5 Foods that you should keep at work for healthy lunches

A lot of people happen to skip their lunch because of their tight schedule, back to back meeting, insane work-load, also some people consider skipping lunch as a part of their so called "diet plan". Personally i know a lot of people around me who skip their lunch, or rather settle for a fast unhealthy lunch just to get off with it, But what they don't understand is the importance of lunch.

Lunch is not just food that you consume in order to relief of a growling stomach, apart from this lunch contributes to a solid foundation of good nutrition on continuing basis, it gives you the energy to retain and remain concentrated on your work, having a lunch break influences the level of stress and work load, also having a proper and healthy lunch in regular routine keeps you away from the risk of certain chronic conditions like Ulcer disease of stomach and duodenum.

Now, that i have mentioned the importance of lunch, let me inform you about some of the options that you might consider for your healthy lunch.

1. Whole-Grain Bread : 

 Now we all know sandwiches are are super easy to make and is a very quick process, a whole-grain bread contains a lot of fibers and the best part is you can put anything you want between the two slices to make a fast and light meal.




2. Nonfat Yogurt :
Some people consider yogurt just as a snack, but if you put in some fruits and nuts to it, you get a highly nutritional rich meal and by keeping it in large containers and consuming it more than normal serving can keep you going till the evening.







3.Canned Tune or Chicken :
These products are rich in protein, and since they are already cooked and canned, they make up for a perfect quick and easy meal. Opt for the water-encased packages since those tend to have fewer calories than ones with oil. You can eat it with your whole-grain bread and for flavor can add a little light mayonnaise or mustard.





4. Almond Butter or Almond :

Almonds are a great source of proteins as well as fats, you can add them in your yogurt or spread almond butter on your bread, but make sure not to snack on the nuts too much as apart from their healthy nutritional benefits, they are also fairly rich in fats.








5.Fruits :


Now of-course mostly all of us consider fruits as a healthy snack, but using it in a right way can provide you more nutritional benefits, for example, u can add fruits to your yogurt, which will give your yogurt a better taste and texture, or put slices of fruits like Bananas or apples together with almond butter over your bread, which would give a really yummy taste.














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Dark Chocolate's benefits are released by the good gut microbes.

Dark chocolate has been know for it's good healthy effects, and recently researches have found it's beneficial properties are released in the human body.

Scientists at Louisiana State University, who have been studying on the effects of cocoa, have found that it's beneficial compounds are released in body by some of the good microbes present in out stomach.

Good microbes such as  Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria, feast on chocolate i.e when we eat dark chocolate these microbes grow and ferment it releasing compounds which have anti-inflammatory effect.

These anti-inflammatory compounds decrease the cardiovascular tissue inflammation and hence reduce the risk of stroke.

Apart from this Cocoa is also rich in flavanols (naturally occurring antioxidants ) and contain a small amount of dietary fibers.

So, according to researches it is suggested that combining cocoa products with food rich in prebiotics (which can be found in bananas, raw garlic, wheat flour, raw asparagus) would be more beneficial for human health.





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Amazing Health Benefits Of Beer..!

Apart from Beer's bad reputation, surprisingly Beer has several health benefits too, it actually has a lot of antioxidants, apparently more than wine, also several vitamins that can help prevent certain heart diseases and even help in rebuilding muscles, not only that it also has one of the highest energy contents of any food or drink.

Beer consist 93% of water alone, and studies have shown that Beer can provide better hydration than H2O alone when you're sweating in hot summer.

So, does all kinds of beer has these health benefits?
Unfortunately, answer to that will be NO.

When we talk about health benefits from beer, it doesn't mean that light thin watery beer, that basically taste like water is going to do any good for you, No. Of-course calorie-wise you may get tempted to light lager beers, but for health benefits- Dark Beer is the beer of choice.

Why? Because dark beers tend to have the most anti-oxidants, even more than wine, these anti-oxidants helps reverse the cellular damage that naturally occurs in the human body, not only that but dark beer also contains more iron than light beer, which helps improving oxygenation process from our lungs throughout the rest of our body.

You should also keep in mind that Bitter is better, because bitter beer is made of lots of Hops ( female flowers of Hop plant, used in brewing because of their antibacterial property) these hops contains Polyphenols, which help lower cholesterol, fight cancer and kills viruses appart from this hops are know to have a good anti-inflammatory and anti-anxiety effect.

Ofcourse, all this doesn't mean you can grab a  pack of 6 everyday and drink it, No u need to set limits, one beer gets you going, more makes you fat and can put you at a risk of long-term health effects like liver diseases, kidney diseases and certain heart condition.

So, people remember the golden rule- "everything in moderate amount can be good ".
Enjoy life, be healthy :)

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Reducing Lactobacillus levels in the Intestine may lead to Obesity and Type-2 Diabetes Treatment

Hello Readers,

I recently read about a research which was carried out by a team of researches in Penn State, now according to this research a drug that targets specific bacteria's in the intestine may create a chain of reaction which may help us treating obesity and diabetes.

This Research was performed on Mice, which were fed with a high fat diet and were provided with a drug called Tempol at the same time ( Tempol or 4-Hydroxy-TEMPO is an anti-oxidant that may help people against radiations), These Mice were significantly less obese than the mice who didn't receive Tempol, according to Andrew Patterson, assistant professor of molecular toxicology,Penn State.

So according to the researchers, Tempol-----------------reduces some members of bacteria (a genus of Lactobacillus) in the guts of mice---------------- and reduced level of Lactobacillus --------------- further leads to------------ An increase in the level of Bile Acid (tauro-beta-muricholic acid)----------------This, inhibits FXR( farnesoid X receptor)  Which is known to regulate the metabolism of bile acids, fats, and glucose in the body.

The researchers, also said that in addition to less weight gain, the tempol receiving mice had lower glucose and insulin levels in-spite of being in a high fat diet.

To further test the role of FXR in obesity, the researchers placed mice that were genetically modified so that they lack FXR on the same high-fat diet. This group was resistant to the effects of tempol and taura-beta-muricholic acid, which further strengthened the importance of FXR in mediating the anti-obesity effect.

According, to researchers, there are indications that FXR plays the similar role in Human obesity and diabetes.

I think, it's a really good breakthrough in the field of medicine, simply by alternating intestinal bacteria and getting such kind of a chain reaction which can help controlling two most common conditions as obesity and diabetes, is just awesome.

So thumbs up for a research like this, as there are about 100 trillion microbes in human body which are connected with human metabolism and health, and may provide other pathways in treating various medical conditions.

Source:

Penn State

http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/

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