Cayenne Pepper, commonly used to spice up dishes, can provide significant benefits.
There is research that has looked specifically at Cayenne to determine the health impact this super herb can make. Enjoy reading some of the varied uses and findings, including improving digestion, providing skin care and helping circulation in the body.
Eating berries is a wonderful way to feed your body amazing nutrition, straight from nature. There are a myriad of benefits to eating berries but in short, eat berries.
Here a few fun berry recipes to try this summer:
Local Strawberry and Goat Cheese Tart: http://www.mountainx.com/news/2010/eatin_in_season_berry_delicious
Berry Smoothie:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/gluten/cd_berry_smoothie.html
Mixed Berry “Salad”:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/mixed-berry-salad-recipe/index.html
There’s something magical about sharing a meal with the people you love. This shake is easy to make for several people at a time and can be an excellent start to your day just as equally as it can be a wonderful finish – as a dessert!
Enjoy this delicious and highly nourishing homemade shake:
1 ½ C 2% milk (Cow, Oat, Soy, Rice)
1 C. plain yogurt (cow, goat, soy)
1 tsp vanilla
1 dash nutmeg
2 ripie bananas peeled
¼ C. honey (or 1 tsp Sunnydew)
½ tsp ground cinnamon
5 ice cubes
Combine all ingredients except ice cubes in blender and blend until thick & creamy. Add ice cubes one at a time & blend until smooth. Add fruit of choice for more options.
Note: vanilla yogurt can be substituted for plain yogurt & vanlla.
Serves: 4
Nutritional information per serving: 211 calories, 4 grams fat, 75 milligrams sodium
Article compliments of HealthCastle.com
Benefits of Flaxseed in Heart Disease
Written by Gloria Tsang, RD
Published in Nov 2004; Updated in Aug 2006.
Benefits of Flaxseed – Cholesterol lowering
Flaxseed’s high content of alpha linolenic acids has made the ancient it become our modern miracle food. Alpha linolenic acid is a type of plant-derived omega 3 fatty acid, similar to those found in fish such as salmon. Studies showed that flaxseed can lower total and LDL cholesterol (the Bad cholesterol) levels. Flaxseed may also help lower blood triglyceride and blood pressure. In addition, it may also keep platelets from becoming sticky therefore reducing the chance of a heart attack.
Other Benefits of Flaxseed
Aside from alpha linolenic acid, flaxseed is rich in lignan. Lignan is a type of phytoestrogen and also provides fiber. Researches reveal that lignan in flaxseed shows a lot of promise in fighting disease — including a possible role in cancer prevention especially breast cancer. It is thought that lignan metabolites can bind to estrogen receptors, hence inhibiting the onset of estrogen-stimulated breast cancer.
Recent studies also showed positive benefits of flax seed oil in IBD (Crohn’s Disease and Colitis). Flax seed oil seems to be able to heal the inner lining of the inflamed intestines.
Moderately include flax seed in your diet. Indeed, a lot of food products contain flaxseed such as bread, cereal and bakery goods. Bakers may use flax seed flour or include flaxseed in baking.
5 Tips to include flaxseed in home cooking:
1. Sprinkle ground flaxseed on your cereal and salads
2. Substitute flaxseed mixture for eggs in home baking such as muffin and pancake (1 tbsp milled flaxseed, plus 3 tbsp water = 1 egg). Final products will have less volume and taste gummier
3. Include in other recipe when nutty flavor is preferred
4. Substitute flaxseed oil for other oils
5. Try this Flaxseed cracker recipe provided by the Flax Council of Canada
This article and recipe is compliments of HealthCastle.com
Can eating Salmon help lower your blood cholesterol?
Written by Gloria Tsang, RD
Published in Sep 2002: Updated in Jul 2005
High cholesterol! This term seems to be highly used when dealing with today’s health topics! It is the yellowish material in your arteries which narrows the blood vessels. But they are not all bad for you. You can lower the bad type of cholesterol (LDL – low density lipoprotein) and increase the good type of cholesterol (HDL – high density lipoprotein) by altering your diet. LDL is responsible for clogging your blood vessels and HDL helps to “exile” the LDL to the liver where LDL is “destroyed”. Hence it is beneficial to have higher level of HDL and less LDL in your blood.
Omega-3 fatty acids found in salmon is an excellent source to boost up HDL in your blood stream. Omega-3 fatty acid is, indeed, a type of polyunsaturated fatty acids which can only be supplied by food sources. A study chaired by Gary J. Nelson, Ph.D., of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture’s Western Human Nutrition Research Center in San Francisco, showed that HDL increased by 10% by just eating 20 days of a high salmon diet!
Moderation is the key. Include salmon (or other fish with high omega-3 content such us sardines and tuna) to your meals occasionally and enjoy its health benefits.
Salmon oil supplements are available on the market. Check with your doctor before consuming these pills as a single pill is more concentrated in Omega 3 fatty acids than 1 serving of salmon.
Caution: Do not take salmon oil supplements if you are taking a blood thinner drug as salmon oil supplements may further thin your blood.
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