These simple tips will make you help in choosing fresh fish while buying it from store. If you are a fish lover this is for you. This is also for fresher who have a little knowledge related to cooking and choosing the right ingredient with the right Quantity.
Have a look at the simple tips...
1. Eyes The first and the most important thing about the fish you should notice first is the eyes. Look for bright and clear eyes. The eyes are the window to a truly fresh fish, for they fade quickly into gray dullness. Dull Eyed fish can also be considered and may be safe to eat but they are past their prime. 2. Look at Fish Look for the fish and check Does It Shine?? Does It look Metallic and Clean?? A good and fresh fish looks clean and shiney. 3. Smell It The another most important thing is to smell it. A good and fresh fish smells like clean water, or even like cucumbers. It is important for you to smell fish or either cooking won't be good. 4. Gills A fresh fish have clear rich red colored gills. If color is dull red like a faded brick then the fish may be too old to select. Another points to be kept in mind.
A. Buy the freshest fish you can find if you are making sushi.
B. Cooking a not-so-fresh fish will not improve it's flavor and/or texture.
C. In land-locked states head to your local Asian or Latin market. Both types of cuisine are known to use lots of seafood, so they will likely have the freshest on hand due to turn over.
D. Flesh should be firm to the touch, not soft or mushy.
F. Select shellfish with shells tightly closed and without any gaps or cracks.
E. Fish should have no brown spots, which are an indication of the beginning of decay.
G. With frozen seafood is must be solid with no signs of partial thawing, in undamaged packaging and with no sign of freezer burn.
The topic weight lose tips are based to things which you can do at your home and can get flat tummy.
The tips are based on normal day work which are simple to follow and easy to adopt in your daily life.
Working on these tips will help you get flat tummy and maintain it.
1. Drink a glass of water before Eating
Drinking water before eating meal has a specific reason behind it, which also helps to lose your weight also helps in getting perfect skin and keeps you energetic all day. Many researches have shown that drinking water before meal results in consuming less calories at those meal because water fills in your stomach and satisfies your hunger with less calories and you think you are done! This probably helps in loosing weight as the sense of fullness which you will get from water will not allow you to eat more food to reach the point of satiety.
2. Eat Small Five Meals a Day
Well if you calculate perfectly its not about the meal five times a day. Every individual has different body and grasping ability, So if you have decided to take five meals a day its really important to check how much you eat & how much calories you intake. You should eat small meals after an hour or two with some snacks of fruits. Eat food which has less fat and more nutrients. Short meals also help your body to feel the fullness of stomach and level of satiety. The small meals helps us to keep our tummy full after regular intervals. Continue this and eat balanced diet everyday. The main point to keep in mind is that you are meeting your calorie range at the end of the day. If you are taking 2100 calorie per day, divide with you small meals.
For here it is 5 ; 2100/5 = 420 calories per meal. Divide according to your calorie intake.
3. Eat Slowly
There are amazing benefits for eating slow. The eating of food slowing during meals mainly makes us lose weight as a lot of studies show eating helps us to lose weight. These studies shows that we will lose our weight but in a long time, But we are taking here for eating slowly. A study also shows that it normally take 20 minutes for our brain to register that we are full and if we eat fast foods or eat quickly we will be eating more instead of that if we eat less and slowly, we lose weight by taking less calories. Eating slowly also helps us in better digestion which is necessary and also by eating our food slowly we can enjoy our food. It is also rebel against fast food and fast life. You will also intake more calories if you eat fast.
4. Know your Serving Size
For loosing weight and getting a flat tummy knowing the serving size becomes more important as you must know your serving size because it help you to make a difference between how much you need to intake and how much you actually intake. You must know that Different foods have different serving sizes and check if you have perfect serving size. Improvise your serving size with perfect tool as you may risk to your diet by not checking your serving size. Knowing right amount of serving become more important for your gender and men, women and children have different serving size. When it come to fruits and veggies in serving size kids needs six serving while women and teenagers needs seven and men needs whopping nine servings per day.
Food Tip - If you start measuring your food and it's much smaller than you're used to, switch to a smaller plate! It will appear as if you're still "filling up your plate" but in reality, you'll be eating the right amount your body needs to shed pounds and become healthier.
Quick Guide – Serving Sizes
Grains
1 slice of bread, 1/2
a pita, 1/2 cup of cooked pasta or rice, 1/2 muffin.
Fruits & Vegetables
1 medium fruit or half
a cup of vegetables (or 1 cup leafy vegetables)
Meat & Alternatives
3 oz or 1/2 cup of lean
meat, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup cooked beans or 2 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Fats & Oils
Don’t forget, your
body needs healthy fats as well! Include 2 to 3 tablespoons a day of healthy
fats like olive oil or flax seed.
5. Never Skip Breakfast
Skipping the breakfast is never the solution for a flat tummy. The thing which circulates in mind when a person skips breakfast is " I haven't ate breakfast, So i need to eat more during lunch". This makes your mind think you need more food as you skipped breakfast. This thinking creates mores desire for food and you intake more calories while eating, which is even more then the combination of breakfast and lunch both. So it is always preferable to take a breakfast. The breakfast can be low calorie snack or some fresh fruits will also do.
6. Drink lots of Water Everyday
Water is the best option for weight loss. Just replace water in place of soda, cola, alcohol, etc. Water as many benefits which primarily includes weight loss. Drinking water gives us energy, protects our skin by getting rough, it lowers the risk of heart attack, also helps is digesting and cleansing our body. Dehydration can cause head ache which is the starting point. Many times we get headache it normally due to not drinking enough water.
7. Don't Starve Yourself
Starving is not the solution for the weight loss. You will have to reduce your calorie intake per day so that it ultimately reduces your weight. If you are taking less calories and also doing work more then that calories then you will suffer from unhealthy weight loss and if you are less work according to your calorie intake then you will probably see no sign of weight loss. So the main key is to match your calorie intake with the work you do.
8. Don't Isolate just your Stomach
Isolating your stomach is not the perfect solution because you are working only on one muscle to lose your weight. Working on different exercises and on every part of body that helps you lose your extra fat. If you need to lose your stomach fat you will have to change your diet and exercise habits.
9. Five Servings of Fresh Fruits or Veggies
Dietitians and nutritionists always suggest to eat five servings of fruits or vegetables a day. That will help you in maintaining the health. But how to determine the servings of a fruit or vegetable. Also everybody has different jobs and according to it one needs energy. It's also different in the case of children, women and youngster and men. For children and other older inactive women 3 servings of veggies and 2 serving of fruit is needed. For active women and youngster 4 servings of veggies and 3 fruits at least. For active men 5 servings of veggies and 4 fruits are at least needed to stay healthy. Eating as per this will also help you by taking a fruit in short interval of time. This will help you to eat five meals a day.
Here are some fruits and veggies of one serving size.
Fruits
Vegetables
One banana
Five broccoli florets
Six strawberries
Ten baby carrots
Two plums
One roma tomato
Fifteen grapes
Three-fourths cup tomato juice
One apple
Three-fourths cup vegetable juice
One pluot
Half a baked sweet potato
One peach
One ear of corn
One-half cup of oranges or other fruit
juice
Half-cup whipped rutabaga
Four slices of an onion
10. Enrich your Diet with Fiber
It is proven numerous time that getting high fiber in your diet has is vital and has potential health benefits. Fiber provides mainly aid in lowering of high cholesterol and prevents from constipation and other digestive disorders. Some evidence also suggest that high fiber intake in your diet can also reduce the risk of certain types of cancer. Men are recommended to get approx. 38 grams of fiber per day and 30 grams if they over 50 years of age. Women are recommended to get approx. 25 grams of fiber per day and 21 if she is above 50 years of age.
Some high fiber fruits, vegetable and grains are shown below.
Fruits
Vegetables
Grains
Raspberries
Split
peas
Whole
wheat pasta
Pear
(skin on)
Lentils
White
pasta
Apple
(skin on)
potatoes
Oatmeal
Strawberries
Brussels
Sprout
Barley
Bananas
(Medium)
Parsnip
Bran flakes
Oranges
(Medium)
Spinach
Low-calorie cereal
These were the 10 simple tips for loosing your weight at home. These will help you to loose your weight and also maintain it.
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The main reason behind this article remains for the awareness regarding maggi. I am also a foodie and love eating maggi whenever i am tired but decided to share this with all Maggi lovers.
Many of us can't live without " Maggi " especially when one is away from home, in a foreign land. Here is a piece of information to share so that we can remove the potential health hazard of consuming Maggi. Maybe you should print this e-mail to keep as a reminder, pin it up in the kitchen or dining room as reminder or in your purse if you are always traveling.
The reason why all vegetarians should know about maggi are health related issues, its the non veg product, and other products which seems to be a veg product but they not & why jain and vaishnav religion people can't eat maggi. All the reason are listed below. I hope you aware people about this are reading it.
1. Health related issues
Beware Maggi Lovers : Cooking Maggi Noodles in wrong way is very dangerous for health.
There is a certain way to cook maggi. You may be thinking whats new in this but the cooking process which is shown behind the packet maybe right but it is surely harmful to your body because maggi noodles are coated with Wax which harms us and takes 3 to 4 days to excrete the wax which is harmful. The ingredient called MSG can make you fat and fat people know how much difficult it is to loose their weight. Maggi should not be given to young children as they are also harmful to them.
Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 3 minutes and then it's ready to eat. This is the WRONG way and dangerous method of cooking the instant noodles like Maggi. By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder,normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structure of the MSG, causing it to be toxic. The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have eaten the noodles.
CORRECT METHOD OF COOKING MAGGI:
The correct way to cook instant noodles without harming our bodies and health is
Boil the noodles in a pot of water.
Once the noodles are cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
Boil another pot of water, add the cooked noodles into the hot boiling water and then turn off the stove.
Only at this stage when the stove is off, and while the water is very hot, add the flavoring powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
However, if you need dry noodles, remove the noodles and add the flavoring powder and toss it to get dry noodles.
2. Maggi is non vegetarian
Maggi contains MSG (Monosodium glutamate) used as a flavor enhancer, which is made? using Bactosoytone, itself made from soy protein using a catalyst enzyme porcine (taken from intestine of Pig). Chemically, catalyst never goes in the molecular structure of Bactosoytone, hence it's Vegetarian for Nestle. MSG as such is harmful to health. Maggi also launched no-MSG series known as Vegetable Atta-Maggie, but that's just a makeover.
Atta Maggie contains? DSG (DiSodium Glutamate), which does contain Bactosoytone. Not written in ingredients as such, hidden under alias Flavor-627. Maggi also contains flavour enhancers E 631 and E 635. Also a huge number of popular packed foods such as Maggi noodles, biscuits etc and even other products such as toothpaste, soaps etc contain animal fat in them, that too, mostly PIG FAT.
A hindi newspaper article showing, " Biscuits and chocolates contains non veg".
Non veg hidden in E foods.
"Disodium glutamate is produced from dried fish or dried seaweed and is often added to instant noodles, potato chips and other snacks, savouryrice, tinned vegetables, cured meats, and packaged soup".
Monosodium glutamate (MSG - E621) is a flavor enhancer commonly added to Chinese food, canned vegetables, soups and processed meats.
The following table indicates additives which are always derived from animals.
Definitely of animal
origin
E Number
Additive Name
120
Cochineal, Carminic acid,
Carmines Natural Red 4 - colouring A
colouring that makes many foods red. Found in alcoholic drinks, fruit pie
fillings, jams, many sweets and even cheeses. Cochineal is made from the
female insect found on cacti called Dactylopius Coccus. She is boiled alive
or left to "cook" alive through sun exposure. Cochineal is the
result of crushing scales of the insect into a red powder.
441
Gelatine - Emulsifier / Gelling Agent You
may not find this E number 441 on food ingredients listings anymore because
instead of an additive, Gelatine has now been classed as food (made of animal
skin and hoofs) in it's own right. Remember, all types of gelatine are animal
based and can be found in dairy products like yoghurts, plus many kinds of
confectionery, jellies and other sweets.
542
Bone phosphate -
Anti-caking agent
631
Disodium
inosinate -
Flavour enhancer Almost
always made from animals and fish
635
Disodium
5'-ribonucleotides -
Flavour enhancer Often
made from animals
901
Beeswax
- white and yellow -
Glazing Agent Not
suitable for Vegans.
966
Lactitol
-
Sweetener Derived
from Lactose, commercially prepared using whey, so unsuitable for vegans.
Pigs skin juice is used for bringing taste to maggi ans other flavour enhancers are listed in the above tables which play an important role in bringing the taste to the Maggi.
Simple experiment to try at home if you are non vegetarian:-
Boil chicken maggi soup powder and vegetarian maggi noodles masala powder
After boiling, taste both of them. They will taste the same.
People who follow jain and vaishnav religion can't eat Maggi because it contains Onion and Garlic powder in it.
4. Other Foods which contains animals
Albumen: This is the white of egg and is commonly used on bread and confectionary.
Ajinomoto: Made from fish. Used as a sauce or in Chinese food.
Cheese: Most foreign cheeses are made by using stomach acids obtained from the slitting the stomachs of calves while alive.
Chewing gum: Usually made of vegetable gum but may contain glycerine, gelatine, stearic acid and emulsifiers of animal origin. Check on the label.
Chips: Always fried in animal fat abroad at all fast food eateries. Packaged Indian crisps must specify that they are cooked in vegetable oils or assume that they are not.
Chocolates: The most commonly used animal ingredients in chocolates are egg white, egg lecithin, shellac and gelatine. Nestle’s Kitkat is made of calf rennet. Turkish Delight, fruit rolls, toffees, marshmallows, jujubes, peppermints usually contain gelatine. Polo Mints contain beef. So do most Western sweets that come in via the Middle East. Smarties contain cochineal.
Colas: May use ester gum as emulsifiers. Ester gum’s main ingredient is glycerol. Coca Cola admits to using glycerine.
Ice-cream: Unless specifically listed as vegetarian, the ice cream contains eggs and gelatine obtained by boiling cattle udders, noses and anuses. Amul and Baskin Robbins are vegetarian.
Jam: Jammay contain gelatine
Jelly: Jelly is always made of gelatine. In fact the word jelly is a short form of gelatine. A few companies make it from vegetable gum and mark it as vegetarian jelly. Look for the label.
Varakh: This is made by beating silver between fresh hot cow/buffalo intestines. Each piece of varakh contains specks of intestine.
Riboflavin: This is used as a orange-yellow coloring agent. It is obtained from egg yolk or liver. It can also come from vegetables but that is expensive. Check with the manufacturer.
Worcester Sauce: It contains small fish called anchovies.
Hope you share this article and make people aware about it, So that next time when they go to market to buy foods they know what they are taking home to consume.
Take some Green fruits and vegetables and make some fresh fruit or green vegetable juice and drink everytime just before 20 minutes of each meal. It will ease your hunger, and provide you with necessary vitamins and minerals at the same time.
Using dark greens vegetables to make juices such as spinach, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, celery, asparagus, and cucumber, will help you create good combinations to increase your vitamin intake further. They are great for any weight loss regimen and to detoxify (internal cleansing).
Tips to remember :-
Avoid bottled fruit juices (ex: Tropicana, Minute Maid, etc.); they are high in sugar content.
Try acai berry juice. It is very good for weight loss.
Keep away from coriander and basil, which are herbs that can stimulate your appetite.
Don't drink more than 2 oz. of undiluted green vegetable juice at a time or you will have unpleasant digestive symptoms. (Source)
I hope you make this a regular part of life and make it a daily routine and drink these juices to stay fit and healthy alongwith loosing your weight.
Success Story of Jaclyn Beach who looses her weight by 106 pounds just with juicing says Fitlife.
Green juice recipes for weight loss:-
All the juices contains approximately 1 quart (32oz) of juice, give or take based on produce.
1.Pineapple, Cucumber, Mint Juice
1/2 ripe pineapple
2 cucumbers
1 bunch of mint
Run all ingredients through juicer and enjoy!
2. The Greenbay
5 oranges (remember to peel oranges before juicing, otherwise juice will be bitter)
juice of 1/2 bunch parsley
Run oranges through juicer and set aside. Separately juice parsley. Slowly pour parsley juice over OJ forming two layers.
Note: you will probably want to mix this juice before drinking, unless you enjoy the taste of straight parsley juice!!
