Fasting Tea

Tea is good for you and fasting tea energizes you while it cleanses your body. Here is the recipe:

3 tanglad (lemon grass) leaves
3 cogon roots
3 sarsaparilla sticks
3 banaba leaves

Boil all the ingredients in a pot for 10 minutes. Make sure ingredients are washed properly before boiling them.

But I found that all the ingredients can be found in the Philippines. I do wish that I could find this all here in the US because all the ingredients can just be found in somebody's backyard or your own.

Eat well without dieting

Even if in Winter or Fall season almost every week there is always a party. Well, it's because it's the only time for the most Filipinos to get together and enjoy a sumptuous Filipino food. So how can we eat well without having to diet? Remember, Filipino dish is always cooked in our household most specially the dried fish that stinks, husband and kids would complain to the max, lol!! I found some tips from Jill Duplex, author of Lighten up: A New Healthier Way to Cook:

1. Eat for pleasure and good health, not for weight loss.

2. Steam instead of grill, grill instead of roast, roast instead of fry, shallow-fly instead of deep fry.

3. Drink better, drink less and drink only with the evening meal.

4. Eat more fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, and less red meat, pork, pasta, pastry and potatoes.

5. If you really want something, enjoy it without guilt, then lighten up the next day.

So what you think of this idea. Seems it's okey for me to follow. Anyway, the next day after a sumptuous meal with friends I don't like to eat that much. One thing too, many of us feel guilty that they think about gaining some pounds when they get home or in the next morning. I think for me it will cause an effect in your body. Why not just enjoy and let it go. Life is short ^)^

Eat well without dieting...

How could this be??? Well aside from my slimming coffee which my friends told me that they really did lose those unwanted pounds here are some of the techniques.

1. Eat for pleasure and good health, not for weight loss.

2. Steam instead of grill,  grill instead of roast, roast instead of fry, shallow- fry instead of deep-fry.

3. Drink better, drink less and drink only with the evening meal.

4. Eat more fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, and less red meat, pork, pasta, pastry and potatoes.

5. If you really want something, enjoy it without guilt, then lighten up the next day.

Today, I saw Kimora Lee Simmons (on aol) and she did lose a lot of weight considering her height she is skinny. So people where surprised to see her new body. And they didn't stopped asking her what's her secret and she told them that she didn't ate for two days and on the 3rd day early in the morning she had this huge early breakfast, and don't know what happened after that. I was surprised of this kind of diet this is a devastation to our body, and I don't wonder if sooner or later she will have a problem with her gall bladder or other organs of our body. Because for our body to deprived food is not good I guess and we don't know it now because we are still young and we think we are doing right and we are healthy but will see when we get old everything we did it will come to us, fast! 

Carrot

                                                     Quick Health Tip:


Carrot is one of the richest sources of carotenoids. High carotenoid intake has been linked with a 20 percent decrease in postmenopausal breast cancer and an up to 50 percent decrease in cancers of the bladder, cervix, prostate, colon, ,larynx and esophagus.

How can you eat together as a family

I remember when I was young we all eat together at breakfast, lunch and dinner. When we  are already in school we eat together at dinner time. And if it's weekend we all eat together as a family. My mom or my dad really have to wait for us to come home and if we can't there will be a consequences. Now a days seems like this tradition is getting primitive. Parents are too busy tinkering their own stuff even on weekends and they don't somehow set up the rules that dinner time should be with the family. Well here is some of the suggestions below:

1. Schedule it.  Just like you schedule a dental appointment, you have to make time so that you can eat together as a family. Schedule it. You can plan your meals in advance and shop for groceries on weekends.
2. Make if fun. Members of the family will look forward to eating together when you make the activity fun. Turn off the TV so you can talk to one another. Then make sure to keep the conversation light.
3. Go out and play. Even a short time together can promote family bonding and help each of you reduce stress and keep healthy. Go out and have 15 minutes of fun scrimmage or light exercise
4. Take a break. Instead of the family having a downtime by lounging on the couch to watch a TV show, try taking a break and dooing some stretches, tackling some household chores or going out for a walk. That will not only help burn off calories, will also give you time to talk to one another. 

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Are you a couch potato? Here is a food for you!

Comfort food sound good right? Just the thought makes you think of couch time with the TV turned on in the background. Before you decide to vent all your frustrations on comfort food while lounging on that couch, read the following more healthy alternatives:

• If you want something chocolatey, Instead of just getting anything that has chocolates, which of course has lots of calories, get a candy bar that has nuts or one made with peanut butter. These would have more protein and fibers that will make you feel satisfied. For example, eat Snickers rather than 3 Musketeers. Yum yum!!
• When you want something that will fill you up. Get something that has more than sugar in it, otherwise you will hungry again in five minutes.
• When you want something cool and creamy to drink, choose the one with more calcium. 
• Drink a lot of water!