Diet tips

At the start of a diet, people most certainly look at food store and big brand food items labelled 'low in fat'. To do this is far too often a miscalculation, in that an item could be significantly reduced in fats, but nevertheless elavated in calories and carbs.

The argument against reduced carb diets
Its extremely popular, but it is truly safe for you?
Remember, one point that is frequently overlooked, it is very hard (though not totally impossible) for vegetarians to adopt a reduced carb diet.
Whilst there is some evidence that suggests that low carbohydrate diets may help with your diet, some of this considerable evidence has resulted in many arguments between nutrition experts, and their safety record has been the cause of great debate

Foods containing lycopene
(includes apricots, red peppers & baby jackfruit)

Lycopene is a natural compound and one of the same family of phytochemicals as carotene. Lycopene is behind the red color of quite a few fruits and vegetables.

Usefully, unlike numerous nutritional compounds, it does not become less effective if cooked but is observably increased in efficacy by the cooking process.

. Lycoprene's main advantage is that it works as an antioxidant and is believed to be of use in the fight to lower the chances of developing cancer.

Lycopene is the strongest quencher of singlet oxygen, which is correlated with skin aging. It is also thought to impede the progression of diseases affecting arterial blood vessels.