The Halloween time is approaching, and pumpkin is inextricably linked with this holiday. Pumpkin should serve us not only as an ornament, but also as a mandatory part of our diet. Pumpkin provides us with a very large amount of carotenes, and therefore precursors of vitamin A and strong antioxidants. Munching on pumpkin seeds is also an excellent snack providing us with lots of very healthy fatty acids. However, these are just some of the properties of the pumpkin. Read this article and find out how much health Halloween pumpkin can bring you!
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Another school year has begun, so all mothers have their hands full. One of the daily activities is to prepare a lunch for their child. The most popular choice for this meal are undoubtedly sandwiches. Certainly they have many advantages: fast in the preparation, easy to pack and carry, convenient to eat in virtually any conditions. However, children eat with their eyes, they like colourful, diverse and interesting dishes. Therefore, two slices of bread with ham look very unattractive to our kids. No wonder that such sandwiches often land in a rubbish bin or are brought back home. However, the sandwich does not have to be boring! Prepare this meal so that it is tasty, varied and well balanced. Remember that lunch is extremely important for the proper development of your child. So let’s take a few moments and learn how to properly compose a meal to school.
People training regularly often try different diets. They jump a little from flower to flower, looking for the best nutrition plan for themselves. One moment they eat a lot of protein, another fat or try elimination diets. What do I think about such experiments? Are there any diets we should avoid? 
Summer, hot, sunshine … Do you want something juicy, refreshing and healthy? Reach for a decent piece of chilled watermelon! This wonderful fruit is not only a great way to hydrate the body (it contains up to 92% of water), but also brings many health benefits! It reduces fat accumulation, improves muscle functionality and reduces pain, prevents heart disease, has anti-inflammatory effects, is a powerful antioxidant, and it improves the appearance of your skin. Do you want to learn more? I invite you to read on!
Nowadays, we have practically endless possibilities of combining various food products. Supermarkets do not only offer regional and seasonal products, but also foreign, exotic ones. Thanks to this, our kitchen certainly becomes diverse and interesting, but it must be remembered that food interacts with each other, influencing the bioavailability of minerals and vitamins, which is our body’s ability to use nutrients. Among diet specialists, there is a very correct saying: “you are not what you eat but what you digest.” Bad combinations can cause weakness of the digestive tract, reduce immunity, gain weight and many other health problems. On the other hand, well-chosen food products mutually improve the absorption of nutrients, resulting in increased benefits.
Proper hydration is very important for the functioning of your body. After all, the human body is primarily composed of water. As children, we have as much as 75% of water in our bodies, then with age, the water content decreases. In a young adult man, water constitutes 60%. Looking after a correct fluid balance is extremely important. Here you will find answers to questions about how much to drink, what is best to drink and whether it is definitely mineral water.
Children’s Day! Hurray! Today everyone can go crazy and have some fun – after all, each of us is a child! Nevertheless, among readers there will definitely be parents who are serious about taking care of the healthy nutrition of their children. That’s why I am presenting the second part of advice on how to keep your child’s A* diet!
Nowadays, we have practically endless possibilities of combining various food products. Supermarkets do not only offer regional and seasonal products, but also foreign, exotic ones. Thanks to this, our kitchen certainly becomes diverse and interesting, but it must be remembered that food interacts with each other, influencing the bioavailability of minerals and vitamins, which is our body’s ability to use nutrients. Among diet specialists, there is a very correct saying: “you are not what you eat but what you digest.” Bad combinations can cause weakness of the digestive tract, reduce immunity, gain weight and many other health problems. On the other hand, well-chosen food products mutually improve the absorption of nutrients, resulting in increased benefits.
Once upon a time, before the Spaniards conquered South America, chia seeds were the main food in the Aztec and Maya diets. Most of the evidence available to us shows that the population has known and used chia seeds since around 3500 BC. Aztecs and Maya milled the seeds into flour, they pressed oil and drank drinks from water-soaked chia seeds.
Nice weather, sun is shining, days are getting longer … and if we add a trend of being fit and running, it turns out that we meet runners every few meters on the park path.