Re-thinking Aids

Eating healthily and preparing meals can sometimes seem like a chore, especially for busy mums looking to lose baby weight. And being pushed for time and not eating a balance diet can have a major effect on their efforts towards post baby weight loss. Some mums like to make a list of all the meals they are planning for the next few days and then buy accordingly. This way you are more likely to use up all the shopping you’ve bought rather than see it go to waste. And, if you know what is planned and have the food in the house, it’s less likely you’ll lapse into going to the chip shop because you don’t know what to make for tea. Always make sure to have a couple of fall back 10-minute recipes available. You can easily find loads of delicious, quick and healthy recipes online. If baby has a very unsettled day or you come home exhausted from an outing, you will still be able to eat healthily without too much hassle. It’s also worth keeping a good range of frozen vegetables in your freezer in case you are too tired or pre-occupied to prepare them for meals. (Frozen vegetables retain their nutrients well so they are a much healthier option than tinned vegetables and don’t usually have the same added sugar or colourings.) Top Tips for a Healthy Diet:

1. Use your frying pan as little as possible. Boil, bake or grill your food instead  Read more...

The key to healthy and enjoyable meal is having a basic understanding of nutrition. The knowledge of food gives you control and allow you to make good choices about how you eat, as opposed to what the food manufacturers would like you to eat. The availability of wide variety of foods now in the market, has given us a good range of choices than before. The question is: are you making the best of it?

The science of nutrition has grown progressively over the last two decades and now provides us with a firm foundation on how to make recommendations for a healthy eating.
It is now very clear to us that a poor nutrition will increase the risk of heart and other various diseases, while good nutrition can substantially reduce these risks.

Because different food contains many different types of nutrient in various proportions, no single food can provide you with the entire nutrient you need for a balanced diet. This why variety in your diet is very important because it allows you to obtain different nutrient from a wide range of sources. This can be best achieved by choosing food from these five main food groups daily.

Group 1 – Carbohydrates: Is a dietary source of glucose that is very important to our body and they come in two main forms: simple and complex sugar.
The simple sugar are the simplest form of carbohydrate and comes as one or two molecule combination, i.e.:
Monosaccharides (one molecule sugar) – glucose, galactose and fructose.
Disaccharides (two molecule sugar) – lactose, maltose and sucrose.
Glucose, the one we call blood sugar is found mainly in all fruits and vegetables. Fructose been the sweetest known natural sugar, is found in honey and some sweet fruits.  Read more...

There are many ways to stop the effect your diet has on inflammation. The easiest is adopting an anti-inflammation diet. Here are the three beginning steps to starting the diet off right.

Fruits, Vegetables and Seafood are Good

Vegetables that offer a deep color are often better for your health. These deep colors often mean higher fiber content and better anti-inflammatory effects on the body. Herbs are also fantastic additions to an anti-inflammation diet. Here is a list of foods and herbs that will best help you to gain control over your inflammation.

Turmeric
Oregano
Garlic
Green Tea
Blueberries
Ginger
Wild Seafood
Spinach
Collard Greens
Kale

When choosing seafood, the smaller the fish the better. Mercury is present in all fish and this is a compounding element. Eating the smaller fish like sardines, means eating from the lower end of the food chain with less mercury. The idea is to boost healthy foods and eliminate unhealthy foods so for every good food you choose as part of your anti-inflammation diet, try taking out a processed food or fatty meat.

Increase Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)

There is talk all over the Internet and in print about the power of EFAs. These fatty acids are present in nearly every food we eat, but the ratio of the different fatty acids is important as well as general consumption. Most people consume far more Omega 6s than Omega 3s and that can reduce the healthiness of even the best anti-inflammation diet.  Read more...

DO YOU TEND TO EAT AS THOUGH EACH MEAL IS YOUR LAST We tend to eat as if each meal is our last. This was my biggest pitfall but with some sensible eating tips and a balanced healthy diet I managed to make some serious progress with my diet and lose weight easy. Open a large bag of chips with the intention of just a few and before you know you have eaten more than half the bag. And then it would be rude to put the bag back in the cupboard; you might as well finish them off. Missing or cutting out meals with the mindset that this will help our weight loss plans can lead to us struggling to lose weight easy. Our metabolism will slow and our body will store calories. SENSIBLE EATING TIPS These sensible eating regular meal tips will help you to diet and lose weight easy. Tip

1:EAT AT REGULAR INTERVALS It does not necessarily matter if we eat three, four or five meals a day as long as we are eating at regular intervals. Eating at regular intervals will help to keep a balanced metabolism.

Tip 2:EAT MORE REGULAR By eating more regularly you increase your chances of having lower energy intake. Several studies published reports finding that lower levels of cholesterol in your bloodstream are associated with frequent eating.

Tip 3:BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS Your blood sugar levels are more likely to stay stable if you eat regularly. This is advantageous because it will help prevent hunger cravings. Hunger cravings lead to excessive snacking and eating more at the next mealtime.  Read more...