Lifestyle
Juicing for Health: Detox, Immunity & Energy Boost
When eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables is not feasible, juicing allows you to combine the nutrients of various important fruits and vegetables.
For Weight Loss/Detoxing: Over a period of time, all the 'junk' we consume gets stuck within the inner workings of our body. This build-up slows us down, makes us gain weight, and affects the way we look. To get rid of these toxins in your body, you need to nourish it by drinking plenty of fresh fruit and vegetable juices. Juicing allows you to hydrate your cells with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytonutrients and antioxidants that you don’t get from cooked foods.
You can’t ONLY drink juice to be healthy. Instead of a complete fast, try replacing one meal in a day with the following juice recipes.
Ingredients
1 cucumber
4 celery stalks
2 apples
6-8 leaves of spinach
1/2 lemon
1 tbsp ginger
For immunity: Your immune system needs to stay in shape for you to avoid falling sick, catching pesky colds and looking and feeling older than you should. Here’s a go-to drink you can sip on everyday and throughout the year to build up your immunity and fight infections better than ever. It’s high in vitamin C, which helps in producing white blood cells that in-turn, fight off infections.
Ingredients:
1 small beet
3 carrots
8 stalks celery
1 stalk broccoli
2 cloves garlic
For better, healthier looking skin: Whip your skin into shape without spending too much time and money on it. While indulging in facials and skin treatments, what you should also consider is consistently replenishing your skin with this ‘youth-juice’. The right combination of fruits and vegetables, can help rid your blood, tissue and body of build-up. This restoration of your body will result in younger looking, clear skin. For your skin, choose vegetables and fruits that are mostly water based. Cucumbers are great because they are 90 % water. Add some green apples for sweetness and you’ve got yourself a great skin juice you can drink every morning upon waking up.
Ingredients:
1 cucumber
1 green apple
1/2 cup strawberries
1 large leaf spinach
1/2 medium beet
For energy: The easiest thing to reach for in the morning or when you’re low on energy is coffee. If you want to go the cleaner way, without having to suffer the side effects of too much caffeine, try a green juice, instead. The chlorophyll in plants like spinach helps oxygenate your blood, which in turn increases brain function and physical energy.
Ingredients:
1 large cucumber
8 stalks celery
1 handful spinach
1 handful parsley
1/4 lemon (with rind, if organic)
1-inch piece ginger
For the best start in the morning: You don’t have to juice all the time, every day. Juice because you want to include lots of fruits and vegetables in your diet and know that you won’t eat that many supplements in a day. When you’re not in the mood for breakfast, try this concoction for a week and see the difference in your skin, eyes and hair.
Ingredients:
2 apples
A handful of spinach or kale
¼ of cucumber – for a potassium hit
1 lemon
3 sticks of celery
A few shreds of ginger
½ an avocado
When you juice, you only eat one type of food at a time, so digestion is speedier and results are faster. Drinking juices, when combined with a healthy diet and regular clean ups, can have innumerable benefits for your body over time. Strive for a ratio of at least three parts veggies to one part fruit to help keep your sugar content under control. Eventually, you’ll get the hang of what works for you, your body and your taste buds.
Welcome to the world of juicing. Now go bring out the shine.
Healthy Lunch Ideas for Work: Quick and Nutritious
Sandwiches/Wraps
The easiest and safest thing to pack is a sandwich or a wrap. But that doesn’t mean it has to be the same thing every single day. To stay healthy and to keep your taste-buds tingling, use a variety of whole-grain breads, pitas and rotis filled with lean fillings like sliced eggs, tuna fish and cheese or sliced chicken breast. Add some veggies like assorted greens, sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, onions or avocados, to jazz up your wrap. The more veggies you add, the easier it is to meet your minimum-5-veggies-and fruits-per-day goal!
Salads
These definitely don’t have to be boring. Invest some time and thought in making a dressing that works for you. Vinaigrettes are obviously better than dairy based dressings like Caesar and Thousand Island. Once you’ve got the dressing sorted, change up the ingredients of your salad from day to day. On day 1, try lettuce, chicken cubes, apricots and almonds. That’s enough protein and omega 3 to give you an energy boost without a weight boost. Another day, try a pear, walnut, lettuce, and egg salad.
Pasta
Got left-over pasta from last night’s dinner? Perfect, make a pasta salad out of it. Anything from linguine to macaroni can be improvised into a pasta salad. Less penne and more broccoli, zucchini, sun-dried tomatoes, bell peppers and a little grated cheese should do the trick to keep you going through the rest of your day.
Rice Bowl
The best way to get a dose of rice, without eating too much of it, is to load a bowl with 1 part rice and 9 other parts of veggies, grains and other yummy healthy foods. Take a bit of rice and top it with rajma or chola, pieces of chicken or egg, sliced tomatoes, onions, lime juice, lettuce and sweet corn kernels and you’ve got yourself the most wholesome, hearty and nutritious lunch option. Oh, we forgot, it's the most tasty lunch option!
Stir-Fry
All those favourite veggies of yours, throw them together with some chicken, shrimp or fish and alternate until you get bored of this variant. Broccoli, chicken and baby corn for a day and shrimp, onions and zucchini another day. Use olive oil with the zucchini and soy sauce with the broccoli to bring out your favourite Asian or Mediterranean tastes. Pack some steamed white rice to accompany the stir-fry, some whole grain bread or a portion of Caesar salad to accompany your stir-fry.
If you want to look fit and healthy, never ever forget lunch or,at least, a meal that resembles it. Pack yourself an easy brown bag or lunch box meal that will satisfy you after gym, on the way to your next meeting or during your break at college or even when you’re running from a facial to pick up the kids in another part of the city. Why just limit this to you? Spread some lunch love and pack these easy lunch ideas for your kids and significant other when you can. Their good health will thank you!
Unlock Radiant Skin with Our Ultimate Anti-Ageing Antioxidant Diet Guide
There are simple foods you can start including in your daily or weekly eating routine to heighten the chances of looking like you’re 30 in your 50’s. So if you’ve been complaining about the crows feet, wrinkles, frown lines, dark spots and other imperfections on your face after countless minutes of staring into the mirror, then you better include these super-foods in your diet that are easily available everywhere.
Green Tea is an Antioxidant That Cleanses Your Skin:
The Chinese got it right centuries ago. Green tea is an antioxidant that boosts the immune system and flushes out waste. A clean and healthy immune system reflects on your face.
Clean insides = clear skin = younger looking you.
Fruits protect repair damage skin cells:
Tomatoes and watermelon are rich in beta-carotene and lycopene, vitamins that help protect your skin from the sun, inside and out. Their antioxidant abilities repair damage to the skin cells that the sun might have caused. Why juice them separately, when you can have both to double the effects! Add some strawberries to the mix and you’ve got yourself the perfect anti-ageing elixir! Strawberries and berries in general are packed to the brim with antioxidants.
Sweet Potatoes help to get rid of fine lines:
Nuts help in reversing skin damage
It’s time you go nuts about almonds and walnuts. Reverse the damage to your skin caused by free radicals with a dose of vitamin E by making a yummy snack out of almonds. Feed your skin and brain while you’re at it with some walnuts, that also help curb inflammation.
Greens help in building skin’s elasticity
Your body needs special antioxidant compounds to help guard it against the sun. Spinach is loaded with nutrients like beta-carotene and lutein, which are known to help the skin’s elasticity, meaning younger looking and beautiful skin. Other green vegetables like unwaxed cucumbers contain silica in the peel, which are known to help reduce wrinkles and boost collagen. Don’t forget to load up on magnesium and vitamin C rich broccoli, which is a great immunity booster!
Avocado improves blood circulation:
Nourish dry skin so that it never ages faster than it should with heart healthy omega-3 rich fats like olive oil. Consume a tablespoon a day to improve circulation and achieve rosy and supple skin. Avocados, also known as butter fruit, are one of the richest sources of monounsaturated fats and contain biotin for healthy skin.
Dark Chocolate improves your skin quality
Treat your taste buds and your skin at the same time with a chocolate indulgence that can improve your skin for years to come. Packed with vitamin B and full of proteins, the darker the chocolate the better, because 70% of cocoa (in small doses) does your ageing skin more good than harm.
Start now to turn back the clocks, and in a matter of weeks, maybe even days, you’ll start noticing visible changes and, over time, the signs of ageing will reduce dramatically. But like anything you do in life, to ensure things go smoothly, moderation is the key. Quick then, redo your grocery list to include all these superfoods!
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