Food and Health

Throughout the world there are variations in food consumption according to different socioeconomic conditions, food availability, and cultural dictates. If fresh and cooked foods are consumed, in adequate quantities, to meet the energy needs of the consumer, then the needs for protein and the micro nutrients should be met. Having this in mind, it is surprising to learn that some people are poorly nourished and, indeed, may develop one or more nutrition-related diseases.

The list of necessary nutrients is the same for every human being, but the relative amounts needed by each individual are as distinctly different as the shape of people's bodies, and for this reason daily nutritional requirement is impossible to specify. In other words, your ideal daily need is determined by your own biochemical uniqueness, which in turn relates to your mental and spiritual state. Optimum nutrition is not just about preventing or reversing disease, it is to cross the line where deficiency is directly causing disease; more than that, it is about living healthy & happy. It’s very important that you take nutritious food adequately, food can be both pleasure and medicine, and that diet has a crucial role to play in disease prevention and longer healthier living.

Intelligent Nutrition

choose fresh fruits and veggies instead of instant food to make a  nutritious meal full of  essential nutrients and dietary fiber. If you start your shopping in the fresh produce section you sure will get a good variety of vitamins and minerals by choosing a variety of colors and types of fresh fruit and veggies. Avoid unhealthy sodium, preservatives and sugars by choosing fresh instead of  instant  produce. Your daily intake of fresh veggies & fruits should be about 2 cups worth of fruit and 3 cups of veggies each day.

 Many people mistake the term "diet" as a short term healthy eating , but it's  rather a long-term commitment to improving your health. Success in healthy eating comes when you vow to make a lifestyle change and ready to embrace a new way of eating for the long haul.With planning and making some changes in your attitude, you can stay on track without going crazy.

Here are few important Healthy Eating Tips you Must follow:

Healthy Eating Tips

Avoid consumption of stimulants such as sugar, coffee, tea and cigarettes.

Limit saturated (animal) fats and hydrogenated (processed) fats.

Avoid simple (refined) carbohydrates, including white bread, biscuits, cakes and carbohydrates.

Add oily fish to your meals several times a week.

Eat plenty of fresh fruit every day.

Eat eat organically-grown, natural, unprocessed food as much as possible

Avoid these poisonous items in your diet and medications: aspartame, Ritalin, Prozac, fluorinated water, vaccinations

 

Delicious and Nutritious

Eating healthy or choosing nutritious food for your well-being is not a very difficult task. It is a common misconception that everything that tastes good is bad for you.You can always eat your favourite food if you remember to follow these Healthy cooking tips when you prepare your meals.

Discover eating well!!!!

Use less coconut milk on curries and try adding low fat cow’s milk or corn flour mixed in cold water for thickness.

Use Olive oil, Canola oil, flax seed oil or Margarine for stir frying. 

When cooking meat and poultry remove the skin and the fat before cooking.

 

Use lean ground meat or drain the excess fat after cooking.

Use lean ground meat or drain the excess fat after cooking.

Use more lime juice and less salt on salads .