From Healthy Diet
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The most important in a healthy diet is to eat a wide variety of foods, fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes and low-fat dairy products. This is important because different foods make different nutritional contributions.
You should also try to maintain a balance between calories you eat and the calories you consume. Don't eat more food than your body can utilize. Otherwise, you will gain weight and the goal of most people is to lose weight. Weight loss is a very discussed subject and you can find several company's selling different diet pills and supplements. Remember, the more active you are, the more you can eat and still maintain your balance. |
Here are some guidelines to help you construct a healthy diet:
1. Limit your intake of fat and saturated fat. Choose lean meats, light-meat poultry without the skin, fish, and low-fat dairy products. In addition, cut back on vegetable oils and butter as well as on mayonnaise, salad dressings, and fried foods.
2. Reduce your cholesterol intake; try to avoid too much sugar.
3. Eat foods rich in complex carbohydrates, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. Make sure to include green, orange, and yellow fruits and vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, cantaloupe, and citrus fruits.
4. Moderate the protein intake, choose low-fat sources, and eat a variety of foods to ensure that you will get all the necessary nutrients.
5. Maintain the adequate calcium intake by consuming low-fat sources, such as skim milk and low-fat yogurt. Calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth. If you can't get the optimal amount from foods, take supplements.
6. Try to get your vitamins and minerals from foods. Supplements cannot substitute for a healthy diet, which supplies nutrients and other compounds besides vitamins and minerals.
7. Maintain the balance between the calorie intakes with energy output.
8. Limit your alcohol consumption because alcoholic beverages can add many calories to your diet. The "energy balance" principle behind weight loss is simple but actually losing weight is not.
To Wood Carving
Wood carving can be defined as the art of shaping statues, ornaments, furniture, and utensils by means of cutting tools, drills, and abrasives to create, restore, or repair useful or decorative objects. Various lumbers have have their own unique qualities and are used accordingly.
Wood carving is a specialized fine working craft, taking advantage of the unique characteristics of lumber that have established this medium as human-kind's first useful and still dominant raw material.
As an art form, includes sculpture from the decorative bas-relief on small objects to life-size figures in the round, furniture, and architectural decorations.
This practitioners are skilled artisans, creating handsome household items such as spoons, ladles kitchen ware, dowry chests, benches, cupboards, and musical instruments like flutes, shepherd's popes, and fiddles. Their intricate designs are also an important element of rural home furnishings and decor.
This form of art during the Middle Ages evolved considerably from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance - in materials, tools, and methods.
 Materials
The lumbers used for trimming vary greatly in hardness and grain. The most commonly employed lumbers include pine, pear, walnut, willow, oak, and ebony. They can have different properties; these are summed up in the lumber trimming handout. Wood trimming workers knew these properties and exploited them. For example, a wagon wheel was normally composed of and Elm hub - since Elm doesn't split, Oak spokes - since Oak is both cheap and strong, and an Ash rim - since Ash is tough and flexible. Oak appears to be the most common lumber - this probably has something to do with the fact that it's one of the most common trees in Western Europe. Oak is also fairly resistant to decay, which has probably led to it being over-represented in surviving pieces.
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