Weekly Wellness
Issue 282
Featured Article
Lactose Intolerant Diet -- Tips and suggestions on coping with lactose intolerance. Link to recipes included.
Fitness Tip
Workouts When You Want Them
If yours is one of the 14 million U.S. homes with digital cable from Comcast or Time Warner, you can spice up your at-home workout routine with ExerciseTV. It's a free 24-hour workout network designed for video-on-demand (which lets you pause and rewind TV shows). Created by celeb trainer and Body by Jake Steinfeld, the channel offers more than 75 workouts in nine categories, including Pilates and Sculpting. The routines, taught by well-known instructors like yoga guru Rodney Yee, are updated monthly, making them a refreshing replacement for your tired exercise DVD/VCR collection.
Nutrition Tip
Soy Milk
A splash of soy milk on your breakfast cereal may help lower your cholesterol. According to the FDA, 25 grams of soy protein, or about four daily servings, is a good part of a dietary plan for a healthy heart. One cup of soymilk has 6.25 grams. Calcium-fortified soymilk is sold in supermarkets and whole foods stores. It's available in plain, vanilla, chocolate or strawberry flavors. Not all soymilk is calcium-fortified, however, so check labels. You can also use soymilk in custards, baked goods and other desserts -- just as you would with regular dairy milk.
See also:
All About Soy
Health Benefits of Soy
Quip or Quote of the Week
Quote:
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. --Lucretius
Quick Recipe
Berries with Balsamic Vinegar and Black Pepper
Top four cups any fresh berries with three tablespoons sugar, two teaspoons balsamic vinegar and 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper; toss to mix.
Tidbit(s)
Pizza Eaters
Among 8,000 Italians, weekly pizza eaters sliced their risk for digestive cancers by up to 59 percent. Credit goes to these cancer fighters: Lycopene-packed tomatoes and monounsaturated fats in the olive oil.
Food Facts
Do you favor thick full-flavored chili? Let it sit in the refrigerator a day or two before serving.
When a recipe calls for one pound ground round, try substituting ground turkey breast on occasion instead. It has a subtle tasty flavor and reduces the amount of fat in the recipe even more.
Do your potatoes sprout before you use them? Peel, slice and boil them until partially cooked. Drain and freeze in small quantities. When you want mashed potatoes, remove as many as needed, pop them into boiling water to finish cooking, drain and mash.
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