EXAM DIET

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Today we will learn on how to have the diet during exams.

When you’re studying for finals, good nutrition should be on your priority list. 

It’s easy to get into the habit of drinking coffee and pizza, because you don’t want to waste time on food preparation. But, actually, good nutrition should be part of your study plan because it’s going to help you ace those tests.The better the fuel your brain gets, the better you’ll study.

Here are 10 tips for eating right during exams:

How to eat smarter? 

Meeting daily vitamin and mineral requirements will make doing your best much easier. Iron and B vitamins are especially important to maintaining the physical and mental energy necessary to study well. Iron-containing foods include: red meat, cereals and spinach;

Foods that contain B vitamins include whole-grains, wheat germ, eggs and nuts. Fish and soy are other foods that are said to help boost your brain by providing the nutrients it needs.
An orange contains not only Vitamin C, but also fiber, beta carotene and other minerals. Pack whole-food items like apples, bananas, carrot sticks or dried apricots.

Eat at regular intervals. Eating regular meals helps keep nutrient and energy levels more stable, curbing the temptation of empty-calorie snacks in the vending machine.
Big meals keep on turning in your stomach. Consider 5 or 6 well-balanced, smaller meals, like toast spread with peanut butter, or a piece of cheese with fruit.

While much is said about the reasons to eat breakfast, less known are the best ways to eat smart in the morning.The idea is to get some protein, calcium, fibre and a piece of fruit or a vegetable in there. So, a bowl of cereal with milk and a piece of fruit would do the trick.
Going bananas? Good. 

Fruit ranks high among the best foods you can eat for your brain. Blueberries (which can be bought frozen in bags) get a lot of attention because they contain powerful antioxidants and other nutrients.The natural sugars in fruit offer clean energy, so you don’t experience the crash that follows consumption of refined sugar.

Choose powerful vegetables. The darker the color, the higher the concentration of nutrients. For example, spinach has more to offer the mind and body than lettuce. Other vegetable choices include bell peppers, broccoli and sweet potatoes.

Smart snacking can enhance studying. Snack smart while studying and you may find that you retain more. Try to get two food groups into your snacks to balance the nutrients and keep your blood-sugar level stable. Some smart snack examples are banana with peanut butter, a small baked potato with cottage cheese.

Gather simple recipes for nourishing foods. It’s easy to feed the brain well.

Combine scrambled eggs with toast and cheese.

Better choices include water, fruit juice, milk, and anti-oxidant-rich green tea.

Happy Studying!!

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BASIC 5 FOOD GROUPS

Hello and welcome back to my blog foodoneed.blogspot.com - Food Is Medicine.Today we will read about the 5 important food groups which we add in pur daily diet.

More information on the Five Food Groups:

1. Fruit.
2. Grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties.
3. Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/beans.
4. Milk, yoghurt cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat.
5. Vegetables and legumes/beans.

Fruits:

Choose fruits from these different fruit categories:

Apple, orange, banana, pear and grapes.
Pome fruits such as apples and pears
Citrus fruit such as oranges, mandarins and grapefruit
Stone fruit such as apricots, cherries, peaches, nectarines and plums
Tropical fruit such as bananas, paw paw, mangoes, pineapple and melons
berries
Other fruits such as grapes and passionfruit.

Grains:

The main sub-groups are:

Breads - Wholemeal, wholegrain, white, rye, pita, lavash, naan, focaccia, crispbreads, damper
Breakfast Cereals - Ready to eat, high fibre (wholegrain) oats, porridge, muesli, wholewheat biscuits
Grains - Rice, barley, corn, polenta, buckwheat, spelt, millet, sorghum, triticale, rye, quinoa, semolina
Other products - Pasta, noodles, English muffin, crumpet, rice cakes, couscous, bulgur, popcorn, flour.

Meat, Poultry, Legumes & Nuts:

Foods from this food group fall into 6 categories. Examples include:
Lean meats - Beef, lamb, veal, pork, kangaroo, lean (lower salt) sausages
Poultry - Chicken, turkey, duck, emu, goose, bush birds
Fish and seafood - Fish, prawns, crab, lobster, mussels, oysters, scallops, clams
Eggs - Chicken eggs, duck eggs
Nuts and seeds - Almonds, pine nuts, walnut, macadamia, hazelnut, cashew, peanut, nut spreads, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, brazil nuts
Legumes/beans - All beans, lentils, chickpeas, split peas, tofu.

Milk Products & Milk:

Examples of milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives include:
Milks - All reduced fat or full cream milks, plain and flavoured, long life milks, powdered milk, evaporated milk, soy beverages (fortified with at least 100mg calcium/100mL)
Yoghurt - All yoghurts including reduced fat or full cream, plain and flavoured, soy yoghurt (calcium fortified)
Cheese - All hard cheeses, reduced or full fat for example cheddar, red Leicester, Gloucester, Edam, Gouda Soy cheeses (calcium fortified).

Vegetables & Legumes:

Vegetables can be broken up into different groups, with each group providing their own unique nutrients. The main sub-groups for vegetables are:
An image of a selection of vegetables to illustrate foods from this food group. 
Dark green or cruciferous/brassica
Broccoli, brussels sprouts, bok choy, cabbages, cauliflower, kale
Lettuce, silverbeet, spinach, snow peas
Root/tubular/bulb vegetables
Potato, cassava, sweet potato, taro, carrots, beetroot, onions, shallots, garlic, bamboo shoots, swede, turnip
Legumes/beans
Red kidney beans, soybeans, lima beans, cannellini beans, chickpeas, lentils, split peas, tofu
Other vegetables
Tomato, celery, sprouts, zucchini, squash, avocado, capsicum, eggplant, mushrooms, cucumber, okra, pumpkin, green peas, green beans


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SCIENCE BEHIND FOOD

Hello friends!! Welcome back to my blog "Food Is Medicine". Today Inwant to write on the nature of food.

Food is a science. If you understand it well it can create miracles in your life. That is why I call food is medicine.

Food is the basic necessity of life. It is rightly said "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT." Kindly refer for details in my blog named "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT." The type of food one eats, its quantity and quality largely determines one's  physiological well being.

Food is made up of chemical substances which when consumed, digested and absorbed by the body; promote growth, supply energy, and regulate different body processes. These chemical components of food that perform all functions are called NUTRIENTS.

Friends let me tell you that the correct choice of food in daily diet plays a crucial role in maintenance of good health. It is therefore imperative to know exactly what food can do what to your body.

Here in my blog we will get right knowledge, understanding and APPLICATION of this science.

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