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Friday, September 6, 2013

Two Super Highways to Detox your Lunch Box

Beetroot salad

Mix with orange, mint and mixed seeds

Beetroot is one of the most powerful superfoods to detox your liver, and also it is rich in antioxidants and really delicious vegetable.

How to  make it.

  1. Pack the baby beetroots in tin foil and roast them for 45 minutes.
  2. Peel its skin while warm and then mix with balsamic vinegar and some fresh orange juice.
  3. Wait until it’s cooled, halve and toss them with mixed toasted seeds, orange segments, few chopped mint,  and then season to make a good taste.
  4. If you want to more ingredients, add quinoa or brown rice. They are also rich of nutrients and multivitamins.

Edamame bean Salad

Mixed with chicken and pickled ginger

Edamame, superfood, are rich in nutrients and antioxidants.

How to make it.

  1. First, defrost the edamame beans and mix them with cooked shredded chicken, finely-sliced spring onions, black and white sesame seeds, and torn pickled ginger, a type uses in Sushi.
  2. If you want more calories, use soba noodles.
  3. It’s time to make a dressing. Mix sesame oil, grated fresh ginger, soy sauce, diced red chilli and a squeeze of lime together.
  4. When it’s done, pour it over the salad and top with some finely chopped coriander.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

How to cook burnt ends

Protect your heart with spicy beef brisket and BBQ sauce....


Some kinds of cooking are rarely good for your blood pressure. May be this healthy spicy beef recipe is an exception. Research from UK shows that a third of UK men have elevated blood pressure, which causes the heart disease. So if you want to reduce the risk of the disease, try this recipe from nutritionist Drew Price. Cooking called “Burnt ends” is slow-cooked hunks of meat. The marinade also contain high in heart-healthy spices, especially with garlic shown to lower blood pressure by 10%.

Ingredients:

  • 2-3 kgs of Beef brisket
  • 4 cloves of Garlic
  • Oregano, cumin
  • Big pinch of seeds and smoked paprika
  • 2 thickly sliced onions
  • 200 ml of cider vinegar
  • A bottle of barbecue sauce

Direction:

  1. Let’s cook stress guy.
  2. Mash the garlic, mix herbs and spice and rub it into the prepared meat.
  3. Place in the slow cooker with the onions and a splash of cider vinegar.
  4. Leave it on 100°C for 4-6 hrs, cut it up and coat with the barbecue sauce.
  5. Aaannnd relax and enjoy eating.

    Photo by: menshealth.co.uk

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Cucumber Help To Lose Your Weight

For Breakfast

Try this smoothie “Blueberry and cucumber smoothie”


Refuel your energy before go to work with a chopped cucumber, a few mint leaves, a fist of berries, ice cubes and 350g natural Greek yoghurt into a blender. This smoothie is good  for your morning workout, intake before your workout at least an hour. Greek yoghurt is rich of calcium, which is a powerful fat burner.

For Lunch

Feta pitta breads good for your lunch

How to make.

Let mix a sliced fresh cucumber with perfect 100g feta cheese, 1 tbsp natural Greek yoghurt, 100g black olives, fresh mint to make a good flavour and mixed fruit seeds. This super healthy diet is good for your good source of energy driving your afternoon activity. The feta cheese is packed with riboflavin which will fuel your next workout in the evening.


For Dinner

Try this “Hot cucumber soup”

How to make it.

Take out the cucumber seeds, slice and fry for 2 minutes. And then add chopped spring onions to make a good smell, 500ml chicken stock and chilli powder to raise your metabolism or mix spices if you prefer. Taste it and then serve with Greek yoghurt and fresh mint. Just take 5 minutes.

Photo by: menshealth.co.uk

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Blueberries and broccoli prevent cancer?

Definitely, it is difficult to say that a specific healthy superfood increases or reduces the risk of developing cancer because our diets each day consist of many different kinds of food, chemicals and nutrients.

There is no evidence that eating a healthy balanced diet, such as mix fruits and veggies, daily can help you reduce the risk of developing some types of cancer.


Superfoods May Help

Superfoods like blueberries, beetroot and broccoli may reduce the risk of cancers. These superfoods are rich of nutrients and active chemicals, including vitamins A, C and E, flavonoids, beta-carotene as well as fibre.
Mix them together may give powerful effect against some dieseases rather than one in particular.  

Antioxidants Are Power weapon

Studies show that these superfoods such as blueberries and broccoli contain high levels of active antioxidants, which are chemical compounds that help reduce our cell damage caused by free radicals. In the clinical trial, antioxidants have been found to reduce the growth of cancer cells. On the other hand, in the lab conditional study, the effects of antioxidant are not necessarily the same as in the human body. In addition, the doses of antioxidants used in studies are often much higher than those found in these superfoods. Therefore, it’s so early to say that eating these superfoods can help you get away from cancer.

Healthy Diets Can Reduce Cancer
It’s hard to say that eating a healthy diet plus regular training will not help you maintain your healthy weight. There are many researches support eating healthy balanced diet can reduce your risk of getting some developing types of cancer.

Top 3 Foods to Boost Men Health

Lean Red Meat

Are you a lean steak-onion-and-potatoes guy? If you’re….red meat can be good for your health. No doubt about it...lean red meat of beef and pork are packed with high protein and less amounts of fat, too. These meats are a little more fat than chicken breast. They are also a good source of leucine, which is an amino acid that helps build your perfect muscle.

Tart Cherries

Studies reveal that cherries and cherry juice are rich of antioxidants and the pigments help reduce some anti-inflammatory symptom. And also there are no side effects.



Chocolate

New research shows that chocolate may improve blood flow, particularly dark chocolate due to the flavanols in dark chocolate may reduce levels of bad cholesterol, which improve circulation of blood flow. This also helps keep blood pressure in check. Men who have poor blood flow are more likely to have erection problems, so heart-benefit foods may protect your sex life, too. Remember that if you take too much chocolate, it can lead to weight gain. Recommends eating only 1 ounce daily instead of other your normal sweets.

Photos by: webmd.com