Amazing Ways To Make Recipes More Healthy

By Fiona Wyresdle

While the majority of diet Gurus such as Robert Atkins agree that refined sugar is not good for you and can be downright harmful. Other pundits say that it is not as bad as many nay-sayers' proclaim. One thing that is certain with healthy cooking is you can be sure that you control what goes into any treats you are creating. You don't have to purchase commercial cakes and cookies which contain empty calories; you may make your own.

Sugar basically provides empty calories but there are ways of replacing this sweetener with other more nutritional products. Healthy home cooking and baking enables you to make good use of great recipes. Your family will be so delighted with your efforts, they won't even notice if you slip in a few extra vitamins and minerals.

When my kids were small, they detested eating vegetables, but one way I could get these essential foods down the hatch was by grating them and adding them to ground beef. So meat loaf, bolognaise sauce, and any other recipe for ground beef was rich with grated carrot or grated vegetables of any of the pumpkin variety.

Cakes and muffins are yummy with added grated carrot or pumpkin and pumpkin bread is simple to make, also very nutritious. Pumpkin is a sweet vegetable and when you make bread with it add mixed seeds; sunflower and pumpkin seeds make the bread even tastier, and these seed are really rich in the essential fatty acids of the Omega group.

Finding refined sugar guilty or innocent, there are lots of books on the health shelves of book shops which utterly slam sugar. Although the only real documented reports are in regard to sugar and tooth decay. There are no other health proofs that deliberately declare sugar to be the criminal it is perceived to be by many of the health ranters.

You can still cook and bake and use sugar, but by making your own, rather than buying commercial cookies and cakes, you control how much sugar is used. Like all things, sugars in moderation are not all bad.

No matter how people in the past have decried how bad alcohol is for you, for the past 20 years European researches have been looking into the health Benefits of drinking red wine. People in Europe live longer and suffer from less dread diseases than Americans. It has been found that the Resevratrol contained in red wine is the key to this. So now that we know this, we are told to drink red wine in moderation to stay healthy and live longer. Grape juice and Resevratrol supplements don't do nearly as much good as the combination of alcohol and this substance.

It is easy to stay healthy with healthy cooking and taking all things in moderation, be they sugar or alcohol. Just do what your Grandmother did to stay healthy, and if she wouldn't recognize a particular food, don't eat it. - 32190

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