{"id":22,"date":"2010-02-16T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/16\/benefits-of-indian-food"},"modified":"2010-02-16T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T07:32:00","slug":"benefits-of-indian-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Indian Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CPINJh9YH0s\/S3no6gNhboI\/AAAAAAAAAV0\/m5l65t5WKBk\/s1600-h\/flatbread\" style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CPINJh9YH0s\/S3no6gNhboI\/AAAAAAAAAV0\/m5l65t5WKBk\/s200\/flatbread\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CPINJh9YH0s\/S3no1om1OWI\/AAAAAAAAAVs\/M0Riwt1YvMg\/s1600-h\/dal\" style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CPINJh9YH0s\/S3no1om1OWI\/AAAAAAAAAVs\/M0Riwt1YvMg\/s200\/dal\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_CPINJh9YH0s\/S3nowYjT8II\/AAAAAAAAAVk\/IuW3i_DEMZo\/s1600-h\/edamame\" style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_CPINJh9YH0s\/S3nowYjT8II\/AAAAAAAAAVk\/IuW3i_DEMZo\/s200\/edamame\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">For lunch today I went to the Tao of Tea with a good friend. I&#8217;d never eaten there but I absolutely love their tea! The Jasmine Pearl is my favorite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">We got the edamame, dal with basmati rice, and miso flatbread with salad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">I absolutely love Indian food. I could eat it every day. Thankfully, it&#8217;s also a healthy way to eat! If you&#8217;re getting a craving for going out to dinner, skip the pizza joint or the Olive Garden and try a local Indian restaurant. Studies have shown a diet rich in the spices commonly found in Indian food can have these benefits:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">*It may help arthritis<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">*Some of it is low in calories<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">*High fiber<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">*Indian recipes frequently use chickpeas and lentils (high in fiber and resistant starch)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">*It can lower cholesterol and promote heart health.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">*It&#8217;s super tasty!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">Soybeans (edamame) also has the benefits:<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family:georgia;\">\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"margin:1px;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span class=\"s2\">*                helps reduce risk of heart disease;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"margin:1px;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span class=\"s2\">*                improves bone health;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"margin:1px;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span class=\"s2\">*                reduce the effects of PMS;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" style=\"margin:1px;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span class=\"s2\">*                help reduce certain types of cancer.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\">Great article on the benefits of Indian food: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1268692391199\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2007-01-07-curry-cover_x.htm<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2007-01-07-curry-cover_x.htm\"><br \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For lunch today I went to the Tao of Tea with a good friend. I&#8217;d never eaten there but I absolutely love their tea! The Jasmine Pearl is my favorite. We got the edamame, dal with basmati rice, and miso flatbread with salad. I absolutely love Indian food. I could eat it every day. Thankfully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,196],"tags":[8651,8801],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}