Dieting tips

In deciding on a meal plan, it is essential to also make sure you cut down your ingestion of refined carbohydrate, fat and salt.

The argument against low carb diets
Its popular as hell, but it is truly safe for you?
Moreover, it has been hypothesised that the kidneys may be given too much work to do and that a related change in blood acidity causes bone loss, but some of the studies testing the theory have struggled to find significant evidence of deterioration of the kidneys or bone damage.
Although there is some evidence that suggests that low carb diets can help eliminate fat, some of this considerable evidence has caused controversy between nutritionalists, and their safety has been brought into question

Foods containing lycopene
(includes apricot, papaya & tomatoes)

The chemical lypcopene is a simple coloring compound and member of the same family of phytochemicals as carotene. Lycopene is the agent responsible for the dark red colour of many foods.

Unlike most other vitamins, lycopene does not become less effective if cooked but is in actuality improved by going through the cooking process.

. Lycoprene's main medical value is that it behaves as an antioxidant and is thought to be of use in the fight to reduce the probabilty of contracting cancer.

This useful phytochemical is the most powerful carotenoid quencher of singlet oxygen, which is correlated with skin aging. It's also thought by many researchers to hamper the progression of atherosclerosis.