Showing posts with label GreenFoods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GreenFoods. Show all posts

Monday, June 2, 2014

The Importance of Chlorophyll in Daily Diet

 The importance of chlorophyll in the body is distinguished with a number of ways. It is known that chlorophyll is the green element that helps to clean the body from toxins. Its role is also important in ensuring a strong immune system that fights infections. It is recommended to have a regular intake of chlorophyll to keep your digestive and circulatory systems in a healthy mode. Nutritional supplements having natural origin, contain a huge amount of chlorophyll, because of its benefits to the body. Accordingly, this magic substance called chlorophyll is a perfect way to cleanse, purify and heal most parts of the damaged body.

 
 It goes beyond saying that there are numerous ways to keep our body healthy. Chlorophyll is included in one of those substances  keeping the different systems of the human body healthy and strong. Keep reading how chlorophyll benefits to health in so many ways.

There is nothing more natural than trying to protect the body from any harm, and ensuring all the important ways to keep it healthy and fit. It’s all the same with plants. As a hemoglobin is the vital component of the body, keeping it fit and healthy, it is similar to the plants, as chlorophyll is the substance that ensures health and is a source of food and energy for them. Accordingly, chlorophyll is the blood of plants.

Moreover, chlorophyll helps to regulate the sugar level in the body, which is the reason why ideologists give a great credit to consuming dark leaf plants (and not only) to be included in the daily diet. With its power to regulate sugar levels in the body, chlorophyll makes it easy to lose weight, as well as to keep fit. Another healing feature of the chlorophyll is that it helps to control blood pressure.

Besides its medical value, chlorophyll is also rich in minerals, vitamins and nutrients. Furthermore, it controls and keeps fit the amount of calcium in the blood that is essential for women.

As mentioned the some of the benefits of consuming chlorophyll, it is important to know that chlorophyll helps to increase the amount of blood cells, which are the providers of oxygen to all the body. By its power of detoxification, chlorophyll ensures us a strong immune system and accordingly, a healthier body.  

Monday, May 19, 2014

Best Foods to Burn Calories


The great news is that it is not that difficult to eat tasty food and at the same time burn calories for having a perfect body. These kind of foods that are not only tasty, but also beneficial for your health should be added to your daily or weekly meal plan to ensure you an easy weight loss and lightness. The food alone will not be as effective if you do not  exercise regularly. This way you will burn your extra calories (and not only) and improve your health. The article goes further to point out some of those super foods.

                                                                                                                              
Grapefruit. The bitter taste of grapefruit should not make you stay away from consuming it, perhaps, on a weekly scale. This fruit will help you to feel faster, as well as, it will help you to burn more calories than you have imagined. Due to the great amount of fiber containing in grapefruits, you will stabilize the sugar level in your blood. Try to dress your salads with it or mix it with your fruit salad. The perfect thing to do is to start your day with a cup of grapefruit juice.



Celery. The celery contains a lot of water with which it assures you a balanced diet. There is no secret in how it contributes to your health; celery contains less calories and helps to burn more of them. However, this food does not contain all of the necessary minerals and nutrients for the body to benefit. Accordingly, you should not rely on a celery diet, so that the best thing to do is to combine it with some other foods.


Whole grains. This kind of food is good for your diet, as it takes a long time to digest it by keeping you full for a long time. A study has revealed that whole grains are healthier as compared with the refined ones. The health benefit of whole grains is that it will help you to avoid chronic diseases. This type of food boosts in various vitamins and minerals, but contain low fat.



Green tea. The most important thing to know about this Asian hot drink, is that green tea is a perfect metabolism booster. You have already learned about it, so that hurry to make it a part of your daily meal plan. Though for the most of us it has become a part of our regular diet, sometimes we forget about its super power to boost metabolism. Simply enjoy your hot green tea and help your body to benefit the green tea antioxidant nature.

Coffee. Most people can hardly imagine their lives without this magic substance. Coffee helps us to wake up and have a cheerful morning. We know that it’s the caffeine that keeps us alert and makes us lively. Caffeine increases the heart rate due to which blood takes more oxygen and more calories are burnt. To keep this effect of the coffee, you should avoid adding various creams and sugar to it. However, if you do not want to feel the bitterness in the coffee, what you can do is to add some cinnamon to it. 

Keep up with this simple tricks to make your weight loss both easy and healthy.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Red Bell Peppers and Your Health Benefits

Did you know that Bell Peppers are among one of the Best World Foods as well as among the Most Controversial World Foods?


Bell peppers in general are one of those widely used foods throughout the world, the role of which is immense in many ways like healthy eating and tasty food consumption. Regardless of their wide usage in daily meal plans, bell peppers are listed in the “10 Most Controversial WHFoods” by the whfoods.com. It was categorized as one of the most controversial foods as most often bell peppers was found in stores already in a bad condition; meaning, an advanced food health safety should be undertaken to avoid adverse reactions and the possible risk of toxicity while consuming bell peppers.


These beautiful and sweet ladies in red are a good escape for those who do not like vegetables. One thing should be taken into consideration that red bell peppers are not available around the year, so that during the winter time they are quite expensive. Anyway, July is on the way, and it will be possible to eat more affordable and fresh local peppers.

It’s not known to many people that red peppers derive from the green ones which are just unripe red peppers. Green peppers have half of the vitamin A and the vitamin C contained in red and orange peppers. It’s well-known that to improve the quality of sperm and the vitamin C ensures our beautiful skin (the letter helps to build collagen that ensures a healthy skin). Other peppers like paprika and chili have the same capacity, though the additional capsaicin inside them is even beneficial for better blood flow. This chemical producing a strong burning sensation is a good remedy for libido and pain relief.  You will find below some of the alluring facts that will increase our red pepper consumption:

1.    Red peppers are a good source of C vitamin that the body needs to for the absorption of a proper amount of iron. Moreover, if you have an iron deficiency, you should keep in mind that over 250% of your vitamin C on a daily scale is contained in red peppers.

2.     Red bell peppers are good stock of other important vitamins like vitamin B6 and magnesium. In order to combat the anxiety that is related to pre-menstrual symptoms, this combination of vitamins and minerals will be a great choice for you.

3.    The red substance giving the red color to red peppers as well as to tomatoes is called lycopene. It has been proved for a long time that the combination of lycopene with the vitamin A and C contained in red bell pepper, is a powerful means of reducing the risk of prostate and lung cancers.

4.    Burning calories with red bell peppers. Regardless of the fact that red peppers lack capsaicin, the consumption of red bell peppers is a good opportunity for the body to produce a mild thermogenic   action within to increase our metabolism (in this case you avoid the  increase of the heart rate and blood pressure).


5.    Red peppers help to improve your night vision. Red peppers are a good source of vitamin A which supports a healthy eyesight, especially night vision.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Why is it Important to eat Green Food?

The importance of green foods in our daily diet is vital. Unfortunately, people nowadays consume green foods less and less, by giving space to a high extent to processed and higher dietary intake of sweet foods. However, one shouldn’t forget that leafy vegetables; grasses and algae have always been the inseparable part of the human diet.

Green foods boost in antioxidant compounds which are difficult to find in other foods. Other important compounds contained in greens are a huge umber of essential vitamins, minerals, as well as trace minerals and amino acids.
It is through the greens that the human body gets the important plant pigment tat is called chlorophyll. Plant nutrients, called enzymes, are nowadays considered to have an important role for a healthy body.

It’s not by chance that the folklore wisdom says ‘eat your greens.’ To decrease the risk of serious medical conditions in your life, you should include in your daily healthy menu at least five servings of colorful fruits and green vegetables. Fruits and vegetables like spinach, leafy greens (dark), kiwi, cabbage, broccoli, peppers, and many more should form the base of your daily food. 

For those either willing to lose weight or just keeping their daily healthy food diet, it is vital to consume dark leaf greens as much as possible; dark leafy greens are full of water which reduces the amount of calories. Accordingly, consume this kind of greens on a daily scale and get rid of your worries to gain weight. Dress your favorite dishes like pastas, soups, casseroles with dark leafy vegetables, which will both bulk up the meal and yet make it possible for you to  have control on the amount of calorie intake.

To regulate the sugar level in your body one more time you should turn to the magic of the green foods. As far as a significant range of foods nowadays are full of high levels of glucose, the risk of obtaining diabetes is quite high. Accordingly, green foods are a good pack of water and fiber, which helps to lower the glucose levels in the body. The presence of a good portion of fiber in the body combats the unnecessary things and pollutants and dispose them before they are absorbed. The role of fiber goes even more important by the fact that  it helps in bowel movements.

In conclusion, it is worthy to mention that the importance and the benefits of green foods are not limited to the ones mentioned above. Keep up with the upcoming articles to find out more about healthy foods and healthy food benefits.