Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts

3/13/2010

It is expensive to live healthy?


Things are going well for me. Vegetarian food is often difficult, but overall, I realized that this is the first choice for me. Maybe I will not live totally green in the future, only time will tell but definitely I will have a very low meat consumption. And it feels good to know that your body feels good, my stomach is working and no longer feels hard with what you eat. I have much to learn about vegetarian nutrition.

To purchase raw materials is good for me, very important. We were very worried it seems, the clothes we wear and how much you should consider. We are selfish today. Then you might also think about what makes your body and what you choose to fill take care. Many of my friends think it's expensive to live healthy. Are you? I think that a vegetarian diet is much, and that ultimately is cheaper than buying meat.
That's what I think, but I wonder, what is your opinion on the matter that is expensive to live a healthy life?

12/08/2009

Legumes properties


Under the generic term vegetable seeds is known to dry, clean and healthy, separated from the pod, from plants of the legume family, which have been among the first crops grown by humanity. Its history goes back to the Neolithic period when man passed from the stage of hunting and gathering fruits spontaneous phase of food production through their work. Legumes have been for centuries a staple in the Mediterranean, northern Africa, in Mexico, Central America, Middle East and China.

They are a food that does not have to fatten or to be excluded on a diet to lose weight if cooked properly, with them being able to prepare highly nutritious meals, low calorie and also cheap and very tasty. Lack of time and new culinary trends they had been relegated to oblivion a little but the new kitchen is claimed in the present. Nutritionists recommend eating vegetables once or twice a week.

8/04/2009

Preventing cancer naturally


Undoubtedly cruciferous are great allies of health. To make the most, here are some tips:

• For the salad of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli should be cooked in advance, but not too much.

• If the heads of cauliflower and broccoli are high, should be divided and cooking.

• These allow the use of vegetable sauces vinaigrettes, mayonnaise sauce, yogurt or combinations between them.

• The leaves of cabbage and cauliflower can be added to the broth.

• When using the cabbage in any form, remove the bottom of the thickened midrib of the leaves.

• Incorporate the cabbage diet, at least three times a week.

The carrot and its many health benefits


The carrot is a vegetable that has many excellent advantages in the food of all people of all ages. Used as food, is both one of the most valuable therapeutic drugs to treat diseases. The most vitaminizante mineralizing and all the roots, is recommended for any class of patients without any contraindication. Can be used raw and pleasant flavor and excellent for strengthening teeth and gums.

You can also use cooked, is also healthy, even for medicinal purposes when cooked carrots lose their effectiveness. Due to the aromatic substances which are held, is good for stimulating appetite and very commonly used by people suffering from anemia or depression, so eating foods that the body needs to succeed. Eliminates sharp flank pain, also called "colic" and dissipates the gases emitted by the body, so it is advisable after ingesting a meal.

It also helps people suffering from constipation and intestinal disorders caused by a poisoning. In this case, required half a dozen eating raw carrots, grated, rations throughout the day. It is diuretic (speeds up the process of urination), emenagoga (faster menstruation in women) and facilitate the disintegration and expulsion of kidney stones. The richness in phosphorus, this plant is excellent as invigorating for tired minds and as a restorer of nerves. It is common knowledge that carrots have natural properties to improve the view.

6/01/2009

Consuming fruits and vegetables prevent cataracts

A recent study in Italy showed that people in their diet included vegetables, fruits, and also took calcium supplements, folic acid and vitamin E, a lower risk of developing cataracts.

But those who consume excessive amounts of fat and salt will increase the chances of suffering from the disease.

10/10/2008

Vegetables are good for health

Take vegetables ...
Because their health will appreciate. Leafy vegetables contain bullterrieringlesframasbulls acid, which is abundant especially in Swiss and spinach, and to a lesser degree in endive and lettuce. Tomatoes, carrots, spinach and kale provide carotenes that, as well as give them their color, they act as provitamin A, micro-nutrient that the liver stores and converted into vitamin A when the body needs it.

The phenolic compounds of the vegetables are antipyretics, or that lower fever, painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. They also act as antioxidants, which block the harmful effect of radicals
free, molecules that increase the risk of genetic abnormalities in cells that renew the body, such as the skin and intestine.

This favors the appearance of tumors and lowers the functionality of the cells young, one of the symptoms of aging cells. Furthermore, the antioxidants blocked the free radicals that modify the bad cholesterol (LDL-C). which leaves the specter of suffering heart attacks in heart and brain-vascular accident.
Other virtues. Vegetables prevent, in addition, certain cancers, cataracts, osteoporosis and hypertension.

Eye with cabbage.
These cruciferous bociógenos contain compounds that, apart from giving them their pungent flavor and aroma typical block the absorption and utilization of iodine, a situation that impedes the activity of the thyroid gland.

These compounds are produced to crush or eat raw cabbage, which releases an enzyme. However, this effect is avoided when cooking cabbage. Still, it is recommended not to eat normally this cruciferous if hypothyroidism.

Benefits of vegetables prevent disease

When grain legumes
Frequent consumption of vegetables, such as chickpeas, lentils and beans, prevents cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, diabetes, hemorrhoids and diverticulosis. This is his interesting nutritional profile.

• caloric intake.
Between 280 and 400 calories per 100 grams. Soybean and lupine are the most energy.

• Protein.
The protein content of dried vegetables, 20 to 25 grams per 100 - sometimes exceeds that of meat, but it's proteins are nutritionally higher quality. Rich in amino acid licina, legumes are deficient in methionine, an essential amino acid that if sulfur is abundant in cereals. That's why. The combination of legumes and cereals increases the quality of the protein intake: for example, a serving of peas with rice equivalent to a medium steak.

• Carbohydrates.
Their proportion ranges from 26% to 60% of soya bean, largely in the form of starch. The skin or skin of vegetables is generous in fiber-cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin. Hence, their intake promotes intestinal mobility and avoid constipation, as well as increased cholesterol.

The so-called soluble fiber is transformed into a gel that absorbs water and increases the volume of faeces, apart from capturing the cholesterol and bile acids in bowel, which prevents its absorption. The other type of fiber, insoluole, has a greater effect as a laxative and regulator of the intestines, increasing the speed of intestinal transit.

On the other hand, the glycemic index of vegetables is low and therefore did not shoot the blood glucose. This makes them a food suitable for diabetics. In addition, the legume produces feelings of satiety, which helps to control weight.

• Fat.
Legumes are poor in unsaturated fat or healthy, which ranges from 1 to 6%, except lupins (15%) and soybeans (20%). Among its fatty acids beneficial to health include oleic, the linoteico and alpha-linoleic.

• Vitamins and minerals.
They are a good source of vitamins B and have a notable contribution of calcium, zinc, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. All vegetables contain two to three times more iron that came, but iron is a "non-heme" worst absorption of the animal. How to use it is combined with peppers, tomatoes and citrus, which carry the vitamin C needed for the takeover.

• Fitiquímicos.
The vegetables are rich in saponins, isoflavones and filatos, plant compounds very beneficial for health.

10/07/2008

Plants Against Cancer

Recent studies show that there is some relationship between low levels of beta-carotene in the blood and some cancers such as lung, esophagus, stomach and uterus. Following this research, the American Institute of Cancer and the Ministry of Agriculture of United States recommends an increase in consumption of vegetables and fruit.

These foods contain, besides beta-carotene and other vitamins, minerals, trace elements and fiber, micronutrients that may also help prevent such dreaded disease. It is very appropriate, therefore, that children become accustomed to eating these foods.

10/06/2008

How to combat anemia

What foods are best suited to overcome the anemia caused by iron deficiency in the body?
As for meat, red and liver; when it comes to fish, sardines, anchovies, dried cod, clams and mussels.

Sausages, ham and loin crude. In the choice of vegetables and legumes, it should be decided by the spinach, the thistle, the beans, lentils and chickpeas. Also dried fruits (hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, raisins and dried figs) and cereals.

Take the child enough Vitamins?

These substances are essential in achieving many and important functions in the body.

• The child needs between 40 and 60 mg / day of ascorbic acid or vitamin C. Where do they get? A citrus (orange, grapefruit, 100 g of berries) contains 50 mg. Two medium-sized potatoes provide 22 mg. One hundred grams of green or yellow vegetables provide 15 mg, and two cups of milk, 4 mg.

• The eggs and meat provide B vitamins, the milk and dairy products contain valuable B 2 and B 12. To avoid shortages, should take a small amount of approximately 100 grams of meat per day, cereals and 2 or 3 eggs a week.

• The oil and butter contain vitamin E. With 10 g of butter and 3 tablespoons of oil a day, the inputs of this nutrient are fully insured.

• legumes and vegetables are the main source of beta-carotene or protovitamina A. If you take 125 grams of vegetables and 2 pieces of fruit, consuming the 3 mg / day that the child needs.

On average, the small, fed a traditional diet, is not usually a lack of vitamins. It has assured the contributions recommended by the agencies.

9/10/2008

Food scrap for 1 year - Its effects

How you care.
Perhaps gain weight and increased cholesterol in your main arteries, which significantly increases your risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke. Bring a diet high in fats, means that it is low in vitamins and minerals, so it is likely that usually you feel tired and suffer more colds and flu that ordinary people.

Consume too much junk food you can also do more prone to serious illnesses such as cancer, due to inadequate nutrition. How to recover. Reduce your daily diet more than half the fat, saturated fat and changes to the unsaturated, you do not do badly either.

Increase your consumption in foods like fruits, vegetables, bread, pasta, rice and beans. You can also take vitamin and mineral supplements. If you do not want to be a vegetarian, you can still eating red meat cuts in fat-free, skinless chicken and fish preference. But be sure to do enough aerobic exercise to remove harmful substances from your body.

How long you take.
The rule indicates that we need the same number of months alimentándote healthy, that the years you were consuming junk food. For example, if you eat foods high in cholesterol for ten years, you need ten months leading to a healthy diet combined aerobic exercise to recover.

It is never too late.
If you have more than 40 years and reduces your level of blood cholesterol by 10 percent, considerably decreased the likelihood of suffering a bad heart. Small changes can greatly improve your health.

9/05/2008

The benefits of fiber

When you think of fiber, maybe you Magin a cereal of those who announce what they are good for all his box. However, there is a particular type of fiber called pectin, and it is found in fruits and vegetables. Pectin is more of the benefits you can imagine.

It has been shown to reduce your levels of blood cholesterol, and keep your arteries clear of fatty plaque. In addition, it can help prevent cancer tumors, and if you're diabetic, improve your body's ability to control blood sugar. The nutritionists recommend eating 15 grams of pectin daily.

7/14/2008

A life without allergy

It sounds impossible ... but it is not. If you want to avoid allergic reactions, you must follow a series of steps, new habits in your daily life, and watch you feel much better.

You must feed properly, with leafy green vegetable, eating vitamin B, calcium and magnesium, drink much water, not drink alcohol or coffee, respecting the hours of adequate rest and above all, externalize your emotions.

Keep in mind these tips also complementary, and elementary at once.

Takes a spoonful of honey every morning, or a spoonful of pollen grains.

Desinflamar for the eyelids by allergic reactions, operates a cotton, embedded in a cold infusion of chamomile on the affected area.

If you have an allergy to cosmetics, you can use cream for desmaquillarte almond eyes.

7/07/2008

Algae, vegetables ocean

Although the traditional use of algae-mainly agricultural-is limited to certain coastal cultures, are gaining adherents in the kitchen.

Since early last century are used as raw material for obtaining alginates and carrageenan, which are used as a gelling and stabilizing.

Today it is not difficult to find algae in the super either canned or dehydrated. Of these, I recommend the wakame-Undaria-pinnatifída, intense flavor of marine ingredient for a perfect rice caldoso seafood. Like all algae, is a source of fiber, since it contains more than 35% of the dry portion, compared with 30% of Brussels sprouts, vegetable land has more.

Another is going very well in the seafood rice is the "spaghetti sea"-Himanihaíia-elongata, cut into strips as it could go a Jewess green paella valenciana.

Delicious turn in a troubled accompanying some shrimps, for some algae this reminds the percebe. It contains fiber and iron.
They are also highly appreciated the kombu-Laminaria ochroleuca-and sea-lettuce Ulva-rigfda.

7/04/2008

Hypertension

It increases from 40 following an increase of peripheral vascular resistance and some unhealthy habits: salt in the diet, consumption of snuff and alcohol ...

Your best bet because you are always on time if you want to achieve a better lifestyle is starting to consume more fruits and vegetables.

6/05/2008

The origin of olive oil

According to most historians, the olive tree (the tree whose fruit is olives which is extracted oil) comes from ancient Mesopotamia, from where it spread to the rest of the Mediterranean countries. The Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Jews, Carthaginians, Arabs and other peoples, who were commissioned to spread the cultivation of olive and applications, primarily for trade and economies of producing countries.

Therefore, more than 5000 years ago and was used as a scented oil to the bathrooms to serve as a cosmetic beautification of the skin, as an ingredient for the manufacture of perfume, and of course, essential as a condiment in the most exquisite delicacies. Nor should we forget that the Romans, being lovers of oil, also used this ointment for abrillantar hair and moisturize the skin.

The scientific discoveries that have become the vanguard of dietetics, would have been deemed authentic heresies just a few decades ago, when he attached a purported ability to increase the harmful cholesterol in people.

Around the "Mare Nostrum" confluence of three continents and many cultures. There were born religions, philosophies, political theories and of course, a culinary tradition much appreciated today. The Mediterranean diet has set up over the centuries a very specific geographic area, where several villages have combined thoroughly, vegetables, legumes, fruits, cereals, meat (especially poultry) and fish.

In short, olive oil was an important ingredient in the food of the great civilizations of antiquity, because of their nutritional value and balanced composition.

4/07/2008

Diet and financial years of vacations

Without doubts, a good moment to dedicate you the necessary time to put on in form, they are the vacations, since they allow us to traffic places different to the quotidian ones and for ende, you are necessary to be very well fed, hydrous and also to have a physical excellent state to take advantage of to the maximum every day. Then we suggest you some foods to stay in form and financial years to have a good time while you go for a walk.

Salads livianitas and you heal:
To enjoy your vacations fully and to avoid digestive stomach upset, you include in your diet salads of raw vegetables. They are an excellent font of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other main nutrients.
You try to consume great quantity of vegetables day by day, before the main food it can even be base of proteins or hydrates of carbon.
The most suitable and easier vegetables of procuring are: lettuce, celery, cabbage, spinach, buds of soy, cucumber, eggplant, leek, pumpkin, carrot and vetches.
As for the concentrated foods: fish, birds, eggs and cheese.
The hydrates of carbon: you pasture or noodles, rice and refined cereals.

Walks and muscular elongation:
You drift next to your family a walk toward a certain destination, this way they will be knowing different places and exercising all your body. Remember that at the 5 minutes or 10 of begun book credit the walk, they should carry out a stretching of the muscles of your legs to avoid later pains. When arriving to destination, while the body stays warm, they will stretch all the muscles.

Red tea:
This variety of tea possesses a long maturation process that raise your flavor and you make it highly curative. You are the most effective drink to get off weight, since he/she reduces the level of fat in the blood.
In your vacations, you can adopt it as infusion, as much in your breakfast as in your snack.

Tours in bicycle:
To walk in bicycle, you are a healthy and amusing way to enjoy and to know the elected place well for your vacations. Also, you are a very complete financial year for all your organism. You remember to use the different speeds to optimize your force, as much in the ascents as in the slopes. When you get tired, deténte a moment, stretches your legs and taking dilutes to hydrate you.

3/23/2008

The Sex Determines the Food

A studio carried out in 14.000 Americans determined that they prefer the flesh and the shellfish, while they lean for the fruits, vegetables and yogurts

WASHINGTON (AFP).- One of the biggest surveys that have been made lately about human health, determined in your first conclusions that men and women differ in your dietary habits.

The first prefer the flesh, while they opt for the fruits and the vegetables, according to an alimentary realized studio between May of 2006 and April of 2007 among 14.000 American adults.

The differences in the alimentary preferences of the two sexes have been on in evidence in the first survey carried out by the nutritional organization Foodnet, a network of surveillance of illnesses related with the foods.

"We have picked up such a variety of data that we consider interesting to see if they really existed differences between men and women as regards power supply", the physician explained to Beletshachew Shiferawa, epidemiologist and main author of this work, entered in the International Conference on Infectious Emergent, celebrated Illnesses this month in Atlanta.

Alimentary habits. "This is, as we believe, the realized biggest studio on the differences of alimentary habits between men and women", added. To the entrants they were asked what they habitually ate, included the usage of foods of risk, as flesh little cooked.

These investigators have discovered that the men prefer, with more frequency, to consume flesh, mainly of veal, pig and duck, as well as certain shellfish, as oysters and shrimps.

On the other hand, the women more frequently choose the vegetables, mainly carrots and tomatoes. They also have a marked inclination for the fruits, mainly strawberries, apples, blueberries and raspberries

The women also prefer the dry fruits, as the almonds and the nuts. On the contrary that the men, are also attracted by you the eggs and the yogurts.

Eat of risk. On the other hand, the investigators observed which your behavior was before six alimentary products with risk of producing some infection. This way, they had to choose among not very cooked hamburger, raw or not very cooked eggs, raw oysters, milk without pasteurizing, cheese also made of milk without pasteurizing and alfalfa buds.

The men with balance of probabilities would eat not very cooked hamburger and raw eggs, while the women that the women prefer the alfalfa buds.

According to the experts that carried out this studio, the results can be important for the inspectors of Sanity since when understanding the alimentary differences between men and women, he/she can help to create healthy new strategies.

The fruits and vegetables are the favorite of the women when establishing an alimentary diet

The roasted one is one of the favorite foods of the men, while the fruits and vegetables, of the women

2/18/2008

The Cauliflower

The cauliflower integrates the group of the cruciferas, together with the broccoli, the cabbage and the turnip, among other. You possess contained first floor of hydrates of carbon and very few calories; you are very rich in vitamin C, iron and potassium.

Your name derives that you are the flower of a plant very similar to the broccoli. You form a compact head of buds of white flowers that you/they are not developed, and you are recovered of green numerous sheets that protect it of the sunlight. Your cultivation needs big cares and you grow well in hot climates.

In a cauliflower of good quality, the flowers have to be clear and you zip; the fresh sheets, of green intense color and firm textira. The size is not eñal of quality. You suit to avoid the spotted head or with trademarks of blows.

The same as all the crucíferas, the cauliflower contains vegetable acids that release a very strong aroma during the cooking. The more time the cooking, strong má lasts you are this odor. You are advisable a quick cooking that also allow to maintain the texture and the color, and you limit the forfeiture of nutritious elements.

The ajedrea or the flavored with anise incorporate seeds to the cooking, they can avoid eventual flatulence problems.

The cauliflower reached great celebrity in France in times of XIV Luis. You are counted that the King Sun was an enthusiastic fervoroso of this vegetable, especially if you were cooked in a consommé perfumed with nut moscada and with a touch of lard that the heat melted.

The head of the cauliflower can separate easily in flowers and to be served hang-over or cooked. It can be cooked you inform; but the certain thing is that you delay more time in being clever and it can also lose a bigger quantity of nutritious.

The cauliflower cool air or congealed you possess in general the nutritional same estates. The difference resides in that this last lose part of your content during the trial in vitamin C and potassium of blanching.

A head of average cauliflower, that is to say, of on or about 18 diameter cm, you weigh around 1 kilo and you are enough for 4 or 6 people.

The cauliflower can be conserved in the cooler up to 5 days in very good state. The ideal thing is that the head remains wrapped in a plastic perforated or open bag up to impede that you are formed dampness. However. the best flavor is obtained of the recently bought vegetable.

1/25/2008

A Charm to Avoid the Envy

You are always people that surround you that for lawsuits in particular or in any reason, they envy you. Sometimes until the barest and petty thing it can serve like pretext to be the pillar for which the other ones envy you. And care, we are not speaking that you are pursued without reason, but that you can take the defensive in front of those forces. For ésto, we will help you to prevent you with this bare but effective charm.

To carry out it it comes in the following way:

Elije a fruit or vegetable that you displease yourself, either for your form, color or flavor. Not it imports the reason, the objective you are that you don't like. The only condition, is that this debit side to possess carozo. Then open it for the half and put in the cavity that he/she left the carozo a paper with the person's name that he/she think that you want to damage yourself.

You wrap the fruit or the vegetable that you have cut and elect previously in aluminum paper. Then save it in the freezer of your refrigerator. Leave it resting in this place for a term of three days, to the end of those which, you will retract the wrapping of the cooler. Have the diligence of putting on gloves for not receiving any negative vibration.

After ésto, put the fruit or vegetable in a bag of residual and you go to some place in ruins that you will choose before carrying out this ritual.

Once you are in the chosen place, you take out the vegetable or fruit of the bag (always wrapped in aluminum) and throw it to it there more far that you can. You are important that you go with the on gloves and carry out the whole procedure with them covering the hands.

We recommend you to practice this ritual one day Tuesday in the morning, to take advantage of the force of Mars, the God of the war and aliased natural in any combat, which are very necessary in this case to be about a defense.

You are also fundamental that for any reason you throw the fruit or vegetable to the jar of the garbage. You should be aborted to the bleakness. Otherwise, the contrahechizo won't have to be able to.

Practice it and you will see the results!