While most diet Gurus like Robert Atkins agree that refined sugar is not good for you and can be downright harmful. Other pundits say that it is not as bad as many nay-sayers’ proclaim. One thing that is certain with healthy cooking is you can make sure that you control what goes into any treats you are making. You don’t have to purchase commercial cakes and cookies which contain empty calories; you might make your own.
Sugar basically provides empty calories but there are ways of replacing this sweetener with other more nutritional products. Healthy home cooking and baking enables you to make good use of great recipes. Your family will be so delighted with your efforts, they won’t even notice if you slip in a few extra vitamins and minerals.
One way to get children to eat veggies when they won’t is to mix grated veggies in with ground beef. I used this on my kids when they were little so all bolognaise sauce had grated carrot or pumpkin or lentils with it, as did meatloaf, meatballs and hamburgers.
Cakes and muffins are tasty with added grated carrot or pumpkin and pumpkin bread is simple to make, plus very nutritious. Pumpkin is a sweet vegetable and when you make bread with it add mixed seeds; sunflower and pumpkin seeds make the bread even tastier, and these seed are incredibly rich in the essential fatty acids of the Omega group.
Sugar is not a simple substance to indict or acquit, and anti-sugar “ranters” abound on each shelf in the “Health Food” section of the book stores. But by the same token, other experts agree that the only thing sugar is truly bad for is tooth decay. Really this is the sole consistently documented material available to indict sugar.
You can still cook and bake and use sugar, but by making your own, rather than buying commercial cookies and cakes, you control how much sugar is used. Like all things, sugars in moderation are not all bad.
Take for example red wine and the fact that drinking a glass a day is able to prolong life, and prevent all types of dreaded diseases because of the high Resevratrol content. And the best Resevratrol can only be found in the best concentrations if you drink red wine, because of the alcohol, and these two substances working hand-in-hand. Even the FDA admits that alcohol is bad for you, but red wine in moderation is really advised for good health.
It is easy to stay healthy with healthy cooking and taking all things in moderation, be they sugar or alcohol. Simply do what your Grandmother did to stay healthy, and if she wouldn’t recognize a particular food, don’t eat it.
If you’re looking for some homemade recipes you might want to look at recipe for old-fashioned lemonade and recipe for homemade eggnog.
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