The snacks we choose can make a big difference to maintain a healthy weight. By substituting a few healthier choices you can snack guilt-free!
Salsa is a great way to satisfy one of your daily vegetable requirements while adding flavor to cottage cheese as a replacement for higher calorie fruits and as a swap for sour cream on a quesadilla. A half cup of salsa is only 21 calories, which is a great way to eliminate 200 calories if using higher calorie garnishes and fruits.
Turnips, parsnips, and rutabagas are a tasty and healthy alternative for potatoes. Clean, cube and add spices like rosemary, garlic, and sage, and bake for a tasty side dish at your next meal.
Celery and carrots are a good snack but did you know that a cup of sliced bell peppers has only 20 calories and at the same time supplies 120 percent of your daily vitamin C requirement. They are also full of antioxidants – so crunch away.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Build and Repair Muscle with Protien
Most nutritionists will recommend three eight ounce (approximately one cup) portions of protein foods every day.
Meats are a prime source of protein and the ones to eat are those that are 95 percent lean. Some choices are white chicken or turkey breasts, egg whites, fish and shell fish.
If you prefer a vegetarian choice for your proteins choose beans and legumes like lentils, lima, pinto and edamame. Soy (in food form) is another great source of protein such as tempeh and tofu which can be found in several healthy choices like veggie burgers.
Dairy foods in reduced fat forms like skim milk, yogurt and cottage cheese help you to maintain the minimum daily requirements for protein for every meal. This is required to balance out your carb intake. If you eat carbs alone your blood sugar will skyrocket and then plummet. Combining proteins and carbs will eliminate these dangerous blood sugar fluctuations.
Meats are a prime source of protein and the ones to eat are those that are 95 percent lean. Some choices are white chicken or turkey breasts, egg whites, fish and shell fish.
If you prefer a vegetarian choice for your proteins choose beans and legumes like lentils, lima, pinto and edamame. Soy (in food form) is another great source of protein such as tempeh and tofu which can be found in several healthy choices like veggie burgers.
Dairy foods in reduced fat forms like skim milk, yogurt and cottage cheese help you to maintain the minimum daily requirements for protein for every meal. This is required to balance out your carb intake. If you eat carbs alone your blood sugar will skyrocket and then plummet. Combining proteins and carbs will eliminate these dangerous blood sugar fluctuations.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Cancer cells slurp up fructose, U.S. study finds
Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.
They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.
"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.
"They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth."
Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.
Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.
Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.
Several states, including New York and California, have weighed a tax on sweetened soft drinks to defray the cost of treating obesity-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
The American Beverage Association, whose members include Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods have strongly, and successfully, opposed efforts to tax soda. [ID:nN12233126]
The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar.
Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.
Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. "Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different," Heaney's team wrote.
"I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in our diets," Heaney said in a statement.
Now the team hopes to develop a drug that might stop tumor cells from making use of fructose.
U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup went up 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990, researchers reported in 2004 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.
They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.
"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.
"They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth."
Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.
Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.
Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.
Several states, including New York and California, have weighed a tax on sweetened soft drinks to defray the cost of treating obesity-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
The American Beverage Association, whose members include Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods have strongly, and successfully, opposed efforts to tax soda. [ID:nN12233126]
The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar.
Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.
Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. "Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different," Heaney's team wrote.
"I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in our diets," Heaney said in a statement.
Now the team hopes to develop a drug that might stop tumor cells from making use of fructose.
U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup went up 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990, researchers reported in 2004 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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