Wheat Belly holiday recipes I
At the start of their Wheat Belly journey, many people resign themselves to a life without gravy, biscuits, or pumpkin pie, having to make the best of holidays devoid of enjoyment and indulgence. Just eat your dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves!
It’s not true. You can indeed have all your holiday dishes. But we are going to recreate them without wheat, without other grains, without use of gluten-free junk carbohydrates (no cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato starch, or rice flour), with little to no added sugars, and no other problem ingredients. Minus all the undesirable ingredients, in fact, pumpkin pie, biscuits, a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 25, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
Kratom: Mitragynine For Beginners
An organic alternative to methadone?
A disclaimer: Everything I know about kratom, I learned on the Internet and in science journals. I have no real world experience with this opiate-like plant drug, haven’t used it, don’t know very many people who have. Although it comes from a tree indigenous to Thailand and Southeast Asia, and has presumably been around forever, a recent journal article referred to kratom as “an emerging botanical agent with stimulant, analgesic and opioid-like effects.” Which makes it sound like a combination of heroin, amphetamine, and strong weed. In reality, however, it is evidently a fa...
Source: Addiction Inbox - October 25, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
What is Behind the Hype of Autumn? Pumpkin Spice Latte?
So many of us gravitate toward autumn’s pull; we fall under its magic spell — and it’s understandable. We can immerse ourselves in beautiful apple orchards and pumpkin patches during the day, and bake delicious pies at night. We can curl up on the couch with a book when it’s stormy and absorb all that’s cozy, with a capital C. We can walk outside and feel awake, pining over nature’s eye-candy and the red and orange trees that sparkle in the sunlight.
And while we relish these lovely scenes, what’s under the surface?
Why does the fall season generate so much, well, hype?
Autumn signifies mental wanderlu...
Source: World of Psychology - October 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lauren Suval Tags: General Happiness Memory and Perception Psychology autumn Changing Seasons Coffee color Drink fall fall season fickleness Latte Leaves psychology of the seasons Pumpkin Pumpkin Spice Latte Starbucks Source Type: blogs
DIY Energy Snack: 2-Minute Peanut Butter Rice Squares
People are always asking me about snacks ideas for before, during, and after workouts. Oh, and something that needs no refrigeration, takes zero seconds to prepare, is easy to chew, digest, and helps me perform better.
Is that all?
How about this recipe is also:
Vegan
Gluten Free
Delicious
This DIY energy snack is so easy. All you need is rice, peanut butter, and maple syrup. OK, so I am assuming you have leftover rice from another meal. If not, you can actually buy brown rice you can microwave in four minutes. I still take credit for this being super quick and delicious.
Ingredients:
1 cup leftover rice, brown or whit...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - July 22, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking eating healthy exercise food nutrition recipes DIY energy snacks maple syrup peanut butter Source Type: blogs
Carrot Cake Recipe from Green Mountain At Fox Run
For many people trying to reach a healthy natural weight, a retreat can be a great way to step outside of your environment, so you can learn new behaviors without the distraction of everyday life. While there are a number of weight loss-focused retreat options out there (and some are certainly better than others), I’ve personally been to Green Mountain At Fox Run and can tell you it’s different.
First, and foremost, it’s not focused on weight loss — it’s focused on self care. It’s definitely a place worth checking out, if you haven’t already. For more information about their progra...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - June 4, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: diet eating healthy food life recipes weight loss carrot cake green mountain at fox run retreat self care wellness Source Type: blogs
Cold Smoothie Ideas Perfect for Warmer Weather
As a sports nutritionist, ultra marathoner, busy working mom, and health nut… I love smoothies, especially in warmer weather. They’re quick, easy, and cold! Making them yourself is usually the best way to go because you control the ingredients to keep them good-for-you.
Last week I was on WBAL in Baltimore sharing some of my favorite warm weather smoothie recipes. You can watch the whole video here, visit WBAL’s website for the full recipes, or check out some of the highlights below:
“Red Recharger” Recovery Smoothie
For all those athletes out there, whether you run, swim, bike (or do all three&...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - May 15, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: eating healthy exercise food recipes cherries peanuts recovery nutrition silk smoothies soymilk sports nutrition Source Type: blogs
Congestive Heart Failure
Pathophysiology of Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure is:
1) inability of heart to deliver sufficient cardiac output to meet physiologic needs
2) both diastolic and systolic phases are abnormal
3) initially, compensatory mechanisms occur(increased catecholamines, increased atrial natriuretic factor, myocardial hypertrophy), but eventual failure of these ensues causing congestive heart failure
4) result is increase in venous pressure with congestion of liver, spleen, and kidney (“backward failure”) and sodium retention, peripheral edema, and pulmonary sequelae (“forward” failure”...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 20, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Cardiology backward failure enlarged heart foward failure myocardial hypertrophy nutmeg liver peripheral edema Source Type: blogs
What’s in Cigarette Smoke, Anyway?
Stanford University professor Dr. Robert Proctor looked through tons of public documents to find out what tobacco companies put in cigarettes. He found some unusual ingredients, like:
Urea, a compound found in urine
Diammonium phosphate, used to make fertilizer
Levulinic acid, used in cleaning solvents
Ammonia
Formaldehyde
Chocolate (not the Hershey bar kind, the bitter baking kind)
He found secretions from the anal gland of the civet cat as well as the Siberian beaver—ewwwwww!
These are just a few of more than 158 additives some cigarette manufacturers roll up in cigarettes.
What Makes Smoking Cigarettes so Addict...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - February 19, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
Yummy Swedish Meatballs Recipe
(next time I'll take a picture and add the image. Sorry no picture. Just trust me. Cook this and you'll love it!)
OMG! You will love these Swedish Meatballs. Never made these before until today and they are so good. This recipe can be converted to vegetarian by substituting Veggie “meatballs” and cream of mushroom soup instead of beef gravy. Please enjoy and let me know how you liked it!
Swedish Meatballs – YUM!!
Ingredients
8 oz Baby Portobello’s chopped thick
1 pkg Dried Shitake – reconstituted
1 pkg Dried Chanterelles –reconstituted
Mushroom “Broth” from reconstituting the dried mushrooms
Bunch...
Source: Life Learning Today - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Recipes Meatballs Swedish Swedish Meatballs Swedish Meatballs recipe Source Type: blogs
USMLE Questions – Characteristic Disease Findings
The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is designed to emphasize knowledge of clinical scenarios and clinical pearls, even on Step I. Listed below are some commonly encountered disease findings and characteristics.
Feature
Disease
45, X chromosome
Turner’s syndrome
5-HIAA increased in urine
Carcinoid syndrome
Aganglionic rectum
Hirschsrpung’s disease
Apple-core sign on barium enema
Colon cancer
Arched back (opisthotonos)
Tetanus
Argyll-Robertson pupil
Syphilis
Ash leaf on forehead
Tuberous sclerosis
Auer rods
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Austin Flint murmur
Aortic regurgitation...
Source: Inside Surgery - January 18, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Surgpedia USMLE diseases findings VMA water hammer pulse Source Type: blogs
In the two days I've had off since the holidays. . .
. . .I've gotten into an Ancient Cookbook Frenzy.One thing I can say for people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: they had one hell of a collective sweet tooth. Make a pie of artichoke bottoms? Strew it with sugar before you serve it to table. Boil a calve's chaldron (which I just found out is entrails) and spice it with mace and nutmeg and cinnamon? Sprinkle a little sugar over that mofo before you serve it up in a pasty. Roast a rooster? Sugar. Making a nice (meaning exacting) recipe for biskit? Sugar. Sheep's feet? Sugar.When a recipe starts with "Take a pound of sugar, seirced, and lay it onto four pounds of ...
Source: Head Nurse - January 5, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update — 12-31-2012
A brief interview with an emergency physician who is also a health care attorney … defense only. On the right track about the Affordable Care Act, though – it’s all about access, not insurance.
How often have you heard this claim before: Alcohol saved my life! For a man from the UK, the claim was apparently true.
The CDC is warning that this year’s flu season is early and could be “severe.” We already got that picture. Vaccinations probably will help, so get them while you can. Washing your hands and avoiding sick people will definitely help. Antibiotics won’t help, so stop asking for a ZeePack for your c...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - December 31, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
