The Ideal Diet for Hypothyroidism

If you have hypothyroidism is very important to know that the type of diet you follow can help you reduce your symptoms, and at the same time help you control your weight. Weight gain goes hand in hand with hypothyroidism and to some people it gets rather difficult to lose weight with this condition.

There are key nutrients and foods that a diet for hypothyroid should include. On the other hand, there are certain foods that should be avoided.

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Be Food Safe – Always

Food safety is one issue that we should always keep top-of-mind. Here are a few basic guidelines to remember during this season of the noshes, nibbles, buffets, potlucks, and office parties that are key to food safety.

Wash Your Hands

Hand washing is essential. Hand washing in warm soapy water will eliminate many of the culprits that can cause food-borne illnesses as well as the common cold and flu. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends washing your hands for at least 20 seconds before and after preparing food. Not sure how long 20 seconds is? If you sing or hum two verses of “Happy Birthday,” as you soap up, that should add up to the required amount of time you need to spend in the suds.

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Healthy Living – Key Points For a Healthy Lifestyle

Nowadays, many of us are more concerned about our health conditions. We get a lot of tips from people who themselves are not aware on how one can live a healthy life. Considering the fact that we too are stubborn to follow most of these advices, we end up with all the frustration and regret that we did not choose to live a healthy life style at an early phase.

The earlier you practice to drink and eat healthy foods the better. Mother nature has given us a lot of options to choose from, so we could maintain a very good health condition, we should all make use of it.

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Five Mistakes a Wine Drinker Should Avoid

Drinking wine is an art that every wine lover should master. Yes, it’s true that how a wine tastes depends on the drinker, but if you want to enjoy your glass of wine even more, you need to be familiar with the common mistakes of drinking wine and avoid them.

Drinking Wine too Hot or Too Cold

As an enthusiast, you probably understand that the temperature of your drink has a significant effect on how it tastes. Drinking wine too hot or too cold is not really a problem many people commit, but is something you should be aware of. Cold wine can be really refreshing, but you have to avoid over chilling your drink because it will not only affect the aroma of the wine, but its flavors as well, making your drink smell and taste dull. Wine stored and served in very high temperature, on the other hand, can make the wine fell soft and is also a big no-no.

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Top 7 Foods To Avoid With Cold Sores

Foods to avoid with cold sores are key foods that contain high levels of the amino acid arginine and low quantities of lysine.

You probably have heard of arginine and lysine. These are two amino acids that are present in most foods. Arginine and lysine have a big impact on the duration and frequency of cold sores.

Here is how they work.

The herpes simplex virus is the root cause of all cold sores. A virus particle will enter a nerve cell at the surface and force it to create new virus. It will then explode the cell to release the cloned virus thus creating a huge open wound.

Arginine is a protein fraction that is essential in the production of new herpes virus. Your nerve cells have a storage area within the cell specifically for arginine. Continue reading “Top 7 Foods To Avoid With Cold Sores”

Quick Healthy Dinner Ideas – 4 Key Ingredients a Healthy Sandwich Must Have

If you already had a cooked meal for lunch, you will most likely not feel like cooking again for supper. After all, you’ve been working hard whole day. Now, you just want to get some food on the table quickly and then go enjoy your evening. It’s anyways better to rather have a light meal instead of another big one.

Sandwiches are an excellent solution. They make great healthy filling meals but are still light – provided of course you choose low-calorie ingredients. And most of them go really quick and won’t take much of your time to prepare.

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A Vegan Diet – The Key to a Healthy Weight

Veganism is a somewhat foreign idea to many Americans. For generations, animal products have been the stuff of Americana: families have started their mornings with scrambled eggs, discussed their days over steak, and enjoyed ice cream desserts before bedtime. At the same time though, our waistlines have ballooned and our arteries have become clogged. Veganism offers a healthy alternative. Try it for awhile, or try it for good. Either way, you’ll reap great benefits: vegans are rewarded with slimmer figures, cleaner-running engines, and enhanced energy.

What is veganism?

The term “veganism” was coined just a few decades ago, and it’s derived from the word “vegetarianism.” Basically, vegetarians do not eat animals, but they will eat animal products such as cheese and eggs. Vegans exclude all animal products from their diets. Veganism involves avoiding milk and eggs as well as honey, gelatin, and animal-based food additives. (A common red food dye, for instance, is made from beetles!) Continue reading “A Vegan Diet – The Key to a Healthy Weight”

Organic Farming: Key to Healthy Living?

What is organic farming? How it promotes healthy living? Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies crop production on green manure, compost, and biological pest control instead of using pesticides and herbicides. Therefore such process can help individuals have a healthy lifestyle because of the absence of chemical content.

These organic agricultural methods are internationally regulated and legally enforced by many nations. In our cooperative, all our suppliers’ farms are fair-trade and organically certified by an international certifying body. Fair-trade in the sense that we follow the international fair-trade protocol especially in terms of wage compliance requirements and child labor laws. Organic also because the only allowed fertilizer in our farms is SALT. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony.

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6 Keys to Healthy Meals in Slow Cooker

Many of us grew up thinking hearty, healthy meals meant hours of preparation and stirring over a hot stove. Even when foods weren’t tended to each minute, we had to check to see that they were not sticking to a pan or drying out in the oven. Before the ’70s there was no crock pot or microwave oven. A woman had little time to spend outside. That was then.

Today, autumn is here; the air has a crispness all its own. At my home in the Ozarks, trees are donning their fall colors as golden flowers adorn the hillsides. This morning deer grazing through the meadow below the walnut grove seemed to be bidding me to follow. I wanted to go outside and play!

However, there are still meals to prepare, clothes to wash, people to care for today. To enable me to have time to sit and watch the wildlife, I am learning to make better use of my slow cooker, my Crock Pot. Cooking meals with the slow cooker has many benefits including, less dishes to wash, less time tending to foods on the stove, a cooler kitchen and less energy used. Continue reading “6 Keys to Healthy Meals in Slow Cooker”

Food Made From Wheat

It is believed that wheat possesses a certain characteristic that enhances the natural flavors in food preparations, making the dishes better tasting and succulent. That is, of course, the objective, to make preparations that will satisfy the palate. That is why most Taiwanese restaurants to make traditional Chinese dumplings, they only use natural wheat. And the same with the noodles and other dishes, they make them from the finest wheat flour. And so with breaded and battered foods. Not only does it possess higher fiber content but also it plumps our items that give them the natural flavor diners will always love.

In top-rated restaurants, they only use the finest wheat flour to create top quality items that they pass on their valued customers. As they maintain this quality, they aspire to gain clientele trust and patronage. While some restaurants may opt for rice grains as their ingredients, top-rated eateries believe that their preference for the wheat makes the dishes better tasting and extra special. Continue reading “Food Made From Wheat”