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All About The Alkaline Diet

If you’re interested in trying the alkaline diet, the five tips in this article will help you to customize an alkaline diet sooner than you ever thought possible.

1. Have a Salad Every Day

Salads are the single best way to get more healthy vegetables into your alkaline diet. Where most people go wrong is that they either cover the poor greens in a fattening dressing, or they use nothing but dull iceberg lettuce. Instead, incorporate a variety of vegetables, and use a dressing that is based on olive oil.

2. Build Soups Around Vegetables, Not Meat, Cheese, or Noodles

At their best, soups are delicious, filling, and low in calories. Nevertheless, many people waste this opportunity to have a healthful meal by choosing fattening, high-calorie soups that consist of meat or white-flour noodles in a creamy base.

3. Enjoy a Smoothie

All you have to do is mix frozen fruit with a little stevia extract as a natural sweetener. For even more nutrition, mix in a few spoonfuls of alkaline-producing green food powder.

4. Don’t Overcook Vegetables

To save as many vital nutrients as possible, steam or lightly stir-fry vegetables instead of boiling them. If you do cook them in water, use the nutrient-filled broth in another recipe.

5. Make Breakfast Healthy

For too many people, breakfast consists of a sweet roll eaten behind the wheel. However, even if you make time for a real breakfast, the food you’re eating is probably making your body more acidic. Fortunately, there are some healthy alkaline diet alternatives. If you like hot cereal, try oatmeal or quinoa. Add a few raisins for a bit of sweetness, and a little flax seed oil or flax meal to increase your consumption of omega-3 fatty acids. Or make a healthy omelet by adding alkaline-forming vegetables such as bell peppers and onions.

Time to Take Action

As you have learned from this article, an following an alkaline diet doesn’t require a Ph.D. in biochemistry. All you really need is a refrigerator filled with alkalizing foods, the right information, and the determination to improve your health.

Upsetting Buzz About Popcorn

How does it all go down? How do raw corn kernels turn into the puffy goodness we know as popcorn? A little bit of knowledge may go a long way, because it could make the difference between buying a useless popcorn maker, and making a more informed decision when purchasing the right one for your needs. And really, it’s a wonderful piece of equipment, when you think about it. When the right corn and the right conditions are provided, there’s really a delicious outcome. Whether it is an antique popcorn machine, used popcorn machine or kettle popcorn maker the inner workings of the machine and its needs are pretty much universal.

By all accounts it is a high fiber “healthy” snack. However, for many gastric patients popcorn becomes the king of slider foods leading to digestive upset, dumping syndrome and ultimately weight gain.

When a gastric bypass, gastric banding or gastric sleeve weight loss surgery patient is compelled to eat popcorn they should follow these eating guidelines that are provided by most weight loss surgery centers. Applying these guidelines is not radical or gimmicky, it is following the rules we agreed to when we signed on for gastric surgery.

• Measure a 1-cup serving for your meal or snack. Do not butter, salt or season the popcorn. Air popped is preferred.
• Cease liquid consumption 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after enjoying your 1 cup serving of popcorn.
• Do not consume liquid while having your 1-cup serving of popcorn.
• Do not exceed the 1-cup serving of popcorn.
• If you chose to eat anything else with your popcorn meal/snack you must decrease the volume of popcorn by the volume of other food you will be consuming so that total volume of food is 1 cup.

Nutritional per serving: 1 cup lightly buttered popcorn is 82 calories; 1g Protein; 6g Fat; 6g Carbohydrate. Additionally we experience a dry mouth, bad breath and thirst. This is your pouch doing its job: You are supposed to feel uncomfortable when you follow the guidelines and eat something that appears on most “avoid these foods” lists provided by bariatric centers.

If we ignore the guidelines and eat popcorn while drinking a beverage often our portion size goes unmeasured and we cross over to grazing-style eating. This is a problem with popcorn because popcorn is a high glycemic food and it elevates our blood sugar. If the beverages consumed with it also raises our glycemic load we are in danger of dumping syndrome. Soon this state of “offness” begins to feel normal and it can only be sustained by nibbling or grazing on similar simple carbohydrates such as pretzels and crackers.