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Black Bean Burgers Recipe

The AHA! Team — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:35:58 +0000

Recipe by: Dr. Michael Greger & Robin Robertson from The How Not to Die Cookbook – Black Bean Burgers Recipe There can never be enough ways to get beans into your daily meals. This is one of the best. Serve on toasted 100% whole-grain bread with all the fixings. These burgers freeze well, so consider doubling the recipe so you’ll have them ready for just-thaw-and-indulge moments. COURSE: Main Course DIFFICULTY: Easy SERVINGS: 4 INGREDIENTS ▢1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats ▢½ cup walnut pieces ▢1 ¼ inch piece fresh turmeric (or ¼ teaspoon ground) grated ▢½ cup red onion chopped ▢⅓ cup mushrooms chopped ▢1 ½ cup cooked or 1 15-ounce BPA-free can or Tetra Pak salt-free black beans rinsed and drained ▢2 tablespoons tahini or almond butter ▢1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds ▢1 tablespoon nutritional yeast ▢1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped ▢2 teaspoons white miso paste ▢1 teaspoon onion powder ▢½ teaspoon garlic powder ▢½ teaspoon smoked paprika ▢1 teaspoon Savory Spice Blend INSTRUCTIONS Preheat the oven to 375ºF (190°C). Pulse the oats, walnuts, and turmeric in a food processor until they are finely ground. Add the onion, mushrooms, beans, tahini, and flaxseeds and pulse until well combined. Add the remaining ingredients and pulse to mix well. Pinch some of the mixture between your thumb and index finger to test whether it holds together. If the mixture is too wet, add more oats. If the mixture is too dry, add a little water, 1 tablespoon at a time. Transfer the mixture to a work surface and divide into four equal portions. Shape each into a patty about ½-inch thick and transfer to a plate. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper and arrange the burgers on it. Bake until hot and lightly browned, turning once, about 25 minutes. Serve hot, as desired. To read the original article click here.

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Consumer Warning: The Troubling Rise of “Techno-Foods”

The AHA! Team — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:58:12 +0000

Patrick Tims via NaturalHealth365 – In recent years, we’ve witnessed an alarming trend: the invasion of our dinner plates by so-called “techno-foods.” These artificial creations, masquerading as healthier or more sustainable options, are rapidly filling grocery store shelves. But are they really the solution to our food challenges, or just another way for big corporations to pad their bottom lines while making people sick? The dubious origins of fake food Let’s rewind to two decades ago when agri-giant Monsanto (now Bayer) introduced genetically modified crops resistant to their herbicide, glyphosate. They touted it as a way to reduce pesticide use. Fast-forward to today, and we’re grappling with glyphosate residues in our food supply and mounting concerns about its potential health impacts, including links to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This herbicide once praised as a farming revolution, is now found at alarming levels throughout our food chain, from cereals to wine. Moreover, nature has fought back with “superweeds,” forcing farmers to use even more potent chemical cocktails. This pattern of prioritizing profit over health continues with the latest wave of techno-foods. Frankenfood on your plate Take the much-hyped plant-based meat alternatives. Companies like Impossible Foods are pushing products that are essentially processed concoctions of isolates, concentrates, and a laundry list of unwanted additives. Peek at the label of an Impossible Burger, and you’ll find a dizzying array of ingredients – many of which you’d be hard-pressed to pronounce, let alone recognize as food. Then there’s the emerging “lab-grown” meat industry. It cultivates animal cells in a soup of growth factors and synthetic nutrients. While it claims this will solve the environmental issues of traditional animal agriculture, we’re left to wonder about the long-term effects of consuming meat grown in a petri dish. Even your glass of milk isn’t safe The techno-food invasion doesn’t stop at solid foods. Now, we’re seeing “synthetic biology” or “synbio” milk hitting the market. These products are created by genetically modifying yeast, bacteria, or fungi to produce milk proteins. The companies behind these franken-milks insist they’re identical to cow’s milk proteins, but studies have shown significant differences in amino acid composition. Moreover, synthetic milk often lacks the full spectrum of nutrients found in traditional milk. It introduces dozens of novel molecules into our diets without a clear understanding of the long-term consequences. Protecting yourself from the techno-food takeover So, what can conscientious consumers do in the face of this onslaught? Read labels always: If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it. Choose whole, unprocessed foods: Nature knows best when it comes to nutrition. Support local, organic farmers: This helps ensure a supply of real, unadulterated food. Grow your own: Even a small garden can provide you with fresh, natural produce. Stay informed: Keep up with independent research on these new food technologies. What’s the bottom line? While techno-foods may promise convenience, sustainability, or cost savings, they come with significant unknowns. Are we really willing to be guinea pigs for the food industry’s latest profit-driven experiments? Instead of embracing these artificial alternatives, we should be focusing on improving our current food system – promoting sustainable farming practices, reducing food waste, and ensuring access to real, organic, wholesome food. Remember, just because something is on the grocery store shelf doesn’t mean it belongs in your body. Stay vigilant, choose wisely, and prioritize your health over food industry profits. Sources for this article include: GMWatch.org Childrenshealthdefense.org To read the original article click here.

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Let Your Food Be Your Medicine – Beyond Keto Pesto

AHA Publisher — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:00:41 +0000

Dr. Don Colbert – Are you looking for a dinner that everyone will love? A dinner that’s quick and easy to make? And most of all, one with foods that go beyond macronutrients, and work to promote health throughout your body? Tonight is your night: let your food be your medicine. Today, for “National Let Your Food Be Your Medicine Day,” we are highlighting one of our most healthful recipes. This delicious recipe uses many of the key components of Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto book, including ingredients that support brain, heart, and digestive health. On the other hand, there are no damaging ingredients. No processed foods or soybean oil. No added sugars, no chemical flavorings, and no refined starches or carbohydrates. Are you ready to let your food be your medicine tonight? Beyond Keto Pesto Salmon Over Asparagus Ingredients: 4 wild-caught salmon filets, 4-6 ounces each 1 lb. asparagus, washed and tough ends chopped off 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil ½ cup Keto Zone Pesto (click link for recipe) 10 Cherry or grape tomatoes OR whole peppercorns (omit tomatoes if avoiding nightshades) salt and pepper, to taste Instructions: Place asparagus in the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish. Drizzle olive oil, salt and pepper, and “roll” to coat. Place salmon over asparagus, skin-side down. Top each filet with about 2 Tablespoons pesto. Add optional tomatoes, whole peppercorns, and sprinkle on salt and pepper. Cover with foil tightly and bake at 400 deg F for 30-35 minutes or until salmon is no longer translucent and flakes with the fork. If you’ve made extra Pesto, use it over cooked chicken for another easy dinner, or as a delicious fat bomb. Serves 4. Nutrition Information per serving: 294 calories, 24 gm fat, 9 gm carbs, 5 gm fiber, 15 gm protein How Does Beyond Keto Let Your Food Be Your Medicine? It’s simple. Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto is not a diet. It’s an eating lifestyle that aims to ditch unhealthy processed foods, overflow the body with real, living, low-sugar, whole foods based on the Mediterranean Diet, and promote a healthy weight. In fact, Beyond Keto combines the best of the Keto Zone® diet with the Mediterranean Diet. Together, its food and lifestyle supports health from head to toe. Here’s how Beyond Keto and recipes like Beyond Keto Pesto Salmon work as your medicine. Beyond Keto and Food as Medicine Through scientific study, experience, and decades of research, Dr. Colbert has formulated this eating plan and recipes to promote overall health, healthy weights, and reduced inflammation. Beyond Keto aims to: PROMOTE A HEALTHY WEIGHT Almost all current negative health conditions are linked to, or exacerbated by, obesity (1). By utilizing healthy ketogenic diet principles, Beyond Keto promotes healthy changes and outcomes as soon as the first two weeks (2)! In addition, the Mediterranean diet component continues to support healthy weight and healthy body composition. Its focus on lean proteins, seafoods, healthy oils, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, and vegetables provide a wonderful well-balanced, satisfying dietary lifestyle to maintain a healthy weight (3). FIGHT INFLAMMATION IN THE BRAIN VIA BETTER GUT HEALTH Are you familiar with neuroinflammation resulting from degradation of gut health? While this may have seemed far-fetched 50 years ago, experts now know there is a bi-directional signaling between the gut and the brain. And, when one is inflamed and unhealthy, the other one follows suit. Unfortunately, neuroinflammation is linked with brain impairment and dysfunction. In fact, many experts implicate the modern Western diet in the development of many health and brain issues including memory impairments, neurodegenerative issues, and depressed moods. What’s more, many believe the consumption of ultra-processed foods and excessive energy intake (4) is at the root of gut inflammation leading to neuroinflammation. The communication system and link between gut-brain health is called the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis (5). Fortunately, Beyond Keto can help! First, it promotes a healthy digestive system with many nourishing foods and no processed ones. Then, it fights inflammation at every turn with the most potent anti-inflammatory combination of foods possible: omega-3 fats and monounsaturated fatty acids from foods like extra-virgin olive oil. ENCOURAGE HEALTHY CHOLESTEROL, TRIGLYCERIDE, AND BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS Both the Keto Zone and Mediterranean diet aspects of Beyond Keto support heart health. First, Beyond Keto promotes a healthy weight, which can help optimize heart health. Next, by choosing the incredibly heart-healthy foods in the Mediterranean diet, you can continue to encourage great heart health In fact, the foods in the Mediterranean diet and Beyond Keto work to support heart health, healthy cholesterol, and achieve whole-body health (6). OPTIMIZE BLOOD SUGARS AND METABOLISM An amazing aspect of both the ketogenic diet and the Mediterranean diet normalized blood sugars. By using both eating styles in Beyond Keto, you’ll remove harmful refined starches while focusing on healthy fats, high fiber beans, peas, lentils, vegetables, lean protein and low glycemic fruits such as berries. Part of the improvement comes from weight loss. The other part comes from a diet that supports healthy metabolism and hormones (7). PROMOTE A HEALTHY GUT MICROBIOTA Amazingly, Beyond Keto combines Keto Zone and Mediterranean foods to support gut health! This is great news for the millions of people who suffer from less-than-optimal gut function. In fact, studies have found the Mediterranean diet specifically improves gut microbiota and its associated metabolism functions. The diet’s prebiotics from healthy fibers along with healthy fats and polyphenols support gut health, hormone balance, and metabolism (8). FLOOD THE BODY WITH ANTIOXIDANTS AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMPOUNDS One of the worst dietary habits plaguing humans worldwide is the consumption of ultra-processed foods. In fact, researchers have found that ultra-processed foods are linked to most modern health conditions and even overall risk of death (9)! Thankfully, you’ll eat healthy, high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods rather than ultra-processed ones (10). This means less oxidative stress and inflammation throughout the body. INCREASE ENERGY, VITALITY, AND MENTAL FOCUS One of the greatest benefits of the ketogenic diet is the production of ketones. Ketones are natural energizing compounds that support healthy mental focus and vitality. The Mediterranean diet also encourages great energy and vitality with the abundant variety of healthy foods. Rather than experiencing the ups and downs of a high-sugar diet, you will enjoy steady, youthful energy from delicious, colorful whole foods. Want More Beyond Keto? There’s more! Get your copy of Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto and let your food be your medicine every night! You’ll find an easy-to-follow eating lifestyle plan with recipes, tips, and clear guidance. Get your hands on this book today! Bottom Line It’s easier than ever to Let Your Food Be Your Medicine with Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto. However, it won’t make much difference if we only use it one day per year! Instead, make Beyond Keto your everyday plan to eat a healthy, unprocessed, brain-empowering, diet! 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