Category Diets

Everyone knows that for proper hydration you should drink at least 2 liters of water a day. Yet most people just ingest less than a liter of fluids / day, just 970ml to be precise, with no substantial differences between men and women. does it 'make you want to drink'?

It is the most dietary of cooking methods because it does not include the addition of fats and best preserves the nutritional properties of food. Of course it is not as appetizing as a good fry or a juicy roast, but using herbs and aromas well, the palate will also have its part. Steam can be used to cook fresh vegetables, thin fish or fish fillets, but also meat cut into thin slices.

Fruit salad is a typical dish of the hot season, it can be eaten as a snack or dessert at the end of a meal and is also considered a light "dish". However, even while enjoying fruit it is possible to go beyond the diet: fruit contains vitamins (A, B1, B2 and C), minerals and fiber, but if it is consumed with the wrong combinations it can swell.

Salads are a typically summer dish, particularly suitable for those on a diet. They are easy and quick to prepare and are rich in nutritional properties: they ensure an adequate supply of vitamins, mineral salts, fiber and contain practically no fat. All green leafy salads contain B vitamins while the content of vitamin C, PP and provitamin A varies according to the type of salad: endive and chicory are particularly rich in precursors of vitamin A and vitamin C, less in lettuce and in the escarole.

Today we will show you how to steam cooking, a very healthy cooking technique, as well as ecological. Why greet? Thanks to steam cooking, the substances present in food, such as vitamins and mineral salts, are not dispersed in the cooking water, resulting in richer foods from a nutritional point of view.