There are a couple of old sayings when it comes to food, like ‘we are what we eat’, and ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ .  There’s a good reason these sayings have been so popular for so long… because they’re true! Healthy Eating Advice For You Recently I’ve been given some further advice about food, which I’m going to pass on to you now – Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and eat dinner like a pauper.  In other words, breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day, to kick start your energy levels so you can go out and attack the day, and then obviously lunch is also important to maintain your energy throughout the day. Easy Apricot Oats When it comes to dinner time though, this is when our body doesn’t really need as much energy, particularly as our body prepares to sleep and rest for the night.  Try doing that for a couple of weeks, and I’m sure you’ll feel much better for it! I’ve decided to do a bit of series on some healthy breakfast recipes , good hearty meals to get your energy levels up for a big day ahead, and I’m going to start today with an easy Apricot Oats recipe , which serves 1. Ingredients For Easy Apricot Oats Recipe 1/2 cup instant porridge 1 1/2 cups milk 4 dried apricots, chopped 2 tsp. golden syrup How To Make Easy Apricot Oats Recipe Simmer the porridge and milk together in a small saucepan for 4-5 minutes until slightly thickened and smooth, stirring frequently

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Easy Apricot Oats Recipe

Recently I’ve been going through the Golden Rules of Eating Healthy , just to help you kick start the new year with some healthy ideas and information.  This is the fourth and final golden rule of healthy eating – eating with awareness. How To Eat With Awareness In this fast-paced world you may often feel that there’s not enough time for you to pay attention to your diet, but eating with awareness is vital to your body’s ability to digest the foods you eat.  This doesn’t mean you have to be a slave to meal times, but here are some tips that will help your body to digest the food you eat much more easily. Eat in a calm and quiet atmosphere.  How we feel when we eat can actually affect how well we digest it.  Don’t eat when you are upset or angry; instead just hold off for a few minutes to give your body time to settle down a bit. Always sit down to eat, even if it’s just a snack.  Taking time to pay attention to what you’re doing will help to prepare your digestion and allow you time to check in on your true hunger level. Avoid ice cold foods and drinks as they tend to freeze the digestive ‘fires’ that you need to help with the healthy breakdown of foods.  It may take a little time to break the habit, but you’ll find after time you won’t miss cold drinks.

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Eat With Awareness For Better Health

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Fresh foods are full of nutrients and energy, so first of all remember that fresh foods are always best for your body. I’m sure you’ve seen the difference between a lettuce picked fresh out of the garden and one that has been sitting in the bottom of your fridge for a couple of weeks.  Frozen, canned, processed, reheated and leftover foods have much less ‘life’ than fresh foods – and organic food is free of chemicals. As you begin to appreciate the food you put in your body you might even feel inspired to grow your own herbs, fruits and vegetables in the garden! The Best Way To Satisfy Your Food Cravings Giving in to unhealthy cravings can sabotage your efforts.  If you experience cravings, it’s usually for sweet foods, and it shouldn’t be ignored. However you can make healthy choices from the ‘sweet’ family to satisfy your food cravings with more wholesome, healthy foods such as sweet fruits, whole grains and nuts. Eating well is a long-term healthy life choice , and there are some foods that can particularly help you to be a healthy weight and feel good about yourself.  Choose… Foods that are light, dry and warm; spicy, bitter and astringent (see the sense of taste chart for your health ).

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How To Choose Food That Nourishes Your Body And Emotions

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This is of course the new year period, and many people make New Year’s resolutions around this time, usually revolving around losing weight and getting fitter. In the previous post I talked a bit about Ayurveda’s 6 essential tastes of life, and how they can help you improve your health in everyday life, and today I just want to elaborate a little bit on that with a helpful chart of some specific healthy foods that you should be looking to incorporate into your everyday meals. It’s important that you don’t make choosing what to eat hard work.  Don’t worry if you get to the end of the day and realise you’ve missed out on one or more of the foods in a particular sense of taste – it will be a long-term lifestyle change that will balance out over time. You’ll feel so much better when you incorporate food from each sense of taste that you’ll actually find it easy and fun to adjust your diet to include them! Sense Of Taste Foods – Sweet Milk Butter Cream Wheat Ghee (clarified butter) Rice Maple Syrup Sesame Oil Apple Juice Coconut Milk Honey Raw Sugar Fresh Fruit Rolled Oats Raisins Cranberries Soy Milk Vanilla Extract Sense Of Taste – Salty Salt Pickles Salty Pretzels Tamari Soy Sauce Seaweed Sense Of Taste – Pungent (Hot And Spicy) Chilli Pepper Ginger Black Pepper Clove Mustard Radish Daikon Onions Thyme Oregano Salsa Asparagus Tomatoes Fresh Chillies Garlic Cinnamon Basil Rosemary Sense Of Taste – Sour Limes Lemon Citrus Fruit Yoghurt Mango Powder Many Immature Fruits Tamarind Plums Blueberries Raspberries Sense Of Taste – Bitter Green Vegetables Kale Broccoli Spinach Lettuce Turmeric Fenugreek Endive Chicory Sense Of Taste – Astringent (Dry And Light) Apples Apricots Beans Berries Cabbage Cauliflower Cherries Coriander Figs (dry) Grapes Green Tea Lentils Peaches Persimmons Pomegranates Prunes Strawberries Your Sense Of Taste Needs Variety Every Day There are foods that taste delicious to us, and those that don’t.  There is enough variety from this sense of taste chart for your health to provide options in a daily eating program that will not only taste good, but also be healthy for you

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Sense Of Taste Chart For Your Health

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Healthy food doesn’t have to avoid your sense of taste and be bland – far from it.  Nature can provide all our dietary requirements when eaten in the correct way at the right time. Food In Ayurveda In Ayurveda all foods are placed into six categories according to their taste and the effect they have on the body.  We always need a wide variety of foods in our daily diet.  Instead of checking off charts or counting grams of fat like most other diets, you can make sure you’re getting all the health benefits food offers by including each of the 6 flavours that make up your sense of taste in your daily meals. Also, having a balanced diet with all 6 tastes is very helpful in satisfying food cravings. Sense Of Taste – The 6 Essentials Sweet Sour Salty Pungent Bitter Stringent Sense Of Taste – Sweet Most carbohydrates are considered part of this ‘sweet’ group.  Most sweet foods are high in fibre, but of course we know that eating lots of refined sugar and starch (which also tastes sweet) isn’t healthy for us.  It’s important to eat something sweet each day, and if you choose the healthy options then in time your body won’t crave sweets in a form that is not so healthy (like chocolate bars , cakes and fast foods). Sweet Foods: Sugar, honey, wholegrain rice, pasta, milk, cream, butter, whole grains, cereals. Fresh fruit such as mangoes, melons, bananas, peaches.  Fresh vegetables such as corn and avocado

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I’ve been on a bit of a theme lately – getting and staying healthy, with plenty of easy food recipes that are also good for you.  Now this doesn’t really have anything to do with New Years resolutions (I don’t believe they really provide much long-term benefits) , it’s more about just feeling fitter and healthier to enjoy a better lifestyle. People usually focus on either exercise or eating healthier, but it tends to be rare that both of these are taken into consideration at the same time. I’m not going to make out that I’m some sort of expert on this matter, but I do keep a very active lifestyle, as well as obviously being very aware of the sort of food I’m eating.  So I’d like to share what I know about the benefits of eating healthy , as well as plenty of easy food recipes to get the process started for you, and I hope that this helps to give you more energy and time each day.

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The Golden Rules Of Healthy Eating

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Pay Attention To Your Appetite And Only Eat When You Are Actually Hungry Now this is one of those healthy eating habits that sounds like common sense, but you’d be surprised how often people will eat when they’re not actually hungry.  Your appetite is your friend, don’t think of it as the enemy .  A strong appetite is an important sign of good health , and if you listen to your body it will tell you when to eat and how much so that you can feel healthier and happier! Don’t fight your body’s messages, instead be grateful about its fantastic ability to tell you what it needs through your appetite, and you’ll feel much better for it. A lot of times people will tend to eat out of habit, to be social, because they are stressed or lonely, or because someone tells them that it’s time to eat. What Is Hunger?

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Healthy Eating Habits – Golden Rule Number 1

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This Hawaiian Pork recipe is good for diabetics because it’s tasty and you feel like you are getting away with a lot, but you really aren’t. This recipe for Hawaiian pork chops cooks away the fat in most preparation types and can be prepared several different ways and added to many different vegetables to make many styles of meals. The following makes a nice stir-fry with mixed vegetables or rice, and just includes an easy recipe for pork chops. Ingredients For Hawaiian Pork Chops Hawaiian Pork Chops 4 or 5 pork chops, or pork steaks 1/2 cup of soy sauce two tablespoons of honey 1 teaspoon of red pepper *optional* One 16 oz can of crushed pineapple, save the juice Teaspoon of garlic or to taste Salt, Pepper to taste How To Cook Hawaiian Pork Chops Cut the pork chops into one inch squares.

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I don’t usually like drinking a lot of coffee, however lately I’ve been a bit hooked on drinking iced coffees (especially with the weather being so hot!) .  Here is a good way of enjoying such a treat, even if you’re a diabetic . Diabetes And Coffee If you want a good iced coffee drink and you can’t have all the sugar that comes in them, you can make your own from home. Make a pot of coffee from your favorite coffee. Add as much artificial sweetener as you like, and cream if you prefer. To add a dash of home, there are sugar free syrups in flavors like hazelnut and vanilla, and you can add those too. Once you get the pot of coffee made to taste like your favorite cup, there are a few things that you can do with it besides just drinking it hot.

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How To Make Iced Coffee Drinks For Diabetics

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One of my most favorite easy diabetic recipes is a sugar free ice cream sundae because it’s a rich treat that you think is going to be deadly to your diabetes and it’s not. I created this when I was looking for a dessert to enjoy with my friend who has been a Type II diabetic for a long time. There are a lot of sugar free syrups and whipped creams that you can slather on this bad boy and have it taste exactly the same. While the calorie value still might be an upshot, it’s definitely sugar free. Since you don’t want to over do it, here’s a good sundae recipe to make that you can have a small helping of and share. Happy Sundae Recipe Happy Diabetic Sundae You start with, of course, a banana.

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Happy Sundae For Diabetics

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