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Essentials of a Healthy Diet for Healthy and Beautiful Women

Monday, May 9, 2011
It is very important to understand that a woman needs specific diet to remain healthy and this is because a woman’s physical and mental health remains dependent on the hormonal balance and status in her body.

The hormonal balance and status signifies the interaction between female sex hormones namely, estrogen and progesterone, thyroid hormones such as TSH, T4, T3, and stress hormones specially cortisol.

 Proper production and balance of sex hormones is essential for a healthy women and proper balance is necessary to maintain appropriate levels of stress hormones. Excessive stress may disturb the production of estrogen and progesterone while creating harmful inflammation in women’s body.

By maintaining a good nutritious diet regularly, women can attain proper balance of hormones in her body and this will help her in attaining better mental and physical health along with providing her natural beauty. The following nutritional constituents should be included by every women in her diet to attain a better hormonal balance and healthy body.

Green and Leafy Vegetables

Green leafy vegetables are essential constituents of every ones diet who is seeking for a healthy living. A woman cannot meet her nutritional requirements without including green leafy vegetables in her regular food. Fenugreek leaves, legumes, lettuce, asparagus, spinach, France beans and broccoli are easily available in abundance.

These vegetables are rich sources of Vitamin C and K, iron, folic acid and fibre. These vegetables will also provide magnesium, potassium and calcium along with iron and hence by including them in regular diet, a girl can attain better protected vision and strength in bones.

Every girl should try to eat leafy vegetables daily.


Whole Grains

While refined grains are easily available in market, one should try to include whole grains in their diet. Whole grains are more nutritious and they contain around 96% more fibre and essential vitamins and nutrients than refined grains.

Often nutrition and diet experts advises women to have whole wheat bread, brown rice, and whole wheat pasta as they provide essential nutrients and the major advantage is, whole grains do not contribute to weight gain. To achieve a healthy and sexy girl persona, you should include whole grains in your daily food. You may choose to start your day with a whole wheat bread toast or whole wheat cereal.

Nuts

Nuts should be an essential constitutes of a woman’s diet. You may eat nuts while sprinkling them on breakfast cereals or on salads or you may choose to mix them with your yoghurt. Nuts will provide you the much required proteins, vitamin B & E and magnesium.

Nuts will also protect you against cancer and heart disease. While nuts are rich in fat calories, but the fat achieved through nuts doesn’t hurt your heart. You may also eat nuts along with your evening tea as snacks.

However, ascertain that you are not over-eating them. Around 15-20 cashews, almonds, walnuts are good enough in a week.

Yoghurt

If you are worried about you weight, you may choose to eat low fat yoghurt as both low fat and plain yoghurt are high resources of protein, vitamins and calcium. The healthy bacteria of yoghurt will also provide you strength to fight various diseases.

Expert dieticians will suggest three to four cups of yoghurt for women in a week. However, you should avoid adding sugar to yoghurt. Better is to take yoghurt with salt or you may choose plain yoghurt and add berries or fruits to it.

Berries will make you merry

Berries are considered to be essential constituent of any fiber rich diet product. This is so because berries are the richest source of fiber while they will also help girls to curb excessive weight. Berries are rich in protective plant antioxidant than any other eatable.

The antioxidants of berries will also help you strengthen your memory and to fight against memory loss. You may eat a full bowl of berries thrice in a week. You may use fresh or frozen berries as both are beneficial.

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