Saturday, November 23, 2024

The Perfect Guest Breakfast: Antioxidant-Rich Muffins!

A True Food Kitchen cookbook exclusive! The term antioxidant isn’t common on restaurant menus, but it appears several times on ours, and our guests have responded positively. These muffins, liberally studded with dried berries and light on sugar, are on our weekend brunch menus. Add them to yours as well. They’re made with spelt, an ancient strain of wheat that’s richer in nutrients than flours made from modern wheat. A little sea buckthorn juice gives the icing a distinctive tang.

 

Try the Antioxidant Berry-Walnut Muffins with Sea Buckthorn Juice Glaze recipe today!

 

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Saturday, November 9, 2024

Magnesium: Are You Getting Enough?

Magnesium – the fourth most abundant mineral in the body – is in your bones, teeth, and red blood cells. It is essential for proper functioning of the nervous, muscular and cardiovascular systems, helps maintain bones, promotes normal blood pressure and open airways and is involved in energy metabolism. How do you know if you aren’t getting enough? Signs of magnesium deficiency include:

  1. Irritability
  2. Muscle weakness or cramps
  3. Irregular heartbeat or heart palpitations
  4. Constipation or sluggish bowels

 

When taking magnesium, consider taking half as much as you do calcium, to offset calcium’s constipating effect and to ensure the appropriate balance of these two key minerals in the body. Look for magnesium citrate, chelate, or glycinate, and avoid magnesium oxide, which can often be irritating to the digestive tract. A good starting dosage is 150-200mg twice a day.

 

Good dietary sources of magnesium include truly whole grains, leafy green vegetables (spinach is a great source), almonds, cashews and other nuts, avocados, beans, soybeans and wild-caught halibut. A diet high in fat may cause less magnesium to be absorbed, and cooking may decrease the magnesium content of food which should lead to considering adding some to your supplement regimen.

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