With Thanksgiving being celebrated around the world tomorrow, families everywhere will sit down and feast on a traditional Thanksgiving dinner (with their favorites) of turkey and all the trimmings.
Registered dietician Ellie Krieger has seven superfoods that can help you see better, increase your energy and make your skin look more youthful.
Krieger recently appeared on ‘Inside Edition‘ with Deborah Norville where she explained the benefits of eating healthy by including these 7 superfoods in your holiday meals.
Superfood #1: Kale
“Kale is great for your eyes because it has lutein that can help your eyes and prevent damage from aging.” Sauté it or throw it in a salad.
Superfood #2: Dried cherries
“Especially tart cherries. Interestingly, they contain melatonin which has been shown to help regulate sleep patterns.” They’re great as a snack or toss them in a salad, pancakes or muffins.
Superfood #3: Salmon which is loaded with omega-3 fats. (One of my favorites)
“Omega-3 fats reduces the inflammation in the body. So inflammation is thought to be at the root of many diseases, including heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, even cancers. Fresh salmon costs about $20 per pound. You can get a can of salmon which will run you about $4 per pound and it has all the omega fats.”
Superfood #4: Mangoes
“Mangoes are great for your immune system. They have about 80% of your Vitamin C requirement in just one cup.”
Superfood #5: Pinto beans
“Pinto beans are one of the highest antioxidant contents of any beans, and you know what? They cost .13 cents a cup.”
Superfood #6: Sweet potatoes
“Sweet potatoes, great for your skin. The orange in them, the thing that makes them orange is beta-carotene, which is a form of Vitamin A, and this powerful antioxidant vitamin targets the skin. So it specifically can help prevent damage from the sun, which causes wrinkling and so on.”
Superfood #7: Almonds
“They have protein, healthy fat, and fiber. Those things combined can help keep your energy up all afternoon,” said Krieger.
None of these are expensive or hard to prepare.
For more information on recipes for healthy eating, visit www.EllieKrieger.com
Happy Thanksgiving Ceo Readers!!!!
<— does NOT want a "healthy" tasting thanksgiving. thats for the other 363 (minus Christmas) days is for
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@Flo
Just like a nigra. LOL
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@Flo
Just like a nigra. LOL
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atleast I’m being honest 🙂
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Just like a nigra. LOL
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atleast I’m being honest
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Yes you’s an honest HO! 🙂 (in my Vera voice from Harlem nights!)
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Nice post. Thanks Tra….Happy Thanksgiving Bo 🙂
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Thanks for looking out Tra but I plan on being real ignorant with my food selection tomorrow. I want to wake up Friday hating myself
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informational but i’ll pass
i do watch ellie’s show on food network (or cooking channel, don’t remember what network she’s on)
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Um…Me and sweet potatoes just can’t get along
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Why does that Turkey looked burnt, undercooked and dry at the same time? Someone should have fed it some Kale & Sweet Potatoes.
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Why does that Turkey looked burnt, undercooked and dry at the same time?
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I thought all turkeys looked burnt, undercooked and dry. They sure taste that way, which is why I don’t eat turkey.
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Juice the kale… yummy….I’ll be drinking kale and murking fried Turkey…
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@DANA
Right. That just might be the least appetizing “turkey” I have ever seen.
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Right. That just might be the least appetizing “turkey” I have ever seen
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That turkey looks like it could use some fix a flat…
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That turkey looks like Star Jones naked after gastric…no thanka yew!
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My turkey (I only cook the breast) is always well cooked and succulent. I’ll email you a plate
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no turkey for me
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@AL
Gobble gobble.
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i’m making chicken tenderloins (bc that’s what i had in the freezer and wasn’t bout to buy nothin else) 🙂
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Yes I must say that’s the Kim Kardashian of turkeys, muthafugga dry as hell.
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Nice post!!! 🙂 thx 🙂
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healthy this healthy that!! 😦 Ugh!
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Tracy I have never seen a turkey like that. Plus, I buy Amish Turkey.
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Haven’t eaten baked turkey since I discovered the fried version years ago. Today has been horribly slow…
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Happy Thanksgiving Ceo Family!!!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving Daisy!
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Happy Thanksgiving Ladies…Y’all enjoy!!!
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Have a happy holiday all. 🙂
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Everybody enjoy the holiday and enjoy your families and Thank God that we have them (even the ones we can’t stand).
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Happy Thanksgiving all!!!
Ima miss y’all..till Monday!!!! or maybe Friday???
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Errybody enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday.
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I’m doing the turkey breasts w/gravy (sorry Al), honey ham w/glaze, baked mac & cheese and mixed greens with smoked turkey wings tonight.
I’ll do the dressing, corn on the cob, apple pie and fudge marble pound cake tomorrow since I’m the ONLY one in my house cooking.
I’m sposed to be visiting my sis Thanksgiving day evening but I’m trying get outta that by sending the kids out there with my other sister and chilling up on my couch with a marathon of movies and full belly. 🙂
So ya’ll have a good one.
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Yvonne,
I just need to finish this Peach Cobbler and Im done
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Fam,
Fried turkey is GOOD! I will eat what the heck I want tomorrow and will not feel bad about it. I will hit the gym Fri and Sat as usual.
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Yall be good And safe!
*poof*
I’m out!
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y’all have a good one.
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Happy Thanksgiving Tracy Bell and The Ceo Blog Family
Love y’all
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Aw @ Felicia, same to you Boo!!! and ervbody above me
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Have a HAPPY everybody!!!!
Don’t eat too much fam.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
@Yvonne, ya shit sound good, I’m coming to ya house tomm. 🙂
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Just checkin in to say: Y’all have a happy thanksgiving!
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Have a Happy Thanksgiving Fam 🙂 Kisses to all…
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Happy Thanksgiving Y’all
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Happy Thanksgiving one and all.
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Happy Gobble day!!!!
Don’t eat too much people 🙂 LOL
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I don’t know anybody who will sit down and eat all healthy foods tommorrow. Folk gon throw down at their tables on Thanksgiving day and I’m one of em. 🙂 A Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all. Eat and be merry cause times are tight and you gotta be thankful for family, friends and loved ones.
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times are tight and you gotta be thankful for family, friends and loved ones.
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HOLLA!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING CEO FAM
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Damn wheats and berries! Eat and be merry ya’ll.
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Happy Thanksgiving people, enjoy your family and friends.
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Hope erbody had a happy thansgiving!
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@TRACY, HEY!!!!!
SO U COOKN THIS HOLIDAY?
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WHO PUTS NUTS AND FRUIT IN THEY STUFFIN.. I SAY THAT HAS TO BE A WHITE THING.. BUT THEN AGAIN U DONT SEE US ADDING JALAPENOS TAMALES AND TACOS TO IT
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WHO PUTS NUTS AND FRUIT IN THEY STUFFIN.. I SAY THAT HAS TO BE A WHITE THING.. BUT THEN AGAIN U DONT SEE US ADDING JALAPENOS TAMALES AND TACOS TO IT
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hey 2eaches own.
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@Jamilla
I know someone who puts sugar in all her chit. Greens, dressing, mac and cheese errthang. I almost went into a diabetic coma one year from a fuckin sugar rush. From that moment I started cooking my own shit on Thanksgiving
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Kayla,
I know a chick that put sugar in spaghetti… disgusting
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Ugh 😦 @sugar in spagetti
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@Kayla
Some folks in my family do that sht with the sugar too. And one of my aunt’s drowns everything in salt. Then they wonder why I want to stay home and eat my own damn food
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@Ynonne
I tell my family that all the time when I leave your house I should feel full not in need of insulin or my fuckin ankles looking like some damn hamhocks
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How bout mushrooms in Macaroni? had that on a plate from the inlaws ended badly I didnt eat it they tried to check me on it long story short I dont get that invite no mo
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I love Jalepeno cornbread
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Give thanks for what you have abundantly! And praise God from whom all blessings flow.
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I ate my ass off yesterday and to the tune of nothing on Tra’s healthy eating list up there. lol 🙂
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Hi everyone !!!
i’m home, and having lunch !
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Hey Val,
It sucks being at work today….
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Hello CEO fam.
I hope that all of you enjoyed your Thanksgiving Holiday!!!
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Did anyone go shopping last night or this morning before going to work?
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Did anyone go shopping last night or this morning before going to work?
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Hell no, ain’t worth it imo.
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I’m online, but I can’t find anything, for anybody..Just finding things for me
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Goodmorning everyone 🙂
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Lexy,
🙂 Did you have any “mustard” greens. LOL
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Hey Lexy, Coco, Val!
Hope all had a great Thanksgiving.
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Hope all had a great Thanksgiving
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It was different but I wont complain. Hope yours was good. Im at work until 3. Uuuggghhh!
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Hey guys. 🙂
Hope everyone had a good Turkey Day. I did. Sort of
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IS ANYBODY ELSE AT WORK TODAY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
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IS ANYBODY ELSE AT WORK TODAY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
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Hey Mahogany Im here to Boo…
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HOLD ME I GET OFF AT 2:30
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Lexy!
I finished at 12 !
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IS ANYBODY ELSE AT WORK TODAY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! 😦
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we prbly the only few.
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Hey people,
Not working, @ home chilling and just faten around! and eatin leftovers…
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Not working, @ home chilling and just faten around! and eatin leftovers…
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Just go on and rub it in niggra.
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