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8 The Clackamas Print Lean, green, healthy bean By Anna Axelson Associate Copy Editor Green beans, string beans, snap beans; whatever you want to call them, you don’t have to climb up Jack’s beanstalk to get them. Though green beans are available year-round, their season peaks between May and September, making now the perfect time to pay special attention to the produce aisle of your local supermarket. When selecting the perfect green bean, you’ll want to look for a long, stiff yet flexi ble bean that gives a nice snap sound when broken (hence the alias “snap beans”). In addition to being quite tasty and the most popu lar edible pod bean in the United States, green beans have numerous nutritious factors that make them that much more appealing. The green bean is a source of many members of the vitamin alphabet .(including A, B and C) as well as several antioxi dants, fiber and minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium and potassium. They’re also free of fat, saturated fat, sodium and cholesterol. Could you really ask for a better veg etable? Green beans are so much more versatile than your tra ditional Thanksgiving green bean casserole. They are sold canned, frozen and fresh and have been battered, fried, dried, canned, pureed and even used in tempura dishes. Boiling, steaming, baking and even microwaving are popular methods of cooking green beans; however stir-fry ing preserves the best qualities of the fresh and healthy bean. Green beans can be cooked whole, cut crosswise, diago nally or French-cut (length wise); though if you want sweet-tasting, crisp beans, cut them as little as possible. Recipe: Slackened Cjarltc Cjreen £> eans Ingredients: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 aced@clackamas.edu Fitnes&utrition --------- 1HÄ-------------------H— M m K » M 1 1 Instructions: 1. £)egin by rinsing the green beans under cold water and breaking off each end. 2. faring a pan of salted water to a boil and in handful-sized batches, blanch the green beans for four to five minutes or until ténder. Drain green beans thoroughly, rinsing under cold water to halt the cooking process. Mince the garlic. 5- Qver medium heat, preheat a frying pan and pour in a tablespoon dr so of olive oil, moving the pan around to coat the bottom well. -f. /\dd the garlic to the hot oil. When the garlic has slightly begun to sweat and take on a little color, add the green beans to the pan. Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste and cook, stirring frequently until green beans begin to blacken. • One pound of fresh green beans • Onc or two cloves of garlic • o ne tablespoon of olive oil • 5alt and pepper to taste J. f^emove from heat and transfer your simple yet yummy creation to a serving platter. AH that’s left is to stand back and enjoy the “oohs” and “aahs.” that emit from your family and friends as they set their eyes and stomachs upon this beautiful ■ side dish. Are you in the know about H20 that watching the color of your urine and staying away from ‘super yellow’ was the best precaution to take. “The two You’re walking from one symptoms I see are cramping class to another on a rare or headaches. My solution is sunny day and, quite without to tell them to drink more thinking, stop by the student water or their performance store to quench your thirst will continue to suffer.” While most of the people with an icy bottle of Coke. A few hours later, the Coke on campus aren’t athletes, the bottle is balanced precarious same rules apply. We burn ly on the edge of a recycling energy for every motion that container and you aren’t at all we make, and so our bod satisfied. In fact, you’re even ies have to sweat in order to thirstier than before. The rea maintain a good body tem son behind your dissatisfac perature. In addition to that, tion is that your body desper we use water to wash waste ately needs water to function away and also use it in our blood, muscle cells and even properly. Water is perhaps the most our brain. “Since sweat is mainly important thing in your body. You’ll die from hunger after water, we need to replace four weeks (on average), but that water that was lost as without water you’re finished sweat to maintain our (body in only three days. Water is temperature),” said Lillian responsible for cooling the Mayer, who teaches biology body and transporting almost at Clackamas. “The best way everything it uses to survive. to do this is to drink water.” Mayer continued to point This means that the amoupt of water you have in you needs out that dehydration doesn’t to be carefully maintained in just cause dizziness. If lack order to stay healthy, espe of water gets dire' enough, it can cause a loss of blood cially when exercising. According to track and pressure, heat stroke and even field coach Keoni McHone, death. She says that the most even the athletes, who should important thing to do is to be the healthiest of the bunch listen to what your body tells at Clackamas Community you it needs. It also turns out that pure College, don’t do the best job water isn’t all that our bod at staying hydrated. “I feel most of our athletes ies need to stay healthy after are dehydrated but don't know exercise. “If you are really it since they have never been working out and doing a lot of chronically dehydrated,” said strenuous exercise, you will McHone, who also mentioned also start depleting your elec By John William Howard Associate Sports Editor what is my next mo Ve? Ranked as one of the best values and best baccalaureate colleges in the West by U.S.News & World Report 2010, Warner Pacific is an urban, Christ-centered liberal arts college in the heart of Portland. With’ 27 undergraduate majors, you can choose from hundreds of career options. trolytes - ions like sodium 1 id potassium normally found in foods and salt,” said May! “Salty water is not very tas( so oftentimes companies w add sugar and flavorings t< sport drinks. In some casl these are fine to drink, fl you only need small quart! ties of electrolytes and lots I water. “If you drink too mJ Gatorade or other sport drinks you tend to stay dehydrafl because of the added ingredi ents. If there is a higher per centage of those sugars and electrolytes in your sport drfl than in your body’s cells, thl it can actually dehydrate y| more. It is best to drink jil a small sport drink and thefl small, plain water.” On Mayer’s list of thiJ not to drink for hydratioq alcohol was number out “Alcohol prevents your bol from reabsorbing water i your kidneys and this cl result in further dehydration especially if one has be] exercising or working streJ ously, she said.” If- there is one thing tha you take away from this, lei be that your body has neej Your body understands whal needs to work properly. Tha^B why your stomach gro^M when you’re hungry and start to nod off when yoi^M exhausted. Your body is stantly giving off signals what you need to do to ^M alive and well; all you hav^H do is listen. Mi
