What is on your dinner table this Thanksgiving season?
What are you proud to present to your house guests?
Naturally, we love our staples and favorite dishes on this big Day. But have you truly considered to include some of the benefits that Autumn harvest brings into your dining routine?
Check out these facts and clinical studies. And may be, just may be, you will find a creative way to include the variety of vegetables, and fruit into your so truly loved dinner plans.
Resent study revealed another “eye-opener,” that those people who consume big quantities of vegetables rich in alpha-carotene live longer. (See reference 1) The true point to be made in this study is that it’s not how long we live, it’s the quality of life we live. Living longer should be associated with a vibrant life style you continue to lead way after retirement and into the truly golden years of your life.
Where do you find Alpha-Carotene? In Yellow-Orange and Dark-Green Vegetables!
Here’s the list that looks so familiar:
Sweet Potatoes
Pumpkins
Carrots
Broccoli
Spinach
Lettuce
And it is so easy to include these wonderful garden delights into your Thanksgiving menu! Just think of and look up some easy healthy recipes on the internet. There is such an abundance of them!
Your house guests and you yourself will say Thank-You that you did take an effort to introduce these new old staples into a true celebration of life, getting-together, and much more – Your Vibrant Living!
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Hours Around Your Table!
References:
1. Alpha-Carotene Tied to Lower Mortality Risk by Todd Neale, MedPage Today; Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD, Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
