Avocado Stuffed with Spicy Salsa
Avocados fit perfectly into a Wheat Belly grain-free lifestyle. Here’s a way to have a delicious and filling avocado for lunch, stuffed with a salsa of tomato, onion, and fresh cilantro. To cart to the office, transport both a whole avocado and some of the pre-made salsa in an airtight container; halve and pit the avocado and spoon salsa over the avocado half just before eating.
For easy variations, add tuna, crab, or chopped baked chicken to the salsa; add chili powder; add c...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
Skinny Fat Tuesday Recipe: Three-Melon Gazpacho Soup
Mardi Gras has already been in full-swing for a bit (cue the world shortage of tacky bead necklaces), but the big day, Fat Tuesday, is finally here, and like any good NOLA fan, we're looking to celebrate with a seriously legit local dish. Cajun and creole food characterizes the area -- think lots of seafood, Cajun spices like cayenne pepper and classic dishes like gumbo. Obviously, we wanted in on the action, so we reached out to Juan Carlos Gonzalez, executive chef at NOLA's SoBou restaurant, for a dish that was heavy on New Orleans's tradition, light on the cals. And the Three-Melon Gazpacho he hooked us up with? Well we...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - March 4, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Recipes diet food holiday nutrition Source Type: blogs
Finally a homemade mayonnaise worth writing about! MCT mayo!
I have a love-hate relationship with homemade mayonnaise. I have known about the horrors of conventional mayo, (rancid soybean oil anyone?), not to mention the sugar and poor quality eggs used to make it. I knew I could do better than Hellman's. Until I couldn't do better. I love my Hellman's, (cue 'bring out the Hellman's and bring out the best!), and each time I made homemade mayo it just tasted bad in comparison. Smart me knew that what I had made was greatly superior to the store bought stuff, but man, it was not palatable. Mayo debacle after mayo debacle came in rapid succession. All olive oil? too bitter....
Source: the beautiful diabetic - February 19, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Kathryn Source Type: blogs
Sore Throat Remedy – A Natural Cure
I woke up with a bad sore throat yesterday morning. My doctor couldn’t fit me in yesterday. (I wanted to find out if it was strep) so I searched for a natural remedy. I found several different ideas which I combined into one “recipe.” Lo and behold it worked like a charm. My sore throat was gone by the end of the day. Here’s what I did:
Recipe: Natural Sore Throat Cure
Combine these 5 ingredients in blender. (Of course my recommendation is a Vitamix. Find out why I recommend the Vitamix over all other blenders.)
Once combined, gargle and drink this in small amounts over the course of the day...
Source: Life Learning Today - January 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living cure remedy sore throat sore throat cure sore throat remedy strep throat Source Type: blogs
Meatless Monday Recipe: Roasted Carrot & Turmeric Soup
Happy Meatless Monday!
I can’t believe how quickly December (and this year!) have flown by! I wanted to end this incredible year by sharing with you one of my favorite insanely nutritious and delicious vegan soup recipes: Roasted Carrot & Turmeric Soup. I love cozying up in the winter with a huge bowl of nourishing soup or stew and basking in it’s warmth, especially as the day’s continue to shorten. This vibrant soup is loaded with warming and healing spices that will make even the darkest nights glow and excite everyone at your table. Who wouldn’t love a golden orange soup with a good piece of ...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - December 30, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking eating healthy food nutrition recipes carrot healthy recipe meatless monday soup spices stew turmeric vegan vegetarian Source Type: blogs
The only thing a cleanse truly cleans is your wallet
From time to time I get asked about cleanses. What is typically meant by a “cleanse” is only drinking a juice concoction for several days. Some cleanses add things like cider vinegar, cayenne pepper, or other supposedly “healthy” substances.
The most common reasons to “cleanse” that I hear from people who drink these things include:
Lose weight
Feel better
Remove “toxins”
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 30, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Meds Medications Primary care Source Type: blogs
A Reminder of Why Diets Don't Work
Although many disregulated eaters
know that diets don’t work long-term, when they get frustrated that “normal”
eating isn’t producing the weight loss they desire, they consider—and sometimes
return to—dieting. So for those of you teeter-tottering on the brink, here’s
more proof that restricting calories will hurt, not help, you.
In “Why crash diets call for some
caution” (Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
3/26/14) Gabriella Boston gives prime time to several experts on the subject. Nutritionist
Rebecca Mohning advises that “If you go on, say a 900-calorie-a-day diet, you
will have a hard time gettin...
Source: Normal Eating - May 27, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
Green Soup Variations from Readers Digest & Eating Well
Last month I read the article “The Soup That Changed My Life” featured in Readers Digest. The article sang the praises of this delicious and healthy soup that had a side benefit – weight loss. The article originally came from Eating Well. In my post I’m going to give you the basic recipe plus a few variations that I found to be yummy! Break out your Vitamix blender and let get ready to get healthy and skinny!
Green Soup Basic Recipe
Makes 8 Servings
Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil, plus more for garnish
2 onions, Chopped (I use Vidalia or sweet Spanish)
1 tsp salt, divided
1/4 cup arborio rice (r...
Source: Life Learning Today - May 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Green Living Healthy Living How To Recipes broccoli green soup Paleo readers digest spinach variations vegan vegetarian soup Source Type: blogs
(Another one of) Jo's Annual Gardening Post(s)
It's been a good-news, bad-news kind of almost-month.The good news is that we're very busy at Sunnydale (Healthcare for the Hellmouth). The bad news is that we're so short-staffed in every department except the one that does, like, colonoscopies and stuff that I've had five-patient days lately. As in, start with two, discharge those, get three.The good news is that The Boy is moving down here in a couple of weeks, and that he has a fabulous new job that will keep me in beer to the point that I'll need to have my own floating scooter to get around the house. The bad news is that he's got shingles.Yes, shingles. I diagnosed ...
Source: Head Nurse - April 11, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
Are Plastic Products Safe? Educational Webinar Reviews The Science
Concerns about plastic safety have been growing over the years, and the media has stepped up its efforts to expose potential dangers associated with plastic compounds such as bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates. The problem is – there is very little scientific evidence linking plastic to human harm, and no credible evidence that our current typical exposures to BPA poses any health risks at all (so say the health agencies of the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Japan). But that’s not a very exciting story, is it?
Instead, what we often hear in the news is that microwaving our plastic containers or dr...
Source: Better Health - March 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Health Tips Research Baby Bottles Biomonitoring BPA BPA-Free Charles McKay Emergency Medicine Phthalates Plastic Products Safe Levels Toxicology toxins Urine Urine Tests Source Type: blogs
PLoSOne paper: Parallel polymorphisms for pepper population phylogenetics, from #UCDavis, not #Pepperspray
Interesting new paper from colleagues at UC Davis: PLOS ONE: Characterization of Capsicum annuum Genetic Diversity and Population Structure Based on Parallel Polymorphism Discovery with a 30K Unigene Pepper GeneChip.
Press release is here: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10497
Good to see something on peppers from UC Davis not about spraying.
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Source: The Tree of Life - February 14, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
