Anger can take over your life!

If you feel low or have little control in your life, you can sometimes use anger to manipulate or make others afraid of you. This can give you a sense of strength, power and control over the people around you. Using anger this way can hurt other people and yourself.

It makes it difficult to keep friends or other relationships and can lead to feelings of guilt or shame. These feelings can lead to low self-esteem, and increased anger and loneliness. It becomes a vicious cycle! It is never OK to use anger to hurt people in any way!

Energizing Oatmeal

This is a delicious complete breakfast and a perfect way to start your day!Prep and Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
2 cups water
sea salt to taste
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 sliced almonds
1 cup soymilk or skim milk
1 TBS blackstrap molasses
Directions:

Bring the water and salt to a boil in a saucepan, then turn the heat to low and add the oats.
Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring regularly so that the oatmeal will not clump together. Add cinnamon, raisins and almonds, stir, cover the pan and turn off heat. Let sit for 5 minutes. Serve with milk and sweetener.
Serves 2
Healthy Cooking Tips:

If you are using prepackaged oats, it is best to follow the directions on the package.

Vegetarian Stir Fry

I love recipes that use whatever I have available in my refrigerator and this one is great for that. So while we have recommended particular vegetables for this dish, you can feel free to use whatever you may have on hand. Stir-fry is a wonderful way to enjoy a wider variety of nutrients than usual (because of the variety of vegetables included) allowing for greater synergistic interaction of nutrients— the path towards optimal health.

Prep and Cook Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
1 medium onion cut in half and sliced medium thick
1 TBS vegetable broth
4 medium cloves garlic, pressed
1 TBS minced fresh ginger
1 red bell pepper cut into ½ inch pieces
1 cup sliced fresh shiitake mushrooms, (remove stems)
2 cups sliced green cabbage
5 oz extra firm tofu cut into ½ inch cubes
2 TBS soy sauce
1 TBS rice vinegar
2 TBS chopped fresh cilantro
1 TBS sesame seeds
salt and white pepper to taste

Directions:

Slice onions and press garlic and let sit for 5 minutes to bring out their health-promoting properties.
Prepare rest of vegetables.
Heat 1 TBS broth in a stainless steel wok or 12 inch skillet. Healthy Stir-Fry onion for about 2 minutes in broth over medium high heat stirring constantly.
Add red pepper, mushrooms, and cabbage. Continue to stir-fry for another 2 minutes. Add garlic, ginger and continue to cook stirring for another 2-3 minutes.
Add rest of ingredients and cook for another 2 minutes. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Serves 4

Serving Suggestion: Serve with Seaweed Rice
Healthy Cooking Tips:

Make sure you slice cabbage thin, so you can cook it quickly. If over cooked it will release its water and dilute the flavor of your dish. By slicing it thin, you can cook it for just a couple of minutes so it doesn't taste raw without this happening.

Healthier Lifestyle Green Tea

The phytonutrients found in green tea help combat free radicals and provide a wide variety of health protective benefits.

Prep and Cook Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:
green tea
1 tsp lemon juice

Healthy Cooking Tips:

Green tea is not only delicious but is renowned for its health-promoting properties. These have been linked to hits high concentration of catechin phytonutrients, which have a wide variety of protetive benefits, many related to their potent ability to fight free radicals. Adding 1 tsp lemon juice per cup of green tea not only gives it a refreshing taste but additional health benefits; it is both cleansing and energizing.

Research on the protective value of antioxidant catechins has found that less than 20% survive digestion. But by adding the lemon juice you can absorb 13 times more of the catechins due to the high concentration of vitamin C in the lemon juice. The catechins in ready-to-drink bottles of green tea have been found to be ineffective.

If you're senaitive to caffeine, you can drink decaffeinated green tea.

Amazing Health Through Cabbage

* Reduced risk of breast cancer

Eating four ! cup servings of cabbage each week can reduced breast cancer risk by 45%according to research. The credit goes to the vegetable's stores of indole-3-carbinol. This phytonutrients prevents the fluctuating estrogen levels that can lead to disease-causing cell mutations.


* Super speedy metabolism

Crisp cabbage is one of the nature's sources of the slimming compound sulforaphane. This detoxifying agent naturally boost the body's production of myrosinase, an enzyme that flushes fat -trapping toxins from cells and turbocharges metabolism.


* Deeper Sleep

Munching on 1 cup of cabbage before bed can ensure more restful sleep. The magic ingredient: tryptophan. Brain cell use this amino acid to manufacture serotonim. Increased levels of this neurotransmitter prompt sleep inducing alpha waves in the brain to improve slumber quality.

* A healthier heart

To slash heart disease risk by 40 percent, consider eating 1 cup of folate rich cabbage daily. Reseach report that the nutrients converts the artery-damaging compound homocycteine into the amino acid methionine. This strengthen blood vessel walls, resulting in improved circulation and a decreased risk of harmful blood clots.