Why is it called ‘junk’ food?
Eating patterns are linked to the development of health problems. The foods that are more likely to lead to health problems are often called ‘junk foods’. Foods that contain lots of fat, salt and sugar are the villains! Also, foods that do not have enough fibre are a problem.
Here’s why:
* Diets high in fat (especially saturated fat) have been linked to increased risk of heart disease – like heart attacks. Part of the reason is that fatty deposits (plaques) can develop inside blood vessels, so not enough blood can get through to your heart, or brain or other important organs. These changes start to happen in many young people, even under the age of 20, although usually heart attacks don’t happen until people get older.
* Salt plays a very important and complicated role in the body. But diets that are high in salt can put you at risk of high blood pressure, which in turn can affect your brain… your eyes… your heart…
* Foods that contain a lot of fat and sugar are high in kilojoules. That is, they provide the body with LOTS of energy. If you are not using energy – ie. not exercising much – then you are likely to put on weight.
* Too much sugar, especially when you don’t brush, contributes to tooth decay!
* Not having enough fibre makes you more likely to suffer from constipation, plus you may be more likely to develop appendicitis and cancer of the colon (bowel).
Modern life is fast! There is a lot to do and not much time. So many people rely on ready-to-eat foods and ‘fast foods’.
Because fat and salt and sugar make foods taste good, ‘fast foods’ tend to have high levels of all of these, to make people buy more. That is OK for once in a while, but not for every day.
Eating A Balanced Diet
Marilyn Stephenson, a registered dietitian and director of the Office of Nutrition and Food Sciences in the FDA Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition explains just exactly what a balanced diet is: [A How-To Guide to a Balanced Diet, FDA Consumer, Pg 23, October 1986]
Eating a balanced diet means eating a wide variety of foods. A traditional way of getting a balanced diet has been to eat a certain number of portions from certain food groups, as defined by the US Department of Agriculture.
The five basic groups are vegetables; fruit; bread and cereal; dairy; and meat, poultry, fish, and legumes (dry beans, lentils and peas).
It’s recommended that you have four servings from the fruit and vegetable group, and should include one good source of vitamin C each day, such as citrus fruit, and a good source of vitamin A, usually deep-yellow or dark-green vegetables. From the bread and cereals group, it is recommended that you get six basic servings including some whole-grain bread or cereals. The recommended servings from the milk and cheese group vary with age, the highest recommendations for teens and nursing mothers (four servings). Two basic servings from the meat, poultry, fish and bean group are recommended.
Then there’s the sixth group: fats, sweets, and alcohol. It’s a group you want to avoid getting too many servings from. Foods in this group have plenty of calories and not a fair balance of other nutrients.
Eggs, as a protein source, are included in the same group as meat, poultry, fish and beans. One egg is considered a serving in that group. So if you eat two eggs for breakfast you have obtained your recommendations from the protein group and should have no more egg, meat, poultry or fish that day.
Table 2.5 Daily Food Choices
Healthy Methods to Cook Vegetables
Vegetables are naturally low in calories, fat, and sodium, and are good sources of important vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. Let the natural flavor of vegetables come through. Use less butter, margarine, salad dressing, honey, and soy sauce to keep down extra calories, fat, sugars, and sodium.
http://www.diet-and-health.net/articles.php?cont=vegetables
Use a minimum amount of water, cook vegetables to the “tender-crisp” stage so they look and taste best and retain more nutrients. Scrub potatoes, cook, and serve unpeeled for more fiber. Try cooking starchy vegetables in unsalted broth for added flavor. Add herbs and spices to enhance flavor. Start with a “pinch” and then let your taste be your guide.
Make your own low-fat, low-sodium, condiments. Try making your own salsa by mixing diced fresh or “no-salt-added” canned tomatoes with diced onions, green peppers, and chilies. Make your own salad dressings. Creamy dressings can be made with plain low-fat yogurt rather than sour cream or mayonnaise. Sprinkle lemon juice and herbs on steamed vegetables.
Starchy vegetables such as potatoes, corn, green peas, and dry beans are not high in calories. But calories climb up high when vegetables are fried and when sweet or fatty sauces and seasonings are added.
Cooked or canned dry beans and peas are good in main dishes as well as soups and salads. Here are some simple dishes to try. Combine black beans and rice with chili powder or other peppery seasoning for a Caribbean-style dish, or combine black-eyed peas and rice in a traditional Southern “Hoppin’ John.” Try a mixture of any of the following beans with diced onion and a vinaigrette dressing for a three-bean salad; green beans, kidney beans, lima beans, and chickpeas (garbanzo beans). Add kidney beans or chickpeas to a lettuce or spinach salad. Blend well soaked and cooked chickpeas with fresh parsley, optional clove of garlic, a dash of olive oil and lemon juice, then refrigerate for a surprisingly tasty dip (Humus).
http://www.diet-and-health.net/articles.php?cont=vegetables
Health Bloggers’ Top 4 Tips for Losing Weight—and Keeping It Off
As a healthy-living blogger, I am always curious about what others eat, how they squeeze in exercise, and how they keep chugging along with their weight maintenance. Tapping in to a supportive community was key to my weight loss, and I still love discovering new tricks. Spending three days with 14 health-minded bloggers on the POM Harvest Tour helped me develop a different perspective on maintaining my Feel Great Weight. My new blogger friends showed me that even the smallest healthy habits can make a big difference on both the scale and in their attitudes.
Get up and get moving.
Cramped hotel gyms and limited space to pack workout gear are no excuse for staying sedentary. Gina of the Fitnessista started her mornings with some yoga. She didn’t need a fancy yoga studio or even a mat. Instead, she laid down a towel in her hotel room and used a free podcast on her iPod to start her morning off on the right foot. Gina’s yoga practice inspired me to start my morning with this type of movement and focus. Incorporating this type of exercise first thing into my day keeps my weight-loss goals at the top of my mind, which helps me make the best possible choices for myself.
Save your splurge.
When our group of bloggers arrived in California, we were welcomed with a group dinner at BJ’s Brewhouse. BJ’s was the type of restaurant where you could easily overdo it with the hearty American fare and a wonderful selection of BJ’s own beers. Sure, it was a special occasion, but we had plenty of special meals planned over the course of the next few days. So Roni of Roni’s Weigh “saved” her calories for the following night—a dinner at a much fancier restaurant. Instead of ordering a plain old beer at BJ’s, Roni splurged the next night on a special pomegranate martini.
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Stop the fat talk.
During dinner one night on the blogger tour, Healthy Tipping Point’s Caitlin and I posted an Operation Beautiful note on the mirror in the bathroom of the restaurant. We stuck a Post-it with a positive message by the ladies’ room sink, reminding fellow diners that it doesn’t matter what the scale says, so long as you’re healthy. This small act of kindness put me in a wonderful mood for the rest of the evening. It still makes me smile at the thought of someone finding that note.
Shoot for the moon.
This is exactly what Emily of Sugar Plum is doing. Emily is still in her early 20s and hasn’t yet had any formal culinary training, but she’s scored a spot on the Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown—not once, but twice! Her ambition and determination have inspired me to continue to work hard to achieve my goals—with my weight maintenance, my new job, and more.
http://diet.health.com/2009/10/27/health-bloggers-top-4-tips/
The Positive Benefits of Food Irradiation
People often become ill after eating contaminated poultry. Symptoms may range from a simple stomach-ache to incapacitating stomach and intestinal disorders, occasionally resulting in death.
Irradiating food to prevent illness from food-borne bacteria is not a new concept. Research on the technology began shortly after World War II, when the US Army began a series of experiments irradiating fresh foods for troops in the field. Since 1963, FDA has passed rules permitting irradiation to curb insects in foods and microorganisms in spices, control parasite contamination in pork, and retard spoilage in fruits and vegetables.
But to many people the word irradiation spells danger. It is associated with atomic bomb explosions and nuclear reactor accidents such as those at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island
Irradiation does not make food radioactive and, therefore, does not increase human exposure to radiation. The specified exposure times and energy levels of radiation sources approved for foods are inadequate to induce radioactivity in the products. The process involves exposing food to a source of radiation, such as to the gamma rays from radioactive cobalt or cesium or to x-rays. However, no radioactive material is ever added to the product. Manufacturers use the same technique to sterilize many disposable medical devices like syringes and needles.
The World Health Organization believes irradiation can substantially reduce food poisoning. According to a 35 year WHO study, there has been a constant increase in the incidence of food-borne diseases, as well as the emergence of “new” disease-causing organisms, such as Listeria.
Food irradiation would be another weapon in the arsenal against food-borne illness. FDA and WHO, however, emphasize that irradiation is not a substitute for careful handling, storage and cooking of food. Irradiated poultry can become recontaminated if placed next to contaminated, nonirradiated poultry, or left unrefrigerated so that the remaining organisms can grow.
However, as Tanya Roberts of USDA’s Economic Research Service stresses, the future of irradiation depends on consumer acceptance – based largely on proof that the process can produce safer foods at lower cost.
another way to be healthy
Almost all of people world wide know water. According of health research proved that water has functions for health and beauty. Water has function to dissolve mono saccharides, amino acid, fat, vitamin and mineral in our body.
Water also has catalyst function that can take quickest biology reaction, include metabolism out from kidney, lung and skin.
Water also has function to stabilize body temperature, hot distribution so that body temperature keeps around 37degree. Because of water important role for our body, Prof. S. Periasamy DIM and D.ACC Bahiraj Vedante, from Maharish Charity Kantha Health research takes research about water therapeutic. According to him, water therapy is pure and can implement two ways, through internal and external therapy. We can drink water beside effect to our body health and beauty. We describe few advantages water therapy below.
1.We can keep health through drinking enough water with right method, especially for health complaint in headache, eye illness, obesity, high blood pressure. Drinking water with right method can stabilize poison in our body. Water therapy can keep liquid in our body so that our blood avoid from viscosity.
2.Sun and pollution always make our skin dry and damage. Drinking water will make your skin elasticity, clean and moist so that avoid from drying and wrinkle.
3.Water therapy can balance your weight, especially people have obesity problem. Drink water before eating can help to decrease amount of food that we consume. Water can improve metabolism so that you can avoid to eat so much.
We must drink water between 2 until 2,5 liter a day, this amount include from vegetables, fruits, food that we consume, such as milk, coffee, soup
We must drink water every day in order to stabilize liquid that spends from our body such as urine, breath, sweat and digestion.
What are the usual swine flu symptoms? What should I do if I start to have them?
H1N1 flu (swine flu) symptoms: Self-care for the flu
Swine flu symptoms are pretty much the same as seasonal flu symptoms, experience so far has shown. The illness starts one or two days after your exposure to the virus, and symptoms may seem to hit you suddenly. Among healthy people, seasonal flu and swine flu symptoms vary in severity. Swine flu symptoms include:
* Fever, which is almost always present and which may rise above 103 F (39.4 C) in the first 12 hours of illness
* Chills
* Muscle aches
* Loss of appetite
* Extreme fatigue
* Eye redness and burning
* Stuffy or runny nose
* Dry cough
* Sore throat
With swine flu, some people also report nausea and vomiting.
Swine flu symptoms can make you feel awful, but if you’re basically healthy and you’re not pregnant, take care of yourself at home rather than going to your doctor. Try these remedies:
* Take acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others) to reduce fever and muscle aches. Don’t give products containing aspirin to children or young adults, as these drugs may cause Reye’s syndrome.
* Drink clear fluids, such as water, broth or sports drinks.
* Rest as long as you continue to feel tired, and sleep as much as you can.
how to keep our healthy..
Nutrition. We should always get an adequate nutrition, it is necessary to have a balanced combination of the following elements : Minerals, Vitamins, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Fats, Fibers, Pure water, Oxygen, Sunlight
A good combination of these elements provides the correct nutrition that the body requires.
Positive attitude. It is essential to keep stress low. These keeps the immune system in good condition which produces as a consequence, good health. Stress, on the other hand, tenses neck and back muscles which causes some vertebras in the spinal column to move and dislocate provoking a series of disorders.
Spinal Column. Keeping the spinal column in good condition is important to optimum health. Correct posture, sleeping on a good mattress, and keeping stress low, plus correct nutrition are required factors for maintaining the skeletal system in good health.
Exercise. Exercising daily is also am essential factor for good health, Exercise stimulates the organs like the heart and joints, and in general, activates the whole body, giving vitality even to the farthest cell.
Hygiene. Hygiene for the body is as essential to good health as the other elements. Taking a bath or shower everyday, scrubbing your skin with a gentle loofah or body scrub 2 times a week, brushing your teeth and flossing, cleaning the colon periodically, as well as fasting, which eliminates toxins in the organism, are necessary factors to maintain good health.
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