by Dr Betty | Dec 24, 2014 | Healthy Recipes & Menu Ideas
Before you munch down on all that chocolate candy in the Easter basket, consider the real truth about which dark chocolate has cocoa flavanols to lower blood pressure and LDL cholesterol. Only a special patent and proprietary process of chocolate production conserves...
by Dr Betty | Dec 24, 2014 | Healthy Recipes & Menu Ideas
Don’t throw that Halloween pumpkin away! It could help improve your eyesight better than the carrots your mother told you to eat. As we age our eyesight begins to diminish and carotenoids from orange and green foods become more important. Research suggests that...
by Dr Betty | Dec 24, 2014 | Healthy Recipes & Menu Ideas
Yogurt dates back thousands of years but it has been increasing in popularity for sauces, salad dressings and frozen novelties for five consecutive years. Whether yogurt’s benefit in healthier lifestyles is related to consumption of less cakes, pudding or potato...
by Dr Betty | Dec 24, 2014 | Healthy Recipes & Menu Ideas
Fresh cranberries in the supermarket indicate Thanksgiving is coming. Wild cranberries are distinctly an American fruit grown from as far north as Newfoundland, west to Minnesota and south to the mountains of North Carolina. Early American settlers learned the health...
by Dr Betty | Dec 24, 2014 | Healthy Recipes & Menu Ideas
June to September is calico scallop season along the west coast of Florida. During our annual treck to Homosassa Springs, concern about red tide and oil contamination seemed to outweigh the nutritional benefits of harvesting wild scallops- a real privilege for us on...
