Wholesome eating has become part of many diet routines. Most food outlets serve all kinds of healthy foods (superfoods, vegan foods, vegetarian varieties …)
Allergens and intolerances are important topics that might jeopardize eating out. A detailed list of ingredients is available in menus as allergens are present everywhere and should be easily avoided. Common allergens are present on bottom pages of menus and next to every dishes.If dining in a fancy place, mentioning your allergies while booking a table will give the chef a chance to change his recipe in order to replace allergens with tasty options.If you suffer from intolerances be firm when asking to cancel some ingredients. Eating out is a pleasurable experience and allergens or intolerances should not stop you from enjoying your meal.
What is the best way to get our body nourished??
It takes some planning and organizing to have a diet full of vitamins and minerals along with some basic nutrition knowledge.
Vitamins and minerals are micro substances (micronutrients) that are found in food or can be synthesized in labs in the form of pills. RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance) and IU (International Unit) are indicators of how much should we have of each vitamin or mineral in order to prevent diseases.
Eggs and diseases:
Patients diagnosed with high blood cholesterol are advised to avoid egg yolks as they contain high levels of cholesterol (186mg). The human body absorbs only 7% of cholesterol from food as it produces it has the capacity to produce its own cholesterol. Nowadays the egg ban has been released and people can consume it freely within a balanced diet containing fibers from fruits vegetables and whole grains.
What is a healthy egg?
There are various types of eggs in the market; organic, free range, regular and omega 3 rich eggs. Unfortunately the word regular does not stand for chickens running around, eating grains and laying eggs in a nest, but rather hens kept in a cage and fed large amounts of grains to serve the high demand for big sized chicken breast and daily breakfast omelets. Chicken sometimes reach a point were they are unable to walk because of the pressure created by the increased weight of their breasts.They are fed grains with antibiotics and growth hormones to reach an early maturity to fulfill the market demand.
How safe is it to eat a burger on a regular basis?
How does it affect humans and planet Earth?
Those are questions that hardly come into somebody’s mind before enjoying a burger.
In developed countries, cows are grain fed (soy and corn) rather than grass fed. Green house gases are increasing causing pollution. Cows are part of the problem as they are unable to digest grains and methane in their gases pollutes the air.
30% of Earth ‘surface is dedicated to feed cattle, pigs and chicken. Walsh, B (2013 December) “The triple whopper environmental impact of global meat production” Times.
The industrial food system is equipped with the latest machinery for feeding, killing and handling cattle for mass production. It is producing massive amounts of food, higher than what is needed for financial purposes disregarding environmental consequences.
Wheat, in certain individuals, can cause epilepsy, anxiety, migraine, depression, attention deficit disorder, Alzheimer and a lot more health issues. Bread constitutes one of the main food source in many countries.
Enjoying a morning croissant or a brioche has become so unhealthy in the diet industry thus accusing wheat to be the reason behind all those health issues.
Food labs transformed whole wheat grains into genetically modified white grains that would produce appealing white loafs; skin is removed from the grain, which is then bleached; additives and vitamins are injected to replace lost micronutrients. What a process… This is why bread has become dangerous, it was depleted from its core constituent the skin which contains most nutrients and health benefits.
Count your calories! Have a high protein diet! Low fat diets will make you lose weight! Keto diets are the best! The diet industry had us confused all along !
We are being tricked to perceive calories as the enemy and that high calorie foods makes us fat thus forgetting the role of crucial nutrients and vitamins found in butter, olive oils, nuts and seeds, healthy fats that are mostly limited in low calorie/low fat diets.
DO NOT COUNT YOUR CALORIES BUT RATHER EAT WHOLESOME FOODS.
Many debates revolve around fat; is it here to kill you or to save you from a heart attack?
There are different types of fat, the bad fats: saturated fat (from animal source mainly) and trans fats (created in labs to better preserve industrial pastries) and the good fats; monounsaturated fats (olive oil, canola oil..) and polyunsaturated fats (omega 6 and omega 3 found in fish oil and some seeds).
Saturated fat sources are butter, lard, cheese, and red meat. Trans fats are mainly found in margarine, donuts and industrial sweets.
Ingredients:
Kale leaves
pumpkin seeds
Tea tree tomatoes or tamarillo fruit
Fennel
Olive oil
Mustard seeds
Himalayan salt
Lemon juice
Try using all of your ingredients organic.
Cut kale and mix with olive oil to tenderize the leaves.
Slice fennel
Peel tamarillos and slice
Add pumpkin seeds,salt ,mustard seeds and lemon juice.
Enjoy!
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