Sweet potatoes are healthier than the white kind, and this casserole recipe has even fewer calories than most. Amy Topel, the food columnist for National Geographic’s The Green Guide, shows you this easy recipe for how to make a healthier sweet potato casserole.
Olive oil has beneficial effects such as lowering blood pressure, inhibiting the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (the last step before it gets put into your arteries), providing anti-inflammatory effects, and improving insulin sensitivity.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given manufactures of olive oil and some olive oil-containing food the green light to carry a statement about their potential heart benefits. The claim indicates evidence suggesting that about 2 tablespoons of olive oil per day may reduce the risk of a heart attack. However, to achieve this result, the olive oil should replace a similar amount of saturated fat and should not increase the total daily calories.
The strong taste of extra-virgin olive oil is partially because of a large amount of “flavonoids”, which account for its antioxidant properties that then reduce LDL oxidation. Other foods rich in flavonoids include berries, apples, onions, tea, and red wine (all of which have also been shown to be of benefit in reducing the risk of heart attack/disease).
Eating soy foods can help you live longer. Although a few experts disagree with this, but I found this on the respected online sources show that traditional soyfoods, especially those with live cultures, correlate with reduced risks of several diseases without negative side effects. But the greatest benefit comes from using soy foods to replace a huge fraction of the diet that usually filled by high sources of saturated fats.
Don’t just add soy milk, soy shakes and soy based cream toppings to your diet. Instead, replace 40 to 60 percent of your red meats with tofu, miso, tempeh, edamame etc. Also use baked, broiled, or grilled chicken, fish, and other foods that are not fried.
Soy Beans are unique in the vegetable world, they provide all of the “essential” amino acids (proteins) and fatty acids that the human body can not produce, plus a number of “plant hormones” that protect against various ailments, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancers, memory loss, menopause, osteoporosis, PMS, stroke.
Whether it’s Atkins, Beach diet, or one of the many other low or no carb diets you are practicing, low carb food lists become necessary to living day-to-day with your diet.
Here are two low carb food lists that may help you achieve your weight loss goals and one low carb list that you can use to limit your carb intake.
Low Carb Food List No.1
Zuchini
Tomatoes
Apples
Peaches
Grapes
Salmon
Skim Milk
Shrimp
Nuts
Whole grain breads, low or no sugar
Low Carb Food List No.2
Carrots
Broccoli
Chicken (Skinless)
Turkey
Fresh trout
Tuna
Fat-free yogurt
Eggs
Olive Oil
Water
Foods With Higher Carbs
White bread
Breaded meats (chicken fingers, breaded fish)
Potatoes
Soft drinks
Fruit Drinks full of sugar
Pastries
Cookies
Bagels
Chips
By watching what you eat, placing more of your foods into the top two lists, you can move toward your rapid weight loss goals with ease.
Do you want know a hardcore diet to get lean in a matter of days? I’ve been told that this diet is used by bodybuilders to prepare before the competition. It requires an iron willpower but guarantees 100% results.
Here is how it works:
For kilogram calculation: (bodyweight * 3 * 100) / (6 * 26) = bodyweight * 300 / 156 = 1 tuna serving (in gram)
For pound calculation: bodyweight * 100 / 156 or bodyweight * 150 / 156 = 1 tuna serving (in gram)
Don’t think it’s an easy task, for beginners. I’d recomend to start the diet on friday evening after the work and keep it for two days ( in the weekend). The reason is that you usually can’t control the regular food eating habits very well during a workday as you work normally 4 hours or more, non stop and get only one break to eat. The two days diet is not as hard as the 3 or 4 days diet. If you can follow this diet for two days without any problems, then the next step is try to keep it for one or two days more, simple as that!
Stay focus and be aware of forbidden foods. Your energy levels may go down in the first day. And you may feel very weak as never before. But this is the time of your spirit to stay as hard as rock and keep to the diet! Your body will soon adapt and your energy will come back.