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Cauliflower Coconut Soup

Roasted Cauliflower Coconat Soup

Cauliflower is in everywhere. In pizza crust, sides of a main, babies mashed… As it’s December, Cauliflower is one of the best vegetable with its nutrients and high fiber intake.
If you are bored of classic vegetable soups, let’s try this roasted cauliflower and coconat soup.

Ingredients:
1 cauliflower
2 garlic cloves
* 1½ tsp cumin seeds
* big pinch dried red chilli flakes (optional)
* 1 tbsp olive oil
* 600ml/20fl oz hot vegetable stock
* 1 x 400g tin coconut milk
* salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5. Mix the cauliflower and garlic together on a large baking tray, sprinkle with the cumin seeds and chilli flakes, if using, and drizzle with the oil. Roast for 25–30 minutes, or until golden.
2. Pour the stock and coconut milk into a large saucepan and bring to a simmer. Squeeze the roast garlic out of its skin and add it and the cauliflower to the liquid. Simmer very gently for 10 minutes.
3. Remove the soup from the heat and blitz using a stick blender until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Super Food Berries

Key Benefits of Berries
  • They are rich in Antioxidants:  Free radicals reduce oxidative stress and cell damage that contribute to aging and disease.
  • Heart Health: Help lower blood pressure, reduce LDL cholesterol oxidation, and improve overall cardiovascular risk profiles.
     
    Eating 17ounces(500 grams) of berries every day for a month decreases a pro-oxidant marker by 38%.  
  • Immune Support: Provide Vitamin C and other nutrients to strengthen the immune system.

“Unlocking the Mysteries of Ginger: From Ancient Medicine to Modern Superfood”

Ginger; It is the name given to the root of the plant, whose scientific name is Zingiber Officinale, which is a member of the Zingiberaceae plant family, grows in the tropical regions of Asia, has a sharp and strong aroma, facilitates digestion and is good for nausea.

Ginger,  used as a spice in kitchens and in traditional medicine for centuries, has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on the body.

 

Among the benefits of ginger which is good for the digestion system, relieves pain, supports brain health, reduces the risk of cancer, is good for nausea, is anti-inflammatory, and relieves symptoms of colds such as cough and sore throat.

Also, ginger tea is consumed widely in all cuisines.

Nutritional Values ​​of Ginger

Nutritional values ​​of 1 teaspoon of dried ginger:

 

Calories: 6,

Protein: 0 grams,

Fat: less than 1 gram,

Carbohydrate: 1 gram,

Fiber: less than 1 gram,

Sugar: 0 grams.

Nutritional values ​​of a quarter cup of sliced ​​fresh ginger:

 

Calories: 19,

Protein: less than 1 gram,

Fat: less than 1 gram,

Carbs: 4 grams,

Fiber: less than 1 gram,

Sugar: 0 grams.

 

HOW TO SET DAILY INTENTIONS ON DIET ?

What’s your intention regarding to your health today?

What does it mean to set an intention? What does it have to do with diet?

Let’s continue reading this post, you will learn how we set daily intentions to reach your goal without stressing yourself.

Setting intentions is not just on the diet but also simplifies your life in every area that you find tough. “Intention setting is empowering,” says Maxx. “Instead of feeling like a victim of circumstance, you become the conscious creators of your days and your life.

Looking at the whole picture at a time could be so overwhelming especially in challenging tasks. However when we set a different and small intentions for each day, we gain all we want without stressing ourselves out as well as enjoying the journey. Says Jason Frishman, Psy.D. “As you learn and commit to your goals, intention becomes the very first step in achieving them.” A daily small intentions are a commitment to yourself to ease this process.

How to set intentions correctly?

There are 4 key point you should put attention while setting your daily intention.

  1. Keep It Simple; As it’s ‘daily’, it should be as simple as it can be. It should be applicable easily without making you stress out. They should be simply part of your daily routine.
  2. Be Specific;  Intentions have to be specific regarding your main goal, this will help you to follow them easily without any confusion in your mind.
  3. Revise And Review Them Often;  Checking them daily and reminding them regularly  will help not to get out of the track as well as uplift your motivation for your intention.
  4. Remove Any Limiting Beliefs;  Limiting beliefs generally come from past traumas and mostly hold you back from achieving your goals. We just need to understand they are just a barrier between our goals and us AND they are not real at all.

All of our clients well know that we set a main goal in the first consultation by discussion. However the process is not that smooth all the time while we are moving forward to our health goals. If healing overall nutrition is the issue, there are a lot of habits to consider. On this point, daily intentions are the key to success to reach our main goal.

An intention can be;
Drinking more water

Following your snack time

Cut off eating in a certain time of the day

Changing your dessert with natural alternative etc.

Long story short, anything makes you closer to your main health goal, could be your intention for today.
Let’s choose your intention today and take one step closer to your health goal.

Infertility And Mediterranean Nutrition

According to World Health Organisation, roughly 80 million women worldwide are affected by infertility. According to the WHO, infertility is defined as the absence of pregnancy after one year unprotected and frequent sexual intercourse. Although the causes of infertility may not be determined %100 in some conditions, it might occur both in male and female. There are variety of factors might cause infertility, including lifestyle. These; Age, smoking, alcohol consumption, body fat mass, over exercising or little, malnutrition, hormone irregularity, unbalanced diet and so on.

According to recent studies, changing the lifestyle increased the reproductivity in many male and female. Especially following a Mediterranean diet is playing a vital role in order to increase reproductivity.

It has been observed that people who eat a rich Mediterranean diet both have an increased chance of in vitro fertilization success and increased pregnancy rates. In a study conducted on 245 women, it was observed that with increasing compliance with the Mediterranean type nutritional model, the number of successful pregnancies and live births was 2.7 times higher.

The Mediterranean diet ensure adequate, balanced and healthy nutrition program that is rich in variety of vitamin and minerals.

Adequate intake of plant-based foods, including olive oil, vegetables, fruit, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and olives, as well as a moderate intake of dairy and seafood, define the Mediterranean diet. It is also recommended to consume white meat, red meat and drink wine in moderation. This type of diet maximise people’s overall health at all ages, it is also extremely necessary for the mother and father to have a healthy embryo even before conception.

We should keep in mind that although there are no specific foods that definitely increase the chances of getting pregnant, there are nutritional patterns that we can follow to overcome infertility. For this reason, individuals who receive infertility treatment should have a balanced and adequate nutrition program.

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