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Healthy Ezine of the Week: Issue 334

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Remove Carcinogens When Grilling Meat  Scientists have come up with ways you can dramatically reduce the hazard of carcinogens in grilled meat.

Fitness Tip

Eying Your Workouts
At least a week in advance, write down all of your workouts and stick the list someplace you will see it often. If your routine is not right in your face, it is easier to just forget about it. In fact, research done a McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, has found that writing out workouts in advance makes you more likely to stick with them. Another motivation trick: Write your workouts for the week on a three-by-five note card and as soon as you do them, toss them. Your goal is to finish the week with no cards. Visit the Fitness and Freebies Diet and Fitness Tools page for free charts you can download and use to get started.

Nutrition Tip

Avocados
Research discovered how mono and polyunsaturated fats can help elevate "good" HDL cholesterol levels, giving avocados a place on our healthy plates. Twenty-six of an avocado's 30 grams of fat are the heart-healthy unsaturated kind, giving them their luscious, silken texture, which complements crisp salads and helps your body absorb fat-soluble nutrients, such as vitamins A and E, from foods. Purchase ripe, black-skinned fruit that yields to gentle pressure. See also: Good Eats: Avocados.

Quip or Quote of the Week

Quote:
Eat little, sleep sound. --Iranian Proverb

Quick Recipe

Veggies with Dip
Mix powdered onion soup mix into a cup of plain low-fat yogurt and you've got a tasty, low-cal, high-calcium dip that's perfect for jazzing up strips of green pepper or celery sticks.
Ingredients
1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
1 package onion soup mix
8 green pepper strips or celery sticks
Calories: 150

Tidbit(s)

Subway First to List Calories on Menu Boards in Country
Subway is the first large chain restaurant to list calories on menu boards in its restaurants in New York City, as is required by the city's groundbreaking menu labeling law. Many restaurants feel that their first amendment rights are being violated. McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and other fast-food restaurants are refusing to comply while the industry sues the city in federal court. The Health Department will begin enforcing the rule in earnest in October. American adults and children consume about one-third of their calories from restaurants and other food-service establishments. Studies link eating out with obesity and higher caloric intakes.

Food Fixes

All oils have 120 calories per tablespoon, so go easy whether you are using olive oil or peanut oil.

Top graham crackers with peanut butter and jelly for a tasty snack with a bit more nutritional kick than PB and J on white bread.

Tasty Tip: If you wish to sweeten your fruit salad, try a honey-lime dressing. Simply combine 1/3 cup honey, 1 teaspoon fresh lime zest and 1/4-cup fresh lime juice in a blender container. With the motor running, slowly pour in 3/4 cup salad oil. Blend until thick.

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