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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.


Buy Local Food : The most local food of all comes from your own garden. Plant a new garden, enlarge the one you already have, or extend your growing season by using row covers and cloches.


Weight loss info

The Atkins’ Diet
First invented by doctor atkins in the sixities, the atkins diet is still one of the most popular diets today. Popular with many famous celebrities, it enables weight loss whilst allowing many foods that would not be part of a normal diet, like fatty meat and eggs.
Unlike other diets, on the atkins diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, avoiding carbohydrates almost completely. It is referred to as a low carbohydrate/high protein, diet system.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, amongst them, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
On the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish & poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.













Pad Thai (Sauteed Rice Noodles) Recipe
Pad Thai (Sauteed Rice Noodles) Category Pasta Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

16 oz Rice noodles

1/2 c Vegetable oil

5 Garlic cloves (or more)

-- finely chopped 1 lb Medium shrimp

-- shelled and deveined 2 Firm-style bean curd squares

-- cut into 1/2 inch cubes 1/4 c Pickled turnips

-- (coarsely chopped) 1/2 c White vinegar

3/16 c Fish sauce

1 tb Paprika

1/4 c Sugar

2 Eggs; beaten

1/4 lb Mung bean sprouts

3 Scallions

-- cut into 1/2 inch pieces 1/2 c Ground unsalted peanuts

1 Fresh red chili pepper

-- seeded & coarsely chopped 1 Lemon; cut into wedges

Coriander leaves for garnish 1/4 c Crushed red pepper (opt.)

In a large bowl, soak the rice noodles in 10 to 12 cups of cold water for 2 hours. Drain and cover with a damp towel to retain moisture. In a wok or large frying pan, heat the oil and stir-fry the garlic until it is light brown. Add the shrimp, bean curd and pickled turnips; stir in the vinegar, fish sauce, paprika and sugar. When thoroughly mixed, fold in the noodles. When the noodles are completely coated, spread them out to the sides of the wok or frying pan, leaving a space in the middle. Add the beaten eggs. As the eggs cook, fold the noodles over them and stir to combine all of the ingredients evenly. Stir in half of the bean sprouts, then add the scallions, ground peanuts and chopped chili pepper. Toss several times to mix well. Serve on a large platter with lemon wedges. Top with the remaining bean sprouts and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve the crushed red pepper on the side, for those who like it extra-spicy. From: stigle@cs.unca.edu (Sue Stigleman)

 
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