Live Right Now - Episode 002 – A Date With Magnesium
Naturally high in magnesium, juicy, sweet dates are gaining popularity as a quick, healthy snack, or incorporated into desserts. Obtaining adequate magnesium through diet, supplements, or both can both prevent and reverse heart disease.
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- Some estimates suggest over 90% of Americans are magnesium deficient.
- Deficiency symptoms: heart disease, high blood pressure, arrhythmia, dizziness, ED, fatigue, anxiety and panic attacks.
- The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine indicated long-term magnesium deficiency makes you twice (2X) as likely to die as other people.
- A 10-year study found low magnesium levels contributed more to heart disease than did cholesterol or even saturated fat.
- Getting adequate magnesium through diet and supplements can both prevent heart disease in most people and reverse heart disease
- Anti-inflammatory
- Reduces blood pressure
- Reduced stroke risk(The Journal of Clinical Nutrition).
- Magnesium is in dark chocolate, dates, avocados, nuts and seeds, beans, bananas.
Dates are great for:
CHOCOLATY SAMOAS
1 cup pitted medjool dates
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
½ cup ground flax seeds-fiber and omega-3
Pinch of Himalayan salt
Food processor
Chocolate dipping sauce:
1/3 cup ‘dark’ chocolate (chips or a chopped bar)
1/2 tsp. unrefined coconut oil
Double-boiler
Whisk
- Pre-heat oven to 400°F. Spread shredded coconut onto a baking sheet for toasting. Place in oven for 5-10 minutes, until coconut is a light golden-brown color.
- Please stay in the kitchen to watch the coconut, as it can quickly go from toasted to burnt. Or toast the coconut in a pan on the stove-top.
- Add dates and toasted coconut into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until mixture is combined and starts to form a ball of dough.
- Remove from food processor; roll 1 tablespoon size pieces of dough into a ball and then shape into a round cookie.
- Place all cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment and transfer to the freezer to harden up a bit.
Chocolate Sauce: Unlike grocery syrups and sauces full of corn syrup, emulsifiers, and refined sugar, this sauce has vitamins and antioxidants.
- While cookies are in the freezer, add chocolate and coconut oil to a double boiler over medium heat, and melt increments until chocolate is thin enough to drizzle.
- Remove cookies from the freezer and dip / coat each one in the chocolate. Place cookies on the parchment. Transfer cookies back into the freezer for 10-15 minutes to let the chocolate firm up.
- Once hardened it’ll be easy removing cookies from the parchment paper. If you want to enjoy right away, let them sit out on the counter for a few minutes.
- Store sealed in a container in the fridge for up to one week.
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