Solar Cooking

Solar cooking is an easy, natural and nutritious way of cooking. Solar cooking is done using a solar cooker or oven by the means of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. By converting sun’s UV rays into heat energy, is then retained by the solar pot that cook’s the food. Food can be easily boiled, steamed and baked at 360° F to 400° F cooking temperature. 

The biggest benefit of using solar energy as cooking is its eco-friendliness. It helps in eliminating our dependency on gas or electricity. Moreover, it also helps in reducing the emission of carbon monoxide in the air, conserve earth resources and maintain better air quality. The food cooked using solar energy is full of emanating subtle natural flavors because the temperature in solar cooker rise slowly, allowing complex carbohydrates time to break down into simple sugars. The right temperature of the solar pot prevents the food from burning or scorching and food also retains moisture and softness. 

Another benefit of solar cooking is its financially favorable. Solar cooking is free of cost once you have the solar pot. To cook food, all you require is sunlight. You can easily save a significant amount of money over the long-term. This is the main reason, why solar cooking is being used increasingly all over the world, especially in developing countries with limited access to power and fuel.

A solar pot can be used anywhere, in park, roof or forests and is ideal for cooking at picnics or camping. Also, it saves a lot of time in preparing and cleaning up sun cooked meals. However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Solar cooking also has its demerits, as it requires sunlight, which makes it impossible to cook in winter season or rainy days.  Factors such as snow, wind and rain, can seriously disturb operation. 

In conclusion, solar cooking is giving people around the world a hand up. It is an ideal instrument for a comfortable, easy, healthy and a better way of life by giving people a viable option to the costly, time-consuming cooking and tending fires. 

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Liquid Calories

Are you controlling your diet to lose weight? To do this, do you only look at the solid food you’re eating? After eating healthy, are you still gaining weight? The possible reason in this case to consider is to know how many liquid calories you’re consuming. Milk or juices, are healthy to drink, but that doesn’t mean you should drink them all day long. Consuming soft drink, coffee, alcoholic drink, soda, and more can lead in gaining body weight.

Liquid calories are more dangerous than food. Controlling these can make a big difference in your plan of losing weight. Below are the six ways to this:

Drink low fat milk: Cut some extra calories by choosing low fat milk. 1 cup of full fat milk contains 145 calories; 1 cup of skimmed milk has 90 calories. Drinking low fat milk can easily reduce the daily calorie intake by 38%.

Drink water instead of soda: Sodas are nothing, just sugar water that adds calorie to the body. Replace soda and sports beverages with water as water has zero calories and other important benefits too.

Eat fruits: Eat a lot of fresh fruits rather than drinking the juice. Having fruits will give you the same nutrients, in addition you will not feel hungry because of the fiber content in fruit.

Have low fat milk coffee: Limit speciality coffee, like a Caramel Brulee Frappuccino Blended Coffee with whipped cream. It adds a lot of calories. Instead, drink regular coffee with low fat milk.

Reduce alcohol intake: It’s true that alcohol interferes with fat reduction. However, it can hinder the eating decision and make you eat even more. That mojito you like to drink? One small mojito is around 240 calories. Better, if you’re going to drink alcohol, have it straight or replace the same with wine.

Liquid calories not only make you gain weight; they don’t make you feel full for long as well. Make sure that you read labels and check your serving size of liquid diet. This way you will be able to consume fewer number of calories. Reducing liquid calories is very easy since they don’t give the feeling of satiety, deprivation or hunger.

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DHA for Children

Do you really want your child to reach his or her extreme intellectual potential? A research confirms that plentiful intake of the omega-3 fat DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is essential for the cognitive development in kids. DHA is significant for brain and eye development throughout the life stages, but is important during the first two years. The research further says that children, between birth to five years of age require good amount of DHA in their regular diet. This is the time when brain develops approximately 3.5 times in mass.

DHA offers a number of health benefits to children, such as, it supports normal cognitive function, a healthy heart and improves brain and eye development. According to a study, “Children who are low in reading and learning, a healthy diet containing 600 mg of DHA daily may support improvement in reading and learning”.

As said before, DHA is important for brain and visual development. In addition, its supplements are said to treat many serious health problems in children, like asthma, allergies and ADHD.

It’s essential to include DHA in children’s diet. Experts have recommended at least 100 – 150 mg of DHA for kids per day. Some of the best source of DHA are, organ meats, seafood, mainly oily fish such as herring, salmon, sardines, anchovies and algae. Infants get DHA from mother’s milk, which is a natural source. Even, infant formulas are now being supplemented with DHA.

Fortunately, the advantages of DHA continue to grow, more attention is being paid to the fact that infants and young children can benefit from it. An increasing awareness of the nutritional sources of DHA and the addition of DHA into few fortified foods are making it much easier for people of all ages, including teenagers, to obtain this important nutrient from their daily diets.

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