Power Meals

August 18th, 2010 • Eating Healthy, Weight Loss Series
Tags: beef, Calories, Carbs, cardio sprint, Eating, fats, health, heavy lifting, macadamia, meals, mozzarella, Nutrients, Nuts, Protein, turkey, weight circuit

These workout-specific, pre-gym snacks will help you maximize your energy systems.
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5 ways to lower your salt intake

January 12th, 2010 • Eating Healthy
Tags: Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular, Disease, Eating, Habit, Lo-Salt, Low Salt, Salt

Everyone knows a high access of salt can cause high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Every year in the UK 150,000 people suffer a stroke, according to the Stroke Association, while three in five people don’t know they should limit their daily salt to 6g.

In a review of 13 studies, researchers analyzed data on more than 170,000 people and found a scarily strong link between too much sodium and cardiovascular disease and stroke. As in eating just 5 extra grams of salt (about a teaspoon) daily upped the stroke rate by 23 percent. As in that same 5 grams of salt increased the cardiovascular disease rate by 17 percent.

The researchers say cutting 5 grams of salt daily around the world could prevent more than a million strokes and 3 million cardiovascular disease deaths per year. Yikes.
Tracey
NotSuperHuman.com

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4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD EAT SLOWLY

December 14th, 2009 • 1 comment Eating Healthy
Tags: Better Digestion, Bloat, Bloated, Brain, Digest, Digestion, Eat, Eat Slowly, Eating, Food, humility, Less Stress, Nutrients, Patience, Slow, Treadmill tips, Weight Loss

Everyone knows we live in a modern, fast and digital world – the planet is changing, more and more people are connecting through social networking and more and more people are eating snacks from vending machines. Confused? It’s clearly true, there are more vending machines for crisps, chocolates, sweets and fizzy drinks then ever, especially in the UK. We are so busy and consumed with our daily lives we have adopted buying snacks on the move like sugar bag filled Coke-a-Cola and Sunny D that we have stopped to think about the long term effects.

Eating slowly is recommended for health. Slow eating reduces the consumption of food, as it postpones much of the meal to a time when the absorption of nutrients begin to produce physiological signals of satiety (feeling full). By taking your time eating, not only will the food you have eaten release signals to make you feel and think your full, it will help you relax, sleep better and unwind – you can appreciate your food and find “me time” to contemplate – gain patience and humility.

Slow eating will help you with chewing your food and this will result in the exercise of your jaws mixing with saliva with food, hence a complete efficient digestion taking place, food particles are cut into smaller pieces, not requiring much churning in the stomach or intestine.

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