Vegetable stew

Ingredients

– 1/5 cup vegetable oil

– 3 large onions

– 5 large fresh tomatoes

– 4 tablespoonfuls of tomato paste

– 5 carrots

– 1 clove of garlic

– 1 piece of ginger

– 1 Maggi Shrimp

– 5 green pepper bell

– 5 red pepper bell

– 10 green beans

– 3 smoked large salmon

– 3 tablespoonfuls of powdered pepper

– I large Cabbage

– Salt to taste

Preparation

Peel garlic, ginger and onions
Wash ginger, garlic, onions, and tomatoes and blend together
Wash and remove seeds then cut green and red bell pepper into chunks or medium sizes
Cut onions and carrots into chunk sizes.
Under medium heat, pour oil in a saucepan and add sliced onions and stir
Add tomato paste and powdered pepper
Pour in blended ingredients and cook for five minutes or until stew thickens.
Add chopped green beans, carrots, cabbage, red and green bell pepper and allow the stew to simmer for four minutes.
Break salmon into chunk sizes and put them in the stew.
Add Maggi and salt to taste.
Allow the stew to simmer under low heat for five minutes.
Serve with rice, yam or preferred accompaniment.

By Elizabeth Agyeibea Ackon

Dietary management of memory loss

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In this new chapter, we will be discussing how we can manage memory loss with our diet.

Some people get more forgetful with age. It may take longer to learn new things, remember familiar faces and words as well as personal belongings.

Memory loss can be mild or serious. Serious memory lapses affect ability to do daily activities like driving, shopping, or handling of money among others.

Below are some pointers of serious memory loss;

●Asking the same questions over and over again

●Getting lost in familiar places

●Being unable to follow directions

●Getting very confused about time, people, and places

●Self-neglect such as eating poorly, not bathing, or being unsafe

See a doctor if you are worried about your memory lapses or those of a loved one. You also can do many things to make your memory last.

Research has shown a great improvement in memory loss with appropriate diet.

Foods to consume

●Foods rich in antioxidants (vitamins C, E, and beta carotene) such as; oranges, pineapples, blue berries and kiwi.

●Complex carbohydrates such as oatmeal, brown rice, and wheat bran.

●Epicatechin rich foods such as; grapes, blueberries and chocolate.

●Iron rich foods such as; beans, fortified cereals, nuts, and soy bean.

●Monounsaturated fatty acid rich foods such as almonds, avocado, and walnuts.

Lifestyle modification

●Having hobbies

●Getting pets

●Spending time with friends, family and loved ones.

●Joining support groups

●Reduce alcohol intake

●Cessation of smoking

In conclusion, our memory largely makes us who we are; imagine not remembering your own name! We can stray farther away from such a fate by applying the diet and lifestyle above, so that we can always remember who we are and who/what we love.

The writer Dr. Bernice Korkor Asare is the CEO of Holistic Health Consult.

“Your diet your health, your health your wealth”

E-mail: info@holistichealthconsult.org