A healthy lifestyle is essential to maintain good health, improve the quality of your life and stay healthy. Today's lifestyle spells hurry and worry. You are always anxious to meet deadlines and always do things in a hurry to keep up with the fast pace of life. You can improve your health despite a frenzied lifestyle with these few helpful heart friendly recipe suggestions.
Let's take a look at these heart healthy recipes which play a role in preventive medicine to enhance the quality of your life.
A refreshing heart healthy tea recipe: Boil a slice of fresh ginger with lemongrass, brown sugar and a bag of green tea. Cool and serve over crushed ice. Improves digestion, cures cold and cough, tastes divine.
Flax powder: Roast 1 cup of flaxseeds over medium flame stirring continuously to avoid burning. Once it sputters, remove roasted flaxseeds and keep aside. In the same pan, heat ½ teaspoon oil, add 2-3 cloves of pressed garlic, a handful of sesame seeds, about 12-15 dried curry leaves. (You can dry the curry leaves but microwaving them for 30 seconds). Add chilli powder and salt as per taste. Add contents of the pan, roasted flaxseeds, chilli powder and salt into the blender. Blend into fine powder. Use this flaxseed powder as a garnish over salads, use it to add flavor to foods, eat with pancakes, or add in sandwiches. The idea is to consume about 1 tablespoon of this powder everyday. Flax has fiber and omega 3 fats which are cardio-protective and has numerous health benefits.
Soy: Soymilk, defatted soyflour, soya chunks, soya nuggets are the different forms in which soy proteins can be consumed. 20 grams of soya protein consumed everyday is particularly beneficial in controlling high blood pressure, lowering triglycerides, high cholesterol. Thus, soy has several heart healthy benefits.
Green tea, flaxseeds and soy are the top three magic foods which deliver the goodness of heart protective flavonoid compounds, omega 3 fats and isoflavones respectively. It is important to incorporate these three power foods in your daily diet along with regular exercise. You can be creative and think of many different ways of consuming them for heart healthy living.
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Pallavi writes health and wellness articles for a number of websites and international magazines. She is a nutrition consultant and health Writer who guides you with natural cures related information on aromatherapy, yoga, home remedies, diet, massage and more.
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