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What is the perfect ^rood when you are 7 years old and the very idea of
breakfast is a drag? A smoothie — cold, naturally sweet and delicious, not to
mention nutritious enough to satisfy Mom! I am a mom, and my younger son,
Nick, is a 7-year-old wielding a bending straw. Together, we are on a quest to 0
create the world’s most satisfying smoothie. Why? a
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4. You can whip up a smoothie in just a few minutes.
.t nr, £ 3. Making smoothies has the feel of doing a
! science experiment, without the mess.
< Here, Nick and I present our top con¬ jr03
« tenders, all reminiscent in texture of a
milkshake (Nick’s preference), and all
without added sweeteners (my prefer¬
!'! ence). The truth, though, is that it’s easy
t* a to make a good smoothie and hard to
p make a bad one, so experiment. Nick SMOOTHIE
and I improvise a lot, concocting SECRETS
smoothies to round out a simple breakfast, such as cold cere¬
al, or to fortify a not so nutritious one. And here’s all we do: ' • Frozen fruit makes
Pour some liquids into the blender. Add fruit. Whirrrr. ior uuCK&i smooiraes.
—Alexandra Kennedy, Family Fun magazine . * .v Peel overripe bananas
and toss diem in a Plas¬
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. freezer. Do die
Mango, one of the world’s most same
popular fruits (and a vitamin C -- with other fruits, peeling
powerhouse), is finally get- and pitting as
ting its due. Some grocery so they die can go straight
stores now sell it chopped and B into blender. Pm an
frozen, so you don’t have to fl instant supply, most gro¬
wrestle with cutting it fresh. cery stores cany bite
Blend together: size frozen fruit in bags.
• 1 pineapple juice Just be sure you buy die
cup no-added-syrup stuff.
.•M2 cup orange juice • If you only have
• 1 cup frozen blueberries fresh (unfrozen) fruit,
• 1 cup cubed frozen mango blend your smoothie
:CHERRY VANILLA with a couple of
ice cubes.
| This sweet-tart smoothie is
Nick’s favorite. Double the
recipe and freeze the leftovers in • Don’t
paper cups. You can have it for underestimate the
breakfast and, later, for dessert. need for a straw. A
Blend together: smoothie drunk straight
#1 cup apple juice or cider from the glass has die
• 'h cup low-fat vanilla yogurt unpleasant habit of slid¬
•1 teaspoon vanilla extract ing in a big blob
onto your face.
- #1 M2 cups frozen pitted cherries • For added
^PINEAPPLE CRUSH v- & m nutrition, in low-fat slip
The riper the pineapple and protein, such
banana, die sweeter your outcome. skim milk,
This smoothie is fresh, tropical and j as
an excellent source of vitamin C. soy milk, plain
. flavored
Blend together: or
low-fat yogurt,
•M2 cup orange juice frozen low-fat
•M2 cup pineapple juice yogurt or soft
•1 cup frozen pineapple chunks Sll: silken tofu.
•M2 frozen very ripe medium banana gfe • In addition to
IPINK BANANA m OJ and apple juice,
try tangerine juice,
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would drink anything with tofu in it, I lIMJf berry juice mix or
made this one without Nick at first, some of the new fruit
only telling him afterward that it had blends.
tofu in it He liked it so much, he even •You can freeze •
started drinking soy milk, too. smoothies in pop
Blend together: m ; molds, ice cube trays,
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•2 soft silken tofu (M4 cup) m regularly pack smooth¬
ounces ®-j
•1 cup frozen strawberries ies in a thermos for
Mi. school lunches!
•1 frozen very ripe medium banana Purple Mango
Each recipe serves 2
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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-Thurailay. June 23,200S
Ready for your Fourth k
of July blast? Ever
wonder why we blow '’^B
things up to celebrate?
Fireworks are an old U.S. w
tradition; that’s how early
Americans celebrated, too. In fact,
most of our Independence Day cus¬
toms are hundreds of years old.
Wondering how we got our tradi¬
tions? Read on.
★ WHY YANKEE
DOODLE DANDY’?
The song actually was written to
insult American colonists. During
the 1750s, British soldiers in the
French and Indian War sang the
song to mock Americans, whom
they considered hillbillies. A “doo¬
dle” is an idiot and a “dandy” is a
vain person trying to be fancy. But
by the Revolutionary War,
American soldiers were singing
“Yankee Doodle Dandy” as a rally
anthem.
WHY FIREWORKS?
Americans have always cel- A
ebrated July 4 with a t ^ Mk
boom. In 1777, kta
Congress adjourned in
Philadelphia and
rejoiced with fire- ^
works, bonfires and bell ringing.
The custom quickly spread to other
cities and small towns. By the
1800s, Fourth of July celebrations
□to — m
Researchers say
red is a winner
Want to win the big game on Saturday? Wear red!
British anthropologists Russell Hill and Robert
Barton recently completed a study of sports at the
2004 Olympics, and they say vm
athletes who wear red are
most likely to be winners.
They say their research showed that competitors
were more likely to win their contests if they wore
red uniforms or red gear. Their red research was
explained in an issue of Nature.
WINNING RED
In their research at the Olympics, die British duo
analyzed four sports: boxing, tae kwon do, Greco
Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling. Those
events were chosen because athletes in those sports
are randomly assigned red gear and sportswear and
the color they wear has nothing to do with skill.
Hill and Barton found that athletes wearing red
gear won more often in 16 of 21 rounds of compe¬
tition, in each of the sporting events.
“Across a range of sports, we find that wearing
red is consistently associated with a higher proba¬
bility of winning,” said the researchers, who work
at the University of Durham in England.
DOES RED REALLY
HELP ATHLETES?
Scientists aren’t completely sure how red helps
athletes win, but they have a few theories. One
idea is that the color sends a message of danger
and strength to the opponent.
Researchers also used die Euro 2004 interna¬
tional soccer tournament, where teams wore jer¬
seys of different colors in their various matches.
They found that teams wearing red scored more
and won more games than teams that wore shirts
that were blue or white.
The scientists might be on to something. In the
past year, many of the professional sports’ best
teams have red in their team colors. The Boston
Red Sox, New England Patriots, Detroit Pistons
and the college team die University of Southern
California (USC) Trojans all won major competi¬
tions and all have red in their uniforms.
WINNING WITHOUT RED
Don’t switch your lucky color to red just
yet The winningest team in sports history
has never had red in their team triors.
The 26-time world champion New
York Yankees’ I team colors are white,
navy and gray.
— Jill Egan
life
Gold medal
winning gymnast^
L Carty Patterson wore
& a red leotard at
the 2004 Games,
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were popular. But it wasn’t until
1941 that Congress finally declared
Independence Day a legal federal
holiday. a
WHY HOT DOGS?
Americans are serious about hot
dogs, and on July 4, we’ll
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eat 150 million.
Sausage-eating European immigrants 4^
are responsible for
introducing wieners to
the United States in the
1800s. But dining on sausage is
a tradition more than 1,000 years
old. Placing the dog in a bun and
squirting it with mustard is just the
new way of American snacking.
WHY POTATO CHIPS?
Americans have been chomping
on chips for 150 years. Potato chips
were first made in a New York
restaurant when a cranky customer
told the chef his fried potatoes were
to ° toick. The chef
x was offended and
sliced the pota
xHWP J* ( ’v toes paper thin
JF ' as revenge.
But the cus
" to mer loved,
not loathed, the
thin slices. Now
there are more than 100 brands of
potato chips and July 4 is a huge
chip-eating day. — Emilie Le Beau