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8 Health benefits of raisins and recipes
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Raisins are a snack of choice for kids, but are you still eating them as an adult?
Raisins can be added to so many recipes and honestly carrying a small box of raisins in your bag when hunger strikes is a smart idea if you want to keep your snacks as healthy as possible.
I thought it might be a great idea to look at some of the health benefits of incorporating raisins in your diet. I hope this post will inspire you to eat raisins year round and have fun with them by included them in recipes!
>>> 8 health benefits of raisins and why you should eat them more often:
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10 Reasons to Eat Raw Foods
Prehistoric man learned thousands of years ago that it was a good idea to eat meat that was cooked, rather than raw. It’s true that hard core The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat
Since then, the human race has gone crazy, applying that same cooking idea to all foods. You can have too much of a good thing!
Except for a salad, most people eat very little raw food. But in recent years, the focus on healthy eating and lessening the chances of contracting diseases like diabetes, heart disease and strokes has thrown the focus on raw foods.
What we’re talking about here is eating fruit, vegetables and nuts that taste good just as Mother Nature intended them taste in their raw state.
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Grown your own blueberries
Little Giant Blueberry Plants can help you save money on your food budget!
Blueberries are packed with goodness. They are one of the most beneficial superfood you can eat!
Blueberries are literally bursting with nutrients and flavor, yet very low in calories. Recently, researchers at Tufts University analyzed 60 fruits and vegetables for their antioxidant capability. Blueberries came out on top, rating highest in their capacity to destroy free radicals.
Blueberries can be quite expensive when you buy them at the store. Let’s not forget that since last year, First Lady Michelle Obama has been encouraging people in America and around the world to plant their own garden to eat more fruits and vegetables at a more affordable price.
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Are you eating Goji berries?
3 reasons to eat Goji berries
Feature by our Editorial Assistant Colleen
Goji berries, otherwise known as wolfberries, are considered one of the super foods. The goji berry sorts of looks like a cherry tomato, almost, but it’s not. But there’s a great reason why it’s been attracting so much attention these days. It’s a healing fruit that has been used for centuries in China and for some reason the western world hasn’t really paid as much attention to this small fruit as it should have.
I’ve had my share of Chinese herbal medicines and have found that it can be the most natural way of cleansing my body and keeping my body healthy. This definitely includes the goji berry.
>>> Here are my top three reasons to consider eating the goji berry now if you haven’t already:
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Pomegranates and Coumadin
Pomegranates are great for you healthy, but NOT if you are on Coumadin!
I’ve talked about the health benefits of adding pomegranates to your diet in the past.
You can easily find pomegranates at your local grocery store and you can easily buy 100% pure POM pomegranate juice as well.
I quite enjoy eating pomegranates (I really like adding them to my salad) and drinking pomegranate juice. It never occurred to me that some people wouldn’t be able to enjoy them.
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10 reasons why you should eat cranberries all year round!
Feature by our Editorial Assistant Colleen
Cranberries are delicious and they make a great snack all year round (think dried cranberries). They’re especially popular during the Christmas holidays because they peak during that time and they’re in season then as well. That’s why you normally see cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.
But they’re more than just a delicious side or dessert. Did you know that cranberries were once used by Native Americans as a healing agent for arrow wounds?
There are a bunch of other benefits that cranberries offer that may actually surprise you.
>>> Here are 10 reasons why you should think about adding cranberries to your daily diet:
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Frozen wild blueberries should be embraced!
Are you not getting enough fruits and vegetables during the winter months?
I know that winter is hard for me because I find it quite challenging finding fruits that taste as they should. I find it’s a lot easier with vegetables, but I am never all that happy with late fall/autumn or winter fruits.
One great solution to help you get your 5-10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day is to think frozen!
Oh yes, you will rarely hear me point anyone in the direction of the frozen food aisle in a grocery store, but when it comes to fruits and vegetables, the frozen section of the supermarket is the place to go.
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Dr. Oz grocery shopping tips to buying organic foods
Dr. Oz tackled the popular question of “should I be buying organic foods?”
My position on organic foods is quite simple: if I had an Angelina Jolie food budget, I’d buy everything organic. It’s true that organic foods are not purchased exclusively by the very rich (or else it wouldn’t be a billion dollar industry). There are loads of regular people with regular incomes who have made the lifestyle choice of buying organic foods.
I have some items that I’ve been buying organic for a decade now: milk, yogurt and essential oils.
When it comes to eggs, I buy mine free range and I will gladly switch to organic free range eggs when I can get them on sale. When it comes to produce, if there is a sale on organic products, I’ll jump at the occasion and there are certain conventional products (like strawberries) I no longer eat if I cannot buy them organic because I’ve read too much about the amount of pesticides used in the cultivation.
If I could only buy organic meats, I would. Right now, it’s not part of my food budget, but I do buy grain feed meats because they are affordable and they can easily be purchased at the grocery store!
I was a bit surprised to hear Dr Oz admit that organic products can be fairly expensive. It’s important to recognize that, but I was equally happy hear Dr. Oz list some grocery items that should ALWAYS be organic and those that you keep buying conventional.
I actually wrote a post asking readers to share their approach to organic foods with this new recessionary economy. You can still read it here if you’ve missed it: Quizz: Are you still buying as much organic food as before the recession?
>>> Dr. Oz’s suggestions on which food items to buy organic:
I really love these fun games Dr. Oz creates in order to teach the audience about food.
In a recent episode on organic foods he asked two contestants which items should be purchased organic and which are not necessary.
Here is Dr. Oz’s list of MUST when it comes to choosing organic foods:
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