How to Be Healthy While Dining at a Restaurant

       There are many different restaurants serving unique specialties. If you recently find yourself conscious about the foods you eat, and are afraid that eating at a restaurant might make you fat or unhealthy, here is a guide that will help keep yourself healthy while dining at your favorite, or at a new, restaurant.

Basically, what you will have to do is to choose only those recipes that contain ingredients with high nutritional value. Or, at least have one order that contains negative calorie to keep the calorie count from increasing to an undesired level. So, what ingredients are they?

Zucchini

To start with, Zucchini contains vitamins and minerals your body needs every day, including vitamins A, C and K, manganese, potassium, magnesium and folate - a vitamin that helps the blood work more efficiently, best taken by expecting women to help prevent neural tube defects in the fetus. Beyond that, Zucchini is low in calories, cholesterol, saturated fat and sodium, making it a versatile vegetable ideal for individuals looking for ways to be fat-free and healthy.

Cauliflower

This green is probably one of the overlooked vegetables. However, its nutritional value is recommended to anyone looking for ways to fight several diseases. Its 13C, or indole-3-cabinol, and Photonutrient Sulforaphane contents are two main ingredients that help the body counter more than a few illnesses. Its Folate content is recommended for anemia patients. And consuming three florets of cauliflower each day will offer you about 2/3 of your daily vitamin C requirement.

Lettuce

There are at least 87 varieties of this perfect-for-salad vegetable. It aids digestion, promotes liver health, protects you against heart disease, cataracts and stroke. What's even great about lettuce is that it is one of the low-calorie vegetables, which means for every 100 g of fresh lettuce greens you only take 15 calories. This sought-after green is also rich in vitamins K, A and C.

Cucumbers

When your mouth needs something to munch, cure it with this vegetable packed with nutrients. Cucumber is a good source of vitamins your body needs every day, including but are not limited to B vitamins, C, A, folic acid, zinc, calcium and iron. It is also an excellent source of silica - a trace mineral that supports the strength of the tissue that holds your body together.

Carrots

If you want a guilt-free snack, you can find one with carrots. Instead of dealing with crackers and chips, consider this rich in water and fiber crunchy snack to enhance your digestive function while keeping you full longer between meals, not to mention for every cup of chopped carrots you get 52 calories with no fat. This root vegetable also comes packed with vitamins K and C, pro-vitamin A, magnesium and B vitamins.

Celery

This crunchy, low-calorie vegetable is not just a good alternative to brownies and cookies, but it does serve as a key part of your health support. It contains a dozen other types of antioxidant nutrients, including lunularin, bergapten and psoralen, which can protect you against unwanted oxygen damage to your organ systems, vessels, blood and cells. This crispy snack is also a good source of vitamins B1, B2 and B6, calcium, potassium and folic acid.

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