Recipes for Improved Health

When we think about high cholesterol, it always ends with the sentence: My diet is bad!

What is cholesterol by nature? – It is a fatty substance that travels through your blood. Your liver makes all the cholesterol your body needs, but you can also take in cholesterol through the foods you eat. You need some cholesterol to produce hormones and substances your body uses to digest foods.

Most of the time even the professionals were excluding fatty foods, read meat and cheese out of the diet for the patients with high cholesterol. However, as the researching is greater we can see that carbohydrate rich diet with low intake of fats and proteins can lead to high cholesterol levels.

Our body has ability to collect and deposit fatty layers inside the blood vessels. So it is very important after the age of 50 to take good care of our cardiovascular system and have normal levels of LDL and HDL cholesterol.

Easy tips to control your cholesterol level after 50 years old:

• Start the morning with ginger and lemon water.
• Take care of the protein intake – Be sure to have 1g protein/kg
• Always eat 40g of raw nuts – they are rich with healthy fats that your organism needs
• Drink 1 tbsp. flax seed oil – it contains 60% of omega 3 fatty acid.
• Don’t forget about the water intake: 8 to 10 glasses per day.

With the new habits and obligations to have working schedule that requires constant seating, it is easy to see where belly fat comes from.

What can we do to help our body swift our metabolism and start burning those fat cells? – 40 minutes of cardio exercise daily combined with healthy diet is a great start, also combined with scientifically approved beverages and juices that help our liver to start metabolizing the yellow fat cells around the stomach.

• Saffron tea (add 2-3 g saffron boiled with 300ml water) – drink it every morning after waking up.

This tea has so many benefits, including: (1) decreasing calorie intake by blocking dietary fat digestion via inhibiting pancreatic lipase; (2) acting as an antioxidant and suppressing inflammatory cytokines and adipocyte differentiation; (3) suppressing food intake by increasing satiety, or the feeling of fullness due to raising the level of neurotransmitters or hormonal functions; and (4) enhancing glucose and lipid metabolism.

• Change one meal in the day with this juice( decide between breakfast and lunch)

Metabolism starter( 100ml pineapple juice, 10g psyllium husk, 15g protein isolate- vanila, 200ml almond organic milk)

Proteins have main role in suppressing the appetite and sending signals that our organism had the needed nutrients. With constant daily intake- more than 20 days in a row, we can start loosing body fat.

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