5 Classic Holiday Foods With Anti-Aging Benefits
When you think of Thanksgiving, typically all-day feasting, followed by bloating, weight gain and a food coma probably come to mind. But what if we told you that better skin and anti-aging benefits could also come from the holiday buffet?
While your willpower might be wearing thin around this time of year, we’ve rounded up some of the healthier choices you can make over the holidays ― choices that are packed with an age-fighting punch.
1. Cranberries
You either love them or hate them, but cranberries are a staple no holiday meal would be complete without. These tangy berries can be found in many forms, from ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
If We Celebrated Thanksgiving in July, Would We Gain Less Weight?
Weight gain season has started: first Halloween, then Thanksgiving, and finally the Christmas/New Year holidays. The trick-or-treat candy has been barely put away (in our stomachs) when the recipes for Thanksgiving dinner are pulled from the drawers, or torn out of the November magazines. Even those among us who rarely cook begin to fantasize about a perfectly cooked turkey, moist dressing, gooey sweet potato casserole (will last year's marshmallows still be edible?) and pies...How many pies should we bake? Surely not just one. What will our guests think? And as the days grow colder, wetter, windier, and darker, we fantasi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Most Farmers Still Doubt They Have Anything To Do With Climate Change
To say it’s been a busy harvest season for North Carolina farmer Peyton McDaniel would be an incredible understatement.
It’s been several days since Hurricane Matthew brought heavy rains to the state that killed at least 22 people, but farmers throughout eastern North Carolina and other regions the storm impacted are still racing to salvage as much of their crops as they can and minimize their losses.
For McDaniel, that’s meant a typical five- or six-day work week at his family’s 2,000-acre farm operation in the town of Whitakers has become a round-the-clock, seven-day affair marked by 18-hour ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 14, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Meals on Wheels -- Bennington County, Vermont: Feeding Seniors Nutritious and Fresh with (Mostly) Donated Food
Waste not, want not.
Depression-era children, now seniors, grew up hearing that refrain. Now, they're living it as recipients of Meals on Wheels (MOW) of Bennington County, Vermont. This progressive senior nutrition program transforms gleaned food from local farms, the Vermont Foodbank, and regional grocery stores to produce farm-to-table meals that rival food served in the finest restaurants.
This isn't your typical Meals on Wheels program. It wouldn't be possible - given the minimal government funding which only covers approximately half the cost of each of the 50,000 meals it serves each year - without using donat...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CGIAR scientists awarded the prestigious World Food Prize
(HarvestPlus) On Oct. 13, HarvestPlus founding director and ambassador-at-large Howarth Bouis will join three other scientists in receiving the World Food Prize for their work in biofortification. All four laureates have made key contributions to this novel approach to combating vitamin and mineral deficiencies through more nutritious staple crops.These crops include vitamin A-rich varieties of sweet potato, cassava, and maize (corn), high-iron varieties of beans and pearl millet, and zinc-rich rice. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 13, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news
What Are Some Developmental Milestones for Solid Food Readiness?
This study and others found many poor feeding habits including excessive juice, inappropriate foods (i.e. french fries, pizza, macaroni and cheese, etc.), allergenic foods (i.e. eggs and peanut butter), and prechewing of table foods.
Learning Point
Breastfeeding or formula should be the main meals and calorie sources for infants during the first year. Solid food feeding is important for infant growth and development; they help the infant to learn about tastes and textures during the first year of life but initially should be used in small amounts like a dessert. There are development differences when infants are ready to ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 10, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
How To Protect Your Eyesight
If you’re one of the 40% of Americans who wears glasses or contact lenses for distance viewing, you probably believe your bad vision is genetic.
It’s not.
But the belief that myopia — or nearsightedness — is hereditary is so prevalent that no one even questions it. If you have trouble seeing faraway objects, you’ll just be given a prescription for glasses. Your eye doctor isn’t interested in finding out the true cause of your poor eyesight.
Myopia Epidemic
And that’s a shame, because the rates of myopia are rising in epidemic proportions around the world. It’s even worse in Asia tha...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 30, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Health Source Type: news
Somalia: To Fight Hunger, Somali Farmers Turn to Ugandan Roots
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Selele -Could growing cassava and sweet potato help Somali families become more resilient to drought? (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 26, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Build Muscle Without Myth: 3 Body Building Beliefs To Avoid
In this study, light super-slow lifting at 55-60 percent of the participants one rep max (1RM) increased both muscle density and maximal strength just as much as heavy normal-speed training performed at 80-90 percent of 1RM. In this study, both heavy weight training with 8-10 reps and light weight training with 18-20 reps stimulated the genes necessary for active muscle growth.
Another study reported that training with higher reps and lighter weights (25-35 reps) indeed results in the same gains in muscle girth and density as heavier weights with 8-12 reps. Even in seasoned weightlifters, researchers found the same muscle...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Add These 6 Superfoods To Your Diet This Fall
Fall is right around the corner and many superfoods will hit their peak season. The autumn harvest brings a wide variety of healthy and delicious produce, from winter squash and sweet potatoes to pears and apples. We also often tend to crave different foods as the seasons turn.
Here are some fall favorites to boost your health and your taste buds.
Apples
Apples are high in fiber and antioxidants while being low in calories. We have lots of varieties to choose from, from sweet to tart. Be sure to eat the skin which contains hearty-healthy flavonoids. As the weather cools off, I recommend a baked apple for dessert. Add ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Is Grief
The other day, I was sitting in our living room, scrunched next to my two-year-old, Grace, as we scrolled through her baby pictures on my phone - the digital-age equivalent of flipping through a photo album. As she relived her babyhood one sweet-potato-smeared photo at a time, she stopped at a picture of my youngest brother, Paul.
"Who's that?" she asked.
And everything, all of the progress I felt like I'd been making (read: the comfortable, convenient denial I'd been fostering), and all of the days I'd felt fine and normal, came to a screeching halt. Grief crept in, heavy and all consuming.
"That's your Uncle Paul,"...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What The World’s Healthiest Diets Have In Common
To research his 2010 book The 5 Factor World Diet, celebrity trainer and nutritionist Harley Pasternak traveled to the healthiest countries around the world to learn more about what made their meals extra nourishing.
He noted that Japanese people eat a wonderful variety of seaweeds, and that Chinese people tried to incorporate at least five different colors in every meal. But Pasternak also came away with some valuable observations about how different the North American way of life was compared to many other countries.
For starters, we eat much bigger portions than people in other countries. We don’t prioritize eat...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What The World’s Healthiest Diets Have In Common
To research his 2010 book The 5 Factor World Diet, celebrity trainer and nutritionist Harley Pasternak traveled to the healthiest countries around the world to learn more about what made their meals extra nourishing.
He noted that Japanese people eat a wonderful variety of seaweeds, and that Chinese people tried to incorporate at least five different colors in every meal. But Pasternak also came away with some valuable observations about how different the North American way of life was compared to many other countries.
For starters, we eat much bigger portions than people in other countries. We don’t prioritize eat...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Ask JJ: How To Think Outside The Cereal Box?
Ask JJ: Do you have any healthy breakfast ideas for my kids? They want Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes, but I know we need to do better.
Everyone's heard that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day," but the wrong breakfast can do more harm than good.
Typical go-to breakfast choices for the younger crowd include cereal, waffles, pancakes, and muffins. And while all those foods might be convenient, they also guarantee a mid-morning blood sugar crash that will leave your kids restless, cranky, and unable to concentrate. By lunchtime, they'll have a hard time staying awake, much less learning long division!
You're ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can social media help maternal mental health?
Going online may fill a void for struggling parents, but can the internet ’s instant gratification fail to address deeper perinatal problems?She irritates your parents. She baffles your grandparents. The preoccupied young mum feeding, with one hand, organic sweet potato puree to her eager eight-month-old, and checking her Facebook notifications with her smartphone in the other. A stereotype which would pass for a member of theModern Tribe and one I ’m sure you already recognise. Perhaps she is closer to yourself than you would like to admit.Related:Postnatal depression: what the baby books don't tell you | Tania Browne...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 31, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Dr Carrie Ladd Tags: Psychology Mental health Parents and parenting Social media Science Family Society Life and style Source Type: news
