Healing Your Body By Eating Right – High Blood Pressure
The Western approach to health care might be best described as ‘reactive’. You get sick, your doctor prescribes some sort of medicine, and hopefully you get better. Coincidentally, perhaps, health-care costs are skyrocketing, as are such lifestyle-related health problems as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Taking a preventative approach to health care, as individuals, may be our best hope of living to old age, and being healthy enough to enjoy it! What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a medical condition in which the arterial blood pressure is...
Read MoreIt’s Friday Night – Try Curried Chickpeas For Supper
Hmm, Friday night, again, and nothing planned for dinner, again. Instead of ordering take-out Chinese food, why not spend a few minutes more making a dinner that’s not only quick, easy, and inexpensive, but is also delicious AND nutritious! My recommendation – Curried Chickpeas, with rice and steamed broccoli. In a previous article, I introduced you to the nutritional benefits of black beans. This week, the nutritional powerhouse of choice is – ginger! Ginger is well known as a digestive aid, helping to minimize or prevent nausea (useful for women suffering from morning...
Read MoreFive Healthy Snacks for the Next Time You Have the Munchies
What makes a good snack? Clearly, it should be yummy. And it should satisfy whatever craving you may have (if you want sweet, then endless bags of salty chips may make you feel sick, but they won’t satisfy the craving for something sweet). It should be quick to prepare, and easy to carry with you to wherever you may want to eat it. It shouldn’t be overly high in calories, or messy to eat. And it should have some nutritional value (protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals…) Each of these snacks has 250 calories or less. Something salty? Black bean dip with tortilla chips and...
Read MoreIt’s Friday Night – Try Mexican Black Bean Soup for Supper
It’s Friday night – finally – and it’s been another long, hard week. The last thing you want to do when you get home is figure out what to make for supper. Instead of digging another frozen pizza out of the freezer, why not spend a few minutes more making a dinner that’s not only quick, easy, and inexpensive, but is also delicious AND nutritious! My recommendation – Mexican Black Bean Soup, with whole wheat toast and a green salad. Black beans are without a doubt one of nature’s super foods. High in both soluble and insoluble fiber, black beans help...
Read MoreHealing Your Body by Eating Right – Inflammation
Life in the twenty-first century is full – there are so many demands on our time that we often find we have very little time for ourselves. One result of that is that we tend to be so busy reacting to problems as they happen (‘putting out fires’) that we have no time to take proactive measures to prevent them from happening at all. In terms of our own health, that often means waiting until things get very bad before we decide that we need to make some serious changes. What is inflammation? Inflammation is part of the body’s natural defense system against infection,...
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