Archive for May, 2011
The Nutrition Food
You need all the nutrition and enzymes you can get from the plant based foods you eat. When you over cook your vegetables you lose a lot of the nutrition and eliminate the beneficial enzymes. Along with the lightly cooked vegetables also eat some fruits and vegetables raw each day. Salads are great but also consider making a green drink. Here’s is a simple recipe I make almost everyday. Take a blender or better if you have it or can buy one, a Vita Mix or other high speed blender. Put in a hand full of fresh kale, a small bunch of fresh Italian parsley, a sprig of celery, maybe a small chunk of cabbage, one or two cored apples, one or two cored pears and a wedge of lemon with the peel on.. Put in more than one apple and pear for how sweet you want it, you can also play around with different fruits, sometimes I also put in berries, like blue berries. This green drink does not taste like it may look, the fruit mixed with the vegetables gives it a slightly sweet pleasant taste. The idea here is you get a big shot of fresh, raw vegetables and fruit, with very low caloric content and tons of nutritional and antioxidant content and fiber. This is a super healthy all fresh plant based weight loss drink.
Healthy Foods to Lose Weight
My experience chasing weight loss is probably not much different than most people. I have worked at weight loss and weight management for most of my adult life. I’m now sixty years old. There was a time when I tried all kinds of the newest and latest methods to loss weight quickly, I have used pre-scripted diets, diet products, even eating habits therapy. I could usually make some progress and lose some weight, but I have always found that unless I stayed with the program permanently I would just go back to where I was. I found that most of these diets and diet products, were not a good recipe for my health. I also love good food, I like to cook and as I have gotten older, above all, I want to be as healthy as possible. I am a firm believer that good health and long term health management is rooted in nutrition and a balanced well chosen food group as well as a consistent exercise regiment. Weight loss, weight management and great health all go together. Once I got this clearly embedded in my brain, I realized that the basis of this thinking was really pretty simple. I am not advocating a vegetarian diet here, I personally am not a practicing vegetarian. I do think a well thought out and practiced vegetarian diet can be great for weight loss and excellent health.