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Many red coloured foods, like blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, red apples, red wine, red grapes, and plums, are high in antioxidants and can help prevent you from getting cancer, by mopping-up free-radicals. Cups of tea also help.
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Daily Proportions: 5-6 serves of grain-foods, 5-6 serves of vegies, 3 pieces of fruit, 3 serves of protein, 3 serves of dairy products. One prepared serving is about half a baseball in size (more for watery foods like salad).
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Quality over quantity: Better quality food leaves you feeling more satisfied, and so you will eat less. Adding spices or chilis to your food can give it a boost that can leave you feeling more satisfied.
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Use non-food alternatives to cope with stress — like exercise!
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One tablespoon of blackstrap molasses provides up to 20% of the RDI of calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron. Blackstrap molasses is a byproduct of the sugar-cane refining process, and is often sold in healthfood stores, as well as fed to cattle.
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Low-fat meat: kangaroo, wallaby, deer, and turkey. In rural Australia, roo is often the cheapest meat you can buy, being dog-food. It's excellent eating, and the roo meat industry is more environmentally friendly than introduced species like sheep, cattle, or poultry. Kangaroos require less feed than placental stock, are well-adapted to drought, and do not destroy the root systems of native grasses.
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Sugar: Brown cane sugar (the stuff that's a bit sticky) is the only kind of sugar you'll get anything out of nutritionally because its the least refined from the plant. There are some fibrous traces in there which have been totally removed from white and brown sugars, though brown sugar would be the next best thing.
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Bone growth: eat foods high in calcium (dairy products, tofu, cabbage and almonds), phosphorus (dairy products, beef, chicken, fish, and lentils), and vitamin D (fish oil, fish, shiitake mushrooms). Steer clear of soft-drinks.
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Muscle repair: eat foods high in protein (meats, eggs, dairy, seeds, nuts, legumes) and magnesium (green vegetables, nuts, legumes, and wholegrains).
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Tea: Very popular in the UK and Australia, but not so big in the USA. That's a shame, because I think tea is a great substitute for food. Even if I have food available, I often just take a few cups of tea with cane sugar (no milk). I find it gives me enough blood-sugar level to keep going without forcing me to eat when I don't really want to. The other good one is 2-minute noodles. Both of these are so cheap, you can afford them virtually constantly. Tea also has plenty of antioxidants, being from a leafy green plant.
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Food and exercise: The best way to get the most out of both is to exercise for at least 50 minutes just before you want to have lunch. It's easy to exercise on an empty stomach and you get more out of food that you eat straight after exercise than if you eat it at other times.
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Saving money on food: Ironically, in some instances, spending more on food will equate to less. When you eat a burger, fries and coke at a fast food place, you are strangely hungry very quickly afterwards. That's because the food didn't satisfy your brain, being so devoid of nutrition. But when you go to a seafood place on the ocean and eat some large and very fresh prawns, although the quantity is less, you don't get hungry for a long time afterwards. The nutritional needs of your brain were met. With food, you can and should spend more to spend less.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition > Herbs and spices
Reduce inflammation: Turmeric, cinnamon, ginger.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition > Fats
- Nuts and seeds have minerals and fibre as well as healthy fats.
- Fish like mackerel, herring, salmon and sardines have long-chain omega 3 oils (better than omega 6).
- Coconut oil is a healthy form of saturated fat, recommended for cooking.
- Extra virgin olive oil is recommended for salad dressings.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition > Fasting
General tips:
- Fasting aims to use stored energy to repair cells instead of creating cells.
- Intermittent fasting alternates days with normal and low calorie intake. 5:2 means five normal days followed by two fasting days; 1:1 means every second day fasting.
- Protein (amino acids) are key molecules in cellular activity, so fasting from protein slows down metabolism.
- Obesity causes many health problems, which fasting aims to prevent.
- Do not fast from fluids, but drink up to 2 litres of water, tea or vegetable juice each day.
- Instead of fasting, reduce calories to 90% and improve nutrition with high amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition > Allergies
East asians and lactose intolerance: If you have asian ancestry and have stomach pains with milk, then you may have insufficient lactase, the enzyme that breaks down lactose. This is very likely if most of your near relatives are also lactose-intolerant. See link Opt for alternatives like lactose-free milk, soy milk, almond milk, or coconut milk.
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