Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’

Healthy food in your budget

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Recession period affects all the budget of your spending. Whatever  you can save is your plus point in survival. This depression period taught us many lesson of life style improvement. From the all waste of U.S kitchen, we can feed many small & hungry countries. Also, the wastage of resource will impact on global warming and climate change. One research says 14-15 per cent of US edible food is untouched or unopened, $43 billion worth wastage and £10.2 billion wastage in U.K. It is not just wastage of food only, it is wastage of all natural resources used to produce that food. You can get all the nutrition within half of your grocery budget if you can think about it. Here are some tips to manage your food budget. Read the rest of this entry »

Fruit & Vegetables Nutrition facts

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Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals are fundamental requirements of body functions. Foods & drink can fulfill all nutrition if consumed with awareness. Most of the processed foods stick a label of “Nutrition Facts”, but you might not know about fresh fruits and vegetables. Nutrition requirements may vary according to age, sex, dieses and deficiency. Growing child and Pregnant woman needs more protein than average people. Diabetics people needs glycemic index of all food to maintain their blood sugar while anemic person needs more iron rich foods in diet. Your nutrition requirements also depend of your body mass index. Find out first that your weight is ideal for your height or not?

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