Foods That Fight…Illness, That Is
By Amy Campbell
That time of the year is upon us: the "holidays." It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but the stores are already filled with Christmas decorations and gifts. Holiday music is playing on radio stations. Holidays are fun, but this season can come with side effects, including colds and flu, heartburn, upset stomach, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue. Medicine is often needed to treat these maladies, but if you're looking for something a little more natural and gentle, think, instead, about food. Food is medicine, too, and what better way to remedy your maladies and nourish your body at the same time?
Colds and ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - November 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
Meatless Monday Recipe: Crockpot Lentil and Vegetable Soup
There is nothing more exciting on a busy weeknight than coming home to a house filled with warm and welcoming smells and a ready cooked meal. This Meatless Monday I present you with one of my favorite, simple, and flavorful crockpot recipes: lentil and vegetable soup. This hearty protein and fiber packed recipe only requires about 10 minutes of active cooking time and will simmer to perfection without tying you to the kitchen. Feel free to add any vegetables you have laying around, don’t feel constrained by the listed ingredients.
This recipe should make more than enough soup for 6 hungry eaters. Leftovers are even b...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - November 25, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: nutrition crockpot dinner healthy lentils meatless monday recipe soup vegan vegetables vegetarian Source Type: blogs
Have some pizza!
I made a full-sized family pizza starting with the Wheat Free Market Wheat Belly Pizza Crust Mix.
The people at Wheat Free Market made the mix according to my recipe for pizza crust. Despite being wheat-free and not using any of the junk carbohydrate ingredients typically used in gluten-free doughs (NO cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato starch, or rice flour), the recipe is designed to yield pizza dough sturdy enough to hold in your hands. And be tasty, of course!
I made a single large family-sized pizza from one package, but one package can also yield two smaller pizzas.
I followed package directions and added 2 eggs, 4 t...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 23, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Wheat Free Market Foods Source Type: blogs
Cheesy Sausage Balls- low carb and Primal
Sausage balls. They were a staple of holidays growing up. In my opinion, there is very little, in the way of comfort food, that can compete with those bad boys. A delicious combination of sausage (Jimmy Dean for me!), cheddar cheese and Bisquick. Heaven! But when you eliminate grains and go low carb, things like this quickly fall out of grace. On my last trip to Texas, I managed to smuggle 4 pounds of Jimmy Dean back to Norway with me and today sausage balls popped into my head. Coincidence? I think not. I started wondering if I could make them low carb, and since there are very few things us stalwart low carbers have...
Source: the beautiful diabetic - November 9, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Kathryn Source Type: blogs
Fall for Chili: Easy Chickpea, Bean & Turkey Chili with Veggies
I love when the cooler weather hits and its time for jeans, sweaters, and warm comfort food. Chili has to be the ultimate in comfort foods. I love that you can’t mess it up. Just about any combination of veggies, beans, and lean protein will work. You can season it from sweet with maple syrup and molasses to spicy with jalapeno and poblano peppers to smoky with chipotle in adobo.
The one I’m giving you today takes advantage of canned beans, corn, and tomatoes along with fresh carrots, celery and onion. Meat lovers will get their “fix” from some ground lean turkey in the dish, but this would do fine ...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - October 28, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: nutrition beans chili comfort food cooking easy chili healthy comfort food quick chili recipe Source Type: blogs
alimentary, my dear Watson
When Cal was little I freely admit that we rarely cooked and ordered out a lot due to a confluence of factors: residency, tiny apartment kitchen, ridiculous availability of cheap multi-ethnic restaurant delivery options being the primary ones. When Mack was a toddler I cooked a little bit more, but again, freely admit that I relied very heavily on the Trader Joe's ready-made-meal aisle for, well, 75% of our dinners, though supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables to round out the microwaved, peel-back-the-plastic-wrap experience.Now, with Nina eating table food and me being somewhat more firmly entrenched in the trappi...
Source: the underwear drawer - October 16, 2013 Category: Anesthetists Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs
What a Shame About Me…
Actually, today has been a fantastic day. No stupid phobias or weird ideations. I was just listening to Steely Dan when that song played. It prompted me to write. I’ve felt about as normal as your average Joe can feel mentally and physically. I felt liberated to a degree. “Let’s take your cane tonight,” I told my mother as we made our way to my parent’s garage. “We'll put your walker in the trunk in case you need it.” She has been walking with a walker for months now. What a cumbersome little contraption. Well, mom made it to El Rio Grande and back with no problems using her cane. “Even I didn’t kn...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Source Type: blogs
Missouri-Based Foot Pain Study
By Web Team
If you are in the St. Louis, Missouri, area, and dealing with foot pain from diabetes, then you may be interested in a currently enrolling study from the Healthcare Research Network.
The 13-week study will be evaluating the safety and efficacy of Qutenza — a patch made with capsaicin, the substance that gives hot peppers their kick — in people who have diabetic foot pain.
Volunteers must be at least 18 years old, must have been diagnosed with diabetic peripheral neuropathy in both feet, and must have access to a phone. Women who are pregnant are nursing are not eligible to participate.
All pa...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 28, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Web Team Source Type: blogs
Slow-Cooker General Tso’s Chicken
Chinese food has always been one of my favorites! While takeout is easy, it’s not always healthy. Recently, I’ve been on the hunt to create a healthy alternative to a family favorite general tso’s chicken dish.
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I wanted to find a way to pack in all of the flavor of this meal, while reducing the excessive amount of fat sodium that oftentimes comes in the fried takeout version. I was also looking for a way to increase the vegetables and make the recipe just as easy as ordering takeout.
Slow Cooker Me...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - September 9, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking food nutrition recipes cooking healthy general tso chicken Source Type: blogs
Kelp Noodles, Beer, Sin, and Goals
Yep, it's time for this months' goal support post!
For those who are not regulars here, the post is mainly a chance for people to check in and leave comments about what challenges they might be tackling, or how things are going generally, as well as to offer support to others who are doing the same. Comments and comment replies are thus highly encouraged.
And, as is traditional, I will also cram a bunch of seemingly unrelated things together and force them into a theme involving goals. In fact I probably should have used a catchier title, one like:
"Surprising Motivational Secret You Won't Believe!" ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - September 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
5 Tips for Meal Planning During the School Year
For most of us, school has either started back up again or will be starting in the next few days. That means evening homework, sports activities, band activities, etc. You know, all the things that go along with school starting back that can make our lives so hectic.
How do we maintain some sort of control over one of the most important events of the evening? That would be dinner by the way.
Here are 5 easy tips to help you put healthy dinners on the table even during the hectic school year.
Plan! You must plan. It really only takes a short amount of time but can save you so much time and money during the week. Wi...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - September 2, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Lisa Holcomb Tags: Perspectives Nutrition Schoolage Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Basically, Stuff and Nonsense
By Jan Chait
Last week, I said I would tell you this week what your doctor should be doing and how often, but it will have to wait another week. Instead of writing, I ended up spending a lot of time trying to get past a software glitch to finish up something that should have been in yesterday. I won't get into the details, but it took hours.
Hey! I reached a goal! I was getting onto my scooter just fine from every place except the desk chair, but I finally cleared that hurdle one day last week. Normally, I get onto the scooter by putting one hand on the seat, the other on the tiller, and lifting myself up to the seat.
Aft...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - August 27, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
How to Get Your Kids Eating 5 A Day!
Why should your kids be eating a rainbow every day? Each color group provides a unique set of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. When kids eat from the 5 color groups it becomes an easy and fun way to ensure that they are benefitting from this wide spectrum of nutrients.
By breaking produce down into groups of fire-engine red, bright orange, sunshine yellow, emerald green and rich blue/purples you can make eating fruits and vegetables fun for your kids and we all know that kids love to have fun!
So how do you get your kids to eat a rainbow? As parents, we need to get into the habit of serving fruits and veggies at e...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 15, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Kia Robertson Tags: Perspectives Healthy Family Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Don’t Give Up on your Picky Eater
Feeding a picky eater can be one of the most stressful things a parent has to do. It’s frustrating, worrisome, stressful, annoying, disappointing and downright exasperating at times. It can be really easy to just throw your hands in the air and give up trying to get your picky eater to eat new or healthy foods. After serving something three or four times and having your child refuse to even give it one nibble it might feel like you’ve given it your best shot and it’s time to move on.
But did you know that it can take at least 10 exposures to a new food before it is accepted? That number grows for very picky eaters...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 12, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Kia Robertson Tags: Perspectives Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Do Jalapenos Make For an Awesome Pain-Relieving Cream? (and Other Reasons We Love Orange Is the New Black)
Are you guys into Orange Is The New Black, the new original series on Netflix that's getting serious hype, yet? Because you should be. And because I'm already obsessed. In fact, I feel like I would totally be a Piper Chapman if I went to jail. And obvi, as a beauty girl, I'm also obsessed with the fact that she's trying to get her "artisanal" line of soaps and creams off the ground -- and sold at Barney's New York, nonetheless.
And the other day when I was chatting with a fellow Orange fan, the cream thing came up and my friend said "Oh! You would know! Is that jalapeno cream thing legit?" (I don't wanna say more and ...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - August 2, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Beauty beauty products beauty tips entertainment tv Source Type: blogs
