What Type Of Vegetarian Are You ?

I am a vegetarian. At home we do not cook / eat meat or fish. A large percentage of the populace in India are vegetarians. The motives for pursuing a vegetarian diet range from economical, to health, and religious reasons.

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8 Energy Foods That Fight Fat

Eating the right kind of foods can help you fight fat and thus reduce weight. Here are 8 energy foods that fight fat. Eating these foods regularly in the right quantities can help you slim down and beat over weight.
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Freezing Food : Food Preservation Guide for Home Owners

My mother always searched for ways to preserve food for extended periods. One sure way of preserving is to freeze food. However, just dumping the food in the refrigerator won’t be enough. You have to prepare the food carefully before it can be freezed.

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Food, Health and Exercise

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Coffee Drinks Illustrated – June 28, 2009
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10 Immunity boosting foods – October 29, 2008
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Best time to eat before and after an exercise

What is the best time to eat before and after your daily exercise ?

Leslie Bonci who is the Director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says you should consider food as a part of your equipment.

Ideally food should be taken an hour before exercise. And when you eat, it should be a fist size portion of food. Leslie says, most people make the mistake of either starving before an exercise or over eating – both of which are bad.

A fist-sized amount of food – such as a granola bar, a peanut butter jelly sandwich and so on which should give enough carbohydrates and proteins, gives the body enough food to be available as an energy source  but not as much to give you an upset stomach.

And don’t forget to drink around 20 ounces ~ 0.5 liters of water an hour before your workout. If you have liquid ahead of time, you will be better hydrated when you start to be physically active.

Put fluid back into your body as you exercise, says Leslie. This is because your body loses water as sweat and you have to replenish it at regular intervals. Leslie says you should drink 14 to 40 ounces of water per hour depending upon your sweat rate.

Post exercise, have a snack within 15 minutes.

[Source : New York Times]

Visual representation of Coffee drinks and their composition

Do you know the difference between a Mocha and a Cappuccino ? What if someone asks you if you prefer an Espresso or a Cafe Breve ? If you don’t know the difference, then study the following picture and get your facts right. And next time, don’t fumble if someone asks you your favourite coffee drink recipe.
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Tips to store all kinds of fruits for extended periods

All fruits have a shelf life; after which they start going bad. What is the best way to fruits fresh for extended period of time ? The best way is to freeze. By freezing carefully prepared fruits at 0° F, it is possible to store them indefinitely.

But different fruits have different shelf and refrigeration life respectively. To know  exactly how much, read the following article.

Cook food in a €5 cardboard box using Sun's energy

Jon Bohmer is a a Norwegian-born entrepreneur based in Kenya, and also an  inventor  who has created a solar cooker made of cardboard. And the interesting thing is, this solar cooker cost only 5 Euros.  He has named his invention the Kyoto Box – after the international environmental treaty to reduce global warming.

Kyoto Box - Solar Cooker made from cardboard.

The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover that lets in the sun’s rays and traps them.

Black paint on the inner box, and silver foil on the outer one, help concentrate the heat. The trapped rays make the inside hot enough to cook casseroles, bake bread and boil water. You can boil 10 litres of water in 2 hours. Bohmer won the first prize of $75000 from the Forum for the Future, for his ingenious invention.

Source : CNN

Tips to keep fruits and vegetables fresh

A Linux user is entitled to his or her daily quota of fruits and vegetables. Usually, when ever I buy fruits or vegetables from the market, I tend to dump the whole lot into the refrigerator. And many times, I have found that some vegetables and fruits get bad quicker than the others. Little did I know that keeping certain fruits or vegetables near some others, actually speeds up the ripening process of the later, thus shortening their life span.

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