Food Focus: Cucumbers

Benefits:

Cucumbers flesh contains Vitamin C.

Cucumbers skin is rich in fiber and contains a variety of beneficial minerals including silica, potassium and magnesium.

When consuming the flesh is helps soothe the skin of irritations and reduce swelling.

Cucumbers can be used topically to help with swollen eyes, it helps with burns and dermatitis.

When consuming the skin of the cucumber it is known to improve the complexion and health of the skin.

Cucumbers also have a high water content, which naturally hydrates and helps have glowing skin.

Those who want help with skin problems incorporate some cucumbers into your diet so today I have 3 recipes.

Recipes:

Cucumber Water

Lime Cucumber Smoothie

Raw Avocado and Cucumber Soup

Food Review: Kashi Honey Sunshine Cereal

I have reviewed other cereals on my previous podcast like Cheerios from Episode 7 and Kellog’s Smart Start from Episode 2, but I’m finally happy to be giving a review of a healthier option for a cereal. A lot of times even if it’s organic or it claims its whole grain sometimes there are a lot of hidden sugars or ingredients that you have no idea what they are.

Honey Sunshine Kashi Cereal says on the front, honey-kissed seven whole grain cereal and 6 grams of Fiber and 20 grams of whole grains. For a serving size of 3/4 cup there is only 6 grams of sugar. The ingredients are understandable and it does have 7 grains listed in the contents and it does contain honey, but it also has another sweetener, which I’m still not a big fan of which is organic evaporated cane juice. I’m not a fan because this sugar is still processed. It may not undergo the same degree of processing that refined sugar does but still processed.

This cereal contains wheat and soy ingredients so anyone with those sensitivities stay away.

Affirmation of the week: All that I seek is already within me.

Have you ever thought you weren’t good enough to do something so you didn’t do it? Or you sought further education? Or started reading more books? A lot of the times we tend to doubt ourselves when what we are looking for is already within us. This is what this affirmation is for.

Tip of the week: How to Get Vitamin D Naturally.

As you have probably heard you can get Vitamin D naturally from the sun, but there is so many concerns with the sun and how do you properly get this Vitamin D from the sun.

So to settle the score according to Dr. Oz we are to get 15 minutes of direct sunlight a day, but if you have darker skin you may need to get 1 hour of direct sunlight. We should put sun block on our hands and face, then the proper way to get Vitamin D is for the sun to actually hit our skin… exposed stomach, back, arms, legs should be exposed.

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Special thanks to WHFoods.com, Kashi, Dr. Mehmet Oz for some of the information for this podcast.