A few tips on healthy eating

If you enjoy eating, but want to get in shape and improve your overall vitality, then, as most people know, you need to start a thoughtfully prepared well-balanced meal plan. In a perfect world, this needs to contain 5 standard portions of grains, fruit and vegetables daily and embrace the right proportion of food types.

The argument against low carbohydrate diets
Its extremely popular, but it is truly safe and healthy for you?
Moreover, it has been suggested that the kidneys may be given too much work to do and that a related change in acid levels in the blood causes the loss of bone, but some of the studies trying to test the theory have failed to find significant evidence of kidney damage or loss of bone.
Many scientific studies over recent years have shown that eating excess animal fats causes higher chance of cancer, heart problems and other serious illnesses.

Super foods containing lycopene
(includes apricots, red peppers & tomato)

Lycopene is a non-synthetic chemical compound and part of the carotenid family of phytochemicals. Lycopene is behind the deep red hue of quite a few foods.

Intrestingly, unlike many nutritional compounds, lycopene does not degrade if cooked, but is in fact increased in efficacy by being heated.

. Lycoprene's key value is that it works as an antioxidant and seems to be an asset in the fight to reduce the chances of cancer.

It is the most potent eliminator of singlet oxygen, which is linked with skin aging. It's also thought to curtail the progression of atherosclerosis.