Good for health, Let's Eat Colourful Foods!

Good for health, Let's Eat Colourful Foods!

 

 

There's no question that eating colourful foods has health benefits. 

The most vibrantly coloured fruits and vegetables have the most nutrition.

There are a lot of fruits and vegetables in varying hues.

Eating regularly an array of colours just ensures that you get the benefits of all of them.

Let's find out how foods in each colour category can keep you health.

White Foods

Onion, garlic, mushroom, potato and lotus root are typical white colour foods. 

White foods are well known as good source for enhancing our immune system, 

and good for lungs and bronchial tubes . 

Particularly, white foods can help rise estrogen levels so they give us a benefit of protecting your body against hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and aging.

Green Foods

 

Lettuce, asparagus, celery, spinach, broccoli and pea are green foods. 

Green foods contain chlorophyll and is made up of approximately 70% of it. 

Green foods are also known as metabolism boosters so it help excrete unnecessary toxic wastes and relieve the symptoms of chronic fatigue. 

As well as...

they are effective in preventing cancer, 

can protect cataract and failing of eyesight,

lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels

and help non-proliferation of Helicobacter pylori which causes gastritis.

 

Red Foods

Strawberry, apple, tomato, watermelon, plum are in a list of red foods. 

Health benefit of red foods are also to enhance our immune system and help keep arteries clean which eventually reduce the risk of cadio-vascular diseases.

Red foods especially abundant in lycopene which is a powerful antioxidant that can help protect against degenerative diseases like cancer. 

Yellow Foods

Capsicum, ginger, curry, sweet potato and corn are yellow foods that help our eyes and skin.

These sunny-coloured foods also have an abundance of vitamin C.

Many studies tell us that yellow fruits and vegetables help our heart, vision including night blindness, digestion and immune system. 

Black Foods

Black rice, black sesame, seaweed like dried laver and black olive are healthy black foods.

In fact, these foods have more antioxidants than light-coloured foods because of their high pigment content. 

Especially black bean help lower the risks of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Black rice is good for protecting our sight and preventing anemia. 

Purple Foods

Mulberry, grape, blueberry, raspberry, eggplant and purple onion are example of purple foods. 

There foods may help heart health, blood pressure and obesity.

Many scientists prove that eating purple fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk for both high blood pressure and low HDL(high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol.

We've looked at the health benefits of coloured foods. 

As long as we change our eating habit to be more healthy like aiming to eat more colourful foods.

So when you’re filling your shopping cart or your plate, think the more color, the better!

and enjoy the food that is nourishing your body :)

Things to know when dieting

Things to know when dieting

1. EAT healthier food

Those who have failed lots of times losing weight often rely on sports supplements such as fat blaster, cellulite burner tablets or other some sort of powder. 

Try not to take these things. They don't help you lose weight and can even ruin your physical condition. Prepare some healthier foods for yourself everyday. For example, tofu and veges which contain a small amount of calories are good foods that you are supposed to take daily basis. 

2. Don't eat while watching TV.   

Many studies have proven that people tend to eat much when watching TV.

Unconsciously, you would take more calories than you need when you focus on one thing like watching TV. So it is a good idea to prepare a bowl and put adequate amount of food in it. 

3. Check your weight everyday

Weighing yourself regularly helps to keep you accountable. It also keeps weight loss at the forefront of your mind . It is a useful part of a successful diet and exercise program. It keeps you accountable. It also motivates you to do things differently if what you’re doing isn't working. For example, if you're keep gaining weight over a week, then you need to check your dietary changes that you've recently applied. 

A thing you need to remember is don't be too sensitive about a slight change :)

4. Work out at least 3 times a week. 

Keep your body fit!!

Cardio-exercise is really good for your health. 

Work out hard with weights(weight training) to maintain a toned body 

5. Eat fruit daily

Fruit contains a great amount of vitamin, water, dietary fibre and so forth. 

Eating various fruits can leave you feeling satisfied and can help you prevent constipation. 

6. Don't skip breakfast

Well balanced meal with carbohydrate, protein and a small amount of fat can also help you maintain blood sugar levels

7. Stay away from alcohol

Some people may think that having liquor without nibbles would be OK; however, drinking alcohol could promote your appetite. 

8. Sleep well.

Studies prove that sleeping 30mins longer than usual can contribute to prevent binge eating. 

When you don't sleep enough, you would probably try to have some junk food. So SLEEP WELL!!

9. Just imagine your appearance that you've been dreaming of. 

 When you feel weakened while dieting, imagine your future appearance that you've been dreaming of.

The color blue acts to calm the brain's appetite centre. 

It will help you lose appetite.  Some of you may realised why I wrote this post in blue colour font :)

BUT!! REMEMBER!! Do NOT try to eat nothing but try to reduce your calorie intake instead.