Healthy Eating

Jun 29, 2006

Recipe to help maintain normal blood pressure

Fresh Snow Peas with Pork
This savory classic helps your body maintain normal blood pressure and fends off any tendency to diabetes. It’s also an excellent pick-me-up whenever you need extra energy.
Ingredients:
1/3 pound fresh snow peas
13 pound lean pork
2 tablespoons of cooking wine
1 teaspoon of vegetable oil
1 ½ cups of water
Directions:
1) Cut lean pork into short, thin slices.
2) Combine ½ teaspoon salt with the corn starch, cooking wine, and ½ cup water. Mix well and let stand.
3) Boil the snow peas in boiling water for 6 minutes. Drain and let stand.
4) Heat the vegetable oil in wok or saute pan over high heat. Add the pork slices and stir continuously for 3 minutes.
5) Add 1 cup of water. Then add the snow peas, cornstarch mixture, the remaining ½ teaspoon salt and cook for another 5 minutes.
6) You’re done! Remove and serve.
Eating healthy is the best medicine against diseases. Don’t forget to enjoy the summer fresh fruit: watermelon, fresh cherries, cantaloup, strawberries, green beans, apples, pears, blueberries and you’ll find you are full, have more energy and won’t need pizza, pop, hot dogs and sugar in all its forms. Fresh fruit is all the sweet taste we need to satisfy our nutritional needs.
Remember that the Chinese were masters of using the healing powers in seafood. They knew the secrets to good health for centuries. Stir-fry cooking uses a minimum of oil and a minimum of time. Because of this shortened exposure to cooking the nutrients are not destroyed as in deep frying. Stir fried wild salmon or shrimp in tomato sauce or excellent food choices. Fight osteoporosis and help your body absorb calcium by enjoying Perch with mushroom. Sharpen your eyesight with wonderful combination stir-fry dishes like Chicken with Walnuts. Increase your metabolism with dishes that include hot green peppers mixed in with chicken. The ancient art of cooking, using good food sources to build up the body’s ability to ward off disease, resulted in healthy methods of preparation and combination dishes.
You need to be proactive when it comes to anti-aging practices of food preparation.

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