December's Newsletter - A Healthy Recipe for Christmas Dinner

I'm a huge proponent of finding healthier alternatives to standard recipes, especially during the holidays. Potatoes are one of the "standards" at Christmas dinner, whether mashed, baked, scalloped, or sweet. I want to encourage you to try sweet potatoes with your Christmas dinner this year.

Sweet potatoes help to reduce cravings for sugar because they elevate blood sugar gently rather than with the jolt delivered by simple refined carbohydrates, so there's no energy crash after you eat them. Much higher in nutrients than white potatoes and especially rich in vitamin A, sweet potatoes are a better and more healthy option. They are healing to the stomach, spleen, pancreas, and reproductive organs, and they help to remove toxins form the body.

For a healthier alternative to your typical potato dish on Christmas, or the typical brown sugar and butter, try this sweet potato recipe:

Sweet Potatoes with Lime and Cilantro

Ingredients:
- 4 sweet potatoes (organic if possible)
- 1/2 bunch of fresh cilantro
- 2-3 limes

Directions:
1. Wash the sweet potatoes and bake them whole, in their skins, at 375 degrees until tender, about 40 minutes
2. Wash and chop cilantro leaves
3. When sweet potatoes are done, slit open the skin and place on a serving plate.
4. Season with salt, then squeeze fresh lime juice all over, and shower with cilantro leaves.

Holy Yoga

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11

Take some time to remember the reason for the season at Holy Yoga this week. Join us Tuesday at 9am and Thursday at 7:15pm as we read through the birth of Jesus. These will be the last two classes before the new year.

We will have no class the week of Christmas and the week of New Years. Classes will resume on January 7th. For more info about Holy Yoga in Long Beach, click here.

Wishing you all Health, Hope, & Happiness
Abby