Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Live to 100 years up with this salad


Are residents of a small Greek island of Ikaria referred to seems to be the secret of longer life found. A diet rich in foods that say that do wonderful things for your body and mind, researchers. Ikaria usually live 90 years or more, partly because their diet can be the risk of dying by 25 percent back Publisher food health and nutrition, Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, are lagging behind, is a salad of delish Mediterranean on the basis parentheses Ikaria, so you can live a healthy aging.

Salad of fennel, rosemary, chamomile vinaigrette

Makes 4-6 portions

2 large bulbs fennel, halved, seeded and stems
3 bags of chamomile tea
1 / 4 cup white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary tea
1 / 2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 / 4 c. Tea Salt
1 / 4 c. Tea freshly ground pepper

Finely chop the fennel and onions diagonally place in large bowl and set aside. Pour into a small bowl, steep tea bags in vinegar 15 minutes, squeeze out tea bags in a bowl, and discard bags. Add the rosemary, vinegar and tea-olive oil mixture and mix with salt and pepper. Keep Pour dressing over the salad of fennel and refrigerate until serving. Serving Size: about 1 cup

Fennel is an excellent source of potassium, which helps maintain blood pressure in check.

Chamomile: Rule nerves and reduces stress, while possibly the immune system.

Olive oil lowers bad cholesterol and blood pressure.

Rosemary: contains carnosic acid, an antioxidant, which protect against Alzheimer's disease may.

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