Healthy Ezine of the Week: Issue 331
Featured ArticleSea Salt Sea salt, harvested from the ocean, has been used for several thousand years. It is ideal for bringing out the freshness in salads and greens; it tends to make lettuce and other vegetables crisper. When cooking, grilling, baking or broiling beef, pork, poultry and seafood, sea salt brings out the natural flavors of the meat. |
Fitness Tip
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Nutrition Tip
Liquids Add Up
About half of the excess calories we consume come from liquids. Trying to cut back? These are your five best to worst choices.
- Water -- it hydrates better than anything
- Unsweetened tea or coffee
- Nonfat/low-fat soymilk or cow's milk -- they're fairly low-cal and provide some great nutrients
- No-cal beverages, then nutritionally rich juices (like orange juice -- but stick to one a day)
- The worst? The usual suspects -- sugary drinks (sodas, punches) with no nutritional value
What about slushies, smoothies, and shakes? Consider them a meal. Visit our Healthy Beverage Recipes for a variety of healthy beverage ideas.
Quip or Quote of the Week
Quip:
The body absorbs the iron in carrots more efficiently than that from most other vegetables.
Quick Recipe
Using all unsweetened fruit, this recipe delivers an antioxidant whallop without the sugar.
1/2 cup frozen unsweetened raspberries
1/2 cup frozen unsweetened strawberries
3/4 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
1 cup soy milk or 1 percent milk
Mix together; chill if desired to allow flavors to blend. Calories: 150
Tidbit(s)
Fats
You know that a good workout can help fat-proof your stomach and/or hips. So can the fat in the meal you eat after working out, suggests a small study. Researchers found that those who ate a meal containing monounsaturated fat, such as olive oil, and saturated fat 30 minutes after exercising, burned off three times more of the monounsaturated fat than the saturated kind. When dietary fat is burned off right away, it doesn't have a chance to be stored as excess fat tissue. This could be yet another reason to choose healthy plant fats such as olive oil over saturated animal fats such as burgers. See also: Cooking with Olive Oil.
Food Fixes
Radishes: Radishes should be blemish-free and crisp. Store radishes up to a week in the refrigerator without their stalks or leaves. (See more Radish Food Facts)
To store whole fish, rinse with cold water immediately. Fill a colander with ice, place it over a large bowl, set the fish on top of the ice, cover the fish with more ice and refrigerate until you are ready to cook. The colander prevents the fish from sitting in a puddle, which can harm its texture and flavor. To store fish steaks or fillets, leave the fish in its wrapper and refrigerate on ice in a colander as you would for whole fish.
Tasty Tip: Cut grilled cheese sandwiches into sticks to dip into salsa.
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