Trying to live longer! (Benefit of chewing well, Part 3)

5. Health of teeth

There are two major disease of tooth, these are cavity and gum disease. We can prevent these disease by chewing well.

The fiber of vegetables, meats, and fishes remove plaque by chewing well. 

The saliva is secreted by chewing well. The saliva include some enzymes that helps to maintain clean condition of oral by  preventing increase of bacteria. 

The saliva can maintain neutrality condition.

The ion such as Ca and F In the saliva repair the tooth which were dissolved by acid.

As you know, cavity and gum disease relate with other whole body disease such as heart attack. 

Of course, brushing the tooth after every meal is most important to prevent the cavity and gum disease. 

The combination of tooth brush and chewing well is perfect!!

6. Prevent cancer

Currently, it is said that one of two people become Cancer. The some of cancers are known that relate to food deeply. There are many factors related to cancer, some factors are lost by the saliva.

For example, immerse some carcinogens in the saliva 30 seconds then the carcinogenesis action become less than 1/10 to 1/20!!

It is difficult to avoid all carcinogen included in food perfectly. So, please eat  with chewing well!!

Today's Baon

• Bullet train Rice ball

• Rolled egg with chopped carrot

• Sautéed  breast chicken and vegetables

• Boiled Okra

- Recipe of Hot Salad-

✳︎Ingredients✳︎

• Cabbage 1 pc (small) 

• Cauliflower 1 pc

• White mushroom 6 pcs

Sauce

• Oil 2 tbsp

• Salt 1/2 tsp

• Honey 1 tbsp

• Vinegar 2 tbsp

• Garlic 3 to 5 cloves

• Onion 1/2

• Onion leaks 1 pc

• Sesame 1 tsp

✳︎Procedure✳︎

1. Cut the vegetable and boil it 1 to 2 minutes. 

2. Chop the vegetables for sauce.

3. Put the oil in heated frying pan and sauté  chopped vegetables 3 minutes. Put all ingredients of sauce in the frying pan and heat it 30 seconds.

4. Mix boiled vegetables and sauce.

Vegetable day and Recipe of Shiitake mushroom

Last time, I heard from my friend that her daughter's class have the vegetable days twice a week, everyone have to include vegetable for their lunch at the vegetable day.

At first, I was shocked that the class had to establish the vegetable day. If there are no vegetable days, don't some students' lunch box include any vegetables? How about other three days? (If they don't consume the vegetable on other three days , Saturday, and Sunday, total five days without vegetables!!) Can you believe this?

On the vegetable day, some students bring only one leaf of lettuce and they eat it unappetizingly. 

Probably, their mother still hope their children to become to be able to eat the vegetables. However, they don't enjoy original taste of vegetable. And the taste of lettuce leaf included lunch box is not good because it is not fresh. Please provide to them the vegetables with other taste (especially salty, sweet, and umami. Please refer my previous blog→Who have many taste buds? Adult or child?). Don't give up to provide to them the vegetables!!

Some mother may already give up and they think that it is no problem to supplement by providing to their children the supplements. 

I think that we have to avoid to extra supplements. These contain additives many. For example, magnesium stearate or talc are contained for more than 90 % of tablet or capsule as lubricants. (These substances are provided enough evidence of safety and used in all over the world.) If you supplement some nutritions using supplement, you have to consume the substances which we don't need. The supplement is very easy to take a nutrition but please effort to obtain a nutrition from food!

Today's Baon

• Fried rice

• Meat stuffed Shiitake mushroom

• Celery salad

• Boiled spinach mixed with katsuobushi 

• tomato

- Recipe of stuffed mushroom -

✳︎Ingredients✳︎

A) • Ground meat (chicken or pork), 50g

    •  Onion, 1/2 pc

    • Onion leaks, 1 pc

    • Ginger, a little

    • Salt, a little

    • Corn starch, a little

B) • Soy sauce, 1 tbsp

     • Honey, 1/2 tbsp

     • Water, 3 tbsp

✳︎Procedure✳︎

1. Cut all vegetables like picture.

2. Mix the all ingredients of A).

3. Remove the part of axis from Shiitake mushroom and cover with little bit corn starch.

4. Put the mixture on the Shiitake mushroom and sauté with a little oil from the meat side.

5. The meat color change brown, sauté 3 minutes the other side also.

6. Put the all ingredients of B) into the frying pan and heat it until sauce become concentrate.

Recipe for Bento workshop

I rested the blog for a few days due to my acute gastroenteritis.
At last, I recovered. I am hearing that the gastroenteritis is on the increase around here, please be careful.

We conducted “Bento workshop” on Feb 5, 2014.
I appreciate many attendances.

We demonstrated the procedure of “Egg roll” and one of the side dishes.
Here is the link of the recipe that we introduced at bento workshop.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NbXH6e0UfQNHVWUG5FY3NnTms/edit?usp=sharing

This recipe's contents are
1. Asazuke (lightly pickled vegetables)
2. Nibitashi (Boiled and marinated cauliflower and mushroom)
3. Tamagoyaki (Egg roll)
4. Gomaae (Boiled french beans mixed with ground sesame)
5. Onigiri (Rice ball)

This link is for sharing and the pictures are unclear.
If you request directly through e-mail, I can send you original PDF file.

Everyone who tasted these side dishes said delicious and easy to cook.
Let's try to cook Japanese food used local ingredients only.

Attendances experienced decoration of rice ball!

They cut a Nori (dried laver seaweed) into shapes desired and decorated it to each rice ball. Children also enjoyed decoration. You can buy dried laver seaweed at any supermarket in here Philippines. Let's try!!

Some attendance tried to cook egg roll. 

Everyone made perfect egg roll, I couldn't believe that this is first time to cook the egg roll for them!! Maybe, we were good instructor! hehehe.

Japanese food is easy to cook, you can prepare one side dish in less than 10 minutes. If you feel that vegetables are not enough for meal, please remember and try to cook this recipe!!