cauliflower-related stories
Cruciferous Vegetables
Considered super foods for your body, cruciferous vegetables contain vitamins, fiber and disease-fighting phytochemicals. A variety of components in this veggie family has been known to lower cancer risks.
According to the American Institute of Cancer Research, these vegetables have the ability to stop the growth of cancer cells or help regulate a complex system of bodily enzymes that defend against cancer.
Cruciferous vegetables are not only healthy, they're portable, too! If you're not eating enough vegetables, it's never to late to start.
You can purchase these cruciferous vegetables or other veggies ready-to-go in the frozen- or fresh-packed sections of your grocery store. In fact, they can all be added to salads, stew or soups to give you a sense of satiety, along with adding nutrients to your daily diet.
Now that you've got a reason (and way) to get more veggies in your diet, check out That's Fit's exercises to get your body moving!
10 awesome autumn vegetables
The leaves are turning, the days are shorter -- it's impossible to ignore the fact that fall is coming ... er ... make that already here. Despite the fact that it means the impending doom of winter is just around the corner, I like fall -- the colours, the clothes, the warm food and the selection of produce at my local farmer's market.
Mark's Daily Apple Recently counted down the top veggies for fall -- next time you go shopping, stock up on these:
- Endive
- Broccoli
- Brussel Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Celery root
- Onions
- Pumpkin
- Spinach
- Zucchini
Want to know more about these awesome veggies, including how to eat them? Head over here for more info.
Quick and healthy produce recipes
I'm all for quick and easy meals. Though I'm not a bad cook, I've never really enjoyed it so I often find myself in a cooking rut. New ideas that benefit my family's health are always appreciated. Today, while on Fruits and Veggies More Matters, I found a page that has some recipes that all take 30 minutes or less -- they sound like winners in my book! I've got the ingredients for the veggie chili written down -- that's going to be on my family's dinner plates next week!
Serve that man some broccoli
Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements, Men's Health
If you're of the male persuasion, you might want to serve yourself up some broccoli -- now. A new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that men who ate broccoli just once per week were 45 percent less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer than who ate it less than once per month. Cauliflower might do the trick too -- it cuts the risk by 52 percent.
It's the compounds in these veggies that seem to protect cells from DNA damage and appear to slow the growth of cancer cells. A half a cup is all it takes.
A good reason to eat your vegetables, right guys?
The art of sneaking in veggies
Healthy Kids, Nutrition & Supplements
Researchers cooked up two versions of a pasta dish. One was made from a traditional recipe, and the other had pureed broccoli and cauliflower hidden in the sauce. The researchers then served up their creations, along with carrots, applesauce, and milk to the kids at a child care center. It turns out the children liked both versions the same. And guess what? When they ate the veggie pasta, they consumed more vegetables and 17 percent fewer calories.
The moral of the story is this: Slip your kids some extra veggies and they may never know it. The researchers do urge parents to still push not-so-hidden vegetables. Because ultimately, the goal is for kids to eat their veggies -- and like them too.
Color me healthy: what hues you should have on your plate
Prevention Magazine notes these colours as some of the best to have on your plate:
- Yellow/orange: Think mangoes and sweet potatoes, which can help prevent cancer
- Green: Spinach and broccoli can help your vision
- Purple: Blueberries and blackberries can help prevent the spread of tumors
- Red: Tomatoes and watermelon contain lycopene, to prevent cancer and heart disease
- White: Cauliflower, garlic and onions are all great for you.
Top 10 Omega 3 food sources
Healthy Habits, Organic, Diet & Weight Loss, Alternative & Green Health, Nutrition & Supplements
Omega-3s have the medically proven ability to reduce the amount of fat in your blood and help lower triglycerides. Triglycerides are a huge risk factor in heart attacks. Not only are they good for the heart but they help with depression, type 2 diabetes, fatigue, dry and itchy skin, brittle hair and nails, joint pain and other inflammation in the body, and the inability to concentrate. Here are some top 10 food sources for Omega-3s. Start a healthy habit by adding some of these items to your daily diet and remember to buy organic when available.Flax Seeds
Dried Ground Cloves
Walnuts
Salmon, Halibut, Cod
Cauliflower
Cabbage
Dried Ground Oregano
Mustard Seeds
Brussel Sprouts
Cooked Soybeans
Orange cauliflower packed with extra beta carotene
Reviews & Products, Nutrition & Supplements
Scientists have apparently been having fun turning vegetables into different colors in the lab, and now they've stumbled onto something they're fairly proud of: orange cauliflower.
You may have already come across it in the grocery store (I'm actually kind of glad that I haven't, it looks a little creepy) but scientists are still working on it and other veggies -- and they're getting excited by what they're finding. Orange cauliflower, golden rice, even potatoes are getting successfully genetically modified to make more room for and to include extra nutrients like beta carotene and other essentials.
I'm all for vegetables, and I'm also all for science, but I still can't bring myself to happily eat anything that's genetically altered. Am I crazy?
It IS easy being green!
Healthy Habits, Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements
By now most people know that their mom was right when she insisted that you eat your vegetables. According to this, and many other articles, leafy greens such as broccoli, spinach, Brussels sprouts, kale and even the not-so-green cauliflower are good for everything from helping to prevent certain types of cancer and heart disease to helping your body repair DNA.
While some people have grown to love (or always did love) to eat their veggies, many others will always prefer the taste of a nice steak or leg of lamb. It isn't always easy to get the required amount of vegetable helpings each day. For those of you trying to eat more greens, check out the last half of the article mentioned above. They've got some helpful tips including putting veggies in pasta, soup, sandwiches and more. These and a few other helpful ideas are all listed as tasty ways to ensure you get enough greens.
Cauli-broccoli and Ras-blueberries are the BEST!
Healthy Aging, Healthy Home, Healthy Kids, Diet & Weight Loss, Fitness, Reviews & Products, Nutrition & Supplements
Love broccoli? You'll love cauliflower! Love blueberries? Ras-blueberries are equally awesome.....except they're pink! That's the logic I used to get my kids to try new fruits and veggies. Ginger loved broccoli, but wouldn't look at cauliflower. Until that is, I called it "cauli-broccoli". Then she gobbled up a whole bowl of it. Rasberries were scary, until I made them sound like her favorite blue fruit.
Parenting requires creativity out the ying-yang. Making new foods sound like something my kids already liked has really help me get them to try different things and expand their tastes. Of course after a while, I'd let them know "Oh, most people usually just call the white stuff cauliflower cause it looks so pretty like a flower". Change made, easy as that.
Isn't it a challenge to get our children to try new things? Especially the healthy stuff we really wished they would try? I think it is. We have to sing about food, tell stories about it, and play games with it in order to make strides in increasing nutrition. Sometimes we go shopping and I let my kids pick out one new fruit or veggie they'd like to try. Having that power of choice seems to get them more excited about trying new things.
Salad bar do's and don'ts
Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements
Possibly the most famous of all diet foods: the salad. Popular restaurant order of dieters worldwide? The salad bar. The salad, and the salad bar, came by these stereo-types because they can be very low-calorie and full of nutrients. But like anything, they can easily go the other way if you're not careful.
I came across this article that covers pretty much everything you usually see on a salad bar, and has the pros and cons of each and whether you should be tossing some in your bowl or not. Some surprises for me included radishes and alfalfa sprouts being on the "don't bother" list while cottage cheese gets the green light -- I totally would have thought that was the other way around!
