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Cooking techniques: 3 healthy cooking methods

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

A healthy cooking is a good start to improving your health. A preparation for eating healthy makes your daily meals healthier and tastier. Cooking healthy does not mean you must become a chef or invest in expensive cookware.

3 tips to cook more healthy:

1) Use fats wisely for healthy food
All fats are not bad. Choose unsaturated fats (like olive oil) instead of saturated fats (like butter). But use good fats in moderation anyway, because all fats (whether good or bad) are loaded with calories.

2) Buy unprocessed foods to your kitchen
Choose whole grains instead of processed grains. Whole grains and brown rice come bulgur have kept their sound intact and therefore provide more fiber, B vitamins, magnesium, zinc and other nutrients.

3) Incorporate more fruits and vegetables for a healthy cooking
Most people do not consume enough. Try to include between 5 and 13 servings of fruit per day to your cooking. Choose fruits and vegetables of various colors to meet your needs in antioxidants and vitamins.

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Good practice for heart health

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Adults and children alike tend to connect to the computer or TV for several hours per day. This can lead to snacking unconscious, coupled with inactivity, can cause the medium to long term weight gain and other health problems linked to obesity among various family members.

So, what can you do to keep your heart is still healthy?

Teach your children how to make the kitchen
Another way to create a good time to spend with family is to teach your children like to cook. Involve them in planning the weekly menu for the whole family, food purchases in the preparation of meals for the family.

During these moments spent together, you can teach your children healthy food choices, how to read labels, portion control. In doing so, you raise children who will grow up and become adults who love to cook healthy meals.

Do not reward your children with food
It is a usual temptation to want to reward your children for ice cream or sweets when they did well at school or when they do something you enjoy. By rewarding your children with food, you make them take a bad habit.

Instead, take your children to the cinema to see a film, allow them to spend more time with their friends, praise them verbally acknowledge their achievement in a way that does not include food.

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Hygiene in the feeding of infants and children

Friday, February 5th, 2010

<br /> Hygiene in the feeding of infants and children The fear of food poisoning has made many parents are more aware of the dangers of poor hygiene in all aspects of food. Saying goes that the best way to win a war is avoided.

That’s what happens with bacteria. Sanitation and hygiene are the best strategies and tactics to combat them. These attacks before they penetrate the human body. In this field the weapons are usually simple and inexpensive. And the very effective fighter. When preparing food, one must:

Tips to clean out the food of children and babies

- Wash hands, surfaces and utensils with water (preferably hot) and plenty of soap. This includes food stores, even the fridge, because some bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes can grow slowly at refrigerator temperatures. (more…)

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Massage Therapy for Children

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Nothing better than a massage to take care of your baby. To relax, and show all your love and affection. Infant massage has a name: Shantala. Known as therapeutic massage for children. Its origin lies in India, where a Frenchman obstetrician, Dr. F. Leboyer, was watching a mother massaging your baby.

<br /> Massage Therapy for Children
The doctor was delighted with the strength of their movements, and the benefits they gave the baby, and decided to import the west and baptize the entire sequence of movements with the name of the woman: Shantala. Since then the massage is part of many corporate behavior. (more…)

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