Top 10 Healthy Cooking Tips

Getting to eat good nutritious food is not just by selection of food but also in the preparation of these foods. By changing the way of cooking you can see a dramatic effect on your health yet giving you the essential nutritional benefits. By having a proper cooking strategy and some substitution in the ingredients you can retain good health and improve the nutritional value in the dishes. This change would also significantly reduce the risk of cancer and have better health.

The following are the Top 10 healthy cooking tips

1. Reducing salt by half in your recipes would not have noticeable change in taste but would help you stay healthy. Using herb, spice, and lemon juice would work well with several dishes.

2. Making an investment in non-stick pan would help you avoid oil or use low fat cooking spray.

3. Steaming your food instead of boiling it would ensure to retain the flavor and color and give the essential nutrients. Use of Chinese bamboo steamer of a good electric steamer would avoid cooking for longer time. By cooking in extended heat and liquid will take away the valuable nutrients.

4. Eating vegetables daily would keep you fit. Having a schedule to add vegetables in the form of salads or adding them in the soups would ensure the intake of vegetables. Using vegetable salsas instead of heavy gravies or sauce would also help.

5. Use low fat cheese and skimmed milk in your daily food would help reduce the cholesterol and fat content of baked foods.

6. Replace other oils by Olive oil and try to drain off the fat with the kitchen paper and then eat it. Before reheating the soups make them to chill so that you can skim the fat in the top.

7. Eating charred food should be avoided, as it would contain cancer-promoting compounds. Microwave cooking is the beat choice to cook vegetables due its short cooking time and ensures to retain the nutrient value.

8. Looking for low fat recipes in biscuits and cakes and reduce the fat by choosing applesauce, mashed banana, and yogurt yet getting the required taste with less fat.

9. Using whole grain products instead of all-purpose flour will help you add nutrition to your meal. Trying whole-wheat flour, oatmeal in muffins and bread and soy flour in biscuits will be a healthy meal option.

10. Eating fruit desserts instead of cookies and cakes and eating yogurt sorbet instead of ice cream will be a good habit. Try serving cake with fruit sauce instead of whipped

Pingback: Top 10 Healthy Cooking Tips | Best Digital Info Point | Speedy Wap « Blogging
Pingback: Top 10 Healthy Cooking Tips | Best Digital Info Point | Speedy Wap | 24/7 Dir
Pingback: AJF7688 Blog - Top 10 Healthy Cooking Tips | Best Digital Info Point | Speedy Wap
http://www.myqute.com kelly

Hi there! I wish to point out some half-truths and mis-truths in your list before more people get sick:

#2. Teflon, the chemical found in your non-stick ware, is dangerous. In fact, Dupont admitted this. In a press release, DuPont wrote that “significant decomposition of the coating will occur only when temperatures exceed about 660 degrees F (340 degrees C). These temperatures alone are well above the normal (safe) cooking range.”

Through the common act of preheating a pan that’s set on “high”, cookware and frying skillets exceeding these temperatures turns toxic. In cases of “Teflon toxicosis,” as the bird poisonings are called, the lungs of exposed birds hemorrhage and fill with fluid, leading to suffocation. At least four of these chemicals never break down in the environment, and some are widely found in human blood via health screenings. DuPont acknowledges that the fumes can also sicken people, a condition called “polymer fume fever.”

#5. Not entirely untrue but children who drink skimmed milk instead of full-cream milk, run a higher risk of severe nutrient deficiency. Some infants have died due to drinking skimmed milk powder formula.

In March 2004, the European Journal of European Nutrition revealed that a high intake of skimmed milk “increased some serum levels in 8 year-old boys”. What this means is that the high growth velocity during early life are associated with the risk of some non-communicable diseases later on in these boys’ lives.

In some websites, full creamed milk is not even recommended to children under 5. (Clearly a contrast, partially because your child’s milk is really meant for calves, not humans! lol )

#6. Although heating or cooking with olive oil may largely change its flavour and aroma (because alcohols and esters evaporate), all oils (except for coconut oil) turns carcinogenic. This, certainly, makes cooked olive oil cancer-causing.

Oxidation of these cancer-causing agents can overload the liver to work harder at detoxifying your body. The result may be DNA damage that starts a chain of events leading to cancer.

Cooked olive oil, like other vegetable cooking oils, has been found to contain minute amounts of cancer-causing agents, such as chrysene and benzanthracene. Why should we allow minute traces of carcinogens to affect our health adversely?

In short, olive oil is best used for non-cooking salads or raw dishes.

#7. Deep-fried and microwaved foods are usually ranked the unhealthiest way to cook foods. You will find sites that will oppose this fact (that microwaved foods are DEAD foods) when they say “every cooking method can destroy vitamins and other food nutrients”. Here’s why microwaved foods are what you want to avoid: http://www.myqute.com/2009/03/health-myths-busted…

#8. Apple sauce may be high in sugars (are artificial sugar) and your yoghurt may be made from unhealthy milk. Also, there’s this misconception that all saturated fats are unhealthy.

#10. a lot of the fruit sauce is boiled devoid (or greatly reduced) of any flavanoids (antioxidants that prevent free radicals from mutating cells).

There’s also your fruit toppings that may not be totally healthy. For example, some people like to eat pineapples with soy sauce, and unless soya sauce is made from fermented soya beans, it’s not healthy. Also, some people like to eat kiwi or similar fruits with plum powder. Although plums (aka prunes) are healthy in its whole natural form without pesticides or herbicides (organic), do you know what’s really INSIDE your plum powder? Do go for plum powder that come from plums that have been grown and dried without any preservatives, chemicals nor additives – go organic!

Whipped cream although made from egg-white and sugar, lacks the enzymes found in egg yolk (egg yolk is the only natural food that has the enzymes to properly digest egg-white). As such, long-term eating of egg-whites without egg-yolks can be dangerous to out well-being.

Moreover, egg yolks contain essential fatty acids, DHA and Arachidonic Acid, required for healthy skin, glossy hair, growth and response to injury, etc. “Low fat” is also not equivalent to “Low Cholesterol”. We need SATURATED fats that are really medium-chain fatty acids, like butter (whereas margarin is really hydrogenated vegetable oil = trans-fat).

Many websites have outdated information, even "official health authorities" because they don't always attend summits or ask for latest scientific studies. Don't rely on those sites.

God bless,
kelly
Pingback: uberVU - social comments