It’ s the season for farm fresh, gardenripe produce, but you might miss out on the avalanche of age-defying nutrients packed in them unless you pick the right oil for your salad dressing.
Drizzling olive, walnut, macadamia or canola oil over the veggies boosts your body’s absorption of carotenoids that slash your risk for heart disease, cancer and vision loss. A single teaspoon of monounsaturated oil worked just as well as a tablespoonful of the others.
But that’s not the only news. Whether you’re a fruit friend, a grill guru or are just trying to get out of the Kitchen and down to the pool as fast as possible, these fresh, summer eating strategies can rev up the health benefits.
Grill salmon, trout or sardines.
If you’re overweight, getting 1.5 grams of DHA plus EPA daily – omega- 3 fatty acids that protect your heart and brain – cuts back chronic inflammation by 10 percent.
Grab a peach, nectarine or plum.
Bioactive compounds in stone fruits (plums, nectarines, peaches and apricots) have anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetes and anti-obesity properties. These protective chemicals help you burn fat cells and boost your immune system, and protect you from LDL cholesterol and plaque build up in artery walls.
Slice a Watermelon.
Forget regular desserts. Concentrated milk fats, added to many commercial desserts, trigger a bloom of bad bacteria in your digestive system irritating the lining of your intestines and increasing inflammation. Bitr into a cool watermelon wedge instead. You’ll get fibre, which helps feed the good bacteria in your system, along with lycopene, for less than 100 calories.
Quit the weed with green help.
Eating more fruits and vegetables can help triple your odds for kicking the tobacco habit and staying smoke-free this summer. Why? Could be that produce fills you up. Or, that unlike meat, soda or alcoholic drinks, fruit and veggies don’t enhance the taste of tobacco. They may even make it worse!
Thanks,
The Hindu- Well Being,
31/03/2013
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