How to be a Better Eater

There’s a lot of information out there, just like the X-Files said. The truth is in hidden among the assumptions and theories, waiting for you to sort through the chaff and get there. Most of this information tells you how to be the “perfect” eater, an ideal person who eats just the right amount of everything and has the perfect body and works out the most.

However, when you think about your lifestyle from a practical point of view, perfection is impossible. What you can do however is look at improving your lifestyle, making adjustments that will benefit you in the long run. Ready? Here goes:

1. Prepare yourself mentally. If you can condition your brain into understanding that you can’t subsist on your diet of chips and cookies, it will help you.       Write down goals and pin them up on a wall, next to the picture of that person whose body you admire. Look at yourself in the mirror every day and say your goals out loud. The stronger your will, the easier this will be.

2. Add a portion of fruits or raw veggies to your daily meal. There HAS to be a fruit you like – papaya, avocado, apples, bananas – just pick one. Buy lots  and eat!

3. Diet food need not be unhealthy. There are cookbooks, cooking classes and websites willing to impart tons of wisdom on healthy eating. Time to use all that information for your personal gain.

4. Never forget the importance of water. Drink 8-10 glasses a day – important for better skin, better digestion, less chances of UTIs in women; the benefits are plenty.

5. Smaller portions – if you’re one of those who likes to eat till he/ she is too stuffed to move for EVERY meal, you need to start thinking of smaller portions. It takes a few minutes for your brain to tell your body that it’s had enough, so eat slowly and enjoy your meal. Just enough food will also make you feel less lethargic after.

6. Eat every two hours – a piece of cheese, a handful of peanuts, plain popcorn. Keep those digestive systems running.

Eat better and slowly you’ll see the changes you’ve always hoped for. Less indigestion and acidity, weight loss, increase in stamina and energy – who wouldn’t want that?

© Text: Healthy Times Blog.

All-In-One Wellness Drinks

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Wellness drinks refer to such fluids that arrest all possible factors of concern regarding health and taste. Every individual wants to remain protected from obesity issues, cholesterol issues, bone heart and eye care, hair growth and fall control, etc. However, no one is ready to ignore their taste buds to accommodate strict diet regimen. All these issues occur from deficiencies of protein, vitamins, minerals and calcium, which need to be a staple part of the diet. Wellness drinks can be planned such that all these ingredients are taken care of without sacrificing the pleasure of having it.

There is always the option of extracting fresh juice out of fruits and consuming them, either one at a time or mixed, and serving them with ice-cubes. Lots of fruits and veggies packed in with milk can help prepare smoothies that are even more healthy; just that the ingredients need to be selected such that they are ripe and sweet enough to avoid added sugar. This would bring vitamins from fruits and calcium from milk. Often yoghurt is preferred over milk in such drinks for better taste. Juice mocktails can be made with limeade and ice or a slushy frappe made by blending fruit, fruit juice and ice. Spices are said to have healing effects. A cinnamon cidar prepared with fruits and cinnamon can serve to be a great health drink. Fruit juices or cucumber water mixed with lime and mint can create a refreshing drink that works as energizers.

Cinnamon powder soaked in hot water mixed with honey, when consumed as the first and last drink of the day, helps in fighting obesity. Green tea, barley tea, ginger tea, berry juice keep cholesterol in control. Keeping away soda and including milk or milk based drinks prepared with nuts or juices of  leafy greens and calcium-rich veggies (like broccoli and kale) mixed with powdered edible seeds work in favour of building calcium and hence bones. Carrots, grapes and papaya juice at breakfast are extremely good for eyes; they can be blended with milk to prepare tasty smoothies. Hair care can be accelerated with veggie broth containing tomatoes, spinach, mushroom, turmeric, lettuce, cabbage, etc.