Invigorate Your Body, Mind and Spirit with These Super Foods
Check this out… here’s how to invigorate and rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit…with these super foods and eating smaller, more frequent snacks and meals. By eating smaller and more frequent meals this will help keep energy levels on an even keel and regulate your blood sugar levels to avoid spikes and dips. When you choose the right combination of foods, your body gets the much-needed boost it needs to sustain itself properly, even through those slumps later in the day. So definitely get rid of those high sugar junk foods and grab the following foods and get that boost you need.
Any fresh fruit, especially with skins or seeds like peaches, apples, pears, oranges, and strawberries, is a great source of vitamins and fiber. Fruit provides you with plenty of dietary fiber, niacin (vitamin B3), potassium, beta carotene and vitamin A, plus high amounts of vitamin C. Niacin is important for providing energy for cell tissue growth. Along with regulating fluid balance, potassium helps maintain the electrical stability of the cells of your heart and nervous system and is important for cell and muscle growth. Vitamin B12 plays a role in red blood cell formation, nerve function, and metabolizing protein and fat.
Dried apricots (which I love and snack on daily!) and almonds together provide a high amount of vitamin A, iron protein and dietary fiber. Both foods are low in cholesterol and sodium, and apricots are a great source of potassium, which is important in regulating your body’s fluid balance. The vitamin A in apricots contributes to healthy vision, bone growth, reproduction, and helps fight infection.
Raisins are a healthy, low-fat, low-cholesterol, and low-sodium snack with significant amounts of potassium, phosphorus, copper, and iron, and when mixed with low-fat yogurt, you also get riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin B12, as well as a high amount of calcium, which is needed not only for strong bones and teeth but also plays a key role in the normal functioning of the heart and other muscles.
Baby carrots (can you believe these are my dog’s favorite treats?!) and sesame sticks are a tasty treat that will provide significant amounts of beta carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, folate, vitamin B6, iron, potassium, copper, and fiber. Beta carotene helps protect against diseases like heart disease and some cancers.
Peanut butter (my dog’s second favorite treat – in Kong) on some whole grain crackers is an excellent source of protein, iron, niacin, and fiber. Peanut butter on celery is a classic snack, has great staying power, and the celery is stuffed with numerous vitamins, minerals, and is high in fiber. Low-fat string cheese is a good quick source of protein and calcium. They come in easy-to-carry individual servings and you can add a piece of fresh fruit for extra fiber.
Try these out…replace those chips and donuts with these healthy power foods and then let me know how much better and rejuvenated you feel!
wow its really nice thing to have this tips and this food idea is very useful to maintain our health. thanks for sharing this keep it up
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A bowl of sliced apples and pears with oranges, almonds and raisins sounds better than a bag of chips any day of the week. Fresh fruit seems a little bland right now because they’re out of season and shipped from who knows where but give me a can of pear halves and I can skip lunch. I’ve been putting raisins in my oatmeal every morning and it’s a lot easier to resist the other breakfast foods. Nice job Brenda, super foods sounds like a winning term. My dog loves peanut butter too
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Hey…thanks Brian! I know… chips are so… yuck! (I have to keep telling myself that
) Nice job eating all that fruit! I agree it’s really hard to find good fruit this time of year. And I can’t believe the prices at the grocery store which makes it harder to eat healthy, but what can you do? What is it with dogs and peanut butter? lol
Each year I get more and more from local farms. It’s not much of an option in Michigan’s winter months but I plan on hitting the local farms even more this year. It supports the local economy but more importantly you know what you’re eating once you get to trust a few. It’s true with fruit, vegetables and meat.
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Most of the foods mentioned..i neglect to eat, no wonder!, its hard though but i will start by eating less but frequent, drink lots of water and start with my favorite fruit..no problem with the nuts except for the raisin part. I do eat raisin but occasionally when i feel like it. I;m going to have issues with carrots and apricots though.
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I need to eat more of these foods, I mean I get my 2 year old son to so what is my excuse lol! He loves raisins which is good as it is much better as a snack than a packet of crisps
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lol Lisa!! Thanks for reading…Have a great day!