Great Ways To Make Cooking More Nourishing

By Fiona Wyresdle

Many diet guru's fume on about how terrible refined sugar is for you. So much so that numerous people consider this substance to be toxic. The American Department of Agriculture doesn't agree, and lots of other health food experts additionally don't agree. To be on the safe side and ensure you and your family knows what is going into their treats, do your own healthy cooking and baking and don't purchase commercial cookies or cakes.

Even sugar friendly experts uphold that the empty calories provided by sugars can be exchanged with more nutritious ways to increase and sustain energy levels. If you bake at home, you can keep everyone at home happy with some amazing goodies and sneak in further nutrients too, when no-one is looking.

When my kids were small, they loathed eating vegetables, but one technique I could get these essential foods down the hatch was by grating them and adding them to ground beef. So meat loaf, bolognaise sauce, and any additional recipe for ground beef was rich with grated carrot or grated vegetables of any of the pumpkin kind.

Muffin and cakes might be made with carrot and pumpkin as well as fruit, and there is nothing quite as tasty as carrot cake or pumpkin fritters and muffins. Pumpkin bread is additionally entirely tasty, especially with additional sunflower, pumpkin and other seeds which are rich in the essential Omega fatty acid group.

Sugar is not a simple substance to indict or acquit, and anti-sugar "ranters" abound on each shelf in the "Health Food" section of the book stores. However by the same token, other experts agree that the only thing sugar is really bad for is tooth decay. In actual fact this is the sole consistently documented material available to indict sugar.

You can still cook and bake and use sugar, but by making your own, rather than buying commercial cookies and cakes, you control how much sugar is used. Like all things, sugars in moderation are not all bad.

Take for example red wine and the fact that drinking a glass a day can extend life, and prevent all sorts of dreaded diseases as a result of the high Resevratrol content. And the best Resevratrol can only be found in the best concentrations if you drink red wine, because of the alcohol, and these two substances working hand-in-hand. Even the FDA admits that alcohol is bad for you, however red wine in moderation is extremely suggested for good health.

It is easy to stay healthy with healthy cooking and taking all things in moderation, be they sugar or alcohol. Merely do what your Grandmother did to stay healthy, and if she wouldn't recognize a particular food, don't eat it. - 30289

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