A few tips on healthy eating

If you enjoy eating, but want to get in shape and improve your overall vitality, then, as most people know, you need to start a thoughtfully prepared well-balanced meal plan. In a perfect world, this needs to contain 5 standard portions of grains, fruit and vegetables daily and embrace the right proportion of food types.

Some low carbohydrate diet pointers:
* Use soya flour or baking mix. When you require flour for baking, substitute it with soya flour or a soya baking mix such as Atkins baking mix. In most cases, you can change your favorite recipes that use standard wheat flour to use these low carb alternatives.

* Fiber is essential Cutting the carbohydrates in your meals usually leads to reduction in fiber as well. Look out for reduced carbohydrate recipes that are fiber-rich balance the equation.

Super foods containing lycopene
(includes apricots, red peppers & tomato)

Lycopene is a non-synthetic chemical compound and part of the carotenid family of phytochemicals. Lycopene is behind the deep red hue of quite a few foods.

Intrestingly, unlike many nutritional compounds, lycopene does not degrade if cooked, but is in fact increased in efficacy by being heated.

. Lycoprene's key value is that it works as an antioxidant and seems to be an asset in the fight to reduce the chances of cancer.

It is the most potent eliminator of singlet oxygen, which is linked with skin aging. It's also thought to curtail the progression of atherosclerosis.