Have a Better Life

With the holidays just two weeks away be prepared to eat in the parties without stressing about gaining a few ponds. Here are some tips:

Before the party:

• To prevent you from arriving at the parties starving, before leaving home, eat some nuts and almonds without salt. When you arrive at the party, say that you are really thirsty and ask for a big glass of water with a slice of lemon.

During the party:

• Start with a huge dose of salad, soup or vegetables. After, taste a little of everything. If they insist with you to eat say I’ll be back in a minute (but don’t come back).

After the party:

• On the next day, eat light meals of soup of various vegetables, fruit and light fresh cheese.

As I mentioned in my family blog my husband is overweighted. He’s not careful with what he eats and his diet includes cookies, sodas, chocolates, etc. There are several products available he could take like hydroxycut which burns calories and controls appetite, but he’s not very fond of taking pills so he prefers to eat more soup, vegetables and fruits. The problem is when he eats a full package of cookies…
He’s already having high blood pressure and it can be cause by the overweight besides the dangers of stroke and heart attack.

Pickles are a very popular way of conserve food, especially vegetables. Its own flavor comes from a process of addiction of vinegar, salt and sugar.

From the nutritional point of view, pickles have a profile similar to fresh vegetables, with the exception of the high amount of sodium (a salt component) and sugar.

Eating salty food is frequently attached to the increase of blood pressure and to a high risk of gastric cancer.

The presence of sugar also gives a higher caloric effect to pickles than fresh vegetables, therefore these type of food must be eaten sporadically.

• 150g of Strawberries
• Lemon Juice
• Orange Juice
• 1 soap spoon of Sugar substitute

• Wash the strawberries and remove the green leaves just before using them, so that they don’t lose properties or quality.
• Prepare the lemon juice and the orange juice. Put them together in a bowl and add the strawberries. Mix everything.
• Reserve for an hour to obtain more consistence and mix everything again until it’s reduced to puree.
• Finally add the sugar substitute. Put in molds and in the freezer. Bon Appetit

Pineapple: makes the digestion easier!
This fruit, that the aboriginals called the “excellent fruit”, has excellent medicinal virtues. Its biggest quality is being highly digestive because it contains an enzyme called bromelina; it is highly recommended to be eaten after the meals. It also is rich in potassium, iodine and vitamin C.

Honey: it’s good for insomnia
From the afternoon on, avoid stimulating drinks, try to have dinner two hour before going to bed and drink a chamomile tee with honey. Honey is an ingredient rich in tryptophan and calcium, relaxes.