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8 Healthy Foods That Can Easily Replace Their Less Healthy Counterparts

Natasha Long | Prevent Disease

You don’t have to sacrifice taste when switching to a healthier diet. There are a number of nutritious foods which can replace your naughtier preferences without forgoing flavor. From ice cream to pasta, there are much healthier alternatives which will please your palate and your waistline.

1. Quinoa instead of Rice or Pasta

White rice and pasta are “bad” or simple carbs–you know, the ones that don’t provide much in the way of nutrition. But quinoa! This amazing ancient grain not only acts as a perfect platform for soaking up sauces, just like pasta and rice, but also it’s a complete protein, which means it delivers all nine of the essential amino acids.

2. Fruit Sorbet instead of Ice Cream

Conventional ice cream is loaded with added sugars, emulsifiers and preservatives (not to mention pasteurized milk). It is so simple to blend frozen fruits such as strawberries, bananas, blueberries, pineapple, mango and many others into your favorite fruit sorbet with a fraction of the calories, fat and plenty of vitamins and minerals. Just add your favorite fruits into a high speed blender with a little water and you have the perfect substitute for even some of the best ice creams. If you want it thicker, mixing in organic greek yogurt always does the trick.

3. Nut or Seed Milks Instead of Cow Milk

Conventional milk is loaded with pesticides, hormones, and by products of genetically modified foods not to mention that pasteurized milk is perhaps one of the most nutritionally deficient beverages misappropriately labeled as a “perfect food.” Nut or seed milks are super easy to make. Almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, macadamias walnuts, hemp seeds and flaxseeds make wonderful milk substitutes with healthy omega-3s and vitamins you will actually absorb (unlike conventional milk).

4. Shaved Zucchini instead of Pasta

Another magical swap, shaved zucchini (created by shaving zucchini into strands with a vegetable peeler) can carry sauces from the plate to your palate–and add a serving of veggies to your dish to boot. Bonus: You don’t even have to cook it and it’s a refreshing way to serve saucy dishes during summer’s heat!


5. Coconut Water instead of Gatorade

Unless you’re a serious athlete, you don’t need the kind of potassium and electrolytes found in Gatorade anyway; gulping down a good amount of water will more than do the trick for the average gym goer. But coconut water, or the water harvested from inside young coconuts, does provide additional nutritional value over water–without the additives found in sports drinks. Expect great, refreshing, even sweet taste plus about as much potassium as you’d find in a banana.

6. Spinach and Tomato Sauce instead of Spaghetti with Sauce

Let’s be honest. Pasta’s main purpose is to be a vehicle for sauce. So why not drive your favorite pasta sauce into your mouth via a more healthy vehicle? Lightly cooked spinach can be a perfect partner for tomato sauces–not to mention a valuable source of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, which are known to be anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer.

7. Kale Chips instead of Potato chips

We don’t need to tell you how unhealthy potato chips are. But you might like to know you can enjoy similarly crisp, greasy flavor and eat healthily if you reach for kale chips. There is a catch–you’ll need to make them yourself. But on the upside, all you need to do is de-stem kale leaves, spray them with a tiny bit of coconut oil, sprinkle them with sea salt, and bake them for 30 minutes at an oven preheated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Even you have a dehydrator, even better (although it will take longer). If you ate an entire bunch, you’d have satisfied your greens requirement for the day and only ingested about 200 calories!

8. Cauliflower instead of Potatoes

Taste aside, there’s not much good that comes from mashed potatoes. But substitute even half of your spuds with cooked and mashed cauliflower and you’ll cut calories and add protein to your favorite rib-gripping side dish. After all, pound for pound, potatoes have nearly four times as many calories as cauliflower and not nearly the amount of nutrition.

Source: preventdisease.com

Electric Enzyme Juice

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This juice is incredibly rich in electrolytes and minerals. It will leave your body surging with happy electric impulses that will leave you feeling energized, clear-headed, and ready to take on the day! Enzymes are the sparks that start the essential chemical reactions our bodies need to live. They are necessary for digesting foods, for stimulating the brain, for providing cellular energy, and for repairing tissues, organs and cells.

One main role of enzymes in the body is detoxification - breaking down toxic substances so that they are excreted and cannot build up to possibly cause harm. Enzymes found in the fresh (RAW) foods that we eat have been found to help our bodies to do this! 


This juice is not only rich in electrolytes and minerals, but also these essential enzymes needed for every day bodily processes. The enzymes and amino acids found in wheat grass help to restore alkalinity in the blood and are powerful detoxifiers and blood and liver protectors. It also fights tumours and neutralizes toxins. 



Ingredients:
- 1 cup young thai coconut water
- 1 cucumber
- 1-2 oz. fresh wheat grass juice
- 4 stalks celery
- 2 apples (of any kind)
- 2 limes

Put all ingredients in the juicer (except the wheat grass and coconut water which you can add in the end), and enjoy!


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Health benefits of coconut water


Coconut water is delicious, refreshing, and very healthy.

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Here are a few things that coconut water does:
  • Drinking coconut water can help give your metabolism a boost while revitalizing your cells.
  • Add coconut water to your diet to help lose excess fat.
  • Drinking coconut water can help reduce a fever.
  • Coconut water is thought to have antiviral properties.
  • Drinking coconut water rather than sugar laden soft drinks can help prevent diabetes.
  • Coconut water can help with digestion.
  • The alkalizing effects of coconut water aids in dissolving kidney stones.
  • The detoxing power of coconut water is impressive and it also helps clean the liver.
  • Coconut water is known to help treat nervous and emotional imbalances.




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Minty Lime Detox Smoothie

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Check out this great smoothie recipe:

  • 1.5 Frozen bananas
  • Half a lime peeled
  • 1 orange - juiced
  • 1 handful of mint
  • Half a cup of coconut water or water

Optional - Handful of "greens" of your choice ;)


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