Posted by rosemary on Thursday Nov 17, 2011
Filed under :bad foods for diet
Healthy diet is a required course for lose weight. To select the healthy food is very demanding while losing weight.
There are many foods considered to be healthy in our common sense. Actually, they contain a lot of calories and fat. They are not the right foods to lose weight. It’s just too easy to let them going into your diet food.
Soup
Most soups are nutritious, healthy and delicious, while our stomach can easily feel satisfaction. However, soup use cream or milk as raw materials contains large amount of energy. A small bow of it will damage the weight loss plan.
Sugar-free cookies
Sugar-free doesn’t mean security. It’s just a word that tempts you to eat more! We tend to eat unrestrainedly under this shelter.
Coffee
Coffee is zero calories, but not everyone drink coffee without sugar or milk. If you want to lose weight, please drink bitter coffee.
Salad
Researchers found that to these girls who have a lot of salad, 60%of their daily intake of total fat comes from salad. Cheese, toast or bacon that put on the top of your salad will easily destroy your weight loss plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by rosemary on Friday Nov 4, 2011
Filed under :fruits to lose weight
What are trans fatty acids?
Trans fatty acids also known as trans fats, which can be divided into two kinds: one is natural, the other is artificial.
Natural trans fats can be found in beef and mutton and in their milk. The content is not high; they do no harm to humans’ healthy.
Artificial trans fats are generated in the processing of oil like cooking and processing (hydrogenation). Taking too much will be harmful. Foods with artificial trans fats are bad foods.
What foods contain trans fatty acids?
In general, those tastes very fragrant, crisp, and smooth may use hydrogenated vegetable oils. Foods rich in hydrogenated vegetable oils are very likely to have trans-fatty acids. Such as biscuits, chocolate pies, puddings, cakes, candies, ice creams and so on. Fast-food restaurants often use hydrogenated oils. The shelf tea with milk also contains large amounts of hydrogenated oil.
Artificial trans fats also appear in bakery products like biscuits and cookies, shortening bread, margarine, puffed food, and instant noodles. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by rosemary on Wednesday Nov 2, 2011
Filed under :vegetables to lose weight
Sweet potatoes are a kind of healthy food as well as natural medicine.
Sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, carotene, vitamin A, B, C, E and more than 10 kinds of trace elements like potassium, iron, copper, selenium, and calcium. As a kind of healthy food, nutritionists say it has the most balanced nutrition.
Healthy food to lose weight
Many girls are afraid of being fat by having sweet potatoes because they called sweet potatoes and taste sweet. On the contrary, they can help a lot if girls want to lose weight.
Per 100 grams of fresh sweet potato contains only 0.2 grams fat, and produces 99 kilocalories heat, probably 1 / 3 of that by rice. So sweet potatoes are a kind of low-fat, low calorie food.
Sweet potato contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can not be digested and absorbed in the intestine, so as to prevent carbohydrates turning into fat, and can stimulate the intestinal tract to increase peristalsis and promote defecation, conducive to weight loss.
Like many green vegetables and fruits, sweet potato is a kind of alkaline food, while our maid foods are acidic, such as grain and meat. The body’s PH value is 7.34. Eat sweet potatoes help the body’s acid-base balance. Eating sweet potatoes can also lower blood cholesterol and prevent sub-health and cardiovascular disease and other “modern disease.” Read the rest of this entry »