Mood-Lifting Recipes

Main Dishes

Sauteed Pork and Pear Salad The ingredients in this dish can also help fight cancer and heart disease.

Fried Tofu and Watercress Salad Tofu with a crispy coating tops this ginger-spiked, medley-of-greens salad, creating a nutritional powerhouse that you can put together in half an hour.

Kale, Lentil, and Chicken Soup Grandma was right: this home-style soup is packed with flavor and with nutrients to help boost health.

Lamb and Garbanzo Bean Curry This dish will fortify you with homey flavors and a wealth of nutrients to ward off ills.

Blackened Snapper with Roasted Potatoes This healthful version of a Southern favorite is served alongside tiny new potatoes, carrots, and onions roasted in olive oil and zippy hot pepper sauce.

Chicken Paella The health benefits of this easy one-dish meal include boosting immunity, reducing the pain of arthritis, and preventing cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Chicken with Broccoli and Garlic Small but mightly, garlic cloves fight cancer, arthritis, and heart disease. Broccoli adds even more cancer- and heart disease-fighting power.

Spinach-Feta Bake Research suggests that frequent eating of spinach protects against age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in those over 65.