Super Food, Yogurt Has Many Health Benefits

Healthy Benefits Of Yogurt Greater Than Milk

Yogurt has nutritional benefits greater than milk. Consistent consumption of yogurt will bring you a variety of health benefits. It is particularly helpful for many intestinal conditions due to the “good bacteria” or probotics that it contains. All yogurts made with live cultures include probotics.  Studies have also shown that the consumption of low fat yogurt can promote weight loss, increase your immune system and bring many health benefits. Many people who have moderate lactose intolerance can usually enjoy yogurt with no side effects. Due to the many healthy benefits that yogurt provides, it is frequently considered one of the top Super Foods.

Easy To Add Super Food, Yogurt In Daily Diet

• You can use yogurt instead of mayonnaise in potato salad, chicken salad or with tuna.
• It tastes great as a topping for baked potatoes or with tacos instead of sour cream.
• Any creamy salad dressing can be made with yogurt as opposed to sour cream, real cream or mayonnaise.

Healthy Benefits Choices

Don’t be afraid to experiment. Be creative. Anytime you can make a better choice you are improving your health. Small choices like putting yogurt on your sandwich or baked potato add up and contribute to your lifelong good health. Next time you pick up the mayonnaise jar, try a little yogurt instead. You can substitute yogurt entirely or try a blend.  Living a healthy life and experiencing the benefits of lifelong good health is a choice that you make every day.  Every diet choice is effecting your health.

International Recipe Contest Winner

This recipe was submitted by Ms. Claire Rogers from Trinidad & Tobago. Claire has always loved cooking. She has been cooking since she was 9 years old. She says:

“I still have my first recipe (Nestle) recipe book. Even back then I knew how as a child to improvise and do ingredient substituting. My mother had every confidence in me and allowed me to have full expression. Reading and understanding recipes was a natural for me.

I have been doing catering on a part-time basis. I have won at least three trophies and first prize monies in candy contests. I have been a judge at cooking contests. I live for attending food fairs and any event where food is served, so that I have every opportunity to observe. I have had hopes to become a personal chef one day. Whenever you talk about an event, I always think about the food side of it, which people initially overlook. My question is: will there be food? (not that I love my belly, but that’s just automatic.)

I am the family chef. I have been preparing special Christmas foods over the years when people place orders to have specialty foods prepared. I have catered for large events and special occasions. I love to give food gifts — bread baskets, candy, you name it – food-wise. I am presently compiling my recipes for launching at least three cookbooks. I enjoy researching food and food products. I welcome an opportunity to travel to international food fairs. (Maybe in the future you will offer this as a prize?) I like exploring food packaging materials. I think I am an ‘all-rounder’ – no weak areas in the cooking (believe it or not). I seem to particularly like salads (and of course desserts).”

International Recipe Winner

Claire works for Triple Delight Services in Trinidad & Tobago. Claire you are the international recipe contest winner for this week! Thank you Claire. It is definitely fun, fast and healthy. Pumpkin is one of the super foods and it is always good to include a super food into dessert. You can make pumpkin juice with a juicer.

Spicy Peanut-Pumpkin Pudding

(Serves 4)

1 cup evaporated milk
¼ cup light brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
¼ tsp. salt
1 c. pure pumpkin juice
1/3 c. cornstarch
1/3 cup crunchy peanut butter

1.    In a 1 qt. saucepan, combine milk, sugar, vanilla and salt.
2.    Bring to a boil.
3.    Combine pumpkin juice, cornstarch.
4.    Reduce heat to low temperature and with a wooden spoon, pour in the last mixture, stirring constantly, until it thickens.
5.    Turn off heat and stir in the peanut butter.
6.    Allow mixture to cool somewhat, and pour into a dessert mold.
7.    Cover with plastic wrap and chill until set.
8.    Invert the mold onto the center of a plate, loosening the sides slightly with the little finger.
9.    Decorate with fruits, and whipped cream.

Enter The Worldwide Recipe Contest

We are looking for recipes from around the world. Do you have a favorite recipe that you would like to submit to our ongoing recipe contest? The criteria for a recipe is that it has to be fun, fast and healthy. Claire’s fits that bill all the way around. Send in your recipe with a brief description of yourself and a picture if you have one. Deb@debbixler.com

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Natural Super Foods & The Doctrine Of Signatures

The Doctrine Of Signatures is an ancient belief that natural foods and plants tell us what the beneficial uses of that plant are, based on its structure or “signature.” For example, a plant bearing parts that resembled a human body part would have benefits keeping that part of the body healthy. Not much has been written or studied about this philosophy in modern times, but it is interesting to note certain things. The two examples that I find fascinating are the super foods, tomatoes and walnuts.

Tomatoes are red and have four chambers, just like the human heart. Scientists are now saying that tomato-lovers may be more likely to reduce the risk of serious heart disease. Lycopene, the antioxidant which gives tomatoes their dark red color, also helps remove free radicals from the body. In its natural form, lycopene is an excellent antioxidant that helps to prevent formation of the ‘bad’ cholesterol in blood. The ‘bad’ cholesterol contributes to the buildup of plaque that narrows and constricts arteries and can lead to heart attacks.

If you crack a walnut and look at the shape in the nutshell it looks like a miniature brain. They have a “signature” of a brain. In the past, walnuts have been considered good for curing headaches. Today walnuts are put on the list of one of the top twelve healthy super foods and frequently considered to be “brain food.”

This delicious nut is an excellent source of omega-3 essential fatty acids, a special type of protective fat the body cannot manufacture. Walnuts’ concentration of omega-3s (a quarter-cup provides 90.8% of the daily value for these essential fats) has many potential health benefits. These good fats found in walnuts promote better cognitive function which is only one of the many benefits of omega-3 fats. The brain is basically structural fat and it needs the omega-3 fats found in walnuts, flaxseed and cold-water fish. Proper amounts of omega-3 fats allow our brains to be fluid and flexible. This allows it to use nutrients while eliminating wastes. A healthy brain means a healthier body.

Isn’t this interesting??!!  It is obvious that nature intended us to eat natural food diets!