It is said that eating salads twice a day, at lunch and dinner, helps prevent many diseases like cancer. Many people in the world suffer from intestine and colon cancer; one of the leading causes for this is the lack of complex carbohydrates and roughage in their diet. With their busy lifestyles, people often skip meals and eat mostly refined and fast foods.

 

 

 

 

 

Salads should be a very important part of a person’s daily diet. Salads are high in fiber content, and are a rich source of daily vitamin and mineral requirement. We should accept salads as a routine part of our life.

Avoidance of ingredients while preparing salads:

•    We should avoid olive oil or coconut in the salads.

•    We also better not include meat or corn to the salads.

Foods craving is mostly passed off as that in-between-meals hunger that many of us experience. I’m sure you’ve heard that when you are happy your foods craving heightens and you want to devour more! True! After a happy event, such as, getting a promotion in office, the first thing that any one of us would do is go for a gala bash with our friends to a nearby restaurant and gorge on all the good food there .But accoridng to HomeTownAnnapolis study craving for food is not always healthy. You also keep pining for food when you are emotionally down.

 

Delicious foods or a delicious mood? What is your choice? Commonsense says that delicious foods pep up you mood. But here’s an article from Shine that says that certain good foods give you a bad mood after the initial high. So watch out if you’re eating any of these.

BAGELS

Bagels are great for a morning breakfast. But don’t eat them without good protein supplements as there are chances of you going cranky, lethargic and forgetful an hour after you eat them.

HOT DOGS

 

A distorted body image is what an anorexic’s mind perceives when he/she looks into the mirror! You may be weighing just 90 lbs, but a distorted body image is going to make you look really plumpish in the mirror!

 

Women, since ages, have been obsessed with their body images and looks. You have heard about the queen in the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs asking “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” haven’t you, till one fine morning the mirror declared “ Snow White is the fairest of them all” ? A distorted body image is the outcome of an imbalanced mind. Anorexics and the bulimics are  so very pathologically obsessed about media-hyped body statistics that their imbalanced minds result in their seeing a distorted body image in the mirror.Read more about the other psychological factors that cause eating disorders in people at Statehornet.com.

 

 

 

Your candy personality is revealed by your choice of candies! For example, the candy personality of a person who buys 3 Musketeers more than any other brand of chocolates is a social and showy person who likes wearing fancy costumes. The Bit –O –Honey lot is infested with internal controversies. People who are inclined towards Almond Joy are the happy-go lucky lot. The Butter Fingers lot are as slippery as butter. They aren’t trustworthy. The Candy Corn lovers are a deluded lot. The Good and Plenty fans are optimistic. The Reese’s Peanut Buttercups lovers are a generous lot. The advocates of Twix are a hard and soft lot while those who love Twizzlers are a truly demented group.

 

 

Many of us have probably put on a few pounds, what with all the festive feasting of recent times. And now, as our lives go back to the regular routine, a desire to lose those extra pounds kicks in. The most common and immediate reaction may be, ‘let me starve for a few days or try one of those diets that will help me lose a few pounds in a week’. While you may lose weight in doing so, the sad part is that you also do some profound damage to your body through such methods.

 

 

 

 

Whenever you skip a meal, or eat just soups, salads or fruits and your total calorie intake for the day goes below 1000 calories, you send a very dangerous message to your body, that there is a crisis in the person’s life. With a reduced food intake, the body goes into course correction mode by expending lesser energy for metabolic activities. We all know that a large chunk of the calorie expenditure for a day is to keep up the basal metabolic rate (BMR).

 

Attractive colors make food more desirable! Most foodies know that. Popular attractive colors that you can think of for your holiday menu fares are green, brown and red. These colors are surely going to make your party fare a big hit.

Green has always been associated with nature and you automatically feel that any green food is fresh and pure. Include a lot of greens in your party menu and your guests will lap up the items as though they’ve hit upon a rare treasure of healthy food. I really needn’t tell you about the mesmerizing effect of brown. Chocolate, one of the most magical creations of the food world, is brown. Psychologically anything brown is associated with chocolate according to me, especially when it comes to desserts. Also brown food most of the time signifies good cooking. Your roasts and grills, when browned acquire an irresistible flavor. Amongst the top 3 attractive colors, red is the third most attractive color as it stimulates your appetite. Many restaurants color their décor red to you really hungry.

 

 

 

 

 

Excessive eating is not about poor control over your food addiction! Excessive eating is a consequence of fats in tasty foods prompting your brain to consume more. Why you eat more of tasty food is because the fats present in tasty food goes up to your brain and blocks messages that let you know that you’ve eaten your full and its time for you to stop eating more ! Now I understand why I indulge in limitless binging over potato fries whenever I get to lay my hands on a pack of ‘em.