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FACTS: Let's Talk About Wheat, Dos & Don'ts

  Wheat.. Is a cereal, very commonly consumed in most of our daily meals. Wheat is almost undeniably a household product. From muffins, pastas, crackers, bread to bagels. Being a most versatile grain in value addition to nutrition and health, wheat is widely available all over the world market and households. Image:depositphotos Predominantly, consumption of wheat for the purpose of health and diet benefits rely on the kind or type indigested. Whole Wheat  – Form the healthiest and most nutritious wheat Extracted Version – Form the less nutritional valued wheat, as the brown outermost layer is shaded out In essence wheat has numerous health benefits but not short of adverse impacts too. Wheat is a great source of fibre, necessary vitamins and mineral, but also constitutes of gluten; a protein responsible for the elasticity seen in dough, which is also said to cause abdominal pains and unwellness to a fraction of the world's population. Wheat benefits to health Reducing chronic...

Guava Fruit & Leaf Amazing Health Benefits

  What's guava? Guava is a tropical fruit from a tropical plant with so much nutritional and medicinal benefits. The plant's fruit and leaf have been scientifically proven to be very helpful in aiding mankind in different health situations.  Image:timesofindia.indiatimes.com The plant products are usually consumed fresh. The fruits can be eaten wholely or made into juice. The leaves are highly medicinal and can be used to make herbal tea or leaf extract used as supplement. Guavas are rich in vitamin A, C and E. Contains four times more vitamin C than even oranges, boasting of more potassium than the banana and even more fibre than the king of fruits, the pineapple. Health benefits; 1. Boosts Immunity Packed with vitamin C, the guava fruit is known to be a better immunity building agent than the other fruits. It boosts your immunity levels that helps in fighting pathogens and infections. 2. Weight Loss & Control The fruit regulates metabolic reactions of the body systems. G...

Eating Vegan: 7 Benefits of Plant Based Diets

What's eating vegan?   Say it is a practice that an individual adopts to try and simply cut down on meat intake and eat a diet that is more plant-wise oriented, though with some limited animal print chipped in here and there. Registered dietitian and founder of Nutrition con Sabor in Raleigh, North Carolina, Krista Linares, RDN defines plant based diet. Image:everydayhealth The diet, therefore, is one more inclined towards feeding more on plants based foods, even acquiring the protein and oils from plants-based sources of protein and oils, like beans, nuts etc. while less consideration or attention is offered to the animal based foods. The diet is more or less a like to that of a vegetarian. A  Plants-based diet has several health benefits. You are likely to be unable to believe it but all are true and factual information on this diet's positive impact in your body health and life in general. #1. Decreased Risks of Heart Disease  Meat, cheese, and eggs accompany choleste...

Appetizing Healthy Snacks for Family Treats

  Snack times for the family is that moment you would probably never wish or want to trade for anything else I bet. These moments as a family unit always bring out the best feeling of togetherness, shared love and sense of belonging as one shares fun and exciting moments. Image:thedacare.org It is a good treat for relaxation in between meals, even more better if healthy.  Even though most of the packaged snacks tend to be the unhealthiest, it is advised to check on your snacks' nutrients composition. This is the best opportunity to drop in some nutritients-packed elements in the snack treat. Ensure every food the family eats is always not only delicious but also energizing, nutritious and healthy for their health safety. Listed below are the best appetizing healthy snack treats  that are perfect for the whole family. Snacks packed with proteins for the whole family; Eggs Cheese Milk Nuts Hummus Ham slices Yoghurt Also important are snacks full of fibres and vitamins, good...

Healthy Regular Morning Checklist: Start your Day the Healthiest Way

Image:tipsforgrooming The sure way, actually the best way to start off your day is going the healthiest way from when and how you wake up. This really matters a lot on how the rest of your day would turn out. Counting on a routined checklist that is not just right but also healthy, it works miracles every morning. Get it right in the morning and see yourself working your way most productively and effectively for the rest of the day. See yourself actively performing with the least of distractions and effort. This is your one time offer to be the healthiest you as you have always desired. Every beginning are always challenging and breathtaking but with this, fresh from sleep, you can never go wrong. Here are some great healthy ideas for your great morning. 1. Good Wake Up Time   This does not imply you have to wake up so early though if you can it's very okay but then you just have to fix a good time fit with you for you remember, according to your everyday activities. The fit wake u...

Unbelievable 7 Weird Signs of Good Health

Health has always been a paramount agenda to every living being on the surface of the earth, especially when it gets to the human health. Our health status is always determined by the kind of lifestyle we decide to lead and embrace in our daily activities. What we eat, our diets to physical activities, exercises to mental well-being, stress-free life and staying positive towards life in general, all these contribute widely to attaining good healthy. Image:everydayhealth Incredibly, some good health signs and symptoms are not all out of everyone's expectations list for depicting good health exhibitions. We would notice or experience some of these signs without taking much keen interest or having an indifferent opinion from seeing the signs. Increasingly, many have feared and even taken precautionary measures to curb the experience or ordeal only not being aware they are health-wise okay and had no need to worry. Image:achievemedicalcenter Though strange and alarming enough, the foll...

Glowing Skin Secret: Super Foods for a Beautiful and Healthy Skin

  You are what you eat. Just having to run up and down, exercising, applying skincare products and staying stress-free are never enough as I have come to realise. It matters most what you consume and feed the insides towards obtaining a blemish-free skin. Image:Eatingwell You need to eat healthy, not just healthy at that but the right healthy foods for restructuring, mending and maintaining a beautiful glowing skin. " Your skin needs a boost from within to look fresh and glowing. After all, beautiful skin starts with nourishment from within. You need to eat the right balance of foods to feed your skin the vital nutrients it needs to help it stay soft, radiant and blemish-free " ~Skincare expert Suparna Trikha~ The secret to having a naturally glowing and attractive skin is through the foods you take. It is widely agreed that greens and fruits contain those natural vital nutrients which have successfully proven effective in treating and maintaining the skin texture and outlook...

Unknown Toxic Foods When Mixed and Healthy Foods Safe to Mix Freely

 Unfortunately most are likely to engage in unhealthy eating habits and practices with an aim or mission of providing their body systems with healthy, nutritious and body maintaining foods, without being aware.  Image:adityabirlacapital Popularly, individuals have taken it into much practice of combining different foods and even foods and drugs in an attempt to eat a super healthy foods mix or take prescribed drugs in a simpler combined drug and food component as an item respectively. Well, you might be in so much danger and may be doing alot of harm rather than building or keeping your body systems safe and healthy. Therefore, as much as there are also alot more food dishes that are okay to combine or mix with one another, it's almost proportionately equal to the number of dishes that have been scientifically proven to be highly toxic to the human body and might have fatal results in the long run if kept on. Some of these toxic combinations include the following as mentioned ...

Healthy, Affordable Yet Best Weight Loss Foods

  Hello dear readers! Are you set to start off the weight loss journey or have been having the thought of it growling at the back of your mind? Well, I empower you today with great amazing and cheapest healthy foods to set you going and actually realize the thought of reducing on the weighting pounds of fats and achieving the desired body shape you ought to be in today. Image:shutterstock It is not an easy task or step but with commitment, self discipline and of course right attitude, you are sure to be the you you always dream to be and have always wanted to be. By eating the following rounded up healthy and affordable weight loss foods, you are sure not only to cut off the weight but also to gain countless health benefits to your body systems . 1. Eggs Image:news-medical Having eggs for breakfast can cause you to feel all the more full and assist you with eating less calories for the duration of the day, which means they're a remarkable unmistakable advantage for weight reduction...

Simple Cheap Snack that Can Help you Live a Long Life

Image: health.com It is really interesting and impressive at the same time to think of just a simple cheap item, actually most commonly taken and used as a snack food to be playing such a huge role in the lives of mankind in the current world. Living a long life has been something so many would love to possess the ability to, yet it's now a very easy gift to claim. Long life goes hand in hand with healthy eating and feeding habits. Your kind of preferred diets matters a lot in the attempt to lead a long life. Quite possibly the main proactive measures you can take is to keep a sound weight since obesity can prompt perilous conditions like coronary illness. A sound eating routine additionally lessens the measure of oxidative pressure and irritation in the body. Image: bicycling.com A study from the Havard School of Public Health, as co-authored by Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology, stated that people who ate nuts every day lived longer healthier lives than those ...

Risk of Infertility! Try to Avoid These Foods

  Infertility amongst men and women is a serious condition, often caused by a number of factors with the kind of eats and food diets one puts up with as a major factor. The inability to conceive or bear the mankind fruit of reproduction is much more common in women than men as various studies have suggested. Image: recipetineats.com It causes alot of distress and discomfort in many of couples' relationship, making it a great deal and a very important topic for our discussion today. Scientists have been able to attribute this condition to poor eating habits and unhealthy lifestyles. Therefore, one of the ways, especially in women to fight this, is to improve or change on eating habits. Avoid or try to limit your intake of the following foods as I will briefly describe them for you, men reading this please take note for your spouse or partner. Large Quantities of Caffeine Products Caffeine products especially coffee has been found to be a cause of infertility if taken in huge amounts...

Hazards of Chicken Consumption You Never Knew

  Image:Dinneratthezoo.com Why you have to Monitor your Chicken Eating Habits Chicken dishes and recipes have always been amazingly delightful, sweet and very attractive. I can remember the last time I did not partake in enjoying this dish. Chicken is attributed to being a major source of high-quality protein nutrients making it so popularly prepared in so many different ways in so many different events. The so many different ways of chicken preparations brings up the alarming factor which health-wise, have to be called out for the greater good of humanity in love with this dish. Chicken can be grilled, baked, fried, smoked and even boiled to any consumer's desire.  It does not stop there, the hazardous side of chicken has also been found by scientists to be deriving from its habitat and growing methods. It is therefore, in my greatest interest to highlight to you some of these slowly damaging side effects. Take keen notes here. Risk of Cancer Taking little to very low diets o...

Healthy 7 Days Balanced Diet Meal Plan

 Eating healthy is very important for a healthy and strong body system. It has multiple benefits and advantages as eating healthy relies on your feeding habits. Fitness, maintaining that desired body shape and living a diseases-free lifestyle all are attributes from a healthy eating culture. A meal plan is a tool purposefully designed to aid in providing a healthy eating module with an aim of promoting a balanced dietary feeding. Here is a healthy one week meal plan for you, from Monday to Sunday with plans for breakfast, lunch and dinner meal hours. MONDAY Breakfast: Egg omelette with sorghum (wimbi)  porridge Banana for snacks Lunch: Mashed potatoes with peas and green vegetables Fruit salad for snacks Dinner: Chicken liver with sweet potatoes with mixed veges. Tea with milk for snacks TUESDAY Breakfast: Arrow root  (nduma) with milk tea Apple for snacks Lunch: Green peas (ndengu)  with rice and vegetables Fruit salad for snacks Dinner Baked or mashed potatoes with...

Hidden “Healthy" Foods In Your Daily Diets

I know this is that point you are expecting a eat this, not that..change this, do that.. pick these, leave that but right here today, I am all about giving you my cherished readers, a heads up on what and which dangers you are exposing your systems health to and trying to control and limit some of these damaging effects from some ‘healthy' foods and drinks we are accustomed to. Needless to say, subconsciously, most engage in the destruction of their own future; strong, beautiful, long and healthy future. These eats are nothing short of pretentious purpose in our attempts to live healthy and diseases-free. They ate either stacked up with sugars, salts or preservatives which are enormously harmful to our health. If you would allow me to point out these fake health eats from their hideous contributions to allow you take enough extra measures in their consumption and usages. Here are the trendy notorious 12; 1. Whole Wheat Bread Are packed with high levels of sugar content used in ther...