Health Benefits of Turkey

Your Thanksgiving feast may not be entirely guilt-free, but at least you can relax about eating turkey

, one of the healthier meats. After you read about how wonderfully healthy turkey is, check out turkey history and trivia, as well as ideas for using those Thanksgiving leftovers.
Turkey Health Benefits

• It’s full of protein: A 3-ounce serving of white meat turkey without the skin has 25 grams of protein.
• It’s low in fat: A 3-ounce serving of white meat turkey without the skin has only 3 grams of fat (1 gram saturated fat). Choose white meat since dark meat is a source of more saturated fat. Also, avoid the skin to keep turkey as low-fat as you can.
• It’s a great source of arginine, which is believed to relax and open arteries.

Turkey Facts

• Ben Franklin suggested that the turkey should be the official US bird. He said it was much more respectable than the eagle.
• The average Thanksgiving turkey is 15 pounds (and 70% white meat).
• Male turkeys gobble, while hens click.
• Around 50% of the US eats turkey once per week.
• Butterball was the top US turkey processor in 2008.
• Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin ate roasted turkey and all the trimmings as their first meal on the moon.
• Turkeys have 3,500 feathers when mature.
• President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.

Turkey Recipes (for leftovers)

• Turkey Tortilla Soup or White Turkey Chili, both from The National Turkey Federation
• Turkey and Spinach Soup from The Denim Diet
• Black Friday Pie from Joyful Kitchen/allrecipes.com (Sure, it sounds gross, but cooks are giving it rave reviews.)

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original article @ Blisstree>>

Health Benefits of Turkey