Food and Health Room

[Londoner]

BudgetDirect.au have put together a guide to eliminating sugar from your diet

I use organic honey and dates instead of sugar.

Both tea and coffee have a lot of benefits. But on the long run, they rub and removal internal cover of digestive system. This has been associated with digestive system cancer. This happens only if you drink them on empty stomach or too much of them. So don't drink them on empty stomach and don't drink them too much.

[Londoner]

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That is not 'a' but 'the' worst food. It is a fried food, full of free radicals, possibly as much s your colon. This is except the green parts and tomatoes.

[Anthea]

BudgetDirect.au have put together a guide to eliminating sugar from your diet

I use organic honey and dates instead of sugar.

Both tea and coffee have a lot of benefits. But on the long run, they rub and removal internal cover of digestive system. This has been associated with digestive system cancer. This happens only if you drink them on empty stomach or too much of them. So don't drink them on empty stomach and don't drink them too much.

I love honey but tend to eat too much

I drink 4-6 cups of tea a day with unrefined brown sugar, never white sugar

[Anthea]

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I does look delicious

[Piling]

Today is Blueberry pancakes Day. I have no blueberries but pancakes and apricot jam and cheese. In fact, since I am in Kurdistan, I make a lot of pancakes, more than French crêpes, because I have not the flat "poêle à crêpes" necessary for that French performance : FAIRE SAUTER LES CRÊPES.

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As pancakes are thicker and smaller, I just return them with a spatula.

February 2nd in France is the Chandeleur, the day of Crêpes.

[Anthea]

I have never eaten pancakes with apricot jam and cheese - think I will try that

[Anthea]

How to lose 7 stone but avoid getting saggy skin as a result

Q. I am trying to lose weight and have lost a stone so far. But I need to lose another seven. I’m 42, 5ft 7in and weigh 18st 1lb. It’s a slow process but I’m told that doing it slowly is the best way to keep the weight off. Also, I don’t want to end up with loads of excess skin hanging off my body. How do I avoid this?

A. Surely losing weight is really easy? Don’t eat for a few weeks (or have the bare minimum) and you will lose weight on a massive scale. Job done. But it’s not actually that simple. Why?

There have been a few good medical studies that suggest rapid weight loss on a very low calorie diet (VLCD) plan of around 800 a day is beneficial, especially if you have a lot to lose.

As well as helping slimming, it has positive effects on blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol. But in my experience, this is rarely sustained in the long term.

When scientists study VLCD plans, they do it in a very controlled way.

But most people, when they crash diet, just cut out large amounts of food quite randomly, only eating what they perceive to be healthy, such as a low-fat yogurt and an apple a day. Disaster.

If you do this, you quickly become starved of what your body needs: essential nutrients, such as protein. And because such diets are restrictive, people never view them as life-long – more something to get to the end of. Then bit by bit, old bad eating habits re-emerge, and weight is regained.

To lose a couple of pounds a week, a person of 5ft 7in, who is 18-ish stone, would need to make sure they were eating no more than 1,800 calories a day.

But I don’t like clients to get too hung up on calories. Instead, focus on giving refined sugars a miss as much as possible, eat lots of protein, naturally occurring fats, and keep starchy carbs to one meal per day – breakfast or lunch. Consider only drinking alcohol on one or two nights per week, with no more than two drinks on each of those.

Activity burns calories, and the more active you are the more calories you burn. Simple.

Finally, the issue of skin. There is likely to be some laxity after massive weight loss, especially in middle age. But, anecdotally at least, slower slimming seems to help the skin recover better.

Any workout plan should emphasise resistance, featuring muscle-building exercises not just slogging away on a treadmill. By building and toning the body you will achieve a better shape. Whatever happens with that, remember that the upsides of weight loss, in saving you from a horrible, unwell life, massively outweigh the downsides.

Q. I would love to do high-intensity interval training (HIIT), but I have very bad knees. All the workout plans I see want me to do squats or jumping jacks, which are just impossible for me. What else can I do?

A. You can do HIIT training in any way you like, for example by doing fast lengths in a pool, sprints on a bike or doing intervals on a cross trainer at the gym – anything like this will do for a low-impact workout.

If your knees are a problem, the first thing to do is to address the best ways to strengthen and stabilise them.

Assuming that you have already done this, you should plan your workout schedule to include some structured interval training that uses the same high intensity peaks and low intensity troughs as the programmes that you have seen, but through exercises that won’t directly stress the knees.

Remember, it’s the intensity that matters, so whatever you are doing you can produce the exact same result but without the strain.

Link to Full Article - Photos:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... -skin.html

[Piling]

I have never eaten pancakes with apricot jam and cheese - think I will try that

I did not mean I eat cheese and jam together, but on 2 separate pancakes.

By the way as a training to Lent I adopt the 16/8 Fasting. 16 hours of fast, 8 h for eating. So I will start to eat at 10 h and after 18 h, nothing.

[Londoner]

BudgetDirect.au have put together a guide to eliminating sugar from your diet

I use organic honey and dates instead of sugar.

Both tea and coffee have a lot of benefits. But on the long run, they rub and removal internal cover of digestive system. This has been associated with digestive system cancer. This happens only if you drink them on empty stomach or too much of them. So don't drink them on empty stomach and don't drink them too much.

I love honey but tend to eat too much

I drink 4-6 cups of tea a day with unrefined brown sugar, never white sugar

Too much of any thing is bad, even if tis honey.

As long as you drink your tea with your meals or immediately after them, you have nothing to worry. I believe 4-6 cups are too much. try to learn not to drink all of it. Try to drink half a cup or more or less each time.

[Londoner]

I have no blueberries but pancakes and apricot jam and cheese

Is it sheep cheese? I remember at home my step mothers used to make cheese from sheep milk. It was extremely tasty. There was a by product made from cheese making left overs. that was tastier than the cheese itself. I think, if remember it correctly, it was called: 'jaji'.

This reminds me with my step mothers, who were always hiding the cheese and jaji from me and I always found them. Actually some times ago I found my self and my grand daughter plying the same role but I took the role of step mothers and she took my role. I don't remember why I opened my wallet. But when I opened it she saw money, bank notes. She insisted to have one or more of them because she didn't have them. To get rid of her, I gave her a fiver. Four times I stole it from her and hid it, each time she found it. Finally I gave up and said good bye fiver.

[Piling]

In Duhok markets, most of cheese are from cow milk. This one is like dried mozarella.

In France, we eat cow, goat and sheep cheese.With our 500 different cheeses, we need milk from everywhere.

I like also sheep cheeses, but they are very different each others, some quite fresh, other dried, other with a strong taste (the older)

[Anthea]

I did not mean I eat cheese and jam together, but on 2 separate pancakes.

Actually, I rather fancy apricot jam and cheese in a pancake

By the way as a training to Lent I adopt the 16/8 Fasting. 16 hours of fast, 8 h for eating. So I will start to eat at 10 h and after 18 h, nothing.

Not really fasting because 8 of those fasting hours you will spend asleep

[Anthea]

I have no blueberries but pancakes and apricot jam and cheese

Is it sheep cheese? I remember at home my step mothers used to make cheese from sheep milk. It was extremely tasty. There was a by product made from cheese making left overs. that was tastier than the cheese itself. I think, if remember it correctly, it was called: 'jaji'.

This reminds me with my step mothers, who were always hiding the cheese and jaji from me and I always found them. Actually some times ago I found my self and my grand daughter plying the same role but I took the role of step mothers and she took my role. I don't remember why I opened my wallet. But when I opened it she saw money, bank notes. She insisted to have one or more of them because she didn't have them. To get rid of her, I gave her a fiver. Four times I stole it from her and hid it, each time she found it. Finally I gave up and said good bye fiver.

Your grand-daughter sounds an absolute delight

[Anthea]

In Duhok markets, most of cheese are from cow milk. This one is like dried mozarella.

In France, we eat cow, goat and sheep cheese.With our 500 different cheeses, we need milk from everywhere.

I like also sheep cheeses, but they are very different each others, some quite fresh, other dried, other with a strong taste (the older)

Sometimes we have French Markets in England and they always have an exciting variety of cheese I have never even heard of before. I always buy a wide selection

[Piling]

Not really fasting because 8 of those fasting hours you will spend asleep

Exactly, and that's the reason why these hours of fast are the best.