The Miracle of Yourself

The Proteins

Protein is very important for your body to renew your cells. All parts of your body need protein. However, you must be aware that not the entire protein source is good for you. You need only good protein instead of bad protein. Bad protein has high calories, low in fiber. It has also much saturated fat, bad cholesterol and arachidonic acid. This is why many of diet programs restrict the consumption of all forms of protein. That is because of the bad reputation of red meats and whole milk which are rich of unfriendly nutrients.
By consuming good protein we will not loose energy during our eating program and avoid unneeded fatigue that may suffer by people who restrict protein on their diet. There are many choices for your proteins such as eggs, non fat milk, soy milk, beans, nuts and seeds, variety of fish, breast of chicken or turkey without skin, beef tenderloin without fat, oysters, crab, shrimp and squids.

The Fat

The fat is consisting of saturated fat and unsaturated fat. The saturated fat mostly found in land animal meat. Red meat, egg yolk, hard cheese, butter, organ meat, ice cream and whole milk are rich with saturated fat. The unsaturated fat is mostly found in fish and vegetable oil. The saturated fat is solid in room temperature while unsaturated fat is usually formed as liquid. Saturated fat commonly has much LDL, the bad guy cholesterol and arachidonic acid which can increase your risk suffering heart attack and stroke.

The saturated fat also can be found in vegetable oil like coconut oil and palm kernel oil. However, according to some research, these saturated vegetable oils are not harm to your health. They content medium chain fatty acid (MCFA) that is helpful to our health. MCT (Medium Chain Triglycerides) other form of MCFA is processed from palm kernels while lauric acid is found in the cold process from fresh coconuts calls virgin coconut oil. MCT and lauric acid can play important role in maintaining our health. Lauric acid is commonly used to help very ill old people and babies if their diseases have not been detected. Some scientists said that the coconut oil is the healthiest dieter oil in the world.

According to some scientists the lauric acid in the virgin coconut oil may potential to:

- heal and prevent from arteriosclerosis that risk of stroke and heart attack;
- heal and reduce cancer and other degenerative problems;
- heal and prevent from virus and bacteria infections;
- support body immune system;
- improve digestion and the absorption of food nutrients;
- supply quick energy;
- assist the weight reducing program;
- work as protecting antioxidants to fight poisonous free radical

However, I do not recommend frying foods. I rather stick to suggest avoiding any oil heating frying food mainly in French fries and doughnuts. We better stay away from heated oil, the oil that is used to fry or deep fry the chicken, potatoes, and other foods.

According to reports, the coconut oil and palm kernel oil are not easily turned to become trans fatty acid when they are used for frying like other vegetable oils. All vegetable oils are good only when they are consumed fresh and in very little quantity. The unsaturated fat has two kinds of fatty acids. They are mono unsaturated acid and poly unsaturated acid. Most of vegetable fat or oil may content HDL (High Density Lipoprotein), the friendly cholesterol. To make it easy to remember, you can call this good cholesterol as “Helpful” Density Lipoprotein to distinct from LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) or Lousy Cholesterol.

Fish, especially from cold marine deep water usually has the good and very helpful substance which is called Omega-3. This kind of miraculous fatty acid:

- can reduce your elevated blood pressure;
- “thin” the blood so that it will slow down the potential dangerous clotting process;
- can lower your cholesterol level;
- can reduce triglycerides, another blood fat that also can harm to your heart;
- can slow down the plaque deposit;
- suppress inflammation that can raise arthritis;
- help improving the effectiveness of insulin;
- heal migraine and headache;
- can reduce the size of tumor.

Beside Omega-3, fish also has EPA (Eicosapentaenoic Acid) and DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid) that are also good and beneficial for your health. Consider to have 3 to 4 portions of fish a week. It is very good for health. The fish oil capsule may also be good for your daily supplement but the delicious broiled salmon steak will be a lot better for your taste, right? However, no matter how good the fat or oil is, use it wisely. It is high calorie macro-nutrient, so limit the use of this good oil to a maximum of 2 tea spoons in your every meal. Except your fish or other sea food portion you can have them with larger quantity until about 100 grams at your lunch, breakfast or dinner.

The worst fat is trans fatty acid. Never consume any foods which consist of trans fatty acid. Margarine and shortening which is from vegetable oil but get hydrogenated with high heat becoming the trans fatty acid. It is the number one enemy to our health.