Paleo Diet Recipes

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The Paleo Diet, also called the paleolithic or caveman diet, consists of recipes that are natural such as meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and nuts. These were the foods that sustained people for years and kept us healthy, physically fit and full of energy; people were strong and thriving. But, something happened that caused our eating habits to change.

Paleo Diet Recipes

Agriculture was introduced to your lifestyle. With the introduction of agriculture, came the introduction of sugar laden, highly processed foods such as wheat flour and high fructose corn syrup. The fast, convenient foods that we are so used to eating, are toxic for our bodies and cause many diseases such as cancer, diabetes, auto immune diseases and more.

Paleo Diet recipes only include food combinations that are natural, tasty and without toxins including the following:

Egg Drop Soup - Simple yet nutritious Asian inspired soup.

Ingredients:
-2 eggs
-1 egg yolk
-1/4 tsp of salt
-2 tbsp fresh chopped chives
-1/8 tsp of ground ginger
-3 cups of chicken broth

Cooking Directions:
1. Pour chicken broth into a pot. Medium temp.
2. Add chives, ginger and salt into the pot
3. Mix the eggs
4. Once broth and spices are boiling, slowly pour the eggs into the pot

Stuffed Pork Tenderloin - Scrumptious piece of pork stuffed with artichoke hearts and sun-dried tomatoes.

Ingredients:
-1 2lb pork tenderloin
-1 egg
-Sea Salt

Stuffing Ingredients:
-1/2 medium onion, diced
-1/8 fresh thyme, finely chopped
-1/2 fresh sage, finely chopped
-2 large artichoke hearts, diced
-6 sun-dried tomatoes, diced
-2 cloves garlic, finely diced
-A couple tsp of butter or coconut oil
-1/8 tsp nutmeg
-Sea salt

Directions:
1. Put all the stuffing ingredients into a pan with medium heat. Saute for about 4 minutes or until the onions are a little golden. Remove it from heat and let it cool down completely.
2. Cut a seam through the center of each piece for the stuffing. Spread butter and salt over it. Place meat in a baking pan.
3. Pre-heat your oven at about 450F.
4. Once the stuffing has cooled down completely, mix in an egg and whisk away.
5. Stuff the meat with your stuffing.
6. Put the stuffed pork into the oven and it will be ready in about 30 minutes.

Chocolate Cranberry Pie - A Paleo berry-licious treat that you don't have to feel guilty about.

Ingredients:
Crust Ingredients:
-2 cups of almond flour
-1 egg
-2 tbsp of coconut oil
-1/2 tsp salt

Filling & Topping Ingredients:
-18 oz of frozen cranberries
-1/2 cup of coconut milk
-8 oz of 70% cocoa

Directions:
1. Preheat your oven at 375F.
2. Put your crust ingredients in a blender. Blend it until you get a crumbly dough texture
3. Lightly grease a pie baking dish and put the dough in it. Firmly press the dough to completely and evenly cover the surface of the entire pan.
4. Put the crust in the oven for about 15 minutes. Let it began to turn golden brown.
5. While the crust is cooking, put the milk in a small pot and bring it to a simmer.
6. Once the it starts to simmer take if off the heat right away and pour the chocolate into the pot. Mix it until completely melted. This is your filling.
7. Once the crust is ready take it out of the oven, pour your filling into the crust.
8. Put the pie in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
9. Put frozen cranberries in the oven. Bake for about 10 minutes. Once the berries have started to soften take them out the oven and put them in the fridge as well for about 1 hour.
10. Once the crust and filling is nice and solid and the berries are nice and cool, pour them on top of your chocolate filling.

With mouth-watering recipes like this, no one would ever feel like they were missing out. Paleo Diet recipes make it easy for you to incorporate a healthy diet into your life without ever feeling deprived or bored.

Since we have to eat right to take care of our bodies, we may as well enjoy doing it....right

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How Much Fat Do I Need in My Diet?

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Believe it or not, fat is essential for good nutrition.  There are components in some fats known as essential fatty acids.  They are essential to our good health.  At times people have tried to follow extremely low fat diets in attempts to lose weight, and suffered deficiency symptoms such as scaly, dried skin and thinning, falling hair.   Fat is also necessary in our body to keep our temperature controlled, pad our organs from shock, and serve as a back-up for times we may require extra calories.  Unfortunately, most Americans get far too much of it in our diets and this can contribute to obesity and other problems.  So what's the right amount and how can we get enough without getting too much?

How Much Fat Do I Need in My Diet?

The amount of fat you really need per day is quite low--only about 10 or 20 grams.  Recommended guidelines for dietary fat restrict total fat to 30% or less of your daily calories.  If you follow an 1800 calorie diet, for example, this means no more than 600 calories should be from fat.  There are 9 calories per gram of fat, so dividing 600 (calories) by 9 (calories/gram), we find the suggested dietary fat content to be about 66 grams per day.  Saturated fat should compose less than 10% of the calories, or in this case, 20 grams.

It's not difficult to keep the fat in your diet under 30% if you eat a diet composed largely of grains, fruits, vegetables, lowfat dairy products, and lean meats and fish.  Keeping the fat intake low becomes very difficult if you include high fat meats (like hot dogs, bacon, sausage, or bologna); if you eat fried foods (donuts, fried chicken, french fries, onion rings); if you indulge in desserts (such as pies, cakes, most cookies, chocolate bars, regular ice cream or milkshakes); or if you add fat to your food (in the form of salad dressing, butter or margarine, mayonnaise, sour cream, etc).  To keep the fat in your diet to a reasonable level, consider reducing the high fat foods you eat listed above (high fat meats, desserts, fried foods, and spreads).   A reasonable serving of meat is 3-4 ounces, about the size of a deck of cards.  And we really can get enough fat in our diet without frying foods or adding mounds of butter and other sauces.

People who are in danger of not getting adequate amount of fat usually have very restrictive diets. They look for ways to reduce their fat intake by buying "low fat" varieties of any food they can; they avoid even healthy fats such as nuts, olive oil, and avocados; they never add oil or spreads to any food.  Often they are trying to lose weight; sometimes they believe they are eating healthy by limiting their diet severely to just a few types of fruits, vegetables and grains; occasionally they are suffering from an eating disorder such as anorexia.

Fats are essential in our diets and in our bodies.  Cases are rare, but do exist, when people suffer essential fatty acid deficiency.  But most often, too much fat is consumed in the American diet.  Take  a good look at the foods you're eating and pay attention to the fat content on the food labels (how many grams there are in a serving--not what the front of the label advertises as "30% less fat"--that doesn't tell you what you need to know).  Avoid eating fatty and fried foods if you are eating heart-healthy or trying to lower your weight or your blood cholesterol.  We do need fat in our diet, but remember we rarely need more than 10 or 20 grams.  Aim for less than 30% of your calories from fat and you'll be getting just the right balance for your best health.

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Atkins Vs Paleo - What Works and What Doesn't

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Recently I've seen a lot of websites and books make comparisons between the Paleo Diet and the Atkins diet. "It's like Atkins," they say, "but you can eat fruit!" I understand that a lot of people in our community are trying to convert non-believers from other diets. And I understand that having someone make the switch from Atkins to Paleo probably isn't much of a stretch. But in my opinion, trying to say the Atkins Diet is like the Paleo Diet doesn't do the Paleo Diet any favors and ignores the key concepts of the diet. It's really not like the Atkins Diet at all.

Atkins Vs Paleo - What Works and What Doesn't

The Atkins Diet is NOT the Paleo Diet

The Atkins Diet, for most people, is not a life-long endeavor. It's not a lifestyle. It's a way to cut weight by keeping your carbohydrates as close to zero as possible. I recently spoke to someone that mentioned she was going to do Atkins (again) because she was happy with her weight loss in Phase 1. And Phase 1 is understandably where most people fall off the Atkins wagon. Nobody wants to eat bacon and sausage every day of their life because eating a grape fruit would send their body out of ketosis and kill their weight loss.

The Paleo Diet isn't based on counting carbohydrates, or grams of fat, or even calories. It is based on the principle that you should eat what our ancestors ate. And that's it. Our ancestors didn't eat pre-packaged, sodium-rich "meat products" -- they ate MEAT. While these meat-products are fine on the Atkins diet as long as they don't add to your carbohydrate count, someone following a paleolithic lifestyle would assuredly pass on them. Our ancestors didn't eat Whole Grain Wheat toast or "Heart-Healthy" Cheerios, they ate wholesome vegetables, fruits, and nuts.

There is no induction phase for the Paleo Diet.

You don't lose weight rapidly for 2 weeks and then plateau off.Weight loss with paleo happens all the time throughout the course of your life until you reach your ideal body weight. Eating natural foods, you will find it extremely hard to reach enough calories to gain any weight and the closer you are to your ideal weight, the less calories your body will need to consume, the less you will eat.

Foods that are calorie dense (such as meats) will keep you full for hours, making you eat less of them. Between meals you can snack on fruits and vegetables that provide essential nutrients and vitamins but won't pack on the calories. Some vegetables and most fruits are severely limited or banned on the Atkins diet because of their natural carbohydrates.

In my experience on the Atkins Diet, there was never really a time that I didn't crave cakes, or sweets, or fruit. I tried to block them out. I tried to get my mind off of them. But I always wanted them.

On the Paleo Diet you don't miss out on the sweet taste of fruit -- because you can eat as much of it as you want. You don't miss eating cakes because you can make your own cakes without wheat flour. Pizza? You can eat that, too, as long as you make it yourself using natural ingredients. The best part of Paleo is the community. If you have a craving for something, you can be sure that someone else has made a paleo variation of it and posted it on the internet.

In the first four months after starting the Paleolithic Diet, I had lost over 40lbs and my wife had lost over 50lbs, eating delicious food that we wanted to eat.

The Paleo Diet is for Designed for Your Health

While the Atkins diet may be healthier for you than eating a bag of Doritos, you're still loading your body with unnatural preservatives, sodium, and other industrial garbage while never really getting the essential nutrients your body needs to thrive.

There is anecdotal evidence that the Paleo Diet treats or can even cure illnesses like cancer, Rheumatoid arthritis, Multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease and adult onset (Type 2) diabetes.

In my own case, the Paleo Diet cured me of GERD and allowed me to stop taking all of my prescribed medications.

Conclusion

As you can see, the Paleo Diet and the Atkins Diet are two diametrically opposed diets. They may be similar in that they both condone eating meat, but that's really where the similarities end, as each diet comes to that conclusion through vastly different philosophies. Based on my own experiences with both diets, I choose the Paleo Diet for Life.

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Foods That Help Indigestion

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Our lifestyles seem to have taken on an ever increasing pace of activity, we all seem to be working harder and longer hours, rushing our meals absorbing the stresses of the world and are therefore suffering from heartburn and indigestion in far greater numbers.

Foods That Help Indigestion

Though there are many different potential causes of indigestion. The main culprit responsible for most cases of indigestion is our frantic lifestyle and behavioral choices. These factors are ones that can be controlled and changed-that is, once they have been identified.

By identifying foods that help to relieve heartburn, as well as those foods that cause indigestion, you will be able to make healthier choices that will lead us to prevention of the on set of heartburn.

Which Foods Help Indigestion?

There are certain foods that help indigestion. Eating these foods can not only help , but they can also prevent it before it occurs. Dairy products, such as milk and yogurt, are known for being foods that help indigestion. Mixing honey in your milk can also prevent symptoms of indigestion.

Neutral Foods

Some foods are neutral in terms of indigestion-they don't contribute to it, but they don't protect against it either. Examples of such foods include: apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, peas, skinless chicken, extra-lean ground beef, London Broil, low-fat soy cheese, feta or goat cheese, fat-free sour cream, corn bread, pretzels, graham crackers, rice cakes, multi-grain or white bread, baked potato chips, licorice, and jelly beans.

Foods That Promote Indigestion

While there are some foods that help , there are also other foods that only contribute to it. Knowing which foods cause this problem is perhaps even more important than knowing which foods help indigestion, because being aware of the foods that contribute to it means that it will be easier for you to avoid them or replace them with more suitable foods.

Here is a list of foods that are known to contribute towards producing indigestion.

It is important to avoid coffee, tea, sodas, and other caffeinated or carbonated drinks. Additionally, citrus fruits and juices are known to cause indigestion due to their acidity. Alcohol, tobacco, chocolate, peppermint, pickled foods, tomatoes, tomato-related products, and all fried or fatty foods can be linked to indigestion.

Though these foods are the most common culprits , everyone is different and thus might have a different food that triggers this problem within them. Listen to what your body is telling you-if you experience symptoms of indigestion after eating a certain food, then you should avoid that food in the future.

No More Excuses

Modern lifestyle makes it too easy to indulge in the wrong foods, but knowing what role different foods play in your diet can be eye opening for most of us. For those who have ignored the health consequences of their poor food choices, knowing about foods that help and foods that cause indigestion means that they have no more excuses to live an unhealthy life and therefore suffering from the pains of heartburn.

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Coconut Cream And Its Health Benefits

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People generally use coconut cream in curries, desserts and cakes. That's because it enhances the aroma and tastes of the dishes and you can obtain it easily and cheaply from your nearby supermarket or grocery store. However, few people ever realize how coconut cream benefits their health greatly which leads to many avoiding it like a plague due to its high saturated fat content. Especially for those who want to lose weight.

Coconut Cream And Its Health Benefits

But do you know that coconut cream actually carries good saturated fat that benefits your health and weight loss by easily converting to energy as soon as your body absorbs it, just like what your body does on carbohydrate? In other words, it doesn't transform into bad cholesterol which clogs up your arteries and triggers heart problems and stroke. Most importantly, it doesn't cause weight gain as easily as what most people think.

Its lauric acid content (which scientists and researchers found in human breast milk) also helps you fight intrusive viruses, bacteria, promote normal brain development and contribute to healthy bones. And its anti-carcinogenic and anti-pathogenic properties can keep cancer at bay too. So, how can anyone deny coconut cream's health benefits when it actually gives you so much powerful protection?

But don't get me wrong. I'm not asking you to indulge in this healthful yummy cream. You take too much of it, like any other health foods, you'll still heap on excess calories and gain weight as a result. So it's alright to consume in moderation in order to reap its health benefits without getting its disadvantages.

Speaking of disadvantages, coconut cream / milk turns sour easily, so make sure you refrigerate it once opened and right after use. Try to finish up the cream / milk within a few days in less than a week - best, used it asap. The longer it stays unused though in the fridge, it'll still turn rancid.

Although freezing may not necessarily curdle the cream / milk (depending on the quality), I advise you to avoid freezing it as far as possible because if it does curdle, cooking with it will give whatever dishes an unappealing, curdled appearance.

I always go with advices and methods to reap coconut cream's health benefits as best as I can without compromising its flavor and appearance on the dishes. If you can't make your dishes look appealing, you simply won't have the appetite to eat it, let alone absorbing whatever health benefits coconut cream can bring you, agree?

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Carbohydrate Sensitivity Explored - Another National Epidemic

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If you've ever heard someone say they are a carbohydrate addict, they probably aren't far off the mark. Carbohydrate sensitivity is a relatively new phenomenon, in terms of it being the national epidemic that it is. With the increasing consumption of packaged, refined and sweetened foods over the past decades, there has been a corresponding decrease in whole, unprocessed foods. Eating a diet consisting of heavily refined foods, which includes a high-carbohydrate content, will cause you to gain weight and eventually develop carbohydrate sensitivity.

Carbohydrate Sensitivity Explored - Another National Epidemic

This carbohydrate-craving trend most likely occurred from decades of misconceptions about diet as well as through misleading advertising and diet fads. Consider this: we are eating over twelve times the amount of sugar our great grandparents were consuming in the early part of the century. That's roughly equivalent to 160 pounds of sugar per person per year. Now, imagine filling up your living room or garage with those 160 of those one pound packages you buy at the grocery store-really get a mental picture of it. Let's say you don't eat as much as others, and cut it in half. It's still a hefty pile, isn't it? You see, most people have no idea that they're eating so much sugar. Much of it is hidden in processed foods as well as their beverages.

Chalk it up to a lack of relevant health education by our government, or just a lack of impetus on the part of individuals to do their own research, but whatever the cause of this health crisis, the bottom line is this. Sugar is lethal in large doses. It may not kill you the way heroin might in a single overdose, but its chronic strain on the pancreas and the body will trigger diseases that will most certainly destroy you. Before it does that though, eaten out of moderation sugar will first cause you to become overweight.

Inside the body, carbohydrates are converted to glucose (sugar). Translated, that means carbohydrates equal sugar, and for those of you who are already overweight, those complex carbohydrates will also be stored as fat. This is called carbohydrate sensitivity. I know-- it's not fair! But here are the facts: your body isn't supposed to eat all the sweet stuff you've put into it, and if you are sensitive to carbs, it means your body has gotten out of whack.

What is Carbohydrate Sensitivity?

Carbohydrate sensitivity is connected to the pancreas and insulin production, but I'll get to that a little later. Here's a number to shake you up. Did you know that up to 40% of a person's carbohydrate intake during a meal can be converted and stored as fat? Multiply that times a few meals a day, and you see the outcome: a bulging waistline. The problem with a high-carbohydrate diet is that it's devastating to your natural metabolic processes.

This means that when you become carbohydrate sensitive, your body can no longer burn fat effectively, and those moderate to low-glycemic and complex carbohydrates get stored as fat. Many people walk around completely unaware that they're metabolically challenged from their carbohydrate intake. I know that I was completely ignorant for years, which was at least partly due to my misconception that I had to be overweight to be carbohydrate sensitive. Wrong. I was just extremely active and things looked all right on the outside. Slowly but surely, I'd reach for the carb every time over the protein.

I was carbohydrate addicted. The beginning of my real education on the subject and my change in diet was when I learned about insulin in the body and a low-glycemic approach to eating.

Insulin Loves Glucose

Before you start yawning and think, oh boy, now it's getting technical and here's where I sign off, please don't! Learning about the glucose-insulin response just might change your life.

Your hormone insulin really loves glucose. Inside your body, glucose is a byproduct of carbohydrate breakdown. When you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks it down into a form of sugar called glucose. Now I'll keep it simple here for the layman.

Insulin is like an escort. It escorts the sugar into your muscle cells, where it's then used to produce energy. We need energy, so we can thank both insulin and glucose for their terrific partnership-that is, when they have a normal relationship.

Now, complex carbohydrates make the insulin release more slowly from the pancreas, which is what you want. You want a slow courtship of insulin and glucose. Let's say you eat simple sugars or highly processed foods containing sugar. Those carbohydrates break down very fast into glucose. What happens then is that insulin levels rise rapidly in order to escort more glucose into the tissues and your bloodstream is quickly bombarded with excess insulin. If you didn't understand how it works before this, can you see how that this kind of chronic situation in the body will absolutely lead to diabetes? Remember, diabetes spares no one when it comes to diet and lifestyle induced diabetes.

Your body can normally handle occasional overloads of simple carbohydrates and store them as extra glucose, rather than fat. But many people have abused their systems for so long-through simply eating too many refined carbohydrates or living with other problematic factors such as chronic stress-that their bodies start to work against nature. Essentially, their once normal and healthy metabolism begins to malfunction, and their compromised bodies store carbohydrates as fat instead of burning glucose for energy.

Once you've become carbohydrate sensitive it tends to go downhill. Even a balanced meal of chicken or pork, some potatoes or bread, and a nice array of vegetables don't get metabolized correctly. This kind of meal in and of itself shouldn't be fattening. However, you can become so sensitive to the bread and the potatoes in your meal that you will deposit even the carbohydrates and protein as body fat. And if you eat a piece of bread or a small plate of pasta, your body will send your insulin levels soaring, reacting as strongly as if you had eaten a piece of cake.

To add insult to injury, your intake of sugar also raises your cholesterol. Now, you can understand why so many people struggle to lose weight and promote better health, even when they switch to a "healthier" diet.

Other Factors Triggering Carbohydrate Sensitivity

Lack of exercise

Glucose is stored in the muscles, and if you have a low percentage of muscle and a high percentage of fat-where can glucose go? One of the most important things you can do to overcome this sensitivity is to change your body composition by exercising. This will preserve and enhance lean muscle mass which will help lower your body fat and raise your metabolism.

Chronic Stress

Our bodies deal with stress by raising cortisol levels, a hormone secreted from our adrenal glands. This, in turn, triggers the release of glucose from its "storage "depots" and into the bloodstream. Insulin levels also increase so glucose (which you remember is dearly loved by insulin) can be escorted from the blood to those working muscles that need it for energy.

But when stress is constant, high glucose and insulin are also constant. Being under acute stress is the same as if you had eaten a piece of cake--and experiencing chronic anxiety and stress is like eating cake all day long. The result is insulin resistance inside the insulin receptors on the cells-they simply don't recognize insulin anymore. The escort glucose might as well be an imposter now.

To add insult to injury even further, stress spikes insulin levels as if we ate the cake, and then we do eat cake--giving the insulin response system a double whammy.

Serotonin Hormone

Serotonin, one of your brain's central neurotransmitters, is involved in regulating your appetite and hunger. If you have too little serotonin, you will crave carbohydrates and feel depressed. Increasing your serotonin blunts your yen for carbohydrates. Serotonin is also a mood regulator and increases your sense of well-being. Not surprisingly, when this hormone is stimulated you eat less, gain less, and burn more calories.

How Do You Know if You're Carbohydrate Sensitive?

If you're a woman, the odds are you'll become carbohydrate sensitive sooner and more easily than a man will. While men tend to use carbohydrates for energy, women tend to store them as fat. This is especially true as women age. Menopausal women tend to be more prone: they don't have enough estrogen stores to deal with cortisol and its tendency to make the body store fat. It's just female biology.

Factors That Might Indicate Carbohydrate Sensitivity

--You crave carbohydrates

--You are overweight or obese

--You don't exercise very much or at all

--You're a woman and over forty

--You suffer from chronic or bouts of depression and compulsive overeating (serotonin or other neurotransmitter imbalance, possibly)

--You have been over-stressed for some time

--You are hormonally challenged and under a doctor's care

--You react negatively to eating sugar, i.e., you become tired, groggy, and your mental response becomes sluggish

--You reach for carbohydrates over protein most or all of the time

--Your diet doesn't consist mostly of whole foods, especially low to moderate glycemic foods

If you identify with the signs, consider that you might have a problem, but don't despair. I promise you can learn how to stop this heart-breaking cycle and get off the carbohydrate-sugar rollercoaster forever.

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5 Simple & Delicious Alkaline Recipes

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It is essential for us to consume large amounts of alkalizing foods. These foods help keep the ph level of the body balanced and so the body stays disease free. The general idea is to consume plenty of fruits and vegetables as opposed to meats and oils. Here are 5 simple alkaline recipes to take note of. They are simple and nutritious.

5 Simple & Delicious Alkaline Recipes

The first of the various alkaline and beneficial recipes that we shall discuss is gluten free pumpkin bread. Take a small pumpkin and bake it whole in the oven till it is completely soft. Cool, peel and mash the pumpkin and add it to 300 gm of gluten free flour, 2 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp Italian seasoning. Knead adding a little water if necessary. Make small cakes and bake for half an hour. This recipe will do wonders for your health. Moreover it tastes good too.

The list of recipes that are alkaline continues and now we have a great one which doubles as a liver cleanser. Take two large grape fruits and 4 lemons. Squeeze their juice. Add water, some garlic and ginger grated juice, two tablespoons of UDO's choice and one of acidophilus. Mix and have as a refreshing drink. This is one of the simplest of the alkaline recipes and is great to have after a good work out.

The list of alkaline recipes continues with a lovely alkaline vegetable broth. Take two carrots, two celery tops, two beetroots, two cups water, three cups celery stock, one zucchini and 2 cups of peeled red potatoes. Wash thoroughly and boil and then simmer for about half an hour. The best of these recipes is ready to consume right after straining it.

The miso soup is an ideal way to have miso, which is a highly alkalizing food. Alkaline recipes are all healthy and low of fat. So having them means you kill two birds with one stone. Not only does one shed those unwanted pounds but also gain good health. Take 2 tsp of Miso and add it to some water. Bring to a boil adding iodine sea salt to taste. This one of the alkaline recipes is ideal for a cold winter day.

Another great pick from the basket of alkaline recipes is the green salad. Take a few salad leaves, some chopped cabbage, a small chopped onion and a large tomatoes. Mix all the vegetables adding a bit of vinegar for taste and throwing in some oregano and some tofu or boiled chicken breast pieces. Of all the alkaline recipes this one is definitely my favorite. Not only is it a nice tasting filling meal but also keeps my energy level high though the day.

There are many alkaline recipes to be found in various books and on the net. Just take your pick of a few and incorporate them in your diet plan. You will see the wonders it does for your health and your skin and hair shall have a shining glow on them.

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A List of Nutrisystem Foods Which I Think Taste the Best

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I recently received an email where the person asked me if I could help her decide which Nutrisystem foods to pick for her monthly package. She had decided to go for the custom menu which allowed her to hand pick which foods she wanted. This can be a great option because it doesn't cost anymore and it ensures that you're getting foods that you're going to like. But on a first order, it can be tough to pick what are the best tasting foods. So, in the following article, I'll list what are (at least in my opinion) the best foods on this menu.

A List of Nutrisystem Foods Which I Think Taste the Best

The Nutrisystem Breakfast Foods That I Like Best: Actually, there are not many of the diet's breakfast foods that aren't tasty. You really can't go wrong here no matter what you chose. It's pretty hard to mess up breakfast food and they do a decent job. But my favorites are all of the muffins (particularly the blueberry,) the pancakes, and the cereals. Most all of the cereals are good, but I've been known to sweeten them with stevia since it has no calories and isn't metabolized like sugar.

My favorite cereal is probably the sweetened o's right now. They're a lot like cheerios but they are a bit sweeter and I don't need to add anything to them. The egg frittata is also good but I actually eat it for lunch much more often than I eat it for breakfast. I sometimes put in a tostata for a wrap.

The Best Nutrisystem Lunches: I know that a lot of people really like the Nutrisystem soups, but I'm just not a soup person in general. I probably have these 1 - 2 times per week, but I don't think that I'd enjoy them every day. I really like the pastas though like the cheese tortellini, the pasta Parmesan, the fettuccine Alfredo, and the three cheese pasta with chicken. I also like the hot dog and the chicken salad.

My Favorite Nutrisystem Dinners: In my opinion, the dinners are mostly better than the lunches. The portions are a bit larger. There is more variety and the taste of most of these is quite good. As examples, I like the ravioli, the macaroni and cheese, the lasagne, the wraps, the pizza, the risotto, the sloppy joes, the Swedish meatballs, and the pepper steak.

Almost All Of The Nutrisystem Desserts And Snacks Are Good: Like the breakfast, nearly all of the snacks and desserts are good. I particular like the crunch bars because they have the taste and texture (somewhat) of a candy bar. I like the nutrichocolates and the cookie patty which reminds me of girl scout cookie thin mints. You can't go wrong with any of the cookies and cakes. And the pretzels and buffalo wing chips are my favorite snacks.

The Best Of The Best: Nutrisystem Select Foods: If you're looking for the absolutely best tasting choices on this diet, that's going to be the select plan. Most of these entrees are frozen and they are supposed to be restaurant quality. They cost a little more but the food really is very good and many people feel that the added expense is worth the cost in terms of user experience.

The french toast and the omelets are the breakfast standouts. The chicken fajita, the meatball and Philly cheese steak sandwiches are great lunch choices (the select lunch really can be worth trying,) The glazed turkey, pepperoni pizza, and the shrimp Alfredo are nice dinner additions. And in desserts, you now have ice cream, fudge bars, and apple / cherry crisp.

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A Diet Review

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There are so many differing views on diets and the best way to lose weight that it is extremely confusing for many people. This article is an attempt to put the record straight regarding some popular myths about certain diets and to give a comparison of the merits of some of the more popular ones.

A Diet Review

The first major argument in dieting is low carbohydrates (carbs) versus low fats Which is the best route to follow ? After the second world war people generally began to be gradually better off financially and were able to buy more food and a greater variety of food. As time progressed it seemed that many people in the western world were getting too fat for their own good and people looked for ways to reduce their weight. It seemed perfectly reasonable to many that eating too much fat was the cause of storing fat in the body and hence of putting on weight. This view was adhered to for many years and there were a lot of diets recommending cutting down your consumption of fats. Rosemary Conley's diet ideas were based largely on this premise after her own success with weight loss by cutting out fat for medical reasons. Many people have loss weight this way but it may well be that part of their success is due to their cutting down total food intake and not just changing the relative amounts of fat or carbohydrates in their diet. Cutting down on total calorie input is generally agreed to be appropriate for many people these days, and coupled with some increase in exercise, a factor stressed by Rosemary Conley, will certainly help achieve weight loss.

The general idea of reducing fat in the diet was challenged of course by Dr Atkins who saw evidence of people on a relatively high fat but low carb diet being able to lose weight. This diet became very popular for a while but was then criticised by some as being unhealthy and then lost favour. The reason it was criticised seems to be based on some misunderstanding of metabolism. When the body changes from what we know as a normal diet ( this is in fact a relatively high carb diet) to a low carb/high fat diet the body's metabolism undergoes changes to deal with this. The fact is that the body is quite capable of using fat as an energy source instead of carbohydrate without suffering any ill effects. Populations of Eskimos managed to stay energetic and healthy over many generations on a diet consisting of mainly seal and whale meat and blubber.

When little carbohydrate is consumed the body's metabolism gradually alters to allow for fat to be converted, producing ketone bodies and energy for use by the body. This causes a ketosis, i.e. a raised blood level of ketones, the excess of which is converted to acetone and excreted from the body in the breath and urine. There is no evidence that this type of metabolism leads to muscle loss as some have suggested. The muscle tissue of the body is not affected. There is simply a change to a slightly alternative metabolic pathway taking place. The body is able to synthesize glucose for use by brain and red blood cells.

If you are going to lose weight you will need almost certainly to reduce your calorie input one way or another and it probably does not matter too much if you reduce fat intake or carbohydrate intake or both, so long as your diet is reasonably varied to make sure you get all necessary nutrients. A certain amount of fat is required by the body for normal function, and, some vitamins and minerals are fat soluble and need fat to be ingested for their transport.

Carbohydrates, on the other hand are a lot less necessary, and some might say not necessary at all, at least not in refined form. Refined carbohydrates are notorious for causing rapid blood sugar spikes that can put a strain on the body's insulin/glucose regulatory system. If you are going to eat some carbohydrate as most of us do, then it's best to eat it in the from of natural foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and beans, rather than processed foods.

So, what diets are available today? Amongst the many there are the following and I'll make brief comments about each:

Low fat diets such as Rosemary Conley Reasonable in that it encourages the consumption of healthy foods such as lean meat and fish, fruit and vegetables, wholemeal bread and some dairy products whilst disallowing unhealthy foods such as cakes, biscuits, fried chips and pies. It might not actually lose you weight unless you confine yourself to sensible portions and take plenty of exercise.

Atkins Diet Again this approach is perfectly reasonable and works for many. You can eat a lot of different foods that might be thought fatty, but it's still best to eat healthy fats, rather more fish and nuts than meat, and you still need to eat fruit and vegetables, which although carbohydrate based, are good carbs full of fibre and nutrients.

The South Beach Diet. This is a sensible diet which favours low fat and low carbohydrate intake. It advocates the natural approach to eating, avoiding too much in the way of processed foods. It might be alittle too restrictive for some on a long term basis.

The Paleo or Caveman Diet This focusses on natural foods also, - fish, vegetables, lean meat, roots and nuts. It does not allow consumption of salt, refined sugars, dairy products, grains or oils. This again, although healthy enough is much too restrictive for most.

Fat Loss For Idiots This diet plan although popular does not seem to adequately explain how weight loss is to be achieved. It talks about "calorie shifting" which "tricks" the body to burn fat. Substituting one type of calorie food for another does not seem in itself sufficient to alter the body's metabolism as far as I can see. The body will consume calories in whatever form they are presented. A calorie reduction is necessary to lose weight.

The Zone Diet This is a balanced nutrition approach that supposedly controls the hormones in your body, and keeps them within the "Zone". It's a sensible diet that encourages eating plenty of fish and fish oils to get the important omega 3s, together with a balanced diet of about 40% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 30% protein. This is a perfectly good diet for anyone but probably needs to be combined with exercise to actually lose significant weight.

Strip That Fat This diet plan does its best to rubbish all the fad diets and the weight loss gimmicks. It points out that unrealistic goals and unsustainable diets are the reason that most people fail to lose weight. This is a sensible plan based on sound principles and includes an ongoing program. It centres around good nutrition and healthy eating habits, showing what's good to eat and what is not.. It is not an extreme low fat or low carbohydrate diet, and as such is suitable for virtually anybody and therefore recommended.

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How Can Sugar Be Good For You?

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So how can sugar be good for you? We all know that we are suppose to avoid eating sugary sweets. But there are different kinds of sugar that can benefit us and should be included in our diets.

How Can Sugar Be Good For You?

Basically there are two kinds; refined sugar and natural sugar. Natural sugar is found in fruits, some vegetables, and some other whole foods. This kind of sugar is great for fueling the body. Sugar is known to give us that jittery feeling known as the "sugar high". It like is when a kid has a bowl of sugary cereal for the first time and ends up going crazy. Sugar makes us want run around. If you work out then you can use it as your advantage to get some energy. However I am not saying to have a bowl of sugar loaded cereal before going for a jog. I am saying that refined sugar should be avoided while the natural kind found mostly in fruits supply our bodies with the best kind of sugar. Refined sugar is more processed and ends up turning into fat.

That also explains why many people eat fruit instead of cake and ice cream when dieting. It is to satisfy the sugary craving. I think everyone has a sugar tooth to some degree. So the point is that you should have the natural kind of sugar before you workout or earlier in the day so you burn it off going through the daily activities. You may have a sugary sweet from time to time but have it early in the day so you are more likely to burn it off.

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