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Whole foods are eaten in their natural form. A tomato, for example, is a whole food, while ketchup is not. Consuming mainly whole foods limits your exposure to additives, preservatives, chemicals, sodium and sugar. It may also help you squeeze more nutrition out of meals, as your body best absorbs nutrients from food. Whole foods also contain certain compounds that may help you better utilize those nutrients. A day’s worth of whole food is satisfying and easy to prepare.
Breakfast

Start with a bowl of steel cut oats, which are minimally processed. Add to it fresh milk, blueberries, walnuts and raw honey. Choose unsweetened fresh or frozen berries. Raw walnuts are less processed than those already roasted and salted. Scramble two eggs in olive oil if you need additional calories in the morning. Never skip breakfast, as it can lead to making poor food choices throughout the rest of the day.
Lunch

Enjoy a large green salad made with fresh romaine lettuce, diced tomatoes and cucumbers. Add roasted chicken breast, toasted sesame seeds and sliced almonds. Dress the salad with a dressing made from the juice of one orange, olive oil, red wine vinegar and a splash of soy sauce. Look for natural or organic chicken to make sure no marinades or sodium preservatives were added to the meat.
Dinner

A whole-food dinner might be composed of baked, wild salmon with roasted asparagus, steamed broccoli or summer squash sautéed in olive oil. Make homemade mashed potatoes by boiling Yukon golds and, after draining, mashing them with milk and real butter, or serve brown rice or quinoa on the side. For dessert, enjoy plain yogurt with raw honey and sliced strawberries.
Snacks

Whole food snacks include yogurt; natural cheese such as cheddar or feta; nuts; fresh fruits and vegetables; and woven wheat crackers. Other whole food snacks include smoothies made with pureed fruit and milk; shredded wheat cereal; and hummus homemade from dried chickpeas. Whole food snacks are often high in fiber, which helps keep cholesterol down, reduces your risk of heart disease and may protect from some types of cancer.



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Healthy nails reflect a healthy body. Because our health is reflected from the inside out, a balanced diet that focuses on nutrients that enrich the nails is an important key in allowing our fingers and toes to look as beautiful as they can.
Symptoms of Vitamin Deficiencies

Nails that are dry tend to break or peel easily. This can be a symptom of a deficiency in vitamins C, D and biotin. Weak nails signal that the body is low in vitamin B, silicon, zinc, iron, copper, iodine or selenium. When nails are fragile, it is also a sign that there is a lack of B vitamins as well as protein. A white moon shape at the base of the nail can indicate a lack of iron and/or zinc, and frequent hang nails are a sign of a C, folic acid and protein deficiency. Nails with vertical or horizontal ridges can mean a lack of B vitamins or iron. If you find that you are prone to fungus under your nails, this can be due to a lack of friendly bacteria in your system, something quite common if you are taking antibiotics on a regular basis. B vitamins and acidophilus can help clear this up quite easily. People who suffer vitamin A deficiencies find that the body will not absorb or process protein efficiently. When the body is low in vitamin D, calcium cannot be assimilated properly. Without attention to these vitamins, nails become compromised, causing them to become soft and weak.
Vitamin Rich Foods for Healthy Nails

If your diet is filled with the right kinds of foods, your nails will show it. Eating balanced meals filled with fruits and vegetables, along with whole grains, free range eggs, fish, seeds and nuts is an excellent way to ensure that your nails will get the nutrients they need. These foods all contain vitamins that assist in nurturing the nails, nail beds and cuticles. Additionally, a minimum of eight glasses of water a day will help to eliminate toxins in the body, allowing nutrients to do their job more efficiently.
Specific Fruits and Vegetables for Nail Care

Including the following fruits and vegetables in your daily diet will help to keep your nails in tip top shape: Avocado, apples, grapes, asparagus, cucumbers, daidaihua , green leafy vegetables, celery, onions and sweet potatoes.



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Breakfast is a nutritious way to start out your day. Eating breakfast refuels your body, enhances your mood, improves your concentration, helps you maintain a healthy weight, and is the foundation of a healthy diet. Eating a healthy breakfast can be quick and easy, and provide you with benefits that last the entire day.
Increased Energy

Typically, there is a period of 8 to 12 hours between dinner and your morning meal. Therefore, when you eat breakfast, you are breaking a fast from the night before. Breakfast is a chance to give your body the food it needs to replenish your blood glucose levels. Glucose is your main energy source; it fuels your brain and your body. Eating breakfast will provide your body with the glucose it needs to function properly and fight fatigue.
Essential Vitamins and Minerals

Eating a healthy breakfast is a great opportunity to eat nutritious foods, which provide your body with essential vitamins and minerals. Vitamins and minerals are needed by your body for proper growth and maintenance, carbohydrate and protein metabolism, bone strength, and a healthy immune system. People who regularly consume a healthy breakfast are more likely to meet their daily nutrient requirements, eat less fat and have a lower cholesterol, which may reduce the risk of heart disease.
Foundation of a Healthy Diet

People who eat breakfast regularly are more likely to consume a healthier diet overall. By skipping breakfast, you may have a difficult time consuming essential nutrients your body needs to stay healthy. Breakfast foods typically consist of milk, whole grains, fruit and even vegetables, which are significant sources of vitamins C and D, calcium, iron and fiber. If you do not eat breakfast, you may not meet your daily nutrient recommendations. Most importantly, eating breakfast leads to healthier food choices at other meals.



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Getting slim and toned arms isn't as simple as doing arm exercises. Spot reducing doesn't work. You can perform moves to tone those muscles, but if there's a layer of fat covering them, all your hard work goes unnoticed. Combining strength training with fat- shedding cardiovascular activities is your fast track to an awe- worthy upper body. Build Muscles by Lifting Weights Free weights, machines, dumbbells -- any type you choose will help build and sculpt your arm muscles. Some of the types of moves you’ll want to perform are biceps curls, dumbbell bench presses, lateral pull downs and shoulder presses. These moves all have both toning and slimming effects. Perform strength-training exercises two or three times a week on alternating days to allow your muscles time to heal. Tone Arms During Cardio Cardiovascular workouts are immensely important for heart health and for shredding unwanted pounds. You should engage in 20 to 30 minutes of intense cardio three to five times a week. You can tone your arms while you get your heart pumping by getting them involved. Give the rowing machine a try or take daidaihua ; it offers cardiovascular benefits and tones your arms, legs and your core muscles. If rowing isn’t for you, pump your arms as you run or blast through elliptical workouts; for best results strap on weighted armbands and keep them moving. Get Yoga Arms Along the same vein of using your body’s own weight for toning, certain yoga poses engage every part of your arms, giving you a sculpted upper body without lifting a weight. Planks, side planks, and Downward and Upward Dog are all poses that will help you achieve slimmer arms and an improvement in upper-body strength. You hold each pose for the duration of five breaths, then repeat the entire set five times. Do this three to five times a week.

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Belly fat is one of the most stubborn places to slim for both men and women. However, it’s important to address. Increased accumulation of fat around your mid-section puts you at risk for heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. The best way to get rid of belly fat is to reduce your overall weight by eating the right foods and exercising regularly.
Step 1

Cut calories from your diet, particularly empty calories in sugary foods, juices and soda. It takes 3,500 calories to burn 1 pound of fat, or 500 calories per day to lose a pound a week. A simple way to lose a pound of fat per week is to cut 250 calories, the amount of a large soft drink, from your diet, and increase your energy expenditure by 250 calories. Brisk walking or jogging burns about 100 calories per mile.
Step 2

Eat nutrient-dense foods, such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains. A Mediterranean-style diet that includes fresh unprocessed fruits and vegetables, healthy fats such as olive oil, nuts, beans, fish and some wine or other alcohol in moderation. Avoid processed grains and other processed foods.
Step 3

You engage in moderate to vigorous exercise at least 150 to 250 minutes per week to lose weight. Brisk walking, jogging, running, cycling, swimming or other rhythmic large muscle activities are recommended.
Step 4

Lift weights or perform any type of resistance training two to three days per week, using weights that challenge you. Body weight exercises like pushups, crunches, squats and other simple resistance exercises are also effective. Performing two to four sets of eight to 12 repetitions, using weights that lead to fatigue by the 12th rep. Perform exercises for all your major muscle groups.



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In summer the girls clothes tend to be thin, but have a little stomach will make you very not confident in myself. So how thin belly in the summer the most effective? Four methods were recommended for everybody today, let you quickly get rid of bucket waist oh.  
1, sitting thin belly

Many female workers usually too busy, basically no time to exercise, sedentary work, fleshy belly is more and more, forming a small pot. So you can use when in a meeting or answer the phone, for abdomen clockwise or counterclockwise circular massage 100, to do 2-3 times a day, so that by kneading can achieve the result of burning fat.
2, standing thin belly

When you're waiting for the bus or take the elevator, you can take advantage of these times to thin belly Oh, first legs together, arms straight open, and then lift the right leg forward and up, while the arms remain at the shoulder level to lean forward, this time you will feel the breath pressure, when you finish this set of actions have not felt the belly a slight fever?
3, lying thin belly

If feel very tired after work, just want to lie on the bed, this time to develop a good habit, before going to bed to do some little affectations thin waist, not only to help you lose weight, but also can make the quality of your sleep better oh.
4, drinking thin belly

In fact, develop a good habit to love tea, can help eliminate fat oh. Use lotus flowers, lotus leaves and lotus seeds making tea, not only can prevent the formation of fat, but also to prevent disease, it also can let you like to eat light food without love greasy food.



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For people who need to lose weight control diet is the most important, then how should we control food intake calories at usual, burn fat fast? Here we should introduce to you several ways to lose weight, help you quickly reach the lose weight goal.
1. More exercise:

Sweating definitely make your body better detox, in addition to the benefits of physical, whole person will also feel confident after exercise. Whether you're walking or jogging in the distance, do some exercise will certainly make you feel more fit.
2. Drink plenty of water:

Water makes you always satiety, lost carbonated water and sports drinks, drink a large glass of water to replace it. Whitewater did not taste? Cut some fruit slices in water or daidaihua also can let your natural slimming drinks do not contain too many calories, as well as taste better oh .
3. Eat less salt:

In order to avoid swelling of the body, it is necessary to control the intake of salt. Feel the body is filled with water? Eating less salt and select the seasonal food can help the body's natural detoxification, bloated feeling will soon fade.
4. More sleep:

If feel tired, you have no idea to motion. Lack of sleep can lead to increase appetite. In order to avoid unnecessary indulgence of diet, go to bed early at night, have a good sleep.
5. Cooking by yourself

When you eat out, it's hard to judge how much of the plate heat, even don't to say control appetite. For good health, or into own kitchen.



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