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Category Archives for "Energy Giving Foods"Foods that give you energy and help you to perform at your best each day. Each of these vegetables, fruits, oils, nuts and seeds are powerful energy giving foods for better heath.
A Crunchy and Delicious Pumpkin Seed Pesto Recipe
Here is a healthy and crunchy pumpkin seed pesto recipe that is full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and other nutrition. Use it wherever you’d use normal pesto for a strong and rich taste that is really good for you.
This recipe adds extra flavor and crunch to salads and steamed veggies and it goes really well with brown rice, sardines, organic chicken, pumpkin and tomato dishes.
You’ll need a good food processor like this to make it, but you’re really missing out on a lot of great food if you don’t have one of these anyway.
Ingredients
A Healthy Pumpkin Curry Soup Recipe
This is a very simple and really healthy soup for the cold winter months and it’s good to have something much better for you than pumpkin pie to make with pumpkins.
Pumpkin and coconut go really well together, while the curry paste and bell pepper add a tasty kick to the soup. There’s a lot of health nutrients in this recipe and with all the good fiber it’s surprisingly filling as well.
You’ll need a good blender to make up this soup recipe. If you don’t have one I can highly recommend this powerful one I have in my kitchen.
Ingredients for 2:
A Rich and Healthy Pumpkin Risotto Recipe
Here’s a recipe for a great tasting yet healthy pumpkin and mushroom risotto using BPA-free canned pumpkin and shiitake mushrooms.
Alternatively, fresh steamed pumpkin is great in this risotto recipe if it’s in season. Butternut squash also makes a fine replacement.
For the mushrooms you can also use other stronger tasting varieties such as portobellos, but shiitake mushrooms are best if you can find them.
Pumpkin and Mushroom Risotto Ingredients (serves 2 to 3)
A Carrot and Parsley Soup Recipe for Healthy Skin
I like my soups quick, simple and tasty, with as many superfoods as I can pack into them. This carrot and parsley soup really fits the bill.
Both parsley and carrot are excellent skin foods. But with the addition of garlic, turmeric and coconut oil, this soup is a really nutritious food for healthy skin.
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A High Nutrition Carrot and Celery Soup Recipe
Carrot soup is a great way to get your beta-carotene and other health nutrients. The way I like to make it is really quick and simple and has other very healthy ingredients like celery and turmeric.
This carrot and celery soup uses a blender and makes a delicious, easy and warming lunch or dinner coming into winter.
The ingredients below serves two but you can double as needed for more people.
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4 Detoxifying Carrot Juice Recipes for Better Health
Here are 4 very healthy carrot juice recipes to detoxify your body while improving your skin, enhancing your immunity and boosting your energy levels.
Each are quick to make, use just a few ingredients and, enjoyed regularly, they can make a really difference to your overall health and well-being. I hope you like them.
A Carrot, Beet and Pineapple Juice for Liver Detoxification
A Spicy Thai Curry Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
Here is a spicy butternut squash soup with curry to warm you up over the colder months. It’s based on combining a traditional Thai recipe for yellow curry with the richness of coconut milk and butternut squash for a great tasting soup full of nutrition.
This is what you’ll need to make it up for yourself.
Ingredients for 4
A Super Healthy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
This butternut soup recipe combines antioxidant rich squash with extremely healthy broccoli and its anti-cancer compounds.
It also has bell pepper for its high vitamin C, coconut oil and coconut milk for their important medium chain fatty acids and turmeric and garlic for even more powerful antioxidants.
It would be hard to make up a butternut squash soup that tastes as great as this does while still being so incredibly good for your health.
There is quite a bit of broccoli in this soup, but you’ll find it blends in really well with the other ingredients. Even if you don’t usually like it by itself, this is a great way to get one of the healthiest vegetables out there into your diet.
Why is Butternut Squash So Good for You?
Butternut squash is one of the most nutritious and healthiest vegetables you can eat, with a rich array of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
It not only tastes great, it is also low in calories, yet surprisingly filling due to its high levels of dietary fiber for weight loss and digestive health.
Many people would do well to replace fattening potato products with the far healthier and nutritionally superior butternut squash. Here’s why.
Antioxidants in Butternut Squash
Butternut squash is loaded with antioxidant carotenoids to protect your body’s cells from free-radical damage that can lead to cancer and skin aging.
An Avocado, Kiwi and Spinach Smoothie Recipe
Healthy green smoothies made with fruits like avocado, banana and kiwi are a great way to get a lot of nutrition into your diet. They are also a simple way to use greens like spinach or kale when you don’t feel like eating a salad.
In fact, the way greens are blended up in smoothies makes their nutrients much more accessible, while at the same time masking their taste and making them easy to drink for children.
Using avocado in this smoothie recipe adds a wonderful creamy flavor as well as all of it’s valuable health benefits. Mixed with the many minerals, vitamins and antioxidants in spinach, along with the vitamin C of kiwi and all the nutrition in banana, this makes for a powerful yet great tasting green smoothie.
Try some of the optional ingredients like ground flaxseed, papaya, pineapple or pumpkin seeds for an even more nutritious avocado smoothie. Here’s how to make it. Continue Reading…
10 Amazing Avocado Health Benefits
There are many avocado benefits for your health and appearance. If you would like to lose weight, improve your skin and lower your risk of many life-threatening diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease, here’s why it’s well worth including more avocados in your diet.
Also ahead is how avocado helps high blood pressure and constipation, why it’s beneficial as a arthritis treatment, important for pregnant women and has even been shown in studies to help you live a longer and healthier life.
Here’s a list of the top 10 benefits of eating avocados and just why they are considered so good for you.
1. Cardiovascular Health
Coronary heart disease is still the biggest killer in the USA and UK and it is essentially a disease of inflammation. Continue Reading…
6 Walnut Health Benefits for Your Heart, Waistline, Brain and More
Walnuts are a true nutritional powerhouse and one of nature’s healthiest foods.
Here’s how eating walnuts regularly can protect your heart, help you lose weight, provide protection against cancer and diabetes and even improve your brain and enhance the quality of your sleep.
Ahead are the top 6 walnut benefits and even more important reasons to eat nuts more often if you value your health and appearance.
1. Heart Health Benefits of Walnuts
The unique nutritional profile of walnuts provides some important benefits for a healthy heart. They are full of nutrients that are particularly beneficial in terms of improving the way your cardiovascular system functions and potentially reducing the risk of heart disease.