Ketogenic Cooking by Maria Emmerich–and a recipe!
Maria Emmerich, the prolific nutritionist of Maria Mind Body Health, has released a wonderful new cookbook: Ketogenic Cooking: Time-saving paleo recipes and meal plans to improve your health and help you lose weight.
Although Maria calls it a “paleo” cookbook, she does not fall into the common paleo traps such as overuse of honey or maple syrup. So the recipes Maria provides are perfectly compatible with the Wheat Belly lifestyle.
Readers will find some very useful new ideas here, including how to create your own meat rubs and seasoned salts; an excellent guide to re-stocking your kitchen; quick, limited ingr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 23, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cookbook emmerich gluten grains ketogenic low-carb maria paleo Source Type: blogs
Garlic Extract Cuts Soft Plaque In Arteries
Got high blood pressure and obesity? Garlic might cut your risk of a heart attack. LOS ANGELES - The supplement Aged Garlic Extract can reverse the buildup of deadly plaque in arteries and help prevent the progression of heart disease, according to a new study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Nutrition. The research, conducted at LA BioMed, found a reduction in the amount of low-attenuation plaque, or "soft plaque," in the arteries of patients with metabolic syndrome who took Aged Garlic Extract. Metabolic syndrome is characterized by obesity, hypertension and other cardiac risk factors. The research was funded ...
Source: FuturePundit - January 22, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs
Keto rice bowl with slow roasted pork belly
I'm writing this post as I'm inhaling said rice bowl. Apparently it's good enough to inspire me to dust off the old blog and forever document it's amazingness on the interwebs. Plus I have an appointment with my Endo in 1 month and I need to be super strict Keto to get my A1c down to a decent number. Goals!! Doing Keto right requires planning. You have to hit your macros if you want stellar results. Usually I'm a lazy ass ketoer , but I'm inspired by the freshness of 2016 to perhaps not be so lazy. We'll see. But this week I have planned out all my meals and one of them is this rice bowl. I love Asian inspired flavors...
Source: the beautiful diabetic - January 2, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kathryn Source Type: blogs
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Spinach, Mushrooms and Roasted Red Peppers
Here is a way to have a chicken dish that is nutritionally complete, including plenty of veggies. You might therefore find that just 1 of these stuffed chicken breasts is sufficient as a meal by itself. You can, of course, always add a side dish or salad to suit bigger appetites.
This recipe is from Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, on sale November 10th. Take advantage of our preorder specials!
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (approximately 2 pounds)
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
2 gloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, chopped
4 ounces portabello mushrooms, sliced
1/2 cup roasted red peppers
4 cups fresh sp...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 24, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Is Eating Pasta Making You Fat?
I confess that one of my favorite comfort foods is Pasta. It doesn't matter whether it is spaghetti, ziti, macaroni, lasagna, or any other size shape or color, I love them all.Your comfort food may be different, but generally, comfort foods seem to be the ones that put on the most weight. Now that the weather is getting cold outside, this is even more of a problem for me. It seems that I'm drawn away from the salads of warm weather days to the heavier carbohydrate rich foods, the very foods that put more weight on me than any other food if I am not active enough to burn the carbs off.There are tools to help those of us who...
Source: Happy Nutritionist's Nuggets - October 7, 2015 Category: Nutrition Tags: *Recipes *Weight Loss *Weight Management Carbohydrates Menu Planning Portion Control Source Type: blogs
Spanish-style Lentil Soup
As part of the effort to give you more ways to include more galacto-oligosaccharide (GOS) fibers to cultivate bowel health, here is a recipe for lentil soup. This variation has a zingy Spanish flavor from poblano peppers and chorizo sausage.
Despite the carbohydrate content of the lentils, the net carbs per serving of this soup remains below 10 grams, perfectly safe for the Wheat Belly lifestyle. The yield may actually be a bit better than 8 servings, as I found this soup exceptionally filling.
Makes 8 servings
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 poblano peppers, seeded a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes bowel flora galacto-oligosaccharide fiber gluten grains low-carb prebiotic fiber resistant starch wheat Source Type: blogs
2 hummus-based salad dressings for GOS fibers
We’ve previously discussed how adding a class of prebiotic fibers called galacto-oligosaccharides, or GOS, adds greater power to your campaign to restore healthy bowel flora. Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, used to make hummus are a useful source of GOS fibers. Although moderately rich in carbohydrates, using hummus in modest amounts as a condiment, such as the base for these salad dressings, keeps you well below our safe cutoff. Each tablespoon of dressing yields approximately 1.5 grams net carbs, while adding about the same quantity in GOS fibers.
So here are two simple recipes for interesting hummus-based...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 21, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora chickepeas galacto-oligosaccharides gluten grains hummus prebiotic fibers Source Type: blogs
Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Ham Skillet
Featured recipe from Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox
I’m a big fan of breakfast for dinner (though the opposite concept—dinner for breakfast—works equally well in this lifestyle.) After all, we have turned the traditional notion of a grain-based breakfast inside-out, breaking all the former “rules” of what is for breakfast and what is for dinner.
I snuck a sweet potato into this recipe for a bit of beta-carotene and flavor; it adds only 5 grams net carbs per serving. The eggs are optional in this recipe, in case you don’t want to take the breakfast-for-dinner idea all the way through.
Make...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 18, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Ginger Chicken Stir Fry Over Shirataki Noodles for prebiotic fibers
The Wheat Belly Cookbook introduced several recipes that used non-grain shirataki noodles. While shirataki noodles are best suited to be used in Asian dishes, you can also use them in Italian or other dishes. Here, I stick with an Asian style.
Interestingly, shirataki noodles are rich in the fiber, glucomannan (a polymer of glucose and mannose), sourced from the root of the konjac plant. Several studies have demonstrated that glucomannan exerts prebiotic fiber effects, such as reduction in blood sugar, apoprotein B (a superior test compared to LDL cholesterol, but tracking roughly the same thing), and improved bowel heal...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 16, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora glucomannan gluten grains konjac prebiotic fiber resistant starch stir fry Source Type: blogs
Chicken Curry with Lentils (for GOS prebiotics)
In line with our discussions about cultivating healthy bowel flora with prebiotic fibers, we have been contemplating whether enriching the lifestyle with the galacto-oligosaccharide, or GOS, variety of fibers in particular is a healthy practice. If you choose to do so, you could purchase (exceptionally expensive) products available commercially, or you could simply add small servings (1/4 to 1/2 cup) of GOS-rich foods such as lentils or chickpeas/hummus.
Here is a recipe taken from the original Wheat Belly Cookbook but tweaked to include lentils. The original recipe was ultra low-carb with 3 grams net carbs per serving (5...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora gluten grains lentils microbiota prebiotics resistant starch Source Type: blogs
Da First Day
Being the not so energetic guy, a bit nauseous, really sleepy and just plain old lazy here you have a recap by my charming, loving and most generous wife, Lu.DMSO - this is the chemical which Scott's stems cells were preserved in for the last 2 years....He, of course, cannot smell it and they put peppermint oil all around the room in little bowls to override the odor. Some say the smell resembles garlic...well, I love the smell of garlic, but not THIS garlic!! I've brought in a plug in diffuser and have Thieves essential oil in it see if that helps..."In cryobiology DMSO has been used as a ...
Source: Laughing Plasma Cells - July 4, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
Cancer is Not a Death Sentence
Life is Good!
If you or a loved one has just gotten a cancer diagnosis, I want to reach out to you with this article to let you know you don’t have to be afraid. Of course you will be in the beginning. We are conditioned to fear cancer. But, I want you to know that you have enormous hope for a high quality, healthy, even long, life in your future if you want that and are willing to listen to the message from your body and take action to heal it.
Let’s Face the Fear Factor First
I realize that having “death” in the title is a little scary, but it’s true: Cancer is not your death sentence. Being born is. At birth...
Source: Life Learning Today - May 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Green Living Happy Healthy Living How To Solving Problems Spiritual alternative cancer cures alternative cancer healing Believe faith fear fear of cancer heal yourself healing cancer healing power love yourself Source Type: blogs
5 Reasons to Eat This Fruit You Probably Never Tried
Disclosure: I attended a “sneak peak” event for Zespri SunGold kiwifruit at Ketchum’s D.C. offices on May 19, 2015. I work with Zespri on media. I was not compensated to write this blog.
Chances are you have never had a SunGold Kiwifruit from New Zealand. It is a new variety of kiwifruit with a tropical flavor and beautiful yellow color.
Some Things Are Worth Waiting For
It took Zespri 10 years to create this unique cultivar. SunGold is finally ready for the U.S. (ask for it in stores if you don’t see it by June!)
Top 5 Reasons You Will Love Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit
1. VITAMIN C!!! SunGold kiwifru...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - May 21, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: eating healthy food fruits nutrition zespri sungold kiwifruit Source Type: blogs
Haitian Griot Served with Cuban Black Beans & Rice and Marinated Cucumber Salad
If I haven’t blogged much in the way of new recipes lately, it’s because not much of what we’ve been trying lately has been blog worthy. Oh, of course, it’s been edible. Maybe even tasty. But not worth sharing with the world.
But this dinner? It’s worth shouting about.
In fact, I’ll go on record and say it’s one of the best meals we’ve ever made. And worth every minute of preparation, which is not a lot of time at the stove, but does include an overnight marinade and a couple of hours braising. So save it for a weekend dinner when you can give it the time it deserves to sa...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - March 24, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Salads Vegetarian Cuban black beans & rice Cucumber Salad Haitian Griot Melissa Clarke Source Type: blogs
Taco Seasoning Mix
The simplest things containing some wheat or grain component can set off a barrage of re-exposure symptoms in those of us who have been wheat- and grain-free. A bit of wheat flour or cornmeal can, for example, result in a day’s worth of bloating and diarrhea, joint pain for days or weeks, and appetite stimulation for several days. If you have or had an autoimmune or neurological condition that receded with wheat/grain elimination, the symptoms of your condition can return and persist for weeks to months. For these reasons, once wheat- and grain-free, your best policy is to stay wheat- and grain-free.
Much of the Whe...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 19, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes gluten seasoning wheat Source Type: blogs
