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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:
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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.
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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
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more. It is best to drink jil
a small sport drink and thefl
small, plain water.”
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result in further dehydration
especially if one has be]
exercising or working streJ
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when you’re hungry and
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