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Cafe Latte Coffee House Bistro, Polk County’s oldest coffee house and healthy eatery: has recently added to their healthy menu. Now when you visit Cafe Latte you can get an organic juice. Juicing is well known for it’s anitoxident rich nutrients that help the body fend off free radicals. With all the stress and chemicals our bodies come into contact with everyday, it’s nice to know that you can have a drink that not only tastes good but actually helps your body defend itself. Coming into the summer we all need a little help with the allergies associated with pollen and dust. Why not give your body a little extra boost by treating yourself to a fresh organic juice at Cafe Latte Coffee House Bistro. Since all the fiber is extracted in the juicing process all the nutrients are readily available for your body’s use. So when you are getting ready for a busy day and you need all the energy you can get why not grab a juice to go. Or when that afternoon slump comes and you either need a nap or a snickers, pop on over to Cafe Latte and grab a juice on the go. Cafe Latte is convientantly located only two short stop lights from Legoland Florida. For sure if you are going to visit Legoland you better take a fresh apple, carrot, beet juice with you so you can keep up with the kids, or if not keep up just not get run over by them! Cafe Latte is open Monday-Saturday 8am-2pm and is located off Cypress Gardens Blvd. and Overlook Dr. 200 Orchid Springs Dr. Winter Haven, Fl. 33884 1.863.318.8777 or for their Canary Island Garlic and Herb Olive Oil web site www.vigoacuisine.com

All humans are addicted to the delicious taste of junk food. We crave it, dream about it, and often want it when we are on our rigorous diets. Somehow it is embedded in our brains that it is something we need. Unfortunately, these types of foods are anything but beneficial to our health. While we wish that they could be on the top of our diet plans, they should be eliminated immediately. Luckily, there are healthy foods that are delicious, without the thousands of calories in one bite.

When deciding what foods to eat, you need to think in moderation. Smaller portions are always the right way to go, regardless of what you’re eating. For instance, if you would love to have a piece of apple pie, try taking a few bites instead of a large piece with ice cream. It has been shown that people who cut back on their portion sizes actually lose an abundance of weight. No matter what size you are, it is healthier to reduce the amount of junk food you eat.

Are you looking for additional ways to eat right? While vegetables and fruit are just common sense, it is crucial that you try these foods for snacks. Instead of grabbing a handful of candy or a piece of cake for a mid-afternoon snack, try a handful of carrots or a yogurt mixed with cereal. These delicious treats are wonderful when you are starving, but don’t want to ruin your waistline.

Regardless of your diet routine, trainers and dieticians around the world will tell you to eat more than three meals a day. Forget starving yourself if you want to lose weight! In order to burn the right fat and speed up your metabolism, you must eat smaller meals around the clock. This means that breakfast, a mid-morning snack, lunch, a mid-afternoon snack and dinner is essential to look great. It not only will curb your appetite and keep you hungry, but it also will help the pounds slip right off.

Besides eating right, there are also nutritional supplements that can work wonders. Noni Juice, for instance, is a fruit juice that began in the Pacific Islands. With all natural herbs and vitamins, this product is great for anyone who wants to boost their metabolism. It also keeps your immune system healthy, as well as increases overall energy. The majority of consumers love to drink this product after they have exercised. As a result, they feel more refreshed and can continue their day without feeling drained. These tasty nutrients may taste like you are devouring a calorie filled treat, but it actually is extremely beneficial for your health.

We all see the perfect bodies on the magazines — frail-like and flawless. Unfortunately, we start to take on these perceptions of beauty, once these images are constantly on our minds. Realistically, no one is perfect. We all are beautiful, regardless of curves or bones. However, being healthy is the most important aspect. Without health, we are nothing. Forget about the physical aspects and worry about the foods you are consuming, and the nutrients that are inside them. With a new outlook, you may think differently.

CONTENTS

GRANDMA’S BAKED HAM AND APPLES

BEEF AND POTATO CAKES

AUNT PAT’S BUTTER TARTS

GRANDMA’S WHIPPED SHORT BREAD COOKIES

FOOD INFORMATION

LIGHTSIDE

CLEANING TIPS

HAVING A PARTY

BAR MIXES, DRINKS

GRANDMA’S BAKED HAM AND APPLES

2 large slices of ham steak

2 teaspoons…….(10 ml)…….prepared mustard

4 tablespoons…..(60 ml)…….brown sugar

2 tart apples

1 ½ cups……….(375 ml)……apple juice

Place the ham in baking dish and rub with mustard.  Sprinkle
with 2 tablespoons (30 ml), of brown sugar.  Core the apple
and cut into thin slices.  Cover the ham with the apple slices
and sprinkle with rest of brown sugar.  Add apple juice. Bake
at 300 F, (150 C), for 30 minutes or until tender. Read the rest of this entry »

What is “healthy?”  Losing weight is healthy.  Eating so called “healthy” foods such as organic foods, natural foods and unprocessed food may or may not not improve your “health,” but for sure they will not always help you lose weight. In fact, you might gain weight eating these foods and drinks without even knowing the reason. Here are the 6 reasons organically grown foods may not be the best choice:

* More limited choices, less low calorie foods are organic
* Have poor portion control
* May have higher calories due to avoidance of artificial
sweeteners
* Have shorter shelve life -often eaten quickly
* Are definitely more expensive
* Have a “healthy” aura round them which often leads to more
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Not only as a mulberry silkworms rations, it is a kind of Chinese herbal medicines. The earliest texts of Chinese medicine in China, “Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic,” a book entry has been included with mulberry leaves. As early as 1992, China’s Ministry of Health has mulberry leaves as edible Chinese herbal medicine is one. According to modern research, mulberry leaf contains extremely wide range of nutrients and active ingredients. Hectogram protein-containing dried mulberry leaves 8 to 12 grams, contains 17 amino acids, vitamin E, B1, B2, B5, B12 and β-carotene and other substances. Mulberry leaves also contain different flavonoids quercetin and other ingredients, Achyranthes sterol, adenine, GABA (γ-amino butyric acid) and choline and other active ingredients. According to Japanese scholars reported that mulberry leaves contain the active ingredient for a maximum of l-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), which is a potent hypoglycemic substances, can effectively reduce postprandial hyperglycemia. In a variety of plant leaves, mulberry leaves can be called the role of nutrition and health care, one of the most comprehensive of the leaves.

My Chinese medicine for the treatment of mulberry leaves generally “Hyperactivity,” or wind-heat diseases (such as traditional Chinese medicine classics party “Sangju drink”). Japanese scholar said: mulberry leaves can be used as lipid-lowering, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, inhibit cancer cells, regulation of epinephrine, enhance the body resistance, anti-stress effect, and sleep and many other uses. Japanese researchers have done experiments using freeze grinding process will be fed fresh mulberry leaves processed into powder of high blood sugar in rats, resulting in a continuous consumption of 1 month after the rats regained normal range of blood glucose. This result aroused immediately after the release of European and American countries attach great importance to health food industry, because diabetes has become one of the high incidence in developed countries. Therefore, Mulberry hypoglycemic type of health products in the market development space very large. Read the rest of this entry »

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National standard GB/T15901-1994 “basic terms the food industry,” Article 2.1 “General food” is defined as “available for human consumption or consumption of substances, including processed food, semi-finished products and raw food, excluding tobacco or substances used only as drugs. “Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) CODEXSTAN1: 1985″ General Standard for Labelling of Prepackaged Foods “on the” general food “is defined as:” means for human consumption, whether processed, semi-processed of or processing of any substance, including drinks, gum, and food manufacturing, modulation or treatment of any substance used in the course; but does not include cosmetics, tobacco or use drugs only for the material. ” National and international standards although the definition of different ways of expression, but the meaning is the same, summed up: all the material for human consumption. In the GB16740-1997 “health (functional) foods Common Criteria” section 3.l article to health (functional) food is defined as: “health (functional) food is a food type, common with general food, can regulate the function of the human body suitable for specific food groups, but not for the purpose of treating disease. ”

General food and health (functional) foods are common yet different.

Common: Health (functional) foods and general food can provide the body nutrients essential to the survival (food for the first function), has a specific color, smell, taste, shape (the second function of food).

Difference: (1) Health (Functional) foods contain a certain amount of functional components (biological material), to regulate the body’s function, with specific functions (the third function of food); and generally do not emphasize specific features of food (food the third function).

(2) health (functional) food consumption generally has a specific range (specific groups), and general food consumption of non-specific range.

Food in general also contain physiologically active substances, due to low levels, in the human body can not function to regulate the concentration of the effectiveness of the role can not be achieved. Health (functional) food in the physiological activity of substances through the extraction, separation, concentration (or add some sort of high purity biological active substances), to play a role in the human body to the concentration, and thus have the food section three functions.

Health (functional) food and drugs are strictly different.

Drugs to treat diseases of the material; health (functional) food is still the essence of food, although some functional role in regulating the human body, but it is not the treatment of human disease on which the material. For normal physiological function, you want to maintain health or prevent certain diseases, the health (functional) food is a nutritional supplement. Abnormal physiological function for people, health (functional) food can be adjusted some physiological function, strengthen the immune system. From a scientific perspective, note that usually nutritionally balanced diet, regular habits, timely and appropriate amount of exercise to maintain a cheerful disposition, is the fundamental guarantee for health.

Foods are a special kind of nutritious food, is a “natural foods by changing the composition and content of nutrient ratio to meet the nutritional needs of special populations for food” (GB13432-1992 “special nutritional food labels” 3.l section). Such as infants and young children to adapt to physiological characteristics and nutritional needs of infants and young children’s food by adding nutrition enhancer, all belong to this type of food. Special nutritional food and health (functional) foods have in common is: are added or contain a certain amount of physiologically active substances, fitness for a particular food groups. Difference: the former does not require animals or people through the experiment, no significant effect confirmed the role; while the latter must pass the test animals or people, proved to be significant, stable effect function.

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