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Food Cures Book Review | Joy Bauer Inspires a New Years Resolution?

Food Cures Book Review | Joy Bauer Inspires a New Years Resolution?

Food Cures: In her latest book, Today Show contributor Joy Bauer, R.D., explains how making the right diet choices can boost your mood, improve your memory, and even contribute to healthier skin, hair, and teeth not to mention dropping a few pounds! Ms. Bauer gives you her eating prescription in Food Cures, a book that follows her motto “life is hard . . . food should be easy.” Ms. Bauer has and continues to dedicate her life to helping improve the health of others. According to her website, “Her mission is to improve the health of our nation; she believes it’s never too late or too early to reap the benefits of healthy living.” Joy Bauer’s long list of profession affiliations makes her advice easily accessible and highly credible. These are just a few of Ms. Bauer’s affiliations: American Dietetic Association: Registered Dietitian New YorkStateCertified Dietitian–Nutritionist American Dietetic Association: Sports & Cardiovascular Nutritionist Group American Dietetic Association: Pediatric Practice...

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Your Exercise Excuses Are Over!

There’s nothing quite like a good excuse. We start from the time we start pre-school by telling mom we’re too sick to go color and eat graham crackers. Then we get older and find excuses to cover our late homework. Then we get older and find excuses to skip class. Then work. Then working out. The funny thing is, excuses don’t fool anyone. They only come back to haunt us later and then, ultimately lead to more excuses down the road. If you’ve been thinking of working out, but keep making excuses, here’s a clear message: Stop. Whatever you’ve been continuously telling yourself to get out of working out is probably more work than the actual exercising itself. 1)    “I am way too busy/tired/stressed!” Exercise is proven to reduce stress, increase energy, get your heart pumping and keep your brain functioning at optimum performance throughout the day. Even the distress you feel over not working out melts away once...

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Women, Obesity, and Education

College Bound Woman

Interesting info on how weight and level of education have been proven to be related. What do women, obesity, and education have to do with each other? Quite a bit actually. Recently the CDC released statistics collected between 2005 and 2008 relating to obesity in theUnited States. According to the CDC survey, between 2007 and 2008, more than one-third of all American adults were obese. The data showed surprising statistics relating to women and obesity in relation to their level of education. Obesity means that a person’s body mass index (BMI) is 30 or greater. To calculate body mass you divide weight by height. People who are obese are at greater risk to have other health problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and cancer. Compared to the rest of the world, the U.S. is by far the most overweight nation. And contrary to popular belief, it isn’t the impoverished that have troubles with obesity, it is all those...

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White Whole Wheat Flour – Healthier Baking

White Whole Wheat Flour – Healthier Baking

A simple diet alteration such as replacing all-purpose flour with white whole wheat flour can be an easy step toward a healthier diet and lifestyle.  The health benefits of a diet rich in whole grains is amazing. Diets rich in whole wheat and grains play a major role in reducing the risks of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and The American Diabetes Association. Some epidemiological studies have found whole-grain intake to be associated with decreased cancer risk. The abundant antioxidant offering provides valuable protection against free radical damage to our cells.   What is White Whole Wheat Flour? The whole grains council defines white wheat as a whole-flour, including the bran, germ, and endosperm, made from white wheat. Think of it is as albino wheat if you will, that packs the same whole grain healthy punch as regular whole wheat minus the red color genes. Gold Medal asserts...

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10 Eat Your Peas and Thank You Tips

10 Eat Your Peas and Thank You Tips

When Veggies = I don’t like it mom! What kids do not know will truly help them! I was fortunate to have two boys who loved veggies. Perhaps that was the result of feeding them every veggie imaginable as soon as table food was appropriate. As the boys became social, our house then became “the neighborhood hang-out”. As such, frequent dinner guests resulted along with lots of experience with veggie haters. As I recall the most common complaint was canned vegetables. On more than one occasion, different children and teens told me fresh steamed vegetables tasted nothing like the canned vegetables their family ate. Outside of beans, fresh or frozen vegetables were the only type I served. While I’m no child professional these tips and tricks helped to entice kids to each veggies. Require them to eat new vegetables Offer one tablespoon- 1)      With explanation, “You have to eat one spoonful. If you like these as much as I do...

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Free Breakfast – Quaker Oatmeal Squares Cereal

Free Breakfast – Quaker Oatmeal Squares Cereal

Oatmeal is one of my favorite grains. A bowl of hot oatmeal topped with farm fresh butter and a sprinkle of brown sugar is a cherish childhood memory. My boys enjoyed oatmeal as an afterschool snack topped with bananas. Of course, living in Florida they preferred the cold cereal variety. One of my favorite bread machine recipes is this Country Oatmeal Bread. In fact, oatmeal graham piecrust, created by my friend Catherine, has become a standard for my peanut butter pie!   The Clever Girls Collective teamed up with Quaker Oats offering members to sample their Brown Sugar Oatmeal Squares.  Free breakfast , yay! The newsletter read, “Everyone who signs up will be sent a free sample, but the deadline is TONIGHT, April 29, at 8 p.m. PDT or 750 Clevers, whichever comes first.” As you would expect, my reply was a jubilant yes! Several weeks later, the plain white box arrived with two samples of Quaker Oatmeal Squares, oh yummy!  ...

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Colon Cleansing – No Crap, Grandma was Right Again!

Did you know the idea of natural colon cleansing dates back to ancient Greece? Cleansing the colon, which is the large intestine, became popular in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States. At some point, the theories behind it lost support and it fell out of favor. As you may have noticed recently, colon cleansing has experienced rebirth by the use of teas, enzymes, and/or colon irrigation. Because researchers have devoted little study to colon cleansing plenty of questions remain such as, is colon-cleansing good for you? In addition, does anyone really need it? To a certain extent, medical judgment has yet to be finalized on the subject. What is natural colon cleansing anyway? WebMD states two main colon-cleansing methods. One involves buying products like enemas, laxatives, strong herbal teas, powders, and antiparasite capsules such as colonetix. The other involves seeing a practitioner to have colon irrigation. Natural Colon Cleansing One of the core theories behind colon cleansing...

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