Food and lifestyle ideas to keep you healthy
What is it you want to accomplish with your health this year? It’s easy to think that we need to go all out to change our health for the better. Making lofty, unachievable goals can put a quick ending to any thoughts of improvement. If you have intentions of improving your health this year, simple, small steps will help you accomplish them.
Use these stir-fry vegetables as the main attraction with a piece of fish and a scoop of brown rice.
(broccoli, mushrooms, asparagus, red pepper, carrots, onion)
1 1/2 TB minced fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp canola oil
1/4 c. orange juice
1 tsp grated orange peel
1/4 c. low-sodium soy sauce
2 TB dry sherry
1 tsp maple syrup
1 tsp toasted sesame oil
1 tsp cornstarch
dash red pepper flakes
mix together ginger, garlic, and 1 TB oil
whisk together the orange juice and peel, soy sauce, sherry, syrup, sesame oil, cornstarch and red pepper flakes in a bowl, set aside
add 1 TB oil to empty skillet and bring back up to heat. add vegetable and stir-fry until tender-crisp, about 2 minutes. Clear center of pan and add garlic/ginger mixture. Cook for 5 seconds, mashing with with spoon, and then stir into veggies
reduce heat to low and cook until sauce is thickened, about 30 seconds. Serve immediately as is, or with rice and noodles.
Every year we are faced with the decision - ‘do I get a flu shot…or not?’ However you answer this question, know that what you do every day has an impact on your susceptibility or resistance to any illness or germs that may come your way. How else can we explain the fact that one person “catches” a cold or flu in the office, and 5 other people in the sam office do not?
