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Why Gas Grill Is Favored By Most of Homeowners

2011-09-08T18:39:00.000-07:00

There are a few noted positive aspectsto using a gas grill over some various different traditionalgrillings which usually help to help create these people the mostpopular option for the actual backyard grill. These types ofgrillings are lit by means of propane or even similar form of gas.The majority of houses have got a single in their particular deck orperhaps terrace to permit simple cooking food as well as enjoyable offriends. Having a barbecue is really a great way to enjoy withfriends or members of the family into the house.

A very important factor to keep in mindwith a gas barbeque griller is actually that propane is a flammablewares. You need to use care when moving the small canister and alsoavoid dropping this or else this can be harmful. It's also advisableto look into the fuel collections with regard to leaks regularly toavoid the threat of blowing up through the cooking session. This typeof grill guarantees relaxation and feel at ease when cooking, howeveryou have to use your common sense constantly. Keep to theinstructions carefully and also tend not to use the gas tank withcaution and in the event you suspect there is a leak you better notto use it and immediately call the right personnel.

One more advantages of barbeque gasgrill is the simplicity of cleaning up once you are carried outcooking food the particular dinner. They'll cool down in therelatively short period of time, allowing you to swiftly take awaythe grill section for a complete cleaning. Charcoal grills consider alot lengthy to clean while you must watch for the actual losecharcoal and the cakes to totally cooked prior to getting rid of allof these, and achieving this can be a untidy task. You will typicallyhave to wait several hours before the coals cool down and takinggreat amount of your time.

Another edge to an all natural gasgrill may be the capacity to prepare diverse meals with differenttemperatures concurrently. Many of these smokers possess diversesetups about either side having separate regulator. It is possible toquickly flip one side up or down to correct with regard to differheat requirements.

Turning on a gasoline barbecue grillis as simple as turning a knob and reaching a control button. Theactual starting motor button will certainly gentle the flame and alsostart comfortable the cooking surface. The actual ease of achievingthis is the largest benefit to these grillings. Having a charcoalgrill you must pile the charcoal, apply gentle fluid, as well asmanually gentle all of these. Additionally you have to monitor themto ensure the flame remains with a good optimal heat. Most gasolinegrills possess a measuring system gauge and also a technique tochange the amount of gas down or up. This enables you to properlymake any kind of meals.

Barbecue grill is really a enjoyableact as you make cooking outside the house whilst food preparationmeals for you along with your guests. Gas grills have some benefitsover other styles which explains why those are the most favored grillfor homeowners. They are easy to utilize and keep, plus you get anawesome flavor in your foods.

Veggie Juices Menus Benefits You Can Get From

2011-09-07T22:03:00.001-07:00

Veggie fruit liquid formulas can easily undoubtedly aid withinside boosting your system's wellness. Fruits as well as plants typically contain reduced sums associated with calories along with fats. This particular simply implies that fresh berry and veggie juice formulas might probably become helpful when it comes to slimming down. When it comes to sugar articles, vegetables comprise approach less than crops and this is especially beneficial should you have all forms of diabetes mellitus, since the spike withinside their blood glucose could cause these people a great arm and also a leg, literally. Aside from these kinds of, veggies comprise way more quantities regarding natural vitamins, nutrients in addition to nutrients in comparison to the other forms of meals.

Veggie veggie juices menus will definitely aid withinside purifying the blood stream. These kind of powers tend to be loaded to the handle with vitamins, nutrients and also nutrition, which the body can easily and simply absorb within the span of time unit following ingesting. In case you possess diabetic issues, vegetable fruit liquid recipes would come being an perfect drink as these won't angry the sugar ranges in your body. Simply do not take on throughout too much carrots in addition to beetroots because these incorporate high sums associated with sugar when compared with the other plants.

These types of recipes let your body to get the advantages in which only they provide. A good guide for the powering will be not to peel your skin off of greens since the peels furthermore comprise very the high amounts vitamins, mineral deposits in addition to nutrients your entire physique will be happy with regard to. These kind of menus are usually swiftly increasingly and more best-better-celebrated where there are usually a lot of avenues of people who have became trying to use a healthier system as well as drinking will be the choice that they picked. Nevertheless, you should keep in mind that these juice menus do not exactly give that pleased feeling compared to creating a alloyed sweet talker.

With regards to either fruits or perhaps vegetables, they every have their own main formulas and this will be the reason why it is possible to at times combine these kinds of menus together. Nevertheless, in cases like this, fruits can be the main elements, meaning they could be really sweet. Everbody knows, equally crops and also vegetables are great for your system which is very correct if you are wanting to lose weight because these comprise this kind of reduced amounts associated with Calories. You are able to really substitute berries and plant fruit liquid recipes, specifically in case you are wanting to slim down, for normal dishes because these already incorporate every one of the supplements, nutrients as well as vitamins and minerals how the body wants.

What Can You Get From A Raw Food Diet

2009-04-13T07:36:00.000-07:00

We all know that cooking takes out many essential nutrients and vitamins from the food. This will reduce the amount of beneficial nutrients that we need in our body in order for us to become healthy. A raw food is far more nutritious than cooked foods.

Eating raw foods or having raw food diet boosts your metabolism and help detoxify your body system. Detoxification is a process that cleanses the undesirable toxins that build up in our body due to, say for example, smoking, eating junk foods, drinking and other unhealthy substances we put inside our body, making our body polluted. These toxins will obstruct the normal operation of our body system and affects our liver, lungs, skin, kidneys and lymphatic system which are our own body detoxification system.

Having a raw food diet does not mean that you cannot eat cooked foods...you can, you only have to avoid processed foods which have preservatives and chemicals on it. If you into a raw food diet it is normal to experience headaches, you get tired easily and skin rashes, these are normal side effects.

Raw food diet generally a combination of fruits and vegetables. It is important that you incorporate fruits and vegetables in you diet that are high in fiber content. Fiber is very beneficial for our body. It helps flushing out the extraneous matter from our body keeping our digestive system smooth and clean.

Below are some fiber-rich foods that are easily be found in our kitchen.

Fruits

* raspberries
* blackberries
* strawberries
* cherries
* plums
* pears
* apples
* kiwi fruit
* guava
* banana

Vegetables

* green peas
* broccoli
* Brussels sprouts
* sweet corn
* beet root
* baked potato (with the skin)
* carrot spinach
* beet greens

Health Benefits of Onion

2009-04-09T19:54:00.000-07:00

Onion has been believed as a protection against vampires. In middle ages, people put onions on their doors, hang it on windows and even on their body because it was believed that the smell of the onion keeps the vampires and evil spirits away. But what's more convincing to this belief is that onion has lots of health benefits than to counter evil spirits.

There are two types of onions, the green onion and bulbing onion, and each type has different varieties. Onions can be eaten raw or cooked. Onions are commonly used by many cultures around the world as an ingredient in different dishes.

Aside to season and give pungent aroma to dishes, onions also help against common illnesses such as:

* colds
* asthma
* coughs
* bacterial infections
* breathing problems
* influenza
* tuberculosis
* insomnia
* pneumonia
* anti allergy
* reduce inflammation
* high blood pressure
* lower cholesterol
* cancer prevention

Although onion can be eaten as raw or cooked but consuming large quantity of onions would result to stomach distress and gastrointestinal problem that may result in nausea and diarrhea.

Philippine Traditional Food

2009-04-02T07:25:00.000-07:00

Do you know your own traditional food or cuisine? I bet you do. It is important that we should know and learn our own traditional food because this determines our own and unique culture that other countries don't have and is something to be proud of.

Since I am a Filipino and been living here in Philippines I can safely say that I know my traditional food and its history as well.

Speaking of uniqueness, sadly to say, Filipino cuisine is a derivation from many foreign cuisine. It has developed from the original Malay roots to Spanish dishes and also has the influence from Chinese, Indian, Arab, Korean, Japanese cuisine and American dishes. Although most of the Philippine cuisine have foreign influence, but there are still Philippine cuisine that may call original. The indigenous Moro and Lumad of Mindanao that never been persuaded by the Hispanic culture are still cooking the original spicy Malay cuisine like the Ginataang Manok (chicken cooked in coconut milk).

The list below are the popular dishes in the Philippines.
1. Lechon (whole roasted pig)
2. Longganisa (Philippine sausage)
3. Adobo (may be a chicken or pork that is marinated in soy sauce and vinegar with garlic. Simmer to cook.)
4. Kaldereta (goat in tomato stew)
5. Kare-kare (oxtail and vegetables cooked in peanut sauce)
6. Sinigang (may be pork, shrimp, or fish in tamarind stew)
7. Pancit (stir-fried noodles)

Also below is the list of cooking methods that are commonly practiced in the Philippines.
1. Guisado - a method of sauteing food with garlic, tomato and onion
2. Inihaw - a fish or meat grilled over charcoals
3. Paksiw - mostly fish, cooked in vinegar with ginger
4. Kinilaw - may be a fish or pork, braised in vinegar with kalamansi juice together with garlic, onions, ginger and tomato
5. Pinirito - deep fried...the only cooking method I know.:p

My Favorite Dessert

2009-03-29T16:16:00.000-07:00

It wouldn't be a complete meal for us without having those sweet, tasty and delicious desserts after a very delightful meal. This definitely satisfies every course of meal we shall have with our family and friends. Dessert is served after a meal and typically comes with sweet foods such us, ice cream, cake, fruits, candies, cookies, pastries, etc.
In every country has their own specific type of food to be served as a dessert and also has another term for the word. In countries like UK and India called this period of meal as sweet, pudding or afters. British people serve fresh fruits as their dessert while others are consists of sweet foods.

Dessert is a custom observed within a meal but in some third class countries don't have this practice. I myself belong to a third class country and for a typical meal we had, we don't have dessert. But it doesn't mean that I have not tried eating a dessert food. Fortunately, sometimes I go out and eat in a first class restaurant and there I can experience those mouth-watering desserts that is served after my meal. And my favorite dessert is the Black Chocolate Cake. I also enjoy eating Buko Pandan Salad.

It's a good thing though when you cannot experience some good things in your own home yet there's this alternative where you can enjoy pleasingly these things.

Breakfast: The Most Important Meal

2009-03-27T06:20:00.000-07:00

The instance of eating food at a specific time which mostly occurs at homes, restaurant or cafeterias which has a specific preparation of food is what we called a meal. Commonly, the standard occurrence of meal is three times a day. The time which meal takes place will depend in the country and region where you live. And in my country this will occur mostly at (approximately) 7 a.m. which is the breakfast, at 12 p.m. lunch and at 7 p.m. for supper.

Although in some countries they have more than 3 occurrences of meal within a day but breakfast, lunch and supper are most observed. Among these three, the most important meal of the day is breakfast.

If you have children make it habit for them not to skip breakfast. Study has it that children do better in school if they eat breakfast and this will carry out until they grow older. Eating breakfast will fuel you to do your work with energy for the rest of the day. Skipping breakfast will greatly affects your mind and body, making you tired and unable to do things accordingly due to lack of energy, energy that you can get from eating breakfast.

Some people make it into a practice to skip purposely breakfast as an alternative to lose weight but this is not a healthy move. Yeah, this might reduce your body weight (in an unhealthy way) but this could do harm to your body if not guided accordingly without having any nourishment that can substitute for your breakfast.

You should always remember that your body needs something to fuel it so that it can function properly and eating breakfast is a good way to start. People may not know this but having a breakfast each day is a healthy way to lose weight considering that you have the right food on the table.

So, let's make a healthy breakfast so that every time you think of breakfast you can reckon its importance and the health benefits you can get from it in order for you not to think from skipping it. The food that should be present for breakfast should contain protein and fiber rich foods. Foods like, low fat meats, eggs, beans and dairy are rich in protein, and grains, vegetables and fruits are high in fiber foods. A typical healthy breakfast should have a hard boiled egg, an orange fruit, and a cereal with low fat milk. It is self-evident what will happen to you if you don't eat or skipped breakfast.

Eating breakfast is the best way to start off your day. Remember do not skip breakfast.

Peanut Butter Products: A Salmonella Scare In The Philippines

2009-03-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

On January 19, 2009 the Bureau of Food and Drug released an advisory for an immediate recall of selected peanut butter brands, peanut butter and peanut paste products in the Philippines that were already reported being recalled or withdrawn from the United State of America market for potential risk of Salmonella contamination. The action was made after a peanut butter processing company, food service industries and private label food companies announced a recall of peanut butter produced in its processing due to possible contamination of Salmonella.

Some of these top companies that their products were being recalled are, King Nut peanut butter, Peanut Corporation of American, Austin and Keebler among others.

The consumers have been warned by BFAD not to consume the products being recalled instead dispose them immediately. To stop eating products that contain peanut butter like, cookies, crackers, cereal, candy and ice cream until further notice to whether the product may be affected or not. If someone thinks that he/she have eaten a product that contains peanut butter and feels ill are advised to see a health personnel. And other preventive measures issued by BFAD as well as to manufacturers, distributors, importers, retailers, institutions and food service establishments.

To date, despite of BFAD's strict campaign of banning peanut products, there are still some bakeries and stores who are selling a labelled banned peanut butter products in Manila. On the other hand, supermarkets failed to execute an immediate pull out of the banned peanut butter products because of the late issuance of a memorandum for the recall.

Another food manufacturer, Samuya Food Manufacturing, Inc., a maker of Yummy Sweet and Creamy Peanut Spread and Ludy's Sweet and Creamy Peanut Butter products turned out to be contaminated with Salmonella. When BFAD inspected Samuya, they saw lapses in the food processing and the place itself. The floor is concrete instead of tiles, which causes dust to settle in. Some parts of the factory are no walls and cover making the products exposed to dirt and animal excrement. Right now, Samuya's operations were suspended for not complying the government's food manufacturing standards.

What is Salmonella by the way? Why the DOH and BFAD heightened the surveillance and ban if the product is positive to Salmonella? Well, Salmonella is a bacteria that causes Salmonellosis infection than can result to diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps. If you are infected with this bacteria the normal days it will last is 4-7 days but you don't have to worry that much since in some cases you can recover without undergoing medical treatment. In severe cases, a person infected probably need be hospitalized. In this situation a patient should given an immediate medical attention because the infection my spread from the intestine to the blood stream which is the cause of death. Salmonella bacteria can be found in the feces of people or animals.

I hope the pulling out of all contaminated peanut butter products will be completed in no time so that there is no single chance that people might mistakenly eat this product and become a victim of this Salmonella bacteria. It's a good thing though that I don't really like peanut butter ever since - I love cheese!

WWF's Earth Hour: Switch Off Your Lights

2009-03-21T18:40:00.000-07:00

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges citizens around the world to join WWF's Earth Hour to take serious action on climate change. This coming Saturday, March 28, 2009 is going to be "the largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted” according to the video-taped address by the Secretary-General.
“Earth Hour is a way for the citizens of the world to send a clear message. They want action on climate change.” said Secretary-General Ban.

This ambitious idea was started on March 31, 2007 in Sydney calling every citizen to take urgent action on global warming by turning off its lights. The result was very inspiring, the Earth Hour 2007 brought togetherness among families, businesses and even Hollywood stars. On that day more that 2.2 million people in Sydney turned off their lights. This great idea to battle global warming caught the attention of the world. And as expected Earth Hour went global in 2008 with 35 countries and more than 370 cities have participated.

Canada, Fiji, USA, Italy, Israel, New Zealand, Denmark, and Philippines are among the countries who were determined to respond the alarming situation of our Mother Earth.

On Saturday March 28, 2009 at 8:30pm until 9:30pm this dramatic event that touched the hearts of millions of people will bellow again its message to the world. As I've watched the video I was struck with the strong message it want to impart in me and surprised because I didn't know that my country was participated on this tremendous effort.

Maybe I'm not really an environmentalist and I don't even have the sheer knowledge of global warming happenings but when this day comes, I may not have the access to my city's power switch but for sure I'm gonna turn off my PC for the whole day. Ridiculous as it sounds but this is the least I could do for now.

History of Cooking

2009-03-21T08:52:00.000-07:00

Just when did cooking come into existence? When did our primitive ancestors learned to cook the animals they have killed from hunting? I had some good read about the history of cooking, and I learned that there is no exact period when the actual cooking was discovered, or shall I say, invented. A British primatologist in the name of Richard Wranghan, claims that it was invented 1 to 2 millions years ago, while some other researchers concluded that it was invented in the late 40,000 or 10,000 years ago.

I think it doesn't matter at all to dispute when did humans learn how to cook the food they produced. What's more important is, our ancestors invented the more preferable way of eating food instead of eating it raw and eventually discovered the art of cooking, as cooking the food prevents so many foodborne illnesses if it is eaten straight raw. In addition, it enhances the digestibility of foods when it undergoes cooking process but will lose its taste and nutrients if not cooked well.

Although cooking seems to be an advantage and favorable to our taste buds yet there are also a great disadvantages in cooking the food. When cooking vegetables and fruits that are rich in vitamins for example, the natural nutrients of the vegetables/fruits will extract into the water used in cooking, this will lower the vitamins we get from the food compared when still uncooked. Peeling the vegetables, let say potatoes, where vitamin C is mostly in the skin can considerably reduces the vitamin C content of it.

In cooking we know that many nutrients are lost. To prevent this great loss of nutrients in cooking foods, it is better to minimize the length of time the vegetables/fruits are cut. Some nutrients when exposed to air as you cut a vegetable of fruit are destroyed. Instead of boiling or frying, try steaming the vegetables to avoid destroying the fragile nutrients content of the food.

Health Benefits of Mushrooms Plus Mushroom Recipe

2009-03-20T06:21:00.000-07:00

We are using mushrooms both as food and medicinal purposes for thousand of years now. They may classified as a vegetable or an herb but many of us may not know that it is actually a fungi. Of about 14,000 types of mushrooms, only 3,000 types are edible, meaning can be consumed by humans, and about 700 species are known for its medicinal qualities, and only a fewer are considered as poisonous.
In ancient time mushrooms were regarded more than as what we know about it. Pharaohs highly regarded mushrooms as a delicacy while the Greeks believed that it can provide the warriors strength in the battle field. The Romans regarded it as a gift from God and strictly serve only on a festive gatherings, while it is regarded as health food for the Chinese.

Nowadays, mushrooms are being enjoyed by many for some reasons. They produce their own unique flavor when it's cooked or incorporated with other ingredients. They enhance the flavor of the food during cooking. Mushrooms can be added to soups, salads, as well as to sandwiches. You can also have it as an appetizer. Potassium is very abundant in mushrooms and is best in lowering blood pressure and reduces heart ailments. A medium size of protabella mushroom contains more potassium than a banana or an orange juice. They are also rich in riboflavin, niacin and selenium. Selenium is an antioxidant that helps protect the harmful effects of free radicals.

That said, there are many ways on how to cook mushrooms depending to your style and taste. I found here a recipe for Chicken and Mushroom Stew which is easy to prepare yet you'll get loads of health benefits.

Main Ingredients:

Chicken: 1 kg, breast or thigh
Mushroom: 1 kg (2 lb)
Onion: 1 medium, chopped
Flour: 1 tbsp
Lemon Juice: 1/2 cup
Saffron: 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil: 2 tbsp
Butter: 1-2 tbsp
Salt and pepper: to taste

Directions:

1. Saute chopped onions with oil until golden. Add chickens and fry them with onions on medium heat.

2. In a separate pan, saute mushrooms with butter until their water comes out completely. Add flour and stir. Add mushrooms into the chicken and onions mixture. Leave them to boil slowly for about 20 min.

3. Add lemon juice and saffron and cook for 5 more min before removing from the heat.

Best Diet Foods I've Found

2009-03-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

I think almost all of us, especially women, are conscious of our body figure if it is on the right shape of 34-24-34 and on the ideal body weight. The gaining and losing of our weight is entirely relative to what food we have eaten. For example, if you eat foods that are mostly high in calories, fat, low in nutritional value and foods loaded with preservatives, the end result would be you become obese. Eating too much food such us, Ice cream, donuts, pastries, cakes, pies and cookies will make you fat.

For us not to become fat we should be wary to the foods we are going to eat. We should be more careful and knowledgeable what are the foods that can give us health benefits instead of making us fat. Everyone of us are on a diet wanting to be healthy and to achieve the desirable sexiness that you are dreaming of. Being healthy and sexy is a tremendous endeavor one shall undergo with. But this is not as hard as it seems if you eat the right diet foods.

You don't need to be on a weight loss program just to lose weight. There are ways to lose weight without discharging too much sweat, you just need to include some powerful foods into your diet. These foods will increase your metabolism and will help you in so many different ways. Some of these foods will actually help burn body fats. And the easiest way to incorporate these foods in your diet is to make them as a replacement to the junk food you eat. The foods that I'm talking about are fibrous and vegetable based food. These are plant based diet foods. As we know, a diet that is high in fiber is one secret to lose effectively your weight. There are many reasons why fiber is vital in a diet, this will help lower the bad cholesterol - LDL.

The list below are the fruits/vegetables recommended for your diet.

Apple

This fruit makes you eat less due to the water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates called Pectin. This will make you feel more full.

Avocados

Avocados have more than 25 of the essential nutrients such as, vitamin b, potassium, vitamin E and lutein that are needed for your body and considered as the most nutritious of all fruits.

Grapefruits

This fruit lowers the insulin levels resulting you to feel longer than the usual. This topped the citrus family as the best diet food. Grapefruits give you vitamin c which helps lessen fat.

Broccoli

One of the powerful anticancer foods. Gives you calcium, iron, magnesium, vitamin a and c

Blueberries

This is a healthy food that is good for you. They fight diseases and gives you energy. A very powerful antioxidant.

Some Top Restaurants In New Jersey

2009-03-19T01:03:00.001-07:00

Restaurant is a place that prepares and serves food to customers. Some restaurants offer take-out and delivery services of wide variety of cuisines and offerings. A restaurateur is the one who owns the restaurant, the word is derived from French word restaurer, which means "to restore". Chefs are the professional worker in cooking in and assisted by prep staff and line cooks whose job is to prepare the food item in a systematic order.

Here in New Jersey there are many top restaurants where you can dine in, making your meal unforgettable and pleasurable as you could ever imagine.

Avenue Restaurant

Located at 23 Ocean Avenue (inside Pier Village) Long Branch. Offers you French bistro and New American cuisines. From their open raw bar you can order your bistro favorites like Steak Frites, Yellow Fin Tuna, Nicoise and Steak Au Poivre or you might want to have a series of platters of oysters, King crab legs, shrimp and lobster. While dining in you can fascinatingly enjoy the decor of the restaurant and much more appreciated at night.

They serve lunch and dinner throughout the week making you no chance to miss this very pleasing restaurant.

Restaurant Nicholas

Located at 160 Route 35 South, Middletown Township, Red Bank. They offer New American cuisine set in a tranquil ambience. This restaurant is one of New Jersey's top rated New American restaurants and ranked # 1 for their food, service and wine.

Za Restaurant

Located at West Delaware Avenue, Pennington, is open seven days a week. You can experience their electric New American menu a "cross cultural comfort cuisine" as described by the owner. The cuisine they serve is a co-mingling of international dishes using fresh American ingredients with classic French cooking.

Klein's Fish Market & Waterside Cafe

Located at River Road and Main St, Belmar. This elegant restaurant offers only the freshest seafood found only on Jersey shore. The Waterside Cafe serves your favorite beer, wine and cocktails. It offers a relaxing atmosphere for your intimate dining experience. The Kleins's Grill Room, whether you prefer outside or inside dining, you still have the most satisfying dining experience ever.

Healthy Fruits, Healthy Foods

2009-03-17T07:33:00.000-07:00

We all love to eat, it's a fact. We enjoy eating as one of the most important happenings and a part of our everyday lives. It defines of who we are, our culture and our individual race. The foods we eat are the sources of our energy and nutrition that fuel us to perform our daily works. The kind of food we consume affects our physical and mental health.

We all wish to live healthy throughout the time. Being a healthy person promotes energy to perform the activities we are going to perform in a way as it is intended to be.

Although foods are the sources of our energy but not all foods can give health benefits to our body in order for us to function well. How to define a healthy food? As the word may speak for itself, it is the food that gives the optimum nutritional value for our body at the same time decreases the risk of dreaded illnesses known to us.

These are some healthy fruits that you might incorporate in your diet.

Avocado - In some textbook this was labeled as the "most nutritious of all fruits". It contains some vitamin B 12, calcium, zinc and phosphorus. It has vitamin B6 which is important for our nervous system, red blood cells, teeth and gums.

Raspberries - It has ellagic acid, which helps block the growth of cell cancer. This fruit is high in fiber and vitamins C which helps prevent high cholesterol and heart disease.

Tomato - The lycopene found in tomato acts as an antioxidant which helps neutralize the free radicals that damage cells in the body. Also tomato lessen the risk of bladder, stomach and colon cancers.

Instant Noodles and I

2009-03-08T22:42:00.000-07:00

Although I'm not a Chinese but instant noodle has been a part of my daily life. What makes me say this is when I was still a student every time I buy groceries for a week-long food stock, noodles are always been on the top of my grocery list. What I love about this instant food is, as the word implies, it's instant, no more hassle and effortless in preparing it.
My mother noticed my indulgence to instant noodles and advised me to stop buying the food because too much intake of instant food is not good for the health since it has preservatives added to it and these preservatives may harmful to our body. Of course I did not oppose to what my mother have told me because she's right.

What composes instant noodles and why it is not healthy? We know that noodle is made from unleavened dough and is cooked in a boiling water. There are different varieties of noodles and this depends on the main ingredient where it is made from. Mostly, noodles are made from wheat and I believe that this fresh made noodles are healthy considering it doesn't have preservatives in it compared with instant noodles. Now, why instant noodle is not a healthy food? Instant noodles are precooked noodles combined with oil and a flavoring. It contain high levels of saturated fat and trans fat due to the frying process of the noodles during manufacturing.

It is generally considered as a junk food. In every single serving of instant noodle it has very high carbohydrates but low on essential elements such as fiber, vitamins and minerals. In addition, if it is served in another instant flavoring (broth) it will produce a high amounts of sodium which in extreme cases would reach up to 3,000mg/day surpassing the recommended sodium intake of just 2,400mg/day. Another health concern is the dioxin and other substances that can be obtained from the packaging and glues used to pack the food.

One of the major concerns on the health disadvantage of instant noodle is, it can produce oxidized fat and oils if it is not managed properly during the process. These are health hazard substances than can cause neurotoxins which make neurocells hypoactive.

Knowing all these health hazards of instant noodles might affect to my health I think this will not stop me from consuming it. Maybe I'll just minimize eating it. Unlike when I'm still in college it was my primary food.

Always remember too much of everything even it is good or bad is not good. Do you like noodles too?

Food As You Know It

2009-03-05T19:22:00.000-08:00

As we all know food is the basic requirement for humans and animals to live longer. It is made up of fats, proteins, carbohydrates and water and all those components that we need in our body in order to survive. Food can be consumed by eating or drinking, either for nutrition or pleasure satisfaction.

Before, our ancestors seek food through hunting alone to survive but today that method just totally changed. At present we have learned farming, ranching, gardening and fishing methods to produce food to sustain our living. Along with the knowledge of learning new techniques in acquiring food we also learned new techniques in preparing it. All over the world in every country and in every culture has its diversified way of preparing, cooking and manufacturing foods that are unique in its nature.

Foods are available everywhere and anywhere and mostly can be found in plants or animals as the main sources. There are also foods that are not from plants and animals. Some of these are found in various edible fungi, like mushrooms among others. There are roughly 2,000 plant species that are considered as healthy food. Foods that contain nutrients are mostly found in seeds of plant and are good source for our food as well as to animals. Majority of us, humans, are consuming largely seed-based foods that constitute into two categories. Edible seeds and oil seeds. Some of these edible seeds are rice, wheat, maize, lentils, beans and peas. Sunflower, rapeseed and sesame are oil seeds. In ancient Egypt times they have a recipe called hummus that is made of ground chickpeas. Another sources of plant foods are classified as fruits and vegetables.

Meat is a product taken from animals which then are process to be eaten as food. There are various meat products available today in the market that are coming from different animals. Aside from the meat of animals we can also get food from the food products they produce, like milk, eggs, honey and more.

We all know that lots of food are available everywhere and ready to be eaten but we have to be wary since not all foods are good for our health. Good dietary habits must be on the top of the list to avoid unexpected disease that might be experience in the future and no one wants it to happen.

Eat healthy, stay healthy.:-)