So while “How to eat?” may seem a daunting question, the answer is actually simple. In my view, there are two principles governing how you should eat, and applying them to your diet will have a measurable impact not only on your body but on planetary welfare, as well. [sidebar]PRINCIPLE 1: Eat Real Food Evaluate what you might call the foodness of what you put in your mouth. Ask yourself every day: Is what I’m eating really food?...
Now that I’m part of the Meatless Monday team, I’ve learned a few tricks to woo the omnivorous crowd with vegetarian dishes. The best strategy is to play up the savory taste, umami. To bring that sense of richness and depth to this year’s entry, I used roasted eggplant, sautéed mushrooms, smoked paprika and one bottle of stout beer. So did it win? Let’s just say that the recipe was a surprising hit with the crowd....
Tyson Fresh Meats, a Dakota City, Neb., establishment, is recalling approximately 16,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The ground beef items were produced on May 16, 2015. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels (PDF Only)] 5 lb. chubs of “80% Lean Ground Beef.” The products subject to recall bear the establishment number “EST....
In her New York Times best seller, I See You’ve Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, Gurwitch writes amusingly and sometimes touchingly about the hair-raising (literally; check your chin) adventure of growing old. No Pollyanna, the actor/writer/political activist does not spew comforting platitudes about what it is to be a woman in middle age—particularly as an actress, a career in which your looks are your livelihood....
Endometriosis—a chronic disease characterized by uterine-lining tissue growing outside of the uterus that can lead to infertility—affects more than 6 million women in the US. And about three-quarters of American women of childbearing age are thought to have fibroids, muscular tumors that grow on the sides of the uterus and can cause heavy periods and infertility. More from Prevention.com: Relief From Period Cramps So where are these period problems coming from?...
BBQ Pork Chops This meal with transport you to summertime. Get your veggies in by adding ready-made coleslaw from the deli. It’ll keep in your refrigerator for a week. WORK TIME: 10 MINUTES / TOTAL TIME: 20 MINUTES / SERVINGS: 4 2 Tbsp ketchup 1 Tbsp coarse-ground or Dijon mustard 2 tsp honey 1 tsp olive oil 1 tsp reduced-sodium soy sauce ½ tsp balsamic vinegar ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper 4 bone-in, ¾"-thick pork rib chops...
The proposed labels are simple enough for most people to understand, and they highlight the most important nutrition facts—calories, added sugar, portion size, fiber, sodium, even vitamin D. Keep in mind that the public will have 90 days to comment on these proposed changes. And that “public” will include very vested interests: food industry executives who are likely to contest at least a few of these new proposals. (Their estimated cost to implement the new labels: $2 billion....
Don’t worry, though. We can clear up the confusion: In a recent report for Institute of Food Technologists, Bob Brackett, PhD, director of the Institute for Food Safety and Health at the Illinois Institute of Technology, breaks down the difference between those “use-by,” “sell-by,” and “best-by” labels. MORE: How To Waste As Little Produce As Possible Here are few other things Brackett says you should keep in mind: You Almost Definitely Toss Your Products Too Early Unless a use-by or best-by label is followed by the words “for safety,” these dates refer to the quality of your products—so there’s no need to panic if you’re a few days past the use-by date....
How to keep all the finger fun of eggrolls and chicken wings without the nasty fried stuff? Make these lettuce wraps with jalapeno-mint yogurt dressing. Snap peas and radishes give this spring staple the perfect amount of crunch and zing for a hand-held salad that is great as a snack, a starter for a dinner party, or just as a more creative variation of a lunch salad that requires no utensils....
In the study, 20 adults tested out 5 popular activity trackers—Fitbit Ultra, Nike+ Fuelband, Jawbone UP, BodyMedia FitCore, and Adidas MiCoach—while walking and running on a treadmill, using an elliptical machine, and during agility drills. At the same time, they wore pedometers and portable metabolic analyzers (masks that measure the air you’re breathing out during exercise), which are already known to accurately measure the number of steps taken and calories burned....
Schedule a visit with an allergist for testing, but continue avoiding the food until you get your results. Find an allergist at acaai.org/locateallergist.
In your youth, estrogen surges encourage your body to store protective fat in the hips and buttocks to prepare for pregnancy. As estrogen levels begin dropping in your 40s and 50s, lower-body fat pulls up stakes and resettles right where you don’t want it: on your stomach. “The body stores fat in the belly because it can access and use that fat quickly for energy, which was critical hundreds of years ago, when the body was fine-tuned for periods of starvation,” says Marie Savard, MD, a women’s health physician in Philadelphia and the author of The Body Shape Solution to Weight Loss and Wellness....
Color Some research supports the theory that your enormous to-do list is helping along the graying process, but the build-up of hydrogen peroxide that ultimately kills strands’ pigment cells is linked to age.The fix: Make lemonade of your lemons with L’Oreal Paris Excellence Age Perfect haircolor ($9, lorealparisusa.com), which adapts to grays differently than it does to pigmented hair for a mix of highlights and lowlights that adds dimension and fullness....
After putting 318 people through the same test, Temple Northup already knows that the organic cookies made their way into your cart. His new study, published in Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, shows that “organic”—along with “whole grain,” “heart healthy,” “antioxidant,” and “all natural”—are the packaged food buzz words creating a “false sense of health,” meaning that foods carrying these labels win out every time against the same exact food without the health halo indicators....
Fat is an essential component of a healthy diet. Consuming less than 20% of your calories from fats and oils may actually increase your risk of heart disease. That’s because a deficit can lower your intake of vitamin E (a powerful antioxidant), keep “good” HDL cholesterol from rising, and spike triglycerides. Studies also show that some antioxidants and phytochemicals are absorbed 10 times more when vegetables are paired with oil than not....
What’s your food philosophy?I think very often we see food as either healthy and something we should eat but don’t necessarily desire, or decadent and rich that we should feel guilty about. But I don’t believe in either of those extremes. My approach is to find that sweet spot in the middle where those two circles intersect. Did you mine family recipes for this book?Yes, and the strongest example is what I call “Three Generation Chicken Soup....
