Food and diet gurus are really fond of ranting with reference to how this is bad for you and this is good for you, and how toxic a simple substance like refined sugar is. Really one of the few organizations who actually support the use of refined sugar is the American Department of Agriculture, however they have a vested interest. Healthy cooking with or without sugar is one way of seeing that you and your family gets the very best foods! You don't need to cut cookies and cakes out of your diet, merely make your own.
Sugar basically provides empty calories but there are ways of replacing this sweetener with other more nutritional products. Healthy home cooking and baking enables you to make good use of great recipes. Your family will be so delighted with your efforts, they won't even notice if you slip in a few extra vitamins and minerals.
When my kids were small, they loathed eating veggies, however one method I could get these essential foods down the hatch was by grating them and adding them to ground beef. So meat loaf, bolognaise sauce, and any other recipe for ground beef was rich with grated carrot or grated vegetables of any of the pumpkin type.
Cakes and muffins are appetizing with added grated carrot or pumpkin and pumpkin bread is straightforward to make, plus very nutritious. Pumpkin is a sweet vegetable and when you make bread with it add mixed seeds; sunflower and pumpkin seeds make the bread even yummier, and these seed are highly rich in the essential fatty acids of the Omega group.
Good or bad, refined sugar has been given a bad image by health pundits. However just think of this, the only real documented research regarding how bad sugar can be for you, is related to tooth decay.
You could still use sugar and cook in a healthy way, anything in moderate amounts is not awful for us. It is really not needed to get up on a soap box and make sugar the reason for being the root of all evil.
We only have to take the example of red wine. Pundits pronounce that all alcohol is bad for you, but times have changed and researchers have found out why people on continental Europe live longer, suffer less from diabetes, heart diseases and other illnesses, and this is because they drink red wine. Red win contains Resevratrol and this substance together with the alcohol is incredibly good, but in moderation naturally.
It is easy to stay healthy with healthy cooking and taking all things in moderation, be they sugar or alcohol. Just do what your Grandmother did to stay healthy, and if she wouldn't recognize a particular food, don't eat it. - 30241
Sugar basically provides empty calories but there are ways of replacing this sweetener with other more nutritional products. Healthy home cooking and baking enables you to make good use of great recipes. Your family will be so delighted with your efforts, they won't even notice if you slip in a few extra vitamins and minerals.
When my kids were small, they loathed eating veggies, however one method I could get these essential foods down the hatch was by grating them and adding them to ground beef. So meat loaf, bolognaise sauce, and any other recipe for ground beef was rich with grated carrot or grated vegetables of any of the pumpkin type.
Cakes and muffins are appetizing with added grated carrot or pumpkin and pumpkin bread is straightforward to make, plus very nutritious. Pumpkin is a sweet vegetable and when you make bread with it add mixed seeds; sunflower and pumpkin seeds make the bread even yummier, and these seed are highly rich in the essential fatty acids of the Omega group.
Good or bad, refined sugar has been given a bad image by health pundits. However just think of this, the only real documented research regarding how bad sugar can be for you, is related to tooth decay.
You could still use sugar and cook in a healthy way, anything in moderate amounts is not awful for us. It is really not needed to get up on a soap box and make sugar the reason for being the root of all evil.
We only have to take the example of red wine. Pundits pronounce that all alcohol is bad for you, but times have changed and researchers have found out why people on continental Europe live longer, suffer less from diabetes, heart diseases and other illnesses, and this is because they drink red wine. Red win contains Resevratrol and this substance together with the alcohol is incredibly good, but in moderation naturally.
It is easy to stay healthy with healthy cooking and taking all things in moderation, be they sugar or alcohol. Just do what your Grandmother did to stay healthy, and if she wouldn't recognize a particular food, don't eat it. - 30241
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