HEALTHY RECIPE: VEGAN PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES INGREDIENTS: • 1 cup creamy natural peanut butter • 1/2 cup maple syrup, or honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla • 1 cup almond flour • flaked sea salt for topping, if desired
DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add peanut butter, maple syrup and vanilla into a mixing bowl. Once combined, add in almond flour and stir until incorporated. Use a medium cookie scoop to scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet. Alternatively, you can scoop dough with a spoon and roll it into a ball. Flatten each dough ball with a fork, making a crisscross pattern and sprinkle a little flaked sea salt on top of each cookie, if using. Bake in a preheated oven for about 12 minutes or until cookies begin to brown. Remove from oven, allow cookies to cool on a wire rack and enjoy.
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STAY FIT TO LOWER YOUR RISK Adults who participated in moderate or high amounts of physical activity had significantly better outcomes after contracting COVID-19 than those with low activity levels, even if they had chronic medical conditions such as cancer, high blood pressure, COPD, asthma, diabetes, heart failure, and rheumatoid arthritis. What is considered moderate physical activity? The study defined it as people who participated in 60+ minutes of physical activity every week. That’s just under 9 minutes a day! High physical activity level was 150+ minutes every week, or 22+ minutes a day. For the study, exercise was considered moderate exertion level, which is exercise that makes you breathe heavier, but you can still hold a conversation. Most people will develop a slight sweat after 10 minutes of moderate exertion exercise. This level will be different for each person, depending on their fitness level. So if you are looking for a small, but attainable goal to overall improve your health and may help reduce risk of severe COVID, try 9 minutes of an activity that makes you slightly out of breath, every day. Steenkamp, L. et al (2021). Small steps, strong shield: directly measured, moderate physical activity in 65 361 adults is associated with significant protective effects from severe COVID-19 outcomes. British Journal of Sports Medicine. http:// dx. doi.org/ 10. 1136/ bjsports- 2021-105159).
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