You Are What You Eat: Cabbage
Each week, we'll be offering original recipes and unique ways to use those Super Foods that pack nutritional power. After all, you are what you eat -- make it count!First of all, check out these super nutrition nuggets found in 1/2 cup cooked green cabbage: Calories: 16, Fiber: 2.9 g, Carbohydrates: 3.6 mg, and Vitamin C: 18.2 mg. No fat or cholesterol in this Super Food.
Green cabbage is just one variety of this cruciferous veggie. There are literally hundreds -- green and bok choy are the most popular in the United States -- and thank goodness for the abundance of this vegetable because it truly is a good-for-you food. It might just be one of the healthiest foods you can eat.
Cabbage, high in nutrients, readily available, and inexpensive, has been found to fight heart disease, osteoporosis, and high blood pressure. It fights cancer too. Even it's smell contributes to the cancer cause.
Cabbage contains phytonutrients that protect the body from free radicals -- boiling destroys phytonutrients so try to sauté, steam, or roast this health food -- and it's a a muscle builder, blood cleanser, and eye strengthener too. It's also rich in iron and sulfur, can lower serum cholesterol, and is chock full of antioxidants. In juice form, cabbage can heal stomach ulcers and treat fungus infections. There's more: Cabbage promotes gastrointestinal health, prevents Alzheimer's, and optimizes cell detoxification.
Time to get cabbage into your diet. For starters, give this recipe for Healthy Cabbage Salad a try. Check out these
10 healthy cabbage recipes too. And these from Epicurious.
If you've got any tried and true cabbage creations of your own, please do share.
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4-08-2008 @ 10:26AM
Susan said...
I have an awesome blender-the vitamix-that pulvarizes everything. I add cabbage to my fruit smoothie AND you would never know it is there. Recipe below:
8oz cran-raspberry light (or your fave juice)
1 peeled orange
1/2 cup or small chunk of cabbage
1 tsp flax seed & oil
1 scoop of protein powder
Blend. It is soooooo good.
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4-18-2008 @ 2:17PM
Richard said...
Hey Fitz! Great advice you've given to these people! Keep it up! I also advocate a healthy lifestyle, and I watch the food I eat, I always find ways to look for healthy foods that would help me, not just to lose weight, but to build a better resistance for my body. More tips at Lime.com. Though I don't really go to the gym per se. I use home gym equipment to replace my trips to the gym, they offer to duplicate and replace the functions of other gym equipment, thus eliminating the need to leave the house just to work out. I get it way half the price that that of any TOTAL GYMequipment. Any tips you could possibly give me for exercising at home?
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