How to Eat Healthy: Spice Up Your Diet
One of the easiest and most delicious ways to eat healthy is to incorporate spices into your meals. Spices have a rich tradition of being used to enhance health and remedy ailments. Most of us use salt and pepper on a daily basis, but if that’s all we stuck to, we would be missing out. The great thing about spices is that although research is still underway in scientifically proving their health benefits, we are certain that there are no negative side effects.
Here are 3 spices we love to get you started…
Turmeric
Benefits
Turmeric contains curcumin that is thought to have antioxidant properties because of it’s potent anti-inflammatory effects. Turmeric is currently being explored as a potential treatment in both cancer and Alzheimer patients.
How to Incorporate into Your Diet
Eat Indian Food - eat out at Indian restaurants or cook Indian dishes that contain turmeric as a key ingredient.
Drink Turmeric Tea.
Rosemary
Benefits
Rosemary helps to stimulate your immune system, increase circulation and improve digestion. Like turmeric, rosemary has anti-oxidant properties and has been shown to kill bacterial infections.
How to Incorporate into Your Diet
Eat fresh Mediterranean-inspired food; Greek and Italian restaurants use rosemary liberally in many of their dishes.
Substitute rosemary for salt in your regular recipes and try some new recipes featuring rosemary.
Oregano
Benefits
Oregano is a nutrient-rich spice packed with fiber, vitamins A, C and K. It is also a good source of iron, calcium and omega-3.
How to Incorporate into Your Diet
Infuse your olive oil with oregano so you enjoy the benefits every time you cook with olive oil.
Try an oregano salad dressing instead of your usual store-bought variety.
Of course, another easy way to get a dose of all these healthy spices is to cook with spice rubs that include all these spice in one place. Do you have other ideas on how to spice up your health?