‘Fiber’

3 Healthy Foods Should be Eaten in Moderation II

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Natural Juices

Natural Juices:
Fresh fruit juices are an excellent source of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. It is also a good way to consume nutrients own fruit, but is not appropriate all day drinking juice in place of natural fruit, as we are losing many of the nutrients remaining in the pulp and more importantly, they have fiber.

Furthermore, the whole fruit has a lower glycemic index than their juice, absorbed more slowly and have less impact on blood glucose.

Cheese:
Cheese is not only the coagulated whey, and according to the period of rest is reached more or less hard product.

The cheeses are a healthy food to be a source of calcium and protein quality are the ideal food to enrich the diet of those who eat no meat, but we must not forget that hard cheeses are high in fat and that weight is increased by having lower water content, so we can be in short supply including up to 50 grams of fat.

Therefore, we should not stop eating cheese in our diet, but portion control, because if it is a healthy food, you can not eat a kilo of cheese a day. On the other hand, my advice is to opt for those cooler or higher water content, such as ricotta, cheese spreads, Tybo, path or other similar varieties of cheese.

Well, so here I give you 3 meals that are healthy but should be used sparingly to achieve a varied diet full, but balanced which delivers all the nutrients they need in adequate amounts.

We must not confuse healthy food that does not contribute calories, which can be consumed in unlimited quantities or eat much more healthier it will be.

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Benefits of fiber

Friday, December 25th, 2009

benefit of fiberFiber is a nutrient that our body does not digest or absorb, but has many benefits.

- The fiber affects the gastrointestinal tract as it passes into the intestinal tract is partially fermented by bacteria in the colon and this proves to be very beneficial to our health.

- This degradation causes certain gases in moderate proportions provide stool consistency, facilitating transit intestinal.

- Foods with high fiber content have to chew more, so the swallow more slowly and produce more saliva, which promotes dental hygiene.

- Combat constipation by increasing stool volume and accelerate intestinal transit, the most widely used example is wheat bran. Anyway, any fiber, especially insoluble are adequate.

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