Health Tips and Tricks

Nutrition & Health Diet Plan

These Health Tips and Tricks can help you maintain your health, speed up your morning routine, or pamper yourself in new ways. The food you eat reflects your beliefs about yourself, your spiritual being, the people important to you and the world. You can change your diet to communicate your wish for a healthier self and society. Health and Fitness has now turned one of the great concerns in modern life. However earlier human used to get their food through hunting, due to which their body had to undergo a lot of physical exercise. This made life active and alert. Now, life has become more simple and easy. We have lost of facilities to complete our day to day work. This easy life has cut back humans to do that bit of physical exercise. However our body requires proper physical exercise to keep the body fit and healthy. Moreover we get instant, spicy and variety of food which lose their nutrition during the process of cooking.

Top Ten Health Tips

1). Eat plenty of fiber, pulses, whole grains, foods made with wholegrain flour (such as wholegrain bread), and fruit and vegetables give you the benefit of fiber as well as its associated essential fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins. Grains are better only coarsely ground.

2). Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, especially green leafy ones. These give you the vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and fiber you need. Peel the fruit as little as possible (peel and pith are nutrient rich). Cook vegetables lightly by steaming or stir frying, and eat some raw everyday to benefit from their hormones and enzymes.

3). Cut down your fat intake (especially saturated fat). Choose fish, offal (organ meat), game, poultry, whole grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, or sprouted seeds, rather than red meat and cheese.

4). Cut down your consumption of processed food to avoid the “empty calories" of saturated fats, added sugar, refined cereal grains, and additives.

5). Cut down your sugar intake. Use sugar as flavoring rather than as a food. Avoid cakes, sweets, chocolates, biscuits, puddings, ice-creams, jam, fruits canned in syrup, soft drinks, sugar in tea and coffee, and milk shakes.

6). If you are overweight, exercise more and consume the amount of food and drink that will enable you to reach and keep to your optimal body weight

7). Drink only moderate amounts of alcohol. Alcohol is been used since prehistoric times.  Its primarily consumed for the mood it invokes.  Ethyl alcohol is  the main ingredient of alcoholic beverages.  It is made by fermentation of starch or sugar. Almost any sweet or starchy food like potatoes, grains, honey, grapes and other fruits, even dandelions can be turned into alcohol. Unlike most foods, alcohol is not digested but gets absorbed into the blood stream.  Due to this nature of Alcohol there are few benefits and drawbacks.

8). Cut down your salt intake. Instead of adding salt to your food use herbs, spices, fresh ginger, horseradish, lemon juice, tomato puree, vinegar, soy sauce, vegetable stock, yeast extract, chutney, and other flavorings.

9). Rice is a must-have. Grown regionally, eat rice as it has methionine needed for lustrous hair. If you are dieting and cutting out rice, you will notice how the diet leads to hairfall. Always check for rice with red lines on them. That is the rice you should be eating.

10). Vitamins and minerals are also very important for the proper functioning of the body. Most of the foods we eat usually lack some important mineral and vitamin or the other. We need to supplement our food with other intakes to complement the lack of it.