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Food Cravings Tips

Posted by Administrator - 09/04/08 at 06:04:02 pm

Wait! Before you put that order in for the large pepperoni pizza with extra cheese, read this article. After reading the following tips to help prevent acting on your food cravings, you may just have the will to prevent yourself from sabotaging your diet and workout program.

Brush your teeth and rinse with mouthwash. You’re probably not going to want to eat anything immediately after cleaning your teeth. The taste of toothpaste and mouth wash should make you fee like nothing will taste good for a while. Be careful not to do this too often and to brush lightly. Overly Excessive brushing can lead to the loss of tooth enamel and damage to your gums.
Appetence chocolate? Eat a banana. It sometimes satisfies the admiring for amber and is abundant beneath fattening.
Chew sugarless gum. It speeds up the digestive system, afire added calories, and sometimes kills a craving.
Exercise! Your appetence will briefly abate and you’ll feel bigger about demography such a proactive approach.
Still appetence chocolate? Try a magnesium supplement. Many women are amiss in this mineral, which is begin in chocolate.
Appetence blubbery foods? Eat fish, or yield a angle oil or flaxseed oil supplement. You may be low in capital blubbery acids.
Grab something to drink. Sometimes, cravings for aliment are absolutely appetite in disguise
Sweet tooth? Protein, fat and fibre accumulate claret amoroso levels added even and advice accumulate such cravings beneath control.
Watch your caffeine intake. Caffeine seems to accomplish amoroso cravings worse.
If your will ability weakens at night, try abrogation the lights on until the minute you go to bed. Dimmed lights tend to lower inhibitions.

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Now this is our affectionate of news: Recent analysis from a above University appear that surrendering to a appetite is sometimes the best advance of action—as continued as you can convenance PC, abbreviate for allocation control.

In a abstraction of 32 ample women, all averaged an 8 percent weight accident afterwards 12 months, but those who were a lot of acknowledged gave in to their cravings occasionally. If they did indulge, they ate baby amounts—just abundant to be satisfied.

The capital point actuality is practicing abstemiousness and moderation, not deprivation. If you forbid a food, it alone becomes that abundant added adorable and appealing, and you become acceptable to overeat.

So if you charge to augment the amber monster, ability for a prepackaged snack, such as those air-conditioned “100 Calorie Packs” of Doritos and alarm it a day. You’ll be abundant beneath acceptable to breach down and advance an absolute bowl of nachos with the works.
Eat enough every day - don’t acutely cut your calorie intake. You have to eat abundant to advance your ideal physique weight. Don’t go on any affectionate of starvation diet. Eat three advantageous meals, including breakfast, and a brace of advantageous snacks.
Go nuts. Drink two glasses of water and eat an ounce of basics (6 walnuts, 12 almonds or 20 peanuts). Within 20 minutes, this can extinguish your appetence and bedew your appetence by alteration your physique chemistry, says RD’s “Health IQ” columnist Michael F. Roizen, MD.
Plan or avoid. Vary your accepted accepted to abstain casual the bakery or pizzeria. If you apperceive you’ll be contiguous with alluring altogether cake, admeasure abundant calories to fit it into your diet.
Maintain your claret amoroso level, by bistro accomplished grains, blooming vegetables and fruit, and don’t leave continued gaps amid meals. When your claret amoroso levels are low, you’ll acquaintance cravings.

Print these tips and hang them on your refrigerator. Read them through each time you feel a weakness coming on.
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April 9, 2008 | In Healthy Eating | No Comments

High Fructose Corn Syrup Vs. Sugar

Posted by Administrator - 04/04/08 at 12:04:15 pm

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No matter how much you try to avoid it, sugar is always going to find its way into your diet. The only thing you can do is try to take in the “healthiest” sugars possible. This means you want to stay away from the processed stuff.

A popular question about sugar is, “Is high fructose corn syrup better or worse for you than regular sugar?”

The answer is as follows:

First, High Fructose Corn Syrup is a poor suga/sweetner choice. Here is a little history on HFCS and some facts.

High fructose corn syrup, made from cornstarch, was invented in the 1960’s by Japanese scientists and has since unlocked a way for food manufacturers to sweeten their products for a fraction of what they would pay for traditional sweeteners such as sucrose.
High fructose corn syrup is composed of either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose, with the remaining sugars being primarily glucose and higher sugars.
In addition to providing sweetness at a level equivalent to sugar, high fructose corn syrup makes foods such as bread and breakfast cereal “brown” better when baked, gives chewy breakfast bars their soft texture and also protects freshness.
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is processed from hydrolyzed corn starch (so it’s not completely natural) and contains a high level of fructose (which is naturally occurring in fruits and honey) and a simple sugar carbohydrate, just like sucrose. It is about 75% sweeter than sucrose, less expensive than sugar, and mixes well in many foods.
In 1980 the average person ate 39 pounds of fructose and 84 pounds of sucrose. In 1994 the average person ate 66 pounds of sucrose and 83 pounds of fructose, providing 19 percent of total caloric energy. Today approximately 25 percent of our average caloric intake comes from sugars, with the larger fraction as fructose.

Sugary foods aren’t so bad after a hard session at the gym, but look for HFCS-free products such as bars sweetened with cane juice or honey.
There really is no place for HFCS in anyone’s diet, especially for the fitness-minded.

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April 4, 2008 | In Healthy Eating | No Comments

Chicken Cacciatore

Posted by Administrator - 03/04/08 at 11:04:15 am

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Here’s an awesome recipe for bodybuilders and dieters that makes chicken fun again while providing all of the muscle building protein you need.
With a short prep. time and quick prepare time, you’ll have a plate full of delicious poultry goodness in no time. If you’re like me, you hear cacciatore and have absolutely no idea what that means in the cooking world. You’re about to learn and believe me, you’ll be making this recipe many times more. This chicken recipe is not only good for the health conscious, but anyone who likes chicken!

This recipe will make 4 servings.

Ingredients:

>> 1 lb. skinless chicken breast, cut in bite-size chunks
>> 1 cup chopped onion
>> 4 cloves garlic, minced
>> 2 cups canned crushed tomatoes
>> 1 tsp. oregano
>> 1 tsp. basil
>> 2 cups tomato puree

PREPARE: place chicken pieces in a lightly oiled baking pan. START: Bake 30 minutes at
350 degrees F, then add onion and garlic, stirring to combine. Bake 15 minutes more. Mix in canned
crushed tomatoes, oregano and basil, then turn chicken pieces. Cover with tomato puree and return pan to oven.
COOK: Bake an additional 30 minutes or until chicken is tender.
NUTRITION FACTS (per serving):
212 calories, 30 g protein, 18 g Garbs, 2 g fat, 4 g fiber

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