A very important rule of correct alimentation, which is often ignored, says that we have to eat frequently. Between the three main meals you have to slip at least two intermediary snack brakes.

Healthy Snacks

Respecting this standard is quite vital if you want to keep your current weight or if you want to lose some pounds. Your breakfast should be the most important meal, so you can have the energy required for the entire day, but also because all calories accumulated will get burned until evening, so they will not be turned to body fat.

Even if the snacks between meals are beneficial, what you choose to eat and how much of that thing you eat also counts. The important thing is to try not to turn snacks into real calories bombs. Many persons are accustomed to consume sweets between meals. Even if sugar is a great source of energy, when it’s excessively consumed it can turn to poison.

Here are a few of the aliments recommended to eat between meals, without endangering your silhouette:

Fruits and Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables contain fibers, but also numerous vitamins and minerals which complete you daily amount of nutrients. Fruits will ease the need for sweets and you can escape easier from eating cookies or other sweet snacks. Even if fruit juices are very healthy, they are quite deceiving when you are under a diet. When you squeeze the fruits you lose all the fibers they contain, and these are the ones offering a fullness sensation. In addition to this, you are fooled by the idea that they do not pose a threat to your diet, when in fact they do, because some fruits contain lots of sugar. So, you should eat them fresh and instead of fruit juices you should drink plain water.
Vegetables are just as good snacks as fruits, but they should also be eaten fresh. If you boil them, you will loose many nutrients and all the fibers.

Cereal snacks
Whole cereals are rich in fibers and carbohydrates, which can offer you the power of a gradually released energy. Sweets for example offer a huge amount of energy at once that only lasts for a short period of time, and on top of this they are full of calories.

After lunch, you should choose dietetic biscuits or even yogurts in which you can put any cereals you like.

Nuts and seeds
A healthy skin, shiny and resistant hair and a memory to kill for, all these things are kept in maximum shape by essential fat acids. These acids can be found in important quantities in nuts and seeds, which you can consume between meals. Chew some peanuts, forest nuts, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, almonds and the list can go on and on.

They are all rich in good fat, mono-saturated fat acids, which are very efficient in keeping our body young and healthy. Plus, they are quite delicious.

Remember though to drink enough water after eating such tasty snacks, because they can cause your body to dehydrate.

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It feels so nice to find somewhere a few diets that will only bring you pleasure. I’m a great fan of fruits, in all their varieties, but sweet fruits could constitute my way of living, that’s how much I love them. And one of my favorite is the melon, because it’s tasty, sweet and relaxing and because it goes perfectly instead of any cookies, and I don’t even feel that I’m depriving myself from some pleasures. Next to all these taste delights I get from melons, I have been quite surprised to find out that this is a really healthy fruit. To make things easier for you, I’ve gathered some information about the various melon diets that can help us maintain our figure, lose extra weight and stay healthy.

The Mellon Diet

The Mellon Diet
They say you must take it for 10 to 20 days. You will be eating mainly melon, but because we don’t want to get digestive malfunctions, we must not go over 4 pounds per day. If you want to vary the diet a bit, you can add rice, fish and other vegetables to your meals.

Melon Nectar
The melon nectar is recommended and recognized as a liquid quite resistant to oxidation. Even if I’m a person that loves melon, I found the nectar to taste a bit odd. Probably because I wasn’t expecting to drink melon, being so accustomed to eating it. You can find it in hypermarkets, but it is very easy to make at home, with a mixer. If you want to include it in the above diet, you can drink 6 or 7 glasses a day.

The Melon Diet For Constipation
Whenever the kids are having digestive problems, I give then yellow melon on an empty stomach. The trick is to eat as much as you can out of it. It will clean the digestive tube, and it will work better if you want some cereals with melon juice right after you eat the melon.

The Melon Diet For Low Appetite
I’ve found that the fact that the melon regulates appetite works both ways. It’s recommended for its vitalizing properties, especially in anemia. This cure says you have to eat 1-2 slices of melon 15 minutes before each meal, and eat them slowly, properly chewed.

The Melon Diet For High Appetite
One pound of melon in the morning and two more at lunch will create that satiety sensation all craving persons dream of. It’s very surprising that this sensation persist for hours after you’ve eaten. I found that even regular meals can’t make me feel so full as the melon does.

Even if this is a sweet fruits that has sugar in it, other components of the yellow melon help people keep a metabolic balance. My doctor explained why I should eat melon all the season, just to prevent such a disease. Diabetics can also eat it, and they should eat it, but in moderate quantities.

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