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The 7 Days Cabbage Soup Diet Plan
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 3:35 No CommentsThe 7 Days theory says you lose to 10 to 15 pounds by eating as much soup you can. For results follow the rules and regulation of the Soup Diet. It says you can have all low-calorie vegetables included in your soup like onions, tomatoes and undoubtedly Cabbages and can add tomato puree or onion soup mix or clear broth. The theory of Seven day program allows you to eat specific mentioned food day wise that includes fruit juice, selected vegetables including your favourite potatoes and beef for a day.
Day 1:
- Savour taste of all your favourite fruits, just no bananas.
Proteins, protein foods and protein supplements
Sunday, August 9, 2009 8:23 No CommentsProteins are made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. Sulphur may also be present in small amounts in the proteins. All the proteins are made up of smaller units called amino acids. The proteins we eat in our diet are not absorbed as such. They are broken down to amino acids by the protein digesting (proteolytic) enzymes in the digestive system. Amino acids then absorbed from the intestine. There are 24 different amino acids in nature and of these only 20 amino acids present in most of the proteins. Based on our requirements, amino acids have been divided in to two groups. The first groups of amino acids are called ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS and the second group is known as NON-ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS. There are nine essential amino acids – isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine and histidine. Our body cannot synthesize these amino acids. It is essential that these amino acids should be present in sufficient amounts in our diet. Therefore, they are called essential amino acids. Histidine is essential amino acid only for infants but not for adults (adult humans can synthesize sufficient amount of histidine). In the absence of essential amino acids growth and development will not be normal.