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Fortunately, nature has given us a handy rule of thumb. Many of the very chemicals that make foods good for us are the ones that give them color, turning blueberries blue, spinach green and carrots deep orange. For optimum health, scientists say, eat a rainbow of colors. Your plate should look like a box of Crayolas...
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With his corncob pipe and his overdeveloped forearms, Popeye is hardly today's poster child of fitness, but his legendary food preference still makes a lot of sense. Spinach is loaded with iron and folate, a B vitamin considered so important that it is now routinely added to flour. Folate not only prevents neural-tube defects in babies but also lowers blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that irritates blood vessels and is linked to heart disease. Just as impressive, spinach contains two phytochemicals, lutein and zeaxanthin, that seem to ward off macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness...
...thickness of the butter. Abiding by our creative editor’s distaste towards spiciness, we requested everything to be ordered in mild. Good thing we did, as the dishes were already spicy at mild. We also sampled the Chicken Saagwala, which was succulent pieces of chicken mingled with spinach, garlic, and various spices. The Baigan Bharta—a mashed concoction of baked eggplant, sautéed onions, and fresh coriander—was decent, though not quite as flavorful as the other dishes. We enjoyed our dishes with a generous portion of lovely long-grained rice...
...traditional Mandarin Media's great fear is that civilians may actually be able to consume news in whatever shape or form they want. And that ordinary folks, instead of eating their spinach, will go straight for the cotton candy. This disturbs old-style media types because they are, above all, packagers of news. Every front page of every daily newspaper in the country represents that paper's view of the hierarchy and relative importance of that day's news. Same thing with the order of stories on the network evening news. The idea that readers or viewers might be able...