Re-Organize Your Diet

Challenge n°9

10) Food Guide (#litres_trial_promo)

Every day

In small quantity

2-3 times a week

1-2 times a week

Occasionally

Rarely

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Organic?

What to watch out for

12) Use and Instructions (#litres_trial_promo)

Breakfast

Snacks

Lunch

Dinner

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14) Part 2, Vegetarian Recipes (#litres_trial_promo)

What to have in the house?

Easy and simple recipes

Breakfast

Lunch

Salads and sauces

Dinner

Sweets and puddings

Bibliograph (#litres_trial_promo)y (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 1

What diet to choose?

Nutritional value

Our body, our car

Challenge n°1

“The majority of the food we eat is not the result of a choice but of influence”

Allen Carr

(It is easy to control weight if you know how to do it)

What diet to choose?

The Greek word 'diaitea', from which the word diet comes from, means lifestyle, therefore a dietary way of life that we human beings follow.

Nowadays, when we talk of diet we think of two to three months, maybe before the summer, in which period of time we follow a short regime with rules on what to eat or not to eat.

Very often the person that decides to lose weight decides on the basis of stories one hears or personal interpretations ending with no results or even worse causing a health risk. Moreover, the advent of the internet has contributed to the publication of many revolutionary diets mainly not scientifically based but only theoretical.

Nutritional value

When we buy a product we find on the packaging a list of the nutritional values of the food in question.

What are they and what is this for?

They are purely theoretical indications but a useful way to understand what we are eating and the positive or negative aspects of our diet. To start with we don't have a food composed just of carbohydrates or protein but we have a bit of both in every food. Therefore, the nourishment is considered carbohydrate if it is present in its majority and vice versa, if protein is in prevalence.

In the list below and in the food list under carbohydrates you always see written “of which sugars” and under fats “saturated fatty acids”.This is because sugars and saturated fats are part of carbohydrates and fats that we have to watch for and limit their consumption.

When we say “others” we are talking about vitamins and minerals, other very fundamental elements for our health, which are present in small quantities in nearly all food and of fibre, especially present in vegetables to aid the functioning of the bowl.

It is now easy to understand that every food that we consume has positive and negative aspects to it.

It is not good enough to eat carbohydrates for lunch or proteins in the evening just because we hear it is the way to do it, we must be careful about the type of carbohydrates or proteins we eat.

The quantity of each nutrient varies according to the food, if it is from animal source there will be more proteins but also saturated fats, while vegetables will have more carbohydrates, water and more unsaturated fats (good “fats”)

Our body, our car

Our fuel is carbohydrate.

Anybody who has read any health or dietary book has found this assonance.