Marias Health Blog

Protein is the main component of muscles, connective tissue, hair and nails and therefore called for the body’s building block. Protein has many great benefits, for example it gives a good sense of measured market, favors fat burning and balances your blood sugar.
You find protein in animal such as meat, fish, shellfish, eggs, milk products. Vegetable proteins are not as high quality as animal but with a good combination of various vegetable proteins you can get a good quality. Examples of vegetable protein are lentils, beans, peas and cereals.

Vitamins and minerals
By eating vegetables to each meal you bring the body vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants. It protects the body against free radicals and you can never have too much of them. Vary the vegetables and eat those who are colorful. It doesn´t matter if the vegetables are frozen, boiled, baked or wok just don’t prepare them too much. Always have chewing resistance left to avoid the risk of nutrients disappear.

Like whit fat, even among the carbohydrates you should choose the better options for a healthy diet. Many people believe that carbohydrates are the major cause to weight gain instead of fat, and choose to partly or completely leave out carbohydrates in the diet.
The fact is that without carbohydrates in our diet, we feel tired and feeble and the brain cannot perform optimally. Carbohydrates act as the main fuel for the brain and muscles work. Carbohydrates affect our blood sugar and therefore are my tips to avoid rapid carbohydrate which you find for example in white pasta, candy and pastries. Choose instead wholegrain pasta, unsweetened bread with whole grains, legumes, fruits and greens. After a heavy training session you can choose quick carbohydrate products for more efficient recovery.

I was asked if I recommend a diet and what I think about the South beach diet.
The South Beach diet is the one who joins my recommendations for how to eat. The diet allows the person to eat regularly and with all essential nutrients except in the first phase.
The first phase of the diet is to avoid bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, pastries, sugar and fruit during the first 14 days. The problem is that the brain needs carbohydrate to work properly and we will, among other things, to feel feeble and distracted. So instead of dropping carbohydrates completely, I would choose carbohydrates with low glycemic index and only eat a portion size of a fist. But then it depends on whether you are physically active or not. If you are working out regularly you have to eat more carbohydrates.
And it´s always allowed to eat fruit and vegetables!!!

An important thing to remember if you want to lose weight, don´t eat more energy than you consume during a day. And don´t stare blind on how much you weight, the most important is to feel comfortable with yourself. I am satisfied when I feel trained and comfortable in my clothes.

It was a successful opening!
I´m always doing everything the last minute. This week I spent decorating our massage room, exercise equipment purchased and prepared for the grand opening.
Look how nice it become!

The shopfront

The massage room.