What are the best vegetables to eat for losing weight?
Posted on Mar 14, 2010 under Best Vegetables |I know veggies like peas, corn and potatos have a lot of starch but which can I eat as much as I want?
If you are eating fresh fruits and vegetables, you can feel pretty good about them. They have complete vitamins and minerals within them that are made for the digestion and usability of each. Apples are considered a very good food for health, and diet, too. Corn and potatoes are considered pretty starchy, and starch is converted into "fat" in the body. Potaotes in moderation are considered good for you, but better if you eat them boiled or baked, and also eat the skins. That is where the nutrients of a potato are mainly stored. French fries are really not potatoes, anymore, but a prepared food that contains tons of hydrogenated oils, highly heated, and that is very detrimental to the health. If you go for the brightly colored fruits and vegetables like green, orange, red, or dark colored ones, they have lots of nutrients in them. Iceburg lettuce is considered lacking in nutrition, as can be seen by the rather "anemic" appearance of the leaves. Since chlorophyll is important in nutrition, the greener veges will give you more benefits. Try to look at it like this: fresh is the very best (as in not cooked or heated), then frozen is next best, and last would be canned or packaged prepared items of any kind. Canning involves heating and other chemical processes that destroy many valuable nutrients. Once this has happened, you are really not benefiting as you might be leading yourself to believe. Put a bowl of fresh fruits on your table for easy access. Then, try cutting up some of your favorite raw vegables and place on a covered tray in your refridgerator. If you need dip to choke them down, that would certainly be preferable to not eating them, or finding a less nutritous option. If you have these things handy, and more of them around than the packaged things, chances are you might eat them more. But . . . don’t just rely on fruits and vegetables. You need to provide yourself with lots of high quality protein for the health of your body. Chicken, beef, pork, and fish are very important for health and even skin, beauty. Not fried. Baked, broiled, etc. is the very best. Now, you are probably going to say, "I asked about dieting, not healthy eating," but the two go hand-in-hand. If you eat non-nutritious foods, you will have a tendancy to gain weight, and also to be less healthy. Try to eat for health, and that may be easier than to always be thinking of how to loose the weight. To learn more, go to your local health food store and ask for a book or two about healthy eating. You will learn tons.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:40 am
Anything GREEN. Really. And any veggie with a lot of fiber.
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March 15th, 2010 at 2:12 am
If you are eating fresh fruits and vegetables, you can feel pretty good about them. They have complete vitamins and minerals within them that are made for the digestion and usability of each. Apples are considered a very good food for health, and diet, too. Corn and potatoes are considered pretty starchy, and starch is converted into "fat" in the body. Potaotes in moderation are considered good for you, but better if you eat them boiled or baked, and also eat the skins. That is where the nutrients of a potato are mainly stored. French fries are really not potatoes, anymore, but a prepared food that contains tons of hydrogenated oils, highly heated, and that is very detrimental to the health. If you go for the brightly colored fruits and vegetables like green, orange, red, or dark colored ones, they have lots of nutrients in them. Iceburg lettuce is considered lacking in nutrition, as can be seen by the rather "anemic" appearance of the leaves. Since chlorophyll is important in nutrition, the greener veges will give you more benefits. Try to look at it like this: fresh is the very best (as in not cooked or heated), then frozen is next best, and last would be canned or packaged prepared items of any kind. Canning involves heating and other chemical processes that destroy many valuable nutrients. Once this has happened, you are really not benefiting as you might be leading yourself to believe. Put a bowl of fresh fruits on your table for easy access. Then, try cutting up some of your favorite raw vegables and place on a covered tray in your refridgerator. If you need dip to choke them down, that would certainly be preferable to not eating them, or finding a less nutritous option. If you have these things handy, and more of them around than the packaged things, chances are you might eat them more. But . . . don’t just rely on fruits and vegetables. You need to provide yourself with lots of high quality protein for the health of your body. Chicken, beef, pork, and fish are very important for health and even skin, beauty. Not fried. Baked, broiled, etc. is the very best. Now, you are probably going to say, "I asked about dieting, not healthy eating," but the two go hand-in-hand. If you eat non-nutritious foods, you will have a tendancy to gain weight, and also to be less healthy. Try to eat for health, and that may be easier than to always be thinking of how to loose the weight. To learn more, go to your local health food store and ask for a book or two about healthy eating. You will learn tons.
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