1. "Let food be your medicine and medicine
Fruits and Vegetables be your food." Hippocrates
Higher consumption of fruits and
vegetables has been associated with
improved cardiovascular outcomes. In one
clinical trial, published in the June 19, 2001,
edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine,
subjects in the highest quintile of fruit and
vegetable consumption had a 20%
reduction in relative risk of coronary heart
disease as compared with the quintile with
the lowest intake. Most of this benefit was
related to green leafy vegetables and
vitamin C-rich fruits and vegetables.
Data from two major studies, the Nurses' Health study with 71,910 enrolled women (1984) and the Health Professionals'
Follow-up Study with 37,725 enrolled men (1986) was published in the Nov. 3, 2004 issue of the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute. At baseline, all participants were free of major chronic disease. In both studies, fruit and
vegetable intake was inversely associated with the development of major chronic diseases and cardiovascular disease.
The reduction in cardiovascular disease was also noted in smokers.
For optimum health, scientists say, eat a rainbow of colors. Your plate should look like a box of Crayolas." Janice M.
Horowitz, TIME, January 12, 2002. Colored fruits and vegetables are loaded with antioxidants. Blue/purple fruits and
vegetables like blueberries, purple grapes, beetroot, eggplant and plums contain health-promoting phytochemicals such
as anthocyanins and phenolics. Green vegetables like green grapes, broccoli, green peppers, spinach, green cabbage,
peas and green beans contain phytochemicals such as lutein and indoles. White, tan, and brown fruits and vegetables
such as bananas, cauliflower, garlic, onions, mushrooms and potatoes contain varying amounts of phytochemicals
including allicin and selenium. Yellow and orange fruits and vegetables such as mangoes, papaya, lemon, carrots,
pumpkin, apricots, sweet corn and yellow squash contain antioxidants such as vitamin C as well as carotenoids and
bioflavonoids. Red fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, cherries, pomegranates, raspberries, strawberries,
watermelon, radishes and beets contain health promoting lycopene and anthocyanins. Besides antioxidant activity,
fruits and vegetables also help lower blood pressure and provide fiber. Soluble fiber in fruits and vegetables helps block
the absorption of cholesterol from food.
Veal chop to the vegetable ragout
Ingredients:
4 X.500 G of veal chops of milk not avoided 1 celery
1 leek
1 onion
2 tomatos
1 zucchini
1 long turnip
1 carrot
oil of Maussane and oil of Tuscany salt of Guérande and
pepper
grass of season
Method:
Ask your butcher thus that it cuts the veal chop in front of you, you will be able to judge by yourself if the calf is quite
clear, therefore soft and very tender. The color of a veal chop of milk(beignet chocolatrecette) must be connected as
much as possible with that of milk. Each coast must weigh 500 G, not avoided, so that it is quite thick. When they are
avoided, they make nothing any more but 400 G.