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Top 10 Foods for Health

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  Top 10 Foods for Health   1 . Water Drink 8 to 12 cups of water daily. 2 . Dark Green Vegetables Eat dark green vegetables at least three to four times a week. Good options include broccoli, peppers, brussel sprouts and leafy greens like kale and spinach. 3 . Whole Grains Eat whole grains sat least two or three times daily. Look for whole wheat flour, rye, oatmeal, barley, amaranth, quinoa or a multigrain. A good source of fiber has 3 to 4 grams of fiber per serving. A great source has 5 or more grams of fiber per serving. 4 . Beans and Lentils Try to eat a bean-based meal at least once a week. Try to add legumes, including beans and lentils, to soups, stews, casseroles, salads and dips or eat them plain. 5 . Fish Try to eat two to three serving of fish a week. A serving consists of 3 to 4 ounces of cooked fish. Good choices are salmon, trout, herring, bluefish, sardines and tuna. 6 . Berries Include two to four servings of fruit in your diet each day. Try to eat berries such as rasp

Paying through the nose and pushing the boat out (Money Idioms, Part 1)

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Paying through the nose and pushing the boat out (Money Idioms, Part 1)         On January 25, 2023   By Kate Woodford  Remains/iStock/Getty Images Plus by Kate Woodford Today, in the latest of my money-themed posts, I’m looking at money idioms, by which I mean idioms that say something about money (and not idioms about other subjects that feature the words ‘penny’, ‘money’, ‘coin’ etc.). There are lots of money idioms so this is Part 1 and we’ll publish Part 2 in a couple of weeks. The idioms in today’s post are all about lots of money. I’ll start with idioms that relate to spending lots of money. If you spend a great deal on a particular project or activity, you spare no expense on it, and, in UK English, if you spend a lot of money on a celebration in order to make it special, you may be said to push the boat out. He’d clearly spared no expense providing hospitality for the occasion. They’d really pushed the boat out for the twins’ eighteenth birthdays. As you might imagine, some