When it’s shining, don’t throw shade. Everything will be brighter.
It’s hard to imagine a more perfect food than beans. One cooked cup can provide as much as 17 grams of fiber. They’re also loaded with protein and dozens of key nutrients, including a few most women fall short on—calcium, potassium, and magnesium. Studies tie beans to a reduced risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and breast and colon cancers. Keep your cupboards stocked with all kinds: black, white, kidney, fat-free refried, etc.
Protein serves as your body’s building blocks. When you eat foods that contain protein, your body breaks the nutrient down into its simplest form — amino acids. Your body then reconfigures these amino acids to make new blood vessels, nerve endings, muscle and tissue. Protein also helps your body fight infection, per Michigan Medicine, while carrying oxygen throughout your body and balancing your body fluids.
Eat more fiber. Constipation is common after surgery due to the effects of anesthesia (which slows down your digestive tract) and the oral pain medication you may be taking, per the Cleveland Clinic. While you may not have an appetite if you’re feeling bloated and full from constipation, it’s important to drink and eat to help get things moving. Adding more fiber-rich foods to your diet may help prevent the after-effects of your surgery (although your doctor may also prescribe a laxative).
Foods With Nutrients for Wound Healing. When it comes to foods to eat after surgery, you should choose a wide variety from all the food groups so your body gets all the nutrients it needs for health and healing. There are certain nutrients that are especially important for healing after surgery, including vitamin C and zinc. To help your body heal, include plenty of vitamin C-rich foods in your post-surgery diet, such as oranges, broccoli, red peppers, potatoes, tomatoes and cantaloupe. These vitamin C-filled foods are also good sources of fiber, so they offer two benefits in one.
I’m picking ripe figs from my fig tree today. The figs are sweet and delicious. I recall buying this fig tree three years ago for twenty dollars. I water it, prune it, and praise it. I’m sure it hears my heart felt praise. It’s not the lottery, but it’s a ripe fig. I’m savoring every bite. I believe I see another ripe fig. I leave it for the mocking birds.
Depending on the fruit, some may retain more nutrients frozen while others are better fresh. Nutrients in fruit are at their peak right after being picked. Because fruit is frozen quickly, it retains nutritional value. If your fresh fruit is truly fresh, the nutrient value may be similar. If your fresh fruit was shipped and sat on store shelves for a while, it may contain fewer nutrients. When you consider all of the variables, the health benefits of fresh and frozen fruit are very similar.
We are gifted in a relationship when we are encouraged to continue the journey of self-discovery toward fulfilling our destiny. When each partner to the relationship honors this is in the other, two strong people emerge as co-participants in the creation of the relationship.
Life is a lot of giving and taking. It’s the way it works. If we want happy, healthy relationships we let go and tip the balance toward the giving side of the scale. There are times when we gratefully take and accept what is offered to us. It never balances out. I think that relationships whether at work, socially, or with a committed partner, the balance is always tilted toward the giving side of the scale. In healthy relationships, one doesn’t measure the amount of give and take. It happens the way it supposed to happen.
Meats cooked at temperatures high enough to cause charring can contribute to an increased risk of colon cancer, Nasrallah says. This can be caused by grilling or broiling. “The charring process can make nutritious proteins like skinless chicken breast harmful to eat,” she says. “Charred meat contains unsafe hydrocarbons and other carcinogens that are cancer-causing agents, which can increase the risk of colorectal cancer.”
Outdoor air pollution is deadly, and is currently the ninth leading cause of death and disability in the world. Air pollutants also worsen or increase the risk of other health problems like asthma, liver disease, and the risk of diabetes.. . . Broccoli can dramatically boost the detox enzymes in our liver and help decrease the level of inflammation within our bodies. This helps explains why eating more than two cups of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, or other cruciferous veggies a day is associated with a 20-percent reduced risk of dying, compared to eating a third of a cup a day, or less. The cruciferous compound sulforaphane is a powerful inducer of our detox enzymes, so most of the research has focused on its cancer-fighting abilities.
Eating broccoli and other cruciferous veggies might just be a frugal way to combat the long-term health risks of air pollution.
Cruciferous Vegetables
Are you in a good relationship? I hope so. Let the other know how much you love him/her often. Let him/her know how honored you are to be a relationship with someone who brings so much to the relationship. Tell him/her what it is they bring to the relationship. Hold hands. Dance. Play. Talk and listen. Forgive. Be passionate with each other. Never let the sun rise or set without a kiss and saying, “I love you.”
