The former Italian Agriculture Minister Paolo De Castro has suggested that 'Mediterranean food 'On the World Heritage list of UNESCO to continue. The Mediterranean food includes pasta, olive oil, tomato, anchovy and tuna. De Castro wants it the Italian way of life 'protection. His initiative is supported by Spain, Greece and Morocco.

The proponents of the proposal are of the opinion that Mediterranean food is threatened by fast food and ready-to-eat food. Italians who have less to spend more often opt for pre-packaged food instead of fresh fruits and vegetables, whose prices have risen. In both Spain and Italy increased the number of obese patients.

It is known as Mediterranean food is low in fat and high in fiber. With a moderate dose of red wine is the best protection against heart disease and arthritis, Italian nutritionists say. "The science has long proven that Mediterranean food is extremely healthy. Moreover, it is part of the common cultural identity of Mediterranean countries ", says De Castro.

At the World Heritage list of UNESCO are mainly cultural and historical grounds and buildings. Yet there are also on the list of non-tangible things, such as endangered languages and traditions. UNESCO is expected to decide in 2009 whether the Mediterranean food on the world heritage list should get easier.

Source: webregio.nl

Christmas should be a celebration for everyone, even for the cook in waiting. The recipe specialist of the Nutrition Center know there handle the situation. It has Christmas for two complete menus made, which is healthy, festive and enjoyable to. Healthy = boring? Put that in your head but. How about 'pike-perch on a bed of mushrooms accompanied with a crispy roodlofsalade'?

Each can cook with the Christmas menus of the Nutrition Center of the feet. They are not complicated, although perhaps that the guests will think. The menu for Christmas Day 1st consists of four courses, with a deer medallion as main course. For 2nd Day is a colorful bietje soup with horseradish cream on the menu.

These are dishes that you guests (high) will score.

Beautiful and healthy with no frills
The Christmas menus meet the principles of the Nutrition Center: variation, not too much, with (use of) sufficient healthy fats and vegetables. The menus contain no amuses or homemade pâtés. The recipes are rather with a no-nonsense character. The ingredients are suitable for every day and everywhere available.

In short: the Nutrition Center offers delicious Christmas menus with a character wholesome without frills.

Taste for it?
Do you want to continue after Christmas with cooking? No problem. Using the recipes on www.voedingscentrum.nl you open yourself and others throughout the year continue to surprise with healthy and tasty dishes. No time to stand in the kitchen? Do not worry. You can search for food preparation. Want a quiet day to do with food? Choose the recipes for a balansdag. Allergic? ... The recipes of the Nutrition Center meet everyone's needs.

View the Christmas recipes of the food center.

Source: Food Center

Healthy eating is you do digitally in 2009. As you scan your cell phone QR codes of products in the supermarket you can find. The QR code was developed in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso-wave and a matrix code, or a two-dimensional barcode. QR codes can, with the help of software, scanned with a mobile phone. QR code for quick response. This is the quick way of encoding and decoding intended. QR codes offer the possibility of data (such as text and / or domain names) into a scanning, two-dimensional barcode.

The Nutrition Center on December 29 launched the campaign The New Food. It revolves around step by step to eat healthier, in your own pace.

Part of the campaign is a short quiz on your mobile phone. This makes use of the Nutrition Center Quick Response codes. That is the successor to the famous bar.

In Japan, the QR code is a very popular way to fast on your cell phone to a website to surf on an advertising or in a magazine mentioned. Free downloadable software translates the QR code into the Web address.

The Nutrition Center is one of the first organizations in the Netherlands that this technique commitment in a campaign.

Would you download free software already on your mobile phone? HEALTHY than SMS to 3669.

More information about the QR code is read at Qrcode.nu

Following the standard Super Smoker is now blue variant.

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For all the benefits at a glance:

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Fewer acts and therefore easier and faster to use!

With the Super Smoker Blue than you have fewer transactions to the End! When purchase is still clearly indicated how the Super Smoker can best use the battery and you need only three hours to charge for use.

Super Blue Smoker is slightly smaller in size than the Super Smoker Ultimo. This is Super Blue Smoker better in the hand and it is less heavy.

Smoker Super Blue has a blue LED light by inhalation. There is no more mistakes as possible between the electronic cigarette and a real cigarette.

Super Blue Smoker has four new flavors. Normal, Light, Menthol and Zero! All four flavors have their own color and are thus clearly recognizable in their new packaging.

Super Blue Smoker is obviously put in a new jacket. With the new packaging is Super Blue Smoker still recognizable in better stores.

Super Smoker is available from other booksellers Primera office.

Spacious room on you, it's a sentence as a child that we should hear very often. And yet, everyone admiration for people whose residence is always' fine 'is. And with reason: clean up is needed not only to compliment lime little to gain, it's good for the health of body and spirit. A demonstration.

Cleaning, yes overdo it, no
We do not want to explain the red carpet for people who are obsessed by security and dust. A little disorder has never done anyone harm. But shambolic mess indicates a lack of organization and clarity in life. And even that may have a harmful effect on health ...

Beware of germs in the kitchen
In the kitchen and in places where you can store food disorder risk to health. A few hours sufficient for a food to be overgrown by bacteria that can ensure food poisoning. These problems can be limited to transient, but for pregnant women, older people, small children and people with immune problems may be severe food poisoning. We give you a number of important tips:
- Leave your messages do not lie around. All fresh produce should be as quickly as possible in the koelast. Go shopping immediately after the home, not go a little shopping!
- Watch out with work surfaces in the kitchen. If you unwashed vegetables on the table, then you clean before you submit to other foods. The shelf where you cut raw meat should not be used to fine chopping raw vegetables.
- Your koelast must be as clean as your dishes.

Bedroom illustrate
We put one third of our lives already asleep by. A clean and hygienic bedroom is also very important. It is there in the first place to foster the accumulation of dust and mites to avoid. The creatures love huidschilfertjes, heat and humidity that makes what they love in bed and bedding. But mites can cause all sorts of allergies, of eczema to asthma. Regularly changing the bedding is a must, as a cleaning with a vacuum cleaner. And do not forget to the bedroom to illuminate, at least half hours per day, in order to refresh the air and ensure that polluting substances during sleep does not reach the lungs.

Everywhere: order is good for the head!
The living environment has an impact on what we feel and think. That affects everyone else, but the effect is a fact. It is true that some people stress experienced by an excess of order that may feel empty, but live and live in chaos and neither is it a good solution. Depending on the home only a few hours per week at your house in order without an obsession that is!

Source: e-gezondheid.be

Together with locally grown and seasonal vegetables, biovoedsel is a real hype. Better for your health better for the environment, better for everything and everyone. But is that true? The American Marie Claire discovered that six misunderstandings exist around organic food.

Myth 1: Bio is always better for the environment
Organic food is grown without pesticides or chemicals, and so pollute the earth and groundwater. That's right, but it is the proceeds are much lower, leaving more land is needed or more people in the Third World will die from malnutrition.

Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute's Center for Global Food Issues has calculated that agriculture with high yield 24 million square kilometers of forests has saved. If the entire world would switch to organic farming would further 16 million square kilometers of agricultural land to give way to them.

Myth 2: Biovoeding contains more nutrients
Hard to say because the investigation results. More importantly for the number of nutrients in vegetables and fruits is how long you they already have. How fresher, the better, because after some time 'disappear' just vitamins from food. Are you worried about the nutrients in your diet, buy and cook it as fresh as possible.

Myth 3: Organic is better
About flavors no one can argue but also blind research is still no difference to overcome. What counts here is whether you (fresh) locally grown, seasonal vegetables and - buy fruit. Belgian strawberries in May by definition better than imported in December, which were frozen a long time to enable them to be transported.

Myth 4: You do not wash biovoeding
All food from the ground, has potentially exposed to bacteria such as E. coli. Rinse under running water, is still the best option.

Myth 5: You supports small and eco-businesses
Organic is big business, even to the extent that biovoeding sometimes imported to meet the demand. That CO2 kilometers are however not really 'eco' or 'organic'. Small businesses are also out of the market competition by the major who buy dumping prices, which are so low that farmers can not survive.

Myth 6: Bio is better
Biogroenten and meat perhaps, but biokoekjes or biolimonade is just as bad as usual biscuits or ordinary lemonade.

ATTENTION: "Organic" means that the product for at least 95 percent is organically grown products. "Made with organic 'means that only 70 percent of the products were farmed organically.

A dog life
Is there nothing to biovoeding 'better' than to 'normal' diet? Yes it is. Organic products are often in a humane manner. For example, animals get more space and other foods, making them a less stressed life.

The risk of diseases such as mad cow disease, which arose from animal food animals were given, is also nil. Finally, as previously mentioned, bio meanwhile big business. This has the advantage for consumers is that it easier for organic food.

Source: hln.be

Christmas is a difficult time to really look at the line. It does not really, but you still want not quite fly off the road, maybe you have something to these menu suggestions. They are also terribly nice that they are also slim. You will not waste, but in any case not arrive pounds.

The trick is, often in the quantities, we are accustomed to certain quantities of food and take as much as we have a normal evening meal will do. However, if you eat multiple courses, you need the size of these corridors also adjust and thus smaller! Then you are completely saturated, but not ramvol!

Two delicious Christmas menus, you can also jointly prepare, if you have vegetarian eaters!

Thin slices of raw tuna with sesame
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Chicken from the oven with garlic and lemon
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Gewokt fruit with honey

670 kilocalories per person

Goat cheese with apple
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Portobello roseval with potatoes and vegetables
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Gewokt fruit with honey

557 kilocalories per person

All recipes are written for 4 people

Recipes

Carpaccio of tuna

300 grams of raw tuna into thin slices
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame
Inge Sailed ginger
75 grams rocket

Divide at any sign about 50 grams of tuna. Mix the soy sauce and sesame by each other. Divide this over the tuna and withdraw delicious late in the refrigerator. Divide the rocket on the tuna go along with the slivers of ginger.

Chicken with lemon

300 grams kipfilets in 4 pieces
1 lemon
2 tbsp olive oil
3 cloves garlic
rosemary
400 grams potatoes (roseval)
1 zucchini
1 eggplant
Salt and pepper

Put two oven ready dishes. Divide in 1 in the kipfilets and others cut the potatoes into pieces. Divide the lemon slices, garlic, rosemary, pepper and salt and olive oil on the two scales. Put them in a preheated oven of 180 degrees. Cut the vegetables into cubes and add them after 20 minutes to the potatoes. Serve at once.

For the vega version: Serve the vegetables together with a large Portobello, which you about 10 minutes in the oven gratin with 50 grams of parmesan cheese.

Gewokt fruit with whipped cream

1 mango
2 apple
2 bananas
2 tbsp honey
1 glass of apple juice
Pipe whipped cream (1 tuft per person)

Cut all the fruit into pieces. Put a small pan with a layer of apple juice and let it gently fruit trays. Add the rest of the juice and two spoons of honey. Serve the fruit warm with a tuft whipped cream.

Goat cheese with apple

100 grams goat cheese
2 small apples
1 glass of apple juice
1 el balsamic
75 grams rocket

Cut the apple into slices and heat them in the apple juice. Take the apple out. Put it in an oven dish and heat for about 5 minutes in the oven. Add the balsamic to the apple juice and let it boil a little. Divide the rocket about the signs bear the goat cheese and serve. Baste with the sauce.

Source: valtaf.nl

Consumers should be easier and more conscious can opt for healthy food. That is why the government questions the industry healthy and varied food to offer.

This is in the memo "Healthy Food, from beginning to end, the Ministers agreed on a proposal by Minister Klink (VWS) and Minister Verburg (LNV).

Offer

Healthy diet, according to the government's own responsibility to consumers, producers, for example, schools and employers. Consumers need to be a conscious choice.

The government therefore asked the food industry, retailers, catering and hospitality their food supply to make healthier and more varied. They must also make clear how a consumer product is composed.

Spearheads

The nutrition of the Cabinet focuses on youth and the elderly. Furthermore, within the nutritional health attention.

If all Dutch opt for healthy food, die in twenty years is expected to be 140,000 fewer people.

Source: regering.nl

She has already sold millions of books to sound like that Dutch waste and its new magazine is a great success. From next year, Sonja Bakker also its first own TV program, 'SOS Sonja' in RTL 4. Sonja Bakker is this person in each episode, which is a very special purpose wants waste. The road is made there, by the viewer to follow. This is not just for dieting but also about other ways that Sonja proposing to enjoy life and self-confidence to win. Ultimately, the achievement of the specific ultimate climax of the episode.

Erland Galjaard, program director RTL 4: "With many RTL 4-programs, we try to help people with the problems they are seated. "Postponement of execution," "The Naked Truth," "Derek Ogilvie: The Ghost Whisperer" and "Help, My Man Is A Hobby 'there are a number of. 'SOS Sonja' fits into this line and Sonja Bakker RTL 4 can instantly the most popular weight consultant from the Netherlands to pursue the matter. We are therefore very proud of. "

Candidates will be able to "SOS Sonja 'enter via: sossonja@rtl.nl

Source: tienfan.nl

The number of gastric reduce income operations also known as a gastric band is rising strongly. Doctors think that the end of the increase is not yet in sight.

There are more and more fat in Dutch. In 2003, 200 stomach reductions carried out two years later there were 300, an increase of 50%. In 2003, including 755 gastric bands placed in 2005, 1150. With a maagband is the entrance to the stomach verkleind.De interventions are often a last resort for fat people. Reductions in gastric succeeds 70% of patients within 5 years is to half of the overweight to lose. Many patients are also enthusiastic about the result.

A stomach cost around 7000 euros. That money is recovered by the patient after surgery less heart disease and other disorders occur. Some patients by surgery even life.

source: cnn news