SALUTEM:HEALTH

discover how fabulous a healthy life can be

[jackiegsalutem]

Delicious high-protein breakfast: quinoa cooked in apple juice, water and non-dairy milk (almond milk, coconut milk or hemp milk), your choice of berries topped with chopped almonds and cinnamon. #cookingadventures #thriveforwardmeals #proteinbfast #deliciousmeals #readyforlongworkout 💪💪🙅🙆💁👍

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Color Therapy - exercising the creative arts part of my brain #lovequilting #zenchic #devotedtocolor #introducedbyclaudiagomez

[npr]

Farm Laborers Get A Foothold With Their Own Organic Farms

Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed America’s salad bowl. Large growers there have long relied on thousands of seasonal workers from rural Mexico to pick lettuce, spinach and celery from sunrise to sunset. Many of these workers seem destined for a life in the fields. But a program that helps field workers, like Raul Murillo, start their own farms and businesses is starting to yield a few success stories.

f God permits, he says, he’ll continue turning a modest profit so he can hire more people who need the work. Under ALBA’s rules, Murillo can only lease this land at a subsidized rate for a few years — after that he’s on his own. But it’s a risk he’s willing to take. Even though he’d leave behind the steady paycheck he gets still working for big growers.

It’s about being your own boss, instead of working for a foreman, he says. And at 45, he wants to try going out on his own before he gets too old.

Read the rest and listen to the story on Morning Edition.

(Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR)

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#choosehealthla Launching of New Campaign #chooselessweighless @ChooseHealthLa (Taken with Instagram)

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New #ChooseHealthLa campaign "Choose Less, Weigh Leas" (Taken with Instagram)

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Get recipes for Sesame Nori Crisps, Soy-Braised Hijiki And Carrots and Wakame Seaweed Salad

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Juice of the Week

Fairly simple to make and packed with GREEN POWER!! Not included in the picture - parsley - so I added a lime and a pear for an extra kick :) feel free to get creative. If it's your first time just stick to juicing these veggies to kick off your juicing experience.

Ingredients:

4 carrots 

2 stalks of celery 

Handful of spinach 

Handful of parsley 

Cut carrots and celery into 2-3 inch pieces. Process veggies in juicer.

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Flourless Fudge Cookies

I’ve been feeling the need to bake, and these gluten free, quick and delicious cookies seemed like the perfect thing to make. I was a little wary because two of the ingredients I find most irritating to use are powdered sugar and cocoa powder (which are the basis of these cookies), mostly because I tend to be incapable of even opening their containers without making a mess. However, with the help of a sifter and finally realizing that I should just deal with it all over the sink, the usual large mess was averted and I enjoyed the fudgy, chocolatey goodness.

2 1/4 cups confectioners sugar

1/4 tsp. salt

1 tsp. espresso powder (optional, but it brings out the chocolate)

1 cup cocoa powder (preferably dutch processed)

3 large egg whites

2 tsp. vanilla extract (gluten free if you want the recipe to be)

Up to 2 cups optional add ins (chocolate chips, walnuts, etc.)

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and grease the paper.

Stir the ingredients together in a bowl until smooth.

Add the add-ins if using.

Drop the dough onto sheets in 1 1/2 inch circles (approx 1 tbsp. each)

Bake the cookies for 8 minutes (10 minutes with 2 cups of add-ins), until somewhat shiny with faintly crackly tops.

Remove from oven and cool on pan. Yields 16 3” cookies (they spread a lot).

This is the recipe I started from. It turned out that I only had 2 eggs, so I adjusted the recipe accordingly and the results were still delicious.

[jackiegsalutem]

Yes!!! Guiltless cookies!! Still everything has to be eaten in moderation but this seems like a great recipe when your a gluten-free diet and watching your sugar in take. I'll let you know how they come out this weekend.

[fitvillains]

How a Man with No Arms or Legs Will Swim All Around the World

Even WITH arms & legs, this would be quite a story. Let it serve as inspiration to overcome your own challenges, whatever they may be!

Via Gizmodo

Philippe Croizon lost his arms and legs in a terrible accident 18 years ago. Since then, he has trained to become a world class athlete. This summer, the Frenchman is going to swim between every continent in the world.

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[jackiegsalutem]

wild rice + fresh veggies + tasty tomato paste all from scratch =  ... any guesses?? 

Mexican Pilaf! Another delicious recipe from the "Crazy, Sexy, Diet" Book. Wanna try it? Here's how:

3 cups wild rice, sprouted or cooked (http://localfoods.about.com/od/preparationtips/qt/howtowildrice.htm)

3 tablespoons green onion, diced

1 1/2 cups tomato, diced

1/2 cup cilantro, chopped

2 tablespoons fresh oregano, minced

1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes

1 1/2 tablespoons white miso

1 tablespoon garlic, minced

1 tablespoon chili powder

1/2 teaspoon cumin

2 tablespoons lemon juice

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon sea salt

Place sprouted or cooked rice in mixing bowl and hand toss with the green onion, only 1 cup of diced tomato, cilantro, and oregano. Set aside. In high speed blender, blend the sun-dried tomatoes, remaining 1/2 cup diced tomato, miso, garlic, chili powder, cumin, lemon juice, olive oil, and salt until smooth. Toss tomato paste with rice and mix well. 

And voila!! Let me know how it turns out ;)

-recipe was originally taken from www.rawchef.com

[fitvillains]

Baked Apple & Cinnamon Chips

Directions

Remove apple core.

Thinly slice the entire apple.

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place apple slices on it.

Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Bake at 275 degrees for 2 hours. Flip after 1 hour

95-120 calories per serving (1 apple)

Click here to see the final product!

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Typeverything.com - Placements by Yani Arabena & Guille Vizzari (via Placemates for BZP Bazar)

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Kale quinoa avocado celery pear hummus with fresh lemon

Makes for 2: You’ll need

2 hand fulls of kale

Quinoa: 1 cup

1 avodado

2 heaping table spoons of hummus

1 pear

2 stalks of celery

1 lemon

a dash of olive oil

Now What

massage olive oil and fresh squeezed lemon into kale

chop pear & avocado & celery

combine

add a few table spoons of quinoa

combine

add hummus

combine

enjoy!

most fun to mix with your hands!

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tasty and inexpensive!

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Alright my friends! I have finally made this green superfood smoothie and it is DELICIOSO!! I must admit that some of the ingredients are a bit expensive but they can all be found at your nearest WHOLE FOODS store. They sell them in great quantities so they should last you for quite some time (totally worth the expense). Your health is worth it and that is where you're money, time and effort should be focused in order to live a fabulous energized life. I'll have to steal the army's quote and say that foods and supplements like these will definitely help you BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE! Give it a try and let me know how it went ;)

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Green Superfood Smoothie

Step 1: The Milk

Soak a small handful of raw organic almonds overnight and in the morning throw them into the blender with 2 cups of water

Blend on high speed until the almonds have been completely broken up and the water will turn into  white frothy milk (yum)

Step 2: The Smoothie

Add in the following ingredients to the Almond Milk:

1 small avocado or 1 banana or half of each

1 heaping tablespoon of Wheat Grass Powder

1 tablespoon of Raw Honey or Agave Nectar

1 tablespoon of Bee Pollen

1 tablespoon of Raw Cacao Powder

1 tablespoon of Maca Powder

1 tablespoon of Chia Seeds 

1 cup of ice

Blend it all up and drink immediately!

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An AHA! Moment

I am reading this fantastic and outrageously fun book called "Crazy Sexy Diet" by Kris Carr who is a cancer survivor. I'm barely in the first few pages and there's already something I want to share. This was a sort of "aaaha" moment for me and I hope that it can spark up something in you to make a bit of a lifestyle change. Even if it's a small one. So here's a quote from the book I want to share:

        "[A study] found that the more stressed the women felt, and the longer they felt stressed, the shorter their telomeres were (the ends of our chromosomes which control aging). This was the first study providing genetic evidence indicating that chronic emotional stress might shorten a woman's lifespan. In other words, two women might be in comparable situations, but one had learned to manage her stress better by empowering herself and taking charge of her life. As a result, her telomeres  were longer.

        We tend to think of advances in medicine as a new drug, laser, surgical procedure-something high-tech and expensive (e.g., the lap band). We often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lives each day-what we eat, how we respond to stress, how much exercise we get, and (perhaps most important), how much love and intimacy we have- can make such a powerful difference in our health and well-being, but they do.

       The Preventive Medicine Research Institute at UCSF found that a whole foods, plant-based diet, moderate exercise, stress management techniques such as yoga and meditation, and learning to give and receive love more fully could often reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, early-stage prostate cancer, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, hyper-cholesterolemia, obesity, depression, and other chronic diseases."

Link to CRAZY SEXY DIET website

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The cold hard truth: Perfect is a Myth.

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[jackiegsalutem]

Maybe she's born with it, no I'm sure it's photoshop :D