Eating chocolate when dieting helps accelerate weight loss

Eating chocolate when dieting helps accelerate weight loss

Combining greed and weight loss is possible. This is what a German study of the Institute of diet and health of Mainz published in the International Archives of Medicine reveals. This piece of research demonstrates that by adding 42 g of dark chocolate with 81 percent cocoa content to their daily diet, people lost 10

Jamie Oliver’s petition for better food in schools

Jamie Oliver’s petition for better food in schools

Obesity is a worldwide widespread disease. Such condition occurs when the intake of calories exceeds the amount of calories burnt. Obesity is due by poor nutrional education, sedentary lifestyle and other causes, such as genetic predisposition, family environment and social and economic conditions. Obese or overweight children do not necessarily eat too much, but they

Chive pancakes

Chive pancakes

    Ingredients 150 g of flour A pinch of salt 1/2 teaspoonful baking powder 1/4 teaspoonful baking soda 200 g of milk 1 egg 40 g of melted butter 20 g of fresh chives     Combine the flour, the salt, the baking powder and the baking soda. Separately, blend the milk, the egg

Mejadra

Mejadra

  Ingredients 250 g of green or brown lentils 200 g of basmati rice 4 medium-sized onions 3 spoonful of flour 2 teaspoonful of cumin 1/2 spoonful of coriander seeds half a teaspoonful of powdered turmeric 1 teaspoonful of grinded Jamaican pepper 1 teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon 1 teaspoonful of sugar 250 ml of sunflower

Life Paint: the glow-in-the-dark spray that saves cyclists’ lives

Life Paint: the glow-in-the-dark spray that saves cyclists’ lives

The fear of being involved in an accident when riding bicycles is linked to low visibility at night. The problem often arises from drivers’ lack of attention or their unsafe driving style.   Products that enhance visibility can help night-time cyclists defend themselves against cars, when riding home on city streets after dark. Reflective and

5 bad cooking habits

5 bad cooking habits

When you suddenly suffer from stomachache, nausea, dysentery or abdominal cramps, you often blame the restaurant or the canteen where you have just eaten. Actually, experts claim that our kitchens are the places where hygienic and sanitary risks are higher. It’s here that, as a result of bad habits, contamination, microbial proliferation in food products

Cats and pregnancy: here’s what you should know about toxoplasmosis

Cats and pregnancy: here’s what you should know about toxoplasmosis

Are you pregnant? So, get rid of your cat. Expecting women with a cat probably have heard these words at least once in their life. The boogeyman is toxoplasmosis, an asymptomatic infectious disease that if contracted and transmitted to fetus during pregnancy can cause abortion or severe malformation.   Actually, it is really unlikely to