Slow Your Aging – A Delicious Food You Can Eat Now to Slow Your Aging

Every season brings with it a scrumptious gift that can do wonders for your health now. Mangoes are one such fruit. I just returned from the Tropics and mangoes of many varieties, shapes and sizes were in season and bountiful in backyards every where. I consider it good fortune to have a mango tree in your backyard.

Mangoes are the quintessential tropical fruit. They might be new to you, but mangoes have been eaten and enjoyed for over 4000 years. This fruit originating from India is also used in chutneys, an Indian condiment.

The fruit is used green or ripe. The ripe fruit is quite sweet. In the tropics there are many varieties of all sizes and shape. They all have distinctive flavors with yellow flesh around a large flat stone. The ripe fruit has an outside skin ranging in colors from yellow to deep red. Be sure to pick up some of the fruit in your local grocery store and keep at room temperature until you are ready to enjoy.

Mangoes are rich in vitamins A, C and beta-carotene. This means that all summer long you have a natural, delicious food to slow your aging, particularly for your eyes.
A scrumptious thing to do with mangoes is to make smoothies.
Here is a delicious mango smoothie. You would want to make this if you are looking for natural antioxidant action to scavenger up your free radicals. Free radicals are danger to human cells and play a major part in pre-mature aging, heart disease and even cancer. Making this smoothie often in the mango season will start you on the path to having a happy healthy body

To make this smoothie, cut up and freeze the ripe fruit from two or three mangoes, after peeling and removing the large flat seeds. The beta-carotene gives this smoothie a comforting sunshine yellow color.

Because mangoes bring an alkaline quality to body fluids, it helps to keep blood fluids out of the acid range. This is excellent for anti-aging because neutrality keeps aches and pains away and body organs working properly. Use this quick drink as a daily fresh start to slow your internal aging processes. You can expect to look and feel great for a long time.
This recipe also has Vitamin D fortified orange juice to give your bones and immune system a daily boost.

Mangoes are high in fiber and low in sodium. You get all this and you don’t even have to ask your doctor…
Just pick some up at the grocery store and look forward to having a happy, healthy body.

Ingredients

1/2 cup fresh frozen mango pieces
4 oz. calcium and vitamin D-fortified orange juice
1/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 tsp. vanilla or almond extract
3 to 5 ice cubes
1 tsp. of honey, if you want a sweeter drink

Steps

Put ingredients in a blender, starting with the liquids first. Blend until smooth about 20 seconds. You can make variations of this smoothie by adding 1 piece of fresh ginger about 1 inch, and use soy milk instead of yoghurt.

Enjoy every chance you get when mangoes are in season.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Celia_Westberry