BAKED SPINACH ROLLS-Healthy Recipe

admin | Health tips | Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Prep time: 20 minutes, Cooking time: 20 minutes, serving 6-8 persons
INGREDIENTS
For the stuffing: 2 teachup finely chopped and boiled vegetables (French beans, carrots, green peas, and cauliflower),
100gm cottage cheese, 1 chopped onion, 1 chopped green chilly
1 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp chopped coriander 3tsp whole white sauce
1 tsp refined oil, salt to taste and 20 large spinach leaves
METHOD
For the stuffing
1. Cut the cheese into cubes
2. Sauté onions for 1 minute and later add green chillies to it
3. Add the chopped cheese, vegetables, chilli powder, coriander, white sauce and salt and cook for 2 minutes
For the rolls
1. .Dip the spinach leaves in salted hot water and drain it after 5 minutes
2. Put a little stuffing in each leaf and roll it
3. Spread a little white sauce on a greased baking tray. Arrange the rolls, pour the remaining white sauce on top, sprinkle the cheese and bake it in the over at 230 degree centigrade for 10 minutes
4. Serve hot and healthy.

Pregnancy diet- follow up

admin | Health tips | Sunday, November 8th, 2009

You should limit your average weight gain during pregnancy to about 10-12kg. Putting on more weight will increase your chances of hypertension, cholesterol and having a bigger baby. This also ups your likelihood for having a C-section-or a more difficult delivery. Your body doesn’t need more calories to support a developing baby until the second trimester. Even then, you need only 300 more calories a day. Also, you should follow a low-carbohydrate and high-protein diet. Some other food myths you need to dispel are –eating ghee will help the baby slip out (it’s actually bad for the mother’s health); having too many pickles (may cause hypertension. Be careful: Over-indulging and bingeing may even put you at risk for gestational diabetes. Iron must be supplemented in pregnancy. Sometimes supplements are stopped during the first three months, but are given soon after should take an iron pill at bed time with juice or water, or with a meal, and increase fibre intake. To add up the iron numbers, pregnant women should consume organ meat (such as liver), lean red meat, dry fruits, cooked dried beans and green leafy vegetables, on a regular basis.

Treatment For Dog-Bite

admin | Health tips | Friday, November 6th, 2009

For dog bites we are aware of anti rabies injections, but there are a few home remedies that are also available to cure dog-bites the wounds. Though the professional assistance is very much needed but at the same time you have some easy options for healing.

• Firstly wash the area properly with hot water, then use the soap to clean the area. Proper washing can remove the salvia which can prevent further infections. You can also use cold water & lastly use sterile gauze on the affected area.

• Garlic is believed to be a natural antibiotic & is able to treat dog bite. Consume a few cloves of garlic regularly thrice a day (until the injury is cured).

• Burdock has also been recommended for removing the venom from your body that was caused by dog bite.

• Crush the cumin seeds (two tsp) along with water & 20 black pepper corns. Spread the mixture on the affected area. It’s believed that cumin is able to protect from the toxic outcomes of the bite.

• Crush the walnuts & take equal quantity of onion along with salt & honey. Now apply the mixture on the damaged area.

• Several experts believed that for producing antibiotic vitamin B can help you as well as for protecting infections vitamin C can support you.

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