Mediterranean Diet Puts Out the Flames
Inflammation. This is the newest marker for heart disease. This article summary indicates that the Mediterranean diet decreases the markers for inflammation more than the standard Western diet. Chronic inflammation has been linked to range of conditions linked to heart disease, osteoporosis, cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s, type-2 diabetes, and...
UK Color Free? How US?
It took this scientific article in the journal Lancet to get anything moving. The Food Standards Agency oversees the food safety in the UK. They are calling on companies to identify all products without food additives … particularly food dyes. Is it not incredible to you that anyone would...
What To Serve Santa!!
Every year we lay out the food for the big guy. What’s should we be leaving for him on his passage across the globe? What are the healthiest choices we could make for him? (please note the dietary restrictions … NO reindeer burgers). 1. Ginger Cookies GINGER HEALTH PROPERTIES...
Santa Foods?
With all the concern over food and health today, one particular individual comes to mind at this time of year that we all want safe and sound … Santa Claus. And it’s not just what’s going on back at the North Pole (I’m sure Mrs. Claus makes healthy meals...
Salty Business
The food industry has again come under fire for the amount of salt used in products, as this survey found that sodium levels had remained ‘essentially the same’ over the past three years. That the salt levels mined from processed food products are the same as they have been...
Mediterranean Diet Lays Low Fat Low
The Mediterranean Diet works. This research is from the Archives of Internal Medicine: A traditional Mediterranean diet that includes a healthy serving of nuts each day may help reverse a cluster of risk factors for heart disease. Over 1,200 older adults who followed the diet had lower rates of...
Do Less, Do More
Many people believe they must do more and more and more and more. This article argues that there are diminishing returns on this kind of “hamster wheel” idea. In other words, “doing more” doesn’t get you more. In fact, according to this research, when you push through to the...
La Prima
There is something refreshingly square about La Prima coffe. It’s on my standard Saturday shopping trail at the “Strip District” in Pittsburgh. Older Italian men come in and play some card game that only THEY know. They speak Italian. They gesture. There are lots of families with kids who...
Muli-layered Party dip
You’ll Need: 16 oz. can refried beans 1 C grated cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese 1/3 C black ripe olives, sliced, pitted, and drained 1 large tomato, chopped 1 C sour cream 1 C guacamole 1 C salsa tortilla chips Directions: Using a 10-inch glass pie plate or baking...
Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic (Poulet Aux Quarante Gousses d’Ail)
Dishes like chicken unfairly become stamped as pedestrian due to simple over-exposure. This baked chicken graces our table almost every week, to the point of it becoming ho hum at home. But I’m reminded of how good it is if someone happens by in time to catch a whiff...
The “prevent” defense
You can either prevent fires from happening … or you can just wait until you get a good blaze working, and handle it from there. Most people would assume that it is a better strategy to prevent problems from arising in the first place. However, we have a health...
Screen Burn
It does not matter whether it is TV or Video or Internet or Gaming. Experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health analyzed 173 studies done since 1980 in one of the most comprehensive assessments to date on how media exposure impacts the physical health of children and adolescents....