Since I just posted about legumes, I thought I'd pass on this bit about upping the fiber in our diets:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/70/81146.htm "...But even if you have the will to eat more fiber, you almost certainly don't have the way. Especially since the recommended daily dosage was recently raised from 25 to a throat-choking 38 grams. The obvious solution -- eating 19 slices of whole-wheat bread a day -- isn't practical. What you need instead is subterfuge. Dietary deception. In other words, this plan for smuggling more roughage into your life. "Fill your juice glass with nectar instead of a watery juice from concentrate. Nectar is apricot, peach, pear, or papaya juice, mixed with fiber-rich pulp. It packs more than a gram (g) of fiber per 8-ounce glass... "...Shower your pizza with oregano or basil. A teaspoon of either spice gives you an extra gram of fiber. Order it with mushrooms and you'll get one more. Build your burger with a sesame-seed bun instead of the plain variety. Sesame seeds add half a gram of fiber per burger... "...Cook your broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots and you'll take in 3 to 5 g fiber per serving, up to twice what you'd have gotten had you eaten them raw. (Heat makes fiber more available.)... Debbi who despises bran cereal, however good it is for her :P __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
