Healthy Eating Tips

How do you define healthy cooking oils? If it is made from vegetables, is it considered healthy like the vegetables are? Technically no. What is labelled as vegetable oil sometimes ends up just being heavily refined soybean oil. In most instances, these oils end up not being the healthiest choice to make.

Oils such as cottonseed oil, corn oil and the like are mostly composed of polyunsaturated fats. These fats are highly reactive to heat and light. Since we consume them, they tend to be the reason why we get inflammatory internal problems such as heart disease, diabetes and other degenerative diseases. Continue Reading »

The heart is a very fragile muscle that is protected inside the rib cage. This muscle provides a continuous blood flow in the body. The heart health can be affected by exercise, diet and overall well-being that is why in America, heart disease is the number one cause of death.

High blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity risk the heart to attain a number of diseases. That is why people are starting to get diet conscious; what you eat is somewhat a life-or-death question when it comes to your heart. To avoid such predicaments, you must eat foods that have less saturated fat, less sugar, more fiber and less calorie count. Continue Reading »

Cholesterol is produced by our liver and is used to make some hormones and vitamin D. The liver produces 1,000 milligrams alone. Imagine adding some more cholesterol with the food you eat. But it is hard to avoid cholesterol since practically everything you eat has cholesterol.

There are two types of cholesterol. What you should be trying to fight off is the ‘bad cholesterol’ or LDL which stands for low density lipoprotein. Now, some foods have high fiber content and good fatty acids which can reduce your cholesterol count. Continue Reading »

Olive oil care has been around for over thousands of years and has been always used for skin care. It is hard to imagine that the great Cleopatra and her fellow Egyptians took advantage of this remedy to their skin problems. And it was not only the Egyptians who knew about the power of the olive; also the Greeks, Phoenicians and the Romans as well!

Olive oil has a lot of benefits. It will promote a smooth and radiant complexion, help maintain the elasticity of the skin, remedy those dry nails and condition and shine your hair! Olive oil has strong antioxidants like vitamins A and E which help repair and renew skin that has been damaged by overexposure under the sun, air pollution and any other modern day hazards. These antioxidants have the power to bring back the health to your skin. Continue Reading »

Raw food, when you first hear it, what comes to your mind is mostly fruits and vegetables. But that is not the case. Raw foods can come in forms of fruits and vegetables, meat, fish and cheese. Examples of these are sashimi, raw goat cheese, steak tartar, etc. These foods are already healthy but they will be healthier if they were organically grown.

What is more, they will have the same amount of nutrients they have when they were first harvested. Eating them raw, you would receive one hundred percent of the nutrients it has. When you fry, boil, grill, or cook the food in any way, the nutrients will be degraded and the enzymes that come with the food, which can help our body systems, would be destroyed. Continue Reading »