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Healthy Recipe: Roasted Beet, Goat Cheese, and Sweet Pecan Salad
I was surfing the FitSugar community page, checking out the recipes in the Healthy Recipes Group and I saw this amazing salad delorganic added to the page.
It looks really tasty and is a great way to incorporate nutritious and colorful beets into your meal. Do you have a healthy recipe to share?
Healthy Eating Tip: Don't Toss Those Beet Greens
If you've already learned to love beets, then I've got a new assignment for you. Try eating the beet greens on top that you might otherwise cut off and discard.
These hearty leaves look very much like Swiss chard, and not surprisingly, they cook and taste like chard too.
The Political Beet and President Obama
Word on the street is that President Obama doesn't like beets. His aversion to this veggie is so strong that beets were not planted in the first lady's victory garden. Similar to the broccoli debacle that marred George Bush, Sr.'s nutrition record, beet advocates are up in arms about the president's dislike of the red root veggie.
The Connection Between: Beets, Red Urine, and Iron
Have you ever gone to the ladies room and were alarmed at what you saw? Red urine?! No reason to panic just yet.
New Terra Chips: Stripes & Blues
How very patriotic of Terra to introduce a red, white, and blue chip medley they call Stripes and Blues. They are much healthier than the Lays chips I ate as a kid since they are made with 3 kinds of harvested veggies, not just your average potato. The red chips are made from sweet potatoes, the blue chips are made from blue potatoes, and the striped chips are striped beets.
Terra Chips Sweets & Beets = YUM!
I took a flight on JetBlue last week and was loving their Terra Blue Chips. When I went to the health food store to pick some up, I came upon Terra's Sweets & Beets.
These krinkle-cut chips are made out of my favorite root veggies - delicious sweet potatoes and bold, beautiful beets.
Learn to Love: Beets
I have heard so many bad things about beets that I feel I must defend one of my favorite veggies. This root is sweet in taste despite its tough looking skin.
The guys over at Men's Health say we should think of beets as red spinach since they are loaded with nutrition.
My Pee is Red!!!
Relax - Don't call 911 just yet. Think back. Have you eaten beets recently?
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Beet Juice For Stamina
Looking for a way to increase your stamina that doesn't involve carbo loading? Beet juice could be the answer. In a very small UK study, drinking beet juice daily was found to improve endurance by 16 percent, which translates into a two percent "reduction in the time taken to cover a set distance."
Beet Juice, Beet Juice, Beet Juice . . .
New research has found that drinking 500 milliliters of beet juice a day may significantly lower blood pressure.
What's more? The study found that healthy people's blood pressure decreased within an hour of drinking the juice.
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