Making Healthy Food Even Healthier Part 2

Increase your calcium the tasty way by adding some lemon juice to home made chicken soup. Vinegar and tomato can be used instead of the lemon. By adding these acidic foods to bone in chicken soup you can increase the amount of calcium by over 60%. The same goes for ribs, use a vinegar barbecue sauce and your calcium intake will rise.

Also increase your vitamin C by not cutting those vegetables in too small of a piece. The surface of the vegetable that is exposed to air will lose the vitamin C, so if you cut into larger pieces you can retain more vitamins.

Making Healthy Food Even Healthier Part 1

Most of us are aware of which foods are healthy and the benefits they give us, but did you know the way we prepare these foods can drastically change the nutrients they offer? This mini series of posts will tell you the best ways to enjoy these healthy foods so that you can get the maximum amounts of nutrition from them.

To increase the amount and effectiveness of lycopene from tomatoes, heat them before eating. The heat creates a chemical change that makes the lycopene easier for us to absorb in our bodies.
Remember that canned tomato products like paste and sauce were heated during the canning process, so those would be better to use in recipes for the lycopene instead of fresh raw tomatoes. Please note that canned and processed foods do have a lot of sodium added in them, so if you are watching your sodium, canned would not be a good choice unless you purchase a low or no sodium version. More and more products are giving you the choice these days.

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THE SUPERFOODS RX DIET by Steven Pratt

Dr. Steven Pratt has written a book about the foods he considers to be superfoods. There are fourteen of them, they are :

• Beans - to control blood sugar and weight, they are low fat and low calorie and full of protein
• Blueberries - helps keep your brain functioning well
• Broccoli - a cancer preventer
• Oats - lowers your cholesterol
• Oranges - full of vitamin C which helps prevent cancers and heart disease
• Pumpkin - protects the skin from age and sun
• Wild Salmon - lowers risk of death from heart related deaths
• Soy - vegetarian source of protein
• Spinach - helps to prevent cataracts and macular degeneration
• Green or Black Tea - prevents cancers and heart disease
• Tomatoes - helps to prevent prostate cancer
• Turkey Breast, skinless - the leanest source of meat protein
• Walnuts - lowers risk of heart disease
• Yogurt - boosts your immune system
  

5 SUPERFOODS by THE TODAY SHOW

This video introduces five new superfoods that look very healthy and promising.