Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Diet Daily Menu

Hi

I haven't posted for a while as I've been busy with work, plans for a new house and writing.
I'll talk about
a) Don't have healthy eating habits.

So what are healthy eating habits you ask?
We need to eat whole grains. This includes wholemeal bread and brown rice. So forget those cakes, cookies made with white flour. Just pinch it together and you'll find its of a sticky consistency and that's how it is in our intestines too.
Eat more vegetables and less red meat. We only need high amounts of protein when we're growing. So that rules out anyone over 18 years old.
I laugh when I see advertisments of products saying low fat. Who cares about the fat content when the product is loaded with white sugar. Governments ought to have a sugar tax to make those products dearer and to cover the costs of sick (diabeties, fat - heart problems and more) people filling our hospitals. And by the way, brown sugar, raw sugar are all made from white sugar as well.
When you are hungry eat nuts, fruit like apples, oranges, bananas (organic is best).
A suggested daily diet:
Breakfast: A bowl of quick oats with soy milk heated in microwave for 1.5 minutes and one sliced fresh pear on top. Drink freshly squeezed apple or pear juice.
Lunch: A quarter of a rockmelon (canolpe). A handfull of almonds or pecans. 3 slices of wholemeal bread (preferably yeast free) a smear of easy spread butter with salad and a nutty spread (no added sugar and not from raw nuts as they can grow fungus). Drink peppermint or another herbal tea.
Afternoon tea: Peppermint tea or black tea with a handfull of rosted cashews or pecans. (not salted). An apple or pear or a few slices of watermelon.
Dinner: steamed or stir fried in a small amount of olive oil and then add a little water to stop them burning: two small zuccini, one carrot cut in narrow fingers, a handfull of snow peas (put in at the last minute), fresh beans chopped any way you like them and two knobs of squashed or finely chopped garlic (that's not the whole clove but break off the segments).
Steamed Chicken 250 grams (organic or at least not chlorine bleached for whitness as most processing plants do now and is the only chicken meat available in most supermarkets). Add a little soy sauce for flavour afterwards or rosemary and grated lemon rind while cooking. You can substitute any fresh vegetables if you don't have the suggested ones. Try using bok choy instead of zuccini for a change as well.
On alternate days have a serving of fish instead of chicken.
Half a cup of cooked brown rice.
Drink after waiting 1 hour - herbal tea.
Drink at least six glasses of water per day.

Have a healthy and happy holiday season.
Olga