Healthy Tips and Recipes

It is easy to share healthy tips and solutions for baby boomers and older seniors. It is another thing to actually get people to follow them. People become set in their ways, and often do not make changes until something catastrophic happens. ....And sometimes not even then! Anyway here is a list of some healthy tips:

1. Start the day with fresh fruit

2. Eat beans at least three times a week (lentils, blackbeans, pinto etc.)

3. Spinach three times a week cooked and raw

4. Blue berries and pomegranates in juice or fruit form

5. Avoid as much white sugar and flour as possible

6. When hunger hits go to the veggie bin

7. Grapes and peanuts have resveratrol a great supplement for all over good health.

8. Walk a lot. It is good mentally, physically and spiritually

9. Have fun and laugh a lot

10. Enjoy your friends and family

These are foods that are good for your vision, blood sugar and general health. The exercise and sociability is good for everything.

Cucumbers and green onion salad

Two large cucumbers

Four green onions

1/4 cup of Parsley

1/4 cup red wine vinegar

1 tsp. oregano

Salt and pepper to taste

Peel cucumbers, score outside with fork,, slice very thinly

Chop green onions and mix with cucumbers

Add 1/4 cup of parsley

Add red wine vinegar

Mix all ingredients and add salt and pepper. Chill in the refrigerator overnite. This is a great dish for company as it can be made up to two days in advance.

This recipe has almost no calories and is great with meat and fish dishes.

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