Melissa’s No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
Here’s a beautifully simple and tasty recipe, courtesy of wheat-free champion, Melissa, of the Satisfying Eats blog. Melissa has her own jaw-dropping wheat-free success story to tell, including losing 58 pounds and finding relief from a number of health conditions.
No-bake strawberry cheesecake
There’s only a few minutes and a few simple ingredients between you and having this cheesecake!
Serves 4
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
¼ cup heavy whipping cream
¼ cup Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Sweetener equ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
Sugar By Any Other Name . . .
Here is a discussion about the evils of hidden sugars from Jonathan Bailor, author of THE CALORIE MYTH: How to Eat More, Exercise Less, Lose Weight, and Live Better.
Sugar By Any Other Name Is Just As Fattening, Toxic, and Addicting
Every day we learn something new about how sugar destroys our health, infects our brain, and expands our waistlines. Even worse, it seems like every other day food corporations come up with a new name for sugar. For example, all of the following are sugar—or worse—from your metabolism’s perspective:
1. Agave Nectar
2. Barley Malt
3. Beet Sugar
4. Brown Sugar
5. Buttered Syrup
6. Cane...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Carbohydrates Sugars Source Type: blogs
Forget the Diet Plans: The No-Brainer Way to Eat Healthy AND Lose Weight
During my life I’ve had a love/hate view of “the meal plan” segment of diet books. I want to make it work, but often it just takes too much time and effort to follow the plan and so I don’t stick with it for more than a couple days.
I’ve read many many books and articles on nutrition, food as medicine, and weight loss. In that time I’ve come up with a simple formula that I use to eat healthy and lose/maintain weight.
What follows is a simple approach to eating that is both healthy and conducive to losing/maintaining your desired weight.
The 5 Pillars of Healthy Eating
Remembering...
Source: Life Learning Today - February 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Exercise Healthy Living How To Motivation Personal Development diet diet plan eat healthy healthy diet healthy diet plan how to lose weight weight loss Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly 30-Minute (or Less!) Cookbook reviews
After its release just a week ago, the new Wheat Belly 30-Minute (or Less!) Cookbook is receiving rave reviews from readers. Here is a sample:
From a Kindle customer:
Quick, Easy and Healthy Recipes
The cookbook is true to it’s word and the recipes take less than 30 minutes. The don’t have too many ingredients and are not only wheat free but are low in carbs. The photo sections offers a lovely presentation of many of the recipes. I especially liked the recipes for the all purpose baking mix and the many sauces. There are 200 recipes including entire menus for special occasions. Because the recipes are short an...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 1, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook Source Type: blogs
My Month of (Almost) No Internet
By Leo Babauta
I’m starting 2014 with the hardest month of my Year of Living Without so far: no Internet all day.
OK, let’s rephrase that — I’m not going to use the Internet all day, except to post stuff to my blogs/sites or for programming. And for an hour at 5pm each day.
That means from morning until 5pm, I can’t check email, read stuff online, do admin stuff for my business online, go to my bank websites, look stuff up.
To be clear, here are the only exceptions:
To look stuff up or read about programming. This is because I’m spending about half of each day in January to learn p...
Source: Zen Habits - January 1, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Habits Simplicity Source Type: blogs
Chocolate Coconut Tart from the new Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook
Here’s another recipe from the new Wheat Belly 30-Minute (or Less!) Cookbook, available Dec 24th, 2013 or right now for pre-order at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
In addition to this recipe, you will find new recipes for dinner dishes, light meals, sandwiches, and cookies and cupcakes. In addition, mindful of trying to help everyone assemble delicious foods and meals in less time, there are recipes for healthy wheat-free and junk-free seasoning mixes, sauces, and jams. All dishes are designed to be made in 30 minutes or less!
I chose this recipe as I thought it would fit perfectly into a holiday menu.
&...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 21, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly holiday recipes II
Now for the desserts!
Here are recipes for Pumpkin Pie, Apple Cranberry Crumble, and Pumpkin Spice Muffins. Remember: By taking out wheat and other grains, not resorting to gluten-free junk carbohydrate replacements, not adding sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, limiting net carbohydrate content and not using other problem ingredients, we now have healthy desserts that do not pack on the pounds, screw with blood sugar, mess with satiety signals, or exert inflammatory effects. Have your Apple Cranberry Crumble or Pumpkin Spice Muffin and suffer not a moment of guilt! And I think they’re pretty darned tasty, too.
Hap...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 26, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
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
New Skinny Girl Products Put a Squeeze on Natural Sweeteners
So Skinnygirl company has launched new natural sweeteners, I tried them all and this is my official review.Contributor: Merlyn SeeleyPublished: Sep 26, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - September 26, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
What Side Effects? Ads With Warnings May Spur More Sales
File this under ‘how ironic.’ This may appear counter-intuitive, but is it possible that the many side effect warnings crammed into advertisements actually prompt consumers to seek those products later? A new study in Psychological Science suggests that, in fact, this does happen and there are potentially serious consequences for policymakers and regulators.
The researchers conducted different experiments in which varying types of ads – with and without warnings – were shown to consumers for four different products, including cigarettes, an artificial sweetener and medications for hair loss and erectile dysfunction...
Source: Pharmalot - September 25, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - The Cider House Tools
The orchard at Unity Farm has 36 trees, of which 24 are heritage apple varieties. Since each tree will produce 5 bushels (a bushel is 42 pounds), we'll have 120 bushels (over 5000 pounds of apples per year) when the trees reach maturity. Of course we'll eat, sauce, jelly and produce various apple products from them, but my favorite way to enjoy fresh apples in the Fall is to make cider.One bushel yields about 3 gallons of cider, so we could make up to 360 gallons.Cider can be frozen and kept for a year but even with pasteurization (which changes the flavor), unfrozen cider will not keep more than a...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Ads for Aspartame
By Quinn Phillips
Here at Diabetes Flashpoints, we have often discussed controversies related to certain sweeteners, as well as sugar. Sugar, particularly when used in soft drinks, is widely believed to be a major contributing factor to the epidemic of obesity in the United States, while certain other sweeteners are suspected of playing a role in obesity — under the theory that they make people hungry — as well as a host of other health conditions.
Since they rely so heavily on all types of sweeteners, beverage manufacturers have been particularly hurt by the growing suspicion of some sweeteners. According to...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - August 21, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Quinn Phillips Source Type: blogs
Got the Summer Blues? 5 Ideas That May Help
Picnics at the beach.
Afternoons by the pool.
Three months of summer bliss.
Or not.
For many people, the summer months are the most difficult. In fact, 10 percent of those diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder suffer symptoms at the brightest time of the year. The summer’s brutal heat, bright light, and long days can contribute to depression for the opposite reasons that the winter does. Like typical SAD, the change of light can affect a person’s circadium rhythm, which may disturb overall health and sleep patterns.
But you don’t need to suffer from summer SAD to slog through the hot days. A substantial part of...
Source: World of Psychology - August 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Amino Acids Brain Tissue Circadium Rhythm Coffee Drinkers Depression Anxiety Diet Coke Diet Soda Drink Soda Effects Of Dehydr Source Type: blogs
Chemical food
I have never been a fan of what I call 'chemical food'. Well not now. I admit there was a period in my life where I lived on Tab and Diet Coke and went to fast food restaurants occasionally. (I also admit that my favorite food of this lifetime is fried clams.)I am snickering sarcastically these days at the idea that Coca Cola is trying to reposition their artificially sweetened sodas as not being so bad. Ahem, what is that they say? Its not bad? Oh, come on.In my personal opinion and I am neither a nutritionist nor a doctor of any sort, coke and diet coke are not health foods. A healthy food has to meet one of three rules ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 15, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: nutrition healthy eating Source Type: blogs
