Week 40, Thursday & Friday

2 Corinthians 7:1. Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.

The Mighty Spinach Leaf

Watching a mountain of fresh spinach reduce in a matter of a couple minutes to only a shadow of its former dimensions is one of my favorite cookery tasks. I add spinach to lots of dishes – sometimes raw and sometimes briefly sauteed. Adding more and more of the beautiful green leaves to my meals was an easy decision. It’s delicious, filling, and versatile. One cup of raw spinach has only a few calories and it rocks the nutrition charts in calcium, fiber, iron, manganese, magnesium, niacin, phosphorous, potassium, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamins A, B6, C, and zinc. Spinach is also firmly packed with the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin.

Lutein and zeaxanthin are the “eye vitamins” that the ophthalmologist told me to take because of a family history of macular degeneration. The American Macular Degeneration Foundation has a great article referencing a few excellent studies on the connection between nutrition and eye health. This article from the US National Library of Medicine at the National Institute for Health says that for best absorption of your eye nutrients, eat uncooked spinach. If macular degeneration runs in your family, give these articles a read.

The more I read about spinach, the more convinced I was that it was the perfect veggie to add to every single meal I could. [Calorie Count Web Site] by Jannid

An interesting sidenote regarding the power of eating a food like spinach and losing weight. Your body has primarily two ways to inform you that it is full. One of those ways is mechanical. Your stomach fills up with a whole lot of food and your body screams, I’m full! Eat too much on Thanksgiving and you will know exactly what I’m talking about.

The other approach is chemical. This way, your body tells you that your full, not because you have eaten to much but rather, because you’ve gotten all the vitamins and nutrients. The spinach nutritional benefits are one of the absolute most powerful approaches to attaining this other level of being full. This is by far the healthiest and most beneficial methodology of achieving satiation that you could ever imagine. If you are seriously interested in controlling your appetite then eating green foods like kale and spinach is the total way to go. 

OK, so, whether you've watched your Saturday morning cartoons or not I imagine you are beginning to realize why spinach nutritional benefits are one of the top metabolism boosters and beyond. If you only eat spinach for it’s ability to keep you full and satiated then there is nothing wrong with that. However, just put a big smile on your face in knowing that you will be taking part in a wide variety of extra positive side benefits.

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