This week’s topic: Powerful Superfoods Women Should Incorporate Into Their Daily Life
Namaste, love. Welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. Hope you’re having an amazing week so far. And today we’re gonna be talking about our food cornerstone, and specifically which superfoods are particularly important and powerful for women to incorporate into their regular diets. So it doesn’t mean that you need to eat these foods every single day, but they certainly are foods that I recommend that you keep in your arsenal so can you remember to look for them when you’re grocery shopping, whether you are at the farmer’s market or you’re at your regular market. I’ve been talking about this word superfoods for many years. Sometimes we think that superfoods have to be incredibly rare, expensive, exotic. And actually, as you’ll see when we get to our list today, that a lot of these foods that are…..
Summary
In this episode, Kimberly Snyder discusses the importance of incorporating superfoods into women’s diets. She emphasizes that superfoods don’t have to be rare or expensive and can be found at local grocery stores. Some of the superfoods she recommends include leafy green vegetables, berries, chia seeds, nuts and seeds, avocados, turmeric, legumes, and cruciferous vegetables. She highlights the health benefits of each superfood and provides tips on how to incorporate them into meals.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Importance of Superfoods
04:40 Leafy Green Vegetables
09:18 The Benefits of Berries
12:20 Chia Seeds and Nuts
20:17 The Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Turmeric
22:41 The Power of Legumes
26:30 Cruciferous Vegetables and Lowering the Risk of Cancer
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STUDIES AND LINK ON TOPIC
1. Leafy Greens
- Study: “Dietary Intake of Green Leafy Vegetables and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis” (2017)
- Findings: A study in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that Higher consumption of leafy green vegetables is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is especially relevant for women, who may be at higher risk post-menopause .
2. Berries
- Study: “Berry Fruit Supplementation and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Review of the Evidence” (2013)
- Findings:A Study in the Journal of Scientific Reports found that Berries have been shown to improve heart health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, which is critical for women as heart disease remains a leading cause of death .
3. Chia Seeds
- Study: “Chia Seeds (Salvia hispanica): A Review of Nutritional Value, Functional Properties, and Use in Foods” (2016)
- Findings: A study in the MDPI Journal (2016) highlighted that Chia seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and fiber, which help reduce inflammation and support digestive health, beneficial for maintaining a healthy weight and reducing the risk of chronic diseases in women .
5. Nuts and Seeds
- Study: “Nuts and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” (2017)
- Findings: A study in the MDPI Journal (2017) concluded that Nut consumption is associated with reduced risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. These benefits are crucial for women’s long-term health, especially during and after menopause .
6. Avocado
- Study: “Avocado Consumption and Risk Factors for Heart Disease: A Systematic Review” (2018)
- Findings: A Study in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2018) found that Avocados improve cardiovascular health by lowering LDL cholesterol and increasing HDL cholesterol. They also provide essential nutrients that support healthy skin and hair .
7. Turmeric
- Study: “Curcumin: A Review of Its’ Effects on Human Health” (2017)
- Findings: A study documented in the National Library of Medicine (2017) cited that Curcumin in turmeric has potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. It can help reduce the risk of chronic diseases and support joint health, particularly beneficial for women suffering from arthritis .
8. Legumes
- Study: “Dietary Pulses, Satiety and Food Intake: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Acute Feeding Trials” (2014)
- Findings: A study in the Wiley Journal (2014) found that Legumes promote satiety and are effective in weight management, reducing the risk of obesity-related conditions, which are prevalent in women .
9. Cruciferous Vegetables
- Study: “Cruciferous Vegetables and Cancer Prevention” (2012)
- Findings: A study in the Journal of Nutrition and Cancer (2012) cited that the Consumption of cruciferous vegetables is linked to a lower risk of several cancers, including breast cancer, which is a significant concern for women .
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Kimberly Snyder (00:00.622)
Namaste, love. Welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. Hope you’re having an amazing week so far. And today we’re gonna be talking about food, our food cornerstone, and specifically which superfoods are particularly important and powerful for women to incorporate into their regular diets. So it doesn’t mean that you need to eat these foods every single day, but they certainly are foods that I recommend that you keep in your arsenal.
that you remember to look for them when you’re grocery shopping, whether you are at the farmer’s market or you’re at your regular market. They’re ones that are just important to keep top of mind. And I’ve been talking about this word superfoods for many years. Sometimes we think that superfoods have to be incredibly rare, expensive, exotic. And actually, as you’ll see when we get to our list today, that a lot of these foods,
you’ll be happy to know are ones that you can find at your local grocery store or your health market. Some of them are not expensive at all. And that just shows this incredible bounty of nature, which is so full of treasures, these antioxidants, these vitamins, these minerals, fiber compounds, which are really good for your body. When we live in close connection with nature, we become more vital and more healthy. And it doesn’t have to be complicated. It doesn’t have to be hard.
It doesn’t have to cost you a fortune. And that’s always been my message around health. So I’m really excited to share today’s show with you and some of this information. Some of it may be new for you. Some of it may be nice reminder. Remember that you can always ask me more questions for this show over on our website, mysaluna .com. We have a whole podcast tab. While you’re over there, please check out our new Glowing Greens powder, which is formulated with so much care and love.
It’s a mix of seven key plants, speaking of superfoods, that you can ingest every day. These are foods that are best and more easily consumed in a powdered form. So it includes spirulina and chlorella, moringa ashitaba, known as the super spinach, cordyceps, mushrooms, monk fruit, and our star, amalaki, which is known as the fountain of youth herb, and arugula, because it’s so rejuvenating.
Kimberly Snyder (02:21.678)
So I consume this powder every day. I add it to my glowing green smoothie, or you can drink it on its own with water, shake it up in your water bottle. And it’s an easy way to really up the anti. So check it out over there. And please remember that we have a new children’s book out called Chilla Gorilla and like you leave more journey to the heart. Please also leave us a review. If you’re enjoying our podcast, please share the show with anyone that you think would benefit.
And also leave a review for the Chilla book. It’s a wonderful way to support this message around the heart. Okay, so all that being said, let’s get right into our show today. We like to keep things grounded with going back to our food cornerstone. We talk about spirituality, or we talk about emotional well -being, heart coherence work, that’s the subject of Chilla Gorilla, and my upcoming Hidden Power of the Five Hearts book, because emotions start to really affect your physical health and your vitality. We talk about the body.
Today we’re going back to food because how we eat on a day -to -day basis has a profound impact on our energy. And this is not something that we can get around even as we become more calm and we become more spiritual, we still need to eat well in order to really nourish ourselves, nourish our body’s integrity. And so our question today comes from Jill who lives in Iowa. Thank you, Jill, for bringing this to our attention. Thank you so much for being part of our community. And you write.
Kimberly, I love the podcast. I had a question about superfoods. What are some superfoods that women should be eating every day? So I like to say 80 % on is our goal and rotation is really important. So even as we go through these superfoods today, know that you can vary them. Some of the foods we’re gonna talk about are categorical so we could mix and match depending on which season it is. And I don’t really recommend any one particular food.
every single day. But like you’ll see, there’s variety within these categories. These are guidelines. These are certain foods that I want you to keep in mind tucked away there just so you remember how important they are. Whether you’re at the store, you’ve got your grocery cart right there, or you’re in a restaurant and you’re thinking about what to order, or you are preparing a meal to bring to a potluck, or this comes up for me quite regularly, meal trains for friends that have just had babies.
Kimberly Snyder (04:40.718)
What are the most nourishing foods for us to consume? And so the first one that should not be any surprise to any of you that have been reading my books for years or podcast listener is back to greens. Green vegetables are so nourishing. Green is the color of the heart chakra too, by the way, in the Vedic philosophy, greens are truth.
Greens are power, greens are nature. And so we cannot even begin to fully understand and deduce everything down to measurable numbers and science, what the power of greens are, but more, I like to think of them in their totality, especially greens that are wild, right? We see these or,
ones that you can get at your farmer’s market if you happen to be there. You see the power of some of these weeds like dandelion greens that are just growing through these conditions. They’re not being watered by humans. They’re not being cared for. They’re just surviving. So they’re especially high in antioxidants. But the daily greens are wonderful. Mixing and matching in your daily glowing green smoothie is a powerful practice. I’m talking about Swiss chard and kale.
spinach, lettuces, arugula, and all the beautiful herbs like the parsley, cilantro, so on and so forth, which are full of minerals, vitamins, antioxidants. These amino acids go in and they are forming proteins in your body. So sometimes we think that protein has to come from really dense foods, but eating a lot of greens in your body, in your diet is a way to really fortify your system. It’s a way to strengthen your hair to give you that beautiful glowing skin.
And as I mentioned, beyond the fresh greens, this is one of the reasons, the true motivations, one of the true motivation that I had for creating this glowing green powder, which always comes when I feel a need. I don’t just create things to create them, but because we live in this modern lifestyle, this modern world, which has a lot of toxicity, it’s got a lot of busyness, it’s got a lot of stress, unfortunately, a lot of assailants combating our natural health. We need to up the ante. We need to have even more.
Kimberly Snyder (06:58.638)
strengthening fortifying foods. So these concentrated greens, these amazing plants like the chlorella and spirulina are giving us vitamin A, non -heme iron, plant -based iron, more protein and more of these incredible phytonutrients, which again cannot just be deduced down to numbers. A study in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that higher consumption of leafy green vegetables is associated.
with a significant reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is especially relevant for women who may be at a higher risk post menopause. So these protective plants, again, I just have always felt this truth when we live in close connection with nature. Things don’t have to be so complicated. They actually tend to really simplify. We become more naturally healthy. And sure, we can measure that in different ways. And we can look at…
you know, definitely the lack of disease in our life, but there’s also overall vitality, just feeling getting up in the morning and feeling energized, clear headed, motivated, inspired to create the life that you want to go forward and to make a difference in your day, in your life. And there’s a difference when we weigh ourselves down and we start to feel more sluggish or lethargic. We want to be alive. We’re here every day is precious.
So leafy green vegetables are an accessible, easy way to get this in. Eat your salads, drink your glowing green smoothie. You may be like me and drinking it year after year. Do not stop. Just vary the greens, mix and match the fruit, keep it going. It’s such an efficient way for your body to absorb quite a lot of this amazing nutrition in. One thing that you can do in your…
Power protein smoothie besides adding our glowing greens powder is to also add some broccoli greens or some sprouts just to really up the ante. These are also really powerful green vegetables to incorporate as well. Speaking of which, let’s talk about berries, amazing fruit. Research from the Journal of Scientific Reports found that berries have been shown to improve heart health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Kimberly Snyder (09:18.702)
Our disease remains a leading cause of death for women, unfortunately. So berries are in season right now. They’re coming into season. Yesterday, my family and I spent quite a lot of time down in our lower garden gathering blackberries. We are so grateful. We are so lucky that this amazing woman, Katie, who and her family lived here in this house before us, and they planted so many fruit trees. We’re just blessed.
And this time of year, there’s this huge patch of berries that come. So we’re in this season, we’re in this period right now where every day there’s more ripe berries. We eat them right off the bushes. We gather them. We bring them up to the house. It’s this practice. I was speaking to my husband about it. He said, this feels like real abundance, just gathering our own fruit. So berries are one of those abundant foods. They are incredible.
for you. Yes, for your heart health, but for your energy for your vitality. They’re great for brain health. They’re great for heart health. They’re great for your skin. They’re great for your digestion. They tend to be lower in sugar than other fruit. So if you have some blood sugar conditions or you’re concerned about sugar, go for the berries. I love blueberries. Blueberries are probably the favorite berry in our family. Little Mosey loves the blackberries. We love raspberries.
I’m not as much of a strawberry eater, although my kids go in phases sometimes. There’s also great old acai, which comes from the Amazon. So the best way to source it is in smoothie packets to keep in your fridge. If you follow me on social media, I just posted our fountain of youth pie recipe. It’s over on the blog as well. Mysalina .com. It is absolutely delicious. And it has the amalaki in it from the greens powder. It has acai.
It’s a raw pie. The crust is made with almonds and dates pressed into the pie pan. It is so delicious. And I highly recommend that you check it out. Acai mixes well with many things, such as greens and such as chocolate. Berries are one of those foods that you want to rotate. You want to keep in your diet. And if they’re not in season or they’re not in season where you happen to live around the world right now, because we have listeners in many countries, you can get frozen berries.
Kimberly Snyder (11:37.006)
My kids love eating just plain frozen blueberries sometimes. So you can also add this to smoothies. You can work with the frozen berries, which are flash frozen around the time of peak ripeness. So that’s also a really great option.
Another food that I think is really important. So we’re going to talk about some healthy fats in the next few categories. The first one is chia seeds. Chia seeds are pretty much a daily food for me. I love chia pudding. I love putting chia seeds in my power protein smoothie. I love them. I consume them almost on a daily basis, as I mentioned. A study in the MDPI journal from 2016 found that
Chia seeds are rich in omega -3 fatty acids and fiber which help to reduce inflammation, support digestive health, and are important for maintaining healthy weight and reducing the risk of chronic diseases in women. So we don’t want to just go for the Metamucil and the powder. I remember my grandmother used to have a lot of Metamucil. It was one of those products. I wondered what she was drinking. It looked kind of gross to me. Unfortunately, she did pass away from colon cancer. I want to go for the whole foods.
The chia seeds form this incredible gelatinous substance when you mix them with a fluid like plain water or a nut -based milk. They will cleanse your system and give you these incredible omega fats, which are so important for our brains, for our hearts, for our skin. When we don’t eat enough fat, and you may know someone who is in this category, there tends to be this drying out process.
And this drying out process isn’t just happening on the skin. Arivita talks about this drying out process, this excess of vata in your digestive system, in your colon. And this is not great for digestive health. This is not great for your body absorbing key nutrients. This is not great for the composition, again, of your heart and your brain and all these different organs in your body. We need the right healthy fats, plant -based or not. Chia seeds are wonderful. And so I highly recommend that you keep them around.
Kimberly Snyder (13:44.526)
Look for an organic variety, of course. I prefer the black ones, but there are white chia seeds, there are mixed chia seed packets as well. So see which ones you prefer. I personally love the black ones. So the next healthy power food is seeds and nuts. I was just talking to a health expert on here, Dr. Kate. She, in her book, talks about how deep nutrition as well. She talks about how…
incredible seeds are as one of the most important plant -based sources of protein and amino acids. Seeds are this, they have this regenerative quality, they have this potential, this energy that allows them to become whole big bushes and trees and plants. So they have this reproductive power inside of them originally. So that’s a powerful food to put into your into our bodies as we’re looking to rejuvenate.
our cellular health, our body’s health. And so, and the study in the MDPI journal from 2017 found that nut consumption is associated with reduced diabetes, obesity, coronary heart disease, and are crucial for women’s long -term health. They’re one of those foods that are really grounding to, I eat
I love almond butter. I have to say sometimes I just have some almond butter plain. I had a little bit before I did this podcast when I feel like I need a little bit of grounding. I put almond butter with a little bit of honey on these almond flour wraps, which my kids love. It’s great for kids to have around. My younger son loves cashews. My older son loves nut bars. We make nut protein bars. Really great for recovering in the postpartum period.
client who’s just had a little girl and she’s making the nut bars, the recipe in this amazing period for vitality and rejuvenation and energy. We want to make sure that we chew really well and if we can get sprouted nuts that’s even better. In any case be sure to take your digestive enzymes first to more adequately break down the nuts which can be a bit dense.
Kimberly Snyder (16:05.998)
And like I said, if you sprout them or soak them overnight, they tend to digest more easily. If you’re someone that has sensitive digestion, that’s a practice that I definitely recommend. But yeah, seeds and nuts are definitely a big part of our diet over here in our household. I also love seed crackers. There’s a brand called Seeds. It may or may not be sold near you, but there’s other seed crackers out there, S -E -E -D -Z, that I love.
We have it with the Kite Hill vegan cream cheese. It’s one of my kids’ favorite snacks. So look for seed crackers. Then you’re getting some real nutritional density in this snack food instead of, you know, just processed wheat or flour, which isn’t really giving you a lot of bang for your buck. Look for seed crackers. It’s a really great way to get the seeds into your diet. So another healthy superfood, which I recommend having on your counter in your kitchen all the time, is avocados.
Avocados are monounsaturated fat. They also contain fiber. They also contain B vitamins and other vitamins. They even have water in them. Avocados are incredible. And a study in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2018 found that avocados help to lower LDL cholesterol and increase HDL cholesterol. They provide essential nutrients that are wonderful for healthy skin and hair. So again, we don’t want to eat fat -free.
but we wanna choose the proper fats and oils to put into our body. I prefer avocados whole versus avocado oil. I have many uses for avocados. My kids love guacamole. Back to the sea crackers and the guacamole. I think nourishing fats are really important for children, for people of all ages. If you wanna keep that glowy skin and not look dry, not look withered, have enough energy for your…
nerves to function properly and your whole body to function, brain health, we need healthy fats. Now, how much you ask? This is an individual question. There’s a range for healthy fats. This is one thing that we talked about in our radical beauty book with Deepak Chopra. Some people do better with a little bit more fat than others. You want to see how your body responds. I definitely eat a lot of carbs. I eat a good amount of fat and
Kimberly Snyder (18:23.182)
us an amount of protein, but it’s all balanced. It’s one of the things that Dan Buettner talks about when we get into the Blue Zone philosophy. They’re eating a carb -forward diet. So they’re not eating low carb. They’re not eating super low fat. In fact, some of these Blue Zones, the one in Greece, they’re using a good amount of olive oil. They’re definitely in olives. They’re definitely eating fat, but we don’t want to eat only fat and not eat any carbs at all. I’m not a big fan of extreme diets, of cutting out macronutrients.
I think everything can be in balance. And as long as you focus on super food rich meals, like the glowing green smoothie in the morning, having a wonderful lunch, a wonderful dinner, we have so many recipe ideas, by the way, over on our website, mysalina .com. I actually just created 20 more recipes that we’ll be sharing with you soon as part of our amazing information we’ll be releasing in just a few weeks around the new book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts.
So be sure to join our newsletter if you haven’t yet already, because for me, sometimes the inspiration comes and fits and bolts. I just had all this inspiration for new, completely new recipes the last few weeks, and I started writing them down, where sometimes I go in periods where I just eat around the same thing and I eat lots of fresh vegetables, but I make a lot of the same meals too. But I think it’s good for variety, especially…
in our culture where people are used to eating out a lot, they’re used to eating. I have clients like that, they want some newness, they want to satisfy their taste buds. And so sometimes recipes can be really helpful for giving more energy and excitement back into your diet. So check that out and it’ll be coming out soon. Chilmurik is such an amazing power food. Now I want to point this out because…
Ayurveda has many other incredible foods and herbs that have medicinal properties. So in Ayurveda, there is a blurred line between foods and herbs that you take as medicine and cooking with everything. So turmeric is one of those amazing herbs slash roots that you can cook with. I also want to point out that Amalaki, I’ll say it again, I’m so excited about it, it’s in our glowing greens powder. It’s a sour berry. So it’s one that is actually a food.
Kimberly Snyder (20:46.478)
but then it gets consumed and all the parts are used, it gets consumed as an herb. So a lot of these foods are herbs, are medicine, all of it is intertwined. And so turmeric has been shown in the National Library of Medicine in 2017 to have potent anti -inflammatory and antioxidant properties which can help to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and support joint health, particularly beneficial for women suffering from arthritis. So.
It’s amazing that it’s studied so much. There’s other foods that are amazing that aren’t studied so much. So I encourage you to look into those foods and to be sure to incorporate these herbs and cook with them. One of the best ways to use turmeric is in stir fries, in chili, in soup, in stews. You can even mix turmeric into your hummus.
make a turmeric style hummus, which is delicious. Had that over the weekend. As long as it’s well balanced and there’s some olive oil in there and some salt. My kids like it. They really do. And it’s a great way to get these anti -inflammatory foods into your diet. So keep some beautiful powdered turmeric in your kitchen. Keep it covered. Don’t let it oxidize. Keep the lid on it.
My teacher Vaidya J says that women shouldn’t have raw turmeric, but it’s better to have the powdered form because women have more fluid levels and fluctuating fluid levels in their body. So that’s his take on it, which you may want to consider. Also, please check out some of the podcasts that I have done with Dr. J and some of his deep Ayurvedic wisdom. So another super food that I want to talk about is legumes.
So this is again, back to my friend Dan Budner, who comes to have a mind in a lot of these nutritional conversations, because we live in an age of so much information, so much confusion, that I like to go beyond these conflicting studies, which have relevance, of course, into human populations. So we can see what is really working, what is really making a difference in our bodies today. And we want to look at not just what’s happening in the lab with a
Kimberly Snyder (23:11.15)
select group of people, but human populations. And across the board, all these blue zones, which have the highest rates of longevity, least amount of degenerative diseases, we see consumption of beans and legumes. So in Okinawa, which is where one of the blue zones is, there is a wide consumption of non -GMO tofu. We see beans consumed in Greece and Italy. We see beans consumed in…
on the Nekoya Peninsula of Nicaragua. We see different beans consumed in Loma Linda in the green in the blue zone there. So legumes are ones that are a great source of protein. It becomes very difficult. I, in my personal experience to have a family be plant based and only rely on seeds and nuts. I love seeds and nuts, but in terms of dinners, we want to make bean and rice tacos.
We have chili, we eat beans on our salad, we have bean dips, we eat black beans and pinto beans and tons of lentils. Lentils are a staple in our household. Research from the Wiley Journal in 2014 found that legumes promote satiety. It’s really hard to say that word, satiation. We feel satisfied from our food and they’re effective in weight management.
reducing the risk of obesity related conditions prevalent in women. There’s so many foods that feel really heavy and then don’t fill us up. And then we are disappointed to see that they’re not actually giving us the nutritional needs that we are seeking. So back to this concept of power foods, a power food needs to supply our needs. One of those needs is fiber and protein and minerals and legumes come from nature. They are incredible in this regard.
Now, do we want to soak them? Yes, soak them, sprout them. This helps to remove the small amounts of phytonutrients, the lectins, some of the oxalates, things that people can be concerned with. We’ve talked about this on other shows. Some of the amounts that are the portion sizes that we eat. Some people are really freaked out about certain of these anti -nutrients.
Kimberly Snyder (25:34.19)
But when you look at the actual portion sizes that humans consume, you realize that we’d have to eat a lot of these particular foods all the time to get a lot of these anti -nutrients into our bodies. Now, of course, some people have conditions, some people have kidney stones or issues, and so they need to back off perhaps the spinach or certain foods that are higher in oxalates, mix and match. But…
Rotation is important. Soaking removes a lot of these. The cooking methods can be really helpful. So keep that in mind and do not be scared of legumes. We also love chickpeas. We love hummus. In a well -balanced diet, legumes can have a powerful place. And finally, I want to talk about cruciferous vegetables. My kids love broccoli. They love cauliflower. I’m happy to say, especially the cauliflower when it is in the house.
They will eat it, they will cut it, I will cut it up for them. They’ll eat some of it raw, I’ll cook some of it. Who knows how long that’s gonna keep going, but for now I’m very happy to see that it’s a big part of our family’s diet. And a study in the Journal of Nutrition and Cancer found that consumption of cruciferous vegetables was linked to a lower risk of several cancers, including breast cancer, which is a significant concern for women. So cruciferous veggies have a different sort of composition as other veggies.
So make sure that you get variety in while you’re eating. This is one of the things that Dr. B and I discussed when he was on our podcast as well. I’m talking about the amazing broccoli and of course the cauliflower. It’s like Brussels sprouts. Just get some amazing variety in your diet. Some of these roasted veggies are delicious. I actually had a roasted cauliflower the other day at a restaurant that had this beautiful sauce and I had it along with some potatoes and some broccolini.
and it was really satisfying. And when we’re eating this many vegetables, we’re getting amino acids, we’re getting fiber, we feel satiated. So in this regard, sauces and dressings can be really important. So be sure again, once again, to check out our many recipes over there on the site. But I’ll say that one really easy recipe that you can make to put on your cauliflower is tahini, lemon, water, and sea salt, those four things.
Kimberly Snyder (27:59.598)
can mix them up. Do not overheat the tahini, but just blend it so it’s nice and smooth. Pour it over your cauliflower. It is delicious and calcium rich. Tahini is another amazing food in our seeds and nuts category that we talked about a little bit before because tahini is made of sesame seeds. So these are some amazing superfoods that I highly recommend that you work into your diet.
This is not an exhaustive list. There are other important foods, but I wanted to focus on ones that are really accessible, really relatively inexpensive. You think about the cost of a pound of beans, for instance, or what you can get, you know, you can get pumpkin seeds, or you can get a tub at your farmer’s market of fresh blueberries, relatively inexpensive and go a really long way in your diet.
So let’s go through them again. Leafy green vegetables, green vegetables in general. Be sure to check out the concentrated greens as well in our glowing greens powder for optimal benefit. It has chlorella and spirulina and certain plants which you wouldn’t eat whole and fresh, but you would get best in the powdered form. Berries, berries all the way. This is berry season, load up and rotate your berries. Chia seeds, incredible for their soluble and insoluble fiber. Nuts and seeds, avocados.
turmeric and other incredible herbs, legumes and cruciferous vegetables. So I’ll be back here Monday as always for our next interview show. Keep your questions coming. Keep seeking out these amazing easy recipes on our website. And a little reminder again, please share the show with anyone you think would benefit. Please leave a review, which is an amazing way to support the show. I send you so much love for an amazing day.
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