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Instead of Butter: Use top quality, cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil, from the first pressing, or flaxseed oil. The taste of virgin olive oil is appealing to millions of people around the world, so why not adopt it to your taste?

Flaxseed oil is prized for health reasons and not for its taste. You can always compensate for that by adding spices to the appropriate dish. Let’s say you want to add a little flaxseed oil to mashed potatoes, instead of butter. You could add basil, oregano, rosemary, curry, garlic, or any other spice that agrees with your palate.

You can use a little virgin olive oil on mashed potatoes with basil and roasted garlic, but it’s up to the individual’s own taste. At home, we use a little olive oil on toast, instead of butter. Again, you could spice it, but try to avoid salting.

Depending on whose study you read, flaxseed oil contains Omega-3, Omega-6, and Omega-9 Oils.

Olive oil has some Omega-6 value, but it tastes great.

If you want to learn a lot more about beneficial oils, visit:

http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~ebender/Health%20&%
20Nutrition/Nutrition/oil_good.html

To name a few of the many conditions improved by Omega-3 Oils: High Cholesterol Levels, Prevention of Strokes and Heart Attacks, Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Multiple Sclerosis, Allergies, Angina, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis, and Asthma.

To read a little more about the link between cancer prevention and Omega-3 fatty acids, please visit:

http://www.seapet.com/EFA_cancer.htm#AICR

It goes without saying any further, that omega-3 fatty acids should be boosted in most of our diets.

You will notice, I did not mention, margarine as a dietary recommendation.
Trans-fats are formed as a result of chemical hydrogenation. Depending upon the brand you buy, margarine may contain up to 45 percent trans-fats.

“The problem with trans fatty acids is that your body doesn’t know what to do with them,” said Brian Olshansky, M.D., University of Iowa Health Care professor of internal medicine.

Trans fatty acids (trans-fats) are linked to diabetes, high cholesterol, sudden cardiac death, obesity, and heart disease.

Expect to see a warning on the labels of food containing trans-fats in the near future. New labeling for foods is expected soon, and total trans-fats contained within a product serving, will be listed. Believe it or not, at least one trans-fat, CLA (conjugated linolenic acid), is considered beneficial, but that is another story.

Suffice to say, it would be wise to avoid margarine until all the research is in. At that point, the composition of margarine will probably change for the better.

Paul Jerard, is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in North Providence, RI. He has been a certified Master Yoga teacher since 1995. He is a master instructor of martial arts, with multiple Black Belts, four martial arts teaching credentials, and was recently inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He teaches Yoga, martial arts, and fitness to children, adults, and seniors in the greater Providence area. Recently he wrote: Is Running a Yoga Business Right for You? For Yoga students, who may be considering a new career as a Yoga teacher.

www.yoga-teacher-training.org/index.html

With endless amounts of things to do nowadays it’s difficult to make time to stop, cook yourself a good meal and still get everything on your To-Do list done. It doesn’t come as a shock that people find it difficult to get their recommended daily intake of fruits, vegetables and vitamins. The problem is, the cooked food that we buy these days is made with low quality, pre-packed ingredients with nasty preservatives. Processing the foods this much eliminates practically all the fibre and nutrients! But finding the time to cook an entire meal is next to impossible these days.

There’s no doubt, if you’d like to get healthy and do something that’s good for your body, the best thing you can do is buy the ingredients and make it yourself. The less processing that goes into your food before you eat it, the better. If possible, get foods with no preservatives. The thing that people dont realize is that making food at home does not have to take forever! I make tons of simple, yet delicious meals at home that don’t take any longer than 30 minutes to make! (Believe me, these are much healthier than Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals! Hers are full of preserved foods.) The Cooking Cousins recipes are also simple to make but they are much healthier for you. . This gnocci recipe is great for a special night in.

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What would happen if the entire sudden all of the bread in the world was taken up and removed and instantly replaced with pita? I guess that pita is a type of bread, so it would mean that all of the other types of bread would be gone. Pita has less air in it and can have a lot less calories and if when you eat less you can be healthier. Bread is a tasty little thing, it can seduce you and have you eating it way beyond any amount that you would want to do.

You could experience improved health if you switched over to all pita. You can go into your kitchen and take out all of the breads and pastries that you have and replace them with pita. The pita can be used to eat with all kinds of things. You can stuff a pita with lettuce, peppers, cheese, meats, and all kinds of things. The Greeks have some excellent combinations that they use with pita and if you want something tasty, go ahead and do what they do with it. The world might be a lot different with this switch, a lot of people would really miss the bread that they are used too; it would be interesting to say the least.