You see, where I come from using microwave oven for heating food and cooking wasn’t that popular up until the recent may be 10 years. When I got a microwave my mother would tell me “Don’t use this thing to cook in it! It kills all the vitamins and valuable nutrients”. She was (and still…
Let me ask you a question. If you wanted to burn the fat, covering your abdominal muscles, what exercises would you do? Possible answers: 1) A huge amount of abdominal exercises; 2) Compound movements and cardio exercise If your answer was number one, you couldn’t be further from the truth! And you know what? You…
In part 1 I explained the term “functional food” and also discussed proteins and their inclusion in the design of functional foods. In this article I will discuss carbohydrates (fats in post 3). 2. Carbohydrates – types, health-promoting forms (sources) and quantities in foods There are 5 types of carbohydrates that I am concerned with when formulating…
You’ve heard it so many times: Eat Vitamin C-containing fruits! Vitamin C is good for your health. And it’s true. But how do you know what fruit is the highest in Vitamin C? I wanted to know the answer myself, so I did a research. I figured it would be of use to many, who ask…
I spent decades thinking it was my job to make myself happy. I was “trained” that way by society and culture (probably as you have been). The responsibility was exhausting. The guilt for failing at it – almost constant. I wasn’t happy even half the time. And I thought something was fundamentally wrong with me…
In my previous post, I talked about Fear of Judgment. In this post, I am going to share with you a different fear that I’ve had since I was a small child.