What has made slimming centres or weight-loss centres boom recently in our country ?
A boom of slimming centres in our country in recent times may well be attributed in one way to the ‘heath awareness ‘ created by health magazines, fitness guides, fitness programmes, easily available on video cassettes etc. and on the other hand to the fashion magazines and western outfits creating, a cosmetic ‘thin is in vogue.’
Protein is a word of Greek origin, meaning “primal life substance.” Your body is a collection of millions of microscopic cells and each cell contains chemicals, which must have protein, raw materials upon which its life and therefore yours, depends.
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Yes of course. It is absolutely necessary to know about the foods you eat to maintain good health.
Food is the most important single factor in connection with attainment and maintenance of health. Every drop of blood in the body is conditioned by the food we eat and it is blood that every tissue, every organ, every gland, and indeed every function of the body fundamentally depends on.
Strictly speaking, fibre is not a food element. Fibre is generally divided into two categories : the less digestible bran fibre from grains and the more digestible ‘cellulose’, fibre from fruits and vegetables. Cellulose forms the framework of fibres of plant and the walls of vegetable cells. The cellulose or food fibre in fruits and vegetables can be broken down to release nutrients, especially in the case of cooked vegetables. The bran fibre supplied by the whole grains, passes undigested through the intestinal tract in the form of silk fibres.
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Vitamins are substances of relatively simple chemical structure, no more mysterious than an Aspirin tablet or a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate. The chemist can draw a very accurate picture of a vitamin molecule. Yet experts have great difficulty in defining vitamins as a group.
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After protein needs have been supplied, our next thought must be to meet our energy needs.
Fats are an essential part of the diet and a good source of energy. They insulate the body and are the carriers of fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, K, E and essential fatty-acids. Animal – fats such as butter and ghee as also vegetable fats like vanaspati, coconut and palm oils are high in saturated fatty acids which are implicated in heart disease. Therefore, their intake should be minimized. Vegetable oils like sunflower, safflower, soyabean, corn and groundnut have a higher amount of unsaturated fatty acids and are preferable to saturated fats. The average urban diet is high in fat and steps must be taken to reduce the fat intake.
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One of the first questions patients at my clinic ask is “Will I get enough to eat?” I’m happy to report that on The Balanced-Nutrient Diet you’ll be able to eat heartily while reducing excess body fat. One of the secrets of the success of The Balanced-Nutrient Diet is the high fibre and water content of the delicious natural foods you’ll be allowed to eat. Natural foods brimming with essential nutrients are wonderfully tasty, and their fibre content so high that they are completely satisfying. Furthermore the great variety of flavours found in foods supplied by nature will make eating refreshing as well as delightfully pleasurable.
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“I’ve been on every diet known to man ” complained priest and principal Father Gregory Lobo ” and I succeeded on all of them. It’s not that I don’t manage to get down to my “target weight”. It’s just that I never manage to stay there long enough to find out how good it feels.”
‘Soyabean’ – the “miracle golden bean” – may be considered as king of pulses. It is a pulse having a wealth of nutrition. Nutritionally, there is no other food that compares with it. It is the only vegetable that gives complete protein. Being rich in all food essentials and containing proteins of the highest value it successfully replaces or entirely surpasses meat, fish, eggs, cheese, buttermilk and to all of which it is, in fact, superior in many ways.
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This can be easily done by dividing the food into seven basic food groups. Try to eat something from each of these each day :
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