Monday, June 29, 2009
OREGON-SESAME TURKEY CUTLETS
OREGON-SESAME TURKEY CUTLETS
2 -- Blended Oranges
1 Tbsp -- reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 tsp -- dark sesame oil
1 tsp -- minced garlic
1 lb -- turkey cutlets
1 tsp -- brown rice four
3/4 cup -- reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 Tbsp -- minced fresh cilantro
1. Combine first 4 ingredients in zip lock bag. Add turkey and chill
1 hour.
2. Heat skillet coated with just a hint of olive oil or coconut oil
over medium-high heat. Add turkey (reserving marinade). Cook, turning
once, until browned, about 4 minutes. Remove to plate.
3. Mix brown rice flour and broth in bowl. Stir in reserved marinade. Reduce heat
to medium and add to skillet. Cook, stirring, until thickened, 3 minutes.
Add turkey and cook until done, 5 minutes. Top with cilantro.
You could use chicken or beef instead of turkey. Turkey is leaner.
I top off mine with green onions instead of the cilantro. You could also
use lemons instead of oranges for a different taste.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Fitness Training DVD | Learn How to Exercise
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Lynn's Salad
Lynn's Salad
1 head cauliflower, cut into flowerets
1 bunch broccoli, cut into flowerets
1 jar (6oz or 8oz) marinated artichoke hearts, drained
8 oz mozzarella cheese, cubed
1 can -- black olives, pitted, drained
1 jar -- green olives, pitted (stuffed, optional), drained
Dash of garlic salt
1 bottle (8oz) -- Italian salad dressing, low fat
In large bowl, combine cauliflower, broccoli, artichokes, cheese, olives, and
garlic salt. Pour salad dressing over vegetable mixture and toss. Refrigerate, covered, overnight. Drain salad dressing before serving.
To make this healthier use olive oil and herbs or flavored vinegar.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Time for Change
Time for Change
The theme of President Elect Obama’s successful presidential campaigning that resonated with many Americans was that it is time for change. When he officially takes office as our 44th President on January 20, 2009, he will carry with him the hopes of many that he can indeed bring about the changes our country so desperately needs.
One cannot escape mention of what a momentous time this is in American history. All this talk about change has resulted in a good number of people wanting to seize upon this opportunity for fresh beginnings to make their lives better. More and more people are starting to realize that getting back to the basics is the solution for a brighter tomorrow for themselves and their families.
They are awakening to the fact that living well means more than just adopting better fiscal practices to aid them in securing a stable financial future. Living well also means having a higher degree of health and fitness than most of us have. There are a myriad of excuses as to why so many of us lead sedentary lifestyles that also includes eating foods that we know are not healthy for us. Even persons who may be more physically active than your average couch potato are not always as healthy as they could be due to smoking, alcohol use, and other unhealthy activities they engage in.
Prolong your life and help those you care about to prolong theirs by catching the fever of change that is all around us with a new year just begun, and a new presidency on the horizon. It is time for change and that means making choices that will result in lasting changes that will extend your years and make them better to boot.
Make the choice to get more active. It is okay to start out slowly as long as you keep reaching to be as fit as possible. Shell out some dough for the skilled assistance of a personal trainer to guide you on your path to better fitness. Make the choice to stop eating nutrition-absent foods, and instead provide your body with the vital fuel it needs with healthy foods. If you do not know how to make healthier food choices, consult with a professional dietician to learn about the nutrition your body needs, and the foods that will best provide that nutrition for you.
Choose to stop smoking if you still have not already despite all of the information and warnings existing on its dangers to your health and the health of all those around you. There are many free and low cost programs made available to smokers to assist them in quitting. Consume less alcohol. You will not only avoid the liquid calories that reduces the daily amount of calories you have left for healthy calories, liver and tissue damage caused by alcohol can also be avoided.
Choose to live a more balanced life emotionally and spiritually. A mind riddled with negativity will only spawn negative responses to the people and events in your life. A disconnection from the spirit can make you feel lost and alone in this world. Neither will provide your mind and spirit with the nourishment needed for a balanced and happy life. A number of books and audio tapes are out there that can help you to improve your emotional and spiritual health for better living. When you find that these self-aids are not helping you to bring about desired changes, consider seeking guidance from a certified hypnosis trainer. You could learn skills that will enhance your well-being and that you can hold fast to throughout your life.
It is time for change and it is all about choices. If you feel yourself about to slip back into old habits even though you know and want better for yourself, repeat the following. It is up to me to make better choices for my health and life so that I may truly live long and well.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
YUMMY CHOCLOATE PROTEIN OATMEAL
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Ingredients:
1/4 cup organic steal cut oats (or regular organic oats)
1 Severing of chocolate Protein Powder
1 small organic banana
1tsp Cashew butter/almond butter
Cinnamon
Stevia
Directions:
Boil your water, add in organic oats.
Once cooked then you will add your 1 scoop protein powder, 1 small organic banana-Cut it into small pieces, 1tsp. of either cashew butter or almond butter, touch of cinnamon, sprinkle of stevia, and then just stir it all together in your bowl.
If it gets too thick then just add some more water into your bowl and stir. It will be just right with adding extra water and it will not be thick.
written by Alicia Leombruni at www.alicialeombruni.com
Labels: chocolate oatmeal, healthy breakfast food, steal cut oatmeal recipe
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Grilled Salmon with Bean Salsa Recipe
Grilled Salmon with Bean Salsa
For the Salsa:
2 cups precooked white beans
2 cups precooked black beans
2/3 cup red onion, finely chopped
1 cup tomato, diced and seeded
1/3 cup cilantro, chopped
Juice of 1/2 lime, or more, to taste
2 Tblsp olive oil
For the Fish:
2 boneless, skinless salmon fillets, each cut into 2 pieces (1 to 1 1/2 pounds total)
Olive oil, optional
Lime slices, for garnish
Directions:
Place the salsa ingredients in a bowl and toss gently to combine without breaking up the beans.
Set aside.
Brush the salmon very lightly with the oil, which is optional if you are grilling the salmon. Oil is only
used to help with sticking if your pan frying. When the grill or pan is very hot, place fish on it and
cook for approximately 5 to 7 minutes on each side, depending on thickness. Turn carefully with
a spatula.
Place a serving of salmon on each of 4 plates and divide the salsa equally among the plates.
Garnish with a slice of lime.
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HCG Diet and Why it doesn't work!!
I have reviewed many studies on the HCG Diet and as a Exercise Physiologist I don’t understand why people continued listening to horrible advice and easy quick fixes to their weight loss. The HCG Diet is horrible and doesn’t work to do to the human body and whomever is recommending this to people need to stop. People on this diet and who want fast fat loss or weight loss. WAKE UP!! Nothing works unless you eat right and you exercise, there are no shortcuts, just like having a successful business, a great marriage, or anything in life it takes work and moving in the right direction and there are never any easy way quick rich scams that work or quick fat loss plans that work. Stop fooling yourself, of course anything works temporally and people can lose a great deal a weight on any caloric restriction diet, but it’s not good long term. Please read this study and if you want I have many more I can send you and show you, why this isn’t good for you. Go Get Help from an Professional Fitness Trainer, or someone that can really help you get fit and stay fit, healthy, and active forever. Stop trying to find the easy way out and stop buying these diet and fitness scams.
Refer to: Greenway FL, Bray GA: Human chorionic gonadotropin
(HCG) in the treatment of obesity-A critical
assessment of the Simeons method. West J Med 127:
461-463, Dec 1977
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
(HCG) in the Treatment of Obesity
A Critical Assessment of the Simeons Method
FRANK L. GREENWAY, MD, and GEORGE A. BRAY, MD, Torrance, California
Injections of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) have been claimed to aid
in weight reduction by reducing hunger, and affecting mood as well as aiding
in localized (spot) reduction. We have tested these claims in a double-blind
randomized trial using injections of HCG or placebo. Weight loss was identical
between the two groups, and there was no evidence for differential effects on
hunger, mood or localized body measurements. Placebo injections, therefore,
appear to be as effective as HCG in the treatment of obesity.
THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY with diet and injections
of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)
was suggested by Simeons in 19541 but its effectiveness
has never been clearly established.2-5 In
spite of the tenuous scientific basis for treating
obesity in this fashion, the method has flourished
in commercial weight clinics throughout the
United States but with concentrations in certain
locales such as Southern California.6 Many of the
commercial weight clinics advertise, operate on a
high profit margin and offer physicians large sums
of money to affiliate with them while making
minimal demands upon physician time. Consequently,
with strong financial motivations for the
continued use of the Simeons method, critical
objective evaluation seemed indicated. Among
the values claimed for this treatment are less
hunger; differential weight loss predominantly
from the hips and legs, and less emotional difficulties
such as depression during treatment. To
put these allegations to the test the following
randomized double-blind study was carried out.
From the Clinical Research Center, and the Department of
Medicine, Harbor General lHospital, Torrance, and University of
California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
Submitted February 23, 1977.
This investigation was supported in part by grant RR 00425
from the National Institutes of Healtlh and from the American
Society of Bariatric Physicians.
Reprint requests to: George A. Bray, MD, Harbor General
Hospital, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509.
Patients and Methods
Patients answering an advertisement for participation
in a treatment program for obesity were
enrolled after payment of a deposit which was
refundable upon completion of the study. The
participants in this study were white women between
20 and 40 years of age, 152 and 172 cm
in height, and 20 percent to 60 percent overweight.
They were all in good health and had
not received HCG previously nor were they receiving
any medication for obesity. Following physical
and laboratory examinations, patients were randomly
assigned into two groups, one receiving
human chorionic gonadotropin and the other
receiving placebo injections of diluent.
The drugs were prepared and dispensed by a
local pharmacist, according to code number. Injections
were given six days a week for six weeks
and weights were obtained weekly. The measurement
of hunger was evaluated by the method of
Silverstone8 and involves asking patients to
mark a line between I and 9 based on their rating
of hunger (1 = not hungry; 9= maximum hunger).
This measure was obtained at the beginning
and at the end of treatment. The circumference
of the midthigh, the chest, the hips at the iliac
crest, and the mid-upper arm were measured at
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CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN AND OBESITY
the beginning and end of treatment to assess the
possibility of localized fat reduction. Changes
in mood during treatment were assessed using the
Multiple Affect Adjective Check List, which rates
anxiety, hostility and depression.9 Instructions regarding
diet, cosmetics and handling of patients
at return visits were identical to those described
in the study reported previously by Asher and
Harper.'0 Upon completion of the course of injections
the code was broken, and the data were
tabulated and analyzed by analysis of variance
using an IBM 370 computer.
Results
Twenty patients were enrolled in each group.
The only significant difference between the two
groups on the initial measurements was on the
anxiety scale, where the HCG group were more
anxious (p <.05) (Table 1). During treatment,
seven patients in the placebo group and two in
the HCG group failed to meet the minimum criteria
TABLE 1.-Initial Values for Clinici
In Two Groups of Pati
HCG*
Body weight (kg) . 81.4± 9.7
Circumferences (cm)
Biceps ........ 33.3 ± 2.8
Chest ......... 91.2± 8.4
Iliac crest ..... 104.6± 9.9
Midthigh ...... 58.2± 5.4
Hunger score .... 3.3± 1.1
Anxiety score .... 83.6±20.8
Hostility score . . . 69.1 ± 22.0
Depression score . 74.1 ± 24.5
for completion and were excluded from subsequent
analysis (X2 for difference in dropouts
between groups using the Yates correction was
2.294; p >0.10). The rate of weight loss is shown
in Figure 1. There were no significant differences
between the two groups at any time. The initial
and final values for the anthropometric and psychological
variables are shown in Table 2. There
were no significant differences in the changes in
any of these variables between the beginning and
end of the treatment when comparing the patients
who started and finished.
Comment and Discussion
In this trial of HCG and its diluent as a placebo,
there were no significant differences in the two
groups other than the greater anxiety in the HCG
WEEKS OF TREATMENT
Figure 1.-Body weight during treatment with human
chorionic gonadotropin (o) or placebo (e). There was no
significant difference at any time.
85-
al Measurements
fents
Placebo* Pt w
3:
79.4± 8.4 .483
a0
33.0± 2.5 .881 m
94.0± 7.1
101.8± 11.2
57.4± 4.2
2.8± 1.2
63.2± 28.0
71.6±28.3
69.4±23.3
.255
.402
.681
.203
.017
.770
.557
*N=20
tProbability determined by analysis of variance for group differences.
TABLE 2.-Initial and Final Values for Clinical Data in HCG-Treated
and Placebo-Treated Patients
HCG Placebo
Initial Final Initial Final P
Body weight (kg) 80.4± 2.3 71.6± 2.1 79.7 ±2.6 71.6± 2.3 .366
Circumferences (cm)
Arm .33.0±0.5 29.5±0.5 33.3±0.8 30.0±0.5 .733
Chest .91.7±1.8 88.6±1.5 94.0±2.0 89.4±1.8 .405
Iliac crest. 103.9±2.3 95.0±2.0 100.6±3.8 92.5±2.3 .772
Midthigh. 57.2±1.0 53.1±1.0 57.4±1.3 53.6±0.8 .285
Hunger score.3.3±0.3 4.4±0.5 2.9±0.3 4.2±0.5 .709
Anxiety score. 85.1±5.0 64.5±5.4 67.1±8.1 65.4±6.1 .139
Hostility score. 66.9± 5.2 66.4± 3.9 72.6±7.6 60.9± 6.7 .318
Depression score 72.1±5.9 67.9±4.7 67.7±6.9 62.4±5.0 .913
*Probability determined by analysis of variance from F ratio for individual differences between initial
and final values.
462 DECEMBER 1977 * 127 * 6
CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN AND OBESITY
group before treatment. It is clear that patients
lost weight quite satisfactorily indicating a high
degree of adherence to the 500 kilocalorie diet.
The injections of HCG, however, provided no additional
effects that could not be accounted for
by the diet alone. We conclude, therefore, that
HCG used in the manner prescribed by Simeons
does not enhance the rate of weight loss, nor
does it significantly reduce hunger or change the
ratings of anxiety, hostility or depression.
Although a number of other studies using HCG
in the treatment of obesity have been carried
out,1' there appear to be only two that found
HCG may be effective in treating obesity. The
recent study by Stein and co-workers4 was designed
in much the same manner as the present
study, except that mood ratings were not examined.
However, they reached the same conclusion.
With the now overwhelming body of
evidence suggesting that HCG is no more effective
than placebo in the treatment of obesity, it would
seem that further efforts to perpetuate the Simeons
method could only be financially motivated.
Therefore, we feel that the 20 year history of
the use of HCG in the treatment of obesity should
come to an end because injections of placebo
appear to be equally effective in all respects.'2
REFERENCES
1. Simeons ATW: The action of chorionic gonadotropin in the
obese. Lancet 2: 946-947, 1954
2. Albrink MJ: Chorionic gonadotropin and obesity? Am J Clin
Nutr 22:681-685, 1969
3. Bray GA: The Obese Patient, Philadelphia, W B Saunders,
1976, chapter 9
4. Stein MR, Julis RE, Peck CC, et al: Ineffectiveness of
human chorionic gonadotropin in weight reduction: A doubleblind
study. Am J Clin Nutr 29:940-948, 1976
5. Young RL, Fuchs RJ, Wolfjen MJ: Chorionic gonadotropin
in weight control. JAMA 236:2495-2497, 1976
6. Crout JR: Chroionic gonadotropin. Federal Register 39:
42397-42403, 1974
7. Bray GA (Ed): Obesity in Perspective, Fogarty International
Center Series on Preventive Medicine, Vol 2. Washington,
DC, US Government Printing Office, 1976, pt 1, p 7
8. Silverstone JT, Turner P, Humpherson P: Direct measurement
of the anorectic activity of diethylpropion (Tenuate Dospan).
J Clin Pharmacol 8:172-179, 1968
9. Zuckerman M, Lubin B, Robins SJ: Validation of the Multiple
Affect Adjective Checklist in clinical situations. J Consult
Psychol 29:594, 1965
10. Asher WL, Harper HW: Effect of human chorionic gonadotropin
on weight loss, hunger, and feeling of well-being. Am J
Clin Nutr 26:211-218, 1973
11. Bray GA, Greenway FL: Pharmacological approaches to
treating the obese patient. Clinic Endocrinol Metab 5:455-479,
1976
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Lancet 2:1282-1284, 1961
Protocol of Taking Blood Pressures in Children
Most often it's very difficult in an office practice to take blood pressures in patients
under 2 and 3 years of age. However, I think there's a great need for us to be
doing this; and we need to develop our techniques and our sensitivities to be able
to determine blood pressures on every physical examination that we do on a
child. I believe that pediatricians should devise a special protocol in taking blood
pressures. .-. . They should take a blood pressure with the patient standing or
sitting; and then they should take the blood pressure following exercise. I think
this would be terribly important. Many of us know that when a child first comes
into a physician's office and is rather nervous, the child's blood pressure might
be elevated as a result and perhaps the results of a blood pressure determination
done at home by a parent might be much more significant, so that you can use
this as a guideline.
-PHILIP L. CALGANO, MD, Washington, DC
Extracted from Audio-Digest Pediatrics, Vol. 22, No. 1, in the
Audio-Digest Foundation's subscription series of tape-recorded
programs. For subscription information: 1577 East Chevy
Chase Drive, Glendale, CA 91206.
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