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Healthy Ezine of the Week: Issue 293

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Featured Article

Tomato Sauce: Delicious Cancer Defense -- Incorporate tomatoes into your diet to improve your body's natural defense against cancer.

Fitness Tip

Varied Workouts
Vary your workouts from long, slow endurance sessions to faster clip cardio with a few full-tilt sprints thrown in for good measure. It is both the duration and the intensity of workouts that create growth signals that can have anti-aging effects. Exercise produces the positive signals to overcome the negative signals to atrophy, so your body turns on the machinery to build up muscles, nerves, capillaries, tendons, bones, and so on.

Nutrition Tip

Keep a Food Diary
The best way to start eating healthier is to log everything you eat for 3 days. The first step in changing for the better -- see how often you eat 5 fruits and vegetables a day. Make reaching that mark your first goal. Better yet, if you can boost your fruit and vegetable intake to 7 servings per day, you will significantly increase the value of your diet.
Three options for printable food diary's online:
Online Daily Food Diary
Daily Food Diary I
Daily Food Diary II
BellyBytes.com Article:  Weighty Words

Quip or Quote of the Week

Quip:
Maple sugar is about twice as sweet as refined granulated sugar.

Quick Recipe

Ravioli with Peas and Pesto
Cook one pound of refrigerated cheese ravioli according to directions. Meanwhile, combine one can (14-1/2 ounces) drained diced tomatoes with Italian seasonings and one-cup loosely packed chopped fresh basil leaves. Place two cups tiny frozen green peas in colander. Drain ravioli over peas. Transfer mixture to a large serving bowl and toss with one-quarter cup purchased basil pesto at room temperature; top with tomato mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serving suggestions: Serve with mixed greens and crusty rolls.

Tidbit(s)

Let it Pass
Studies suggest that the average craving only lasts for ten minutes. Try to let the urge subside before you decide to walk into the kitchen or toward the cafeteria's vending machine.

Food Fixes

To make Brazil Nuts easier to shell, store them in the freezer before using.

If you add a few tablespoons of vinegar along with your dishwashing detergent when washing dishes, the vinegar will cut grease and leave your dishes sparkling.

Stir pasta when you first add it to the water to prevent it from sticking together and to the bottom of your pot.

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What's New?

New! An eight-part series on Walking for Beneficial Exercise Includes a free printable chart to keep track of your walks!

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