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Sunday, July 01, 2018

Banana And Walnut Brownies

1:08:00 am Healthy Foods, Lifestyles No comments

Walnuts and bananas are two beautiful and good foods packed with nutrients. They can be used to up your traditional brownie recipe. The banana moistens the brownie bars, and the walnut adds a rich nourishment, nutty taste.

Ingredients

1 package (2½ cups) brownie mix

2 large eggs

1⁄3 cup water

1⁄3 cup vegetable oil

½ cup chopped walnuts

¼ cup confectioners' sugar (optional)

1 large ripe banana, mashed

No-stick cooking spray

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 175 degrees C.
2. Coat a 13x9-inch square baking pan with no-stick cooking spray.
3. In a large bowl, beat eggs, water and vegetable oil together until smooth.
4. Add brownie mix and stir until the mixture is a smooth batter.
5. Beat the mashed banana into the batter and then fold in the walnuts.
6. Pour batter into the prepared baking dish.
7. Bake for about 28-30 minutes in preheated oven until set in the middle.
8. Cool brownies at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes before cutting into bars.
9. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar over the brownies.

The Japanese Rice Cakes That Destroy And Takes Life

10:11:00 am Health Care, Healthy Foods, Lifestyles, Mochi No comments

What is Mochi?

The ball cakes known as mochi are round buns made of soft and chewy rice.

The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed.

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The resulting sticky rice mass is then formed into the final stage which is in mochi shape and then baked or boiled.

The families, traditionally celebrate New Year by cooking a vegetable broth in which they heat the mochi.

Two people have died in Japan and several are in a critical condition after choking on traditional rice cakes as part of the new year celebrations.

They may seem harmless, but each year the hard-to-eat snack claims several lives, prompting annual warnings from officials.

How do Mochi take life ?

Mochi are chewy and sticky. They are far bigger than bite-sized, they need to be laboriously chewed before swallowing.

Anyone who can't chew properly [children, elderly people] will be likely to find them hard to consume.

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If not chewed but simply swallowed, the sticky mochi gets stuck in the throat and can lead to suffocation.

According to Japanese media, 90% of those rushed to hospital from choking on their new year's dish are people aged 65 or older.

A safe way to eat them?

Chew, chew, chew and chew. If that's not possible, the rice cakes need to be cut into smaller pieces.

Every year, authorities issue public warnings in the run-up to the new year festivities advising that people especially the very young and elderly ones should only eat mochi cut down to smaller little chunks.

Yet despite the warnings, each year there continue to be deaths linked to the dish. CONTINUE READING

SOURCE: BBC NEWS

Top Heart Healthy Foods That Stabilize The Heart

1:05:00 am Health, Healthy Foods No comments

Experts from The Cleveland Clinic and the American Dietetic Association have put together a list of the “best of the best” health hearty foods.

The foods listed are all top-performers in protecting the heart and blood vessels.

There are numerous options that can be added to the list. The following are the list:

Almonds

These nuts provides rich source of cholesterol-lowering sterols, but Christopher Gardner, Ph.D., a cholesterol researcher at Stanford University, credits monounsaturated fat with most of the benefit. Unlike saturated fat, the mono kind doesn’t block the removal of LDL cholesterol from the bloodstream.

Apples

Cornell University researchers had earlier this year found that eating one Red Delicious apple a day can block LDL oxidation, resulting in an 8 percent drop in levels. Bonus: Apples (and their skins) contain soluble fiber, the kind that scrubs artery walls clean. Cut one up and mix it into your oatmeal, another top source.

Beans

Much has been made of soyabeans’ ability to overcome everything from cholesterol to cancer. Gardner isn’t convinced: “I’m not sure how much of the health benefit is soy versus what soy displaces.” When it comes to controlling cholesterol, he says, that means substituting a vegetable patty for a fatty beef burger and topping your salad with edamame or kidney beans instead of chicken tenders a couple of times a week.

Blueberries

Similar to the resveratrol in grapes, pterostilbene, an antioxidant found in blueberries, can stimulate liver cells to better break down fat and cholesterol, according to USDA scientists.

Fish

Two weekly servings of fatty fish, like salmon, can lower LDL by 20 percent. Tufts University scientists found that, in high enough quantities, the omega-3 fatty acids from fish chewed through cholesterol molecules in the bloodstream and shrank the size of remaining LDL particles by 12 percent.

Lower Cholesterol When You Eat More Of This

9:40:00 am Cholesterol, Healthy Foods No comments

Experts have found more of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils in a day could help reduce high cholesterol and contribute immensely to weight loss.

Foods That Help Prevent Heart Disease

10:04:00 am Healthy Foods, Healthy Heart, Heart Disease No comments

There is no ‘magic’ food to decrease the risk of developing heart disease. You need to eat a healthy diet and have plenty of exercise. High-salt diets increase blood pressure and the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Top Cancer Fighting Foods

8:21:00 am Cancer, Healthy Foods No comments

1. Tomatoes

Tomatoes are an excellent dietary source of lycopene, a phytochemical molecule known as a carotenoid, which is responsible for the vibrant red, orange and yellow colours of a lot of vegetables and fruits.

Top Rated Foods That Damage Your Heart

7:24:00 am Healthy Foods, Heart Disease, Heart Failure No comments

People are continuously been diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases yearly. There are more reasons to that, with unhealthy diet being one of the main factors. Some foods consumed regularly can be more than damage to the heart.