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Why The 8 Healthy Guidelines

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Recipe Introduction

Weight Watchers link to the 8 healthy guidelines http://tinyurl.com/daoal

List of Ingredients

Vegetables and Fruits:
Vegetables and fruits gives your diet a built-in health benefit. These nutritious foods provide fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that help fight diseases.

Grains:
Grains provide us with carbohydrate, which is our body’s main energy source. In fact, our brains and nervous systems use primarily glucose (carbohydrates are broken down by our bodies to produce glucose) for fuel. Fiber is bulky and it fills you up to help you stay satisfied long after eating. In addition, it helps prevent constipation, which can lead to conditions such as diverticulitis and helps lower cholesterol levels.

Dairy:
Dairy supplies the body with protein, zinc, riboflavin, vitamin D, calcium. These essential minerals help strengthen the bones

Oils:
Are a good energy source, healthy oils are nutrients used in the production of cell membranes, as well as in several hormone-like compounds called eicosanoids. These compounds help regulate blood pressure, heart rate, blood vessel constriction, blood clotting and the nervous system.

In addition, healthy oils helps carry the nutrients from your food into your body. Oils also helps maintain healthy hair and skin, protects vital organs, keeps your body insulated, and provides a sense of fullness after meals.

The human body cannot function properly without healthy oils are truly to normal cell structure and body function.

Protein:
Protein is an important component of every cell in the body. Hair and nails are mostly made of protein. Your body uses protein to build and repair tissues. You also use protein to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. Protein is an important building block of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood.

Water:
Water helps maintain muscle tone, weight loss, clear and healthy skin. It helps prevent lower back pain, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, headaches, migraines, asthma, allergies, colitis, rheumatoid, arthritis, depression, hypertension, cholesterol, hangovers, neck pain, muscle pain, joint pain, bloating, constipation, ulcers, low energy levels, stomach pain, confusion and disorientation.

Water regulates body temperature, remove toxins and wastes, cushion and lubricate joints, decrease risk of kidney stones, protect tissues, organs and the spinal cord from shock and damage.

Multiple Vitamins:
Most people do not consume an optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone. Some of the vitamins people lack when dieting are B-6 and B-12, Vitamin D, Vitamins A, C, and E.



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