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A Healthier, Happier You!
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Let’s Give a Healthy Toast to a New Year!
With many families cooking at home meals, we find the gateway to optimum well-being is finally opening. Consumers are making wiser choices; parents are encouraging their children to nibble on veggies or fruit; even big food companies are proud to have only a few ingredients in their products, less sugar, and saying “good-bye” to unhealthy fats. Mother Nature is pushing those grocery carts. Yes, healthy eating will be one of the 2021 top food trends.
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Trend – Natural Spirits
Sparkling Sweet Orange Spritzers
A happy way to start a new you
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About the Recipe: Enjoy the refreshing fizz of a non-alcoholic drink for a quick break. Orange juice is a great source of vitamin C and provides some potassium and thiamin. Blood oranges and Cara Cara oranges are available in January in many stores. Blood oranges add a sweet flavor and blushing pink color to any spritzer.
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Trend – All About Breakfast
Lemon Dill Pancakes with Smoked Salmon
A delicious way to get those Omega-3’s
About the Recipe: With many people spending more time at home now, breakfast and brunches are being upgraded with new flavors and ingredients. This healthy breakfast/brunch recipe gives you some time to sit back and enjoy warm dill gluten-free pancakes, served with dill pickled onions, tomatoes, hot honey, and creamy fresh dill sauce.
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Top Trend – Healthy Eating
Greens ‘n Beans Salmon Supper
High in omega 3 fatty acids providing anti-inflammatory effects
About the Recipe: This easy salmon dinner will boost nutrition and is perfect for our busy lifestyle. The salad, filled with lots of sweet peppers, onions, greens, and beans can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator. Just bake the spicy seasoned fish in the oven for about 10 minutes and supper is ready.
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Trend – Comfort Food
Peter Piper’s Cuban Chili
Pepper-up a healthy bowl of chili
About the Recipe: This chili combines lots of different kinds of peppers that are jam-packed with nutritional benefits. They are combined with popular Cuban flavor of black beans, lean smoked ham, and spicy chili spices. Perfect to serve with warm wholewheat, oat, or gluten-free rolls.
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Trends in Medicine
Our emails are filled with workshops, lectures, videos, cure-all treatments, foods, and unique techniques that will improve our life. Various forms of alternative medicine, such as functional medicine and integrative medicine, have been mentioned frequently on the Internet and appear to be gaining popularity. It is wise to understand their basic philosophy and differences.
If you have any concerns about your nutrition or lifestyle, contact a medical doctor to answers those questions.
We have listed the most popular medical services that are trending.
Conventional/Traditional medicine applies a strong emphasis on characterizing disorders by diagnosis from symptoms, behaviors, and tests. Treatments rely heavily on the use of medications, procedures, and surgery.
Integrative medicine is a holistic medical discipline that stresses the lifestyle habits of a patient.
Functional medicine embraces the philosophy of integrative medicine but also employs a systems-oriented medical approach that is personalized for that patient to locate the root cause of a disease or condition.
We reached out to an outstanding research specialist and Neurologist from Vanderbilt University Hospital Amanda Peltier, MD, who is a practicing Neurologist with 16 years of experience, to discuss the different types of medical care and what each may offer the patient.
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Dr. Amanda Peltier Medical Credentials
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Trend – Adding Antioxidant Rich Foods
Superpower Cabbage Slaw
Filled with healthy colors, flavors, and textures
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About the Recipe: Cabbage, a common vegetable at most markets, contains a wealth of nutritious nutrients and disease-fighting superpowers. Serving it with red onions and flavorful seeds produces a delicious salad as well as adding a fighting superpower to your diet.
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Trend – Gluten-Free
Stuffing Flavored Cauliflower
No gluten worries with this stuffing side dish
About the Recipe: Don’t worry if you want to have seconds when you serve this side dish. The flavor will bring back memories of holiday stuffing with its savory herb flavors of sage, rosemary, and thyme. Cauliflower subs in for the heavy bread, leaving a delicious gluten-free stuffing casserole.
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Trend – At-Home Restaurant Experience
Haddock Fillet en Papillote
Italian seasoned fish so moist, tender, and full of flavor
About the Recipe: Wrapping a fish in parchment paper produces a tender, moist fish, seasoned with an Italian topping. It looks so impressive but is a quick way to cook fish and have an easy clean-up. The bonus is that it can be prepared in the parchment ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator until you are ready to cook.
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Trend – Embracing Cultures and Traditions
Roasted Beets ‘n Greens Salad
Nutrient packed leaves and beets can be prepared ahead of time
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About the Recipe: The health rewards of fresh beets are generous, containing rich supplies lutein, zeaxanthin, Vitamin A and K. They also contain lots of natural fiber. It’s an easy salad to make, especially if you prepare the leaves and roast the beets ahead of time. Add your favorite salad ingredients. Fresh red, golden, or striped beets are one of Mother Nature’s best gifts to us.
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Trend: Global Flavors
Curry-Up Chicken ‘n Rice
Give a basic chicken recipe an international flavor update‘
About the Recipe: Everyone loves basic chicken and rice since it’s easy to prepare and tasty. Give it a 2021 update adding some smoked paprika, curry seasoning, and a coconut cream sauce. If you feel brave, add some spicy ground red pepper or hot sauce for a tongue tingling treat.
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‘Trend – Fermented Foods
Trend – Condiments
Healthy German Sauerkraut Salad
Add some probiotics ingredients to your diet
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About the Recipe: Sauerkraut can be served warm or cold as a condiment, side dish, or even as part of a main dinner. It’s roots can be traced to Germany, the Alsace Region of France, or Eastern European countries. Sauerkraut, a low-calorie fermented food, is packed with multiple nutrients, and adds good bacteria to the intestines, improving digestion, which strengthens the immune system.
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Top Trendy Ingredient: Chickpeas
Trendy Condiment: Hot Honey
Chickpea “Meatballs” with Asian Hot Honey Glaze
Serve with Tender Baby Bok Choy and Rice Noodles
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About the Recipe: This is a winning trendy recipe, featuring both chickpeas and hot honey. Chickpeas are so versatile that it isn’t surprising that they make soft, moist vegetarian “meatballs.” Hot honey is addictive and just a few drizzles make any recipe pop with flavor. Enjoy this Asian styled light dinner, complete with rice noodles, bok choy, carrots, dressed with an Asian global flavored sauce.
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Trend – Plant Based Dinners
Saucy Pizzetta Spaghetti Squash
One dish dinner with a nutritious vegetable twist
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About the Recipe: It’s a new healthy twist for an Italian flavor favorite. Farm fresh tomatoes and Italian tomato sauce top ham, sweet peppers, and a soft spaghetti squash crust. Garnish with chopped fresh spinach, halved orange segments, minced red onions, and a sprinkle of white Balsamic vinegar.
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Trend: Comfort Food
Very Berry Apple Crisp
It’s full of essential vitamins, minerals, and high in fiber‘
About the Recipe: It is always wonderful to have a crunchy top on a fruit dessert. Reheating usually results in a soft topping texture. This recipe separates them. Prepare a crisp topping and then bake the saucy fruit. When you have leftovers, store the fruit in the refrigerator and the topping can be placed in a storage container. Rewarm the fruit and then sprinkle it with that crisp topping for a delicious crunch. An added bonus is that this dessert is filled in antioxidants and can even be served for breakfast or as a dessert for dinner.
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Trend – Reducing Added Sugar
Walnut Apple Cherry Cream Cups
No added granulated sugar in this dessert
About the Recipe: Some desserts are just too nutritious and delicious not to make. This dessert is one of them. It will help lower the levels of blood cholesterol and is combined with plain yogurt, containing probiotics or healthy bacteria that may fight infections. It has a baked apple flavor with a sweet touch of cherries and berries. It’s destined to become your go-to dessert.
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