Preventative Medicine

So much of today’s focus is finding the cure after you have already gotten sick, but why not focus on staying healthy in the first place.  EcoHealth & Wellness focuses on preventative medicine and what you can do daily to be the healthiest possible you.  Dr. Tiffany Jackson, owner of EcoHealth and Wellness, specializes in private consults, offering you sage advice about possible options of achieving better overall wellness with small, but high impact life changes.

To learn more about her services visit her website at www.ecohealthwellness.com and click on the services tab.  Many people have already discovered what it truly means to feel good thanks to her services and would recommend it to others.

One idea for helping yourself is to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your diet to receive their beneficial antioxidant properties.  while we often here this statement it is not always easy to implement this change into your diet based on taste preferences, but here are two tasty recipes from the preventative medicine center, which taste great.

Sautéed Vegetables with Sweet & Sour Sauce

Ingredients:

• Chinese cabbage, cut into thin diagonals
• Carrots, cut into thin flowers
• Lotus root, sliced matchsticks
• Kale, cut thin
• Yellow squash, sliced matchsticks
• Mushrooms, sliced thin

Directions:

• Place a small amount of water into a hot skillet.
• Add vegetables and sauté on high heat until they are tender yet crisp and still remaining their bright colors.

Sweet & Sour Sauce

Ingredients:    *What are these foods?

• 1/2 cup apple juice
• 1 tablespoons shoyu soy sauce*
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar*
• 1-2 tablespoons kuzu*, diluted in cold water
• Sprouts, as a garnish

Directions:

• Mix apple juice, shoyu and rice vinegar together in a pot.
• Dilute kuzu with a small amount of water and add to the pot.
• Simmer juice until it thickens slightly into a sauce and becomes clear.
• Pour hot sauce over sautéed vegetables and mix to coat all vegetables.
• Add sprouts as a garnish.

Amasake Fruit Smoothies

Ingredients:

• 1 quart amasake
• Strawberries, blueberries or fresh fruit of your choice

Directions:

• Place amasake into a blender with fresh fruit to taste. Blend as is or you can add a few ice cubes and then blend.
• Garnish with a mint sprig and serve cool with a straw. Enjoy the refreshing all natural, dairyless milkshake.