations totally unfit for the consumption of man or beast. We eat these foods because they are attractive to the eyes and to the palate and are very convenient because they can easily be prepared for the table.

These devitalized and demineralized foods lower the vitality and sap the health of the people who thereby fall a prey to various diseases and epidemics.

On top of it refrigerated, devitalized, denatured and manufactured foodless foods are relished and consumed day in and day out. Yet another menace is pesticides and spraying of vegetables, fruits, and in farms has been taking a heavy toll in the form of organic and blood diseases and even cancer.

We are living in a polluted world. There is poison in the air we breathe, poison in the food we eat and poison in the water we drink. Where does it all lead to? "Back to nature" is obviously not the solution to this tragic problem. A revision to the diet of primitive man is not a viable proposition but we could try and give preference to foodstuffs which retain their full natural properties and elements without which one cannot expect radiant health and resistance to external influences and diseases.

Natural food properly selected, scientifically combined, and judiciously administered has true remedial value and can cure disease by supplying the proper saline elements in organic form. These organic mineral elements in food preserve the tissues from disorganization and form putrefaction. These vitalizing minerals, salts and vitamins are vital to health, ward off disease and premature old age.

The degeneration of the human race has been brought about by the departure from its natural foods. The only basis of possible regeneration is a return to it.

It is undoubtedly true that our eating habits depend upon our economic status as well as the availability of foods. But it is equally true that beliefs, customs, traditions and prejudices influence our food habits much more than we realize. The general food beliefs of any community are a social product deeply entrenched in the minds of the community and practiced almost like a faith. These beliefs, therefore, significantly influence the nutritional status of these population groups, and become a force to reckon with in any nutrition programme.

Sir Robert Mc Carrison said, "The single factor in the acquisition and maintenance of good health is perfectly constituted food which consists particularly milk, milk products, whole grain cereals, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables." These are called protective foods as they protect you against disease and epidemics. He adds that most people do not get enough of protective foods and their diet is therefore incomplete and results ultimately in disease.

Science today is finding in its researches a conglomeration of the truths uttered by Nature Cure pioneers many decades ago.

When studying and discussing food in its relation to the basic or fundamental principles:

We must know what primary elements enter into the composition of the body.
We must have knowledge of the chemical contents of our food.
We must know how to combine food correctly in a meal from the standpoint of the chemistry of digestion.
We must have a correct understanding of the relation food actually has to the body.
We must understand the principles of alkaline and acid forming foods in their chemical reaction on the body.
We must have a correct conception and understanding of the function of metabolism or the "science of nutrition."
My firm belief is: "Finding a cause leads the way to find a cure". So, it is basically important to understand everything from its deepest core. 



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Easy Fruit Salad Recipes Perfect For Your Next Picnic

When one mentions the word "salad", what immediately comes to mind are leafy greens and other vegetables - definitely not dessert! But don't forget that there is a dessert version - salads using fruits! It's a refreshing sweet treat that's not only good for your taste buds but for your body as well. It's easy to prepare and you can use any of your favorite fruits to create your own recipe - it's fun to experiment on the sweet creamy sauce as well!

For now, here are some easy fruit salad recipes you can try at home:

Creamy Pistachio Fruit Mix

What you need:

2 large bananas, sliced
2 1/2 cups crushed pineapple with juice
2 cups fruit cocktail
2 cups miniature marshmallows
1 1/2 cups mandarin oranges, drained
1 1/2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
1/2 cup instant pistachio pudding mix
In a large mixing bowl, mix together crushed pineapple (include juice) and pistachi pudding mix. Stir in whipped topping. When well-combined, add bananas, fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges and marshmallows to the bowl. Mix ingredients well. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Easy Fruit and Nut Salad

What you need:

1 red apple, peeled, cored and diced
1 ripe mango, peeled, seeded and cubed
3/4 cup toasted cashews
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 pinch salt
Combine apple, mango and toasted cashews in a salad bowl. Pour balsamic vinegar over fruits and nut then season with ground cinnamon, ground ginger and salt. Mix to combine ingredients well. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Fruits and Yogurt Dream

What you need:

1 red apple, cored and chopped
1 orange, peeled and sliced
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 1/2 cups seedless grapes, halved
1/2 cup blackberries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup vanilla yogurt
In a large salad bowl, mix together apple, orange, celery, grapes and blackberries. Top with chopped walnuts then add vanilla yogurt to the bowl. Stir until all ingredients are well-combined. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving.

Forget high-calorie desserts like cakes and ice cream for a while and enjoy a sweet treat that's good for your body. Instead, for your next picnic, have a healthy and refreshing snack or dessert with these delicious yet easy to follow fruit salad recipes that are perfect for any season!
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Body Detox at Home - Get Rid of the Poisons!

There are toxic substances all around us. They are in the air, in the water, in our cosmetics and toiletries... even in our food. These toxins include chemicals, additives, carcinogens, hormone disruptors, poisons and contaminants. It's scary, I know. Fortunately, there are ways to rid your body of these harmful substances.

The theory behind doing a body detox home or anywhere else is to rid the body of these harmful substances. The toxins that we ingest, through whatever method, are normally stored in body fat. The kidneys, liver, lungs and skin are designed to process environmental contaminants and expel them from the body. However, many people believe, and research is confirming, that not all of these toxins are being properly processed.

There are three major ways to detox your body: detox diets, body wraps or patches, and nutritional supplements or pills.

A detox diet normally consists of refraining from most of the foods we normally eat. It may involve going through a liquid fast, where you only drink liquids, instead of eating solid food. It may involve eating certain foods which would be organic and very high in fiber. Most body detox proponents claim that the majority of the toxins and up in the colon, where they cause 90% of all diseases.

A detox diet should consist of avoiding white sugar and processed flour, as should any sensible eating program. The detox diet goes a step further however in restricting intake of most other foods as well. Fruits and vegetables should be a significant part of the food intake. Drinking a lot of water is also important, as is limiting or eliminating alcohol consumption.

Fasting may take the form of water fasting, or one only drinks water, or juice fasting, where one can get some nutrients by drinking juice. Juice also has a lot of fiber which helps with the colon cleansing. Stick to organic, natural juices, and not highly processed concentrates or flavored sugar waters labeled as juice.

Body wraps involve wrapping the body in healthy substances in an effort to draw the toxins out of the body. These substances may be things such as herbs, sea salt, and various clays. You can pay a lot of money for a body wrapped in a spot, or you can create your own at home.

Foot patches work similarly, in that they draw the toxins out of the body. The foot patches are normally applied to the bottom of the foot and worn during the night while the wearer is sleeping. In the morning, the patch is removed and is noticeably darker, from the toxins it has removed.

Doing a body detox at home often consists of taking pills or supplements. These are generally designed to help cleanse the colon. They may be taken for three to four weeks then not taken for another three to four weeks, until the cycle is repeated. There are also supplements that will help replace the nutrients lost during a fast or a restricted eating plan.

Whichever method you decide to use, you can detox your body at home, and save expensive trips to doctors, alternative health care providers, or other detox practitioners.

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Benefits of Taking Energy Supplements

Do you go to the gym on a regular basis? Do you have an office job? No matter what type of work you do, you need energy to keep yourself going. Although diet and exercise carry a lot of weight, taking energy supplements is a great way of getting an energy boost in a natural manner. Let's go through some amazing benefits of supplements.

Benefits of energy supplements

First of all, it should be kept in mind that energy supplements have a great impact on your energy levels. For instance, they can help you boost your lifestyle. Given below are some of the major benefits that you can enjoy if you take these supplements on a regular basis.

They are healthier

Compared to the classic energy boosters, energy supplements are lot healthier. Most people opt for coffee to get the required energy boost. While coffee may help you improve your focus, the results don't last longer and you may feel uncomfortable. At times, you may even experience unpleasant crashes.

Apart from these, these drinks are rich in sugar and lots of other additives that you may not want in your diet. On the other hand, energy supplements are a great source of sustained energy that is good for your overall health.

Nutrients alternatives

These products can provide your body with essential nutrients that you can't get in your diet. According to experts, most of these supplements are loaded with nutrients and vitamins that can be found in natural foods as well. The good news is that these nutrients are part of most supplements that are sold in the market nowadays.

If you are a vegan or vegetarian, you may benefit greatly from the extra nutrients since you can only eat specific foods. Most people who don't eat dairy products or meat may not get enough vitamins like Vitamin B12. In order to meet this deficiency, they can opt for some good energy supplements.

Anxiety and stress

These products can help you deal with stress and anxiety. In today's world, stress and anxiety have become one of the most common psychological problems. If you are suffering from stress, we suggest that you try out some energy supplements. A special compound called pantothenic acid is found in the products that can help you reduce your stress, fatigue and tiredness.

Overall health

If you are looking for something to improve your general health, you should give a go to energy supplements. These products contain different types of compounds that can help you boost your overall health in an efficient manner. For instance, Folic acid may help you prevent negatives modifications in your DNA. As a result, your chances of getting cancer are reduced significantly. In the same way, niacin may help you improve our heart health in addition to reduce your cholesterol levels. Moreover, thiamine makes your heart, nervous system and muscles a lot stronger.

So, if you are looking for a product to boost your health, we suggest that you try out some good energy supplements.

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5 Ways To Become A Fat Burning Machine

Now let's say you want to lose a good 2-4lbs of fat in a week, and this is a realistic goal and to do this you will definitely have to become a fat burning machine.

I'm going to break it down into five easy to follow chunks so you can take this valuable content right now and put it straight into action!

Let's begin On Becoming a Fat Burning Machine

1. Straight to the point Cardio/Conditioning

When I say straight to the point I literally mean no fluff as lots of people get a little confused with cardio training. I think going jogging for an hour is fine, but the problem I see with this is one you have to find the time for say 3 to 4 hours a week, and two jogging is not the best way to help you burn the fat with your time. Don't get me wrong though, I go out for jogs to clear the mind and get out with nature more than anything.

2. Eat the Earth

Right now you're probably thinking what do you mean by eating the earth. Well let me tell you it's not too difficult really, all you need to do is eat natural food that comes from the ground and has roots on it. These are what I call super carbs (Veggies) especially the leafy greens as they work wonders for helping your body burn fat and at the same time get the right nutrients for healthy a body.

3. Go easy with the Sugar Monster

Let me tell you that this is probably the one catches most people out when they want to lose makes weight and burn the most fat. Sugar is okay in moderation, but if you feed the sugar monster it will soon lock in the fat and especially around the belly area. One way you can avoid the sugar monster is to replace fizzy drinks with water. This will make a huge difference trust me.

4. Exercise Smartly

When you exercise smartly you will notice the difference within your mind and body literally after the first week of exercising correctly. Now this isn't too difficult but lots of people don't use their time with exercising smartly. Then again it is not there fault, they just have been taught correctly. Coming up over the next few weeks you will hear more about how to exercise smartly and how get the most out of your workout with little time needed.

5. The Ultimate Fat Burning Machine Mindset

(This is huge for becming a fat burning machine!) So let's not always think just about the physical training all the time as you will be certain to get stuck in your ways and you may well get in great shape for a little while but remember you if don't have the right mindset you will struggle to stay in great shape. (Vision, Goals, tenacity & motivation is just a few of the tools you will need with creating a power mindset.)

Just remember that the mind controls the body and if you train the mind right along with the body you will be guaranteed to have the best results your have ever seen but most of all a happy healthy longevity way of life. Who doesn't want that.

" Health is the great Wealth"

To your success on becoming a human fat burning machine

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