Eat for Brain Health - Add Celery to Your Daily Diet

If you'd like to protect your brain health, lower your risk of getting cancer or lower blood pressure and cholesterol, eat celery! Snacking on celery gives your body luteolin, which is found in green veggies, and can help prevent the inflammation in our brain that is thought to cause aging of the brain and so-called "age related" diseases, like Alzheimers.

The nutrient luteolin found in celery is also believed to help protect the brain from multiple sclerosis, according to researchers at the University of Illinois.

More Health Benefits of Celery

Celery also contains fiber, vitamin C and several other active compounds for health, including phthalides, which may help lower cholesterol, and coumarins, which help prevent free radicals from damaging our cells and causing cancer to grow.

Celery contains active compounds called phthalides, which have the potential for reducing high blood pressure. Celery has long been used in Chinese Medicine for this purpose.

Here are some tips on storing and using celery:

I get a big stock of organic celery many times in my organic food coop order. Keeping it fresh was a challenge until I read that if you wrap celery in foil, it will stay fresh for weeks. This food tip works!

How to Get Celery into Your Daily Diet

Cut up a few stocks of celery and store in your frig in a zip loc plastic bag. That way, when you're looking for a quick snack, it will be prepared and cut up, ready to grab.

• Add celery to soups, stews, stir fry, casseroles and salads.
  

• Eat celery with hummus for added protein and nutrition, or make peanut butter.
  

• Add a stock of celery to your juicer, mixed with carrots.

For optimum health and wellness, try to get 5 to 9 servings of fruits and veggies every day. One way to increase the fruits and veggies you get in your diet is to go to the store once a week, purchase a week's supply of these and wash and bag them up for use. Veggies stay fresh in zip loc plastic bags in your frig and they are always handy for snacks or for adding to recipes.

How Do You Get Your Kids to Eat Their 5 to 9 Servings of Fruits and Veggies?

When it comes to eating fruits and veggies, do your kids just say "YUK" and refuse to eat them? And then the experts say you need to feed them 5 to 9 servings a day. Get Real!

A serving is about 1/2 cup of most fruits and vegetables. How do you even get kids to eat that much?

With kids you can't hand them a pile of vitamin supplements and let's face it, Barney vitamins probably don't have anything but very basic nutrition. Besides, most vitamins for kids have sugar, artificial colorings and flavorings added too.

Whole, natural fruits and vegetables is what their little body's need. Each and every nutrient interacts with each other to give them the best possible health. They grow stronger and their immune systems function to keep them from getting all those colds and flu germs that float around every day care and school.

So what is the answer?

One tasty way to get kids to eat their fruits and veggies is to make a smoothie every day, adding a Nuriche whole nutrition powder. Besides all the great smoothie ingredients, like milk, orange juice, yogurt and fruit, Nuriche provides them with the most beneficial, nutrient dense form of nutrition available today. And it's 100% pure, naturally complete, great tasting and affordable.

Nuriche can also be mixed with just about anything. Sprinkle it on cereal, mix with yogurt or applesause, or whatever you kids like to eat.

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• 30 Antioxidant Rich Fruits & Berries
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Nuriche is the next best thing to you getting 5-9 servings of organic and naturally grown fruits and vegetables every day - but without the chopping, peeling, cooking or juicing or relying on yucky "green" drinks or fistfuls of pills.

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