5 Easy Breakfast Bowls That Are Healthier Than Cereal
There’s no speedier morning routine than pouring milk over a bowl of cereal, but breakfast from a cardboard box is far from the most energizing choice. Luckily, you can shovel in a quick-and-easy breakfast while majorly upping the nutrition of your meal by opting for a breakfast bowl. The key is to start with minimally-processed whole grains and seeds, which will keep you feeling fuller longer (no more mid-morning trip to the vending machine!) and might even help you live longer. Oats may be the first thing that comes to mind, but consider the wide array of options that make a great base, including couscous, quinoa, ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ask Well: Choosing the Right Grain for Your Morning
How the grain in your morning cereal is processed makes a difference in your body’s digestion process and can affect energy levels later in the day. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: KAREN WEINTRAUB Tags: Ask Well Food Cooking and Cookbooks Grain Featured Oatmeal Diet and Nutrition Cereals Source Type: news
Ask Well: Choosing the Right Grain for Your Morning
How the grain in your morning cereal is processed makes a difference in your body’s digestion process and can affect energy levels later in the day. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - September 11, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: KAREN WEINTRAUB Tags: Ask Well Food Cooking and Cookbooks Grain Featured Oatmeal Diet and Nutrition Cereals Source Type: news
Cave Researchers Surprised By Discovery Of Prehistoric 'Oatmeal'
Our appetite for hot cereal may be a lot older than anyone realized. Although it's widely believed that humans didn't begin cultivating crops until around 10,000 years ago, scientists exploring a cave in southern Italy say they recently discovered traces of oats on a stone pestle that dates back 32,000 years. (Story continues below image.) This isn't the first time that traces of grains have been found on Stone Age tools, but it is considered the earliest-known human consumption of oats, New Scientist reported. What's more, evidence suggests that the hunter-gatherers who used the pestle found in Paglic...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 9, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
32,000 year old porridge found in cave
Apparently cavemen enjoyed porridge just as much as we do today (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - September 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: 000 year old porridge hunter gatherer cavemen oats 32 oldest porridge italy woolly mammoths Source Type: news
The world’s oldest oatmeal?
Scientists make surprising find in Italian cave (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - September 7, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
6 Healthy Habits That You Might Be Overdoing
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Linda Melone Taking any action to an extreme — even a healthy one — can have negative consequences. Striving to lose weight becomes unhealthy if it turns into an eating disorder, for example. Exercising until you develop an injury or a serious health issue such as rhabdomyolysis (when muscle tissue breaks down and releases into the blood) can be life-threatening. Other, less extreme, examples can also work against your goal of creating healthier habits and a healthy body. Here are six ways that common, good practices can sometimes work against you: 1. You load up on healthy ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Heston Blumenthal adds dash of spice to home economics GCSE
The number of pupils taking home economics GCSE has dropped by 20% since 2004, so star chef has been brought in to stir things upIt is just after 5am and pupils at St Michael’s Catholic College in Bermondsey, south London, are starting to arrive at school for an early morning cooking lesson.Their teacher is the award-winning chef Heston Blumenthal, famed for dishes like snail porridge and Sound of the Sea, a seafood medley accompanied by a soundtrack of crashing waves. Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 3, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Sally Weale Education correspondent Tags: GCSEs Chefs Food & drink Life and style Food science Education Heston Blumenthal UK news Source Type: news
Are We Working Ourselves to Death?
If you are an executive, manager, emergency medicine physician (EMP), Silicon Valley employee or struggling law associate, you and many like you are probably working more than 60 hours a week. According to a survey published in the Harvard Business Review a few years ago, you may be working an average of 72 hours a week. Contrast this with the government's desire to limit excessive working hours about 80 years ago when, on June 25, 1938, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLS). This law banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and the maximum workweek at 44 ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I'm a Dietitian and I Let My Kids Have Junk Food. Here's Why.
My kids ate Lucky Charms every morning for a week. Well, not quite a week. The Lucky Charms ran out by day three or four, so they switched to Honey Nut Cheerios and Frosted Mini-Wheats. My dad brings a stash of these cereals to our annual family beach vacation, much to the delight of his grandkids. In fact, my 7-year-old refers to a beach house we rented one year as "the one with Captain Crunch." This doesn't bother me. Don't get me wrong. I strive for a diet rich in whole foods and don't buy Lucky Charms (here are the cereals I stock instead: My 5 Favorite Boxed Cereals). But I try not to be uptight when it comes to thi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Patients With Several Prescriptions Find Comfort In ‘PillPack’
BOSTON (CBS) — Twenty percent of Americans take five or more prescription drugs and managing all of those medications can be a nightmare.
However, a new service takes all the pain out of the process, making patients’ lives much easier.
TJ Parker’s family owned a mom-and-pop pharmacy in Concord, New Hampshire.
As a kid, he delivered medications to people’s homes.
“Everyone had this pile of pill bottles on the kitchen counter and an excel spreadsheet with medications crossed out and highlighted and a picture of each pill,” Parker recalls.
“And so I knew there had to be a better way to do that...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - August 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mouellette2015 Tags: Health Healthwatch Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Dr. Mallika Marshall Medications PillPack Prescription Drugs Source Type: news
Morning Routines for Productive People
What do Benjamin Franklin and Anna Wintour have in common? No, it's not their personal style; they're both (or for Ben, was) early risers. Productive people know that mornings are a great time for getting things done. Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, notes morning is the perfect time to be creative, to exercise, and, perhaps most importantly, to have some time to oneself before the rest of the world wakes up. Science shows that willpower is greatest in the morning. So take advantage of it and do the things that require self-discipline, like going to the gym or doing your taxe...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Uganda: Gov't Makes U-Turn On School Lunch
[Observer] Primary school students getting served lunch of porridge (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 3, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
A 7-Step 'Seamlys' Approach to Healing My Auto-Immune Disease
At 37, after suffering two unexplained ectopic pregnancies, weight gain and extreme exhaustion I discovered I have Hashimoto's disease, an inflammatory auto-immune disease (AID). My family history is ripe with all kinds of AID from Parkinson's to Type I diabetes. Although I take a daily dose of medicine in order to regulate my thyroid gland, the gland itself is not the root of my problem. Rather, my body suffers from inflammation that triggers it to attack my thyroid gland as a way of protecting itself, since my immune system thinks this gland is an invader. This declared foreigner, my poor little thyroid gland that sits i...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
