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The response to this newsletter has been awesome. I hope you are finding it useful. This is a free newsletter I only hope that you ask your friends to sign up. I am trying to help as many people as possible. Today's recipe is one that is super healthy and delicious. You can eat as much as you want. My diet is not about restriction. It is about restructuring your diet. When you eat good food you don't need to worry about how much of it you eat. Today's health tip continues where yesterday's left off. Yesterday's tip was about anti-oxidents and health. I mentioned fiber in that article and I will discuss the importance of fiber in today's health tip. Todays recipe is a great way to add fiber to your diet.

Jasons Recipe For the Day

A super healthy lunch

This is a quick and easy lunch or snack that you can make ahead of time in a few minutes. You can put just about any of you favorite veggies in. It is delicious and super healthy. Feel free to eat as much as you want, everything in this recipe is super healthy.

Whole wheat pita pockets or other whole grain wrap or bread. A good source of fiber

Chop up any or all of the following vegetables:

Cucumber. No calories, lots of water, very hydrating and tasty

Carrot. Contains beta- carotene and vitamin A (good for the eyes)

Celery

Tomatoes. Tomatoes contain lots of vitamin C and lycopene. Studies show that people who eat lots of tomatoes have less cancer.

Red or green peppers- good source of vitamin c

Olives. Good source of healthy fat

Hummus- you can use store bought but it is expensive and often has preservatives. In about a minute you can make your own for next to nothing.

Place one drained can of chick peas, the juice from a lemon, olive oil, salt, black and red pepper in a food processor or blender. Process until smooth. It keeps in the fridge for a few days and you can use it in place of unhealthy dips. All the ingredients are very good for you.

Fill the pockets with vegetables and hummus. Delicious and super healthy. Feel free to eat as much as you want everything in this recipe is super healthy.

Health Tip of the Day

Yesterday I mentioned that you should eat more fiber, but what is fiber and what does it do?
Fiber is vegetable material that your body does not digest. It is the cellulose that makes up the cell wall in plant cells. This material acts like a broom in your digestive system sweeping away all the debris in your digestive system and maintaining proper fluid balance. Let me ask you a personal question, (its rhetorical, I don’t really need to know), how many bowel movements have you had today? If it is two or less than you need to eat more fiber. If your bowels are not functioning properly you are retaining toxins in your body. The American College of Gastroenterology says that you should have three well formed bowel movements a day to prevent digestive disease like colon cancer. Also it is no fun to have diarrhea or be constipated. Luckily the answer is fiber.
But where can you get fiber? All fruits, vegatables, and whole grains have some fiber. The above recipe is a great source of fiber. My oatmeal recipe (see issue #1) provides lots of fiber and it’s quick and easy. Try it for three days and tell me if you still suffer from diarrhea or constipation. A pear has four times the fiber of a fiber capsule.
Your homework is to either eat a pear or my super oatmeal every day and pay attention to your bowel movements. By the way, white flour has the opposite effect of fiber, it clogs you up. Replace white breads with whole wheat breads that contain fiber. If you eat a lot of white flour you may notice that you will have large bowel movements for the first few days you eat proper amounts of fiber. This is how you know your body is cleaning itself.

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