...and sugar Eat less salt - no more than 6 g per day for adults Be active and healthy Do not get thirsty Do not miss breakfast A healthy diet key is: Eat the right amount of calories for how active you are to balance your energy consumption with energy used. If you eat or drink too much, you weight. If you eat and drink too little, you will lose weight. Eat a wide range of foods to ensure that you are getting a balanced diet and that your body receives all the necessary nutrients....
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...energy. And the general populous continues to be misinformed by government agencies regarding what a normal, healthy diet, should be, as well as what a balanced diet looks like. Eating a low-carb high-fat, or ketogenic, diet of high fat, adequate protein and low carbohydrates can provide many health benefits as compared to the alternative of an unhealthy diet. Research suggests that a ketogenic diet builds a healthier body than other diets because it will lead to weight loss, improved blood pressure, and reduce appetites. The ketogenic diet is the foundation for a healthy life. As noted by Dr. Eenfeldt (2014), The ketogenic diet has been referred to by different names, such as: the keto diet, low carb diet, low carb high fat (LCHF), and to some degree the Adkins Diet. The ketogenic diet is a well known diet for being associated with consuming a low amount of carbohydrates, a moderate amount of protein and high amount of fat, where the body produces ketones in the liver to be used as energy (Taubes, 2008). With a diet high in carbohydrates your body will produce glucose and insulin. Glucose is the easiest molecule for your body to convert and use as energy, so it will be chosen over other energy sources. The insulin is produced in order to process the glucose in your bloodstream (Taubes, 2008, p.167). Since the glucose is used as the primary energy source, your fats are not used, and are therefore stored. By lowering the intake of carbohydrates, the body is induced into a...
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...reduce your weight????? No worries , here are solutions through which we can help you to reduce your weight. How to loss your weight in these era of science and technology ????? In today’s century due to the hectic schedule , people are too busy with their life . People just focuses on their career and future and hardly take a glimpse on their physical health . Present generation are very fond of eating the junk foods like Pizza, Burger, and all various types of fast foods. Due to these junk foods many people become heavy weighted. So , to remain healthy and fit , people should concentrate on weight loss and should take a serious actions towards that. Weight loss is a major problem...
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...insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is produced in the pancreas which regulates the amount of sugar in our blood stream, and in turn becomes energy. There are two types of diabetes: type 1diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Type 1diabetes, which usually begins during childhood or adolescence, is a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels caused by lack of insulin (American Diabetes Association). This occurs when the body's immune system attacks the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas and destroys them. Type 2 diabetes which is the most common form of the disease, usually occurs in middle aged adults after the age of forty-five (American Diabetes Association). It’s a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels caused by either lack of insulin or the body's inability to use insulin efficiently. Forty percent of African American boys and forty nine percent of girls will develop diabetes during their lifetimes and therefore face the possibility of severe diabetes-related complications and a life span that is reduced by 4 to 23 years (Institute for Alternative Futures). In 2010, there were 5,547,700 African Americans in the United States with diabetes. African Americans have at least twice the risk of amputations, renal failure, and death due to their diabetes compared to non-Hispanic white Americans (ndep.gov). With that being said I have several questions that need answers. Why is this disease so prominent in the African American Community? Can this disease be passed...
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...| Why Cook? | | | Brian Curtis Maureen DattiloDVUO ENG135 Sec I | 6/5/2010 | | With all the choices of “ready prepared meals”, fast food, take out, and delivery it is easy to ask the question “Why should I cook my own meals?” While one might think that cooking can only get dinner on the table, one might also be wrong. The foods we eat play a crucial role in how our mind and body operate. Through cooking one can make smarter decisions to fuel the mind and body properly, while eliminating deficiencies that can cause an imbalance in the nutrients that are needed for healthy life. Not only is food a detrimental factor to health, it also has deep roots into our social world. Everyone has a fond memory of home cooked meals shared over the dinner table, or pleasant times with friends enjoying a nice meal. These fond memories help build bonds that create our social life and help make us who we are. By cooking meals and sharing them with the people that are important in life it is easy to see that cooking, besides getting dinner on the table, can benefit not only your physical and mental health but also contributes to your social life. Health benefits One of the most obvious benefits to cooking is a healthier life. Instead of eating already prepared foods that are loaded with additives, cooking allows a person to eat food in its natural state. Starting from natural foods eliminates unwarranted ingredients from being introduced to your diet that can have unwanted...
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...metabolism – * Coarse control - this controls the amount of enzymes. It is a slow process that includes protein synthesis. * Fine control - this controls the activity of the enzymes. This is a faster process unlike the coarse control, this process changes the activity of the enzymes that are already available in the cells. Why does reduced metabolism happen? * Our diet – sugary foods can have an impact on our metabolism because of the fluctuation of blood sugar. However there are foods that should be consumed more often to increase our metabolism. If we don’t have the right diet it can cause a few health conditions, for example; if not enough food is not being consumed it can cause a few health problems - in women they might notice their periods are more irregular. More prone to infections and deficiency disease’s like rickets. However if it’s the opposite and has too much food in their diet there is a risk of diabetes, arthritis, heart disease or high blood pressure. * Water - not drinking enough fluids cannot only cause other health problems but it can also slow your metabolism down. * Exercise - more muscle increases your resting metabolic rate. * Stress - this can decrease the body’ metabolic rate because the body is stressed, this can cause less body systems to work efficiently. Bbc.co.uk, (2015). BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Metabolic rate. [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa_pre_2011/human/dietandexerciserev2.shtml...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION We are what we eat! It's all very well claiming that you eat freshly-cooked meat and vegetables. But how is it cooked? Eating fried food, however recently it was picked, dug up, caught or slaughtered, isn't exactly the healthiest way of dining. Especially if was exposed to chemicals while it was growing, or being reared. Eating healthy is not just about having a salad in fact it is a field of a multi-disciplined culinary arts. The most important factor about a spa cuisine is that it focuses on your health, with a balanced diet on order to help you in the long term. A good diet will help you to be productive, and will enable you to deliver better results in any field of productivity, be it professional or personal. It’s not only the food we eat but it is the method of cooking that matters as well, over-cooking can destroy the nutrients therefore grilling, wok-cooking are good recommendations as far as cooking is concerned and of course microwave cooking is another way of cooking food without applying much fat or oil in it. Food that was exposed to chemicals while it was growing or being reared is not a choice for healthy food either. And in these days, when taking care of the outside of your body with innumerable spa treatments is so popular, doesn't it make sense to think more seriously. Many people are beginning to think so. And that's why there's an ever-increasing demand for Spa Cuisine. Spa cuisine is essentially taking...
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...addict that depends on drugs or alcohol. Many people find themselves looking for a way to lose the added pounds. Proper Nutrition and regular exercise provide a healthier lifestyle compared to extreme exercise routines and fad diets. If you are one of many people that wake up one morning, look in the mirror and decide that it is time to take action. There are two methods to lose weight; the first is proper nutrition and regular exercise, and the second, would be multiple fad diets and extreme exercise programs. Another outlook on these two methods would be to say the right way and the wrong way. Both methods help with achieving weight loss, however only one is the proper method. One might ask what the difference is, the goal is to lose weight and be healthy. Proper nutrition and regular exercise is a lifestyle change, whereas the use of fad diets and extreme work out programs is just a temporary solution. We all want to be more fit and get a clean bill of health from our doctors and I am about to tell you the best way to do this. Applying a lifestyle change by incorporating a balanced diet and at least 30 minutes of regular exercise daily promotes many benefits over today’s fad diets and extreme exercise programs. Balanced diet simply means following the food pyramid, by getting plenty of fruits and vegetables, avoiding red meat and eating more fish and poultry, avoiding...
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...factors--which may have both molecular and environmental influences. Close to two-thirds of adult Americans are overweight or obese. Despite the attention of the health profession, the media, and the public, and mass educational campaigns about the benefits of healthier diets and increased physical activity, the prevalence of obesity in the United States has more than doubled over the past four decades. Add the relatively few Americans who practice the habit of regular physical activity to the many who practice the habit of “super-sizing,” and it is no revelation why this has occurred. We have inherited our genetic makeup from our ancestors, hunters and gatherers who ate diets rich in low-fat meats and grains, who had to stalk and capture the entrée for dinner. During times of feast, their bodies were designed to store nutrients as adipose tissue to be used for fuel to survive periods of famine. We are descended from these survivors, and we share this ability to store fat when food is in overabundance. However, famines in the United States are fewer and farther between nowadays, so this added fat is not used up and continues to accumulate through the years. We no longer have to stalk and capture our dinner; we can use the drive-through. According to US government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, “Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI, weight in kg/height in m2) of 30 or more. For example, a 5’5 woman weighing 180 pounds or more or a 5’11 man...
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...The Fat Loss Factor 12 Weeks To Your Best Body Ever! By: Marc “The Machine” Lobliner 3 Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Meat and Sweet Potatoes—The Diet! Chapter 2: Machine3 Training System Chapter 3: No BS Supplements Chapter 4: How to Start This Program Chapter 5: Conclusion Appendix 4 Chapter 1: The Meat and Sweet Potatoes—The DIET! I know what you’re thinking. Most so-called diet books make you read pages and pages of worthless drivel to get to what you thought would be the good stuff—the actual diet and training program. Well, this is not one of those books. The first chapter is all about the program so when you need to look up what you need to do, you just open the book. Chapter 2 and beyond will go into the nuts and bolts of how this diet came about and also a provide what might be the most advanced and effective training system ever created. Let’s get results! This is how you can achieve your best body ever much like I have in record time! DISCLAIMER: There will be jokes throughout the book. This is FUN. I have fun doing this. This is not a misery, death march style, celebrity diet that sucks the life (and muscle) out of you. If you feel so crappy from your lifestyle or diet (whether you're dieting down or not), why are you doing it? Instead, we have fun here and eating quality, natural foods is a MOOD ENHANCER - not a depressant! This book was written for anyone looking to get in their best condition EVER and even get onstage and compete, but it can also...
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...popcorn, potatoes, cookies, spaghetti, soft drinks, corn, and cherry pie. They also come in a variety of forms. The most common and abundant forms are sugars, fibers, and starches. The basic building block of every carbohydrate is a sugar molecule, a simple union of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Starches and fibers are essentially chains of sugar molecules. Some contain hundreds of sugars. Some chains are straight, others branch wildly. Carbohydrates were once grouped into two main categories. Simple carbohydrates included sugars such as fruit sugar (fructose), corn or grape sugar (dextrose or glucose), and table sugar (sucrose). Complex carbohydrates included everything made of three or more linked sugars. Complex carbohydrates were thought to be the healthiest to eat, while simple carbohydrates weren’t so great. It turns out that the picture is more complicated than that. The digestive system handles all carbohydrates in much the same way—it breaks them down (or tries to break them down) into single sugar molecules, since only these are small enough to cross into the bloodstream. It also converts most digestible carbohydrates into glucose (also known as blood sugar), because cells are designed to use this as a universal energy source. Fiber is an exception. It is put together in such a way that it can’t be broken down into sugar molecules, and so it passes through the body undigested. Fiber comes in two varieties: soluble fiber dissolves in water, while insoluble fiber does...
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...of specific types of foods high in nutritional value and consume less of the foods high in sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, refined grains, cholesterol and added sugars. The most current version of the USDA guidelines produced in 2010 was generated during a time of high concern for the American population’s overall health. The epidemic of overweight and obese people that this generation is seeing is due to two factors alone; poor diet and inactivity. Even when looking past the obvious high number of obese people in our country poor diet and...
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...Introduction: In this assignment, I’m going to explain concepts that are associated with nutritional health which will include food, diet meals, snacks and many more. Also, I’m going to discuss different types of nutritional health such as malnutrition, deficiency and etc. What is nutritional? According to the World Health Organization.int/topics/nutrition/en: it defines nutrition as “Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate, well balanced diet combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity.” Nutrition is when an individual eats an amount of food which is linked to the needs of the body. As nutrition is needed by the body in order for us to be functioning well. Nutrition focuses on how our body prevents any diseases and harm and also how it maintains healthy lifestyle by taking in healthy diet. Furthermore, it also involves how certain problems such as disease occur due to lack of diet which is known us malnutrition and many more. What is food? According to Wikipedia.org/wiki/food; it defines food as “Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested...
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...are unable to feed by mouth due to ill health or health issues which does not able them to eat or drink normally. Food makes your body work, grow and repair itself and the kinds of food you eat can affect the efficiency of these processes. Diet Diet refers to the types of food an individual consumes on a regular basis and means all the meals, snacks and drinks they have. Diet is also used to refer to the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake. An individual on a diet will carefully monitors what they eat, in order to cut down on higher fat containing foods to help them lose weight. Meals and snacks Traditionally, an individual should be consuming three main meals a day however, it’s now more common for individuals to be gaining a significant amount of their food daily through snacks. Snacks are sometimes eaten between meals if the person feels hungry but it’s also possible that they eat the food simply because it’s available for them to consume. Many people assume snacks are unhealthy however snacks also refers to foods such as fruit and nuts. Nutrients Human’s main source of nutrients is food. There are many nutrients, some providing energy, while others are essential for growth and maintenance of the body. Carbohydrate, protein and fat are macronutrients that we need to eat in relatively large amounts in the diet as they provide our bodies with energy and also the building blocks for growth and maintenance of a healthy body. Vitamins and...
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...vessels, and nerves. This paper will describe briefly the role nutrition plays on Diabetes Type 1, the etiology, the progression, the treatment, nursing interventions and patient education related to patients with Diabetes Type 1. The epidemic of diabetes must be battled with great urgency both because of its medical implications and economic strain that it exerts on the world. Science has yet to provide a way to prevent type 1 diabetes. However, there are no high – quality data on the efficacy of dietary intervention for the prevention of the disease. You should eat a healthy diet. This diet is the same that is recommended for everyone. The idea that you need special food if you have diabetes is a myth. Diabetic foods still raise your blood glucose levels, contain just as much fat and calories and are usually more expensive than non – diabetic foods. Basically, you should aim to eat a diet low in fat, salt and sugar and high in fiber and with plenty of fruit and vegetables. However, you will need to know how to balance the right amount of insulin for the amount of food that you eat exactly! Therefore, you will normally be referred to a dietician for detailed advice (Kenny, 2013)....
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