Nutritious  Food

A good diet begins with a good breakfast. For a breakfast that will keep you feeling alert and energetic all morning, try one that includes a citrus fruit or juice, one other fruit, whole grain cereal or bread, low fat( or better yet, soy)milk or yogurt, peanut butter or a high protien food such as a meat substitute(sold in most stores). * It is better to eat your fruit and vegetables at different meals*     School children who eat a really good breakfast stay more alert and concentrate better on their schoolwork than children who eat a skimpy breakfast.     If you eat a heavy meal at night just before going to bed, you don't burn up your dinner calories. They produce fat, some of which becomes imbedded in the blood vessel walls... especially in the heart and brain... weakening them and laying the groundwork for heart attacks or stroke.     Caring for a big meal overworks your tired digestive system and results in restless sleep. It also calls the blood from your head to your stomach, and you cannot think as clearly and reason as well as you should.     The benefits of a high protien breakfast are: (1.)Greater maximum work before lunch. (2.)Better sustained mental alertness. (3.)Less muscular fatigue. (4.)Greater endurance.(5.)Less accident-prone output. (6.)Less oxygen required to produce given amounts of work. (7.) Less neuromuscular tremor. (8.) Less nervous irritability.      Not only What you eat but when you eat affects your health.     Sugar greatly slows down the activity of your white blood cells(germ fighters). Thus a high level of sugar in the diet weakens resistance to colds and other diseases.     Do you tire easily when you run, jog, walk, or work? If so, you will be interested to know how you can increase your endurance... " The latest studies have concentrated on the importance of carbohydrates in the diet. Vegetarian diets can easilly provide for the high carbohydrate intake that can double or triple endurance time."     The benefits of a vegetarian diet are: (1.)Has less cholesterol. (2.) Has less total fat and less saturated fat. (3.) Provides greater endurance. (4.) Has fewer calories, so adds fewer excess pounds. (5.)Is more economical. (6.)Is less likely to cause cancer and other diet-related disease. (7.)Provides increased vitamins, minerals, and fiber.     If you are concerned that on a vegetarian diet you might not get enough protien, you will be interested to learn that... 1.)" The quality of protein in brown rice ranks slightly higher than that of red muscle meat. 2.)" Ten percent of the calories in your potato and 35 percent of those in your serving of broccoli come in the form of quality protein. 3.)" Four to 6 percent of the calories in fruit is protein. To Save Your Heart...(1.) Cut down on sweets. (2.) Use fewer fatty foods. (3.)Maintain optimum weight. (4.)Eat a low salt, low cholesterol diet. (5.) Substitute soy proteins for meat.      David Snowden, Ph.D, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, reported on a 21 year study of 25 people...      " In both males and females, the higher the egg consumption, the higher the rate of colon cancer. Prostate cancer in males appears to be tripled by the combined use of meat, milk,eggs, and cheese."       There is a great deal of discussion today about the relation of fiber to cancer of the colon, because adequate fiber roughage in the diet can cut in half the time food takes to travel from the mouth through your digestive system. Many researchers feel that the shorter the time the food stays in the colon, the less likelihood one has of cancer.       As fiber attaches to the cholesterol in the colon, it keeps the cholesterol from being absorbed into the blood and clogging up the blood vessels.       Inasmuch as heart and blood-vessel disease is the number 1 killer in the United States, we all do well to learn all we can about preventing it in our families.       Dr. Scharffenberg says the following practice can greatly cut your risk of coronary heart disease:        Cut down on foods high in cholesterol, saturated fats, calories, sugar, and salt. Some of the foods high in cholesterol are eggs, beef steaks and roasts, hamburgers, meat loaves, whole milk, hot dogs, ham, and luncheon meats.       " Factors that tend to reduce high blood pressure are increased by consumption of olive oil."         Eat at proper times a variety of natural foods in quantities to maintain ideal weight.

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws