Valerie Alston

A diet to make lean muscles requires being high in calories and revolving around good foods. The total calorie intake, protein and carbohydrate in your diet will define how much muscle you can add, rather than the specific foods which deserve a place in your eating plan. High protein foods, overall-grain carbohydrates and healthy fats work great for that particular diet.

What you eat and drink can make or break your health and vitality that's why it is important to ensure that you are eating and drinking healthily. With this, juicing is one process that can help you ensure you are consuming the right and healthy foods and successfully absorbing their nutrients in your body. Juicing is the popular process of extracting the juice from fruits and veggies for drinking instead of eating them whole. Juicing is popular because...

Pressure cookers have been around for quite some time. In 1679, a French physicist and mathematician Denis Papin made the first version of the pressure cooker, (though he called it a steam digester at that time) with a large cast iron vessel and a lid that would fit tightly and then could be locked, completely sealing the cooker. In the earlier versions there was no safety valve and once during a demonstration of the pressure cooker it burst and that...

In today's day and age, many serious changes in health and living have happened over the past few decades and the past century for that matter. Many health programs and diets have been created and practiced over the years to try to battle obesity and for a healthier lifestyle. And speaking of diets, there is one that has become quite a fad at this time and is getting more popular each day, the Paleo Diet and a form of this diet is the Autoimmune Paleo...

The common foods that people usually eat release either alkaline base or acid into the blood after they pass the digestion process. Foods such as meat, fish, poultry, grains, shellfish, salt, milk and cheese produce acid. Overconsumption of acid releasing foods can cause the body to become over acidic and dispossess of its minerals. In the long run, people who failed to balance their diet with essential alkaline foods may become apt to develop chronic...

Proponents of a grain free diet say that eating grain free meals could be one of the best ways to avoid a lot of gastrointestinal and medical conditions. The reason for this is that most grains contain gluten which is a kind of protein that is the main cause of celiac disease and a sensitive gastrointestinal system. Gluten is one of the hardest proteins to digest and having gluten stay longer in your gut can ultimately lead to a damaged gut, the presence...

The Mediterranean diet is a diet that mainly uses foods that are found in the Mediterranean and this includes foods that are plant-based. Recipes described in this book can help you to lose weight because these recipes are based foods that are natural, nutritious and very healthy. By adapting to a Mediterranean diet, you may not only lose weight but also avoid different illnesses related to being overweight or obesity: high blood pressure, increased...

The Autoimmune Paleo Diet has grown into popularity over the past several years and it certainly cultivated a lot of members or followers of this kind of diet. The idea of this type of diet is to only consume foods that were present during the Paleolithic period like the fruits, vegetables, plants and even meat that were consumed by the people in that time.

Smoothies are blended drinks usually from fresh fruits and they are called smoothies because once the fresh fruits are blended, they usually have this smooth and thick texture and appearance unlike typical fruit juices. Smoothies are usually considered healthy because they are made from fresh ingredients. They may be blended using fruits most of the time but the truth is they can also be blended with the use of vegetables like green leafy vegetables....