Healthy Cooking Cookbook: Healthy Green Smoothies and Quinoa Recipes

By Diane Kelly

Healthy Cooking Cookbook: Healthy Green Smoothies and Quinoa Recipes The Healthy Cooking Cookbook covers two different diet plans with the Quinoa Cookbook and the Green Smoothie Diet. Each of these are the perfect plan for helping you to begin a healthy and nutritious diet. Quinoa is a super food that is packed with nutrients. It is a highly versatile food and consuming it daily would insure you get some very beneficial vitamins and minerals. Quinoa is a grain substitute and perfect for those who wish to avoid grains. The Green Smoothie diet is a great diet to help jump start weight loss, a body cleanse, and a good way to have quick nutrition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781632878465

Diane Kelly

Diane Kelly is a former state assistant attorney general and tax advisor who spent much of her career fighting, or inadvertently working for, white-collar criminals. She is also a proud graduate of the Citizens Police Academy of Mansfield, Texas. Diane combines her fascination with crime and her love of animals in her stories, which include the Paw Enforcement series, the House-Flipper Mysteries, and the Mountain Lodge Mysteries. Diane now lives in North Carolina, where she spends her days catering to her demanding cats or walking her dogs in the region’s beautiful woods.

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Healthy Cooking Cookbook

Healthy Green Smoothies and Quinoa Recipes

Diane Kelly and Kathryn Ross

Copyright © 2013 Diane Kelly and Kathryn Ross

All rights reserved.

Introduction

Are you tired of eating convenient foods? Are you looking for some good recipes that are for healthy home cooked meals? Perhaps you want healthy meals but do not have a lot of time to devote to cooking. Either way, this Healthy Cooking Cookbook has recipes that fit this criterion. It pays to do what you can as a preventative these days. With the high cost of health care people are striving to stay well. One of the best ways to stay well is to eat right. Eating junk foods are simply unhealthy. Convenient foods are junk food filled with sugar and sodium and saturated fats. In order to be healthy you must let go of the junk food and instead eat nutritious foods.

You can use the recipes in this book in any way you see fit. It would be helpful to combine the two sections and come up with a menu that would suit your dieting needs. You can eat straight from each section if you wish. The health benefits from the recipes in this book are many due to the ingredients in the recipes and their high nutrient content.

If you wish to lose weight, you may want to try the green smoothie diet first. You can do a straight smoothie diet where you consume nothing but smoothies all day. This may be a great way to jumpstart weight loss. You can do a modified green smoothie diet and eat the smoothies for 2 meals and have a quinoa for the third meal. You can snack on healthy whole foods in between the meals as well. This gives you a good rounded choice in menu planning. You can make that third meal be breakfast, lunch, or supper. The choice is yours.

In order to be healthy you need to be at your ideal weight. More people struggle with weight issues, which will later on cause other health conditions. Weight loss will happen if you eat right. The body will take the nutritious foods you consume and will put the nutrients to good use. If the body is receiving the right nutrients, the immune system will be stronger. If the immune system is stronger, the body is able to fight off infections better. If the body has the right nutrients, the metabolism will speed up and you will have more energy. If you have more energy you will be able to exercise, which is as beneficial as the dieting.

Speaking of exercise, your body will benefit from it if you develop a regular exercise routine. You will need to come up with a routine you can handle. If you are able, you should exercise at a minimum of three times a week or every other day. It only takes thirty minutes of exercise at a time to do the body good. You can pick whatever kind of exercise you wish to do. Feel free to vary it. If you are accustomed to a sedentary lifestyle, you may want to start slow. Here is a good workout routine for starting slow:

Spend 5 minutes stretching. You need to stretch your legs, arms, back, and torso. Stretch and hold for several seconds. Once you finish the stretches, go for a walk. You can walk as slow or as fast as is comfortable for you. Walk out from your starting point for ten minutes, and then walk back in the same pace. Then finish with 5 minutes of slow stretches. Remember to throw in a few cleansing deep breaths.

After a while, you can intensify your workouts. You can intensify your walking by increasing the time. Spend five minutes before and after on the stretching (this is called the warm up and cool down.) Start out walking slow for five minutes, then increase it to a fast paced walk for 5 minutes, then increase it to a jog for five minutes, then back down to a fast paced walk for 5 minutes, then to a slow paced walk for 5 minutes, then finish with a cool down. This takes about 35 minutes and you will have given your body a good cardio vascular workout (good for the heart and lungs). You can continue to intensify these workouts by increasing the times and or adding in running after the jog.

Exercise is not limited to just walking and running. You can ride a bike, take a swim, join a gym and do circuits, do weight lifting and strength training, or even play a recreational sport. You can join an aerobics class or purchase a DVD and do workouts right from your living room. You can find exercise DVD's on just about every kind of exercise you can think of. You can do Pilates, yoga, or even dance. It does not matter what you do the important thing is that you are physically active at least every other day for at least a half an hour at a time.

Exercise plays a major role in maintaining good health. While you can get there with dieting alone, you do so much better faster with exercise. That is why you will always hear diet and exercise spoken together. In addition to exercise, make sure you drink plenty of water each day to stay hydrated, especially if you exercise. Water helps the body to assimilate the foods you eat and all the better if you are on a healthy diet. Get plenty of rest too because your body needs time to relax and recharge each day.

Once you determine you are in for a healthy lifestyle change see your health care provider for a checkup each year. Make sure you are healthy with no lurking health issues. Go over your nutrition and diet plan and exercise plans too. Make sure you are okay to do all of these things before starting. The success of your healthy diet change depends on your willingness to do what it takes to make and keep these vital changes.

Section 1: Quinoa Cookbook

Health or wealth? Often we feel pushed into a corner by asking ourselves to opt for luxury or a life without physical discomfort. This book will lead us just how old knowledge of the Incas helps modern life, to draw fresh energy from the newly discovered quinoa. Simple tasty food with high nutritional content builds the bridge connecting our lifestyle with the health of our youth. 2013 has been declared as the year of quinoa. This book sheds light on the reasons.

Introduction: Do we grow old too fast?

Modern life gives us many conveniences and facilities that our forefathers could not enjoy. At the same time we feel pressure, caused by the high speed, our life proceeds in front of our eyes with. Often as we slither unnoticed in this cycle we wonder its effects, and eventually the mirror and the doctor give us with a wagging finger bids of limitations and to waive restrictions on what sweetens our daily lives. Is that really fair?

We are just looking for a little compensation from the ubiquitous stress, and fast food, a small bar of chocolate here and there just are the price we have to pay for a high level lifestyle. But are we in fact forced to acquire an unhealthy lifestyle, just to enjoy more luxury? Or is there not the possibility to connect it all together and be happy and satisfied? Many profound questions, but the solution may be easier than most people believe.

If we reach a point where we notice that the button does not reach the buttonhole and more and our clothes no longer fit, we admit our radiant youth seems to disappear too quickly. No one turns their head around for us which often causes a frustrating feeling. We feel our advancing age, and we would give anything to be able to reset the clock again. The good news is that this is quite possible in certain limits. All we need is to adopt a new way of life.

Our food takes on the central role. Without healthy food, nothing will work. But who is longing for agonizing long diets with continuous hunger that keeps us from our work? It seems that we are in a cycle from which we cannot escape. Far from it! We are actually able to build a better life than we could ever enjoy before.

To combine the comfort of adulthood with the advantages of youth, this is the solution envisaged by anyone, and that is exactly what we want to achieve with this description. Our new lifestyle is characterized by the idea of absence of compulsion and urge and we just want to get more out of our lives. And the more we deal with casual diet, the more often we stumble over quinoa. Quinoa is touted as a miracle food worldwide and receives praise for taste and health effects by all nutrition specialists. Maybe we look at what quinoa is and why it deserves our full attention. So what is quinoa?

What is quinoa?

In most dishes, we find that quinoa replaces grain of any kind. But technically it is not a grain, but seeds like peas or lentils. Cereals are also seeds, but they all grow on grassy plants from wheat to corn. Quinoa (also spelled Quinoa) is so new that we do not even know to refer to quinoa as her or it, but it is clear that it is a plant from the Amaranths family that is related to the orach, a native weed.

The plant grows vigorously upright with diamond-shaped leaves that get smaller towards the top. Some varieties reach a height of nearly 2m, while others are only knee-high, some varieties develop a strong red-brown color with very dark seeds, others are green or bluish green with beige, off-white seeds. The inflorescence is somewhat reminiscent of millet and is interspersed with a few leaves. In his homeland, quinoa climbs in the Andes to dizzying heights, proving its endurance and robustness. The seeds look like small white or brown-red lenses.

If we look at these small, about 2mm granules, involuntarily the question arises how they can improve our life style. The big difference in comparison to grain lies, of course, in the nutrients. The table with the percentage analysis might give us an answer to our question, but we will find that the quinoa is far superior to grain of any kind and is considered a complete protein provider. Many other good features make quinoa more than just a