The Healthy Zone

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Growing our own food is my husband’s dream. This year the person who rent our house before is already done with her time for using our garden space. So before the summer started our garden area is already ready for planting. The vegetables that you can see on the pictures above are all organic, we did not spray any chemical or put any fertilizer on it, they grow naturally without anything that can harm our body when we eat it.

Most  people around here in our place is exited every spring to prepare their garden. They believe that growing your own garden is healthier and cheaper than buying in the groceries store.

I love the idea of having fruits and vegetables as a finger food during my wedding. My husband’s closest cousin made this for us in the reception room. The only thing I love this is you do not know your visitors if they vegetarian or not. Some visitors are meat lovers and some are trying to stay healthy. If you give your visitors several choices everybody is happy. The picture above is the simple idea that I love for weddings.

Today I would like to post what kind of breakfast I eat sometime in the morning. You can see in picture above, its all fruits and a glass of milk. I love to eat mango either it’s unripe or the ripe one , the most important thing I like more is the yellow mango, I like the taste more than the other mangoes.
Fruits is very healthy for breakfast, your body needs vitamin c and other vitamins that you get from several fruits.

Sweet potato leaves or we call it in my country as a Camote Tops. This is a leafy vegetable from sweet potato. This is a vine kind of plant with a heart shape leaves, most of the leaves are green color but some are yellow or red. I do not care about the color I love them all to eat. In my country I like both the tuber and the leaves, but her in US they tuber is deferent taste its more watery, so I like the leaves more. This is my second year planting sweet potato leaves, I usually found the plants in our local store or from Asian fresh vegetables area, I cooked the leaves and plant the steam on the ground. Sweet potato leaves are one of my favorite vegetables, this is very delicious and taste great and very healthy for you.
Heres the health benefit I found from this site Sweet Potato Leaves Health Benefits

Camote Tops Health Benefits
Here is a list of diseases Camote Tops may help prevent or cure:
Heart Disease
High Cholesterol
High Blood Pressure
Diabetes (Type 2)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Various Cancers of the Bowel (mouth, stomach, and colon cancers)
Kidney Stones
Dengue
Boils
Acne