Better Call Saf (Registered Dietitian)

  Time to time I will provide some quick and easy snack alternatives to have more varieties in your diet and at the same time having a healthy option to use, at the bottom of this post you will find more links with other snack ideas in case you are interested  Snack alternative: Rough Oatcakes  Nutrional Value per 1 Oatcake   Calories : around 50 depending on the brand Fat : around 2gr but saturated fat are less than 1gr Protein : 1.2 gr Carbohydrate : 5.8 gr Fibers : around 1gr Benefits: High in Fiber Easy to consume with a varieties of other ingredients  No artificial flavours or hydrogenated fats  Very low in sugar and fat Things to note: - Originally from Scotland, Since there are  many variations and brands it's a good idea to check the ingredients to make sure is 90% or over wholegrain - Extremely versatile you can find the right combination with the other ingredients you are using and choose a different texture: Rough  Fine Crunchy  -  Vitamins and Minerals are very low in t

Comparison between different type of milk: Cow's, A2, B.O.B. Hemp, Soya, Almond, Oat and Rice ">Why plant based milk are taking over the regular one ?  -  Since lot of people are intolerant to lactose, they have to opt for a plant based one and this is the first reason to consider when you don't have any other choice - Another main reason is to reduce saturated fats or sugar in the daily intake or increase certain vitamins and minerals in order to improve the diet, as shown in the numbers below, each type of milk has different amount of micro and macro nutrients  - The taste, the ethical and environmental impact are also to be considered, including following a vegan diet just to make an example  So let's compare the Nutritional Value of 100 ml of different type of milk and after that  we are going to discuss benefits and disadvantages for each of them (4 from cows and 5 plant based)  1 00 ml Cow's milk (whole) Calories: around 66 Fat: 3.7 gr  wh

Let's start the new year in the best way possible: with freedom!  The freedom to choose in this case   Sometimes it's easy to get bored of the same meals during the week over and over That's when craving for something else start to increase and often this could be a takeaway or just something high in calories to break the routine  So here some trustable websites that offer healthy recipes and you can select quick and easy options or a more complex one depending on your time and skills Could be a good idea to pick one option for each meal of the day to be introduced every week and keep the change for the following week if you liked or change again in the second week and so on The whole point of doing this is to help you staying on track with good alternatives and have more varieties as well 1)  https://foodnetwork.co.uk/ healthy-family-dinners/ 2)  https://www.epicurious.com/ search?special-consideration= healthy 3)  http://www.eatingwell.com/ recipes/ 4)  https://www.allr

Let's start with a question: How do you think a  Queen Bee is made ? Would you say she was born already like this or something else made her become the Queen ? The answer is: She was born exactly as the other bees,  nothing different at all But because of the a different diet, her whole structure would grow differently and that's how she becomes a Queen with all the specific characteristics To give more details, the Queen Bee is receiving  a different kind of nutrient compared to any other, which is  Royal Jelly ,  and this is one of the  biggest example I came across on  how much the diet could impact overall Just to make one example: The Queen Bee can live almost 5 years   while the "regular bee" has a life cycle between 45 and 90 days, and all the credits goes to the different nutrients they have  Now, as you have probably seen this product in your local supermarket, let's have a look to the nutrients and  let's compare this to honey

I was in a local bar in Naples when I made a compliment on how good was the coffee and the barista kindly explained to me that the secret was the water! Was the first time hearing something like that so I was curious about this answer, and the reason it's because the tap water from Naples it's usually very pure and low in minerals Thinking about this, actually makes sense that all the waters don't taste the same and just considering  the varieties of minerals you can have in the water really changes a lot from places to places or from different brands, and each mineral changes the taste of it, therefore since this is basically the other half as ingredient for any kind of coffee or tea, it means that changes the taste too! As a personal experience, I can say that the taste of the coffee of the same brand was different in Naples compared to the one I usually had in Rome (where I grew up) So what did change ? Immediately I can recall that the tap wate