Showing posts with label healthy diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy diet. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Paleo Recipe - White Fish with Macadamia Salsa

Ingredients
2 white fish fillets
¼ cup macadamias, halved
½ cup chopped tomatoes
1 avocado, peeled, seeded and diced
3tbs coriander, chopped
3tbs parsley, chopped
Olive oil

Instructions
Pre-heat grill to medium heat.
Place fish on grill and cook for 3-4minutes or until cooked.
To make the salsa, place macadamias, tomatoes, avocado, coriander and parsley in a
mixing bowl, combine well. Add olive oil to coat.
Place fish and salsa on a plate to serve.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Which Diet is Best For You?

The first thing to consider when looking into diets is your personal needs. Are you dieting just to take off extra pounds, or do you want to have a long term plan that will assure you meet all of your nutritional needs?

Before choosing a diet, you will need to find out if you have any health conditions which would preclude you from pursuing a particular diet. You will also need to evaluate your current habits and compare those to the diets that will help you most with weak areas, while not making unnecessary changes to areas you do not need to work on. Therefore, you must be doing something right. The trick with every single diet is that none of them are wrong. Each contains pieces of information that you can find helpful. Each of these adds information about the possible factors you will need to consider in refining your diet. Researching diets, foods, and nutrient requirements is critical to developing a good diet. Not only will it help you in finding the best diet for you, it will also help you in finding one that you can stay with. Many try diets for a short amount of time, but don't carry through with them. If you are seriously considering a diet for either weight loss or lifestyle change, make sure that you are excited and feel motivated to carry through with it. If the task of researching all these factors seems daunting, there are other options. As an example, you can seek the help of a professional nutritionist.


Finding the right diet is about finding out what your personal needs are. By doing this successfully, you will be able to control your weight, increase your energy levels, and pursue a healthy lifestyle.


Have a nice day!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Healthy Cooking Methods

In our recent times, it seems to be difficult to keep us eating healthy meals due to many reasons. More and more people today are very busy with their jobs and careers and they do not have much time to prepare healthy meals at home. Fast food is the best choice for such people. However, fast food is definitely not a good choice since it contains high saturated fat, sugar, sodium, fat, salt as well as calories. So, what should we do to prepare healthy meals and stay out of the junk in the store? You can start by learning to cook simple recipes with the healthy way of cooking to provide your whole family with fresh and healthy meals.

For your family's best healthy meals, here are several ways on how to cook such as boiling, baking, barbequing or stewing to avoid adding a lot of fat into your meals. Here is a brief explanation on healthy methods to cook your healthy meals:

- Boiling or grilling: put your food on a rack. Cook under or over direct heat. This will drain the fat.
- Baking: simply bake the food in a covered container. Adding some liquid instead of fat before cooking would be batter.
- Microwave cooking: this cooking method is a simple and fast way of cooking. Since it easily produces moisture, you do not have to add more oils or fat on the particular food. Draining the fat from the food could be done by putting your food between two paper towels.
- Roasting: this cooking method will take you some time since it is a slow and dry heating cooking method.
- Steaming: the best way to keep the natural color, flavor and nutrients of your food to cook.
- Cook in an open frying pan or skillet by adding a small amount of fat over high temperatures.
- Stewing or braising: a slow method of cooking especially to make tough cuts of meat become tender. Simply tan meat on each side with a small amount of regular vegetable oil or vegetable oil cooking spray then stir fry.

According to experts, the key is to consume a healthy diet with balanced nutrition. Also, do not forget, we may take a variety of foods not only contain many calories but rich in nutrients.

Have a nice day!