Six onions, two green peppers, two large cans of tomato, a bunch of celery, a head of cabbage, salt and pepper. These are the ingredients needed to make a soup to burn fat, and anyone wanting to lose weight should eat at least a week in a row. The ingredients should be boiled in a pan of pints of water and, once they are cooked well, you must pass them through the blender to get the soup to the desired thickness. You can take hot or cold anytime of day or night.

These tips come from the nutrition department of the U.S. Memorial Hospital, medical center where he began to apply to patients with heart problems that were on the kilos and needed to lose weight before undergoing any surgical intervention.

Associate the idea of healthy diet that helps keep us young and healthy, a long list of grilled fish boring and bland steamed vegetables, all washed down with huge water bottles. Healthy diets do not include, of course, the roast pig, sausages and sweets, and abundant alcohol before finishing the meal with coffee, drink and cigar. Neither one nor the other, health through a varied and appetizing possible.

After a certain age, diet is key to staying young and fit. To achieve a balanced diet does not require great sacrifices. Just a little common sense and a slight change of habits.

For example, why not start our lunch with a burst of color? Why not make our plate, as if it were an impressionist painting, a work of art?.

Have you noticed the colorful variety of vegetables? We can form a green background with broccoli or Brussels sprouts, rich in vitamins A and D. The cream of potato or cauliflower-two of the most complete foods there, blends well with the orange of carrots, rich in carotenoids, compounds that the liver turns into vitamin A. For a more vivid color how about some beets? that lower blood pressure and fight anemia. Why not add some peas and some grains of corn, highly nutritious?

In the end, a touch of gold, nothing less than a good splash of olive oil, which has a list of healing properties too long to enumerate. And very little or no salt.

Salad-with a surprising variety from month to month, “the always delicious vegetables, pasta and rice-preferably alone or with seafood, meat-ever, white meats and fish with little fat or blue, cooked, grilled steamed or baked, dairy-especially good for combating osteoporosis-two or three pieces of fruit a day, a small piece of bread and perhaps a glass of wine are sufficient and varied food to keep in good shape.