Super Fooding Up Your Diet

Answer 1

You might have heard a lot of things about super foods. You may know about them a little, and you may have noticed that some of them a pretty darn common. You don’t have to scale a tall tree, dive deep into the mines or do anything else hard to get to them. Heck, you don’t even have to go to a specialty grocery store in order to find them. Most of them are ready and waiting at your local super market. Then again, you may be wondering what exactly a super food really is? The short and sweet definition is that a super food is a food with certain chemical components, such as anti-oxidants or high concentrations of essential vitamins that have been shown to have significant health benefits to the human body. That’s all. No more, no less. You may also be wondering how you are going to integrate them into your daily life. When it comes down to it, getting more super foods into your life is stunningly easy to do. Just to prove it to you today we are going to take a look at how you can do that with some amazing super foods. Here is the list we will work from: * Beans, Blueberries, Broccoli, Oats, Oranges, Pumpkin, Salmon, Soy, Spinach, Tea (green or black), Tomatoes, Turkey, Walnuts and Yogurt. A Sample Super Foods Breakfast When it comes to having a super foods breakfast you have a simple and easy one. This will be your quickest meal. You grab a yogurt of your choice; wash a few fresh blueberries and you have a double super foods meal with no cooking and no stress. A Sample Super Foods Lunch When it comes to lunchtime you are going to have a yummy and filling meal. Grab some bread (not a super food, but a great platform) and stack it up with slices of turkey, washed spinach and tomato. Then add in a yummy orange as your side. A Sample Super Foods Dinner Now for dinner you can cook up a nice piece of salmon, and have the beans of your choice and broccoli on the side. It would be best, since this is the first meal you are going to be cooking today, if you chose methods that don’t drape your foods in heavy creams or junk. Try steaming your veggies and baking your salmon with light herbs. See there you have it, three very simple ways to enjoy super foods in your daily life. Of course, these are just examples. You do not have to eat all super foods all of the time and that list was not complete. You may find other super foods that you prefer that you can work into the rotation. Just be sure to add some super foods into your meals, or alternatively have a super foods meal once a day, in order to get the nutrient benefit from these amazing foods. *Today’s list comes from Web MD. It can be found at http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/superfoods-everyone-needs