To keep the form/Good in food “bad for you”

To keep the form/Good in food “bad for you”

Some food is condemned without valid reason. Hold, the chocolate, beef and the cheese for example – we call them our nice sins and we let us blame them for our raised cholesterol level, our cardiac problems and the widening of our waist measurement. But are they really so bad for us?

Zannat Reza, dietetist in Toronto, give a progress report on 5 supposedly bad food which is in fact goods for your health.

Chocolate
Indicated like the public enemy nº 1 by the people who pay attention to their health, her action can not be as harmful as we think it, announces Reza.

Although the chocolate abounds in fat contents, calories and sugar, it stresses that it also contains flavanol, one of the antioxydants which fight the cardiac cancer and diseases. Some researchers also advance that the chocolate goes up the moral one: it contains an amino-acid called tryptophan which the body uses to produce serotonin, the hormone which puts good mood.

Choose

black chocolate: it is purer, less greasy and more nutritive – make melt it then pour it on strawberries, bananas and many other fruits still.
Avoid

The bars of chocolate which are close to the cases in the supermarkets, they are filled of marsh mallow, nougat and greasy fodder.
Eggs
According to Reza, it is allowed to crack for eggs. They are perhaps rich in cholesterol, but their consumption generally does not have a harmful effect on the cholesterol level of the majority of people. People having cardiac problems, or a raised cholesterol level, should consult their doctor to know how much they can consume some.

The eggs are also weak in fat and bring essential nutritional elements in the form of vitamins, of minerals and proteins.

Choose

Hard-boiled eggs, with the hull or poached with the weak mode of cooking in calories.
Eggs accompanied by roasted wholewheat bread, fruits or vegetables.
Avoid

Fried eggs with the bacon, sausages, ham and accompanied by jumped potatoes.
The cheese
“Some people worry about the content of greases saturated with cheese, but as a whole, the cheese is very nutritive”, points out Reza.

The cheese is rich in calcium, proteins, vitamin has, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and in other nutritive elements, she adds and, as it presents in more the advantage of reinforcing the solidity of the bones, it helps to prevent the osteoporosis.

Choose

Cheeses like the cheddar and the mozzarella – “They are goûteux, consequently you do not feel the need to eat much of it”, affirms Reza.
The cheese accompanied by craquelins or fruits like the grape, apples or bays.
Avoid

The cheese reconstituted in sections.
Reduced cheeses and not fat – they are goûteux and we tend to eat some more.
Beef
Many people reproach him her content of saturated greases and cholesterol, but beef also contains 14 essential nutrients among which iron, the B12 vitamin and zinc prevail, Reza underlines.

“The ox plays a big role in the development of the brain and the suitable operation of intellectual faculties”, says it.

Choose

Thin ox cuts bordered of a layer of minimal grease.
Thin chopped meat.
Beef nourished with grass – its content of saturated greases and cholesterol is weaker, while its content of fatty-acids omega-3, which protect the heart, is higher.
Avoid

Veined sirloin beefsteaks of fat as well as the ox coasts.
Coated sauce and butter beefsteaks to the cream.
Nuts
It is not nut to be bitten nut! They are perhaps rich in lipids, known as Reza, but it is about fat mono-unsaturate – the kind which lowers cholesterol, as that which one finds in olives and the oil of colza. They contain also vitamin E and fatty-acids omega-3 which fight the cardiac disease and high cholesterol.

“When one eats some moderately – a handle per day – the nuts are very good for you,” ensures Reza.

Choose

A not salted, roasted nut handle dry or not treated like collation.
Nuts to decorate your salads, your cereals or your yoghourts.
Peanut butter natural, manufactured without sugar, salt and not containing any other additive.
Avoid

The food with strong lipidic content as ice or squares with the chocolate furnished with nut.