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Monday, October 5

General Mills Recalls 2nd Batch Of Green Beans Laced With Listeria


Top food company General Mills is recalling 60,000 bags of its Cascadian Farm frozen green beans after one package was tested positive for listeria, which marks the second time that it has discovered the bacteria in its green beans this year.
The Minneapolis-headquartered firm states that no illnesses have been reported in both occasions. Listeria can pave the way for muscle aches, fever and death.
The recall was unraveled on Friday is intended for its 16-ounce bags of Cascadian Farm green beans that comes with  a “Better If Used By” date of June 29, 2017. The bags were made last June 2015.
No other variants or production dates are covered by this recall.
The recall is being handed out as a preventive measure although no illnesses linked with the aforementioned have been reported.
Last month, General Mills has recalled 60,000 bags of Cascadian Farm green beans that comes in 10-ounce packages. They were made last March 2014 and had used-by dates in April 2016.
Feel free to contact the Cascadian Farm at 800-624-4123 for a replacement.

Friday, September 25

Create Your Plate for diabetes




Did you know it’s no longer necessary for a person with diabetes to eliminate sweets and other favorite foods from their diet? Create Your Plate is a healthy eating plan that helps diabetics manage their blood glucose levels by monitoring what they eat.

There is still a misconception that people with diabetes can’t eat their favorite foods or that they have to purchase special foods for their condition. It wasn’t too long ago that people with diabetes were told that they couldn’t eat food that contained sugar and were instructed to avoid certain types of carbohydrates. Medical research studies now show that people with diabetes no longer have to avoid certain foods and can manage their blood glucose levels by monitoring what and how much they eat. Of course this can vary from person to person.

If you have diabetes, or live with and/or care for a person with diabetes, The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends using the “Create Your Plate” to plan meals and manage blood glucose levels. Here are ADA’s seven simple steps to get started:

Using a dinner plate, draw an imaginary line down the middle of the plate. On one side, cut it in half again so that there are a total of 3 sections on the plate.
The largest section of the plate should be filled with non-starchy vegetables. Examples include spinach, carrots, lettuce, green beans, broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers and turnips.
One of the smaller sections should include grains and starchy foods. Examples include whole grain breads (whole wheat or rye), whole grain/high fiber cereal, rice, pasta, cooked beans/peas, potatoes, corn, winter squash, snack crackers/chips, pretzels and light popcorn.
The other smaller section should be protein such as chicken/turkey (without the skin), fish, seafood (shrimp, clams, oyster, crab or mussels), lean cuts of beef or pork, eggs and low-fat cheese.
A serving of fruit should be added, as well as a serving of dairy.
Make sure to choose healthy fats in smaller amounts. Some great choices include nuts and seeds for snacking, olive or canola oil for cooking and vinaigrette’s for dressings.
Add a low calorie drink such as water, unsweetened tea or coffee, to complete your meal.
It’s important that people with diabetes remember to:

Eat breakfast
Regularly space their meals and snacks over the day
Not skip meals
Eat the same amount of food at each meal.
Spacing your meals at regular times allows the body a chance to produce and use its insulin. It also allows for diabetes medication to work towards keeping your energy level up. The goal of eating regular amounts of food at each meal is to maintain an even energy flow and blood sugar level throughout the day.

Michigan State University Extension recommends that you consult with your health care provider before making any significant changes to your diet. If you are looking for more information on diabetes, MSU Extension offers classes that help participants build skills in managing their diabetes.

This article was published by Michigan State University Extension. For more information, visit http://www.msue.msu.edu. To have a digest of information delivered straight to your email inbox, visit http://bit.ly/MSUENews. To contact an expert in your area, visit http://expert.msue.msu.edu, or call 888-MSUE4MI (888-678-3464).

Saturday, January 10

Australian guide to healthy eating



The Australian Dietary Guidelines give advice on eating for health and wellbeing. They’re called dietary guidelines because it’s your usual diet that influences your health. Based on the latest scientific evidence, they describe the best approach to eating for a long and healthy life.

What are the Australian Dietary Guidelines?

The Australian Dietary Guidelines have information about the types and amounts of foods, food groups and dietary patterns that aim to:
  • promote health and wellbeing;
  • reduce the risk of diet-related conditions, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesity; and
  • reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some types of cancers.
The Australian Dietary Guidelines are for use by health professionals, policy makers, educators, food manufacturers, food retailers and researchers, so they can find ways to help Australians eat healthy diets.
The Australian Dietary Guidelines apply to all healthy Australians, as well as those with common health conditions such as being overweight. They do not apply to people who need special dietary advice for a medical condition, or to the frail elderly.
  • View the Australian Dietary Guidelines and Companion Resources here.

What is the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating?

The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating is a food selection guide which visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day.

Why do we need Dietary Guidelines?

A healthy diet improves quality of life and wellbeing, and protects against chronic diseases. For infants and children, good nutrition is essential for normal growth.
Unfortunately, diet-related chronic diseases are currently a major cause of death and disability among Australians.
To ensure that Australians can make healthy food choices, we need dietary advice that is based on the best scientific evidence on food and health. The Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating have been developed using the latest evidence and expert opinion. These guidelines will therefore help in the prevention of diet-related chronic diseases, and will improve the health and wellbeing of the Australian community.

How do I make healthy food choices?

There are many things that affect food choices, for example, personal preferences, cultural backgrounds or philosophical choices such as vegetarian dietary patterns. NHMRC has taken this into consideration in developing practical and realistic advice. Keeping the Australian Dietary Guidelines in mind will help your choice of healthy foods.
There are many ways for you to have a diet that promotes health and the Australian Dietary Guidelines provide many options in their recommendations. The advice focuses on dietary patterns that promote health and wellbeing rather than recommending that you eat – or completely avoid – specific foods.
Many of the health problems due to poor diet in Australia stem from excessive intake of foods that are high in energy, saturated fat, added sugars and/or added salt but relatively low in nutrients. These include fried and fatty take-away foods, baked products like pastries, cakes and biscuits, savoury snacks like chips, and sugar-sweetened drinks. If these foods are consumed regularly they can increase the risk of excessive weight gain and other diet-related conditions and diseases.
Many diet-related health problems in Australia are also associated with inadequate intake of nutrient-dense foods, including vegetables, legumes/beans, fruit and wholegrain cereals. A wide variety of these nutritious foods should be consumed every day to promote health and wellbeing and help protect against chronic disease.

Do the Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend that I only eat certain foods?

No. The Australian Dietary Guidelines, Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and consumer resources assist by helping you to choose foods for a healthy diet. They also provide advice on how many serves of these food groups you need to consume everyday depending upon your age, gender, body size and physical activity levels.
Evidence suggests Australians need to eat more:
  • vegetables and legumes/beans
  • fruits
  • wholegrain cereals
  • reduced fat milk, yoghurt, cheese
  • fish, seafood, poultry, eggs, legumes/beans (including soy), and nuts and seeds.
  • red meat (young females only)
Evidence suggests Australians need to eat less:
  • starchy vegetables (i.e. there is a need to include a wider variety of different types and colours of vegetables)
  • refined cereals
  • high and medium fat dairy foods
  • red meats (adult males only)
  • food and drinks high in saturated fat, added sugar, added salt, or alcohol (e.g. fried foods, most take-away foods from quick service restaurants, cakes and biscuits, chocolate and confectionery, sweetened drinks).

How have the Australian Dietary Guidelines changed since the last edition?

Key messages in the Guidelines are similar to the 2003 version, but the revised Australian Dietary Guidelines have been updated with recent scientific evidence about health outcomes. To make the information easier to understand and use, the revised Guidelines are based on foods and food groups, rather than nutrients as in the 2003 edition.
The evidence base has strengthened for:
  • The association between the consumption of sugar sweetened drinks and the risk of excessive weight gain in both children and adults
  • The health benefits of breastfeeding
  • The association between the consumption of milk and decreased risk of heart disease and some cancers
  • The association between the consumption of fruit and decreased risk of heart disease
  • The association between the consumption of non-starchy vegetables and decreased risk of some cancers
  • The association between the consumption of wholegrain cereals and decreased risk of heart disease and excessive weight gain.
Source: eatforhealth

Monday, January 6

Meals for busy people

Meals for busy people

Grain bread sandwich
Today in the market is a great offer ready-made foods: raw vegetables, fresh fruit, a sandwich of black bread, cereal (Muesli) without sugar, freshly pressed juice. When you are in a hurry to try to maintain daily meals. Regardless of where you eat, leave the job to a few minutes per side and eat in peace. It has been proven that people who eat in peace, not overweight because they eat slowly and enjoy the food and quickly saturate.

It is recommended to you, that when you do not have time for normal cooked meal to eat more natural foods:

Eat fruit - it is always welcome, because it contains an abundance of phyto nutritional substances,
Eat cereal mixed with yogurt,
Eat whole grain bread,
Eat nuts,

If you want to eat a sandwich, always choose grain bread with roasted chicken and as a side dish take a green salad instead of sandwiches with salami.

Monday, January 7

Calcium performs many important functions in our body


















No mineral is more vital to the human body than calcium.

The human body needs calcium more than any other mineral. A man weighing 70 kg contains one kg of calcium. About 99 per cent of the quantity in the body is used for building strong bones and teeth and the remaining one per cent is used by the blood, muscles and nerves.

Calcium performs many important functions. Without this mineral, the contractions of the heart would be faulty, the muscles would not contract properly to make the limbs move and blood would not clot. Calcium stimulates enzymes in the digestive process and coordinates the functions of all other minerals in the body. Calcium is found in milk and milk products, whole wheat, leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, and cabbage, carrots, watercress, oranges, lemons, almonds, figs and walnuts. A daily intake of about 0.4 to 0.6 grams of calcium is considered desirable for an adult. The requirement is larger for growing children and pregnant and lactating women.

Deficiency may cause porous and fragile bones, tooth decay, heart palpitations, muscle cramps, insomnia and irritability. A large increase in the dietary supply of calcium is needed in tetany and when the bones are decalcified due to poor calcium absorption, as in rickets, osteomalacia and the malabsorption syndrome. Liberal quantity of calcium is also necessary when excessive calcium has been lost from the body as in hyperparathyroidism or chronic renal disease.

Monday, December 10

Holy Basil for Stress


Holy Basil for Unholy Stress

The leaves of holy basil, known as tulsi in the vernacular, are highly beneficially the treatment of stress. 

They are regarded as adaptogen or anti-stress agents. Recent studies have shown that the leaves protect against stress significantly. It has been suggested that even healthy persons should chew 12 leaves of holy basil twice a day, morning and evening for preventing stress.

The leaves of the holy basil ( tulsi) have also been found beneficial in the treatment of this condition. The water boiled with basil leaves should be taken as a drink and also used as a gargle in sore throat.

Thursday, October 11

Green Food














Eating green, twenty years ago would have a hollow ring. "How does one eat the color green?" we would have asked. But the advent of the organic food industry at the turn of the century, and his subsequent rise to the shelves of nearly all commercial supermarket on the planet is no joke.

Never before have the customers of the supermarkets and food buyers in general, so much time to examine how their food their way to their record. And never before have so many grocers time, effort and money convincing customers of the purity of their food.


 Supermarkets advertise their food grown by local farmers loving and friendly, and they are raised without harmful pesticides or genetic fiddling. Daily, we are convinced that the choice cut of beef we are busily carved from a cow that had a very happy life in a green and open grassland. That you bake the chicken for breakfast was certainly not a battery hen tricked into staying awake for days in a brightly lit factories, so that more eggs are laid.

 At the beginning of the organic trend, some supermarkets stupid choice produce imported from neighboring countries. But because the alert and inquisitive consumers who we are, we quickly picked up on the fact that this has led to food with a high carbon footprint. If you have not heard of this concept, it's time you took notice. Let's look at two farms, both to sell produce to Cape Town. One farm in Hermanus and the other in Upington. The products of Hermanus has a smaller footprint than that of Upington, because they are denser and less carbon emitted during childbirth. Moreover, the extra length means that the products of Upington will burn a bigger hole in your wallet.

 Cynicism aside, the truth is that some of what organic food is more expensive than conventional products, but in other areas it is not. It all depends on where you shop and what to buy. If you want to buy long-stemmed broccoli Woolworths' flown all the way from Botswana (high carbon footprint alert!) Then you go to pay more. On the other hand, there will always be cheap inorganic food available, because some people do not care or can not afford to care about their neighbors well, let alone chicken welfare.

 Yet it is important to support your local farmers. We are slowly approaching a post-era of globalization (travel is increasingly expensive and communities are becoming self-sustaining), which means that it is better to fork out that extra R2 for a bag of spinach in your community. Most supermarkets or grocery stores may have questions about where food comes from the answer. In Cape Town you can even join the Ethical Co-op, where each week a group of organic farmers a stop at a predetermined meeting place (you can subscribe to their mailing list) and sell their products, a worthy effort in a city so far path of most agricultural land.

 Most people can afford to eat green. Not only is it ethically and environmentally a better choice, but it is much healthier. Your food will contain fewer preservatives and additives than normal, what if someone allergic to sulfur, along with a host of other irritants, it is a blessing.

News From: ezinearticles.com By Phil Smulian

Wednesday, August 8

Pickles Are Good



















Our ancestors examined a lot manners to marinate since foods they had keep their food for the winter, in the case of starvation and for other such needs.
The historians claim that the workers who worked at the large Chinese wall two thousand years suffered a lot preserved cabbage ate.

 This is also an overall form of art. If you go ever to an international tasting meeting, you will find vegetables in pickle of overal in the world. YOU shouldn' t is surprised if you discovered that certain cultures have a mixture of preserved foods.

 The vegetables in pickle are those foods which are soaked in solutions which prevent them their lose taste. Fermentation is the process that the increase which encourages of the good microcomputer organisms in foods, the increase of detrimental prevents.

 However, special ingredients have you and very good conditions necessary if you want some vegetables in pickle for the winter put, conditions which must do the temperature and pH mainly with. There are two important manners put vegetables in pickle for the winter.

 First, you can soak them in vinegar. The most of vegetables in pickle available on the market are kept in vinegar. Then, you can keep the foods in salt and salt solutions. The commonest example with this the cucumbers would be. However, is not only preserve a manner to keep foods.

 This procedure can change their taste and their composition also. The vegetables in pickle play also a very important role in popular and traditional medicine. A lot people believe that the vegetables in pickle the balance between the bases and the heartburns in one' are possible maintain; s body and that they can destroy the bacteria in the digestive tract. For this reason you vegetables in pickle must eat because they prove to be for your health very well.
News From: ezinearticles.com By Anca Ninon

Healthy Bread ! How to Choose ?














Always read the label. Read the list of ingredients that are listed in descending order by weight. The first ingredient listed is present in the largest amount, and in bread products, that ingredient, the word "whole".

 What for look on the label

 Avoid enriched means that the flower had its good qualities (vitamins, minerals) are removed and some were added back.

 For reinforced-enriched means that on top of what is already in food, vitamins and minerals are added.

 High fiber - bread should contain about 5 grams of fiber per serving.

 Low sugar as one of the first three ingredients on the list ends in-ose (glucose, lactose and sucrose) or sugar or syrup, you should not buy. Good fats - try to form bread with monounsaturated fats (canola or olive oil) or polyunsaturated fats (corn, peanut or sesame oil) to find.

 Avoid hydrogenated - hydrogenation is the process of edible oils and fats, resulting in their saturation.

 Types of Wheat Flour in bread flour is best because it contains a grain, including bran, germ and endosperm. That way you get all the health benefits that are naturally part of the grain.

 Wheat flour contains no bran or germ, so it is less nutritious than whole wheat flour.

 Enriched wheat flour is enriched with nutrients lost during processing, often including thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin D, iron, folic acid and calcium. While these nutrients are added back, it still does not contain flour or bran and the germ is not so good for you, whole wheat flour.

 Stone-ground flour is described how the ground. Although it may sound healthy, stone-ground flour is basically the same as wheat flour. It is nowhere near as good for you as 100 percent whole wheat.

 Rye flour is traditionally used to bake sourdough bread. They are high in insoluble fiber and may help some women avoid gallstones and phytoestrogens may be useful to reduce symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes. Rogge's lignans may also protect against breast cancer.

Breads

1. Sourdough rye bread is a kind and is the main ingredients are flour, rye flour and molasses.

 2. Flaxseed Bread is high in good fats such as omega-3 and alpha-linolenic acid and can help reduce arthritis pain and reduces the risk of heart disease.

 3. Crispbreads like Ryvita are lower in calories, crunchy snacks. Try the ones made from whole grain to get. Top with light cream cheese and smoked salmon.

 4. 100% whole wheat bread whole wheat flour are listed first on the label. These breads have a lower glycemic index than refined or white bread. That means that it helps your blood sugar and cholesterol levels and may lower your risk of heart disease and type-2 diabetes.

 5. Sprouted grain bread is made from soaking the grain and let it germinate, then mashing it together and bake. Germs can enzymes in the grain to one part of the carbohydrates and fats into vitamins, minerals and amino acids

Special Diet for Kidney Stones Made of Calcium
















In calcium phosphate stones, over-secretion of parathyroid hormone causes loss of calcium from the bones resulting in a high blood level of calcium with increased excretion of calcium in the urine. An abnormally high intake of milk, alkalis or vitamin D may also result in the formation of calcium phosphate stones.

For controlling the formation of calcium phosphate stones, a moderately low calcium and phosphorous diet should be taken. The intake of calcium and phosphates should be restricted to minimal levels consistent with maintaining nutritional adequacy.

The maintenance level of calcium is 680 mg and of phosphorous 1000 mg. In this diet, milk should constitute the main source of calcium and curd or cottage cheese, lentils and groundnuts should form the main sources of phosphorous. Foods which should be avoided are whole wheat flour, Bengal gram, peas, soyabeans, beets, spinach, cauliflower, turnips, carrots, almonds and coconuts.

When stones are composed of calcium and magnesium phosphates and carbonates, the diet should be so regulated as to maintain acidic urine. In such a diet, only half a litre of milk, two servings of fruits and two servings of vegetables (200 grams) should be taken. The vegetables may consist of asparagus, fresh green peas, squash, pumpkins, turnips, cauliflower, cabbage and tomatoes. For fruits, watermelon, grapes, peaches, pears, pineapple, papayas and guavas may be taken.

The Cabbage Cure for Psoriasis

















Now we are back here with you and with the new advice...
Cabbage leaves have been successfully used in the form of compresses in the treatment of psoriasis.The thickest and greenest outer leaves are most effective for use as compresses.
They should be thoroughly washed in warm water and dried with a towel. 

The leaves should bemade flat, soft and smooth by rolling them with a rolling pin after removing the thick veins. Also important is that the leaves should be warmed and then applied smoothly to the affected part in an overlapping manner. A pad of soft wooden cloth should be put over it. The whole compress should then be secured with an elastic bandage

Sunday, May 13

10 Natural Best Food











10 Natural Best Food


They hear every day on television, in newspapers reads or on the Internet about the meaning of food healthy, natural food. Fact is that if we go for food is able to make purchases be difficult to determine, what the best to eat. We have often hesitate whether they this or that take apple or tomato and not we are so often confidently, that we the right choice dripped.

  Experts recommend that we eat as a 'biology' which brags, some information about the quality and the restricted use of chemicals and pesticides. The fact is that you buy biology, need to eat healthy - natural food is a very good alternative, without violent price. With natural food: Food from easy, close ingredients which you identify in which land they came ex works thus the nutritional value does not remain can receive. We must also look for words like local and seasonal ones, because it means that you eat, what, when and where it needs to be eaten. It is of course be able to eat what is grown and caught in your nearness.

 Now, because you know like one food we get you in the first 10 natural food point should be eaten.
You are what you eat, your life is not only a cooking play.

 - We recommend almonds as an important spring for egg white, vitamin E and calcium. They also prevent heart deseases, help the cholesterol mirror and can do with retention of the weight sound loss calculation to help.

 - Apricots, freshly or dry, also 'super-food'. They are very rich in roughage, potassium and more fully low-calorie.

 - Maybe you are try to avoid, chocolate eat, but you know that chocolate and cocoa help as a spring for strong Antioxidantien, the fight against illnesses. if they get in adequate amounts to help, the blood pressure lower and improves the blood river plus. Also here is a better effect than one additional bonus.

 - Pickles are principal of water. They are rich in minerals, fully from potassium, phosphorus, vitamin A and vitamin C, but poor in saturated fatty acids, cholesterol and sodium.

 - Pictures are an excellent spring for roughage and calcium.

 - Maybe you do not have like French beans so much, but one should know that it is an excellent supplement. It is poor in sodium, saturated fatty acids, cholesterol and richly in roughage, iron and other minerals and vitamins.
 - Nuts are rich in vitamin B6 and E, protect against many illnesses, how heart deseases.

 - Probably know that lemons one of the best detoxifying food, the fight against degenerative illnesses help, because of his urinary-propelling qualities are, and Antioxidantien - paprika really more vitamin C than oranges, put a big energy push and serve as an Antioxidans, the fight of the illness.

 - Yoghurt is an excellent spring for protein and calcium, helps with the improvement of the digestion and the strengthening of the immune system and increases the ability of the body in other useful vitamins and minerals.
News From : ezinearticles.com By Marina Janakievska

Saturday, May 5

Advice on how to eat healthy at a restaurant ..












Eating can be a real treat. The pleasure of not having the meal yourself, and everything brought to your table makes it very enjoyable. Unfortunately, with so many tempting dishes, you can easily end up consuming more fattening food than you would have prepared for yourself.
 It is good to treat yourself to a meal in a restaurant while, but before you plan ahead. Here are a few tips to help you eat a healthy meal when eating out.


 Choose a healthier restaurant - Many restaurants now advertise healthier options. Some have special low-calorie or low fat menus, and do not be afraid to ask for something that can not be given.

 Dressing on the side - A good way to cut down on calories and fat contained in salad dressings, is to ask for it to be delivered to the side. This allows the amount of dressing you use on an otherwise healthy salad.

 Choose places that cook with olive oil - Most restaurants will use other cheaper fats and butter, but olive oil is healthier, so ask what they cook in. Request that your meal is prepared with no lard or butter.

 Omit items - If you must have a burger, choose a regular, and hold off all extras. Leaving the cheese could save about 25g fat.

 Avoid buffets - buffet dishes are the ones that are easy to make, and are often fried or pasta, which are fattening. However, if you feel you have the willpower to only healthy choices, go ahead.

 Enjoy your meal, but be sensible. Not only be careful what you order, but the portion sizes too. It's a good idea to request 'to go' box with your meal so you will half your food at the ready for the next day. That way you will not eat too much
News From: ezinearticles.com By Katy Mills

Fruits and Vegetables are healthy choices















Everyone knows that fruits and vegetables are healthy choices, they are full of fiber and vitamins, and she can ward off diseases and disorders.

We do not always listen when we were told to eat more, but that does not mean we should not take such advice to heart when we are older.

 If we took a look, we would see we actually almost the whole day to our elbows in greasy burgers and fries, topped with a chocolate shake for lunch. It's not very often that we pass the convenient, sweet treats, so easy to pop into our mouths, the time to take a nutritious snack for us to prepare, even if we do not enjoy unhealthy, greasy, fast food lunches every day.

 Grapes, melon and watermelon are good examples. Fruits are the original fast food. Give them a quick shower and you can start noshing away. Perhaps you prefer a carrot, celery or cauliflower with a bit of Italian dressing for dipping. Scientists know that we do not what to eat. They know that the turnips and tomatoes go uneaten, untouched. So to motivate people to develop healthier eating habits, we are reminded of the Five-a-Day campaign to help us more attention to our diets and challenge us to five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

 Initially, five servings a day is like a lot. However, a few simple tips might help you there, like eating a piece of fruit in the morning. Fruit is a tasty addition to cereals, pancakes and waffles. Apples or bananas make great portable snacks.

 It is very easy to add vegetables to your daily diet. For lunch, try including a salad. That's an easy way to stuff a green portion. When eating out, you order sandwiches with tomato, lettuce or sprouts. If you bake, you can sneak in vegetables and never even realize. If you make a sauce or soup, you get up on vegetables. Cooking a batch of stew, and lay on the fruit. 

Try putting peanut butter on celery, something that a great snack for the kids. Provide a variety of foods that fussy children who change their minds every day about what they like to eat. They are told to eat their vegetables to get a sweet treat, but this technique does nothing to make vegetables more attractive. It would be interesting to see what would happen if we tried the opposite approach.

 How about broccoli after that chocolate cake? Fruit and vegetable juices are another delicious and refreshing way to your goal of five servings a day to meet. But the disadvantage is they do not juice a good source of fiber. Children can fill in juice and not eating their food. Juices are packed with calories.

 There are many health benefits when the recommended servings of fruits and vegetables. It gets harder and harder to pretend you do not know about them. If you eat more fruits and vegetables lowers your risk of some fourteen different types of cancer. You are much healthier than those who only one or two servings per day. Fruits and vegetables also help reduce the risk of adult blindness, strokes and heart attacks.

 Even though we are well aware of these facts, we continue to why we can not eat our vegetables and fruits available. People love to cry, that fruits and vegetables are expensive. Some people complain that they are too busy to cut up to eat healthy food. Yet they are not too busy to wait in the drive through line for the heart attack in a bag. Rental of a piece of fruit or vegetable is ripe to get to another way of eating is an excuse to produce more. 

News From: ezinearticles.com By Amy Guzman

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