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Best Vegetables for Weight Loss

Best Vegetables for Weight Loss Cucumber - The cucumber is one of the best vegetables for weight loss. It´s extremely low in calories and contains lots of water. Broccoli - When trying to lose weight, include plenty of broccoli in your diet. It contains no fat at all, and plenty of carbohydrate. This are slow-release carbohydrates, which is great for helping to keep your energy levels up. Beans - The great thing about using them for weight loss is that they also count as a source of protein and have lots of fibre. So cut down on your meat intake and substitute all or some of it with beans instead. Spinach - Spinach is another brilliant vegetable when you´re trying to lose weight. If you´ve always disliked it, try cooking it very lightly – spinach needs barely any cooking at all. You can also serve it raw in salads. Carrots - Carrots should be included among vegetables for losing weight. Just think of all that beta-carotene and fibre! Onions - When choosing vegetables for l...

Five Benefits of Broccoli

Five Benefits of Broccoli Broccoli is considered to be one of the most nutritious vegetables that can offer numerous health benefits. This is the main reason why there is a huge increase in the number of people who tend to include this on their daily diet. 1. Prevents Cancer Broccoli is rich in glucoraphanin which can be processed by the human body into a kind of compound capable of preventing cancer. It works by eliminating H. pylori from a human body which is known as a bacterium that triggers gastric cancer. 2. Healthy Nervous System This can be attributed to its high potassium content. This works not only in maintaining a healthier nervous system but also in allowing the human brain to function optimally. 3. Regulates Blood Pressure This is possible becaus...

Aloo bhindi fry

Aloo bhindi fry Ingredients Bhindi roughly chopped 100 gms Medium size aloo 2-3 Ginger garlic paste Pinch of hing 1 teaspoon jeera haldi powder dried chilli 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon chaat masala salt according to your taste oil 2 tablespoon How to cook Take 2 tbsp of oil in a pan add jeera ,dried red chilli ,garlic ginger paste and chopped aloo along with a pinch of salt.Stir fry for 1 minute and further cook on medium flame for 4 to 5 minutes. Take another pan and add a pinch of hing,add bhindi and cook on medium flame for 4 to ...

Spring onion and potato sabji

Spring onion and potato sabji Ingredients boiled potatoes 2 large (it should be 1.5 cup when cubed) roughly diced tomatoes 1 cup chopped green parts of spring onion 3 cups finely chopped ginger 1 tbsp or more finely chopped green chilies 1 tsp turmeric powder 1 tsp cumin seeds 2 tsp black pepper powder 1 tsp salt to taste mustard oil 1 tbsp or a bit more How to cook It is great if you have boiled potatoes in the fridge, otherwise just boil them in the microwave or whatever way you prefer. Cold boiled potatoes are suited for this recipe best, but you can go ahead with freshly boiled potatoes as well. Heat the oil in a pan and tip in the cumin seeds, wait till they crackle. Then add the chopped ginger and green chilies wait till they are fried but not dehydrated, add the cubed potatoes, turmeric powde...

Stay Young with Ayurveda

Stay Young with Ayurveda Ayurveda Diet and Lifestyle for Maintaining Youth The daily food intake should preferably be freshly cooked, appealing to taste and easily digestible. Intake of spicy, fried foods, cold drinks, caffeine rich foods and drinks and alcohol should be minimized.Try and include all the six tastes in your daily diet: sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent.Take care to include optimum exercises in your daily routine. This helps to keep more active, flexible and away from progressing ailments. These exercises should be according to your own strength and tolerance power. A brisk walk early in the morning is a good form of exercise.Sound sleep for seven to eight hours is the best form of rest. This helps the body and mind relax completely and also hel...

The Average Height and Weight by Age of child

The Average Height and Weight by Age of child Height and weight charts are used by pediatricians to help determine how big a child may grow up to be. Girls -- Two to Eight Years A 2-year-old girl has an average height of 34 inches and a weight of 27 pounds. By age four, the average height is 40 inches and the average weight is 34 pounds. At age six, the average height is 45 inches and the average weight is 46 pounds. An 8-year-old girl has an average height of 50 inches and an average weight of 58 pounds. Girls -- 10 to 14 Years At 10 years old, the average girl is 54 inches tall and weighs 72 pounds. By age 12, the average height has raised to 59 inches and the average weight is at 92 pounds. 14-year-old girls are an average of 63 inches tall and 109 pounds. Girls -- 16+...

Banana and you

Benefits of banana fruit Banana fruit is rich in calories, but very low in fats. The fruit contains good amounts of health benefiting anti-oxidants, minerals, and vitamins. Banana pulp is composed of soft, easily digestible flesh with simple sugars like fructose and sucrose that when eaten replenishes energy and revitalizes the body instantly; thus, for these qualities, bananas are being used by athletes to get instant energy and as supplement food in the treatment plan for underweight children. The fruit contains good amount of soluble dietary fiber (7% of DRA per 100 g) that helps normal bowel movements; thereby reducing constipation problems. It contains many health promoting flavonoid poly-phenolic antioxidants such as lutein, zeaxanthin, beta and alpha carotenes in small amounts. These compounds help act as protective scavengers against oxygen-derived free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) that play a role in aging and various disease processes. I...

Natural home remedies for hypertension (High Blood Pressure)

Natural home remedies for hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Banana: Banana is the best natural remedy for blood pressure. Eat one or two bananas daily to keep your high blood pressure in control. The high potassium present in the banana will help you control the blood pressure level. It aids you to be free of cholesterol, with its low sodium levels. Apart from banana, you can also try eating spinach, dried apricots, orange juice, raisins, currants, baked sweet potatoes, winter squash, zucchini, and cantaloupe. Garlic: Garlic processes the great properties that help you get blood pressure in control. Either raw or cooked form garlic helps you in reducing cholesterol level. Whenever you have your blood pressure level high then try eating 1 – 2 slightly crushed ...

How to lose 5 kg of weight in a week

How to lose 5 kg of weight in a week After wakeup in the morning first boil 1 glass water and add half lemon and if you have honey then 1 table spoon honey.If no honey then add 1 lemon instead of half. Do some exercise or walking or jogging for 20–30 minute.To lose weight, you need to burn more calories.Exercise can help you achieve this by burning off some extra calories. Exercise for loosing weight . Walking, Running and Jogging Cycling Swimming Jump Rope Exercise ball crunch Yoga Cardio Drink more water, recommended is 9 glasses of water.It is good benefits and the best is you can take advantage of it three times a day, drink a glass of water every time before your major meals. Eliminate the white carbohydrates. The reason is that refined carbohydrates make you gai...

Apple and Health

Apples and Health There is a lot of truth in the old adage, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apples are rich in pectin, a soluble fiber that has been shown to reduce cholesterol. This pectin also appears to target "bad" cholesterol (LDL) according to recent tests. Eating two apples per day has dropped cholesterol levels in test subject humans by up to 16 percent. Apples are also good for diabetics as the soluble fiber assists in regulating blood sugar, preventing a sudden increase or drop in serum sugar levels.The fibers also help protect the mucous membrane of the colon from exposure to toxic substances by binding to cancer causing chemicals in the colon. Apples are full of vitamins and minerals. Apple fruit contains good quantities of vitamin-C and beta-carotene. Vitamin C is a powerful natural antioxidant. Consumption of foods rich in vitamin C helps body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free rad...

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How to lose Belly Fat with Home remedy

How to lose Belly Fat with Home remedy Foods such as sweets, sweetened drinks, carbohydrate and oil rich foods increase kapha and medha (body fat) and must be avoided. Consume more wheat products than rice products. Use green gram and horse gram to reduce kapha and medha. Consume two teaspoons of honey with a glass of ‘weight-reducing’ herbal tea to aid weight loss. Take one glass of water every hour from the time you get up. Minimise your salt intake and milk based products such as ice-creams and butter. Ayurvedic practitioners suggest that one must consume two fruits in the morning and one fruit every evening to lose belly fat. Use a lot of cinnamon, ginger and pepper in your cooking. Avoid the afternoon siesta to avoid ...

20 Home Remedies Everyone Should Know

20 Home Remedies Everyone Should Know Having pomegranate’s juice daily is good for heart and useful for people suffering from low Blood Pressure (Hypotension) One natural treatment for acidity is chewing a few Basil (tulsi) leaves after a meal. This not just works as an antacid as it helps the body absorb food but also prevents reflux and the formation of ulcers. Sucking a piece of Clove after meal helps in reducing acidity problem. A flake of garlic swallowed with water taken empty stomach daily in the morning can be helpful in solving many stomach & gastric problems. Headache caused by summer heat is cured by consuming watermelon juice. Just one glass a day works wonders… Eating an Apple on an empty stomach in the morning ...

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