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How to Reduce High Cholesterol

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Cholesterol is essential for our body to function, but the key is kept within normal values. There is a “good” cholesterol (HDL), athletes usually high in people who did not smoke, and a “bad” cholesterol (LDL), high in hereditary cases or a high cholesterol diet, diabetes, kidney failure or who do not practice sedentary regular physical exercise. Here you can get some tips to solve this problem from their own diet.

Consume fat in moderation. This is achieved by avoiding excesses of foods such as butter, cheese, egg yolks, fatty meats and baked goods. Replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats: olive oil-butter, whole milk for skim, red meat with lean meat or fish, cheese for whole-fat versions or fresh skinless chicken outlet, for whole-fat yogurt, etc..

Includes lunch and dinner vegetable, raw or cooked, accompanying a main dish of lean meat, also a side of rice, pasta, lentils, beans, beans or peas. For dessert, choose fruit, desserts, low-fat or nonfat yogurt. (more…)

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Tips for Insomnia

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Insomnia

Every day is most people who suffer from insomnia.

Does sleeping early, directly or waking at dawn, the lack of sleep causes our bodies to work half time during the day, and it shows quite aesthetic.

What not many know is that with simple changes in food habits and with a little exercise can reverse this problem.

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Diet to Prevent Cellulite

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Cellulite

All women today suffer from this problem: a lot of hate cellulite.

Spring is approaching and with it a warm day, which is almost mandatory to show our feet. And there’s squadron recall problems.

However, cellulite can be cured, or prevented. It just needs a balanced diet and adequate exercise.

Here are some tips to prevent food diary is a problem that affects so many women today:

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Medical Advice – Anxiety and Stress

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Anxiety And stress

Prolonged periods of anxiety and tension can cause mental depression.
Excessive and indiscriminate use of drugs

Excessive drug use and indiscriminate assimilation also resulted in guilty vitamins and minerals for the body and ultimately causes depression.

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Tips to control portion sizes in your diet

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Moderation. That is the word to remember when to eat, it is the key to a good diet. Neither great nor small: you should eat and drink in moderation.

But how to know what are the appropriate portions that I eat at every meal? Although dependent on the food and drink in question, there are different tips for learning to control the amounts used when the table. Read on to know them.

To give you an idea of the ideal size of the portions, this is a table of equivalence between different menus and objects of everyday life. (more…)

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Benefits of natural juices

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

juices
If you’re an addict of coffee or sugary drinks and other beverages raisins you are probably missing out on the benefits of natural juices. Drink it is one of the best ways to integrate the nutrients of fruits and vegetables to our diet. Also, get a result not only nutritious but also very delicious. Undoubtedly, the natural juices are an excellent way to improve our health.

I have heard that recommend drinking two liters of water per day. Many people ingest through coffee, tea, soda or alcohol. Unlike these natural juice drinks are healthy and invigorating.

Besides providing a wealth of nutrients and vitamins in the natural juices are a good alternative if you’re looking to lose weight. Note that a juice drink produces a feeling of satiety similar to what you have after eating some toast with butter. However, these natural drinks do not exceed 100 calories (about one third less than if you opt for toast). (more…)

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5 Reasonable doubts about your food

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

nutrientDo you think you eat healthy but nevertheless your health is not like before? Do you carry a varied diet and yet you feel low energy? Do not commit excesses food but your body does not respond with vitality? Balance your diet and see how much better you feel until you take off years off!

1. Does coffee prevent absorption of nutrients?
Coffee, like tea and all soft drinks with caffeine makes your body absorb more difficult as calcium, which lost more in the urine, such as iron. So you have to try to distance making foods rich in these minerals of making coffee, a contradiction in the case of coffee.

2. Is something if I do several meals?
Apportionment. It is shown that the best way to divide the intake is in five meals. If you make a proportionate contribution of nutrients does not necessarily influence the distribution of meals.

However, it is shown that the best way to divide the intake throughout the day is with three main meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner, and two less important at midmorning and midafternoon. In doing so we have a continual supply of energy and avoiding failings.

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