Negative calorie foods

An apple a day surely keeps the doctor away. That's the cliche we commonly know. But apples also keep the dentist and the calories away! How? Apple is one of the fruits listed under the still-doubted-findings of negative calorie foods.

All foods contain calories together with nutrients, vitamins and minerals. So no, there is no such thing as negative calories, it only means that one who eats these certain foods need more energy than what the food has in order to metabolize/break it down.

Say an apple contains 100 calories but your body needs about 150 calories to burn it, 50 calories are borrowed from your stored calorie content...thus the more you eat apples, the more calories you burn.

Aside from apples, diverse vegetables are listed as well. Here are some of them, be sure to grab any once in a while:

asparagus, cranberries, beet, grapefruit, broccoli, lemon mango, carrot, orange, cauliflower, pineapple, celery, raspberries, green cabbage, strawberries, hot chili peppers, lamb's lettuce, cucumber, lettuce, endive, onion, garden cress, papaya, garlic, spinach, green beans, turnip, zucchini.

Here's to healthy eating! =)

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Garlic Shrimp Pasta

While posting the kids' photo, I noticed the google ad on my page...it says Garlic Shrimp Pasta! How good can google come up with that from my tags??? lol. Anyway, I actually had this recipe saved up,here again a simple pasta dish...(again) with shrimps!






Ingredients:

Pasta

Olive oil
Garlic head
Shrimp (shelled and devein)
Dried Basil
Salt and Pepper


How to:





1. Cook pasta per package direction. Heat olive oil. Saute garlic and shrimps...do not overcook the garlic.










2. Add basil leaves and season with salt and pepper. Drop in the spaghetti so it gets covered with basil.






Try not to let the basil get all over your face. Click this pic. =D

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Kinder!

Als die Kinder auf mich gewartet habe, die nette Dame im Fischgeschäft hatte jede einen Fischfahnen gegeben! Danke!

Ich kaufte frische Lachs (angebot!) für 10 Euro pro Kilo!

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Mung beans, Garnelen und Spinat

Munggo, Shrimps and Spinach

My son has suffered with bronchitis over the past year and a half. In my effort to help him overcome it and aside from the Doctor's advice, I researched a lot about bronchitis and found out that somehow it can develop in children with low-iron diet. Which in turn could be caused by poor absorption of iron and not necessarily by eating iron-less foods.

Iron is a necessary mineral for body function and good health. Every red blood cell in the body contains iron in its hemoglobin, the pigment that carries oxygen to the tissues from the lungs.

Iron deficiency weakens the immunity sytem which leads to other complications. As for Charlie, when he's exposed to some irritants, his bronchial tubes are affected causing difficulties in breathing and other symptoms that makes me cry. =(

This recipe is a good combination of iron rich foods which all my kids (yes, not only Charlie) likes. Mung beans are rich in iron, thiamin, magnesium and folate, which help many other bodily functions for optimum health. Shrimps, like other seafoods are also a good source of iron. Spinach also has iron but contains phytate (an iron absorption inhibitor), that is why it is a good thing that this recipe includes tomatoes. They are a good source of vitamin C which helps in the body's absorption of iron.

My apologies for not providing enough photos this time.

Ingredients:

Garlic

Onion

Ginger

Tomatoes

Munggo

Shrimp (shelled and devein)

Spinach

Water

Fish Sauce

Pepper

How to:

1. Boil the mung beans in a large cooking pot or pressure cooker. While waiting for them to tenderize; mince garlic and ginger, cut onions and tomatoes.

2. In a separate pan, saute garlic, onions and ginger. Throw in the tomatoes when the onions become transparent. Put the shrimps next. Season with fish sauce (or salt) and pepper. Set aside.

3. When the mung beans are tender enough, put in the pan contents together in the pot. Add a little water and season according to taste. Add the spinach on top and let cook on the still hot-turned-off- stove =D.

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There's a significant change in Charlie's condition somehow. When bronchitis 'attacks' it doesnt take more than 7 days compared to 2 weeks or more before.

(Disclaimer: This recipe will not cure bronchitis, but it will help people with iron-deficiency thereby strenghtening the immune system.)

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