Foods for Health: Veggie & Fruit Edition

• Artichokes helps digestion, lowers cholesterol levels, stabilizes blood sugar and protects the heart.
• Cabbage prevents constipation, promotes weight loss and helps to fight cancer
• Carrots saves eyesight and also aids in weight loss.
• Mangoes boosts memory, regulates the thyroid and protects against Alzheimer's disease.
• Oranges supports the immune system, and strengthen respiration.
• Peaches prevent constipation, aids digestion and helps hemorrhoids



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• Prunes slows aging, boosts memory, and protects against heart disease.

Foods for Health: Fruit Edition

Did you Know That? The components of fruit actually perform specific functions within the body:

• Apples protect the heart, prevent constipation, and cushions the joints.
• Avocados help to lower cholesterol, control blood pressure and improve the texture of the skin.
• Bananas strengthens the bones and blocks diarrhea.
• Blueberries help to fight cancer, stabilize blood sugar and boost the   memory.
• Cherries lessen insomnia, slows the aging process and protects the heart.
• Grapefruits protect against heart attacks, promote weight loss and lowers cholesterol levels.
• Grapes improves weakened eyesight, treats kidney stones and enhances blood flow.
• Pineapples strengthens colds, aids digestion and cures colds.
• Watermelon helps weight loss, lowers cholesterol, helps to stop strokes and controls blood pressure.

Check out which foods fight cancer  here.

How to make the BEST Vegan Macaroni & Cheese

Did you Know That?  Vegans can still enjoy popular dishes such as Mac & Cheese, Ice Cream, Cheesecake and other delightful dishes. Here's an awesome vegan recipe. (Courtesy of VegWeb.com) This recipe does not disappoint, try it out! 
Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 pounds of macaroni elbows
• How to make the "Cheese" sauce:   
•     1 1/2 cups unsweetened soy milk
•     1 1/2 cups nutritional yeast flakes
•     1 cup vegetable oil
•     1 cup water
•     1/3 cup  soy sauce or Bragg's Liquid Aminos
•     1/4  block firm tofu (12 ounce)
•     1 tablespoon garlic powder
•     1 tablespoon paprika
•     1 tablespoon sea salt
•     1 dollop mustard (optional)

Directions: 

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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  Boil the water in a large pot and cook pasta according to package directions.

2. Add all of the "cheese" sauce ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Once pasta is cooked, drain and put it in the baking pan (about the size of a brownie pan). Pour the "cheese" sauce over the pasta.

3. Bake until the top of the pasta looks slightly browned and crispy, about 15-20 minutes.

Random Food Facts of the Day 10.25.11

• 68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
• A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
• Apple seeds are poisonous!
• Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
• On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.

Random Food Facts of the Day

• Grape explode when you put them in the microwave.
• In South Africa, termites and ants are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like popcorn.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Random Food Facts of the Day

These facts are all about one of my favorite things: CANDY!!!

• Deep fried chocolate bars contain about 850 calories per bar.
• Chocolate will kill dogs and horses!
• 3 Musketeers Bars were originally made in 3 separate sections of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
• The world’s most expensive chocolates are Chocopolgie French Black Truffles by Knipschildt at $2,600 per pound.
• Pope Clement XIV was killed with a cup of poisoned chocolate in 1774.
• The world’s oldest chocolates are 106 years old. A tin of chocolates from the coronation of King Edward VII from 1902.
• Facts from here 

Random Food Facts of the Day

• Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.
• Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!
• McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
• It takes twelve years of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
• Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons!

Random Fact of the Day - 9.07.11

• There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
• Apples are actually part of the rose family.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
• Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
• Apples are 25% air.

Random Fact of the Day- 8.25.11

Facts about America's favorite breakfast foods:

•  Eggs are about 105 degrees Fahrenheit when laid. (beembee.com)
• Thanks to Canadian researchers, we now know that the egg came before the chicken. They discovered a dinosaur egg nest which solved the timeless mystery. (beembee.com)
• The first recipe for pancakes were from the 15th century, from an English cookbook. (Ezine)
• The world's largest pancake was cooked in Roch-dale, Manchester in  1994. It weighed 3 tons and had a shocking 2 million calories. (Ezine)
• Cereal was invented when colonial housewives started serving up popcorn with sugar and cream for breakfast.  (American Cereal Council)
• In the U.S, 49% Americans start their day with a bowl of cereal. (American Cereal Council)
• The word cereal comes from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain. (American Cereal Council)
• The top 3 orange juice producers are Brazil, Florida and Mexico.

Random Fact of the Day - 8.16.11

The creamy middle of a Twinkie is not cream at all but mostly Crisco

Americans spend $2 billion on Easter candy: 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies, 16 billion jellybeans, and 700 million marshmallow Peeps
To burn of a Double Whopper, you would need to walk  nine miles.

A small packet of Wendy’s honey mustard dressing has 280 calories.

Random Fact of the Day - 8.8.11

•  The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
• The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.
• Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.
• Onions have no flavor, only a smell.
• Lima beans contain cyanide!
• It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Random Fact of the Day - 8.5.11

Pizza first made its appearance in the United States with the arrival of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century. 


The first "official" pizzeria in America is generally believed to have been founded by in Manhattan in 1905.


The first recorded use of the word "pizza" dates from 997 AD and comes from a Latin text from the town of Gaeta in southern Italy. 

Doesn't this look SOOO Good!!!

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Random Fact of the Day - 8.2.11

• Blueberry juice boosts memory.
•  It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
•  With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
• Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
• Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
• The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.

Random Fact of the Day - 7.30.11

• The banana tree is not really a fruit. It's a large herb and bananas are its berry.
• The first soup was made from hippopotamus meat. 
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.
• Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
• Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
• Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

Random Fact of the Day - 7.19.11

• Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
• On average there are 180 sesame seeds on a bun of a BigMac.
• There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water.
• Coca Cola was originally green.
• The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

Time for DINNER!!

Random Fact of the Day - 7.18.11

• The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
• There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
• The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat.

Random Fact of the Day - 7.16.11

Here are some FUN FOOD FACTS:

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine

In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.