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Mexican food is a healthful cuisine utilizing healthful ingredients such as ... goods using a 3 to 1 substitution ratio (if recipe calls for 1/3 cup oil ...

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Happy Cinco De Mayo to you! (Today is a Mexican holiday commemorating the 1862 Battle of Page 1Happy Cinco De Mayo to you! (Today is a Mexican holiday commemorating the 1862 Battle of Puebla). Mexican food is a healthful cuisine utilizing healthful ingredients such as pinto and black beans avocado corn tomatoes mango pumpkin and many varieties of chiles and seasoningsfor spice and flavor. If you want to make your own here is a website with some healthy recipes.http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/he althymexican/a/lowfatmex.htm If you have never tried fresh salsa you must! It is so much better than bottled! Its very easy to prepare and it counts toward your vegetable intake! It can be made with fresh or canned tomatoeshttp://southernfood.about.com/od/s alsarecipes/r/bl80807d.htm Purchase corn chips without trans fat or reduce your fat intake by purchasing or making baked corn chips (cut corn tortillas into wedges and bake at 350 degrees for 1015 minutes). Here are some other healthful choices to make from a Mexican restaurant menu: Soft tacos Refried beans (without lard) Black Bean soup Gazpacho Chicken or Pork enchilada or Burrito and Flan. I believe last week I forgot to share the whole grain recipes with you last week as an encouragement to try to work more whole grains into your eating for their many healthful benefits (attached). Perhaps some of you are also wondering how to add flaxseed into your diet. Flaxseed contains healthy fats called omega3 fatty acids as well as fiber and lignans which are all beneficial to our health. The soluble and insoluble fibers found in flaxseed aid the bodys digestive system and the lignans help lower the risk of colon breast and prostate cancers. Flaxseed can also help fight heart disease high cholesterol diabetes constipation and menopausal symptoms. Flaxseedmay also aid the bodys immune system. Its important to balance omega3 fats with omega6fats which tend to be more prevalent in our diets (often in the greasy and fatty foods we ...

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