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Some Special Diabetic Recipes: Enjoy Your Food With All the Restrictions

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Bertil Hjert asked:


When it comes to diabetic diet, most people think about a restricted and disciplined diet. However, this is a misconception. Experts have researched a lot and come up with a conclusion that diabetics can enjoy their food.

In fact, there are several recipes that would provide your taste buds a high. All you require to do is to learn some recipes that will be apt for you and does not affect the sugar levels in your body adversely.

This article emphasizes on such recipes. Now, you can relish your food and still follow all the rules drawn for you by your health care practitioner.

First, let us discuss on what should be taken in your body to maintain a healthy routine. To start with, you need to focus on including a fruit salad in your daily diet. This will provide adequate fiber to your body.

Try using seasonal fruits and vegetables. You may also gorge in some desserts via sweetening these with a diabetes sweetener. These sweeteners are widely available on the market.

Here are some great diabetic recipes to excite your taste buds and keep you in a state of good health and spirits

a) Cookie

- Ingredients required:

Diabetic sweetener

Apple sauce - 1 cup

Stick margarine - 1

All-bran - 1 cup

All spice - ½ tablespoon

Egg - 1

Nutmeg - ½ tablespoon

Cinnamon - 1 tablespoon

Soda - 1 tablespoon

Flour - 1 ¾ cup

- Preparation method:

Mix all the above mentioned ingredients and drop the paste on a cookie sheet with the help of a spoon. Now bake it for about ten minutes at 350 degrees. Enjoy.

b) Fruit delight

- Ingredients required:

Freshly sliced strawberries - 1cup

Canned pineapple chopped banana - 1

Sugarless orange soda - 360 ml

- Preparation method:

Mix all the contents in a bowl. Now distribute the contents evenly in 160 ml paper cups. Pour 60 ml of soda to each cup and refrigerate. Thereafter, allow it to stay at the room temperature for a few minutes. Now enjoy the concoction with a spoon.

c) Pasta

- Ingredients required:

Fat-free mayonnaise - ½ cup

Low-sodium soy sauce - 3 tablespoon

Sherry - 2 tablespoon

Pepper - ¼ tablespoon

Cooked spiral pasta (drained) - 1 cup

Cooked boneless skinless

Chicken breasts (cut in to bite

Sized pieces) - 2 cups

Fresh snow peas - 2 cups

(Strings removed and blanched

Sliced green onions) - 2

Sliced water chestnuts - ¼ cup

Toasted almonds - ¼ cup

- Preparation method:

Mix the mayonnaise with soy sauce, ground ginger, sherry and pepper in a small bowl. Set aside. Take a separate bowl and mix in pasta chicken, green onions, snow peas and water chestnuts, Add dressing mix and toss. Refrigerate the preparation overnight and sprinkle with almonds before serving.

d) Spaghetti

- Ingredients required:

Tomato juice - 12 ounce

Canned mushrooms - 1 large can

Salt - To taste

Garlic - To taste

Oregano - To taste

Onion flakes (dehydrated)

Green pepper diced - 1

Bean sprouts - 2 cans.

- Preparation method:

Cook all the above mentioned ingredients in a covered sauce pan. Let the sauce thickens. Now, add bean sprouts and let the mixture simmer for about ten minutes. Serve over cooked pasta noodles.



Andrew

Recipes for Hypothyroidism

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Raj Kumar asked:


Hypothyroidism is the disease in which, the thyroid gland is less active and so produces less hormone called thyroxin. Thyroxin hormone is an important factor for body’s anabolism and catabolism combine known as metabolism. Metabolism regulates the body’s entire system and controls the repair, growth and protection of the body tissues/cells.

There are lot many reasons for developing hypothyroidism and once it attacks a person, it is then quite difficult to manage it fully unless you take regular pills. Patients with hypothyroidism often get confuse what to eat and what not to as they are given the list of ‘contraindicated’ foods in their diet by their dieticians and doctors.

It is not that a person with hypothyroidism will not have any recipes. Here are some of the recipes those are mouthwatering and still good for the diseased condition.

The Magic Pasta

Those who are pasta lovers, they can enjoy this dish with great pleasure. All you need is to follow the below method,

Ingredients

3 cloves of smashed and minced garlic 3 large ripe tomatoes Anchovy paste ¼ extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper (as per your requirement) Whole-wheat pasta Fresh chopped holy basil Little pecorino cheese Chili flakes

Method:

Make thick slice of tomatoes and put a small dab of anchovy paste on each slice. Top it up with a bit of garlic and pinch of salt and pepper. Now place in glass oven dish. Pour olive oil over the top and bake in 350-degree oven for about ½ hour. Cook pasta until al dente and drain it. Take off the tomato stuff and empty into the empty pot. Put pasta in and toss to coat and the dish is finished when you top the entire material with basil and little fresh pecorino cheese. For spice lovers, put a pinch of chili flakes for seasoning.

Scrumptious salad

Ingredients

1 tsp grated orange peel 2 oranges, peeled and well sliced (seedless) 20 oz unsweetened pineapple chunks ½ cup of sour cream (strictly fat-free) 1 tbsp brown sugar 1 grapefruit (peeled and sliced finely) ¼ tsp grated ginger 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg ¼ cup chopped and toasted pecans 6 cups of torn leaf lettuce Grilled chicken breast (chopped and optional) 2 tbsp milk (strictly fat free) 1 avocado (peeled and sliced)

Method

Combine the oranges, pineapple, and grapefruit into a large bowl. Cover them all and place it into the refrigerator. In another bowl, take sour cream, milk, brown sugar, orange peel. Add ginger and nutmeg. Cover the entire mixture and place this too into the refrigerator.

Let them be in the condition for about one hour.

Divide lettuce and avocado that they can serve in six salads plates. Decorate fruit over the lettuce. Drizzle salad with dressings. You can simply sprinkle with nuts or for non-vegetarians add chicken to it.

These recipes are good to have, as they are rich in Vitamins and minerals that rejuvenate the body. However, it is always advisable for the patient with hypothyroidism to consult dietician before they jump into any newer dish.

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Phyllis

3 Tips for Cooking Chicken Healthy

Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Yuki Shoji asked:


Can you remember a time when you got sick of eating chicken? Most of us who have tried repeatedly to live healthy can. There are three healthy ways to cook chicken, and even better, they’re surprisingly easy to do. Since part of living a healthy lifestyle and maintaining an attractive figure requires your primary source of protein to come from chicken, it is only fitting that you should know the healthiest and quickest ways for eating it.

Tips for Cooking Chicken #1 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Boneless chicken breasts are the absolute quickest way to go about preparing chicken. You can buy them at any grocery store and use them as you need them when you make meals. Just pull one from the freezer, thaw it and cook. Buying your chicken this way is much cheaper and much easier than buying a whole chicken and having to remove the skin and cut it up yourself. With the bones and skin already removed you can have your dinner ready in 30 minutes. All you have to do is flavor the chicken and bake it in the oven and wait for the timer to buzz.

Tips for Cooking Chicken #2 Whole, roasted chicken

This is a great option because it will leave you with leftovers, which can then be used to make healthy sandwiches or salads over the course of a few days. It takes about an hour to roast a whole chicken in the oven, but preparation requires you to only sprinkle some seasonings. Once this is done the chicken need only be placed in a pan and stuck in the oven at a high heat. Then while you’re waiting for it to finish ,you can accomplish other chores you may have or go exercise.

Tips for Cooking Chicken #3 Rotisserie chicken

This is an excellent option for the person who hates cooking. You can buy a rotisserie chicken at any grocery store deli that is ready to eat as soon as you get home. You know that it is healthy for you because of the way it was cooked. In addition, you will enjoy having leftovers to use in meals over the next day or so, which will save you the time and trouble of having to decide what to eat.

The sky is the limit when it comes to preparing chicken. The three different types above are healthy ways. In fact, a good rule of thumb is that if you bake it, broil it or boil it, it’s healthy. Make sure and stay away from eating it fried or breaded. Both process use high fattening substances such as cooking oil, butter and eggs.

If you need ideas for how to prepare chicken so that you get a chance to experience different flavors, there are numerous recipes on the internet and in cookbooks you can reference. So many that there is truly no excuse for ever getting tired of eating chicken again.



Nancy