What are some hot meals I can make that will still be healthy?!
What are some hot meals I can make that will still be healthy?
I'm getting a little tired of salads and such. And please don't take away my meat!
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Any kind of veggie is healthy but some are more so than others. So lean more into the broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Kale, Spinach, Lettuce and salad fixins like radishes, carrots, celery, jicama, etc. The veggies that should be used sparingly are lima beans, corn, and carrots. Check a book out of your library or go on-line to Google and find out the carb values of the different veggies to find which ones have less. Carbs convert to sugar in your body.
Every meal needs some protein when you have carbs in the meal or the carbs have a tendency to raise blood sugar. So whether the protein is eggs, meat, fish, beans - peanut butter, nuts - cottage cheese - things like that - you'll have a healthy meal.
Try to keep your sugar-based items to a minimum - like desserts of cake, cookies, etc. My Uncle had his blood sugar go up with a whole apple but not with 1/2 apple so if you are leaning towards diabetes, keep that in mind.
Definitely stay away from soft drinks - the high-fructose corn syrup is a real nasty. You can find it in a lot of foods other than the soft drinks too so be sure and read labels.
To eat healthy there are so many things you can eat so please don't limit yourself.
And, healthy means different things to different people. A person who has heart problems might be put on a low-fat/low-cholesterol diet and to them, by lowering the fat and meats, they are eating healthy. To a diabetic, lowering the amount of carbs is eating healthy. Some doctors differ from there. Some say a heart patient should do the low-fat-low-cholesterol diet and others say stay away from the carbs and the cholesterol (and high blood pressure) will take care of themselves.
We learn new things every day on health and being healthy. I remember there was a time when it hit the news (unfortunately just before Thanksgiving) that cranberries caused cancer. They figured out that was false information and have since found out cranberries help a lot of problems.
So, if you don't have any specific disease, might just be overweight and want to lose, make sure your health is OK, have your doctor check your thyroid to make sure that isn't what is causing weight gain. If that is OK, I'd say just stay away from the high-fructose corn syrup, the trans-fats (in hot oils and margarines - and vegetable shortening - and some processed foods. Read the labels. Keep your carbs to no more than 300 grams a day and you should lose weight if that is what you wish to do. Also, keep in mind, weight doesn't shift very well without exercise. That builds your metabolism to work harder.