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Known for its Vitamin C content, orange is also rich in folate which is essential for the brain development of a child during pregnancy. It is very low in calorie and its pectin content is very helpful in digestion and reduce cholesterol level in the blood.

Vitamin C helps increase resistance and fight against free radicals, infections, and inflammation. Oranges are also rich in Vitamin A, alpha and beta carotenes which are useful in the protection of lung and oral cavity cancers.

Other vitamins and minerals found in oranges are Vitamin B-complex like thiamin, pyridoxine, and folate which play an important role to help external sources in the replacement of essential nutrients in the body, potassium that are important component of cell and body fluids to help control heart rate and blood pressure and calcium.

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Sweet scented and flavor rich spice that is known for thousands of years for its culinary and medicinal properties. Cinnamon has the highest antioxidant strength of all the food sources in nature.

The ORAC value of cinnamon is 267536 trolox equivalents. This cinnamon is an antioxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, rubefacient, anti-flatulent and carminative.

The eugenol content of cinnamon is antiseptic and anesthetic and is useful in gum and dental treatments and is found to reduce blood sugar level in diabetics.

The oil of cinnamon is essential in digestion and has an anti-clotting action. It also prevents stoke and coronary artery diseases. Cinnamon is also abundant in potassium, calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron, and manganese. The decoction is used in treating flatulence and indigestion and treat colds and stress.

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Celery has been considered to be one of the best low calorie food because it contains only 16 calories per 100 g leaves. This is rich in fiber which are good for digestion. Because of its aroma, this vegetable has made famous all over the world to incorporate in their gourmet cooking.

The veggie is rich in Vitamin C and chemical compounds phthalides and coumarins which help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of cancers.

This is also in Vitamin A, iron, folic acid, Vitamin K, potassium, sodium, calcium, manganese, magnesium and beta carotene. (Who needs post-workout supplements with all these vitamins within a celery).

These vitamins and minerals in celery are good for people who have Alzheimer’s disease, low bone mass, and poor eyesight.

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Do you realize that we have the best remedies at home? Our kitchen usually is filled with products that are the solution for many illnesses. From sore throat, to flu, from joint pain to high levels of cholesterol. The best diet pills are also in our kitchen. Among our vegetables and fruits, herbs and honey you can get infinite mixtures that will do good to your body.

Let’s take a look at Chestnuts:

What is so nutty about this nut? Chestnut is full of dietary fiber which is good for weight loss and cholesterol control. Chestnuts promotes weight loss protects your heart lowers cholesterol combats cancer controls blood
pressure

Richly flavored, starchy, chestnuts are popular cool season edible nuts of northern hemisphere. The nuts are native to hilly forest of China, Japan, Europe, and North America. Botanically they belong to the beech orfagaceae family of the genus: Castenea.

When you need something for your condition, just look into your kitchen.

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Many people when stating their new year make many resolutions. One of the many and most frequent resolutions is to lose weight. The reason being that many people are facing obesity issues, and most of them are to the extent that it is harming their health. When the body accumulates a large amount of fat content, it does become very dangerous for the health of the person.

Countries are losing millions and billions of dollars just because of the fact that many people of their nations are obese and cannot work just because they are facing health issues. These people miss work or do not work to their full capacity which in turn is loss for the corporation as well as the country.

The main reason why many people are gaining weight is that they are not maintaining a balanced diet. The biggest culprit in improper diet routine is junk food. And this menace is so vastly advertised that there is no ignoring it or even running away from it. They promise people that their food is made in low fat oil etc. but that is just a business tactic. The truth cannot be farther than this. The main reason why fast food is so popular is because of the fact that it has so much fat content. And nobody will deny this that where ever there are fats and calories, it will obviously taste good.
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What a good looking meal! A single cut is enough for a single person. This recipe is an original recipe from the Philippines. You can prepare this for yourself with just easy steps and very much available ingredients. Your family can now enjoy a healthy and a very yummy meal. Filipinos enjoy their foods with dips made of soy sauce, lemon juice, garlic and lots of chili but you can also enjoy this one without the dip because it has been marinated already. However you want it to be eaten, it’s your choice. Enjoy!

Marinated Barbecued Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
• 1/2 cup lemon-lime soda
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 bone-in skinless chicken breast halves (7 ounces each)
• 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce

Directions

• In a small bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Pour 1-1/2 cups marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; add the chicken. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate overnight. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade.
• Drain and discard marinade. Add barbecue sauce to reserved marinade. Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack.
• Prepare grill for indirect heat using a drip pan. Place chicken over drip pan and grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 35-50 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 170°, turning and basting occasionally with marinade. Before serving, brush with remaining marinade.
• Yield: 8 servings.

• Nutritional Analysis: One serving (1 chicken breast half) equals 205 calories, 3 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 79 mg cholesterol, 590 mg sodium, 12 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 30 g protein.
• Diabetic Exchanges: 4 lean meat, 1/2 starch.

This is a Taste of Home Recipe

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Scarlet red, delicious and grown all over the world, raspberries are popular for its vitamins and minerals content that are useful for the development of the total well-being of a person.

These are very low in calorie and are rich in fiber which are good for digestion and lowering the cholesterol level, controls heart rate and blood pressure of a person. Phytochemical rich, these little red berries are known to stop ageing, reduce the risk of certain cancers, inflammation and degenerative diseases.

Its ability to fight against diseases and free radicals can be attributed with its Vitamin C content. Raspberries have an ORAC value (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) of 4900 per 100g.

Other vitamins and minerals found in raspberries are Vitamin E, Vitamin A, magnessium, potassium, manganese, copper, iron, magnesium, Vitamin B-complex, Vitamin K and xylitol which is a low calorie sugar substitute extractable from raspberries.