Healthy Dieting

Safer Burgers?

Although fast-food burgers contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria made headlines overseas several years ago, many fast-food chains now do some microbial testing, so their burgers may be safer than those served at home. Local authorities also enforce health by-laws and react to complaints from the public. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve heard it a thousand times—fad diets are bad for you. The fact is, they don’t even work; they rarely, if ever, yield a weight loss that lasts for long. What’s worse, they can wreck your health. Read the rest of this entry »

Losing weight is easy. A lot of people do it every day. What’s tough is keeping it off. Restrictive diets may work in the short term. So may some diet aids. But soonthe weight returns.

There is only one proven way to lose weight and keep it off: make basic, simple changes in what you eat, how much you eat and how much you exercise. These changes should become part of your everyday life, so think ahead: Could you take a walk and eat an apple daily for the next year? Yes? Read the rest of this entry »

Your menus will be made up exclusively of foods and drinks chosen from good-quality protein sources and low glycaemic index, low- density carbohydrates, plus the very best fats. Let’s look at protein first.

Fish – all kinds of fresh and canned fish including bass, trout, sole, sardines, herring, mackerel, salmon, tuna, terakihi, dory.

Shellfish – mussels (the green-lipped variety are best), calamari, oysters, clams, crayfish, lobster, crabs. Read the rest of this entry »

Carbohydrates, or “carbs,” are the fuels your body runs on. Whether you eat whole-wheat bread or sweets, your body turns the carbohydrates in those foods into blood sugar or glucose. Does that mean both foods are equally good sources of energy? Hardly. The bread is the better value, supplying fuel to your body over a longer period of time. The sweets short-change your body, providing energy only for a short time. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a technique frequently used by doctors, nutritionists and other practitioners trained in functional medicine. Once you grasp the general idea, the answer to how much protein you have to eat literally lies in the palm of your hand. And the method can be used for both Insulin Balance and Ketogenics. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you ever find yourself resenting the ability of young people to eat whatever they want, apparently lounge around all the time and never gain weight? This is because their lean-body-mass-to-fat ratio is much higher than it is with older, sedentary people. Read the rest of this entry »

Days 1 and 2

Eat only fresh fruits and vegetables. Choose any six of the following fruits:

Apples, grapes, pineapples, cherries, raspberries, apricots, nectarines, plums, pears, strawberries, bananas, peaches, oranges, grapefruit Read the rest of this entry »

Breakfast

Make a point of having a good breakfast. As you may not have eaten for the last ten to twelve hours, your blood sugar is probably low and can lead to irritability, listlessness and poor performance. Your system can make more efficient use of this meal than of any other. Read the rest of this entry »

We are particularly proud of this recipe — children adore chicken nuggets but they usually feature reconstituted meat and fried, artificially coloured coatings. Our version uses lean chicken goujons dipped in gluten-free, fat-free polenta batter that is then baked, not fried. Read the rest of this entry »

Fiona tested this recipe on her parents, who, quite sensibly, think normal fish fingers are revolting, and even they thought these home-made ones were absolutely delicious! Read the rest of this entry »

Unfailingly popular with children, including picky eaters, this recipe uses brown basmati rice, which has the least starch of all the rice types, keeping the GL low to make sure blood sugar and energy stay balanced. Read the rest of this entry »

Fish, tuna, canned in brine: 0,06 Fish, tuna, canned in oil: 8,2

Fruit (all fruits, except coconut & avocado)(on average): 0,05

Garbanzos (chick peas), cooked: 2,6

Green beans, uncooked: 0,03

Ham, lean, fat trimmed: 5,0

Ice cream, full cream: 16,0

Ice cream, soff serve: 13,0 Read the rest of this entry »

(All foods below: 100 g portions, fat in grams)

Apple, fresh: 0,3

Avocado: 15,3

Bacon, lean, grilled: 22,3

Bacon, traditional, fried: 49,2

Banana, fresh: 0,05

Banana, fried in oil, drained: 5,5 Read the rest of this entry »

Bring out chopsticks one day; blindfold them for a ‘guess what’s for supper’ food-tasting test another time; make them eat the different foods on their plate in alphabetical order — there are all kinds of games you can play to encourage your child to eat and to deflect attention from battles over whether they like a food or not. Read the rest of this entry »

For convalescents, soups are a favourite food. They are quick to prepare, packed with nutrients and help to rehydrate the body. Include soup on your day-after menu. Read the rest of this entry »

List, with as much detail as you can, how it benefits you to be in control of your addictive eating and what it costs you to be out of control. Put the emphasis on health and wellbeing, rather than appearance. Keep the list somewhere safe, private and easily accessible, like a Filofax, diary or jewellery box. Refer to it often, adding to it as you go along. These are notes to yourself in the future, if you forget. Read the rest of this entry »

The legumes/pulses are unusual foods in nature in that many of them are both concentrated starches and proteins. As such (with the exception of lentils) they can be quite difficult for many slimmers to digest. Therefore on the raw energy food diet few legumes are used — except, of course, in sprouted form. The one which is commonly used unsprouted is the lentil — red, brown, green or black. Read the rest of this entry »

There is no necessity to eat flesh foods at all on the raw energy food combining diet: you will get a full complement of proteins from the mixes of your sprouted seeds and grains, nuts, the occasional egg and low-fat cheese. Read the rest of this entry »

Juices

If you are lucky enough to have your own centrifugal juice extractor you can make some excellent drinks from vegetables and fruits — for instance, by mixing raw carrot juice and raw apple juice half and half. Building upon this formula you can add a little cucumber or mustard and cress or celery or fresh tomatoes to create some delicious cocktails. Read the rest of this entry »