Herbs that Enhance Food
An appropriate combination of herbs can turn a traditional dish in a delicate mash. We tell you how to prepare some mixtures that will give a unique touch to your dishes.
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Healthy Sauces
Eat bland foods is boring and unsatisfactory and if that is all what is your diet. More than likely, you get bored of it soon after starting.
If you like good tasting food, some sauces and spices can improve your food without adding calories to your diet.
The next time you grill meat, you can try using one of these sauces:
- Soy sauce low salt content.
- Mustard
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Vinegar (there are many types of vinegar, try them)
- Teriyaki Sauce
- Tomato sauce
- Hot Sauce
All these sauces are very tasty and provide few calories your diet.
Zinc
What is Zinc?
Information on the zinc
Food sources of zinc
Zinc is not manufactured by the body, it is made exclusively from food. His daily recommended intake is 10 to 20 mg per day.
The food that contains more zinc is oysters, but most of the meat, some shellfish, wheat germ, sesame seeds and pumpkin and cooked legumes also contain good quantities.
Physiological interest, deficiency and zinc supplementation
Zn is involved in all phases of anabolism.
It is necessary to perform 300 metallo-enzymes and gene expression of multiple growth factors and steroid receptors.
It also falls within the structure of certain proteins. Zinc deficiency, even mild, has a particularly negative impact on immune function and healing, the repair tissue
and growth.
The main signs of zinc deficiency are:
- Immune deficiencies,
- Disturbances of wound healing,
The weakening of hair.
Some population groups are at risk of deficiency for the following reasons:
- Of the increase of their needs in times of growth (children, adolescents),
- During pregnancy
- In malabsorption: For people suffering from alcoholism,
- During the aging
- Traumatic stress or infection: During intense sporting
If smoking
