Food and cooking tips

Try Organic Food : Organically-grown food costs more, but you get what you pay for. It is 2-10 times richer in minerals, contains no pesticides, and tastes better. It is better for you, your planet, and your palate. Wild unhybridized food is what your body was designed for, before our ancestors started messing with Mother Nature. Take it easy with highly hybridized fruits (bananas, seedless anything) and vegetables (carrots, beets, white potatoes).


Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Weight loss

The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a weight loss program first advocated by Barry Sears in a number of books and publications. The Zone diet is not exactly a fat reduction diet, however many zone diet followers believe that they really manage to lose a few pounds by following it.
The supposed science behind the Zone Diet is that if you gain control of the levels of insulin and glucogen (two hormones produced naturally by your body), then anti-inflammatory chemicals are released which puts one's body in a state of equilibrium which is far more healthy than usual, which followers of the diet, refer to as '"he zone".
Sears believes that when your body is in this 'zone' it is working at its most efficient and, because of this, doesn't need to convert surplus energy to fat.
The main process of the zone system is to monitor and control the exact ratio of carbs to proteins, and to dose yourself with large amounts of Omega 3 and omega 6.











Garides Kokkiyia Me Feta (Shrimp and Feta In Shells) Recipe
Garides Kokkiyia Me Feta (Shrimp and Feta In Shells) Category Cheese Recipes 
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Karen Mintzias 2 lb Large shrimp

1/2 Lemon (juice only)

1 Onion or shallot; minced

3 tb Vegetable oil or butter

1/2 c Tomato sauce

3 Tomatoes

- peeled, chopped & drained 1/4 c Chopped fresh parsley

2 tb Chopped fresh basil or dill

2 Garlic cloves; crushed

Salt & freshly ground pepper 1/2 lb Feta cheese

Fresh basil leaves (or parsley) for garnish Shell and devein shrimp. Wash and drain, then sprinkle lightly with lemon juice. Heat the oil or butter in a frying pan and cook the onion until soft. Add the tomato sauce, chopped tomatoes, herbs, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for 25 minutes, then remove from the heat and strain. Butter large scallop or other shells, or individual ovenproof dishes, and spoon a little sauce into each. Fill with the shrimp and spoon the sauce over, then crumble the feta over the top. Set into a baking pan and bake for 15 or 20 minutes in a moderate oven (350 F), or until the shrimp is cooked and the cheese melted. Garnish with fresh basil or parsley and serve hot. From: "The Food of Greece" by Vilma Liacouras Chantiles. Avenel Books, New York. Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

 
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