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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ How About a Delicious Anti-Inflamatory Drink?

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With pomegranate juice and green tea, this refreshing iced tea has twice the anti-inflammatory power. Pomegranates are packed with polyphenols — organic compounds found in plants — that have been linked to improving heart health and other inflammatory health conditions, Sauceda says.

And green tea is teeming with flavonoids — a type of polyphenol — that can prevent oxidative stress, alleviate inflammation and, consequently, help reduce the accumulation of plaque in your arteries, according to Harvard Health Publishing

Here’s the recipe to make a refreshing glass of this anti-inflammatory iced tea

Iced tea is a springtime favorite. Recipe courtesy of registered dietitian Ann Purcell-Murray.

Ingredients, serves one

  • 1 cup Pure Green Tea
  • 1/4 cup Pomagranate Juice
  • 1 leaf fresh mint leaves

Directions – 1In a cup, mix green tea and pomegranate juice. Garnish with a fresh mint leaf or lemon slice.

 

Starting a Healthy Eating Habit

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Focus on a Mediterranean-style diet of eating for optimum heart health. The Mediterranean diet is abundant in fruits and vegetables, grains, fish, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, and seeds. Starting off with eating more meatless meals will definitely get you closer to heart health. Incorporating beans, legumes, any kind of nuts and seeds, and meatless products like tofu, tempeh, if you want to get adventurous into your diet a little more regularly. I generally say start with one meatless meal a week, replacing a meal of meat, ideally red meat, with a meatless meal. ~ Julia Zumpano, Registered Dietitian 

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Reasons for Eating Real Food

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Real food is food that is as close to its natural state as possible. It is primarily: unprocessed, free of chemical,  additives, and rich in nutrients. 

Reasons to eat real food: 

  1. Real food is loaded with nutrients.
  2. Real food is low in sugar.
  3. Real food is health healthy.
  4. Real food is high in fiber.
  5. Real food helps manage blood sugar.
  6. Real food is good for your gut.
  7. Real food contains antioxidants.

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Feeling Tired? Orange Juice is a Great Pick Me Up Drink

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Orange Juice is a Healthy Choice

A tall, chilled glass of orange juice is the most effective remedy to ward off fatigue and tiredness, and rejuvenate your body with a massive dose of citric energy. A 4-ounce glass of orange juice is packed with fructose that is sufficient to charge up your entire body, and lift up your mood as well. There is ample research to validate the claim that vitamin C is a powerful nutrient that battles against oxidative stress that occurs when the body is attacked by free radicals. Vitamin C also energizes the body, and it plays a pivotal role in metabolizing iron, which aids the energizing oxygen in travelling through your bloodstream.

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It’s Fall and Time for Pumpkin or Squash

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Pumpkin and Squash are Healthy Foods

Although sometimes called winter squash because they keep so well when weather turns cold, butternut, buttercup, spaghetti, turban squash and other varieties are actually harvested in the fall.

Squash – and its close cousin pumpkin – are healthy eating choices.

Members of the squash family are high in dietary fiber and beta carotene, which helps your body make vitamin A and contributes to the health of your skin, eyes and immune system. Squash is low in calories and has a low glycemic index. A serving of winter squash has only 39 calories, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Foods that are lower on the glycemic index include “good carbs” and don’t make your blood sugar spike. The high fiber content of squash also makes it a filling choice.

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Are You Getting Enough Vitamin Bk12?

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Vitamin B12, or cobalamin, is a large, complex molecule involved in a variety of bodily processes, ranging from metabolism to brain chemistry to blood cell production. B12 is necessary for producing healthy red blood cells and platelet cells, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A B12 deficiency can lead to megaloblastic anemia, a blood disorder that causes weakness, fatigue, trouble concentrating, irritability, headache, heart palpitations and shortness of breath.

People who consume few to no animal products (namely vegans and vegetarians) have a higher risk of developing a B12 deficiency. That said, eating foods fortified with vitamin B12, including whole grains, cereals and nutritional yeast, and also supplementing with the vitamin can reduce the risk of deficiency, per the NIH.

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Note: I’m a vegetarian and I take a daily B12 supplement.

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