We are all fans of light, healthy food and of preserving our body toned and firm, all until it comes to giving up on the sweets we love and finding satisfaction in healthy desserts.
What are you supposed to do when at the end of the meal everybody orders lavish cookies, brownies covered in whipped cream, chocolate or vanilla mousse? How can you satisfy your sweet tooth but stay healthy and strong? You deserve to eat quality food from the beginning to the end of the meal.
Obviously, the first choice would be fruits. How many times have you heard doctors suggesting it? Not all nutritionists advise people to have fruits as a dessert.
The reason is that fruits actually prolong the digestive process and put the stomach through an additional stress. Nevertheless, eating season’s fruits will definitely provide you with the vitamins and nutrients that you lack from the previous season.
Fruit salads and fruit smoothies are valid and delicious options. Fresh season fruits are handy and affordable in most parts of the world. When you go for fruits, you should know that our body absorbs the vitamins from natural sources easier than those from processed pills.
Dark chocolate is also recommended for its high percentage of cocoa and its antioxidant effect. However, quantity matters with any dessert and dark chocolate is not an exception. Do not eat more than one or two squares a day. Otherwise, the benefits that come with the antioxidants will be surpassed by the harms of the sugar chocolate contains.
Remember: the fewer calories you take in, the better. The less processed the dessert, the healthier!
Ice cream continues to be among the traditional healthy desserts. But ice cream also comes with a trick. Do not fall for all those artificially flavored canned ice creams, no matter how nice they look and how much the label boasts them to be healthy and containing real pieces of fruits.
The dish can be prepared at home from fresh fruit, yoghurt and a pinch of sugar. This way, you know for sure what ingredients you used in your dessert and I can bet you will eat it with more pleasure than in a restaurant.
Avoid sugary flavored drinks, even if they seem healthy. They are not. The elements contained in such drinks are seldom fresh fruits and often contain too much sugar. Ending your meal with a glass of sugary drink will almost invalidate everything healthy you ate during that meal.
There is no need for you to skip dessert. You should indeed forget all about cakes and pies, but there are a variety of other choices available for all tastes, and, in time, you will learn to despise fat and sugar and to love the energy and explosion of flavors a fruit salad, a cup of ice cream or a glass of fresh fruit juice can get you, especially when you don’t have to work out for hours to consume the calories you’ve ingested.
Quite a few reasons to embrace healthy desserts, don’t you agree?