Benefits of healthy eating

Healthy eating can cause some effects that you will notice pretty quickly. For example, a healthy diet can help you:

• control your body weight so that you can make sure you are not underweight or overweight

• have more energy to enjoy all kinds of exciting physical activity, like surfing, football, netball or dancing

• support your body while you are growing and developing so that you reach your full physical potential.

There are also some benefits that you may not notice straight away, but are worth thinking about. Scientific evidence and research show that a healthy diet can help you avoid diet-related diseases.

These are diseases that usually develop when people are over the age of 40. For example:

• heart disease

• high cholesterol

• high blood pressure

• strokes (brain damage due to blood supply problems)

• adult-onset diabetes (the most common form of diabetes)

• some cancers

• osteoporosis (thinning of the bones).

Think of your parents or grandparents - do they have any of these diseases? Wouldn't it be good if you could avoid having the same problems they do? By healthy eating now you can reduce the risks of developing these diseases later on. The risk of developing some cancers can also be reduced by eating fruits and vegetables and cereals, because they contain anti-oxidants and fiber.

Eating patterns are linked to the development of health problems. The foods that are more likely to lead to health problems are often called 'junk foods'. Foods that contain lots of fat, salt and sugar are the villains! Also, foods that do not have enough fiber are also a problem.

Preparing Healthy Meals

It’s not the bread or the potatoes that are ’fattening’, it’s the spread / oil you use on them that bumps up the calories! Cut back on butter, margarine and other spreads, or choose low-fat alternatives. Steam vegetables instead of boiling - that way you retain much more of the goodness, and the taste. Start the day with a large bowl of porridge or breakfast cereal - wholegrain is best. Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk. Season your porridge with cinnamon instead of sugar. Think about making homemade fish pates using either canned red salmon, sardines or smoked mackerel. Puree down to make smooth and season (tomato sauce goes well with the sardines, horseradish sauce with the mackerel). Serve in sandwiches or on hot toast. Having pasta, rice or potatoes? These should take up about a third of the room on your plate. Try to choose wholegrain varieties whenever possible, such as wholemeal pitta breads, brown rice and brown pasta. Brown pasta tastes so similar to white pasta; it’s an easy change to make! Avoiding adding salt at the table is a good way to reduce your salt levels. Try eating fewer savoury snacks such as crisps and nuts as well. Making your own soup and sauces can also help reduce your salt intake. Try cooking a large batch and you can freeze extra portions; this can help when you’re lacking in time to prepare meals. While cooking, season using herbs (fresh or frozen), lemon juice or even tomato puree, rather than salt. Carry around your own drinking flask or bottle so you always have water with you. You can even fill it up with tap water wherever you are! Drink plenty of fluids - aim for eight to ten glasses each day. Choose from water, sugar-free diluting juice, natural fruit juice, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, weak tea.

British Salt

Based in the heart of Cheshire, British Salt supplies over half of the pure white salts produced in Britain every year and its name has become synonymous with the very highest international standards of salt production.

Salt suppliers

If you are not sure what salt you need, we will be able to advise you, including the most economic and cost effective methods of delivery. We can arrange the supply and delivery nationally of any quantity, whether it is a bag of tablets for your water softener or a tanker of pure dried vacuum (pdv) for manufacturing animal feed. For a full list of salts please click here.

Bath Salts

All natural from the mountains of Himalayas, we have specially hand-picked, hand-washed and hand-sorted bath salts packed in bulk 25 kg or 50 kg bags . Our bath salts have proven to be a very effective remedy for the control and eradication of Stress, Tiredness, Insomnia, Arthritis, Aches, Muscles Spasms, Skin Conditions, Fatigue physical or mental. It is a 100% natural, easy to use ancient remedy and this ancient remedy have been used for thousands of years by Romans, Europeans and Eastern countries.
All Natural, no chemicals added, untreated and unscented bath Salt Crystal Rocks makes bathing experience more relaxing and soothing. Adding Salt Crystals to your bath is great for aches and pains, they help to soften and beautify your skin by cleaning your pores and detoxifying your body. Salt Crystals Rocks dissolve in the water slowly as your stress and tensions of the day also melt away.
Bath Salt Crystal Rock is popular and used in Health and Beauty Spas, Salons, Massage Therapy, Health Clubs, Hydrotherapy Treatment Facilities and even at home, specially by people who care about their health.
HUB-PAK has many many grades to offer. Rocks approximately from 2mm to 4" sizes are used for this application. The bags contain Salt Crystal Rocks, Pure and Natural. They come from Pakistan's famous Salt Mines , without any additives or chemicals added. We have just added a new soap size in addition to other sizes and the new innovative size is being liked a lot by our customers. Many different packaging options are available from simple poly bags to artistically manufactured cotton pouches with strings and many more.

Special Ultra-Pure Bromine-Free Grade

This grade is being mentioned here in these pages separately because it has been only possible to produce this grade here locally in Pakistan after a very hectic, dedicated and ambitious efforts by our R&D department. It has taken full three plus years to make this special grade totally BROMINE-FREE . The bromine content is not even in traces. The bromine content in our regular Pyrogen free grades are in the range of 10 to 40 ppm.
Bromine is extracted out by an indigenous self designed electrode ionization plant which has been designed and fabricated by our engineers in collaboration with the R&D and has been working trouble free from the date it has started working. It has been purposely designed for higher Bromine inputs as raw brines have lots of variations as far as the Bromine content is concerned.
Initially the plant was designed to extract only bromine, but with the passage of time, and learning more about the system, we are now in a position to extract other impurities also.
Research is underway to collect these impurities and convert it into other valuable products.

Sea Salt (Solar Salt)

Sea salt is produced through solar evaporation of sea water and is the smallest source of salt in Pakistan. The sea salt production is carried on here at 7 different factories with a total daily production of well above 1100 tons or 330000 tons per year.

The 7 different producers differ in quality with each other all these are located in or around the cosmopolitan city of Karachi, as being a port city, it enjoys excellent sea shore of the Arabian Sea with very fast winds almost all round the year. The best quality amongst these are sometimes found to be as good as 98% pure NaCl and normally the quality varies between 95% to 98% depending on the season and individual factory management.

The average rainfall is very very low and thus solar salt production enjoys a very very conducive weather condition almost all over the year.