Like all Polish holidays, Easter is famous for its abundance and disregard for healthy eating principles. To celebrate these holidays, we meet with the family, cook special dishes, dress smartly. Our goal is to rest from work, relax in a nice company and feel the true spring atmosphere. Often, however, practice proves to be something quite different… Instead of relaxation, our body feels tired of continuous digestion of heavy dishes. What about the feeling of spring? How can we enjoy spring spending most of the day at the table? It’s time to make changes to your holiday plans and go for a walk, enjoying the air filled with spring!
At the hearing of the word Easter everyone will see different-coloured egg shells and eggs in various culinary forms. Eggs are a very important element of our holiday table. However, the question arises whether and how eggs affect the level of cholesterol in the blood, and thus the risk of heart disease. It is time to face the myths and clearly determine if and how much we can eat eggs wanting to take care of our own health. Due to the fact that the topic is still controversial, I have written quite a bit.
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You probably know this pyramid. The principles of healthy eating are very similar throughout the world. The basis are cereal products, vegetables and fruits are also very important, followed by meat, fish and dairy products. Fats and sweets should be kept to a minimum. But does the healthy eating pyramid look the same all over the world? See how the universal recommendations can be presented in so many different ways!
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While the convenience of the gym in the form of an air-conditioned room and reliable and predictable conditions is undeniable especially in winter, more and more scientists are providing us with evidence confirming the advantages of outdoor physical activity. It turns out that the treadmill can not be replaced by a forest path, and a stationary bike is not comparable with cycling in the field. There is nothing to wait for, today is the first day of Spring, so take your running shoes and set off to conquer the park and inflate your bicycle tires to face the forest paths. No motivation to leave the gym you know by heart? Here is the number one advantage of outdoor training!
Do the media tell the truth? How is it with this gluten and diabetes?
Recently, I came across the headline “Less gluten – more diabetes.” American scientists with 30 years of research results. ” So I decided to check what interesting research this is, where the media downloaded such wonderful information and how reliable the message is.
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Nowadays, we have virtually endless possibilities of combining various food products. In supermarkets, not only regional and seasonal products are available, but also foreign and exotic ones. Thanks to this, our cuisine certainly becomes diverse and interesting, but you must remember that food interacts with each other, affecting the bioavailability of minerals and vitamins, i.e. the ability of our body to use nutrients. Among nutritionists there is a very good saying, “You are not what you eat but what you digest.” Bad combinations can cause weakness of the digestive tract, decreased immunity, weight gain and many health problems. On the other hand, however, well-selected food products mutually improve the absorption of nutrients causing increased benefits.
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Remember that everything you eat becomes part of you. Therefore, diet not only affects the functioning of internal organs and the whole metabolism, but also diet is reflected in the external appearance. Therefore, the condition of your skin directly depends on your diet. Minor facial imperfections often appear after eating junk food, lots of chocolate, or sweets in general. Since a single meal can have such effects, think about your skin’s condition, when you make even small long-term nutritional mistakes. An inadequate diet can cause serious skin conditions such as chronic dermatitis, pruritus, psoriasis, alopecia and skin cancer. And vice versa. Care for proper nutrition of the skin keeps it healthy and beautiful. So let’s make sure that your daily meals provide all microelements necessary for skin health.
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In Poland, the tradition of eating donuts on Shrove Thursday, then called pampuchy, dates back to the seventeenth century. Pampuchy were made of the best flour, probably wheat. However, they were not eaten sweet, as today, but sprinkled with cracklings. Bread dough was fried in deep, hot fat, usually lard. The idea was for the pampuch to be as greasy as possible. It was customary to indulge before a 40-day fast, during which only fast food was eaten.
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Answering popular questions: What are healthy weight loss ranges?
In the case of excess weight, i.e. when the BMI is in the range of 25-30 kg / m2, 2 – 4 kg per month should be reduced. Of course, it is best if as many of these kilograms as possible are fat, because it is not about burning the muscles that allow us to run. To achieve this, the diet must be well balanced in terms of macro and micronutrients.
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Nowadays, we have virtually endless possibilities of combining various food products. In supermarkets, not only regional and seasonal products are available, but also foreign and exotic ones. Thanks to this, our cuisine certainly becomes diverse and interesting, but you must remember that food interacts with each other, affecting the bioavailability of minerals and vitamins, i.e. the ability of our body to use nutrients. Among nutritionists there is a very good saying, “You are not what you eat but what you digest.” Bad combinations can cause weakness of the digestive tract, decreased immunity, weight gain and many health problems. On the other hand, however, well-selected food products mutually improve the absorption of nutrients causing increased benefits.
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