Salmon is one of the most nutritious and healthiest foods that we should include in our diet and it is no great surprise that salmon is rated by many as one of the big super-foods. The reason it is rated so highly is that it is loaded with nutrients like Omega 3 that are important for reducing risk factors with several diseases. But it is not just its health benefits that attracts many people, it is also a very tasty fish, easy to cook, and versatile in that it can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Cooked Food or Raw Food – Which Is More Beneficial For Nutrient Absorption?
This is one of those tricky questions for the answer is not the same for every person. It all depends on the person as to what may be most suitable. I used to think that people cooked their food too often and were destroying the enzymes making their meal less nutrient dense and believed that raw foods were the better choice. However, while there is a loss to some nutrients when cooked, there is also a gain in some other nutrients and more importantly it can be much easier on the digestive system to eat cooked food. In this article, I will take a look at the pros and cons of eating raw versus cooked to help you determine what works best for you.
Why You Cannot Out-Exercise A Bad Diet
I’ve been working with clients as a Personal Trainer for over 20 years now and like most trainers who first start out, all I wanted to do was all the fun fitness exercises and methods. I always knew that diet was an important part of the training equation, but I thought that if I worked my clients hard as I did everything would just fall into place and come together. I thought my seriously intense training programs would be enough on their own to over-ride any nutrition deficits they may have. While at times I was able to have a lot of fun with some clients, and there were definitely some who did achieve great results, I felt I was failing many others for my ignorance to the real issues. I was not helping them to see where their focus needed to be which had nothing to do with fitness. Sure, I wanted them to eat well but my knowledge in helping them was flawed as I was basing everything on the calories in versus calories out equation. I felt well as long as they trained hard we could burn enough calories to counter their poor food choices. I assumed that training alone would be enough. I was wrong.
The Amazing Health Benefits Of Vegetable Juice
Almost every health authority recommends that we get 6-8 servings of vegetables and fruits per day, yet most people are lucky to get half that. One easy way to virtually guarantee that you will reach your daily target for vegetables, is juicing. However, you need to be cautious with fruit juices, especially if you are over-weight or diabetic, as these foods have a high sugar and fructose content that can cause more problems. The exception to this rule would be lemons and limes, which have virtually none of the offending sugar and fructose levels that cause most of the metabolic complications. Also lemons and limes are amazing at eliminating the bitter taste of the dark, deep green leafy vegetables that provide most of the benefits of juicing, for example Kale.
Why You Should Be Drinking BONE BROTH To Improve Gut Health
Without a shadow of a doubt the single greatest improvement I have added to my life over the last few years has been the addition of bone broth to my diet. I drink a Tumeric flavoured bone broth at least 3 times per week and the changes it has provided to my body are astounding. The most noticeable difference has been my gut health, but other benefits like increased energy levels, less joint pain, and improved mood are things I now feel since adding this to my lifestyle. What exactly is in this drink that makes it so good? And why do so many other people like myself swear by it as something to include in your diet? In this article, I will explain what makes this unique drink so powerful to your health and a great recipe you can use to make your own drink.
Why Butter Is Actually Good For Your Health & Can Help Reduce Chances of Disease
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death, and for the past 60 years, saturated fat and cholesterol have been wrongfully vilified as the culprits and right at the top of the list was butter as a food to avoid. If you are like me and enjoy some butter on a baked potato, toast, or corn cob, you were made to feel guilty for eating something so fattening. The media and the relentless advertising on TV tells us that margarine is much better for us, and butter is the enemy as it will make you fat and kill you! What you will find is that butter is actually a very healthy food for us to eat and it contains some rich sources of vitamins essential to function of many of our vital organs for prevention of disease. In this article I will try to shed light on many interesting things about butter that you never knew and allow you to enjoy eating this again without the guilt it is doing you harm.
Are You Sabotaging Your Health By Eating Too Fast?
One of the most overlooked parts of improving health and fitness is how we eat our food. We place a huge focus on the type of foods and even when to eat, but something we pay little attention to how we eat. The process of chewing our food correctly is of vital importance in providing numerous benefits to our health. When you eat slowly, you digestion improves and your body can easily extract the essential vitamins and minerals from the food to allow it to function at its optimal capacity. You feel more satisfied with each meal allowing for better energy throughout the day and this also prevents over-eating helping you to maintain a healthy weight. However, if you eat too quickly your digestion suffers in a big way and this can cause havoc to not just your waistline, but can cause headaches, joint pain, skin problems, and even disease! Meals end up becoming stressful to your body as opposed to being a time for it to refuel and recharge. Add on top of this is how you feel sluggish and bloated and unable to stop over-eating and sabotaging your exercise efforts. Your food choices might be perfect but the fact you are eating too fast is your problem. For many people this becomes a bad habit and they do not even know they are doing it. In this article we are going to explain exactly what happens when you eat too quickly and some simple strategies you can use to prevent this bad habit from ruining your health goals.
Health Benefits Of Eating Nuts You Might Not Know
One of the most under-rated foods for our health is nuts. They tend to be associated as a food to be wary of due to their high fat content but they really are a great source of healthy fat, vitamins, antioxidants, and fibre. And, just to clear up the long held belief that they will make you fat, eating healthy fat will actually help you lose weight. Usually, if you’re struggling with excess weight, it’s because you’re eating too much sugar and processed foods. In fact, a high-fat, moderate protein, and low-carb diet is one of the most effective ways to shed stubborn weight, as it helps shift your body from burning sugar to burning fat as its primary fuel. This is what the Keto diet is based upon and why it works so well for so many people who struggle with various health problems. A big part of this diet is the consumption of various nuts. However, like all foods you need to know which ones are best for you and to avoid over-eating for you can have too much of a good thing. In this article, we will take a detailed look at everything you need to know about nuts.
How to use the Keto Diet With Intermittent Fasting To Improve Your Health
There is so much information about food and eating healthy these days it is hard to know where to start. It seems like every day there is something new in the media informing us about something we should eat more or less of to get in good shape. And to make it more confusing there will be another report at the same time with an opposing opinion with scientific evidence to support it. It is no wonder people find it so hard to achieve great health and fitness results when there is just so much conflicting information. The one nutrition method to attract a lot of attention in recent times is the Keto diet. Unlike many other nutrition approaches this is not aimed specifically at weight loss, but at improving overall health and reducing inflammation in your body. This article we asked one of our trainers who has been successfully using this method for the past few months to explain how her body feels since she began experimenting with this eating method and the little tips and tricks she found along the way to make the transition easy to implement. Enjoy.
Are You Eating Enough Green Vegetables?
Only 25% of the people we talk to about food eat three or more servings of vegetables a day! And the ones they do happen to eat are not often green leafy vegetables or cruciferous veggies. If you are in the majority who is not eating enough veggies full stop, you are missing out big time on major benefits, as these food groups are one of the pivotal cornerstones to optimal health. Just doing more workouts is a waste of time if you are not getting your nutrition right. The more unhealthy you are the more important green vegetables & cruciferous foods become. Vegetables contain an array of antioxidants and other disease-fighting compounds that are very difficult to get anywhere else. Plant chemicals called phyto-chemicals can reduce inflammation and eliminate carcinogens, while others regulate the rate at which your cells reproduce, get rid of old cells and maintain DNA.