Minggu, 10 April 2011

Diet antidiabetes

Type-2 diabetes is a disease caused by lifestyle. Complications of this disease brings deadly disease package. However, this highly preventable disease, one of them through diet.

1. Eat small portions

How to eat like this reduces the number of calories that enter the body. Learn the number of servings recommended by nutritionists for each food.

2. Reduce fat

Avoid high fat foods and use less oil when frying or sauteing. If possible, use a healthier cooking oil. Do not use oil for frying several times.

3. Limit sources of saturated fat / trans fat

Food sources of saturated fats eg fatty meats, fried food, full cream, cakes, candies, biscuits, pastries, margarine, and many more. Choose salad dressings that are more healthy as olive oil.

4. Expand fiber

Sources can be found in cereal fiber made from 100 percent wheat, oatmeal, brown rice, whole wheat bread.

5. Expand vegetables and fresh fruit

Eat a variety of vegetables and fruit every day. Choose fruits and vegetables fresh. Make a 100 percent fruit juice from fresh. Do not added sugar because the fruit was quite sweet. Eat dark leafy vegetables such as broccoli and spinach, orange vegetables like carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and nuts.

6. Limit sweet

If possible, avoid fruit-flavored drinks, soda, tea, and coffee is very sweet. Sugar in the drinks was very high. This is what makes the stomach so distended.

7. Reduce salt

Use less salt when cooking. If possible, do not add salt at the dinner table anymore. Avoid sources of hidden salt, such as pickles, processed meats, canned vegetables.
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Senin, 04 April 2011

Raw Food Diet, Is it safe?

Eating raw food (raw food) is now the choice of certain people. Selected types of food are grains, vegetables, nuts, fruit, and so forth.

Currents that underlie the outbreak pengonsumsian food is still raw, it is a concept that says the human body is not designed to accept food that has been cooked.

Food that has been through the cooking process is also called've lost nutritional elements that are not healthy anymore. Raw foods are also believed to remove toxins from the body naturally.

Some raw food diet adherents also believe that this diet can lose weight, make the skin healthier and fitter body.

However, there are fears of this diet, namely the existence of bacteria and pesticides that may still be stuck in the food ingredients.

With ground water conditions like now, I do not recommend the raw food diet, raw food unless it is washed first with boiled water.

Idrus also rejected a suggestion that mention cooked food can eliminate food nutrients.

If the vegetable is boiled, which would change only the element of vitamin C, but not so much missing. Except if boiled until soft.
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