Monday 12 December 2011

Spinach..

I Eats All Me Spinach, And Takes To The Finish, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man!Toot! Toot!
-Popeye

This nutrional powerhouse is great for us ladies with pcos on low carbing/ no carbing or just healthy eatting lifestyles. It is a Superfood because its nutrional content is very beneficial. It is proven to contain vitamins minerals, and nutrients that prevent diseases such as Cancer.Spinach is one of the healthiest foods we could chose to eat that is also why it is a superfood.

Spinach contains:
Vitamin C
Fiber
Calcium
Lutein
Iron
Folic Acid
Vitamin K
Carotenoids
Magnesium
Vitamin A
Vitamin E
Copper
Protein

Due to the fact us women should avoid dairy, the calicum in spinach helps strengthen our bones. Also gives us calcium we are missing from avoiding dairy products. The lutein in spinach makes it one of the best foods in the world to prevent cataracts. As we know women with diabetes are more likely to go blind with age, and spinach helps prevent this from happening. Vitamin C, Folic Acid, and Magnesium help prevent heart disease, colon cancer,lung and breast cancer.


WHAT WE CAN ADD SPINACH TO!!

We can add frozen or fresh chopped spinach into our homemade whole wheat lasagna

Any soup reciepes Spinach can be added as an ingrediant

Make a homemade spinah dip for wheat breads, veggies, or pumpernickle

Instead of lettuce make your sandwiches with spinach

Spinach omellets or eggs!!

Serve it at christmas or thanksgiving as your dark green leafy vegetable with brocolli of course

Spinach boiled with vingar

Spinach salads MMMMMMM*

Poched eggs with spinach

Baby spinach :)

When you are out buying spinach fresh, try to get the more vibrant alive looking leaves as this is the spinach that holds more calcium. The Flavonoid and carotenoid in spinach give us powerful antioxidants aswell, and antinflammatory issues. The small pieces of protein in spinach help lower blood pressure, which in turn helps prevent heart disease. The healthies way to preparing our spinach is to boil it for no longer than 5 minutes to keep nutrional value. One cup of spinach provides us with our recommended daily dose of vitamin K. One cup of spinach has 20% of our needed daily fibre intake which helps curve overeatting, helps digestion, and helps maintain low blood sugar levels. The amount of vitamin A in spinach helps us keep healthy looking skin it helps with old age and acne. The vitamin K, calcium and protein in spinach help keep us strong, and allows us to have healthy bones.

Nutrional Facts Per one cup of Spinach

Sugar  0.1g
Carbs 1.1g
Fat 0.1g
Dietary Fibre 0.7g
Protein 2.1g
Calcium 29.7mg
Vitamin K 145mcg

Eat your spinach, you no good infink. Eat it. EAT IT. Eat it.- Popeye
You wouldn't eat your spinach. Spinach what kept our family strong for thousands of years. -Popeye

Tomorrow for dinner include some spinach as you can see how this is really a powerhouse. I have listed 13 beneficial contents in Spinach for us ladies and it works with low carbin!

ENJOY, STAY STRONG, KEEP HEALTHY BONES, LOOK GOOD, LIVE LONG...SPINACH!!!

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