Some tips that help you improve your resistance power

1. Take half glass of hot water and add 2 spoons of honey and little lemon juice and try to have this everyday early morning .This helps you improve your resistance power.

Dry Fruits and their Importance

Dry Fruits .They are the store houses of energy.
The Dry fruits are
1. Raisins 2.Dates 3.Pistachios 4.cashewnuts 5.Almonds

To lose weight

Many people think that to lose weight they must reduce their food intake. This thought is known to be wrong because you can reduce your food intake to a few days only.In some or the other time (like for instance in parties), you may get tempted and eat the food more than required. So , to lose weight you must consume a wide varieties of foods ( less quantity of each) .


I will explain you about this in detail now.
The dieticians in America suggest that eating 15 to 20 varieties of foods a week can reduce your weight.This variety includes adding all the food groups in to your diet.That is your food must contain various varieties of fruits, vegetables etc.there are a innumerable varieties of fruits.Consume a different fruit every week .There are many varieties of recipes that can be prepared from different vegetables.
Make a note of the number of fruits and vegetables available to you and how many varieties of recipes you can prepare from them.Plan according to that and start eating.
These variety foods should be prepared by adding little oil, butter etc. There are thousands of low calorie variety foods that can be prepared.

1. Due to the consumption of a variety of foods you receive all the essential nutrients required for your body.
2. You don't feel bored of eating food during the course of your weight loss trials.
3. You enjoy eating food and lose weight constantly.

Note:Here, wide variety of foods include food from food groups like fruits and vegetables but not high calorie foods.

Nutritional Value of onions and its role in weight loss

The scientific name of onion is Allium cepa . Shallots and Garlic also belong to the same family. There are two types of onions ; they are
Spring Onions and Globe Onions. Most people use Globe Onions for cooking in their daily life.These onions consist of following nutritional values. Now just let us have a look at the nutritional value of onions.

Nutrients	Nutritive value
Energy	40kcals
Sugars	4.24gm
fat	0.1gm
Protein	1.1gm
Water	89.11gm
Vit-A	0.1microgm
Thiamine	0.046mg
Potassium	146mg
Sodium	4mg
Calcium	23mg
Iron	0.2mg
Vit-C	7.4mg

Advantages:
Onions have very good medicinal values.In the olden days, the syrup made from onions and honey is used to cure cough.
Due to the high potassium content in it it is known to prevent high blood pressure.It is also known to prevent cancer.
Moreover, it is cholesterol free and fat free.
It is rich in fiber, potassium, Vitamin-C and water. It adds a lot of taste and flavor to the foods.

Disadvantage: The raw onions are known to produce some flatulence gas in the stomach but cooked onions do not produce any flatulence .
The pungent smell from the mouth after eating raw onions .
The other disadvantage is that all the calories that we receive from onions come from sugars.

CALORIC NEED EVERYDAY

Calorie: Calorie in scientific sense is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1gram of water to 1 degree centigrade.

But in nutrition sense,it is defined as a unit of energy produced which is equal to amount of heat contained in food and released upon oxidation by the body.


Daily caloric Need: The daily caloric requirment for normal people ranges from 1800-2400calories.But people become obese due to the consumption of more calories than required.Obesity also results due to lack of exercise which ultimately leads to the conversion of these calories into fat.The daily caloric requirement varies from age and gender also.This is shown in the table below.

Daily Caloric requirement:

Name	Calories
Children	1200kcals
Teens girls and boys	1400-1800kcals
Adult women	1800kcals
Adult men	2200-2400kcals

If we consume more calories and do not spend all them then it is called positive energy balance.This is good for people who suffer with underweight. Who want to maintain their weight is spend as many calories as you consume.The other thing is spending more calories than that we consumed.This is called negative energy balance.

We can lose weight healthily by consuming the same number of calories as required normally by spending more calories than consumed.It means that if we consume 1800cals we must spend 2300cals.This is in another words also called negative energy balance.This is the best range .If anyone goes beyond that range(i.e spending 2500cals and consuming only 1800kcals) may suffer from lots of problems like aneroxia etc.This must be the aim to lose weight safely without any side effects.