Superfoods for Better Health, Looking Good and Feeling Great
Here’s another quick recipe for better skin. This time using bok choy and other healthy foods in a smoothie that taste great and contains some exceptional nutrition for your skin.
If you could make up this smoothie once or twice a week and alternate it with the bok choy juice recipe on the previous page, I’d be very surprised if you didn’t see a significant improvement in your skin’s appearance in a few weeks. Read more »
Here’s a recipe for juicing bok choy that is loaded with vegetables and fruits that are particularly good for improving your skin tone and supporting internal cleansing and liver health.
Bok choy is rich in skin nutrients like antioxidant carotenoids, vitamin C, vitamin K , folic acid, potassium and selenium. Combined with the other skin superfoods listed ahead, this juice mixture is a powerful way to improve your appearance. It tastes great too so why not give it Read more »
Here are two simple and healthy ways to use bok choy in your meals. If you’ve never cooked with it before you’ll find it a great base for many recipes. Best of all, bok choy is extremely good for you and when made up like this, very tasty as well.
I’m a big believer in cooking nutrient rich vegetables like bok choy lightly and on a low heat to retain as many beneficial compounds as possible Read more »
Bok choy is one of, if not the most popular vegetable to cook with in China, yet still not widely used in America. Very low in calories but high in nutrients with many health benefits, bok choy is a green superfood well worth using more of in your daily cooking.
Originally from China where it has been cultivated for centuries, bok choy is now grown for the US market, predominantly in California and Alberta in Read more »
Pumpkin face masks are popular but here’s a simpler way to use pumpkin skin as a facial treatment that is quicker and I think more effective than regular masks.
You’ll need three ingredients for this facial treatment:
I keep the pumpkin rinds, with most of the pulp removed, from Read more »
Pumpkin and other winter squash are a good source of a variety of nutrients for better skin. Here’s why healthy pumpkin is such a great superfood for improving your skin’s tone and appearance.
Alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and other carotenoids found in the bright orange pulp of pumpkins can help defend your skin cells against oxidative damage. Free radicals from environmental pollutants and UV light can start to break down the connective collagen and elastin that Read more »
Here’s a recipe for a great tasting pumpkin and mushroom risotto using BPA-free canned pumpkin and very healthy shiitake mushrooms.
Alternatively, fresh steamed pumpkin is great in this risotto recipe if it’s in season. Butternut squash also makes a fine replacement.
For the mushrooms you can also use other stronger tasting varieties such as portobellos, but shiitake mushrooms are best if you can find them. Read more »
This curry pumpkin soup is a combination of my regular pumpkin soup made with coconut milk and steamed pumpkin and a Thai yellow curry recipe I learnt recently on a visit to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. It’s a spicy and healthy meal to warm you up during the colder months.