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7 Ways to Meet the Needs for Fiber
February 9th, 2011 | 
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In order for your fiber intake to meet the quota in a day, try though fruit and vegetables in different ways.
1. Prepare homemade salad
When ordering a salad at a restaurant, sometimes we do not like the choice of vegetables or fruit. By making your own, you can select the type you like, as well as choose the range of benefits of vitamins and minerals from their color. By eating a cup of cut fruit, which means you have to consume a serving of fruit. For the salad, add shredded roast chicken or boiled egg whites for the benefit of protein.
2. Make snacks
When watching television, or spend an episode of Sex and the City, you will usually be accompanied by snacks. A bag of potato chips Try changing this type a bag of potato chips with fruits. For example, 1 / 4 cup of grapes, and chew it while watching TV.
3. Create dip
Try to make dipping from a low-fat salad dressing, then dip 1 / 2 cup carrots or other vegetables. Eat in between lunch and dinner. Well, now you’ve increased the number of fiber intake.
4. Add nuts
Sprinkle with peanuts, cashews, soy nuts, or who imports such as pecans or walnuts, to top salads you make. Nuts are also going to add protein intake you need.
5. Make juice
Making fruit juice and discard the waste is only going to provide benefits of vitamins and minerals, but not the benefits of fiber. So, if you want to keep existing fiber intake, drink fruit pulp as well.
6. Add the sweet taste
Pour a little honey, maple syrup, or fruit juice to the carrots poached or boiled yam. You will enjoy a slightly different taste.
7. Grilled vegetable
When dining at Japanese restaurants, often you will find a vegetable dish or baked tubers. For example, peppers, carrots, sweet potatoes, garlic, or onions. Roast vegetables will highlight the sweetness of these vegetables. Cut these vegetables; mix it with canola oil, sprinkle with salt, then spread on top of the oil pan that has been lubricated. Bake in the oven.
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Beware, Stress Can Lead to Hair Loss
For women, hair like a crown which must be maintained. Just a little, hair loss can look dull or harmful for the appearance of a woman when dealing with their social environment.
Unfortunately, the challenges of women to keep up appearances is heavier, in addition to environmental conditions, the growing psychological pressure. The reason, in the midst of the hustle hierarchy modern society, women are always required to appear prime. Departing from the demands of reason, women are often attacked by stress that lead to hair loss.
“Modern women are significantly threatened the risk of stress through a barrage of pressure,” said a hair expert, as quoted from Bessam Farjo dailymail Tuesday (14 / 9). He explains, today’s modern woman is facing a far greater pressure than previous generations. As such, the demand of profession as a career woman, housewife and a wife.
According Farjo, departing from the pressures that a woman’s body reacts by producing free radicals which cause a lot of damage such as damaged or hair loss. ”In addition to stress, hair loss is also influenced by poor diet, lack of iron in the body, changes in hormone production after childbirth and other influences,” said Farjo. Read the rest of this entry »
Overtime Snacks
As an employee of the office, you would often snack foods that are unhealthy, especially when overtime. At night, homemade food is not generally available around the office. Finally you have to take potluck, whose fruits are just around the dumplings, instant noodles, fried rice, and others. What are the consequences if we continue to eat like that? In fact when you realize there is something wrong with the food choices, meaning that these foods are not consumed too frequently. And, if you already know that the food is not healthy, stop just outside the customs night snack.
Which can create problems is when you eat unhealthy food that contains a lot of preservatives, dyes, or even almost stale. This can create problems in the digestive tract. Preservatives and additional color are not required by the body because this food is only metabolized in the liver, then poured into the blood, and then to the kidneys, newly issued again, or directly disposed of as feces.
So the existence of these substances would only burden the organs in the body. Are these foods may trigger bowel cancer; there has been no definitive investigation. But in theory if one organ (e.g. intestine) is often stimulated by substances that are not useful (e.g. preservatives), intestines will react. Could be in the form of light such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps can be, and the heaviest colitis. Inflammatory bowel disease is rapid if not known, the potential to cause colon cancer.
Thus, the direct relationship has not been 100 percent for publication. From the logic is understandable, that if the organ we are forced to do the things that are not necessary (e.g. absorbing dyes), these organs will not react well to the body. At best, if you have to work till the evening, please bring food from home, or at least of fruits such as banana or mango. You can also eat menu for breakfast, like oatmeal, wheat bread, cereals, or crackers. Add low-fat milk as a supplement.