December 2005:
Number 500
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A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.758.3849. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Dec. 2 All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Nick Young, photographer; Layout by Publications
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Health and Fitness -- Holiday foods have their value
This holiday season, eat that pecan pie without guilt.
Pecan pie – and other holiday delicacies – may not shrink your waistline, but they do have some nutritional value.
For example, many holiday culinary classics are ripe with antioxidants. Antioxidants are chemical compounds that bind to free oxygen radicals, preventing them from harming healthy cells.
A 2004 study by the National Cancer Institute supported the claim that antioxidants like vitamins A, E and C help prevent cancer. According to Prevention magazine, antioxidants also help prevent radicals from scarring arteries and accelerating aging. Holiday food options that are ripe with antioxidants include honey, bread stuffing, canned corn and cranberries.
Pecan pie, according to Prevention, has 10 percent of the daily allowance of copper.
Eggnog carries lutein and zeaxanthin, found in egg yolks, which help prevent blindness. Homemade bread stuffing has 25 percent of the daily allowance of thiamin and chocolate truffles have flavonoids – also found in red wine – which may stop strokes and heart attacks by aiding in breaking down blood clots.
Sometimes one must look at the glass of eggnog as half full and look on the bright side of holiday foods.
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