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Can a Low GI Breakfast Maximise Fat Burning?

August 31, 2009 By

274822138_8adffb80d2[1]How important is the breakfast that you eat? Depending on what you’re doing to some people, it may not seem very important at all.

If you’re not familiar with the term GI this is an abbreviation for glycemic index, which is the measure of food and how quickly or slowly it turns into glucose in your body.

Now ideally you want the release of glucose to be slow because otherwise if it isn’t, and the rate of glucose is taken up quickly in your bloodstream. Then it won’t be too long before your blood sugar comes crashing down and you will be eating again, when you have high insulin dumps within your body all the time, it tells your liver to store the sugar as fat.

The reason for this is your liver will only tend to hold as much glucose as is needed. Hence the rest gets stored as fat. So what effect does having a low GI breakfast have on your workout?  well let’s see. It’s well known that eating a balanced diet combined with regular physical activity is a good combination when it comes to losing weight.

So does it in fact matter what you eat for breakfast? And will it affect the processes within your body? When you’re working out.

Research carried out at the University of Nottingham has found that, the type of breakfast you eat can be quite important as far as burning fat is concerned.

The study, led by Dr Emma Stevenson at the Universities Biomedical School , and published in the Journal of Nutrition.

Looked at eight women who were fit and led quite a sedentary lifestyle, during the first part of the process they went on a fast the night before. And on another part of the study they were deliberately given a breakfast that causes a high glucose spike. They also had a low GI breakfast during another part of it.

Both of the breakfasts used had similar calories. The high GI breakfast was cornflakes and milk, white bread and jam and a fizzy drink. The low GI one was milk and muesli, some tinned peaches, yoghurt, and apple juice. Both breakfasts contained the same amount of protein, fat, carbohydrates, and calories.

After three hours the participants walked for an hour approximately, on a treadmill this was graded at 50 percent of their normal exercise ability. During both periods of study they were given lunch. Some blood samples were taken before the participants ate breakfast, and every three hours thereafter. And for the post exercise period.

In addition, samples of air were taken when the participants were exercising and not. This information gave the researchers how much oxygen was being used, and the amount of carbon dioxide they produced. From this information, they could see how the carbohydrates and fat were being oxidised in the participant’s bodies.

They also took into account how the people’s appetites were affected this was measured using some special scales. As the researchers suspected there were high levels of glucose in the people who ate the high GI breakfast. But there glucose levels returned to normal, just before they started to exercise.

However, there was a difference in the low GI breakfast people, something called plasma fatty acids was noticeably higher in the low GI group which determines the amount of fat being used as a source of energy.

When both groups exercised their amount of FFA ’s (plasma fatty acids) started to rise but notably, the low GI group had higher levels of fat oxidisation compared to their counterparts.

In conclusion Dr Stevenson said that having a low GI breakfast does help with fat oxidisation both during at rest and exercise. She does go on to say that longer term studies do need to be conducted, to actually prove that this theory does work long-term.

But the participants whom had the low GI breakfast felt fuller for longer, and more than likely ate less throughout the day.The thing do to with this is try eating low GI foods before you exercise, and see what actual impact it has on your workout be your own guinea pig it can’t hurt to try.

Source and references

http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/

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Get Comfortable Getting Out Your Comfort Zone

August 12, 2009 By

stop_sign copyThis is a bit of a digression from what I normally, blog about it is more of a lifestyle post and represents something that I have noticed. That is very prominent in my own life everything you read in this post, can relate to eating food and losing weight.

The reason I say that is because they can also have fear related aspects to them. Some people in a study in France were scared of exercising, just in case they did some damage to their bodies. Or you can be scared of not having something to eat. Or even losing weight

Why do we actually have a comfort zone then, and how is it created?. This tends to be one of those things that, encroaches upon us. With out even realising it, our boundaries can become smaller and smaller over a period of time. But we may or may not be actually consciously aware of this.

It’s more of a subconscious way of being, sometimes the reasons this happens is that something from our past. Has caused us a lot of pain, or it could be a comment that was quite hurtful, and knocked our confidence.

What happens when we are stuck in them

When you get stuck in your comfort zone you can think of it as a circle, and you tend to stay inside it a bit like a virtual bubble. And rather than stepping out of it every so often and feeling some sort of discomfort. We tend to stay inside it and then start to create a very inhibited and restricted lifestyle as a result of behaving this way.

Not only does your world become smaller, it can also become very boring. The reason for this is you’re not really challenging yourself to take any risks. The thought of actually doing something risky, seems far too scary we build these mental pictures up in our minds.

Of what could happen to us, and as long as we continue to do this the fear will always be there. And getting out of your comfort zone will be even harder. So this in effect creates a vicious circle and is probably likely to cause such problems as anxiety and depression.

Frustration itself is a forerunner for anxiety which in turn leads to depression. It’s your minds way of telling you not to do something. As soon as the amygdala in your brain sees you try to do something, out of the ordinary it will start the process of generating the fear.

Unless you actually start to face it then, and only then will the fear start to shrink.

How they affect us

If you are stuck in a comfort zone here are some of the things that you might have going on in your life.

  • Feeling very unfulfilled with your life as it is at the moment
  • Suffering from apathy, which means no real passion in your life, it will feel quite emotionless probably the same sort of emotion a bit like a flat line
  • Be lacing direction in your life, and not doing what you really want to do have lots of ideas but never really making something of them
  • You may have a lack of confidence and some self-esteem issues also

Here are some examples which may be prominent in your life, when you tend to get stuck inside a comfort zone.

Robotic lifestyle

when we do things the same way. Day in and day out, it becomes automatic our brains make synaptic connections and clusters of brain cells are formed. In order to make doing the particular task at hand easier. So the more we do a particular thing our brain realises it needs more cells in order to do this process.

And it goes about the process of making it automatic so that, you are able to do other things when the time comes this is why it is easy to create bad habits.

Strange as it may seem we do work very hard at them. Even though a lot of them work against us. There is a saying in NLP which in case you are not familiar with means Neuro Linguistic Programming, which says that if you do one thing one way.

Then you are behaving like a robot, do something two different ways then you are starting to see some changes, do something three different ways then you will see very big changes.

Going through the motions

Every day runs into another it’s almost if as you are on autopilot, this might be a typical day for you or anybody for that matter. Get up get dressed, go downstairs, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, go to work, come home, eat your dinner, watch TV, and go to bed. Now this is only a hypothetical scenario and only represents a basic day but if you look at it. It can represent overtime quite a boring routine. And some people probably do this every day. Because it seems quite normal.

When you live your life from the realms of a comfort zone it does become very restrictive, and there may be so many things that you would like to do, but don’t due to a lack of fear.

The comfort zone thermostat

Just like a house that has a heating system in that monitors temperature. We have something in our minds that monitors our comfort zone if you like, it’s constantly being regulated much the same as the thermostat in the house. As we get near to the edge of our comfort zone, we might start to feel slightly anxious and scared.

Almost as if something terrible is going to happen, even though it isn’t so, when we get close to this feeling we tend to step back. So once the fear/threat has gone, we tend to relax go back in our comfort zone and that is where we stay.  And this is going on all day long as long as we are out in the wide world.

This actually acts as a red light in our minds, much the same as a traffic light signal. Telling us to stop when really we shouldn’t be. When we tend to be in a state of mind such as this.  We are far less likely to want to take risks so because of this.

Our world shrinks yet again. This ultimately stops us from growing, growth is a great thing once you are growing.

Your whole mindset tends to change you want to try new things, feel far more adventurous and liberated, and feel less restricted in your lifestyle which is far more exciting.

When you are growing your confidence will grow through the roof, and you will be willing to take more risks and try different things. If you are on the flip side however, you tend to be stuck in the middle where you feel comfortable and don’t want to move either side. If you can imagine drawing a line in the sand and keeping yourself the other side of it.

That is where your comfort zone is, it’s not until you actually step out of it that you notice how different things are. The whole world seems a totally different place, it seems open and inviting and welcoming and far less scary.

What can we actually do?

Here are a few examples of things to try they don’t need to be massive things just anything that makes change.

  • Go home a different way
  • Do something different at lunchtime
  • Talk to a stranger in a shop or where ever you may be, this might not be a good idea for children though
  • Try eating somewhere else a different restaurant
  • Do something that you have always wanted to do but always felt afraid to do it
  • Experiment with different ways of doing things, for example have you always wanted to do your own DIY for example, but always thought you couldn’t do it. Have a go yourself you might be surprised what you find
  • Go on a team building activity holiday not only will this give you interaction with other people, you will be able to strengthen other skills which you might not have known that you had

Here is one less thing to finish this off get a sheet of paper and write down 50 things to get you out of your comfort zone, when you first start to think about doing this it may seem very hard. But you may not even realise that they are there.

One of the reasons I decided to write this post is it something that has been, a very big part of my life and I thought people may be able to relate to it like I have myself. So on a closing note bust out of your comfort zone and feel comfortable doing it.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

You must break out of your current comfort zone and

become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Denis Waitley

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Why Does Eating Low GI Food’s Make You Feel Full ?

March 30, 2009 By

GI dietBasically the GI diet is eating foods that have a low GI value, when you eat this particular way, it takes longer for the food to be broken down in your body than it would do eating high GI foods instead.

Scientists have recently been wondering why this happens and think they may have arrived at a conclusion as to why, and how this happens. Some scientists from Kings College London, examined what happened in people stomach’s when they ate either a high GI or low GI meal.

GI is related to how quickly carbohydrates are broken down in your body each is given a specific number value and the lower the number the better, the higher the number is then it will take less time for the carbohydrates to be broken down into sugar, eating this way can be beneficial to people who may have diabetes.

Some examples of high GI foods can be white bread, Kellogg’s cornflakes, jacket potatoes eaten with nothing else, whereas low GI foods tend to be things like most fruit and vegetables. The scientists knew that eating foods that were low GI somehow managed to curb people’s appetites but they didn’t quite know why this was.

To try and find out why they conducted some experiments on some people they gave 12 healthy volunteers a low GI meal and then a high GI meal, to see what difference there were between the two meals.

Each participant ate a medium GI meal for lunch and then fasted until breakfast the next morning, when they came to eat breakfast the next morning they were either given a low scoring GI meal or a high scoring GI meal. Then blood samples were taken from the participants to see what differences there were, between each group and what they ate. The blood samples were taken the blood samples were taken every every 30 minutes for approximately 150 minutes.

They measured the levels of a gut hormone, which is called glucagon-like peptide 1 or short for GLP-1, they also measured levels of insulin, the aforementioned gut hormone is known particularly for its ability for suppressing appetite in people and making them feel full.

The results of the tests were those people who ate a low GI breakfast, had 20 percent more of the hormone GLP-1 and 38 percent lesser in insulin, compared to those who ate a high GI breakfast who had lower levels or none at all of the hormone and higher insulin levels.

This This overall proves that eating meals with a low GI component can make you feel fuller longer so hence you eat less, another thing we can take away from this is lower insulin levels, when you have high insulin levels, it can tend to make you more hungry overtime.

Even though this was a particularly small study done on people, it is quite good news if you do follow the GI diet and

In a way proves that it’s all not hot air. Like some people seem to think it is. The thing is with all these studies etc is don’t knock it until you have tried it. If you have any opinions or comments you would like to leave about this particular article please feel free to do so.

Source http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317201139.htm

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Raw Food Diet and Recipes

March 18, 2009 By

raw foodGenerally as a society we tend to learn our eating habits from our friends and parents, and cooking food has always been a part of this for most people it would seem now that raw food is getting quite a lot of attention.

Is it really because that is how we were meant to eat food, even though our ancestors probably had fire. I dare say they weren’t that bothered about cooking their food under heat. They may have constructed or used some sort of crude spit for cocking their meat. But would they have necessarily bothered to cook their vegetables?

Why do people who eat raw food seem to lose weight very quickly rather than those who don’t eat raw food, we are led to believe that it’s to do with the enzymes in the raw food which tend become lost in the cooking process.

I haven’t really posted a lot about raw food so thought it would be a good idea to do so, and kick off with some raw food recipes as a starting point and post more articles about raw food because it does seem a popular topic.

So here are the recipes:

Breakfast

Fruit and nut muesli

Ingredients

1x apple

1x almonds

1x hazelnuts

1x coconut chips

1x brazil nuts

1x coconut chips

1x raisins

1x dates

1x blueberries

1x banana

Method

Peel and slice banana, remove the core from the apple and cut into chunks, remove the stones from the dates and chop up, slice almonds brazil nuts and almonds either use a knife or a food processor if you have one. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix together serve with semi-skimmed milk or rice milk, add some fruit if desired eg blueberries raspberries.

Lunch

Bell pepper salad

Ingredients

1x gojo berries

1x half a avocado

1x some mixed lettuce or iceburg lettuce

1x spring onion

1x half a lemon

2x two bell peppers

Method

Wash all the Ingredients, put the lettuce leaves on a plate cut the advacodo in half remove the fleshy part from it, chop up the spring onion remove the roots, cut the stalk from the peppers, and cut them in half and slice into pieces. Put it all on a plate including the gojo berries add the juice from the squeezed lemon and serve.

Tea or late lunch

Chilli pepper soup

Ingredients

1x 6 tomatoes

1x 2 garlic cloves

1x coriander leaves

1x half a chili pepper

1x two tablespoons of olive oil

1x basil leaves

1x table spoon of balsamic vinegar

1x ¼ teaspoon of tropical peppercorns

1x half a red onion or a white one

1x four ice cubes

Method

Wash ingredients prior to eating

Remove outer skin from the tomatoes, skin the lemon and half a onion, remove the seeds from the green pepper,put all the ingredients in a blender and mix until done, crush the ice and blend it briefly,and serve, this is served cold.

Recipes source http://www.rawfoodrecipes.co.uk

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The Secret Life of Your Liver Part II (Recipes)

March 13, 2009 By

liver

This post follows on from Thursdays the secret life of your liver here are the recipes

Breakfast

Have a drink of lemon juice with hot water, make sure it’s fresh lemon and not full of sugar and additives, you could get some fresh lemons juice them and then add some hot water.

Supplements; Milk Thistle has long been known for it’s powerful liver detoxing properties you don’t have to take this it’s merely just a suggestion.

Mixed fruit salad served with mint leaves

Ingredients

2 oranges which will need squeezing

5 mint Leaves

Some berries of your choosing examples are rasberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries or any others that are to your liking, and it would be better if there in season but it’s not esential fresher is always better

Method

Mix the mint leaves with the orange juice from the oranges that you squeezed, get a bowl and wash the fruit which you chose then, pour the orange juice over the mixed fruit and top with a piece of the mint.

Mid morning snack

1 x apple

if you want to have a drink try dandelion coffee or tea, or water with lemon juice in chilled or hot water which ever you prefer.

Lunch

A beetroot salad

Ingredients

4 pieces of fresh beetroot you can buy it fresh and cook it or in packs of four vacuum packed

Some fresh apple juice or some fresh lemon juice

1 x iceberg lettuce tear into small pieces

1x piece of parsley

Method

Grate the beetroot this could be a bit messy if you buy it vaccum packed if this is the case then, just slice it with a knife into small chunks. Mix the beetroot and the lemon juice and serve this with the lettuce, put the beetroot on top of the lettuce and use the parsley as garnish to finish it off.

After noon snack

1x pear or any other citrus fruit of your choosing

Drink, peppermint tea or dandelion tea

Supper or late tea

Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, onions, tomatoes,

Ingredients

2x pieces of wholemeal bread

1 onion

1 x mushrooms

1x tomato

1x water cress

Method

Put some milk in a bowl and add the eggs whisk the eggs and milk until all the egg yolks have mixed in with the milk, pour this into a saucepan and gently heat until it goes, fluffy or you can put it into a microwaveable container and cook on full power for 3-4 min works just as well.

Toast the wholemeal bread, cook the onions in some olive oil or some light oil you don’t need a lot of oil add the mushrooms to the onions and mix them, drain the mushrooms and onions and serve with the toasted bread and scrambled eggs. Top with a sliced tomato and some water cress to finish.

If you just try a variation of this on alternate days your energy levels will rocket and it will feel like your walking on air just try it and see.

Combine this method of eating and drinking, and you will wonder why you used to eat and drink the way you did before.

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Eating and Exercise Secrets From God

March 9, 2009 By

2445609182_f4c99b555d_m[1]Don’t be to put of by the title of this post because this really does come from nature, itself and nowadays we do tend to work against nature rather than with it. What is it exactly that decides when we eat and when the best time to exercise for us is ?

Well you have to look inside yourself to find out the answers because that is where they are, we came into this world hundreds of millions of years ago as primitive beings and now even though we are still primitive beings we are living in a highly competitive, modern world where there is constant pressure to get things done in such short space’s of time and this, is what is wrong we tend to work against our own internal time mechanisms or better known as our body clock.

So how does this fit in with exercise and eating well it’s all to do with our internal body clocks, because of the habits that we inherit from our closest friends and our parents. We tend to think that these are the ways that we should be doing things all the time.

When is the best time to eat food?

Are we at all bothered about what time we should be eating our food, as far as our modern day society is concerned we should eat three meals a day breakfast, lunch and tea which most of us do, a lot of people can tend to skip breakfast which is not such a good thing to do, it has been noted by research we are tending to do things backwards as far as our eating habits are concerned.

How we used to eat some years ago was this we would have a big breakfast followed by a large lunch and a small tea, so we would be consuming most of our calories at breakfast and lunchtime, to find out what effect this had on our eating habits some studies were done on people, they were given the same amount of food at eight o’clock in the morning and 8 p.m. in the evening.

They found out that the people who ate the same meal in the evening their bodies reacted to the food differently compared to those who ate the meal in the morning, the researchers found from the study that people’s glucose levels, are different in the evening compared to in the morning, so if you eat a high glucose meal at night your body will produce more insulin than if you ate it in the morning which leads to fat storage and eventually diabetes.

Which will consequently lead to more fat storage, the strange thing is due to the advent of things like take away’s being delivered we will more than often have a meal at say between seven and8 p.m. in the evening which probably now isn’t necessarily such a good idea, because you are eating an awful lot of food and your body really is preparing to get ready for sleep a lot of people can go to bed between 10 and 10:30 p.m. at night.

And your body will be digesting that food while you are sleeping, this means that it can’t be doing it’s repair work because of the amount of work it’s doing in your stomach, so how come we are doing things in reverse ? why do we eat more at night than we used to, maybe it’s just the way modern society is now.

Social proof can make us do things which we wouldn’t do normally by following other people and what they do. So that could be a reason, or we may think that eating less during the day is better for us but this research overturns that theory.

When is the best time to exercise?

This is a question that probably a lot of us wonder and yet we always seem to come up with our own answers as to when to do it. A lot of people may prefer to exercise first thing in the morning because that is the best time for them depending upon their lifestyle especially if they go to work, or some people may prefer to do their work out at night instead, it’s all to do with personal preferences rather than anything else

Various studies have been conducted around exercise and other things which revolve around health in general and your body clock and just digressing here a little, more people tend to have heart related health issues in the morning than at any other time during the day, your blood pressure can tend to be higher first thing in the morning and also your blood tends to be more stickier.

Somebody who was a professional cyclist in the United Kingdom said he was able to train and exercise for his race which was 60 minutes long. He said that he found that training first thing in the morning wasn’t as good as it was in the evening he says that there wasn’t the pain relief that adrenaline can give you, and also his muscles felt less able to do what he wanted to do.

Researchers in the United Kingdom at a University found that most people who tend to do high-intensity sports in the afternoon this being the time when they are competing; tend to win far more than they would if they were competing in the morning. When you couple this with the other research about when to eat your food it would seem that exercising at night is a good idea rather than doing it first thing in the morning because your body is still waking up as it were.

When is the best time to have medication?

This is also slightly off topic but nonetheless, I think it does hold some relevance to what has been said, a woman in France had bowel cancer and wasn’t responding to treatment very well, so they decided to administer her medication in relation to her bodies body clock, she was having chemotherapy as her treatment but the problem with this is it not only.

Kills cancerous cells but healthy ones as well so they decided to administer her medication when the cells within her part of the body were less active, and surprisingly enough it started to work and she started to feel a lot better and in less pain than she previously was.

Does eating fat disrupt your body clock?

It would seem it does mice were given the choice between eating good food and a diet of junk food, the mice that ate a high fat diet, soon started having odd sleeping patterns where they would eat at night when they should be sleeping, and they also had irregular eating patterns. So eating when they wouldn’t normally.

Conclusion

Sometimes it would seem that we tend to work against our own bodily cycles and this is why sometimes we don’t perform as well as what we could be doing, if we did everything in sync with our body clocks instead.

References :

BBC Horizon programme about body clocks.

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Is it Healthy To Eat a Lot of Eggs ?

October 3, 2008 By

hard boiled eggIn the past there has been many, debates and arguments amongst professionals as to whether or not eggs are a healthy food or not.

It has been often said that they contain too much cholesterol, or you may be at risk of getting salmonella and eating them a lot might do your health some harm, but someone now just recently has been eating eggs for their dietary requirements.

They ate three eggs for breakfast, three for lunch, three for dinner his wife claimed that he was completely mad eating such a diet, but here is the surprising thing it helped him lose a lot of weight. It helped him lose four stone in a period of nine months.

Would eating this amount of eggs be necessarily good feel health ? after all the health scares that we have had that have been connected with them such as salmonella but it would seem that has been put way in the past we as a country now in the United Kingdom consume over 28 million eggs per day.

If that doesn’t say that we don’t give them our approval than what does, quite a while back now I wrote a post called why we need to eat more eggs, in it I explained that if you eat eggs for lunch say, you are far less likely to eat more food later on that day.

The reason that eggs have come so popular in recent years is that it has been found that they aren’t nearly as bad for you as previously thought, where previously it was thought that if you ate more than three a week, it was suggested that this might increase your blood cholesterol levels, so we were advised it was better to eat them in moderation overall.

The governments overseeing body of food health says that as long as you eat eggs, as part of a balanced healthy diet then there is no need to worry about the amount that you can eat.

Eggs got a bit of a bad name in the past because as we have said they were reported to raise your blood cholesterol levels, but it has now been found that is done by merely other foods due to the extensive research that has been done, in which foods do in fact raise your blood cholesterol levels.

These tend to be more foods like processed meats, cakes, and biscuits and the cholesterol that is in eggs is nowhere near as bad as some of those other foods previously mentioned. Knowing this might be very pleasing for some people whom previously thought that they are unable to eat eggs in large quantities, if you were to eat nine eggs a day as is suggested by the person who decided to try this diet.

As a long as you stick to the guidelines for healthy eating then there is no reason why, you could to follow this if you want to. Some research was conducted by Dr Bruce Griffin who looked at the data of egg research which was comprised of 30 egg studies over a 30 year period.

Found that there was no actual links to high cholesterol levels or any links to coronary heart disease as far as eating eggs is concerned, and other study which was done which revolved around eating eggs, found that people who didn’t eat eggs and those who did had no different cholesterol levels than those who did eat them. In more further research done by Dr Griffin he found out that people who ate two eggs per day it might help lower their cholesterol levels.

He conducted research and gave some overweight people two eggs a day for a 12 week period, and another group followed a diet recommended by the British Heart Foundation. When they had completed the study period they had lost between seven to nine pounds, and also had a drop in their average cholesterol levels, he said that “We’ve shown that when two eggs a day are eaten by people actively losing weight on a calorie-restricted diet, blood cholesterol and weight can be reduced.”

Eggs are very low in calories one egg is only 75 calories and contains five grams of fat, in another study which was conducted in the United States they looked at the breakfast eating habits of obese and overweight women.

Their findings showed that when they had a bagel breakfast and then had a egg breakfast, the women who ate the egg breakfast, didn’t want to snack on fatty foods, they also said that they felt fuller for a longer period of time. The overall reason for this is because protein takes longer to break down in your body, and also acts as a bit of metabolism boosting effect this is why bodybuilders eat a high protein diet when they are in intensive training, especially if they enter competitions for showing their bodies off.

This is exactly what they will tend to do they will eat some carbohydrates, but only in moderation and focus on eating more protein this will build muscle and not increase fat layers. So is the nine egg a day diet a good want to follow not necessarily I would probably say after a period of time you will get bored of it.

And also you will properly not get adequate vitamins and minerals which you get from a healthy balanced diet, having a diet which is mostly protein can cause problems, you have to have some carbohydrate in your diet, as well as fibre and a small amount of fat, this is a basis for a healthy balanced diet.

However this doesn’t mean to say that you can’t follow the diet per se but use it as a basis for your overall eating eating plan, if you become more aware of the foods which don’t make you crave things like sugar and fatty foods, then you will find that the more educated that you become about eating food.

Then it will be far easier to lose weight in the long-term all you need to do is find out which particular foods give the best results it may be a different case for different people.

Which is the best way to eat eggs ?

In order to get the best out of eggs it is probably a good idea to know which methods are particularly better for eating your eggs cooking or poaching your eggs is the healthiest way to eat them, if you make scrambled eggs with full fat milk, cream and butter. Then you’re looking at something around the region of 316 calories per serving.

It is probably far better to scramble eggs using semi skimmed milk and just two eggs or another just in case you need a bit extra for another person, when I make scrambled eggs I just do it in the microwave oven, using a plastic container some semi skimmed milk and two eggs whisked them together and and cook it for about four minutes this is using a 650 watt oven.

Once they are cooked I then use a fork to just stir the mixture and this creates the scrambled eggs, sometimes I have also added some mushrooms to it which is quite nice and serve it with wholemeal bread with no butter on, this is a matter of personal choice purely.

So the moral of the story of this post is don’t worry too much about eating eggs because they are not as bad for you as is once thought so eat as many as you want, because ultimately they will help you in an aid to losing weight.

If you are stuck for ideas as regards eating eggs here is a website with some recipes on http://www.eggrecipes.co.uk/

Source http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk

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Are English Breakfasts Healthy ?

September 1, 2008 By

english breakfastOne of the reasons that we can tend to have problems in this particular country, is because of long-standing food traditions that have been with us for a very long time, such things as Chinese take-away’s, fish and chips and so on.

It is because we are so set in our ways that it can be hard sometimes to change our own eating habits, how many of us each day particularly, at breakfast time eat a full English breakfast. I really wouldn’t like to think of the statistics for this particular activity, but I dare say that a lot of people, up and down the country do eat a full English breakfast every day.

However just recently reported in a tabloid newspaper was a report that said eating a full English breakfast was no longer the ideal thing to do,they said that it could increase your chances of getting cancer by two thirds, or in monetary words 63 percent chance of contracting the disease.

People who eat eggs, sausage, and bacon with their breakfast are those that are at higher risk of contracting bowel cancer, this is based around eating two sausages and three rashers of bacon a day.

It’s all to do with the fact of how the sausages and bacon are processed these days, if you have 150 grams of processed meat such as is described, which consists of sausages and bacon then you are far more significantly at risk.

You may tend to think that is a good idea to have a robust start to your day by eating a full English breakfast, because it seems a very traditional thing to do, and if you are doing it on a regular basis then you really do have cause for concern about your health. Even if you only eat 50 grams of processed meat which is roughly a sausage, then this will likely to increase your risk by a fifth, but also fry ups are notorious for weight gain.

So you roughly know what you are eating when you eat a English breakfast, which may consist of the following foods fried eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes, fried bread, black pudding or baked beans and anything else that you may care to add to it.

Your average English breakfast probably adds up to roughly about 700 calories, and that is without any other things added to it like black pudding or baked beans etc.

Only a third of people are aware of the risks which are contained within processed meats which can ultimately lead to cancer related problems. Which does now raise a lot of concerns about whether it’s time to ditch the English breakfast, for something healthier.

There are lots of things which you can eat for breakfast, but you could try a healthier variation on this old favourite that we seem to enjoy so much. Here is my suggestion for a healthier English breakfast.

I would say if you’re going to have baked beans then go for a low salt, low sugar variety, baked beans are very high in fibre and protein, so there you have a healthy option for a start.

Then instead of using sausages try using Quorn sausages instead, these will be much better for you than eating processed sausages, a lot of people however don’t like the taste of Quorn sausages although when I have eaten them they have tasted okay to me so I wouldn’t have a problem eating them, you can always put a bit of sauce on them to spice them up a bit.

Instead of fried bread I would use toast instead, grill your tomatoes and mushrooms, poach your eggs instead of frying them, or as an alternative use scrambled eggs instead, and you can use a tin of chopped tomatoes or plum tomatoes.

The thing to remember is here think about the amount of calories that you will be eating, you don’t have to have all the ingredients that are listed above, you could just have three items, or which ever you prefer it doesn’t matter.

This alternative is by far a lot healthier and won’t be so laden in calories, the thing to remember is here that we do often tend to be traditionalists as people and don’t always think of ways to replace foods with other healthier alternatives.

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