Kitchen Garden Salad

My mother's recipe "Kitchen Garden Salad" is a winner. It's very tasty and extremely healthy. The recipe is:

Thrice washed organic mixed greens: Full of antioxidants

Cut parsley from the garden: Good for anemia, bad breath, blood purifier, digestion and weight loss

Grape tomatoes: High in lycopene known for preventing cancer

Diced Strawberries:  Full of antioxidants and high in vitamin C

Chevre Cheese: High in protein

White Onion: Anti-bacterial properties

Sliced Mushrooms: Potassium, riboflavin, niacin and selenium

served with a rice vinegar and olive oil dressing.

This salad is full or raw living foods and full of anti-oxidants and vitamins the body needs to be healthy, lean and full of energy.

Eating breakfast helps control weight

Have you ever heard the saying, that you should eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. There is much truth to this wise old saying and turns out that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. 

I spent years wondering why I had a sluggish metabolism and shrugged off breakfast with the excuse that "I'm not hungry in the morning". Funny thing was, I seemed to make up for that meal later in the day. I am now a breakfast fan. I eat breakfast everyday. Today I had a 2 egg omelet with a piece of Ezekiel bread and strawberries, banana and orange slices. Here are some reasons from the Mayo Clinic Nutritionist, Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. on why breakfast helps you control weight:

1. Eating Breakfast reduces your hunger later in the day

2. prolonged fasting can increase your insulin response, which in turn increases fat storage and weight gain

3. People who eat breakfast tend to make healthy choices all day. Breakfast gets you making healthy decisions from the morning.

4. Eating breakfast gives you energy increasing your physical activity all day. 

When you skip breakfast, you are skipping nutrients and minerals that the body needs to function and work at optimum health. So have a great breakfast tomorrow morning!

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How I love B, let me count the ways

Friday, I was tired all day and I ate pretty healthy, took my supplements including my multi-vitamin, worked out and drank lots of water. Yesterday I decided to add B-12 to my supplements and had an amazing amount of energy all day. I do credit the B-12. All B's are amazing and necessary for the body to operate at top optimum health. Check out what this super vitamin does:

Vitamin B1 : (thiamine)
works with other B's to breakdown food and turn it into energy & helps keeps tissue healthy

Vitamin B2: (riboflavin)
repairs and performs maintenance to the body, metabolizes fat, carbohydrates and protein into energy

Vitamin B3 : (niacin or niacinamide)
helps maintain the health of the digestive system, nervous system and skin, it also helps reduce cholesterol and prevents pellagra

Vitamin B5 : (pantothenic acid)
anti-stress vitamin. It keeps your nervous system healthy and strong

Vitamin B6; (pyridoxal,pyridoxine, pyridoxine hydrochloride)
master vitamin in the processing of amino acids. It also helps make happy hormones like serotonin, melatonin, dopamine. I like me some B6

Vitamin B7 : (biotin)
enables your body to process fats, carbohydrates and protein into energy

Vitamin B9: (folic acid)
needed for DNA synthesis. Very important for pregnant women

Vitamin B12: (commonly cyanocobalamin in vitamin supplements)
* Increased energy
* Restored mental clarity, and help with memory loss
* Reduced daily stress and irritability
* And many other great health benefits