Power Food this week is Carrots! The carrot is a root vegetable with the most commonly eaten part being the taproot.They are usually orange in color although purple, red, white, and yellow varieties also exist. The vegetable is often pulped, mashed, boiled, puréed, grated, fried,...
Power Food this week is Grapes! Grapes can be consumed raw, in the form of sweet and salty salads and juices. Depending on the variety, grapes can be purple, red, black, pink, yellow or green. The green-colored variety is often referred to as white grapes....
The Power Food this week is Pears! Pears can be eaten fresh, baked, and cooked in a variety of meals. They are considered by some to be hypoallergenic because a pear allergy is rare. For babies, Pears are often recommended for weaning them towards solid foods because...
This week’s Power Food is Corn! Corn can be eaten fresh, cooked, and popped. An ear or cob of corn is actually part of the flower and an individual kernel is a seed. Corn will always have an even number of rows on each cob. As well...
The Power Food this week is Watermelon! The watermelon can be classed as both a fruit and a vegetable. They can be a fruit because it grows from a seed, has a sweet refreshing flavor, and is loosely considered a type of melon. It is a...
This week’s power food is green bell pepper! Aside from the more common green color, bell peppers also come in red, orange, yellow, white and purple. Just about every bell pepper starts out green, and through most of the growth process, it remains largely green. However,...
Hello Rory (Owner, Amazing Athletes North Shore/Suburbs Chicago, IL), I wanted to pass along a neat story about our son yesterday. As we were driving through our neighborhood yesterday, he saw several of his friends playing street hockey. He got out of the car and handed...
This week’s Power Food is Pineapples! Pineapples are eaten fresh, juiced, cooked, and preserved and their leaves are even used for insulation in your homes. Believe it or not, Pineapples are a composed of many berries whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core. Individual pineapple...
Robert Jackson, Amazing Athletes Potomac Coast, VA Robert was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and athletics have always played a pivotal role in his life. Throughout his formative years, he excelled in football, baseball, track, and basketball. After graduating high school, he decided joined the United...
Now that summer is here, it's only going to get hotter. No other fruit pairs with summer like Lemons! Lemons are believed to be a hybrid between a sour orange and a citron. The lemon is an evergreen tree, it blooms a white flower and produces...