FW: Daily Healthy Tip and Recipe: Napa Cabbage Salad
Marianne Manderfield
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Marianne Manderfield
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 06:19:25 -0400
Subject: Daily Healthy Tip and Recipe: Napa Cabbage Salad
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This healthy cabbage side salad is a wonderful addition to any Asian-flavored meal and it's quick and easy to make. It also provides a rich concentration of vitamin C, A, folate, manganese and fiber-just a few of its many health-promoting nutrients. Enjoy!
Napa Cabbage Salad
Prep and Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 4 cups finely chopped napa cabbage
- ½ cup chopped scallion
- 1 medium tomato, seeds and excess pulp removed
- Optional: ¼ cup soaked hijiki seaweed or organic arame; 1 cup chopped chicken breast
- Dressing
- 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
- 2 medium cloves garlic, pressed
- 1 TBS rice vinegar, or lemon juice
- 1 tsp honey
- 2 TBS soy sauce
- ¼ tsp dry mustard
- 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
- salt and white pepper to taste
Directions:
- Optional: Rinse and soak hijiki or organic arame in 1 cup warm water until softened, about 10 minutes. Drain and squeeze out excess water when ready.
- While hijiki or arame is soaking, chop cabbage, scallion and place in a bowl. Cut tomato in half and squeeze out seeds, cut out pulp, and slice in thin strips.
- Whisk together dressing ingredients and toss with cabbage, tomato, and scallion (and hijiki or arame and/or chopped chicken if so desired). Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Serves 4
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Daily Food Tip
Is there a problem with eating up to four bananas per day in my protein shakes if I work out?
In the vast majority of cases, four bananas per day are probably too many. One large banana contains about 18 grams of sugar and 125 calories. Four would contain about 72 grams of sugar and 500 calories. If a person ate about 2,000 calories per day, that person's diet would be approximately 14% sugar from the bananas alone, and about 25% of all calories would come from the bananas. From my perspective, that's too much daily sugar and too many daily calories from a single food.
I have no way of knowing, of course, whether or not four bananas per day are supportive of your personal health. That answer depends upon your individual health status, your daily diet, the amount and type of exercise you are doing, and your current nutritional needs. A healthcare practitioner who can take all of these factors into account would be the best person to help determine the number of bananas that would be best for you to consume to meet your nutrient and health needs.
But I can suggest a set of questions that you might ask yourself about your banana-plus-protein shakes. Does your diet have room for the calories that four bananas per day provide? Do you have to cut out any other nutrient-rich foods that provide other nutrients in which bananas may not be concentrated in order to make room for the bananas? Do you feel good when you eat the bananas? Do the bananas give you the energy and stamina that you desire?
In general, our website approach is to encourage consumption of whole, natural foods. We believe that the benefits of these foods are so unique and so overwhelming that major changes in lifestyle are worthwhile in order to make way for these foods. While you may be getting the nutrients you need from your protein shakes, you also might not be, and you will always increase your chances of getting the full spectrum of nutrients you need by eating a variety of whole, natural foods.
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