| Soup is a wonder food. It is not only nourishing and | | | | soup did the most good, his theory is that the |
| delicious but also typically easy to make and | | | | ingredients work synergistically to make a difference in |
| inexpensive. You don't have to be a carnivore to enjoy | | | | the duration and severity of a cold. |
| soup. There are a myriad of vegetarian and vegan | | | | But you don't only have to enjoy chicken soup to reap |
| recipes out there that are just as satisfying and hearty | | | | the benefits of decreased sick time when you have a |
| as healthy recipes for soup that include some type of | | | | cold. In fact, any freshly made soup that contains |
| meat. | | | | organic vegetables, garlic and onion is filled with |
| I no longer purchase cans of soup. They are full of | | | | powerful anti-oxidants and is quite nutritious. |
| sodium and simply do not have the same taste or | | | | All healthy soup recipes can have the same effect on |
| texture as homemade soups. Plus, the canning | | | | your health as chicken soup does. Not all of those who |
| process kills most of the nutrients that are simmering | | | | partake in soup are carnivores and for those of us |
| loud and clear in freshly made soups. Let's face it, | | | | looking for vegetarian recipes as alternatives, have no |
| there is nothing like the aroma of a pot of simmering | | | | fear. |
| soup to fill your house and leave you yearning for a | | | | Vegetarian or vegan versions of soup offer us the |
| steaming bowl of this curer of all ills. | | | | wonderfully warming feeling and healing potential as |
| There really is something to the folklore that grandma's | | | | chicken soup. Actually the vegetarian version might |
| chicken soup will heal you when you become ill. In fact, | | | | even be more beneficial. As much as it may match |
| it's been studied. In 1993, University of Nebraska | | | | the nutrient content of a soup that includes chicken or |
| Medical Center researcher, Stephen Rennard, MD, | | | | other type of meat, when you replace the meat with a |
| found that his wife's family recipe for chicken soup had | | | | bean and include fresh, organic vegetables - you are |
| anti-inflammatory effects and actually slowed the | | | | only doing yourself good. The vegetarian recipes are |
| development of cold symptoms. | | | | lower in saturated fats that are artery clogging. |
| The soup definitively increased the cold-fighting ability | | | | So get the stock pot out and simmer up a delicious |
| of cells when they were bathed in chicken soup. The | | | | brew of fresh homemade soup! There are a myriad |
| hot chicken soup also improved the movement of | | | | of healthy soup recipes out that there that will please |
| mucus and shortened the life of a cold. Although | | | | even the pickiest of eaters. And, you will be benefiting |
| unable to pinpoint exactly what ingredient in the chicken | | | | your health and well being in the process! |