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Five Reasons to Eat Onions
The onion is something that you may or may not pay much attention to what once you have read this article, it may make you see it in a different light, sometimes when you read things it tends to make you think about them more, as in what you’re actually eating rather than just eating the food and not knowing the potential benefits of said food, after all good food can be considered to be nature’s medicine so without further ado here are the five reasons to eat onions.
1.The number one reason heart health, onions are known to boost HDL cholesterol and lower LDL cholesterol which means you’re less likely to get blood clots, may help to lower blood pressure also.
2.If you suffer with diabetes onions can help to stabilise blood sugar, which in turn could stop the onset of it.
3.Onions have something containing sulphides, which can provide protection against cancer’s namely stomach cancer and bowel cancer, in countries such as China where they eat a lot of onions, they have less incidences of stomach cancer in their country compared to others, in the Netherlands a cross-section of men and women were studied with those who ate onions and those who didn’t the ones who ate onions were far less likely to get stomach cancer than those who didn’t eat them.
4.Onions are rich in minerals, they contain good amounts of vitamin C. also contain fibre, vitamin B6, manganese, potassium, copper.
5.Very low in calories another good reason to eat them as an aid to weight loss, also known to help kill bacteria that may cause colds and other nasties during the winter months.
There are many recipes that you can incorporate onions into one of my favourites is as mentioned in a previous post are onion bhajis, which are quite easy to make and a great snack to eat in between meals, but there are numerous other recipes that you could incorporate onions into, spring onions are very nice with a salad in the summer sky’s the limit really, as far as onions are concerned.
Health Benefits Of The Tomato
One of the main reasons for eating vegetables in your diet is they contain such a lot of goodness, what I am going to talk about in this post is the tomato, tomatoes contain something called lycopene there have been various studies around the world on this particular ingredient of the tomato and its properties for lowering risks of cancers is well documented this particular ingredient of the tomato works best for prostate, lung, and stomach cancers.
The Humble Sweet Potato
The sweet potato is a vegetable packed with nutritional goodness it might be one those vegetables that you tend to overlook when your grocery shopping, it wasn’t until just recently that I myself found out about these potatoes and how good for you they are
In fact they are so much better for you than the normal humble potato, that isn’t to say that straightforward potatoes aren’t necessarily bad for you, but after doing some research it turns out that when you eat say a jacket potato for instance with some butter as a filling you may tend to think that eating that would be okay that but is that the case, I heard somebody recently say on a well-known TV programme that chips as in the one’s you buy from a chip shop say have a bit of a double whammy attached to them.
The chips will be covered in saturated fat but also the potatoes themselves are broken down into glucose very quickly so again hence fat storage this is why a lot of people who eat chips tend to gain weight, there’s nothing wrong of course with eating a jacket potato with other foods say for instance beans or some other nutritious food this will lower the whole GI rating of the meal, or jacket potatoes just on their own with a bit of butter, are okay in moderation but a potato on its own have a generally high GI rating.
So back to the sweet potato and anyway these potatoes are full of vitamins and minerals namely vitamin C. vitamin a manganese, fibre, vitamins B6, potassium and iron and very low in calories approximately 95 cal per serving which is quite low.
Also sweet potatoes are what’s known as an antidiabetic food which is good news for people with diabetes, it can help towards stabilising blood sugar which will prevent high levels of insulin which can lead to fat storage, so my suggestion to you is go out try some and see what you think they do taste nicer than a normal potato I can assure you of that.
Foods And Moods Demystified
It has to be said sometimes that we often very rarely think about the connection between foods and our moods it doesn’t really matter, whether you’re feeling happy depressed, anxious, you may tend to think that you are just this way and think nothing else of it.
But what if all along you could have been eating the wrong foods which were in actual fact making you feel the way you are feeling or not as the case maybe.
The problem is these days that food is available in such abundance and packaged in so many different ways, we may or may not even realise what we are actually eating, such is the power of marketing these days everyone likes to tell you what you are eating is healthy, when nothing could be further from the.
Truth let’s take for instance ready meals the ones you can either cook in the oven or the microwave, these are a great time savers for busy people but the packaging tends to sell the product and sometimes the consumer may be misled as to what they are actually buying, it may say on it low-fat for instance but may have large quantities of salt and sugar to compensate for this so in actual fact you’re not buying anything that is healthy at all far from it.
A study was done recently on television whereby two families swapped eating habits for a month, to see how it would affect them one family ate freshly prepared food while the other family ate supermarket ready meals, after the trial was over they were asked how they felt and also various medical tests were done to see how their health had changed during the trial period, the family that ate the ready meals whose health was checked before and after the experiment their health improved due to switching to
fresh food, while the other family who switched to eating ready meals now had the problems of high blood pressure, raised levels of cholesterol slight liver damage due to the amount of fat in the diet, said they had no energy didn’t feel like doing much at all, one of their sons wasn’t able to do as much running as he could before and didn’t feel too good at all.
So there is a direct link between how you’re feeling and what you’re eating hence the saying you are what you eat. Eating foods that contain refined sugar in them as well as, carbohydrates will tend to make you feel quite relaxed.
Here is a list of foods that will make you feel more up beat if you’re feeling down Chicken, veal, low-fat cottage cheese, low-fat yoghurts, and beans, if however you’re feeling quite a bit stressed eat some of the following ice cream, cake, bread, rice and potatoes.
Its it’s not a good idea to get into the habit of eating ice cream cake etc when you’re trying to lose weight, but by reading this you will get a insight how certain foods can and do make you feel which in itself can lead to comfort eating at times which is something we want to avoid really if we are trying to lose weight.
How To Think Yourself Thin
This rather bold statement, might seem odd at first but really all I am stating, is the obvious and easiest route to lose weight, we all know that is not possible to lose weight by the power of thought, but we can harness the energy of our minds in order to make this task more easier when we are trying to lose weight.
Eat when you only need to eat, this statement may seem quite obvious at first and it is, the thing is this could you be one of these people that eats when they’re watching television, how many of us have sat there with some snack that is loaded with sugar, or saturated fat such as crisps for example or Pringles, we tend to behave the same as if was at the cinema when were not really.
And we might throw in a small tub of ice cream and or a bar of chocolate, this is what I tend to call not conscious eating but habitual eating this is just one example of how we eat in certain situations.
Forget eating a meal times this may sound crazy at first but in times gone past people would eat throughout the day rather than set mealtimes, now I don’t know about you but sometimes I can get hungry before dinnertime or sometimes I go over the dinnertime threshold, listen to what your body tells you.
Because the thing is if you don’t eat when you’re hungry your metabolism will slow down and so will your weight loss, so the general advice is eat little often than you won’t starve yourself and probably find you won’t need to eat such a big evening meal.
If you find you have cravings for certain foods try this technique to knock them on the head what you have to do is think about the food that you’re craving see in front of your face about 3 foot away, then whilst seeing the picture of the food in front of you.
See a revolving wheel also at the same time imposed over it a bit like a tom bola, or spinning cylinder make it red in colour, then spin it backwards then make it blue in colour, then imagine that cylinder in your stomach spinning backwards, this should neutralise the craving for the food, try it on yourself.
If you’re lacking motivation in your exercise regime think about this, when you’re doing it is there is no excitement whilst doing it does it seem like a normal mundane task that you have to do in order to lose weight, well if it does think of it like this think of a time when you were doing something really enjoyable feel those feelings and get the picture in your mind of doing exercise at the same time.
Imagine you’re really there doing the exercise and really enjoying it and knowing your going to be a lot healthier for it, in fact it might be best if you close your eyes when doing this, what this will do is attach that feeling when you do the exercise, and make it more enjoyable.
Are You Getting Enough Iron
Having iron in your diet is important, sometimes some of the reasons we tend to eat food is when things go wrong say for instance we might feel tired or lethargic, we know something is wrong but we don’t quite know what it is say so in sheer desperation we may or may not eat some food after all this is what gives us energy in the first place.
As well as exercise and even though sometimes even after we have eaten the food we can still feel the same, and feel quite puzzled as to why this is it could be the food we are eating, that is causing the problem when you don’t eat certain types of food your vitamins and minerals can become unbalanced in your body and this can cause cravings which will cause you to eat other foods which may or may not lead to weight gain, so now we can see why it’s important that the food you eat contains the right minerals as well as vitamins also.
Iron in itself is a very important mineral if you don’t have enough of it can lead to all sorts of problems, these being feeling tired, headaches, breathlessness, insomnia it plays a very important role in the body its main job is to transport oxygen around the body which goes to the vital organs and tissues, so if during your workout or general if you’re feeling tired and lethargic and can’t understand why this may be one of the things that you’re lacking in your diet, so might be worthwhile checking to see if you eating enough of it.
Good sources of iron are chickpeas, branflakes, spinach, muesli, dried figs, vitamin C is very beneficial for the uptake of iron in your body so that these foods in order to get more benefit from this essential mineral vitamin C. sources are orange juice, green and red Peppers, tomatoes, broccoli and spinach.
How We Eat Food With Our Eyes Not Our Stomachs
A study was done in Sweden regarding human eating behavior and what was found from this was very quite interesting, it would seem that most of us eat with our eyes instead of our stomachs so what does this actually mean then.
Well it would seem that some of the reasons why people become overweight in the first place is merely how they are eating rather than what they are eating, some people might know this and some people may not, that on average a man say for instance only needs 2550 calories per day, so it will probably easy to see how easy it would to be to eat over that amount I mean how many of us actually write-down in calorific notes how much we eat, I would say 90% of us don’t take any notes at all about what we eat.
Now the study that was done on obese people found something out quite interesting what they noticed was when people are blindfolded, they ate 22% less food than if they were blindfolded. So the interesting thing about this is it tells you how that if you eat with your eyes rather than your stomach then you’re more likely to gain weight.
If you actually think about this and what is actually happening it seems that when food is put on a plate in front of us no matter how much there is on the plate we are programmed to eat what is on the plate, I have got some theories about how this works the food is on the plate and is more or less saying to us eat me eat me eat me, it’s crying out so this is what we tend to do, eat all the food that is on the plate.
But think about this for a minute what if you ate more slowly so that the time taken for your stomach to give the full signal then you would eat less food surely, it takes about 20 to 30 minutes for your stomach to give your brain the full signal, which can give you plenty of time to eat lots of food so the thing is to chew your food eat it slower and hence eat less and hopefully lose weight.
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