Your Health is in Your Food

Do you want to have a healthy, useful for your body food while enjoying delightful meal? Do you know what kind of vitamins and minerals you can get with the food products?

Check out these Web sites:

http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/vitamins-and-minerals-good-food-sources -  WebMD provides you with the list of vitamins and minerals, amounts that you need daily and why you need them, and food products that have them.

HealthCheck Systems also have a list of the most relevan vitamins and minerals and their sources. http://www.healthchecksystems.com/vitamins.htm

Allrecipes.com also has articals concerning your health. Check them out at http://allrecipes.com/Info/Healthy-Cooking/Nutrition/Vitamins--Supplements/Main.aspx and learn what do you need for stronger bones, healthy hair and nails and strong heart.

Also, check out an interview with nutritionist Joy Bauer with "Today's Health" at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15027475//

And remember: it is always better to take your vitamins and minerals from the natural foods first and then take necessary supplements that are unavailable as a food.

Ala

For you, baking fans!

One of my favorite baking Web sites is http://www.joyofbaking.com/ 

It has it all: recipes, useful tips and hints and very, very appetizing pictures!

Remember short bread cookies I recently tried to bake? I found very useful tips at JoyOfBaking.com, such as:
If you substitute half a cup of flour with cornstarch, cookies will be more delicate and tender. If you substitute 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour with rice flour, your cookies will have nice crunchy texture. I tried to use some cornstarch and added a tablespoon of orange zest (to make it I took an orange and grated its peel on the very fine hand grater). Cookies came out perfectly delicious!

Check them out and bake, bake, bake!

Ala

All you need to know about chocolate!

Did you know that there is a chocolate museum in Bruges, Belgium? It is called Choco-Story and is located in the historical Huis ‘de Crone’ building, "one of the largest medieval houses in Bruges". Museum walks visitors through the history of the chocolate, tells them secrets of making chocolate, lets them taste different sorts of chocolate and has all the variety of Belgian chocolates.

Check out their Web site at http://www.choco-story.be/ENG/

You'll find there recipes, history of a chocolate, health facts and much more.

You can find some Things You never Knew About Chocolate in the Choco-Story' Press Kit (under downloads), such as:

Did you know that ...

… in bygone days chocolate was served to ladies of nobility during mass?

… the church banned the consumption of chocolate at one time because it was deemed to be an aphrodisiac?

… there are over 800 (!) different constituents in chocolate?

… chocolate contains antioxidants (e.g polyphenols) that help prevent heart disease and cancer?

The information and picture are taken from http://www.choco-story.be/ENG/

A.S.