While most diet Gurus including Robert Atkins agree that refined sugar is not good for you and can be downright harmful. Other pundits say that it is not as bad as many nay-sayers' proclaim. One thing that is certain with healthy cooking is you can ensure that you control what goes into any treats you are creating. You don't have to purchase commercial cakes and cookies which contain empty calories; you can make your own.
Sugar basically provides empty calories but there are ways of replacing this sweetener with other more nutritional products. Healthy home cooking and baking enables you to make good use of great recipes. Your family will be so delighted with your efforts, they won't even notice if you slip in a few extra vitamins and minerals.
Home cooking is essential to get your children eating healthy, and there are many short cuts you can use to get them to eat vegetables. I used to trick my kids by grating carrot, pumpkin or marrow into dishes such as hamburger, spaghetti sauces, chili and meatloaf.
Cakes and muffins are yummy with added grated carrot or pumpkin and pumpkin bread is easy to make, plus very nutritious. Pumpkin is a sweet vegetable and when you make bread with it add mixed seeds; sunflower and pumpkin seeds make the bread even tastier, and these seed are highly rich in the essential fatty acids of the Omega group.
Good or bad, refined sugar has been given a bad image by health pundits. Although just think of this, the only real documented research regarding how bad sugar can be for you, is related to tooth decay.
Healthy cooking allows us to use sugar in the quantities that we feel won't be unsafe to our families, without getting on the soap box in Hyde Park. Everything in life is, in the end, about moderation.
No matter how folks in the past have decried how bad alcohol is for you, for the past 20 years European researches have been looking into the health Benefits of drinking red wine. People in Europe live longer and suffer from less dread diseases than Americans. It has been found that the Resevratrol contained in red wine is the key to this. So now that we know this, we are told to drink red wine in moderation to stay healthy and live longer. Grape juice and Resevratrol supplements don't do nearly as much good as the combination of alcohol and this substance.
Healthy cooking and good health is achieved and maintained via good common sense. Understanding a little about the calories and nutrients in food is somewhat important. Although one good rule of thumb, is "if grandma wouldn't recognize it, don't eat it, it won't be good for you". - 30249
Sugar basically provides empty calories but there are ways of replacing this sweetener with other more nutritional products. Healthy home cooking and baking enables you to make good use of great recipes. Your family will be so delighted with your efforts, they won't even notice if you slip in a few extra vitamins and minerals.
Home cooking is essential to get your children eating healthy, and there are many short cuts you can use to get them to eat vegetables. I used to trick my kids by grating carrot, pumpkin or marrow into dishes such as hamburger, spaghetti sauces, chili and meatloaf.
Cakes and muffins are yummy with added grated carrot or pumpkin and pumpkin bread is easy to make, plus very nutritious. Pumpkin is a sweet vegetable and when you make bread with it add mixed seeds; sunflower and pumpkin seeds make the bread even tastier, and these seed are highly rich in the essential fatty acids of the Omega group.
Good or bad, refined sugar has been given a bad image by health pundits. Although just think of this, the only real documented research regarding how bad sugar can be for you, is related to tooth decay.
Healthy cooking allows us to use sugar in the quantities that we feel won't be unsafe to our families, without getting on the soap box in Hyde Park. Everything in life is, in the end, about moderation.
No matter how folks in the past have decried how bad alcohol is for you, for the past 20 years European researches have been looking into the health Benefits of drinking red wine. People in Europe live longer and suffer from less dread diseases than Americans. It has been found that the Resevratrol contained in red wine is the key to this. So now that we know this, we are told to drink red wine in moderation to stay healthy and live longer. Grape juice and Resevratrol supplements don't do nearly as much good as the combination of alcohol and this substance.
Healthy cooking and good health is achieved and maintained via good common sense. Understanding a little about the calories and nutrients in food is somewhat important. Although one good rule of thumb, is "if grandma wouldn't recognize it, don't eat it, it won't be good for you". - 30249
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