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How does it help?

Magnesium is a mineral that can help control blood glucose, blood pressure regulation, muscle and nerve function, and so much more. It also plays an important role in converting protein into the chemicals that helps you to slow the nervous system down and help you to feel sleepier.

Melatonin is a known supplement to help relax your muscles, so for those who suffer with restless leg syndrome, or you have tightness from your workouts, magnesium is better in helping to alleviate that.

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Where can you find it?

You don’t necessarily need to take a supplement as magnesium can be found in a lot of foods in your diet. If you aren’t eating a balanced diet, you might want to have a blood test to check if you are deficient. Magnesium can be found in almonds, spinach, peanut butter, avocado, bananas and lots of dairy products.

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Understanding Milk Better

While non-dairy milk options like almond milk, soy milk, rice milk, and coconut milk are often marketed as healthy, it doesn’t always make sense to replace regular milk with these plant-based alternatives. They have completely different nutritional content and dairy milk is richer in certain nutrients, like calcium.

Satiate Yourself

If you completely give up on dairy milk and drink plant-based milk instead, make sure you’re still intaking enough calcium, protein, phosphorus, and vitamin B12. All these things are commonly found in dairy milk and cutting out this ingredient can be harmful for your health unless you substitute.

Some people can’t tolerate lactose or can’t drink dairy milk at all, and for them it makes sense to cut it out completely. If you don’t have problems digesting milk, you don’t have to stop drinking it, you can combine it with non-dairy milk that you prefer and keep both in your diet.

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When buying butter in a store, make sure you’re getting the best quality for your money. Pay attention to the ingredient list and stay away from butters that have a longer shelf life than around 35 days—this means they have additives. The butter should be packed in a non-transparent packaging because exposure to light decreases the amount of Vitamin A in it.

High-quality butter should be smooth and soft. It’s yellow in color, but you can notice differences depending on the time of the year. Summer butter can be darker than winter butter because the animals get different food over the year.

Once you’ve got it home, check the quality by putting a small piece in boiling water. Natural butter will melt evenly while the low-quality one won’t. If your butter crumbles when you cut it with a knife, it means there’s a lot of added water in it.

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Though butter and cheese are often considered keto staples, the answer is a bit more complicated. Many dairy products are great sources of protein, but you shouldn’t forget that they also contain sugar. The lactose found in dairy breaks down into glucose, a sugar in your body that will prevent ketosis. 

When in doubt, check the nutrition label on the product. You will quickly realize that ice cream, sweetened yogurts, and flavored milk have more calories and higher sugar content compared to plain milk or cheese. Hard cheese, soft cheese, butter, and even whipped cream should be your go-to choices if you can’t resist dairy while on keto.

The post Can Dairy Be a Part of the Keto Diet? appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.

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How does it help?

Magnesium is a mineral that can help control blood glucose, blood pressure regulation, muscle and nerve function, and so much more. It also plays an important role in converting protein into the chemicals that helps you to slow the nervous system down and help you to feel sleepier.

Melatonin is a known supplement to help relax your muscles, so for those who suffer with restless leg syndrome, or you have tightness from your workouts, magnesium is better in helping to alleviate that.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by KAL Vitamins (@kalvitamins)

Where can you find it?

You don’t necessarily need to take a supplement as magnesium can be found in a lot of foods in your diet. If you aren’t eating a balanced diet, you might want to have a blood test to check if you are deficient. Magnesium can be found in almonds, spinach, peanut butter, avocado, bananas and lots of dairy products.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Minto Fruit Orchard (@mintofruit)

The post How Magnesium Can Help You Have a Better Night’s Sleep appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.

Understanding Milk Better

While non-dairy milk options like almond milk, soy milk, rice milk, and coconut milk are often marketed as healthy, it doesn’t always make sense to replace regular milk with these plant-based alternatives. They have completely different nutritional content and dairy milk is richer in certain nutrients, like calcium.

Satiate Yourself

If you completely give up on dairy milk and drink plant-based milk instead, make sure you’re still intaking enough calcium, protein, phosphorus, and vitamin B12. All these things are commonly found in dairy milk and cutting out this ingredient can be harmful for your health unless you substitute.

Some people can’t tolerate lactose or can’t drink dairy milk at all, and for them it makes sense to cut it out completely. If you don’t have problems digesting milk, you don’t have to stop drinking it, you can combine it with non-dairy milk that you prefer and keep both in your diet.

The post Should You Drink Dairy or Non-Dairy Milk? appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.

When buying butter in a store, make sure you’re getting the best quality for your money. Pay attention to the ingredient list and stay away from butters that have a longer shelf life than around 35 days—this means they have additives. The butter should be packed in a non-transparent packaging because exposure to light decreases the amount of Vitamin A in it.

High-quality butter should be smooth and soft. It’s yellow in color, but you can notice differences depending on the time of the year. Summer butter can be darker than winter butter because the animals get different food over the year.

Once you’ve got it home, check the quality by putting a small piece in boiling water. Natural butter will melt evenly while the low-quality one won’t. If your butter crumbles when you cut it with a knife, it means there’s a lot of added water in it.

The post How to Choose the Best Butter appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.

Though butter and cheese are often considered keto staples, the answer is a bit more complicated. Many dairy products are great sources of protein, but you shouldn’t forget that they also contain sugar. The lactose found in dairy breaks down into glucose, a sugar in your body that will prevent ketosis. 

When in doubt, check the nutrition label on the product. You will quickly realize that ice cream, sweetened yogurts, and flavored milk have more calories and higher sugar content compared to plain milk or cheese. Hard cheese, soft cheese, butter, and even whipped cream should be your go-to choices if you can’t resist dairy while on keto.

The post Can Dairy Be a Part of the Keto Diet? appeared first on yourdailysportfix.com.