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Super foods to add to your diet | food

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Super foods to add to your diet | food

 

Whether you use them for seasoning, as sweeteners or snacks, the food you choose can function as reinforcements to improve your health. And certain essential nutrients come in gift boxes surprises! These six super foods are packed with lots of benefits and flavor bonus.

1) CINNAMON
Cinnamon is a super sweet food for your waistline and popular with children. The bark of the cinnamon tree, native to Sri Lanka, is extraordinary health benefits. Various research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that cinnamon regulates blood sugar, inhibits cancer cells and is proving a very good anti-inflammatory.

Council for cooking with cinnamon:
Sprinkle cinnamon on toast, porridge, bread with butter or a cup of hot chocolate. Cinnamon is very good on fried bananas.

2) COCONUT MILK
The coconut is a fruit unusual, little used in western cuisine. It is rich, and fat is mostly saturated. In Southeast Asia, the traditional cuisines use a lot of coconut oil, and studies have shown that people of Asian countries have very little heart disease.

We know that flaked coconut, milk and cream taken from the coconut oil and coconut in large quantities contain a fatty acid that is antiviral and antibacterial: lauric acid. Lauric acid is also one of the immune boosteurs that babies get from breast milk.

Council for cooking with coconut:
Mix a can of coconut milk with half a piece of chicken broth and a teaspoon of grated ginger to prepare a chicken soup with coconut.

3) With grass fed beef
All beef is an excellent source of iron, B vitamins and zinc. Some of us do not consume enough of these three nutrients. There are about 50 years; we have begun to fatten cattle with grain instead of grass. But the meat from grass-fed beef has many benefits. This game looks like the meat that our ancestors ate. It contains less fat, less saturated fat, more CLA (conjugated linoleic acid, an anti-cancer fat) and more polyunsaturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fats and antioxidants.

Nuts are one of the best vegetarian sources of antioxidants essential for health of sperm.

Council for cooking with nuts:
Put nuts in a blender with a little olive oil, milk or water to make butter with fresh nuts.

5) RAW HONEY & MOLASSES
If you have a sweet tooth, try these natural sweeteners instead of the raw and white sugar industry. The raw honey and unfiltered contains many phytonutrients and enzymes to aid digestion.

Molasses is syrup very thick and viscous, which is a residue from the refining of sugar extracted from sugar cane. Fewer calories than sucrose: 280 calories per 100 g (against 375), molasses contains vitamin B and minerals (calcium, potassium, iron, copper,), unlike the white granulated sugar. Molasses is beneficial to combat anemia among others.

Council for cooking with honey and molasses:
Unlike honey, which is best unheated, molasses is already cooked, so there is no reason not to cook with it. Remember to use them to give more flavors to baked goods like muffins and pumpkin pie.


6) OLIVE OIL
Olive oil contains monounsaturated fat (which reduce inflammation), phenols (antioxidants that fight against cancer) and vitamin E (which reduces the risk of heart disease, protects the skin and prevents damage to the nervous system). Cold pressed, extra virgin oil contains more phenols and vitamin E reserve remains intact.

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