Archive for the ‘Healthy Tips’ Category

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 »

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 »

The Vegetable soup diet is one of the healthiest ways to reduce your weight. This diet is planned for seven days which is said to make you lose up to 15 pounds. Soup is a must for all days and everything else can be a variety. In this diet, you have to make sure the other food supplements will be high in fiber and low in fat.

It is best to avoid junk foods and alcohol-based beverages, bread and sugar as they may interfere with the expected results. Besides slimming you down, the goal of this type of diet is to influence your bowel movement and digestion process by the amount of fiber you are taking in. Continue Reading »

Fast food is very convenient, quick and sometimes, inexpensive. Say, you are in a rush to get to school or you have an early meeting. Instead of skipping breakfast, you can just buy some fast food, whether it’s in a the form of a drive-thru, a vending machine or 24-hour convenience stores, anything that’s a grab-and-go is fast food.

Fast foods contain what is called ‘trans fat’ or partially hydrogenated oils. These oils make your tummy bulge and with that, it may cause insulin resistance, which is an evidence of developing diabetes. To top it off, these are high in sugar and high in fat so it may cause additional problems to the body. Continue Reading »