10 Tips to Stay Healthy Over Christmas and a Really Easy Vegan Cheese!
You can still indulge over Christmas and the New Year without completely ruining your healthy eating regime or piling on as many pounds as you might usually. Just making a few small adjustments can make a huge difference to your overall health and, if you’re watching your weight, to your waistline.
1. Try an alternative roast potato. Yes, traditional crispy roast potatoes laden with sizzling oil are a delicious wonder. But how about roasting your potatoes in a flavoursome vegetable stock instead? It really works! You will still get crisp potatoes with fluffy centres only this time they’ll also be infused with ...
Source: Nursing Comments - March 16, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: M1gu3l Tags: Food Source Type: blogs
What Spirits Are Safe?
Spirits are a mixed bag, but you are likely to find at least several that you can enjoy without provoking health problems. Beware of flavored varieties of vodka or rum, as they are loaded with sugar and/or high-fructose corn syrup. In general, simple unflavored spirits are safest.
Here’s a short list to help you navigate through your holiday cocktail parties and toasts without exposing yourself to the harmful effects of grains.
Vodkas brewed from nongrain sources, including Chopin (potatoes; outside of North America you will have to ask or examine the bottle for the source as there are also wheat and rye vodkas from ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 7, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Alcoholic beverages Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar Dr. Davis gluten-free grain-free grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Quick and Dirty #3
In view of the many new readers on the Wheat Belly Blog, many of whom have not yet had an opportunity to read the book but are eager to get started, here is the most recently updated Wheat Belly Quick & Dirty summary. It summarizes the essential dietary strategies of the Wheat Belly approach to 1) avoid all products made from high-yield, semi-dwarf wheat that wreak health destruction along with all other grains, and 2) create a diet that is otherwise healthy and appropriate for all members of the family. In particular, I’ve tried to clarify some items that were unclear in previous versions.
This is the lifestyle ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune blood sugar bowel flora cholesterol Dr. Davis Gliadin gluten gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain low-carb Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: September 22, 2017
I’m still feeling the glow from Sounds True’s enlightening online Self-Acceptance summit. In particular, I’ve been reflecting on bestselling author Anne Lamott’s words. She said we save the best China, our favorite cup and ornate glassware for our guests. But do we instill that same level of kindness and care to ourselves?
We may grab an energy bar or frozen drink to erase hunger and thirst, but devote time to lay out the sliced up tomatoes, freshly washed grapes and wedges of cheese for loved ones.
We go out of our way to make others happy, but often neglect ourselves. It’s no wonder we end ...
Source: World of Psychology - September 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Source Type: blogs
On memory, perfection and knitting
In her post today Effy talks about failure and by implication imperfection. Which made me think about something Jung said:"If a woman strives for perfection she forgets the complementary role of completeness, which, though imperfect by itself, forms the necessary counterpart to perfection. For, just as completeness is always imperfect, so perfection is always incomplete, and therefore a final state which is hopelessly sterile...the imperfectum carries within it the seeds of its own improvement. Perfectionism always ends in a blind alley, while completeness by itself lacks selective values." ~C.G.Jung,and something I wrot...
Source: Jung At Heart - September 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs
Your brain on chocolate
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Did you know that places where chocolate consumption is highest have the most Nobel Prize recipients? It’s true, at least according to a 2012 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Of course, that could be a coincidence. But is it possible that intelligence or other measures of high brain function are actually improved by the consumption of chocolate? A new review summarizes the evidence and concludes with a resounding “maybe.”
Keeping your brain healthy
When it comes to preserving and improving brain function, let’s face it: we need all the help we can get. With ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Healthy Eating Memory Source Type: blogs
What Experts in Law and Medicine Have to Say About the Cost of Drugs
By ANDY ORAM
Pharmaceutical drug costs impinge heavily on consumers’ consciousness, often on a monthly basis, and have become such a stress on the public that they came up repeatedly among both major parties during the U.S. presidential campaign–and remain a bipartisan rallying cry. A good deal of the recent conference named Health Law Year in P/Review, at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, covered issues with a bearing on drug costs. It’s interesting to take the academic expertise from that conference–and combine it with a bit of commo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Andy Oram Drug Pricing Pharma Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 174
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 173.
Clue: I hope you have built up an appetite for our FFFFs, this weeks answers are all food related.
Question 1
How many calories are consumed when licking a stamp?
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1/10th of a Calorie.
A regular stamp has 5.9 calories but commemorative stamps hold a whopping 14.5 calories from t...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 27, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five candy floss dentist ketchup poison apple Stamps tomato turmeric william morrison wound healing Source Type: blogs
What Could CRISPR Do Tomorrow?
CRISPR is the newest, most efficient and most accurate method to edit a cell’s genome. We have to understand it and prepare for the medical revolution it brings upon us, so here I summarized everything to know about this genome editing method from DNA-scissors to currently unimaginable possibilities, such as having an army of gene-edited soldiers. Here, let me show you the myriad of wonderful opportunities as well as the frightening ethical challenges what the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method could bring into healthcare in the future.
This is the third part of our article series about the amazing story of CRISPR. ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 20, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Genomics artificial intelligence CRISPR DNA future GC1 genes genetics Genome genome editing Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fail to Scale: Why Great Ideas In Healthcare Don ’ t Thrive Everywhere
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and LAWTON BURNS
In the world of fine wine, it is well known that some types of wine grapes grow only in very specific climates and ecologies. The concept borrowed from the French is “terroir” (ter-WAHR). Terroir explains why the finest champagne grapes grow only in a small district in northeastern France, characterized by rolling hills and a chalky limestone subsoil that provides a steady level of moisture and imparts a mineral note to the wine’s flavor.
Health policy advocates have sought for generations to propagate promising forms of health care organization across the country. Yet one finds rep...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fail To Scale: Why Great Ideas In Health Care Don ’t Thrive Everywhere
In the world of fine wine, it is well known that some types of wine grapes grow only in very specific climates and ecologies. The concept borrowed from the French is “terroir” (ter-WAHR). Terroir explains why the finest champagne grapes grow only in a small district in northeastern France, characterized by rolling hills and a chalky limestone subsoil that provides a steady level of moisture and imparts a mineral note to the wine’s flavor.
Health policy advocates have sought for generations to propagate promising forms of health care organization across the country. Yet one finds repeatedly that some forms of organiza...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeff Goldsmith and Lawton Burns Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy Independent Practice Association Medicare fraud States Source Type: blogs
Mix & Match Detox Plan for Cleansing, Health, and Weight Loss
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Looking for simple guide to detox for one week or more? Well here it is. It’s pretty simple. Prepare some of the items ahead of time to make it easy to put your meals together quickly, such as the dressings, beans, quinoa, etc. You can read the plan below and also download the pdf version for easy printout. Click here to download the plan as a PDF file >>> 1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
Key Ideas
Start day by cleaning and charging your mind.
Set your intention for the day.
Use positive affirmations all day long for the things you seek to be, do, and feel.
L...
Source: Life Learning Today - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living How To cleanse detox weightloss Source Type: blogs
Mix & Match Detox Plan for Cleansing, Health, and Weight Loss
DominikSchraudolf / Pixabay
Looking for simple guide to detox for one week or more? Well here it is. It’s pretty simple. Prepare some of the items ahead of time to make it easy to put your meals together quickly, such as the dressings, beans, quinoa, etc. You can read the plan below and also download the pdf version for easy printout. Click here to download the plan as a PDF file >>> 1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
Key Ideas
Start day by cleaning and charging your mind.
Set your intention for the day.
Use positive affirmations all day long for the things you seek to be, do, and feel.
...
Source: Life Learning Today - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living How To cleanse detox weightloss Source Type: blogs
