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Healthy Ezine of the Week: Issue 394

 

 

Featured Article

Muscle Strengthening Activities: What Counts? Besides regular aerobic activity, good health and wellness comes from doing exercises to strengthen your muscles at least two days a week. These activities should work all the major muscle groups of your body. That means your legs, hips, back, chest, abdomen, shoulders, and arms.

Fitness Tip

Add Seven Years to Your Life
Thinking of a major life change, such as quitting your dull job to start your own business, or perhaps going back to school or even climbing Everest? GOod call: It may help you live longer. Daily creative work that is non-routine and challenging -- the kind that gives you a chance to learn and solve problems -- has a health benefit equal to being nearly seven years younger, say researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. What counts is the amount of creativity you bring to it and how engaged you are.

Nutrition Tip

Eyes on Kale
This leafy green tops the vegetable list in antioxidant power, with lutein and zeaxanthin protecting against age-related eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. You can get the benefit by eating kale often, as well as collards, spinach and turnip greens. Until the last few years kale and collards were marketed only in the natural state. Now, however, several enterprising American canners are preserving them in tin, especially in a finely chopped or "sieved" form as food for babies or persons requiring a special diet. For more on Kale, see Kale and Collards.

 

Quip or Quote of the Week

Quip
In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year.

 

Quick Recipe

Whip up healthier French toast.
For each slice of whole grain bread, dredge in a mixture of beaten egg whites plus 1 teaspoon of your favorite extract (lemon, almond, etc.) and a drop of Stevia sweetener; soak bread on both sides. Cook a few minutes on each side in a nonstick pan; drizzle with maple syrup and top with fruit.

 

Tidbit(s)

Modern Portions
Everything from beverages to bagels is two to five times bigger today than in the 1970's, says New York University nutrition professor Lisa Young. If you grab a bagel or eat out, chances are you'll be served double what you need. Her advice: Start leaving just a little bit on your plate or, if you can, cut the amount you eat in half. She also suggests that you use your hand as a portion guide -- 3 ounces of meat fits into your palm. One cup of potatoes looks like a fist. See: Portion Sizes

 

Food Fixes

Straining broth: Remove meat and bones from broth. Line a colander with a double thickness of cheesecloth; place in a large heat-resistant bowl. Pour broth into colander. Discard vegetables, seasonings and cheesecloth.

To weigh ingredients like salted eggplant or cucumbers (to remove excess liquid): Fill a self-sealing freezer bag with water and lay in directly on top of the ingredient. It applies more even and flexible weight in a colander and is easier to work with than cans.

Tasty Tidbit...
Springfield Creamery, Nancy's Lowfat Organic Raspberry Kefir: If you're lactose intolerant, this smooth, yogurt like drink might win you back. With a great raspberry flavor - brought to you by organic berries and organic agave nectar - it's a nutritional powerhouse. Contains 7 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber, and 25 percent of your daily calcium needs.

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