Okinawa Diet

Successful Diet – Okinawa Diet Tips II

okinawa diet

3. Should participate daily food with flavonoids (phytonutrients that protect our tissue degeneration and oxidative damage, as some cancers and cardiovascular diseases). Among these foods are onions, citrus, apples, grapes and soy products such as drinkable or tofu (which also give us complete proteins).

4. They must also be present to provide food daily calcium (which ensures the health of bones, prevents osteoporosis and has a stake in achieving undisputed reduce body weight) very lean dairy products (cheese, yogurt and skim milk), calcium plant (broccoli and watercress) and food of animal origin which reinforce (sardines and fish packed cornalitos).

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Successful Diet – Okinawa Diet Tips I

successful dietEating healthy, cutting calories, not food, and a decrease in animal fat leads to an active life, to improve body weight and overall health,” sums up the degree Llanos, who adapted the system to make it viable our country.

The food pyramid proposes to base our diet on food with high nutritional density. To carry out this diet plan, remember:

1. The best energy comes from vegetables, grains, pastas and products made from them (whole grain breads) and not of refined flours.

Brown rice and Yamani, whole wheat, bulgur wheat, legumes (lentils, chickpeas, beans and soy), corn, rolled oats, barley, and tubers are recommended, but we must remember that they all also have high caloric density and, Therefore, your portions should be small.

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