Fri Jun 25 2010

Women Weight Loss with Natural Food

A healthy body can lose weight faster than a malnourished body. So its worth remembering that there are 22 vitamins and minerals which are essential for the control of our weight and metabolism. The most important ones are: Vitamins B2, B3, B5, B6, Vitamin C, choline, inositol, chromium, manganese and zinc. All are available from healthy diet foods.

Salads:  Make salads with tomato, car rot, beetroot, cabbage, capsicum, lettuce, or cucumber all low in calories-your diet staple, to liven them up, you can use curd or lemon as a salad dressing. Sandwiches too, are a goods way to have these raw vegetables. The bread helps fill you up, but dont use butter-spread a coriander-and-mint chutney instead would do good.

Grapes: Instead of munching your way through a packet of biscuits after a hard day, try grapes instead. Theyre high in sugar, but as long as you dont overdo it, they offer the same soothing hand-to-mouth action with none of the fat. Theyre especially good chilled besides, a hundred grams of grapes contain only 70 calories.

Oranges: The more slowly you eat; the easier it is to recognize your bodys satiety signals. And what snack takes longer than peeling and sectioning an orange? Oranges have only 48 calories. (200 ml of orange juice, with all the fiber gone, has about 115).

Potatoes: Surprised? The problem is not the potatoes, but the way they are cooked . Finger chips or other forms of fried potatoes are high in fat. But if baked or boiled and eaten without fatty accompaniments, potatoes are great for your diet. Have them mashed, adding pepper and a dash of lime. Or stuffed-as in aloo parathas, prepared without oil or ghee of course. (If you must have finger chips make them in the microwave). Potatoes contain only 97 calories.

Sweet potatoes when boiled have a naturally rich taste and creamy texture. They have 120 calories more than potatoes – but theyre delicious even without accompaniments. And although they belong to a different botanical family, calorie theyre just as nutritious as regular potatoes.

High fiber cereals: By providing bulk, some cereal-based foods, too, fill you up on relatively few calories. They include chapattis, roasted corn on the cob, dhokla or idlis, and white rice upmas. Other breakfast choices could be oats, poha, or rice wheat-or- corn-flakes low in sugar. Pour skim milk on the flakes. If you prefer them sweet, add chopped fruit.

Sprouted pulses: When pulses are sprouted, they gain vitamins and fiber. Eaten raw, theyre good for slimming. Moong, for instance, sprouts quickly and its sprouts taste good raw. A 50-gram serving has about 140 calories. Raw sprouts of other pulses-rajma, broad beans and dried peas for example-can be made more palatable if theyre steamed, though this lowers their nutrient value.

Curds: If made from skimmed cows milk, curds contain only 56 calories and are a good source of protein, calcium and vitamins, Plain curds with a little fruit is delicious as a dessert.

Water: Research shows that snacking in particular is often the result of mistaking thirst for hunger; write Tarla Dalal and Dr Swati Piramal in East Your Way to Good Health. Water has no calories, so its great for filling up. Those who find it a plain bore can quaff low-calorie drinks that contain mostly water such as buttermilk, coconut water, and watermelon juice. Clear vegetable or dal soups are nutritious and dont have many calories, avoid cream soups.

Air popped popcorn: Thats popcorn made without butter, oil or salt. Pop it your self in a container with a lid, either over a stove or in a microwave oven. If quantity affects the quality of your eating experience consider that four cups of air-popcorn have only 100 calories and one gram of fat. Compare that to potato wafers-four cups have about 600 calories and 40 grams of fat.

Chocolate bar: To avoid binges, its important to indulge yourself once in a while. An occasional 20-gram chocolate bar-about the size of a small 5 star-is a good choice for sweet-tooth cravings, because its individually pack aged and thus less risky than cake, ice cream, or puddings.

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