Red Kidney Bean Health Benefits And Nutrition Fact You Must Know

Many benefits that we can get from red kidney bean. Nutrient content in the red kidney bean are very good for the health of the human body. Beside for cooking into variety of delicious foods, red kidney bean nutrition also incredibly rich. kidney beans are rich in folic acid, calcium, complex carbohydrates, fiber, and protein is high. The content of complex carbohydrates and high in fiber which

How To Get Rid Of Colic In Babies

When your baby have colic, you will definitely find a way to get rid of it. Babies with colic will cry more often with clenched arms, or legs folded to the stomach, they can be seen in pain. If your baby cries for more than 3 hours a day, 3 days a week for more than 3 weeks it is called colic. When your baby cries, he will swallow gas so that his stomach looked bloated and hard which makes it

Potatoes Benefits And Nutrition Fact You Must Know

As one of the main sources of carbohydrates, potato (Solanum tuberosum) also has many health benefits. Potatoes have a lot of nutrients. One of them are potassium, vitamin C. Potatoes also contain several other vitamins such as vitamin B6, which plays a role in the synthesis and metabolism of proteins. Vitamin B6 also plays a role in the metabolism of energy derived from carbohydrates.

How To Get Rid Of Tonsillitis Naturally

Inflammation of the tonsils which left untreated can lead to various complications, can even interfere with child development. Then how to get rid of tonsillitis. Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils so the tonsils become swollen, red, softened and has white spots on its surface. The swelling is caused by either a viral or bacterial infection.










Tonsils are lymph tissue located

Eggplant Benefits And Nutrition Fact You Must Know

Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is rich in benefits. Plants that came from India can be easily found around us. Besides its high fiber and rich in vitamins B, eggplant also contains minerals such as magnesium and manganese. Color purple eggplant contains anthocyanins that can prevent high blood pressure and hepatosis (vitamin E deficiency disease). Anthocyanins can also improve vision at night.

Fitness Friday| Portion Control

One of the hardest things I have had to learn on my journey to health has been portion control. There is no easy way around making your portions smaller, you just have to train your stomach over time. I remember when I first moved home after university; I felt hungry all the time as my mum was feeding me much smaller portions that what I had been used to. I hate to think about how big of portions I ate while I was at university!

If you are on a health kick and are trying to lose weight you need to keep an eye on your portions, there is no point eating healthy food if you are eating too large of a portion! Portion distortion is very common thanks to the fact that the average portion size has increased by 25-50% over the past 30 years. In fact the average restaurant portion could feed 2 or 3 people sometimes!

To control my portions I follow recipes exactly. I don’t have much flair in the kitchen, so I have to do this anyways, but tools such as the above help measure out the correct quantities of food. Keeping Measuring Cups* and food Weighing Scales* to hand can really help keep your portions in line, so you can imagine how thankful I was to receive these from Confused.com in a Fitness Goody Box they put together for me. However when you don’t have any to hand, you need to learn to eyeball standard portion sizes. A good way to figure out your portion sizes is to compare your food portions to something visual that is easier to remember, you can see examples of this in the table above.

Other than learning about correct portion sizes there are a number of ways to ensure you keep your overall serving sizes in line. Here are a few tips I have learnt and have heard of;

• Eat from a smaller dish- This is scientifically proven to trick yourself into thinking you are eating a larger portion.
• Divide your plate up into half, fill one half with fruit or veg, the other half should have equal portions of protein and starch. This is the ideal balanced meal!
• Serve food according to the portion sizes and don’t go back for seconds unless its more veg!
• Put away leftovers straight away to stop grazing. Try freezing them into single servings so you can use them for dinners at a later date.
• Never eat directly out of a packet or bag… you will ALWAYS over eat by doing this!
• At restaurants ask for a smaller portion, or a half portion, and if you have the courage order a child's meal.
• When at restaurants analyse your dinner and organise your dinner into the ideal portions and serving sizes as shown above and leave the rest on the side. Servings in restaurants can sometime be enough to feed atleast two people!
• If you have  dessert, share it! I know this is tough to hear for people with a sweet tooth like me, but your waistline will thank you! 

Do you eat the correct portions? If so how do you ensure you keep your portions sizes in line? Are there any other more fun visual comparisons that you know?

How To Get Rid Of Joint Pain

There are many ways to get rid of joint pain with natural ways or with medication. Joint pain occurs when there is mild inflammation arising from the bones making up the joint friction that comes a sense of pain that painful. To overcome joint pain is very important for maintaining healthy joints. conduct, balanced diet rich in antioxidants and essential nutrients, such as the adequacy of