Word: quinoa
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...scoops quinoa, barley, or any other cooked whole grain (salad or entr?...
...have a lot of career alternatives. So you'd think they would be enthusiastic about Fair Trade - a global campaign that for 25 years has sought to bring struggling Third World farmers, including Antonio, out of poverty by paying them higher-than-market prices for everything from coffee to quinoa. Along the way, it has recruited retail giants like Starbucks, which is the globe's largest purchaser of Fair Trade - certified coffee...
...David Jenkins at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital and his colleagues report that a low-glycemic-index diet - including foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, flaxseed and quinoa - is better at lowering blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes than a high-fiber diet. Patients in the study who were assigned a low-glycemic diet reduced their blood glucose levels, as measured by the amount of hemoglobin A1C in their blood, by 0.50%, compared to an 0.18% drop in similar patients eating a diet high in cereal fiber. (See the top 10 food trends...
...escape, a treatment for boredom, a cure for depression. According to Mollie Katzen, celebrated cookbook writer and recipe advisor to HUDS, healthy eating should be about adding great ingredients and savoring each bite—drizzling olive oil on salads to unleash the nutrients in the greens or sprinkling quinoa into a cup of soup to provide a serving of whole grains and some fiber. But all too often it’s equated with deprivation. In an interview earlier this month, Katzen lamented the notion that nutrition and satisfaction are mutually exclusive. “Diets...
...make it, every single day of the week. Along with that, have lean forms of protein - fish, nuts, lean, lean meats - but you don't have to eat them every day of the week. If you can, bring in good carbohydrates from grains and rice and quinoa, and reduce your man-made products like processed foods. Reduce your saturated fat and salt. No ifs, ands or buts. We can reduce our chances of cardiovascular illness, multiple forms of cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and osteoarthritis just by changing what we put in our mouths...