Healthy Food and Life

Raw Food Diet - A Healthy Alternative?

2008-05-16T19:26:00.000-07:00

Some time ago I met a girl who was absolutely crazy about raw food diet. After the reading of couple of books she switched to the living completely on pine-apples, carrots, sea weeds and herbs. She looked very slim even skinny, boasted the energy, enthusiasm, stopped smoking and generally conveyed an image of a happy person.

Can I do the same to myself?

Fruits are too acid for me, but the main problem is meat!
Actually I cannot imagine any meatless life for myself. Not because I am a natural carnivore but rather because I do not know what else I can put inside myself not to feel hungry.

Let's think together.
Breads and potatoes are out of questions. From my own experience I know that it is same as drinking glue. Same practically applies to pastas and rice.

Green beans, herbs and sea weads are good - but how much do I need to it of them to feel good?

So even if my brain accepts the potential health values - it is too late for me to begin.
Note to all new parents: try to tech your babies alternative healthy eating culture.
Only if they accept it from the very early childhood - they have chances to get to raw food diet.

Healthy Burger

2008-04-28T02:36:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday i was caught between meetings and felt very hungry. I have been eating healthy for a while - why can't I spoil myself?
I dropped in the nearest famous fast food chain and got it - a juicy, beefy reward for my being a good boy.
Oh what an experience!
First of all I felt that a starchy bread sticks to the inside of my mouth lik e a wet cotton.
Although taste was good, the texture was wrong. I immediately remebered why I went healthy in the first place! I thought about this gluey substance covering my insides and it was bad.
Grilled burger and anions with mayonese tasted good but it as well could have been a chicken paste, fish paste or just a chemical paste.

Oh my favorite Asian Beef Recipe - where were you!

Never ever!

But where is th solution?
What do you do to keep eating healthy when you are busy?
Do you keep a carrot in the pocket all the time?

The solution has to be integral - adjust your life to healthy style..

Does Chocolate Crash Healthy Diet?

2008-03-29T16:58:00.000-07:00

Personally, I do not think that a good marriage possible between healthy food and chocolate.
In my life I use this solution as a "healthy compromise".
When you really crave for sweets and chocolate in particular - have some!
Do not drive your hunger for this poison to such a degree when you can swallow the 200g chocolate bar without noticing it, but rather allow yourself to enjoy it from time to time.
The benefit for your nervous system may well compensate the biochemical harm produced by not so healthy dessert.
One warning though! Never blame yourself for breaking of your healthy diet.
Enjoy your chocolate and your life!

Gluten-Free Recipe of Beef Eye Fillet Salad

2008-03-18T16:52:00.000-07:00

Here is my most simple healthy recipe (gluten-free) doable by anyone.

Healthy Beef Salad Recipe for 2 Busy Professionals

Costs: about AUD$12

What healthy ingredients to buy

1.Beef eye fillet: 300G
2.Olive oil: 2 table spoons
3.Sweet pepper: 2
4.Lemon: 1
5.Herbs (dill, coriander, basil)
6.Onion: 1
7.150 ML of preservative-free wine (Shiraz, Cabernet, Chardonnay)

Method
Come home from work, pour 150ml of wine in a glass and have a sip.
Get the meat, cut it into pieces about 3-5 mm.
Chop the onion and peppers.
Heat the frying pan on high.
Pour olive oil, add onion and peppers.
Add meat, stir and cook for 2 minutes.
(Do not worry of it being raw)
Keep in the pan for 1 minute to set juices.

Have another sip of wine.

Put the meat in the bawl, add herbs, lemon juice, salt and if you like a drop of balsamic vinegar.

Serve immediately, put on some romantic music, light the candles,
enjoy your dinner together.

Conclusion
Healthy spirit in conjunction with healthy food - isn't life good?
Particularly when it is powered by healthy recipe!

Healthy Food - How To Establish and Maintain a Healthy Life

2008-03-06T17:15:00.000-08:00

I thought it is clear to everyone now - we should eat healthy.
Even people who do not experience health conditions are affected by contaminated environment, stress at work and industrialized farming.

However now and then you can see seriously overweight young ladies in the shopping centers who eat in public those huge rolls filled with ham or hamburgers, greasy dressings and god knows what else.

Why is it so?

Not enough information on importance of healthy eating?
Not enough propaganda?
Not enough brains?

There must be several reasons.

Let me tell you about myself.

I have been health conscious since the age of 35.
At that time - being brainwashed by standard media - I decided to minimize my meat intake and switched to vegetables, fruit and cereal.

By the age of 40 - I felt I am dying.

I tried to blame work but after I read the book "Eating by Blood Type" I got an idea that it is much more complex.

THERE is NO single fit-all diet!
It is the individual's responsibility to live, think and come up with the one that suits the age, type, climate, lifestyle etc.

How to Build your Healthy Food diet

It is easy to start identifying your diet by filtering out what you SHOULD NOT eat - at least in your climate.

In my "no go" list (I live in Australia) I included:
- animal fat in its pure form, especially pork
- slow cooked meat
- cereals and breads (not good for my blood type "O")
- acid fruits and vegetables such as pine-apple, tomato, grapes
- processed food in any of its form
- food containing gluten
- beer
- milk

It left me with not too many options, considering a need for 3 meals a day.

What can you eat for breakfast if not eggs?

Then I created my short list of healthy food good by default.
- herbs (dill, parsley, coriander, basil)
- sweet pepper
- onions
- carrots

Here I came to a step when I needed to match healthy food to healthy life style.

I went through the Internet sources and got some idea about the know-how in healthy food.

I started shopping consciously thinking not only about price but also about how and when I am going to cook.

I came to these conclusions:
- Best part of beef is eye fillet. It is expensive but if you eat smaller portions - it can be affordable. (Also I found where you can by it cheaper!)
And guess what - you can cook it in just 5 minutes.
- Frozen prawns are not ideal but they give you an acceptable variation
- Fresh trout and fresh mussels - are good addition to the menu

That created a good base for my shopping list.

I began using mostly that stuff and in 3-5 weeks I felt much better.

Somehow i did not need to eat 3 times a day - just do not feel like that - and eat only 2 times!

Good for my health and good for my pocket.

And then I faced a challenge: how can you create enjoyable variations in cooking using same short list of healthy food ingredients.

I needed practical, easy and healthy recipes!

Once again - Internet helped a lot.
I found huge collection of free healthy recipes

Based on that and on my own ideas and experience I created a healthy Week Menu for myself and my family.

I am going to write about it in my next post.

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