Nutrition Corner

Crafting a super spud: Researchers set the stage for climate-resistant potatoes poised to enhance nutrition.

5 Sustainable Nutrition/Food Tips: If you are looking to start making more sustainable food choices, check out these 5 tips below to help get you started.

Recipe for The Day

5-Ingredient Sheet-Pan Carrots & Chickpeas with Tahini Packs 8 Grams of Fiber: Roasted carrots and crispy chickpeas pack on the fiber in this vegan main dish. The tahini sauce strikes the perfect balance of nuttiness and sweetness. Tahini, made from ground sesame seeds, is a great pantry staple to have on hand. Use it to make dressings, simple sauces or any of these other healthy tahini recipes.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

Why Am I Tired After Eating? - 5 Reasons You're Sleepy After a Meal

• You drank alcohol with your meal: Your glass of wine could be spurring your post-meal drowsiness. Alcohol is a sedative, meaning it can leave you feeling pretty low energy.

• Your meal was high in fat and carbs: Comfort foods are delicious, but can often make you feel sluggish if they’re high in fat and carbs. The hormone cholecystokinin (CCK), which is released from the small intestine, is often to blame here.

• Certain hormones are thrown out of whack: When tryptophan-rich foods are eaten in a large quantity at a meal, particularly with carbohydrate-rich foods, you may find that you feel tired a few hours after eating.

• Or you ate a pretty big lunch: Sometimes, feeling tired after you eat has more to do with how much you ate instead of what you ate. The reason is simple: The bigger the meal, the more energy it takes for your body to break it down.

• A hidden food intolerance could be to blame: Food intolerances, or even full-blown food allergies, are often associated with uncomfortable GI symptoms like stomach cramping or diarrhea. But occasionally, a food intolerance you’re not aware of yet can make you feel wiped out.

4 Reasons Why Apples Are Good for You

• Stabilizes blood sugar: When you eat sugary, processed foods like doughnuts, the amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood spikes. But when you eat foods that are high in fiber and lower in sugar, like apples, it keeps your glucose levels steady.

• Lowers cholesterol: Having high cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease because it clogs your arteries, restricting blood flow to your heart. But the antioxidants and fiber in apples are a winning combo to help lower that number.

• Reduces blood pressure: When you have high blood pressure, the force of blood flowing through your blood vessels can damage them. It’s a leading contributor to stroke and heart attacks. A healthy diet is one way to prevent and manage high blood pressure.

• Eases inflammation: Inflammation is one way our bodies fight infections and heal damaged tissue. But inflammation should only last a short time. Continual, longstanding (chronic) inflammation actually causes damage and can lead to disease.

5 Ways Drinking Clove Tea Can Benefit Your Health

• Cloves have antioxidants that help in fighting free radical damage to the body and boost our immune system.

• Cloves also have antiseptic, antiviral, and antimicrobial properties that keep common infections, cold, and cough at bay.

• Drinking this tea will help you improve your digestion. Healthy digestion will help you lose weight quickly.

• If you suffer from gum or tooth pain then having clove tea is good for you. Clove has anti-inflammatory properties that reduce the swelling of gums and provide relief from toothache. Drinking clove tea helps you remove all bacteria from your mouth.

• Cloves have vitamin E and vitamin K which help in fighting bacterial infection. It helps in lowering the temperature of your body.

5 exercises to strengthen your calves

• Simple calf raise

• Toe walking

• Banded calf flexion

• Squat heel raise

• Jump rope

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