Servings: 8 Total Time: 90 min Prep Time: 15 min | Cook Time: 75 min This is a great make-ahead soup that freezes beautifully. Double or triple it and freeze the leftovers for quick meals. Roasting the sweet potatoes before simmering will make the flavors more pronounced. Cooking tip: Anti-inflammatory fighting foods: sweet potatoes (beta-carotene),…
Servings: 6 Total Time: 30 min Prep Time: 15 min | Cook Time: 15 min Many people think crepes are difficult to make and only for special occasions. To the contrary, they’re easy to prepare and a great way to make any meal special. Try filling these crepes with sliced strawberries or bananas. Alternately, you…
When your body is involved in trauma, your neck is one of your most vulnerable areas. Whiplash, the hard and fast forward-backward movement of the neck, can cause pain that can last well after other injuries have healed. To understand why your neck is so sore, it helps to know the anatomy involved. Whiplash can…
Servings: 6 Total Time: 55 min Prep Time: 15 min | Cook Time: 40 min Stuffed peppers is a 1950’s classic, but this recipe gives it a modern overhaul. Instead of packing the stuffing with calorie-busting bread, use quinoa, one of the world’s most powerful super-foods. Skip the green peppers and go for red, yellow,…
Servings: 4 Total Time: 20 min Prep Time: 10 min | Cook Time: 10 min Steaming fish and poultry is a great way to lock in flavor, moisture, vitamins, and minerals. Be sure to serve the fish with some of the steaming liquid, as the liquid will soak up the flavor from the salmon and…
Servings: 6 Total Time: 80 min Prep Time: 20 min | Cook Time: 60 min On a cold winter evening, nothing warms you up like a big bowl of chili. Although delicious by itself, you can top it with a little reduced-fat sour cream or a sprinkling of reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese. Anti-Inflammatory fighting…
Emotional well-being and mood are profoundly influenced by diet and lifestyle. Gratefully, the science supports a host of “therapeutic lifestyle changes” – TLC for short – that can improve your mood and lower your risk of depression. Here’s the complete list based on my most recent scientific review. (Please note these strategies are in no…
8 Reasons Why You Should Not Skip Your Morning Exercise! Exercise at any time of the day is very beneficial to your health; however below are eight reasons why you should most definitely not skip your morning exercise. 1. It begins the day on a positive “healthy” note that can set the tone for the…
From the website accenthealth.com comes a feature article by By Rosalee Sanchez on the benefits of water. We all know that water is an absolute requirement for life, but few of us realize just how important water really is. Here are some facts and information about water from the article. Every day, you lose somewhere…
In the September 2001 issue of the peer reviewed, “Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics” comes a case report study titled, “Chiropractic care of a patient with vertebral subluxations and unsuccessful surgery of the cervical spine”. This was a report of a 55-year-old man who had neck pain along with radiating pain down both arms…
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