Water is the most important component of our environment. After air water is  the second most important component that is necessary for human life. How important water is evidenced by the fact that it contents  in various organs of 70 – 90%. With age, the amount of water in the body is changing. Three-month fruit contains 90% water, 80% of the newborn, adult – 70%.

Water carries wastes in our body, gives lubrication to the joints, stabilize our temperature and is the lifeblood of the cell.

How much water should we drink? 

 The water in our body has a lot of functions, it regulates the temperature and mass of the body, delivers nutrients to cells and removes from the body decay products and wastes, dissolved mineral salts, water is also involved in breathing and it helps the body assimilate nutrients and converts food into energy.

 Scientist’s researches have found that drinking enough water helps to reduce pain in joints and back, helps reduce blood cholesterol, normalize blood pressure and reduce obesity. And the fact that water does not contain salt helps to easily excrete it from the body.

Active ways to lose weight with water:

Aqua slim, water aerobics, or aqua gymnastic are the names of the same new, active way to lose weight with water. Invented this system of training was in California, and it consists of exercises in the pool.

The water in this case not only greatly facilitates exercises themselves, but also acts gently on the joints of the body. Here at the base – twice the load experienced by the muscles in the water. So 20 minutes of training in the pool equal to an hour of physical exercise on land. In addition, they are easier and more efficient.

Training in water less tedious than in the gym, they contribute to the fact that up to 20 times faster than developing muscle and burns fat. It is important that this kind of fitness a pleasure, thereby improving the overall well-being. Developing the strength and endurance, aqua slim sparing effect on the muscles, ligaments and joints, while improving coordination..

  At the initial stage of training to develop the necessary energy reserves of the body uses blood sugar, gradually passing to the fat deposits

 Thus, the water helps us to get rid of excess weight from the inside and outside.

 But…:

What actually harm drinking too much?
A. Strain on the kidneys.
The kidneys are not muscle load it improves its performance.
The kidneys are a laboratory load it detracts from her ability to function.
Two. Toxicology screening is performed only partially, and takes longer.
Three. Drain water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C
And all the B group vitamins together with minerals such as potassium and magnesium.
Four. Load on the heart.
All excess water passes through the blood system and the heart has to push and suck all the excess.
This causes unnecessary strain on the heart.

Once the seed begins to germinate, the content of vitamins in it is increased 10 times, and phytoestrogens in 50 times. It is sin not to use such a storehouse of vitamins!

In the sharpened tip of the grain is the germ, which is concentrated supply of nutrients and vitamin E. Grain can lie dormant up to 50 years, without losing the ability to germinate.

But is it worth to get a seed drop of water, like all life-giving force in its wake. After a couple of hours in a grain a hundredfold increase respiration, its cells swell and stretch. Every second is increasing the production of vitamins, enzymes, amino acids and trace elements. During this period all the nutrients that are in the unsplit complex forms are decomposed into simpler, easily assimilated. 

If you catch this wonderful moment, our digestive system gets the essential matter in the best shape for us. Really good for healthy diet.

But all these special features are stored only within the first 5-6 days, and then the activity of the embryo reduced.

If you buy this product in the store, then determine the degree of “readiness” may be the length of the germ. When the germ has reached5 cmin length and content of vitamins in it is going to a minimum and does not make sense to buy a germ. It is best to germinate seeds at home.

With regular use under the influence of various nutrients for humans, as well as the power of germinating seed is rejuvenation of the body and getting rid of many diseases. 

Corn restores, stabilizes and regulates the balance of the vital functions of the human body at any age. They return the body to harmony, increase life expectancy, rejuvenate and stabilize all the organs and systems.

Increase resistance to cold.

Quenched with a variety of infectious and inflammatory processes. Also contribute to rapid recovery.

Germinated seeds of wheat, are an indispensable remedy that can cope with almost any disease. A simple example: wheat sprouts, if eaten regularly, will in a few months bring improvement in the sharpness of vision.

There are several simple ways to home germination of grain:

Take the washed wheat poured it into a bowl, filling with water so that it covers grains only a little.  After 8-10 hours wash them  in running water again, spread it in a bowl, occasionally wetting up germination. After 1.5-2 days there are tiny white sprouts. Wheat is ready for use.

Flaxseed oil – native Russian product, unjustly forgotten, production of which was replaced with cheaper vegetable oils, although its beneficial properties, it far exceeds them. The content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, Omega-3 in flaxseed oil is almost twice higher than in fish oil!

Flaxseed oil is a “living product”, so it must be protected from direct sunlight and heat. Only the gelatin shell allows you to save the useful properties of linseed oil, so the capsule form of the drug is preferable to liquid form.

Flaxseed oil is a real “chimney sweep” of the body, preventing vascular disease and blood clots. Daily consumption of flaxseed oil helps prevent the development of heart attacks, as due to a decrease in blood viscosity and the normalization of the level of fats in the blood decreases the load on the heart. The consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids promotes the reduction in blood pressure.

Important benefits of flax seed oil:

Has been proven effective linseed oil to prevent breast cancer, but other than that linseed oil is easier for premenstrual syndrome and premenopausal, improves skin and hair, promotes healing of damaged tissues. Flax seed oil has a demulcent, anti-shielding, diuretic, mild laxative, bactericidal action. Linseed oil is recommended for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder stones.

Brain cells by 60 per cent consist of fat, and it’s much higher concentration than in other parts of the body. The irony is that people almost do not know this and are constantly striving to eliminate as much fat from my diet, but have enough fat in your diet is vital for brain development, and maintain it in good shape.

There are two essential fatty acids, alpha- linolenic acid, known as “Omega-3″, and linoleic acid, known as “Omega-6.” They are called “essential” or vital, because of which the body makes all the other necessary fats.

Flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, wheat germ, soybeans, feed, nuts and butter of these are the best sources of unsaturated oils. They should always keep in the fridge and use only fresh, because the fats containing linoleic acid are destroyed by heating, under the influence of light and on contact with atmospheric oxygen.
Possible to buy high quality Flax seed oil capsules in bottles.

Chia (Salvia hispanica) is  the unique food of the Aztecs and Mayans. One spoon of chia porridge was enough for hunters and soldiers for all the day.

Chia seeds are rich in antioxidants and can reduce sugar level in the blood. Regular consumption of chia seeds helps to lose weight and strengthen the immune system. Nutritionists recommend adding a little chia seeds in oatmeal or smoothies.

Health benefits of chia seeds:

• Chia seeds – an excellent source of antioxidants
• Chia seeds help to lose weight. It sounds unbelievable, but these little seeds absorb 12 times its weight when mixed with water or in the stomach. It gives a feeling of satiety, banishes cravings for junk fudu, and, in fact, saving you the extra calories, and promotes proper operation of the digestive system.
• In seeds of chia calcium is five times greater than in milk, two times more protein than any other seeds or grains, two times more potassium than in bananas.
• Chia seeds in a lot of omega-3 and omega-6, which must be present in the diet daily. The fatty acids of omega-3 essential for the heart and lower cholesterol.
• Chia seeds also help reduce blood pressure and stabilize blood sugar levels. According to the study of diabetic status, conducted in Toronto, after only 3 months of daily use chia seeds, blood study was less viscous and prone to blood clots, and the pressure in study participants significantly decreased.

How to eat chia seeds?

Here are the simplest recipes:

Energy drink:

 Cocktail-jelly for 2 servings

 chia – 2 tbsp

 lime juice – 2 tbsp

 honey – 4 tablespoons

 Water – 2 cups

 Chia pour water in a ratio of at least 1:2 and left for the night, the morning will be a nice thick jelly. Mix everything in a blender, the smaller scroll, the better the texture will remain.

 Resembles an ordinary starch jelly, you can add fresh berries or soaked chia with dried apricots, prunes – and with them the same grind.

 Competitors write that this pudding is very cool recharges energy, including drink it before a run (probably still maintaining a pause).

Cocktail-jelly for 2 servings

 chia – 2 tbsp

 Crackers:

 chia – 1 cup

 Dried tomatoes – 1/2 cup (you can soak up an hour, if dry – dried is not necessary)

 Basil Green – ’20

 lemon juice – 2 tbsp

 Honey – 1 tbsp

 sea ​​salt to taste

 Chia soak for 8 hours in filtered water. During this time, chia greatly swell, so you need a lot of water.

 Then all the ingredients are ground in a blender or food processor – with ourselves chia from this will not do anything, they will remain intact seeds, but the tomatoes and basil peremelyutsya.

 Put the mixture with a spoon on the dehydrator sheets, smear a layer of 5 mm thickness and dried 16 hours. Slightly reminiscent of rye bread, with only the bright flavor of basil and tomatoes.

 You can add a little olive oil for flexible crackers.

Effective weight loss is not just free fun, but also savings.
The main principle here is to learn how to eat right, cheap and healthy without going from conventional products to delicacies.

Here are some good examples of healthy recipes on a budget, cheap healthy recipes:

Easter eggs filled with…

• 12 eggs

 • 1/2 cup mayonnaise

 • 4 slices of bacon

 • 2 tablespoons finely shredded cheddar cheese

 • 1 tablespoon mustard

Boil hard-boiled eggs. Cover with cold water.

Fry the bacon in a frying pan until evenly brown. Cut into small pieces.

Clean eggs, cut in half. Remove yolks and put in a small bowl. Add mayonnaise, chopped bacon, cheese and mustard. Mix well.

 4. Take half of the eggs and egg yolks into the recesses to put the mixture. Refrigerate before serving. The number of trace elements contained in one serving

Calories: 199
Fat: 18 g
cholesterol:  226mg
Sodium: 206 mg
Carbohydrates: 1 g
Protein: 7.6 g

Another  cheap healthy recipes:

Omelet in Bulgarian style

This is an omelet with cheese and tomatoes, quick to prepare, does not require many ingredients and great taste. The new solution in the preparation of an omelet!

• 1 egg

 • 1 small tomato, cut into small cubes

 • 20-30 g of cheese

 • Vegetable oil

 Method of preparation:

 Beat egg, add a slice of tomato and cheese crumble.

 Mix everything and pour on a hot skillet with vegetable oil.

 Close the lid. Fry no more than 10 minutes to lightly heat.

 Preparation time: 15 minutes.

 Servings: 1

To be continued…..

Lentil is a very valuable property. It does not accumulate in harmful or toxic elements (nitrates, radio nuclides, etc.). Because of this lentil, grown anywhere in the world, can be considered environ Lentil germinates well.

For its healing properties, sprouted lentils, does not yield wheat seedlings. For germination, better to take a lentil in the skin (it is green or gray).

Lentils is 280-310 kcal per 100 g.

When vegetarians say that lentils can replace meat, it is quite possible to believe: the protein in it very much – up to 60% and it is absorbed more easily than meat proteins and iron in it than in other legumes.

Unlike many foods, lentils cooked with almost do not lose its useful properties – most valuable substances in it are preserved unchanged.

 Lentil porridge strengthens the immune system, resulting in normal operation the urogenital system and metabolism, strengthens heart and blood vessels.

Some varieties of lentils help lower blood sugar, therefore useful to diabetics.

To help you to use health benefits of lentils we bring here some good lentils receipts:

Recipe for lentil soup

For 4 servings of soup will need:

 - 1 liter of chicken broth

 - 200 grams of green lentils

 - 1 medium carrot,

 - 1 onion,

 - 40 g of bacon,

 - 2 tablespoons cream 30%,

 - 1 tbsp vegetable oil,

 - Salt, bay leaf, parsley.

Soak lentils in water for 2 hours.

 In a pan pour oil, put the lentils and vegetables are coarsely chopped.

 Lightly fry.

 Pour the chicken broth, add spices.

 Give the soup to a boil, then subtract the temperature and simmer until lentils soften.

 Rub the soup to the blender, puree the state.

 Pour soup bowls, top to decorate the fried bacon, cream and herbs.

 In one portion of soup (250 g) contained 286.8 kcal.

Brown lentils with spices:

We need:

 brown lentils – 1.5 cups

 Coconut Milk – 1.5 cups

 chili powder and turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp.

 vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.

 Onions – 1 pc.

 basil – 4 leaf

 lemon peel – 1/2 tsp.

 Cinnamon – 1 tsp.

 leaf thyme.

Rinse the lentils and place in a wide saucepan with coconut milk, chilli powder and turmeric. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, until it becomes soft. Heat the butter in another saucepan, place the chopped onion, basil leaves, lemon zest and cinnamon and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft and lightly browned.

 Add the lentil mixture and keep on low heat for another 30 minutes, until liquid has evaporated, and the lentils are tender but still seethe. Choose from whole spices, lentils and serve hot dish, garnish with thyme leaves.

Lentil Meatballs

We need:

 white bread

 onions

 vegetable oil

 flour

 salt

 garlic

 potatoes.

Boil some lentils in water. In a ready lot add soaked in water and well-pressed white bread, grated onion, vegetable oil, flour, ground black pepper and crushed garlic with salt.

Stir thoroughly mass-balls to cut croquettes, breaded in crushed crumbs and fry in a large amount of vegetable oil or deep-fried, well-browned. Possible to cut from the prepared mass of round balls, carefully breaded them in flour, lightly fry the vegetable oil. Place the prepared meatballs to the pan, pour the sauce and boil for some minutes on low heat. Place your meatballs or croquettes hot with boiled potatoes.

Oatmeal porridge is a menu of almost every Hollywood movie stars, helping them to maintain good physical shape and complexion. Oatmeal is a great morning meal: it is easily and quickly saturates the body with energy.

 In addition, oats is a valuable nutritious food, rich in complex carbohydrates, high-quality protein and dietary fiber, especially soluble beta-glucan. This cereal contains vitamins A, E, B1, B2, B6, K, in the most balanced amino acids for our body’s balance, as well as elements such as copper, zinc, cobalt, potassium, iron, manganese, iodine, fluorine, etc.

As shown by epidemiological studies, consumption of whole-grain oatmeal protects against cardiovascular disease, diabetes type, as well as obesity. Oats – a good antioxidant, it contains the fat with a high proportion of unsaturated fatty acids, prevents the synthesis of cholesterol in the body and slows the absorption and release of sugars.

Due to the primary fiber, oat products improves bowel contributes to the normalization of metabolism and even prevention of cancer. Oatmeal porridge, falling into the stomach, envelops his original film, which facilitates digestion. Grains of oats even shredded into flakes act as a kind of cleaner to the intestines, removing all the “garbage”.

Oatmeal has more antioxidant properties than vegetables, fruits and cereals! Biotin in the oatmeal is struggling not only with lethargy, drowsiness, poor appetite, but also with the dryness, scaling and inflammation of the skin, hair loss. Contained in oats substances increase immunity and inhibit the aging process. Therefore, porridge is often referred to as kasha beauty, and flakes are components of many cosmetic masks. A good portion of oatmeal for breakfast is useful for those who want to lose weight, or is afraid to get better.

Oat soluble fiber gives a feeling of fullness even smaller portions. Carbohydrates oat fiber is not degraded in the upper digestive tract, so it does not bring unnecessary calories. The result: extra pounds disappear in the most natural and effective way. For comparison, coffee or tea with sandwiches, on the contrary, because most people have an acute attack of hunger somewhere between 10 and 11 hours.

For detoxification and weight loss doctors and nutritionists recommend drinking a decoction of oatmeal 3 cups oats, rinse thoroughly and pour 3 liters of water. Boil on low heat for 20 minutes, then remove from heat and wrap for 24 hours or leave in a thermos. Later, strain the broth through a napkin, add 100 g of honey, tightly close the lid and let boil again. Allow to cool and refrigerate. Add freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Drink the broth, 100 ml per day, half an hour before a meal.

The course is carried out 3 times per year: spring, summer and winter.

First, it is desirable before breakfast drink a glass of warm water, so that the body has started to work.
Second, be sure to have breakfast. It could be porridge, cereal, salad, cottage cheese or eggs. By the way, porridge improves the complexion, to use it regularly. This is an example, but you yourself must decide what is right for you.
Third, do not eat after 18-19 hours of the evening. If torturing a strong feeling of hunger, drink green tea with honey.

For dinner you should eat something light – a salad, vegetable patties, cheese and fish. Again, choose the best option for you. Be sure to have a salad of fresh vegetables every day. Suitable simple things – cabbage or beets, carrots, pumpkin – no need to invent sophisticated salads. Of course, good to refill with oil, but you can never fill. Meat, fish and vegetables is better to boil or simmer. For breakfast and lunch you can eat a muffin or pastry, but do not overdo it – not 2-3, but one. At dinner better not to eat bread.

Try to replace the fried potatoes to lentils that have a lot of benefits.

Here are some recipes that help you to understand how to lose weight without starving.

Lentils with meat

This recipe is very simple. Cut meat (possible also chicken) into small pieces and fry in a pan, better with vegetable oil. Then pour in the pan green lentils (red fall apart much of it is better to cook soup) and add water. When the lentils will soak up the liquid, add water and so on until lentils are ready. The fire must be small and ensure that lentils are not burnt! For 10 minutes until tender, add tomato paste to taste, salt and spices. The consistency of the finished dish should look like a very, very thick soup.

Lentils with lamb

 4 slices of mutton roll in flour, put in a pot, add finely chopped onion and garlic (2 cloves), pour broth and simmer for about an hour. Add 250-300 g of lentils – green or brown, diced tomatoes (fresh or canned), sliced ​​carrots and red pepper and simmer for another half hour. Shortly before the availability salt, add seasonings and chopped parsley.

Carrot salad with apples
Raw carrots and apples, pre-washed and peeled, grate, season with lemon or cranberry juice add vegetable oil and salt.

Cottage cheese with fresh herbs

 Parsley or lettuce leaves wash well, dry and finely slices. Cottage cheese through a sieve or wipe mince. Grate the radishes. All components are well mixed with sour cream or yogurt.

Boiled potatoes with nuts

 Potatoes boiled in their skins, peel and cut into cubes. Peeled walnuts, garlic, chili and green coriander pound of salt. Add fruit vinegar and chopped onion, mix it all with the potatoes and sprinkle with parsley or dill.

 To prepare for two or three potato take a quarter cup of walnuts, garlic clove, half an onion, the rest to taste.

Pumpkin seeds enhance immunity and stimulate mental activity, improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, stimulate the cardiovascular, reproductive, musculoskeletal and visual organs, as well as reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Regular use of pumpkin seeds improves the skin, strengthens hair and nails, helps to eliminate acne and dandruff, and helps with chapped lips, eczema, psoriasis, sunburn and conjunctivitis.

Vitamins in pumpkin seeds:

 • Vitamin A ( beta carotene) – 228 mcg

 • Vitamin B1 (thiamine) – 0.2 mg

 • Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) – 0.32 mg

 • Niacin (vitamin B3 or vitamin PP) – 1.7 mg

 • Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) – 0.35 mg

 • Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) – 0.23 mg

 • Folic acid (vitamin B9) – 57.5 mcg

 • Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) – 1.9 mg

 • Vitamin E (tocopherol) – 10.9 mg

 • Vitamin K (fillohinon) – 51.4 mcg

Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds are in these microelements:

• Iron – 14.96 mg

 • Manganese – 3.01 micrograms

 • Copper – 1.39 mg

 • Selenium – 5.6 mg

 • Zinc – 7.45 mg

More Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds:

1. Contained in pumpkin seeds zinc prevents the proliferation of connective tissue in the prostate gland, which is observed in BPH and prostatic, so the dried grain will be very helpful for men with this problem.

 How to Use? For the effect is enough to eat per day on 50-60 pumpkin seeds for 2 months.

 2. Due to the same zinc improves skin condition with teenage acne, because know that this illness level of this trace element in the body decreases.

 3. Here is one of the famous benefits of pumpkin seeds: they have an amino acid cucurbitacin – worm poison, harmless to humans. Given that about 50% of people walking around with parasites in the gall bladder, then no harm will to eat pumpkin seeds.

 How to use the pumpkin seeds in this case? To get rid of “unwanted guests”, have breakfast three days, 100 grams of pumpkin seeds with a glass of liquid.

Here are the health benefits of eating pumpkin:

Very useful for pumpkin iron deficiency anemia because it contains mineral substances involved in hematopoietic (iron, copper, cobalt, zinc). It is also useful to know that pumpkin contains many zinc salts, and they contribute to the potency. Pumpkin is appreciated for the high content of vitamin E, assuming that it prevents aging.

 Pumpkin – the champion of vegetables for iron, copper, and fluorine. Its fruits are rich in pectin, sugars. Vitamins in Pumpkins:  vitamins B, C, E, and carotene. Fiber is good pumpkins boiled soft and easy to digest. Crude pulp improves the function of the gall bladder, relieves inflammation in the intestine. Gastritis with high acidity is recommended to drink pumpkin juice. In addition, it is one of the best diuretics plants.

Pectin substances found in pumpkin in large quantities, contribute to the removal of toxins and cholesterol.

There is five times more carotene in pumpkin than in carrots and three times more than beef liver. For this reason, ophthalmologists recommend to use a pumpkin and pumpkin juice for people with visual impairments.

Beneficial substances in pumpkin (100 g):

• Vitamin E – 5.1 mg
• B-carotene – 400 mg
• Vegetable fiber – 3.5 g
• Calcium – 450 mg
• Vitamin C – 43 mg
• Vitamin B1 – 0.07 mg
• Vitamin B2 – 0.09 mg

Pumpkin pulp is mainly used in soups, cakes, breads and desserts. Dried or roasted pumpkin seeds used as a complement to salads, dry breakfast or as a snack.

Pumpkin porridge for those who want to lose weight: it normalizes metabolism and displays the body of toxins.

Some short Pumpkin Dishes:

Quick Pumpkin soup (with roasted vegetables):

750 g pumpkin, cut into 6 slices (like watermelon) purified from the seeds only
6 large tomatoes, cut into thick slices
1 large onion, chopped coarsely
5.4 cloves of garlic
4 sprigs of rosemary, olive oil
450 ml of water or broth
75g black olives, pitted parmesan shavings to decorate.
Preheat oven to 220 ° F. Arrange the vegetables and rosemary sprigs in a large baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil and bake for 40-50 minutes, until vegetables are lightly browned. Cut the flesh from the rind of the pumpkin and cut into pieces. Get rosemary and shift all the vegetables into a blender.

Make a homogeneous puree and run it through a sieve into a saucepan. Add water or broth and bring to boil. Season and add the chopped olives. Serve in warmed bowls with Parmesan and crispy bread with olive oil.

Healthy Pumpkin Pudding (with Apples):

Pumpkin cut into small cubes, pour 1 cup of milk and simmer until soft. Sour apples cut into small pieces and add to pumpkin stew all together until done. Then add sugar, cool, add 3 tablespoons soaked in milk semolina 4 tbsp melted butter, raisins, 3 egg yolks, mashed with sugar and beaten egg whites, all mixed thoroughly and bake in the oven.

recipe for pumpkin jam:

Here we can use all the beneficial substances pumpkin.

1 kg pumpkin

 800 g of sugar

 3 lemons

Scald with boiling water lemons, cut, mince. Pumpkin into small cubes. Stir the lemon with a pumpkin in an enamel or glass bowl, fill with sugar and leave overnight.

 The next day, mix pumpkin, lemon mixture, bring to a boil and cook over low heat on the hour. You get a very unusual pumpkin jam with amber-colored pale lemon taste.