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Accelerate Your Weight Loss Naturally With Healthy Food

With a proper exercise plan and good diet, anyone can achieve weight loss. However, if you want to accelerate your weight loss, try out these metabolism boosting and healthy food. These foods are easy to work into your daily diets!

1. Apples – Apples are fiber right and they force your body to burn off more calories by digesting it. They also help to keep you full for a longer period of time.

2. Beans – Beans are not only rich in fibre, but also in protein. The protein provides for muscle creation and repair after your workouts.

3. Broccoli – Broccoli is rich is calcium, easy to cook, and great tasting. It is also a negative calorie food, which burns more calories digesting it than the amount of calories it contains.

4. Chilli and Pepper – Spicy stuff like chilli and peppers cause your internal body temperature to rise, increasing metabolism.

5. Grapefruit – Grapefruits are sour, but tasty. Studies show that grapefruits have a great impact on your insulin levels, and they cause fat not to be stored by your system, but burned.

6. Oatmeal – Great for starting the day and very easy to prepare, oatmeal is an excellent high fibre source.

7. Salmon – Salmon is a great source of Omega 3 which is a wonder, known to increase immunity, create better brain health, prevent cardiovascular diseases, and even prevent cancer.

8. Soup – Having a nice bowl of healthy clear soup before a meal causes you to feel full, and thereby eating less during the actual meal.

9. Water – Water is the most magical liquid in the universe. It is the only substance in the world that your body does not have to “process” before allowing into your system. Having 8 to 10 glasses of clear water is essential not only for weight loss, but for good health.

Start eating (and drinking) these healthy foods as part of your diet today. Consistently done, and coupled with a proper exercise regime, you are guaranteed to take inches off your waist!…

Healthy Eating For Finicky Kids

One of the greatest dilemmas of parents are growing finicky eaters. Yes, growing-they are and therefore they need the best nutrition they could get to support every single cell which are hopefully, happy.

So how do you motivate your darling little monsters to eat smart? A very good question indeed, as most parents still mistake “eating right” with “eating a lot”. And this should not be so.

Here are some helpful tips to get picky toddlers to enjoy healthy food and in time develop a well-rounded diet:

* The best probable way to introduce new, healthy food to children would be showing them that you, yourself take delight in devouring such food. As known to most, children are very fond of imitating what elders often do, so having regular family meals is a great way to train children to start eating right.

* Aside from serving healthy food at the dining table, parents should also consider stocking up healthy food. As kids, specially younger ones, would consume what they would find readily available at home, keeping healthy goodies like yogurt, peanut butter, fruits, whole-grain crackers and cereals, cheese, etc. would prompt children to take on them.

* Creativity and Participation. Be more creative in preparing meals. Create interesting shapes, choose more colorful fruits or veggies, use celeries as edible spoons, and the list of fun things for kids goes on, let your imagination run wild. It would also be delightful for kids to be helping out in the actual preparation of meals and surely make them anxious to take on something that they themselves made.

* When introducing vegetables to children, be patient and never battle over food. Out of good intentions, some parents try to bargain healthy meals by reward schemes or bribes. It is not good to make children eat healthy food because there would be some treats afterward. Eating healthy should be established as something pleasurable and eventually a routine.

* For stubborn kids, continually offer healthy meals and gently encourage them to take one bite. If they don’t like it, do not force them. Stopping at the first bite would make food tasting less scary for them.

* And when all else fails, get sneaky. Bake carrot cakes, zucchini breads. Turn fruits and vegetables into frothy smoothies or shakes. Top meals with sliced fruits or shaved vegetables.

And a very important point that parents should keep in mind is that, the battle should be with bad nutrition and not with your kids. Don’t be resentful and make your kids feel guilty out of not wanting the healthy food that you have been preparing. As with most anything in life, patience is your key to successfully enticing kids to eat healthy.…

Two Healthy Breakfasts With Quinoa

Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. It is our first jolt of nourishment that will power us throughout the first hours of our days.

Whether your morning is filled with office meetings, heavy construction work or daily house work, what you first eat when you first wake up will help you with your duties.

A problem with breakfasts that are high in sugar and other non-nutritious ingredients is the energy crash and hunger you feel within a few hours of eating breakfast. This effect can be a detriment to your job or morning plans.

Making new breakfast meals with healthy ingredients are a fun and interesting way to not only fuel your body for the day ahead but also learn about new flavors, tastes and foods.

Quinoa: The Healthiest Grain

Quinoa (pronounced Keen-Wa) is a grain that is native of South America and was a staple of the diet of the Inca’s. It is considered the most nutritious of all the grains because it is high in fiber, contains all eight of the essential amino acids and is a great source of iron.

Quinoa cooks just like any other rice; just put it in a pot with water and boil. Once it is cooked, you can keep a healthy portion in your refrigerator for future breakfasts.

Its nutty flavor makes it a perfect choice for cereal and a simple breakfast by mixing it up with some crushed almonds, fruit such as a banana or some blueberries and a small bit of 100% natural maple syrup.

Egg Breakfast with Quinoa

Because of its nutritious properties, look and texture, quinoa is the perfect substitute for rice (even brown rice) and pasta.

You might be curious why the preceding statement is in an article about breakfast. After all, how many rice dishes do you eat for breakfast?

If you have ever visited Honolulu, Hawai’i, you might have been exposed to a popular breakfast that includes white rice, sausage and eggs. While this dish is both filling and delicious, it is far from nutritious.

However, you can make a healthy version with a couple changes and substituting quinoa in for the rice.

Ingredients

A� cup of cooked quinoa

2 large eggs

Chicken Sausage (optional – Alfresco Country Style Chicken Sausage with a Hint of Sage and Thyme)

Cook the quinoa by the direction on the package

Cook one sausage link in a skillet and chop into fine pieces resembling ground beef

In a skillet prepare 2 large eggs the way you like them…

Healthy Food – It Does Not Have to Be Expensive

The simple definition of “healthy food” is food that has the nutrients we need to keep ourselves healthy. To have that outcome, we need to eat nutrient-rich foods that are high in anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals, not empty calories. Unfortunately, many people think that healthy food is too expensive for their families. Fortunately, that doesn’t need to be true.

The United States is a country of immigrants – almost all of the citizens of this country have fairly recent ancestors who came from somewhere else. One of the things many people leave behind when they come to our shores is basic, good-tasting, home-cooked meals based on high-value, unprocessed foods. Those of us whose ancestors were here before the Spanish and English reached our shores have an equally rich ancestral tradition of eating foods that keep kids and adults strong and fit. The traditional recipes were healthy, and usually cheap.

Then, along came sugar, processed foods, fast foods, and fry bread. Chips, French fries, hamburgers dripping in fat and surrounded by puffed white bread that offers no nutritional value. Boxed macaroni and cheese, instant noodles, lots and lots of pasta…. It all adds up to concentrated calories with little for the body to use to stay healthy.

So what’s a busy person to do? One reason processed foods and fast foods are purchased is because we all think we don’t have enough time to cook a real meal, so we buy foods that can be eaten right out of the bag or box. A lot of processed foods are made from corn or corn products, wheat products, and sugar, which are subsidized so they seem cheap – but they add to our medical bills by making us unhealthy.

Here’s how you can have quick, delicious meals on hand whenever your family gets hungry, without buying a pizza or heading to the burger joint: cook your mom’s favorite recipes on the weekend, put the meals in serving-sized containers, and pop them in the freezer.

If your mom wasn’t a great cook, just look online or in your own favorite cookbook for recipes that include lots of veggies, especially cabbage, kale and broccoli, which have now been shown to help give people some defense against diabetes, which is reaching epidemic proportions in this country. Hearty stews that have a bit of meat, or none at all, will go a long way towards filling empty stomachs. Water soups – soup recipes that don’t need canned chicken or beef broth to give them great flavor – are inexpensive and delicious, if you add all your favorite veggies, they don’t cost much, and you can always have some on hand.

When you walk down the frozen food aisle in your local supermarket, pass by the pre-cooked meals in those tiny packages, and head for the frozen veggie section instead. Vegetables in this section are almost always frozen and packaged just hours after they’ve been picked, so …