Health food with some real taste.Nutrition expert and consumer advocate Ellen Haas says she has uncovered 21 "fit foods" (like blueberries, turkey, and yogurt) that reinforce each other's health benefits and supply bodies with the nourishment needed for a long and healthy life. Using foods with basic disease-fighting abilities, Haas has written Fit Food, filled with recipes to help readers eat well and stay fit-no matter what diet they may be following. Some of the book's recipes are asparagus asparagus, perennial garden vegetable (Asparagus officinalis) of the family Liliaceae (lily family), native to the E Mediterranean area and now naturalized over much of the world. soup with lemon cream; brown rice and crunchy vegetable salad; pan-roasted red snapper red snapper: see snapper. with orange and mango salsa; spa-style chicken with sun-dried tomatoes and watercress watercress, hardy perennial European herb (Nasturtium officinale) of the family Cruciferae (mustard family), widely naturalized in North America, found in or around water. ; shrimp stir-fry with Chinese cabbage Chinese cabbage Either of two widely cultivated members of the mustard family, bok choy and Brassica pekinensis. The latter vegetable, also called celery cabbage, forms a tight head of crinkled light green leaves. It has long been grown in the U.S. as a salad vegetable. , carrots, and broccoli; and honey vanilla frozen yogurt. Bon appetit! |
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