Tuesday, July 26, 2011



Ingredients:
1 beet, halved
1 apple, halved
1 yellow bell pepper, halved
1/2 cucumber

Bell pepper nutrition facts!
NutrientDV
(%)
Nutrient
Density
World's Healthiest
Foods Rating
vitamin C291.3211.1excellent
vitamin A104.976.0excellent
vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)11.58.3excellent
dietary fiber7.45.3very good
molybdenum6.14.4very good
vitamin K5.64.1very good
manganese5.54.0very good
folate5.13.7very good

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

"... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds."
-Michael Pollan

Beets'n'Berries!



Ingredients:

6-8 Strawberries
a few handfuls of Blueberries
1 Beet


Friday, July 8, 2011

Red devil


Ingredients:

2 full leaves of Kale
1 Red Bell Pepper
1 Apple

Kale: Antioxidant, anticancer
Red Bell Pepper: Antioxidant, anticancer, cardioprotective
Apple: tonic, digestive, detoxifying, antiseptic, antirheumatic, liver stimulant (the list could go on)
Kale:

honey honey

Honey is a delicious viscous sweetener made naturally by bees for their own nourishment. The fascinating process of making honey begins when the bees feast on flowers, collecting the flower nectar in their mouths. This nectar then mixes with special enzymes in the bees' saliva, an alchemical process that turns it into honey. The bees carry the honey back to the hive, where they deposit it into the cells of the hive's walls. The fluttering of their wings provides the necessary ventilation to reduce the honey's moisture content, making it ready for consumption.

Speakers at the First International Symposium on Honey and Human Health, held in Sacramento, CA, January 8, 2008, presented a number of research papers. (Fessenden R. Report to the Committee for the Promotion of Honey and Health) Findings include:
  • Different varietals of honey possess a large amount of friendly bacteria (6 species of lactobacilli and 4 species of bifidobacteria), which may explain many of the "mysterious therapeutic properties of honey."
  • Honey may promote better blood sugar control. Proper fueling of the liver is central to optimal glucose metabolism during sleep and exercise. Honey is the ideal liver fuel because it contains a nearly 1:1 ratio of fructose to glucose.
  • Experimental evidence indicates that consumption of honey may improve blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity compared to other sweeteners.
  • Honey boosts immunity. Research conducted in several hospitals in Israel found honey effective in decreasing the incidence of acute febrile neutropenia (when high fever reduces white blood cell count) in 64% of patients.
  • 32% of the cancer patients involved in the above immunity research reported improved quality of life.
Shop locally for raw honey at Round Rock Honey :)

Thursday, July 7, 2011

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
Hippocrates