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Keep your brain young with this delicious seafood recipe! Recent research found that the difference in cognitive scores between those with the lowest levels of selenium and those with the highest levels was equivalent to a 10-year age difference.¹ You’ll enjoy 62% of the recommended daily allowance for selenium in each serving of this recipe.

Time To Table: 20 minutes
Serves: 4

No need to heat up the entire house by turning on the oven this summer. Grilling these vegetables gives them a wonderful smoky flavor and brings out their sweetness. Serve as a side dish with your favorite grilled meat.

Time to table: 20 minutes
Serves: 4

Healing Nutrient Spotlight
Excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B-12
Good source of riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, copper

This summertime delight provides more than 50% of the daily requirement for thiamin — an important B vitamin that’s lacking in most of our diets, especially in those with diabetes. In addition to thiamin’s role of converting carbohydrates to energy, recent research shows that it may also help to guard against diabetic-related kidney damage.¹

Time To Table: 30 minutes
Serves: 4

Sometimes it’s hard to dress up green beans, but this recipe is delicious. The creamy Mediterranean-style dressing adds so much flavor to the green beans that you won’t miss your high-carb potato salad.

Serves: 4
Time to Table: 20 minutes

Healing Nutrient Spotlight
Source of vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium

Want to prevent macular degeneration? Make sure you’re getting enough vitamin B12, vitamin B6 and folate. A study funded by the National Eye Institute involved over 5,200 women over the age of 40.¹ After 7 years, the women who took a daily supplement of the three B vitamins enjoyed a 41% reduced risk of macular degeneration, compared to the women in the placebo group. In each serving of this fish dish, you’ll enjoy nearly 90% of the daily requirement for vitamin B12 plus 69% of the daily requirement for vitamin B6. Serve with a side of roasted asparagus — a rich source of folate — to get the sight-saving trio of nutrients and round out the meal.

This healthy and simple low-carb stir-fry can be prepared in just a few minutes. The walnuts add so much flavor and fiber that you won’t miss the rice. To make preparation even easier, cut your vegetables the night before or buy pre-cut veggies.

Time to table: 20 minutes
Serves: 5

You’ll hardly believe this creamy, tropical delight has only 135 calories and 1 gram of sugar per serving! In addition to satisfying your sweet tooth, you might just feel calmer after eating it. That’s because calcium and magnesium work together to relax and calm the nerves and support the nervous system.

Time to Table: 20 minutes + 4 hours
Yield: 1 quart (8-1/2 cup servings)

Since asparagus is in season in the spring, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to do one more asparagus recipe. This method of preparation sheds a whole new light on this vegetable. Even if you’re not a big fan of asparagus, the flavor imparted by roasting, along with the enhancement of the walnuts and cheese, may make this one of your favorite veggies. Besides being a great source of many vitamins and minerals, asparagus is also a good source of glutathione, used by the liver for detoxification.

Serves: 4
Time to Table: 20 minutes

This raw, bean-free hummus is a low-carb stand-in for the favorite Mediterranean dish traditionally made with chickpeas. Serve with a variety of fresh raw veggies including cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, celery sticks, and cucumbers.

Time To Table: 5 minutes
Serves: 8

This refreshing spring-time salad is a tasty way to get a wide array of important vitamins and minerals. This is an easy recipe to double so that a delicious serving of vegetables is always on hand.

Time to table: 15 minutes

Serves: 4