Showing posts with label Blueberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blueberries. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Top Super Foods for Health and Fitness


What are known as super foods are nutritional powerhouses which help put up bones, minimize long term diseases, improve your vision problems, as well as maintain the mind sharp? But are you aware that latest evidence states those foods will also help you get—and stay—slim?

Read on for the top rated super foods for weight loss, and how you can set all of them into the daily diet!


Walnuts
Walnuts are full of tryptophan, an amino acid the body requires to create the feel-great element serotonin. In actual fact, Spanish experts discovered that walnut eaters gain higher amounts of this natural mood-regulator.

Asparagus
Most of these spears are one of the better veggie options B vitamin that can help to keep you due to a depression. "Folate is essential for the synthesis of the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin, and also norepinephrine.

A cup of cooked asparagus features 268 micrograms (mcg)—two-thirds of the 400 mcg RDA for ladies. Include a cup of supplemented pasta—which is fortified with vitamin d with folic acid, the synthetic type of folate—and you'll gain a feel-good meal actually.

Spring garlic
The slim-you advantage of this temporary resident deal with lies in a compound called allicin, which provides garlic a number of pungent odor. Allicin can make sure you keep from eating too much by refreshing satiety in the mind.

Spring garlic features a milder, sweeter taste than the dried white bulbs you purchase later on in the period. Like it diced on salad for a fat-fighting part and lunch.

Spinach
These types of tasty leaves are a good source of iron (particularly if you don't eat meat), and that is the key element in red-colored blood cells that energy our muscles with oxygen for strength.

Researchers in Sweden recently determined an alternative way possible most of these vegetables can help you keep fully charged: Compounds present in spinach actually maximize the capability of our mitochondria, the energy-producing factories inside our cells. Which means consuming a cup of cooked spinach per day could actually give you more lasting strength on the elliptical system

Artichokes
While you've already been huffing and puffing up the stairs, attempt these types of spiky-leafed vegetables. They're full of magnesium, a mineral vital for a lot more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body—including building strength. "If you're not having enough magnesium, the muscles need to work harder to feel like therefore you exhaust much faster.”

Salmon
There's wrinkle protection on your skin: "Salmon is full of a fatty acid known as Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a kind of omega-3 that naturally will help prevent the discharge of UV-induced enzymes that reduce collagen, inducing outlines and sagging skin area. Extra benefit: Omega-3s additionally regulate oil generation in the skin and increase hydration that helps maintain your skin texture dewy with acne-free.

Strawberries
They might not provide the smoothest skin texture independently, but strawberries will get you one . They're full of anti-oxidants which help the skin fix harm as a result of environment elements like air pollution and Ultra-violet radiations. In addition, they're full of vitamin C (below a cup becomes you your whole 75 mg RDA)—the vitamin related to less wrinkles and lesser dryness, per study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Make use of them in a homemade facial , too . "Direct use of the anti-oxidants in strawberries—as well as the healthy exfoliant they include alpha-hydroxy acid—will provide you with improvements.

Eggs
Need your very own over-easies before you can strike the Easter egg hunt. The yolks are chock-full of choline, the key nutritional for keep in mind. Your system requirements choline to help to make a brain element known as acetylcholine, essential for holding memories. The really helpful dietary allocation (RDA) for choline is 425 mg. You can get 147 mg in a big egg; all the other options are nuts and red meat. 

Blueberries
Consume all of them continually therefore you can reap huge brain profits. In a recent analysis, people that have age-related memory decrease who drank roughly two and a half cups of blueberry fruit juice daily for 12 weeks (the same as eating a cup full of blueberries) created important improvements on sharpness and knowing tests compared to people who drank a placebo juice.

The secret element? A type of anti-oxidant known as anthocyanin , Anthocyanin are already put up in animal research to maximize signals among brain cells and also maximize their resistance , enlarging learning and memory .

Monday, 4 February 2013

Day 4 - no added sugar challenge

Hello my beautiful friends, how are you?

Me? A little pressed for time tonight, so I will need to make this post real short and sweet. I also need to find MORE time and get stuck into Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook and get the nutritional table and food comparisons to you PRONTO!!! For those that cannot wait, I urge you to grab yourself a copy here (or click on the right hand side picture) so it can assist you with your sugar cravings.


What can you do to avoid eating sugar foods? Plan your meals. This is key! Even if it's for 2 days in advance. For an example;

Take your piece of fruit and walnuts when you go out.... to a play date, friends catch up, shopping WHEREVER?? You know what you are putting in your mouth rather than the muffins they will be serving or those nice smelling donuts you can smell in shopping centres!!! You are in control remember, if you want this you will pack your food and prep your meals.


Exercise today

Did my resistance training today and man I ALWAYS get a complete body workout. I love the fact that it only takes me 15 minutes to workout in the comfort of our own home while I can still play with the girls. Had a refreshing dip in the pool afterwards with a cool down stretches.



Style update

I get such a buzz when I can still look like the Gwen Stefani's of the world without paying the same price tag! Today I snapped up 3 pairs of jeans for $30! Back in the days I would've spent $250 on a PAIR of jeans alone!!! But no! Not today! They are such a lovely pastel colour, just the right summer denim to slip my legs into! Either go to your local Factorie store or simple buy online www.factorie.com.au and snap this bargain!


Coloured denim in lemon,  iceberg and baby pink 


YAY NO SUGAR TODAY!!!


Breakfast
Waffles with ricotta and blueberries

Blueberry waffles


Same as my crepes mix, I either blend oats into fine flour or wholemeal AKA wheat, add some eggs, vanilla beans and buttermilk. Typically I make the mixture that little bit more thicker. This was a lot quicker for our breaky this morning using the waffle machine and we ate them with ricotta and fresh blueberries. Then flew to school drop off!!!!



Snack
Yogurt with fresh raspberries



Lunch 
Vegetable frittata 

Snack
Fruit smoothie with 2 serves of fruit

Dinner
Vegetable and beef stir fry



Again a super quick meal for me when I'm short on time and swimming in the pool all afternoon with the kids!!! 

Method:
1). Heat olive oil in wok and add chopped onions and crushed garlic
2). Add beef strip and cook through
3). Add your choice of vegetables (frozen is fine) and preferred sauce and dinner is done!


We served ours with brown rice tonight. 

How is everyone coping without sugar. I have done this before so I am doing okay. As long as the stuff isn't in the house, I'm good. However I won't lie as I type this, I could easily open up a block of chocolate and smash it!! 

I won't though, we are doing this together. If I can't, YOU CAN'T!!! We can do this!!! See you tomorrow. 
Xx Dani


Wednesday, 22 July 2009

A Fistful of Blueberry Pancakes

YOU CAN MAKE THIS!!!!




Good Morning Readers!


This morning I am powering up the pancake recipe by adding 2 fistfuls of blueberries. As you know I am on a mission to show that eating healthy is easy and fun....

Before we begin, did you know that the blueberry is the #1 most powerful antioxidant? What does that mean for you and me.....by incorporating blueberries into our daily nutrition plan, we are protecting our bodies from a multitude of health issues to include heart disease and cancer, and in addition slowing the aging process...now who does not want that? So let's get cooking.....


Have ready your griddle, spray with PAM, heat on low, otherwise your pancakes will cook too fast on the outside and be gooey on the inside, and a bowl. Nothing fancy....my tools here are a bowl, a fork, and a stirring spoon for mixing.





You Will Need:


1 very (turning brown) ripe banana

1 whole egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup old fashion rolled oats

1 scoop whey vanilla protein

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tbsp flax meal

1/2 tbsp wheat germ

1/2 tbsp oat bran
Vanilla soy milk (yes you can use n/f milk instead)

2 Large fistfuls of blueberries
1 Handful of blueberries to sprinkle on top

In your bowl, smash ripe banana with your fork until it stirs well and juices release, add your whole egg and fork stir into banana until well combined, add 1/2 tsp vanilla and stir again. Put the oats in your electric blender and grind until flour consistency and add to the wet ingredients in the bowl, add your vanilla protein powder, the flax meal, wheat germ, and oat bran, and stir well. The mix will be thick at this point. Add just enough soy milk to make the mixture pourable (careful not to make runny), so add a bit, stir and check. I like my mixture a bit "thick pourable". Now add the 2 fistfuls of blueberries and gently stir into the mixture. Pour 2 equal amounts of batter onto your prepared griddle, cook on one side a few minutes, (check for color by gently lifting an edge), if to your liking, flip over and cook the rest of the way. This recipe makes two large pancakes. Place one pancake on your plate and sprinkle with a few blueberries. I sometimes drizzle a little honey across the top. I eat one and save one for the next morning so I do not have to cook. Really, this only takes about 10 minutes to throw together....you will be done before your tea or coffee is done brewing. Also, a time saver since you have an extra that you can have tomorrow, or for a snack later.

Let me know what you think of this Power Pumped Blueberry Version???


Stay Healthy!!!
Darla:)