Magnesium 101, The Miracle of Magnesium

Magnesium is essential to more than 300 biochemical processes in the human body and over 3,700 magnesium binding sites. The functions the need magnesium include:

• Blood pressure regulation
• Protein synthesis
• Neurological function
• Blood sugar control
• Energy metabolism
• Antioxidant production

Most of the US population is deficient in magnesium.

This post is about magnesium rich natural food sources...

Coleslaw - With Amazing Sprouts

Last winter I published the directions on how to make a large variety of sprouts. As soon as the greens were done for the season back in December I started growing sprouts for our winter greens. Since we have been doing a series on coleslaw I developed a recipe that is just great using sprouts. I didn't have any cabbage sprouts so I used broccoli sprouts, lentil sprouts and clover sprouts. Yum!

Here is the recipe with several substitution suggestions and a great sauce...