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Eat to Grow Slim
Replace unhealthy foods with health-supporting foods in your diet. This means you need to consume fewer high calorie, dense, dry foods like pastas, bread and cereal.
The Grow Young and Slim Plan is not a quantitative diet, which means you can eat all you want, as often as you want, as long as you choose the proper foods. Even though there are no set guidelines for how much you should eat, we strongly recommend that you avoid overeating because overeating is very hard on the body. The key is to pay attention to your body’s hunger signals and eat numerous, small, high water-content meals as you are hungry. This will burn fat and keep your blood glucose at healthy levels all day.
Choose freely from the following foods:

• • High water, high fiber, low calorie foods
  For rapid fat reduction and high energy, eat as much as possible in this category. They range from about 10 – 70 calories per cup and are rich in fiber and water, which have almost no calories:
  Lettuce, cucumbers, celery, mushrooms, cabbage, bok choy, cauliflower, all types of squash, turnip greens, green beans, mustard greens, bell peppers (green, red, yellow), asparagus, broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, Brussels sprouts, beets, artichokes, gazpacho soup, veggie soups, sprouts, water chestnuts, radish, endive, eggplant, zucchini, okra, watermelon, gooseberries, tangerine, lime.
• • High water, high fiber, medium calorie foods
  These fruits are also to be eaten in almost unlimited use. They range from about 70 to 101 calories per cup:
  Grapes, peaches, apricots, oranges, pineapple, pears, papaya, honeydew and most other fruit.
• • Medium water, high fiber, medium calorie foods
  These foods should be eaten in moderate amounts per day because they have more food density and calories. It’s best to limit them to four one-cup servings per day. They range from 109 to 137 calories per cup:
  Mangos, Durian (Malaysia) olives (about 6 green or black olives), green peas, potatoes, corn, sprouted seeds, sprouted beans, sprouted grains, wild rice
• • Low water, high fiber, higher calorie foods
  These foods should be eaten in smaller amounts per day. They range from about 191 to 291 calories per cup, so it’s best to limit them to three cups per day in order to stay slim:
  Bananas, beans, lentils, pintos, etc, brown rice, sweet potatoes, avocado, corn tortillas, soy milk, soy cheese, rice milk, rice ice cream

Nick Delgado,

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The Weight Watcher diet plan has been one of the most commercialized weight loss programs in history. Since the 1960’s this program has helped dieters all around the world focus on nutrition, exercise and losing weight. The biggest question is whether it is right for you?

Weight Watchers is unique in that they substitute the word “calories” for “points”. So, every food item has a set number of points assigned to it. No matter if it is a hamburger, pizza, or a banana, it has a point value.

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This recipe makes a great chicken pot pie without preservatives (no need for them because this won’t stick around for long in your refrigerator).

2 (9-inch) deep dish frozen pie crusts, thawed
1 (15 oz.) can mixed vegetables, drained
2 cups chicken breast, cooked and diced
1 (10.75 oz.) can condensed cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a bowl, combine the mixed vegetables, chicken, cream of chicken soup and milk. Pour mixture into one of the pie crusts. Turn over the other crust and pop it out of the tin and onto the top of the filled pie. Seal the edges and poke holes in top crust.

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Omega 3’s are ‘good fats’. Omegas are not stored by the body as excess fat, they are absorbed and utilised by the body in a number of extremely beneficial ways. Omega 3 fatty acids are important for brain function and research has showed that they may play an important role in vision, co-ordination, learning ability, memory, concentration and behaviour. When our mothers told us that fish was ‘brain food’, she wasn’t kidding! Omega 3 fatty acids cannot be produced by the body so we must obtain them through diet.

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Czech cuisine is very much influenced by the country’s neighbors in central Europe, but a also contains unique elements of its own. There is very much an emphasis on meat dishes, especially pork, but also beef and chicken, and sometimes duck, goose, rabbit or wild game. On the other hand, fish dishes are comparatively rare, with the exception of trout or carp, the latter of which is eaten at Christmas.

Here are some popular Czech dishes:

- Knedliky - Dumplings made either from wheat flour and stale bread, or from potato. They are cooked by boiling, and served sliced, often as a side dish.

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Globalization and industrialization has brought with it some side effects too
like an acute change in life style. Today people are busier going under knife
for getting brighter and flawless skin, and they don’t even mind spending
thousands of bugs on the treatment for normal ailments.

But, as a very famous scientist has once said, the best medicine to treat diseases is healthy food. Yes, this statement definitely contains the truth because the foods that we eat largely affect our body to a great extent. One of the very common misconceptions that people generally have is that fatty acids are not good for health. But that’s not the truth since there are several fatty acids that are indeed really good and health for your body.

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If you love spinach pie, this one is perfect for a light lunch or dinner.

1 (10 oz.) bag fresh spinach
1 (24 oz.) carton ricotta cheesse
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup red bell pepper, chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease a 9-inch deep pie plate.

Rinse off spinach, dry and tear into bite sized pieces.

In a large bowl, combine the spinach, ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, eggs and bell pepper; mix thoroughly. Spread mixture into the pie dish (make it a little thinner in the middle).

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