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What you eat determines to a great extent how you live, feel, look, act and work. Wise choices of food make you healthier and more energetic. They also help you control weight and disease, diminish pain, and even help minimize the effects of aging. Below are some suggestions on "special effect" foods, effective ways to control your weight, and healthy recipes.

"ESPECIAL EFFECT" FOODS!
Soy- Soy products are a big deal: tofu, soy milk (try it chocolate-soy milk!), soy burgers, and even the NY-trendy steamed soybeans (yum!). They may help prevent: heart disease; breast cancer; prostate cancer; osteoporosis. The reason: 
Isoflavones - substances in soy that protect against the oxidative degeneration of tissues leading to these diseases. 
Phytoestrogens - elements in soy that resemble estrogen and seem to conveniently take on some of the more beneficial roles of the hormone and by-pass the less beneficial ones. Many scientific studies are underway to confirm this. 
Soy products also contain a good amount of protein, essential vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, and very little fat. Moreover, soy products are both cost-effective, and very easy on our environment!

HEALTHY RECIPE: Anyway Tofu
Tofu, or soybean paste is fairly cheap, sold in grocery stores usually at the vegetable area. Cut up a chunk into rectangles, brush your favorite sauce: Italian pasta; Mexican salsa;  Chinese sweet sauce; your favorite vinaigrette; or even just sprinkle salt and pepper or seasoned salt to taste (maybe a bit of paprika for color) and then bake or broil the tofu until heated through. Serve with white rice or noodles. Enjoy.



 THREE TIPS to make weight control easier, quicker, effective:


Drink lots of water during the day --Go for the 8 glasses! The body is made mostly of water, and if you wait until you are thirsty, it is too late. Snack often during day! --Yes,snacks are good; as long as they are of energy-rich nutrients such as vegetables, fruits, breads, and cereals,  -not much of the caloric storage-prone fatty foods based on grease (fast fried, creamy, oily, too cheese or meaty). Good snacks throughout the day maintain the metabolic activity of your body, and the fiber content of good snacks helps, with its bulk, properly manage your appetite. Strengthen your muscles on a regular basis --Your muscles are your energy centers,where calories are actually burned to produce energy. When your muscles are toned their fibers increase in size and number,and they not only require more caloric energy for their own upkeep, but they become more efficient at burning your "surplus calories" (fat) to control your weight.



 CONTROL YOUR WEIGHT
Weight control depends on the balance between the amount of food you eat and amount of vigorous activity you include in your life. The idea is not to store too many calories (stored in the form of FAT).
The more calories you get in food, the more you must use up regularly in vigorous activities to manage your weight.
But you must eat nutritiously in order to have enough energy to perform vigorous activities on a regular basis! 
Focus on eating energy-rich food such as fruits, vegetables and grains -with special nutrients that provide stamina to stay active-.
Of particular importance for weight control, you must drink enough water to encourage proper digestion of high energy foods.
Activities with moderate vigorous movement, lasting a relatively long time -about one hour- best use-up calories for energy, especially calories stored as FAT.
Feeling the need to breathe harder, but not feeling "out of breath" is a good indication that the body is working to use this kind of calories to produce energy. 

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