Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Beans help you live longer

Bean helps to give you a healthier lifestyle and prolong your life. Take the belows into your diets : -

1. Navy beans
These beans are high in folate and a B vitamin may reduce your risk of stroke and cognite declines as you age. Mash together a can of navy beans, a minced clove of garlic, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, a pinch of fresh or dried rosemary and salt or pepper to taste. Replaced this with your mashed potatoes.

2. Garbanzo beans
This will help to reduce your levels of insulin, lowering your risk of diabetes. Make your own hummus by blending 12 ounces of garbanzos with a tablespoon each of olive oil, lemon juice, and peanut butter. Add chopped garlic clove. Season with salt, pepper and cumin.

3. Black beans
These beans contain potent disease-fighting anti-oxidants. Stuff black beans, chopped zucchini, and shredded cheddar cheese into whole-grain tortillas. Bake it for 20mins.

4. Kidney beans
It contains antioxidants that help to prevent the hardening of your arteries. Mash kidney beans with 2 teaspoons of chili powder, lime juice and minched garlic for your sandwich.

5. Pinto beans
This help to cut LDL cholestrol. This can be used as a toppings to your chicken breast. Mix can of pintos with chopped red and green bell pepper and red onion. Add 1/4 cup of corn, the juice of lime and 1/2 teaspoon cumin.

Enjoy the beans and mix it with your daily diet will help you to prolong your life and create a better healthy lifestye. So called, beans help to prolong your life.

broccoli & diabetes

Vegetables are well known for their cancer-fighting potential.

Eating broccoli could shield your from the wrath of diabetes. This is due to the sulforaphane, a chemical derived from cruciferous vegetables, switches on genes that produce enzymes and protect your blood vessels from the damage linked to high levels of disease-fighting antioxidants, which do battle with the free radicals created raging blood surgar.

Carbohydrates & liver

Not only will forging on surgar and starch expand your waistline, but eating too many carbohydartes may harm your liver too. That's because excess blood surgar is converted to fat in your liver, where it can accumulate and lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Beware of taking too much carbo, your are most at risk if you have fasting blood glucose greater than 100mg per deciliter, indicating your body doesn't process carbs well.

For a better healthy lifestyle, reduce intake the carbohydrates is important.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Combined food with better nutrition

Instead of taking only milk, you can mix with soy to have a better nutrition on bone builder. Have you ever heard of this? There are many other foods that mix well and give you better nutrition benefit that you expected.

Below are some of the example of combined food that mix well and work on your health.

Milk & soy
The isoflavones in soy and calcium together preserved bone density better than either alone. Soy's isoflavones may mimic estrogen's effects, increasing the production of bone proteins which combine with minerals to keep your skelaton strong.
Combine soy and dairy milk on cereal, or drink calcium fortified soymilk will give you a better bone builder nutrition.

Avocado &  spinach
Both of this will give you a immunity booster. The monosaturated fats in avocado release spinach's nutrients. You will absorb up to 15 times more beta-carotene and 5 times more lutein by pairing the two. Beta-carotene can strenghten the immune system and fend off infection and lutein may help prevent cataracts.
Put half an avocado on a spinach salad.

Tomato & broccoli
This combination is known as cancer fighter. This team slower tumor growth rate. Lycopene in tomato works as an antioxidant that protects the body's cells and active agents in broccoli fight off carcinogens.
Toss the two into a soup or pasta dish.

Mango & almond
This is so-called heart healper. Mango contains vitamin C and A. Almond contains Vitamin E. these vitamins help to reduce harmful LDL cholestrol.
Swirl both of this into a bowl of oatmeal.

Garlic & onion
 This works as artery unclogger. This may kill your breath, but you will love what is do to your heart. This is keep arteries plaque-free.
Add both to a chicken or fish saute.

These combinations will give you addtional or better nutrition than taking it alone. For a healthy lifestyle or for your better health, why not give a try on this?