{"id":1180,"date":"2017-04-25T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:41:43","slug":"artichokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/artichokes\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do with Artichokes &#8211; Real Food Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ebd-block \" data-type=\"text\">\n<p>Artichokes bring back child hood memories for me as I remember loving to &#8220;pick&#8221; the leaves of the artichoke and get to dip them in melted butter. Now, since I grew up in the &#8220;scared of fat&#8221; and &#8220;fat free&#8221; era, butter was not a part of my every day life. So that made eating artichokes even more exciting for me, because I got to dip something in BUTTER!! Fast forward over 20 years, and research now shows us that it&#8217;s not fat that&#8217;s the big evil villain for our health, but sugar. And especially the combination of high sugar and high fat together. But enough about that, and let&#8217;s talk more about artichokes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Artichokes are very high in antioxidants and they have a really high ORAC value, meaning they have a powerful ability to fight oxidative stress in the body. ORAC stands for &#8220;oxygen radical absorption capacity&#8221;, which tests the power of a plant to absorb and eliminate free radicals in the body. Artichokes contain a lot of good fiber and support good gut health. The fiber in artichokes also helps stabilize blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to make with artichokes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artichokes bring back child hood memories for me as I remember loving to &#8220;pick&#8221; the leaves of the artichoke and get to dip them in melted butter. Now, since I grew up in the &#8220;scared of fat&#8221; and &#8220;fat free&#8221; era, butter was not a part of my every day life. So that made eating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[300],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}