Hot soup in a hurry
I come from a long line of skilled soup makers. In the late 1800s, my great-grandmother Enrichetta Cavagnolo, newly arrived from northern Italy, was a soup chef at Delmonico’s in New York City. Enrichetta’s daughter and granddaughters (my grandmother, mother, and aunts) were talented soup makers as well, to the delight of our well-fed family.
But the soup-making gene seemed to skip me. I was never interested in boiling bones for broth, chopping mounds of vegetables, and stirring soup — with love — for hours. It was too much fuss, I thought — until I learned the shortcut.
Fast and healthy
Turns out, making a delic...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
No Soup for You!
You may remember this phrase from the popular 90’s American TV series “Seinfeld.” This phrase caused so many of us to chuckle as the fictional character “The Soup Nazi” refused to serve customers in his restaurant. His quick dismissal of customers was often for reasons only he knew. Leaving his victims feeling dejected and hungry. They lived in fear of provoking his hidden sources of frustration, which would cause him to blurt out the famous phrase, “No Soup for You!”
Many people fear that in living the Wheat Belly lifestyle they will encounter similar scenario:
The imaginary “Grain-Free Nazi” who will ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 18, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Dr. Davis Grain Free Lifestyle Grains News & Updates Wheat Belly Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten gluten-free Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
9 Steps to Treat Depression Naturally
Ever since I started an online community for treatment-resistant depression — depression and anxiety that don’t respond to psychotropic medications — I’ve been inundated with mail from desperate people who have tried 30 to 40 different kinds of antidepressants, and feel no relief. I repeatedly hear from family members of folks who have tried everything, and are not getting better. I sense the utter frustration and despair in their words, and it pains me. I, too, felt hopeless after trying countless medication combinations and sitting through years of psychotherapy sessions, only to continue my death ob...
Source: World of Psychology - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Treatment Alternative Medicine Bipolar Disorder homeopathy Immune System Mood Disorder Omega-3 fatty acid Sleep st Source Type: blogs
Water Fasting Summary
I completed my water fast yesterday. I fasted for 17 days and 3 hours, which is longer than I’ve ever fasted before. This post is a summary of the experience, building upon what I shared on Day 6 of the fast.
Motivation
This isn’t the same world people lived in 100 years ago. The unfortunate truth is that we now live in an environment filled with toxins that our bodies weren’t evolved to efficiently eliminate. These toxins include pesticides, herbicides, pollution, heavy metals, plastics, animal hormones, pharmaceuticals, radiation, and more. We’re exposed to such toxins merely by drinking water, br...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Veggies
For a much longer time than I’d like to admit, my dietary advice to patients was squarely in the “Do as I say, not as I do” department.
I’ve never liked fruits or vegetables. Oh, I’d eat salads, but not with tomatoes. I can’t stand tomatoes. I love cucumbers, but not the seeds. Once I discovered the seedless ones, though, I couldn’t get enough. Potatoes, of course. Onions were okay, but only cooked. That was about it.
Over the years, though, I can’t tell if I’ve become more adventurous, or just less rigid. I started adding red peppers to my salads. Then I found a magnif...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - September 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Family/Personal Food Source Type: blogs
Tahcheen-e Esfenaj (Baked Persian Rice Cake with Lamb, Spinach & Prunes)
I must apologize for the infrequency of my blog posts over the past year. My new position at the medical school has kept me much busier than I’d ever imagined. Now, a year later, things are finally settling in and I’m hoping to bring this blog thing back to life, if only because the act of writing truly grounds me.
One of the better parts of my new position has been getting to know our Qatar-based medical school faculty and staff, who sent me the most amazing Persian cookbook – Saraban: A Chef’s Journey through Persia by Greg and Lucy Malouf. (Thank you Shahrad and team!)
This is a cookbook tha...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Lamb Rice Cake Spinach Tachchin Tah-Chin Tahcheen Source Type: blogs
“Will you be grilling this #MemorialDay weekend? @nytfood...
"Will you be grilling this #MemorialDay weekend? @nytfood has a tip for you: Don't let your grill's fire power go to waste. After you cook your meats, use the dying embers to supply your pantry for the week to come. Lots of ingredients work well, like bell peppers, eggplants and tomatoes. But @nytfood editors are fans of bold flavors, so their favorite foods in this category are chiles, onions and citrus. This Vietnamese-style dipping sauce, which includes both smoky grilled limes and grilled jalapeños, is particularly good with shrimp, as well as fish or chicken. To get the @nytfood recipe for smoky lime-chile dipping sa...
Source: Kidney Notes - May 23, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Onion & Olive Tart
Onion & Olive Tart
This wonderful onion and olive tart is based on a recipe from Molly O’Neill. Think if it as an Americanized version of the classic French Pissaladiere – a Nicoise savory tart made with anchovies, onions, olives and herbs. The classic Pissalidiere is made with a thin pizza crust (though Julia Child made hers with puff pastry) and derives it name from its use of pisalla – a condiment speciality of the coastal area around Nice made from ground anchovies with olive oil, herbs and spices.
Today, I’ve made my mother-in-law Irene’s variation of the tart without anchovies....
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - May 14, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Quiches & Savory Pies appetizers Make-ahead Onion and olive tart Onion pie Pisalliadiere Source Type: blogs
Onion & Olive Tart
Onion & Olive Tart
This wonderful onion and olive tart is based on a recipe from Molly O’Neill. Think if it as an Americanized version of the classic French Pissaladiere – a Nicoise savory tart made with anchovies, onions, olives and herbs. The classic Pissalidiere is made with a thin pizza crust (though Julia Child made hers with puff pastry) and derives it name from its use of pisalla – a condiment speciality of the coastal area around Nice made from ground anchovies with olive oil, herbs and spices.
Today, I’ve made my mother-in-law Irene’s variation of the tart without anchovies....
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - May 14, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Quiches & Savory Pies appetizers Make-ahead Onion and olive tart Onion pie Pisalliadiere Source Type: blogs
“An avocado #taco is like a 2-bite couplet in praise of...
"An avocado #taco is like a 2-bite couplet in praise of Mexican ingredients: a chewy corn tortilla enclosing creamy slices of the-butter-that-grows-on-trees. Spare additions — a pinch of salt, a spray of lime juice or a sprinkle of chopped onions and cilantro — elevate the avocado, making a taco that's poetically simple and satisfying. @karstenmoran took this photo while on assignment for @nytfood. Visit the link in our profile to get the # recipe. #CincoDeMayo" By nytimes on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - May 4, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
The ACO Delusion
By ANISH KOKA, MD
Accountable care organizations (ACO’s) promise to save us. Dreamed up by Dartmouth’s Eliot Fisher in 2006, and signed into law as a part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010, we have been sold on the idea that this particular incarnation of the HMO/Managed Care will save the government, save physicians and save patients all at the same time. I dare say that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva together would struggle to accomplish those lofty goals. Regardless of the daunting task in front of them, the brave policy gods who see patients about as often as they see pink...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Uncategorized ACO Anish Koka Source Type: blogs
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
From Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox: Mediterranean “Pasta” Salad
Here’s a recipe from the new Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, a dish from day 3 of the 10-day menu plan. Of course, there is no wheat/grain-based pasta here, replaced in this recipe with spiral-cut zucchini. For those of you who miss the flavors of a pasta salad but don’t want the health problems they introduce, here is one delicious way. As with all the recipes in the 10-day menu plan, there is no need to limit calories and you will not feel deprived. (Other dishes on day 3 include Bacon-Toped Meat Loaf With Mushrooms and Gravy and Mashed “Potatoes.”)
You will need one of the low-cost spiral-cutting...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 24, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Detox detoxification gluten grains pasta salad wheat withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 133
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…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 133
Question 1
Why do onions make you cry?
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Propanethiol S-oxide
When you cut an onion, separate enzymes start mixing and produce propanethiol S-oxide, which is a volatile sulphur compound. The gas that is emitted reacts with the water of your eyes and forms sulphuric acid. The sulphu...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 29, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five erysipelas FFFF fish sperm Hamptons hump heparin onions propanethiol S-oxide protamine pulmonary embolism St Anthony's Fire Source Type: blogs
“The city of Samarkand, founded in the 7th century BC and...
"The city of Samarkand, founded in the 7th century BC and now part of modern Uzbekistan, was once a stop on the Silk Road for traders from China, Persia and India. Taste of Samarkand, a restaurant in Queens that celebrates Kosher Uzbek cooking, opened just last August. "It takes time for a meal to unfold, but that is fine," writes @nytfood critic Ligaya Mishan, who tried everything from achichuk, "a deceptively simple assembly of tomatoes and onions booby-trapped with jalapeños, enough to temporarily short-circuit the taste buds," to baklava. Photo by @anrizzy for @nytfood." By nytimes on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. ...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 14, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
