KTK-Nutrition

What foods should we eat together?   How do some foods help our health when eaten together?   Environmental Nutrition has an interesting article on Food Synergy Boosts Nutrition .   What food combos should you eat together to boost your nutrition? 1. Add some fat to your salads – so many times we hear, “cut the fat” out of our diets.   Yes, we should cut the fried food but healthy fats we need to add to our diet.   Especially when we are eating salads.   a.        SALAD + FAT – forget the fat-free salad dressing and reach for reduced fat or full fat dressing.   Why?   Salads, such as mixed spring salad mix are loaded with vitamins like vitamin A, E, K and folate.   They are also loaded with antioxidants. To best absorb these healthy nutrients, we need some fat in the meal.   A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that some fat on your salad improved absorption of antioxidants li...

Who among us isn’t trying to reduce the size of our bellies?   Are there really foods that can help cut the belly fat?    MSN listed foods this week that are worth a try.   Even if you don’t add all of these, some are really easy to incorporate into our diet and daily routine.         Onion and leeks – so easy to add to our diet.   Onion slices on our hamburger, onion in our salads.   How do they work?   Onions produce butyrate which is a prebiotic that encourages the growth of good bacteria in our intestines.   The butyrate also helps one burn body fat.            Artichokes and asparagus – on a recent trip to the Cheesecake Factory, my daughter and I enjoyed the fire-roasted artichoke appetizer.   Absolutely delicious.   Asparagus is now plentiful at our local farmers markets where I live and a great health food.   These two are also prebiotics and they produce acet...