PRETTY LIFE

Make this a daily habit for a healthy and happy life.

1. Make it a point to move more
Find ways to set your body in motion. Avoid elevators and use stairs instead. Moving your limbs is essential to make you healthy. It doesn’t have to be a rigorous session in the gym. It can just be a simple chore or a simple set of movements. Moving your body more helps minimize stress. So give it a go and start moving.

2. Cut fat intake
Well, this is obvious. Unless you avoid fatty and oily foods such as burgers and other fatty meats like bacon, ham, salami, and ribs, there won’t be any improvement to your weight loss goals. Also, go easy on dairy products such as cheese, cottage cheese, milk and cream. Make it a point to become lean and mean fat-burning machine,

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Spinach & Pecan Salad is a low calorie, low fat, delicious and refreshing salad with a citrus dressing. Try and make one using this recipe:

Ingredients:

150g baby spinach leaves
1/4 cup toasted pecans, coarsely chopped
150g snow peas, trimmed and halved
4 pcs. medium oranges

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Can’t wait for your next salad treat? Want some Witlof Salad with Pecans? Here’s how to make one. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 5 heads witlof, washed
• 1 red delicious apple, quartered
• 1 granny smith apple, quartered
• juice of 1 lemon
• 200g young rocket leaves
• 160g pecan nuts, coarsely chopped and toasted
• 100g gorgonzola or blue castello, crumbled

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Here’s to make a Watercress and Pear Salad. Yummy!

Ingredients:

• 2 bunches watecress, plucked and washed
• 3 tablespooons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 tablespoon white-wine vinegar
• salt and pepper
• 3 beurre bosc pears, washed
• parmesan shavings

(makes 6 to 8 servings)

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