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Healthy Lunch Recipes For Kids

What is the problem with healthy lunch recipes. Breakfast and dinner get all the attention but lunch never seems to on the TV shows.

Although people often take the time to make sure they have a healthy breakfast and go home to an equally nutritious dinner, they sometimes neglect to plan for a healthy lunch.

Healthy Lunch Recipes

Healthy Lunch Recipes

Healthy Lunch Recipes

When it’s time for lunch and your body is craving for food you may take the easy way out and resort to the most easily available food, that is, fast food that’s high in saturated fat, carbohydrates, and salt.

To avoid sabotaging your own healthy diet plan, it’s a good idea to have some healthy lunch recipes that you can quickly whip up and bring to work.

Preparing your own lunch saves money and ensures that your meal is healthy and tasty. There are many healthy lunch recipes that you can take to the office, to school, or wherever you need to go.

You’ll never run out of lunch ideas because there are hundreds of lunch recipes for kids and adults that are easy to prepare, pack, and take with you.

Healthy Lunch Tips

  • When looking for healthy lunch recipes, make sure you have a balanced lunch which includes lean meats or low-fat proteins, complex carbohydrates, fiber, whole grains, beans, and nuts. Include fruits and vegetables for their vitamins and minerals. Make sure your lunch contains all the essential nutrients your body needs.
  • Sandwiches make a healthy lunch, especially if you use a variety of whole grain bread, pita and wraps. Fill your sandwiches with tuna, cheese, skinless chicken breast, lean meats, or sliced hard-boiled eggs. You can also make vegetarian sandwiches or wraps and stuff them with salad greens, bean sprouts, sliced cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, fresh basil, etc.

Healthy Lunch Pizza

Try this delicious, pizza-inspired wrap. Kids and adults love this healthy lunch recipe.

  • 8-inch whole-wheat flour tortilla
  • 2 tablespoons prepared pizza sauce
  • 12 leaves baby spinach
  • 3 tablespoons shredded mozzarella

Place the tortilla on a plate. Spread pizza sauce over it. Arrange spinach leaves on top and sprinkle with cheese. Microwave on high until the cheese begins to melt (about 45 seconds). Roll up the tortilla and let cool for 10 minutes before slicing, if desired.

Here’s another quick and easy lunch idea. To make a Dill Egg Sandwich, combine 1 tbsp. low-fat cream cheese, 1 tsp. whole-grain mustard, and 1/2 tsp. chopped fresh dill. Spread the mixture over 2 slices of toasted whole grain rye bread. Top with sliced hard boiled egg and tomato, salt and pepper. Cover with another slice of bread. Your delicious and healthy lunch sandwich is ready.

So please take this to heart. There are a lot of choices when it comes to lunch and stocking up on a few healthy lunch recipes will keep you richer and healthier

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Does Nexium Cause Kidney Problems?

I have just run across a study released today that seems to show that there is an elevated risk of Kidney damage by taking certain stomach drugs, called PPIs (proton-pump inhibitors), like Nexium or Prilosec.

In the very large study by John Hopkins involved looking at two studies which followed over 250,000 people over 10 years and found that people taking a drug like Prilosec or Nexium had just over a 12% higher risk of chronic kidney disease.

 

An estimated 15 million Americans use these PPI drugs,

“They’re very, very common medications,” says Morgan Grams, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health who led the research, being published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

The History of PPI Drugs

NexiumWhen PPIs were first approved in the 1980s, the drugs appeared to be very safe. Since then, concerns have been rising about their safety. Evidence has emerged that the drugs may increase the risk for a variety of problems, including bone fractures,infections and possibly even heart problems.

Morgan Grams and her colleagues decided to examine whether PPIs might increase the risk for chronic kidney disease.

They examined the medical records of two groups of people: 10,482 participants in the Artherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and 248,751 patients in the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania.

Among the 322 people using PPIs in the ARIC study, the 10-year estimated absolute risk for chronic kidney disease was 11.8 percent, the researchers reported.

The expected risk would have been 8.5 percent. The 10-year absolute risk among the 16,900 patients using PPIs in the Geisinger Health System was 15.6 percent, whereas 13.9 percent would have been expected to develop chronic kidney disease.

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Natural Cough Remedy For Dry And Wet Coughs

A Natural Cough Remedy is important to all of us. At different times of the year we will all get a cough and the cough may be caused by many things but it seems like overkill to take medication. So what are some natural cough remedy?

There are two types of cough and you will need a different cough remedy for each.

Natural Cough Remedies

Dry Cough Remedy

A dry cough is when you have a tickle in the back of your throat. When you cough, the throat becomes irritated, making you cough more. In this case you need to stop coughing. Remedies that soothe the throat are required.

Natural Cough Remedy

Natural Cough Remedy

Honey can be very soothing to an irritated throat. The traditional honey and lemon drink is great for a dry cough. You can also add ginger to warm the body, turmeric to treat the inflamed throat and – strange as it may seem – pepper, which can be a great cough remedy.

You can also gargle with raw spinach juice to relieve the throat. You will need a juicer that can handle leaves, or use a blender and then strain the resulting liquid. You can add turmeric and/or garlic for added effectiveness if you wish.

Warm the juice to body temperature before you use it. Gargle a few times and then swallow some of the juice. If you hate the taste, try mixing equal parts spinach and carrot juice.

Almonds can be a good remedy too. Soak whole raw almonds overnight or for at least 6 hours. Peel off the brown skin. Crush, grind or blend them and mix with a little honey. This will form a paste which can be eaten alone or on bread.

Marjoram tea can be good for a dry cough. Marjoram is a relaxing herb that eases tension and stress. It can also ease the irritation in your throat.

Wet Cough Remedy

A wet cough is when you are coughing up mucus from the chest. In this case you should not suppress the cough. You need remedies that loosen the mucus so it will come up more easily.

A wet cough is often associated with a chest infection, cold or flu. Garlic can help to treat the infection. Use raw garlic if you can take it, or add it at the last minute to soups and other hot dishes.

Onion also has anti bacterial properties. Juice or blend one medium size onion, add the juice of one lemon and a couple of tablespoons of hot (not boiling) water. Sip this warm liquid slowly.

Grapes can be very good for a wet cough. If you have a cold or flu, you might try eating only grapes for a couple of days. This mono diet will be very easy for the body to digest, leaving it free to focus all of its resources on fighting the virus.

Staying warm is important for all types of cough. Being in a warm, moist environment is ideal. You can inhale steam with some essential oils – eucalyptus for loosening mucus or juniper for a dry cough. Some people like to take a sauna.

It is possible to find a natural cough remedy that works but if your cough persists you should see your doctor in case it is a sign of a more serious problem.

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