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Yoga Pose of the Day: Boat Pose

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Boat Pose (Navasana) BOAT POSE Sit up with the soles of your feet flat on the floor. Hook your hands behind your hamstrings and lean back slowly until you are balancing up on your sit bones. Lift your feet off of the ground and, with bent knees, raise your feet up, so they are aligned with your knees. Press your lower back in and extend your chest up to the sky. Release your hands from behind your hamstrings and reach your arms out in front of you, palms facing together. Make sure you keep pressing your shoulders down, pressing your lower back in and extending your heart up. Hold the pose for 5 breaths. Advanced practitioners can extend their legs straight, making a “V” shape. Benefits:   Strengthens your abdominal muscles , and your sense of self and willpower. Builds up your core strength.

Astounding fruit pizza

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Sweet pizzas - a great option delicious dessert that is cooked very quickly and easily. Let us proceed? What do we need to prepare the dough: • Sifted flour - one cup; • Eggs - giving thing; • Sugar - two Art. spoons; • Butter - 150 grams; What do we need to prepare the filling: • Pears, juicy and ripe - 3 pieces; • Raspberry - one cup; • seedless grapes (preferably "Sultana") - 300 grams; • Natural honey - 4 tbsp. spoons; • Sour cream (with a high percentage of fat) - 150 grams; • Chopped walnuts - three art. spoon. Fruit Pizza How to cook: 1. Take a deep bowl and mix all the ingredients for the dough. You should now have a flexible and elastic puff pastry. 2. On a flat surface with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough in our thin and even layer. 3. Put the dough in the form of pizza, pre-greased. 4. Now go to the preparation of the filling. With the fruit should be removed peel and remove seeds, then cut into small slices. 5. All pieces shou

The benefits of indoor plants

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Slightly Greening our house? No, no one talks about the jungle. Difficulties selecting indoor plants will be solved if you follow the classical set. That entails a simple formula - "health" plus "looks tasteful." Your attention the top 5 useful plants of the family: Laurel - dwarf evergreen shrub, look great in the interior. This place not only master in the kitchen.Laurel has an excellent ability to kill viruses and bacteria. It helps in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The bush is to choose those who suffer from intestinal problems and biliary tracts. Aloe - benefits can only enumerate. Retrieve the process of aloe, colds are not you on anything. The aloe also lie the secrets of beauty: face masks, hair and nails. Good heals wounds juice plants. Night pot releases oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide, therefore it is necessary to put it in the bedroom area. Aloe Lemon tree - a plant can be grown from seed lemon. Leaves isolated essential

Cottage cheese and chocolate dessert with banana.

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Chocolate - 110 gr. Cottage cheese - 200 gr. Wafer cakes - 2 pcs. Butter - 60 gr. Banana - 1.5 pc. PREPARATION: 1. In a blender grind wafer cakes. Cottage cheese mash with a fork. Add to cream cheese wafer crumbs. Mix well. 2. Chocolate (90 g.) To break into pieces and place in a container with butter. Melt (I melted in the microwave). Mix well. Add chocolate and oil mixture to the cream cheese. Mix well. Try the resulting mass, sweet tooth can add more powdered sugar to taste. 3. And now the first option feeding dessert. Chocolate cottage cheese spread on a plastic wrap. Cover with a banana. Form a "sausage". Hide in the fridge for 20 minutes to solidify. 4. The second feed option: banana cut into slices. From pinch off a small piece of dough to make a cake. In the center of the cake to put a piece of banana. Roll into balls. Also put into the refrigerator for 20 minutes. 5. After 20 minutes, grate chocolate (20 g.) On a fine grater and roll it our "sausage" and

Beef baked in the oven

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 On 100gramm - 186.19 kcal B / M / Y - 18.68 / 12.19 / 0.51 Ingredients: Lean beef 1 kg Salt and ground black pepper to taste Garlic cloves 4 microwave oven Preparation: Beef wash, wipe dry with a cloth. To rub salt, spices, garlic, wrapped in foil and place in oven. Bake for approximately half to two hours (depending on the hardness of meat) at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.

Save yourself with 0% fat recipe :)

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Ea ster curd stuffed with poppy on 100 gram - 162.63 kilocal B / F / U - 12.7 / 10.24 / 4.67 Ingredients: Cottage cheese - 400 g Gelatin - 1 tbsp Sweetener to taste Cream - 50 ml Mack - 1/3 tbsp. Milk - 1 tbsp Preparation: 1. Thus, gelatin soaked in cold water. 2. We are engaged in poppy seeds. You can grind it in a blender, but if you like a poppy, and then leave. Thoroughly wash it, put in a bucket and fill it with milk. It is important that the milk is completely covered in poppy dipper. Then add the sweetener and cook over medium heat for 15 minutes. Then cover with a lid and give cool.  3. The gelatin is dissolved in a small amount of water in a water bath or in a microwave stove.  4. For our most recent Easter curd cottage cheese should be used. In the bowl of a blender put the cottage cheese, gelatin, cream, sugar and vanilla sugar, stir well.  5. Best to prepare the Easter in "pasochnitsa" mold , but if you do not, you can use a bowl high.

5 steps towards a healthy digestion.

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1. After the use of protein foods (meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, mushrooms) not to drink fluids (especially sweet). Because of this, the gastric juice is diluted, and this, in turn, hampers the digestion of food. 2. Do not eat protein and carbohydrates together. Proteins for digestion need an acidic environment, and carbohydrates - alkaline. The stomach can not switch quickly, and by eating and that, and another, the food is not digested until the end. Protein foods can begin to rot in the stomach and starts to ferment the carbohydrate. 3. After taking a significant amount of carbonhydrate foods you can not eat for two - three hours. It is necessary to assimilate food. 4. Do not eat fruit after a meal. The fruit should be either individual meal (preferably breakfast or snack), or they must be consumed at the beginning of the meal. 5. Do not eat sweets after the main food, especially protein