did you know?

A one cup of trim milk has 7.7 grams less fat than thestandard milk. If you consume one cup every day with coffee or cereal changinging to trim milk would remoce 2.8kg of fat or 25000 calories from your diet over a year. for an average persons needs that the equivalent of removing 10 days of extra eating from your year

Removing just 1 teaspoon ofsugar everyday from your diet will remove1.825kilos of sugar or 7000 calories from your year. Which equates to removing two to three days of eating ......

Combination Foods

A recent article in Medical News Today Talked about combining good foods that contain polyphenols such as in wine, fruit and vegetables when eating high fat foods may reduce the health affects of these high fat foods .... I can believe it ..But would still question to what exent these actually help. There must be plenty of overweight people suffering the usual illnesses associated with being overweight who have also eaten a diet rich in fruit and vegetables ?? Surely ...

As to Deep fried mars bars being very tasty (as mentioned in the article) ...I can leave them .... and certainly will fior the next 12 months at least

Fast Food and Exercise

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We are getting our exercise at the moment in the garden ... An old lawn at the front is now being converted into a pebble-stone walkway. A large circular border in the centre of the lawn has been created and planted with Dahlia , Fuscia and annuals. 2 1/2 cubic metres of medium sized pebbles are now being Listed from mound into barrow by spade and then moved to the lawn area for spreading over week matting ... Good honest back breaking work ...

The gym has been re-joined for another year. McD had agreed to join me in moring training sessions before work ... The idea being we get it out of the way for the day ratehr than wanting to be doing anything but gym work in these glorious summer evenings we are experiencing now and hopefully for the next 3 or 4 moths into 2008. this starts as a trial run on Friday moning and in earnest come the start of next week ... The 7th will be a big day..Weigh-in, Gym and Work all start then ......

I'm surprised at the quality of the healthy recipes these days. . The recipe below while taking some pre-planning as it requires marinating the meat is cokked very quickly and only around 350 Cals for a serving ... Add salad or cooked vegetables and the meal is complete ....

Miso-Marinated Beef Medallions

2 350gram Fillets cut into medallions

1 Cup Dark Red Miso

1 Tbs ginger, minced

1 tsp Chilli flakes

Drop of Sake or water

Mixed salad greens

Combine the miso, ginger and chilli in a large bowl and thin it with some sake or water until the mixture is pasty. Spread the paste onto the meat and refridgerate for several hours. on a pre heated grill cook for 3 or 4 minutes on each side. Serve on a bed of mixed salad or cooked green vegetables ..

Mushrooms

I've always been a big Mushroom fan .. As a child living in rural england the seasonal field mushroom was something to look forward to and the harvest eaten with great relish. Although back in those days worrying about my weight etc was of no concern ... I was a skinny as a rake and fit as a fiddle working on the farms etc doing odd jobs for pocket money...and so having mushroom fried in butter or mushroom with cream added to have on toast wasn't thought of as being bad or a problem ..

The nutritional aspects of mushrooms are well known ... Research by the Tufts university in the US believe that mushroom also help your immune system fight off those viruses and even cancers...

I'm happy to eat them cause they taste good and cooked properly they are a dieters friend ....