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If you're on diet or practicing the vegetarian style, you must consider these also. Make sure you include each of these nutrients in your meals...

• Protein: Soy products like tofu, nuts, and seeds; legumes such as lentils, dried beans or peas; or meat substitutions. Lacto- ovovegetarian and lacto-vegetarians can get protein from eggs and cheese
• Calcium: Dark vegetables like broccoli and spinach, or select calcium- enriched soymilk, tofu, or juices.
• Vitamin B-12: Lacto-ovovegetarian and lacto-vegetarians can get B-12 from milk, eggs, or cheese. For vegans, try fortified soy supplements, enriched cereals, or supplements.
• Iron: Enriched cereals and whole-grain products, spinach, and prunes. Your body will absorb even more iron if you eat it with foods high in vitamin C, like oranges and strawberries.
• Zinc: Whole grains, wheat germ soy products, nuts.

Nutrition foods

Ingredients

• Dark Chocolates, chopped
• Heavy Cream
• Pear Brandy
• Crystallized Ginger, chopped
• Powered sugar, Cocoa powder
• Ground ginger for dusting

Procedure

• Chop chocolate and place in the heatproof bowl
• Chop ginger finely
• Heat cream until boiled
• Pour cream over chocolate
• Stir until combined
• Roll balls in your hands
• Roll the balls around in the sugar until coated
• Put it in the fridge
• Ready to eat

Truffles

Fibers

Are you health conscious? Then, do you know how important fibers in your daily intake? What really dietary **fiber is? Now, let us all read this:

According to wikipedia: Dietary fibers are the indigestible portion of plant foods that move food through the digestive system, absorbing water and making defecation easier. Dietary fiber consists of non-starch polysaccharides such as cellulose and many other plant components such as dextrins, inulin, lignin, waxes, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans and oligosaccharides.

Fiber is really important, as it is the part of the food that cannot be broken down by the enzymes in the digestive tract. Fiber passes through without being absorbed. It also have intestinal cleansing action, which keeps the digestive tract clean.

Benefits:
A diet rich in fiber is protective against a wide variety of diseases, including heart disease, cancer of the colon and rectum, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, phlebitis and obesity.

Try this dietary fiber Apple Pectin/Pectin.
What is Apple Pectin? (See picture at the bottom) It is classified as a soluble fiber. It has a gel-forming effect when mixed with a lot of water. Well, some fruits like apples as I’ve mentioned, peaches, plums are all rich in Pectin.

Apple pectin acts as antioxidant and if your meal consists of fatty foods, apple pectin is good for you. Apple pectin is also used to remove unwanted metals and toxins.

**food sources of fiber include whole wheat, bran, fresh or dried fruits, and vegetables

Healthy eating tips for you:

Foods:

• Eat wide variety of nutritious food
• Plenty of vegetables, cereals, fruits, bread
• Avoid salty foods
• Small amounts of foods that contains added sugar… avoid sweet foods

Activity:

• Walking
• Gardening
• Stretching
• And any kind of exercise

Here, you can start your day with easy breakfast:

• Fresh fruits
• Toast
• Rolled oats
• Baked beans

Have a Healthy Eating guys!

Are you vegetarian? Try this heart-healthy, low sodium recipe: Broccoli-Peanut Stir-Fry with Noodles

4 ounces (2 cups) uncooked broad yolk free egg noodles
1 tablespoon butter or margarine

1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
4 cups broccoli florets
2 medium (1 cup) carrots, sliced
1/3 cup stir-fry sauce
1 (14 to 15-ounce) can baby corn, drained, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/4 cup finely chopped dry roasted peanuts

• Cook noodles according to package directions. Drain. Keep warm.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in 12-inch nonstick skillet until sizzling; add garlic, broccoli and carrots. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are crisply tender (6 to 7 minutes). Stir in stir-fry sauce and corn; continue cooking until heated through (2 to 3 minutes).
• Add hot cooked noodles; toss to lightly coat. Sprinkle with peanuts

Check this!
"This is the correct way to cook instant noodles. This is the way without harming our bodies/health."

Do you cook instant noodles in this procedure?

• Put noodles to pot with hot water
• Put the seasoning/powder
• Let it cook for three minutes and eat!

Ganun bah? Well, that’s the WRONG method then. Why? One article mentioned that by doing this, you actually boil the ingredients in the powder, and it will change the molecular structures causing it be toxic. The other thing also is that the noodles are coated with wax and it’ll take around four to five days for the body to excrete the wax after you have taken the noodles.

Here’s the correct procedure:

• Boil the noodles in a pot with water.
• Once the noodle is cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water, which contains wax.
• Boil another pot of water till boiling and put the noodles into the hot boiling water and then shut the fire.
• Only at this stage when the fire is off, and while the water is very hot, put the ingredient with the powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
• However, if you need dry noodles, take out the noodles n add the ingredient with the powder and toss it to get dry noodles.