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Yes it’s that time of year again the festive period of cramming our faces full of food is nearly here, of course there is nothing wrong with the festive period whatsoever. We need to have a good time at some time of the year, relax and eat some food
But for those of us who may be watching what we are eating, or maybe you’re just interested in knowing how many calories there are in our festive munch. Here are a few items so you have some idea of what you may be eating.
It’s not too far off from the festive season, and as we all know one of the things that we tend to do at Christmas, is indulge in eating probably more food than we should do.
There is nothing wrong with that of course as it’s only once a year, but what exactly does eating like this do to our bodies? particularly our fat genes. Well according to a new recent report, foods that contain a lot of fat and sugar have the ability to turn on the fat storage genes on within our body.
This may be one of those questions that goes around in the health and food industry quite a lot. As to whether what you eat determines how you feel on a day-to-day basis. When people fail to eat certain types of foods they may suffer from the following problems feel stressed or anxious and suffer from depression.
Some people may seem to think it’s just pure coincidence about how they are feeling they may not be thinking any negative thoughts. But just feel stressed or depressed and don’t know why. One of the reasons could be a lack of essential vitamins and minerals. Or is there some other mechanism at work.
Sometimes it’s quite hard to know if you’re feeling down or up beat whether what you are eating is making you feel the way you are.
So this bit of research may help you to understand if you are feeling a bit under the weather and can’t understand why. A study, which was published in the archives of the publication Internal Medicine, looked at differences between people whom ate a low carb diet and a low-fat diet.
We tend to live in a society where we are brought up with set values and ways of doing things, I don’t know if you can remember this but when I was younger we used to have a milk break in the morning at school I think it was a thing that some schools did but I believe now it has been scrapped.
But milk however is one of those things that is part of our society and because of the way it is integrated into our lifestyles we very often don’t think about alternatives.
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Nuts do we really eat enough of them? I would say probably not, this is something that we probably indulge in especially in this country at Christmas time, even know you can buy nuts all year round. But today we are going to talk about a nut which you may not of heard of these particular nuts are called Macadamia Nuts.
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Following on from the post about breakfast, I thought it might be quite interesting to see what breakfasts other people eat and how long it keeps their hunger pangs at bay before they need anything else to eat.
Here is roughly what I eat breakfast on alternate days I don’t normally document what I eat each day, so this is just a day-to-day guide of what I eat.
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Are you one of those people that has a rushed breakfast in the morning, just literally anything you can find even if it is full of sugar and as a result of this your energy levels will come crashing down later on in the day making you feel hungry.
The Daily Mail did an experiment to see which breakfast would keep a person’s blood sugar levels consistent until dinner time and beyond.
Sugar is in quite a lot of foods these days that we buy which tend to processed foods mostly. The problem with sugar is it tends to act in your body as a storage mechanism, when your liver is full of something called glycogen the excess is stored as fat.
Think of sugar as a way of saying to your body “hey lets store that as fat we don’t need it now as your not exercising”.
This is why when you’re trying to lose weight cutting down on sugar is one of the things that you need to do, as well as the amount of calories that you are eating.
Here are some techniques you can use to cut your blood sugar levels down;
1. At a University in Ohio in the United States , they did a study on various snack bars, to see what effect they would have on blood sugar each of the bars had three different levels of carbohydrates high, medium and low.
During the course of the experiment the participants blood sugar had their blood sugar measured, and compared to when they ate white bread, their blood sugar levels were 71 percent lower. The three snack bars used were, advantage bar, power bar and balance bar.
So if you want a more healthy breakfast avoid having one with high sugar content, the lower the refined carbohydrates the better. Opt for something that has more fibre content as well, fibre helps to slow down the absorption of glucose within the body. So avoid marmalade on white toasted bread for breakfast.
2. Do you like eating salads? Then this will apply to you during a study conducted in 2005. Some Swedish scientists found that if you have vinegar, with the food that you eat it could decrease blood sugar significantly. They ate white bread firstly and later tested with adding vinegar.
It affected their sugar levels by 23 percent, compared to when they ate white bread with vinegar. So the thing to do is have some salad with vinegar with it, when you have a high content carbohydrate meal.
3. Research done in Taiwan , found that by taking a certain mineral namely glucomannan, which contains soluble fibre, this is made from a root of a Japanese plant called konjac root. Participants who ate the root two hours before having some white bread toasted, had their blood sugar measured the results were as follows. They had a 20 percent reduction compared to having none of the fibre.
Another finding was participants who had the supplement before every meal three times a day had lower cholesterol levels as well, if you need more information regarding this particular supplement. You will need to search for nature’s way glucomannan.
4. Do you drink lots of coffee, or anything that contains a lot of caffeine? Research done in Canada , which looked at people that drunk coffee. Found when the participants had one or two cups of coffee before a high carbohydrate meal. Had 16 percent higher blood sugar levels, in comparison to when they had a caffeine free type.
When you have caffeine without any sugar, but with a dough nut or some sweet treat. The caffeine affects how your body burns fat. So avoid having a high sugar content snack with your drink.
And if you have a drink with your breakfast don’t have white bread with toast and marmalade and a cup of coffee. Instead, have a piece of fruit or some high fibre cereal like porridge or oatmeal. This will work far better.
5. Researchers found that by taking a certain metal mineral, chromium picolinate. Had a profound effect on participants, whom had it with their food. When the men took a small amount of it, 400 micrograms. Before eating a high carbohydrate meal, they had a 23 percent reduction in their blood sugar levels. If you want to try this particular mineral, then you only need a 400 milligrams dosage. For it to be effective
6. Have a good workout session, in the morning researchers found that when you have a good cardio session. The blood sugar lowering effect can last for more than 12 hours after wards and it will result in a 15 percent reduction.
The reason for this being is the exercise draws upon your bodies stored glucose within your muscles, it’s used up when you work out. As levels deplete, your body keeps working on its reserves to make sure there is plenty of glucose so you can keep doing what you need to do.
If you exercise at one level and then exercise for a minute at a more intense level this will have a two fold effect, you will make your body work harder so you become fitter the next time you do a workout, and you will use more glucose up this will lower your levels even further.
So when you’re doing your workout if you’re doing a 20 minute workout every other two to three minutes. Make sure you work at a higher intensity for one minute this will double the impact of your routine.
7. When researchers conducted a study around a natural supplement, they had some good test results come back. When participants ate Phaseolus vulgaris which originates from kidney beans, and had some before a high sugar meal.
Two hours later when their blood sugar was checked they had a 57 percent reduction. In comparison to when they had a placebo supplement, this supplement slows down the rate at which the carbohydrates are absorbed within your body thus dampening the effect of glucose uptake.
8. Eat avocados this fruit has a lot of fats that alter your insulin resistance, and will lower your blood sugar. Not only that avocados also helps to lower your cholesterol levels as well namely LDL cholesterol. So you double the bang for your buck
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There have been many debates amongst people as to which vegetables are better for you nutrition wise, depending upon whether they are frozen or not. Our food especially in the United Kingdom can be transported through out the land using mostly road transport.
There isn’t anything wrong with this method of transportation the only real drawback is as far as nutrition is concerned. Is how long the food has been in storage in the warehouse?
And the amount of time it takes to deliver it, this really does put into question how fresh our food really is. Are we actually being led into a false sense of security? When we go to our local supermarket and we see the words fresh produce where the vegetables are.
And is it so bad to eat frozen vegetables? When vegetables are frozen it isn’t usually long after they have been picked that they are packaged thus, preserving the essential vitamins and minerals.
The problem with the storage of either fruit or vegetables they may have been in the warehouse for months before being dispatched.
Scientists in Sheffield have now said that is time to put the rumours to bed about frozen foods not being so good for you. They highlighted the fact that green beans, which have been in storage for, more than seven days lose 77 percent of their vitamin C content, which is a lot.
There is more beta-carotene in cooked frozen peas compared to fresh frozen peas, our bodies use beta-carotene to make Vitamin A. One of the researchers Rachel Harden, looked at 37 different varieties of fruit and vegetables, and could find no difference nutrition wise between the two.
She said that there are many conflicting messages being sent out as regards to fresh food and frozen food, we need to let go of the fact that there isn’t much difference between the two.
She goes on to say that, they are not surprised by the findings of the report because there has been other reports that have found the same. Fresh food can tend to spend up to a month in storage before dispatch.
This is quite a long time for food to be sitting around in a warehouse. During that time there is bound to be some deterioration of the food. This can explain why when you think you have fresh food and, put it in your freezer it may not last that long.
I have noticed that tomatoes do not seem to last very long from when you buy them even if you keep them in your refrigerator. The main reason for the research was a local council wanted to find out which food would offer the best nutrition for children at schools within their local area.
The actual food that schoolchildren eat these days in the UK is something that has been challenged now for a very long time. The whole problem with this is, we have no real way ourselves of measuring the amount of vitamins and minerals in our food.
We just tend to naturally assume that they are there. So now all we can have a sigh of relief knowing that eating frozen vegetables isn’t so bad for is as once thought. The only thing I particularly don’t like about buying fresh food is it can tend to go off very quickly so you end up wasting a lot of it whereas this won’t tend to happen as much with frozen food.
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