1. Avoid Drink Sugar

A comparative study between sugar-sweetened drinks and nutritional habits was conducted by a University in Boston. People who drank sugary beverages, like soda had a very higher risk of obesity along with lower percentage of fiber intake.  You must avoid wine, beer or soda mixed drinks and try orange juice which have more calories that alcohol.

2. Go Off The Sauce

Calories level is very high in sauces. Use of tomato sauce is better as compare to alfredo on pasta. Try to make your own salad dressing. Add some ranch seasoning to plain Greek yogurt, or little olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

3. Add Fiber in Your Food

Advanced studies shows that fiber in food is directly related to weight maintenance and weight loss. Fiber passes through your body undigested and body has to work hard to move it out. It is recommended to to eat at least 25 grams of fiber daily. 

4 Rules for Daily Food

It is better to take fibre, grains, yogurt and eggs in your breakfast. Fruit is also better option in breakfast. Rotate three to five meals in lunch. Fruit and vegetables along with salads is better to take. Always change vegetables and fruit selection for your daily meal.

5. Give Attention

It is advised to take snacks when you really feel hungry. Stop taking food 15 minutes before going to bed for sleep.

Our blood contains Haemoglobin that carries oxygen to tissues. Iron is essential part of Haemoglobin. It is recommended to take foods containing Iron to keep your body in proper working status.
Red meat, especially liver, watermelon and pomegranate, spinach and beans and sunflower seeds are the best source of Iron.

Reduce Red Meat

Red meats enriched with fat and people with high cholesterol should avoid this. Chicken and fish are better comparably. It is better to prefer fish because it has antioxidants. Antioxidants are the substances which include vitamin C, A & E. Antioxidants are very helpful to prevent cancer, heart disease and strokes. Frying of meat will increase unnecessary fat where as baking or grilling is better.

Add Onion And Garlic

Onion is the best source to decreases blood pressure and garlic is the best one to decreases cholesterol. Garlic or onion will give you the maximum benefits of their properties. It is recommended to take raw garlic clove on an empty stomach in the morning.

Less Salt in Your Food

If you are facing high blood pressure, reduce amount of salt in your daily food. Salt is very useful for our body, it is the best water retention.

Add Calcium Enriched Foods

Milk is the best of source of Calcium. Always use skimmed milk and milk products as these contain less fat. Cow milk is better than buffalo when you use non-packaged milk. Buffalo milk contains large quantity of fats. It is recommended to take one or two glass daily.
Almond, red kidney beans, mustard green and figs are other source of calcium.

No more Constipation

Constipation is not suitable to your body. To avoid constipation, add fibre to your daily diet. Whole grain, white gram, brown rice, fruits with skin are good source of fibre.
In case of constipation, use guavas with seeds or add honey in a glass of milk two times daily.

Eat Slowly

If you chew your food well, you will find that you eat less. It is more healthy to take small quantity of food rather that to take large one. If your teeth grind your food well, it will help stomach to digest it quickly and useful for your body function.

Weight Loss Tip! Baked Potato

Start splashing of olive oil on baked potato instead of butter or cream. It will reduce calories and fat.

Argentina’s Traditional Food

Criolla is traditional food of Argentina that consists of grills and barbeques which are known as “Asados” and “Parillas”. These dishes are prepared by abundantly flinging meat, kidneys and black pudding known as “Morcilla”. People here also like to eat filling stews consisting of pork, white beans and sweet corn. Other traditional dishes include “Carbonado” that is beef, served with fresh vegetables, peaches and apples. Another dish is “Cazuela Gaucho” that consists of chicken and pumpkin.

Snacks

People in Argentina are fond of taking snacks. Popular snacks include:

• Humitas (patties consisting of sweet corn)
• Empanadas (pastries which are stuffed with meat, chicken, cheese)
• Tamales (meat filled cornmeal tortillas)
• Matambre relleno (stuffed rolled beef)
• Sandwiches de miga (cheese sandwiches without crusts and white bread ham)

Sweets

The sweet that is liked the most in Argentina is Dulce de Leche. It is made by heating milk and sugar which results into a caramel type sauce. People use this sauce with bread, biscuits, and cakes.

Another thing which I would like to add about eating habits in Argentina is that the people there are fond of eating and enjoying in restaurants. With the passage of time European tastes have influenced eating habits of Argentina’s people but still they have not forgotten their traditional eating style and habits.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Rodentia
• Sub-order: Sciuromorpha
• Family: Sciuridae
• Tribe: Marmotini
• Subtribe: Tamiina

Weight Loss Tip! Pizza Fat

Remember always order your Pizza with light cheese and ask for double tomotao sauce. It will save 20 grams of fat.

Habitat and Living Habits

They are mostly found in North America and Asia. Their living habits are quite interesting. They like to live in burrows (tunnels) by digging soil. But some of them build their homes in shrubbery, nests and logs.

Eating Habits of Chipmunks

Chipmunks are omnivorous animals so their diet includes:

• Fruits
• Berries
• Small Frogs
• Worms
• Bird’s Eggs
• Seeds
• Grains
• Insects
• Mice

Interesting Facts about Chipmunks’ Eating Habits

They store their eating stuff in their chubby cheeks and then store that food in their burrows. They start storing food for winter in the beginning of autumn. Chipmunks store food for winter as they sleep throughout winter season and use stock of nuts and seeds which they had stored.  An interesting fact about chipmunks is that they gather food in places having rocks and logs so that they can protect themselves from predators like foxes, hawk and snakes etc.

Weight Loss Tip! Chilling Cans

An important and useful tips is, Scrape off fats from top of refrigerated canned soups and other foods because fats rise and collect to the top when chilled.

Why do Kids Start Eating Boogers?

Eating boogers is known as “mucophagy” and it is mostly practiced by kids. There are several reasons behind the habit of eating boogers. Some people think that the kids are unaware of the facts that boogers or mucus is healthy or not, they only think that mucus is salty like tears. Most quantity of the mucus is swallowed and goes down to throat. But when it becomes stiff and stays in nose for a longer time, then kids develop habit of eating boogers.

Is Eating Boogers Good for Health?

Some people think that eating boogers is a healthy habit. Mucus is actually a combination of water, salt and chemicals made by body so some people suppose that mucus serves as a trap that stops the germs and dust from entering into nose. More interestingly, a lung specialist says that eating boogers is healthy for health of kids. He believes that when kids put their finger in nose, then finger reaches to the parts of nose where hanky can’t reach and this practice keeps nose clean.

It is a fact that mucus keeps the lungs healthy. I will tell you why is it so? Our nostrils contain little hair called “cilia” that grab germs and dust during breathing process. Mucus covers cilia and protects us and ceases dangerous elements from entering in our body. Research has also shown that mucus is made of antiseptic enzymes and antibodies which do not let germs and dust enter into lungs.

How to Get Rid of This Habit?

There are various methods that can be helpful to get rid of this habit. Here is a collection of tips to get rid of this ridiculous habit:

• You can stop your kid by saying that “I think that you need a tissue?”
• You can spray something on the kid’s hands and boogers which don’t taste good at all.
• Place something on the fingers of your kid that cause a feeling of burning like pepper or cinnamon oil.
• Sometimes kids realize themselves that it is not a good habit and it is not acceptable in society he is living in.
• You can also stop your child by giving a false statement like “your boogers consist of spiders and insects which would harm you.”

The above mentioned methods have been proved very successful in stopping kids from eating boogers.

Weight Loss Tip! Baked Potato

Start splashing of olive oil on baked potato instead of butter or cream. It will reduce calories and fat.

Facts about Giraffes

Giraffes are commonly known for their height. Height of a male giraffe can reach up to 5 meters and it weighs 1300 kg. As far as females are concerned, they are somehow shorter in height (4.3 meters) and lesser in weight. Their scientific classification is as follows:

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Artiodactyla
• Family: Giraffidae
• Genus: Giraffa

What do Giraffes Eat?

Giraffes are found in woodlands so their main food is leaves and branches. Giraffes mostly like to eat early in the morning. Male giraffe likes to eat upper parts of leaves while females eat lower parts. Giraffes can eat up to 65 pounds of leaves in a day and despite of this fact their food intake is lesser than other grazing animals because the shrubbery they eat is rich in nutrition. Their digesting system is very efficient. Other things that they eat include:

• Seedpods
• Fruits
• Flowers
• Thorns
• Climbing plants
• Acacia Tree
• Wild Apricot trees

Being a ruminant, it firstly chews the food then swallows it and reiterates food back to their mouths to chew semi-digested food properly. A most astonishing fact concerning their eating habits is that they don’t drink water very often and can live for a week without water.

Other Amazing Facts

• Length of a giraffe’s tongue is 27 inches by which it holds leaves of a tree.
• The average life of a giraffe is 25 years.
• The length of a step taken by a giraffe is 15 feet.
• A giraffe’s kick is so tough that it can kill a lion.
• In a giraffe’s fur there are insects which are eaten by the birds sitting on their back. In this way, giraffes remain clean.
• Its flexible neck helps it to drink water from a flowing stream.

Weight Loss Tip! Steak Fries

Eat steak fries only. Seak Fries absorb less oil while prepared. It will surely lower your fat count.

Breakfast

English people used to eat heavy breakfast including sausages, mushrooms, eggs and tomatoes in past but now they have adopted contemporary eating habits. Now their breakfast includes cereal with milk or they like to have toasts with marmalade or jams. Drink that they use to have is tea but some people prefer coffee on tea.

Other Meals

Some people like to have afternoon tea with snacks like sandwiches and cakes. In lunch English people like a quick meal like sandwiches even in schools children take sandwiches, fruits and drinks. In the evening they take meals early between 6 and 8. Most popular thing that they love to have is cream yeas.

Meals on Sundays

On Sundays traditional lunch is taken that includes roasted meat like lamb, beef or pork with gravy of potatoes. They also like to have international cuisines like Italian, French and Indian.

Meals on Special Events

There are some meals that are specified for special events. For example, on religious events people like to have cake and pastries. Others include:

• Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday
• Simnel Cake on Mothering Sundays
• Palm Pudding on Christmas
• Twelfth Night Cake for Epiphany

Habitat

Ostriches are mainly found in Somalia, Ethiopia, Southern parts of Sahara and in some parts of East Africa. Ostriches of today prefer open land and native to the savannas and Sahel of Africa, both north and south of equatorial forest zones.

Weight

The wait of a male ostrich is 350 pounds while the females weigh 200 pounds.

Average Life

Average life of ostriches is approximately 40 years.

Family

They belong to Struthionidae.

Kingdom: Animalia

Eating Habits of Ostriches

Ostriches have quite interesting eating habits. Mostly the ostriches eat what is available to them. Most surprising fact is that they drink water rarely as they get sufficient moisture from the plants they eat. But if they have to drink some water they drink it from small holes. Their basic food items include:

• Plants
• Leaves
• Shrubs
• Grass
• Seeds
• Roots
• Fruits
• Lizards
• Small Rodents
• Insects
• Flowers

They lack teeth so they swallow pebbles that act as gastroliths for grinding food. It is reported that an adult ostrich carries about 1 kilogram of stones and pebbles in its stomach. They fill their gullet with stones while eating that in turn passes through their esophagus in form of balls that are known as bolus.

Qualities of Taurus Horoscope

Some qualities of people born under this star sign are:

• Practical
• Peace Loving
• Slow
• Having Interest in Money
• Artistic and Musical
• Emotional
• Strong-minded
• Stable
• Relentless

They have some negative points also like: they are lazy, willful, selfish and somewhat irrational.

Eating Habits

The people under this star sign love to enjoy a good dining experience. They mostly like traditional and energetic meals. Their favorite vegetable is potato which they enjoy in any form whether baked, boiled, or roasted. They like to dine in plush restaurants where they want that their plate should be full of greens and browns. Some other things liked by these people include:

• Marshmallows
• Nutmeg
• Cinnamon
• Dishes containing parsleys and mint
• Relish meals having fine flavors, so don’t like fast food

Hunting Style of Killer Whales

Killers whales are very good hunters. Their hunting technique is very interesting and is called herding. During this technique a pod of whales surround the prey closing the border. Then individually they swim around the prey and eat it as fast as possible.

What Do Killer Whales Eat?

Killer Whales are known as the top predators of the ocean. Their eating habits depend on the region in which they are found. As the killer whales adapt to all the conditions so their eating habits are easily changed. Their food includes:

• Fish
• Seals
• Birds
• Sea Turtles
• Otters
• Walruses
• Penguins
• Shark
• Octopus
• Small Whales
• Sea Lions
• Polar Bears
• Other killer whales(quite uncertain and rare)

Eating habits of killer whales can be varied from one region to another.

Food Intake in a Day

The food intake of an average killer whale is about 551 pounds per day.