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John Oliver has Dr. Oz
The video here is fantastic: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/23/john-oliver-dr-oz-dietary-supplements_n_5521413.html
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Cranberry-Mustard-Marmelade Salad Dressing
This was great on a chicken and napa cabbage dinner salad with beets, cucumber, feta & toasted almonds. The dressing is easy to make in a blender, food processor, or mini food processor. Process together: 1/4 cup fresh or frozen cranberries 2 tablespoons Seville orange marmelade 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons…
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Credit for pounds lost repeatedly?
Don't you wish the tickers would give credit for all those pounds you lost and retrieved repeatedly? My ticker would be extremely impressive instead of showing a wimpy 4 lbs. Harrumph. :wink:
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beets (beetroots) are easy and delish
Right now the beets in our supermarket are huge. With beets, the flavor isn't noticeably affected by the size or color of the beets. I just buy the biggest ones, making sure they are hard like rocks, and, after cutting off the greens, throw them in the fridge where they can sit, quite safely, two or three weeks with no ill…
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Vietnamese Summer Rolls are VERY easy!
Summer rolls are really delish and easy. I won't put a recipe here because you can adjust what you put in them or the sauce you make by what you have on hand. There are plenty of recipes and instructions for rolling them on "the interwebs." This was my first time trying to roll stuff up in rice paper rounds. The…
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Fagioli con Tonno (beans & tuna salad)
A healthy, easy, throw it together salad: just a can of tuna (drained), a can of beans of any type (drained and rinsed), diced veggie (e.g. celery or cucumber), tossed with dressing for a one dish meal. Tonight, we're having tuna, garbanzos, cucumber and a lemon/pesto dressing. Yum. The dressing is just olive oil, lemon…
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How can I gain 3 pounds seemingly overnight?
"Yup, gained three pounds since yesterday. I'm back where I started over a week ago. I guess this TDEE-20% stuff just doesn't work." WRONG!!! Yup, 3 pounds in less than 48 hours. That might cause some of you to panic or quit or something but as an old timer at this weight control thing, I just analyze. Exactly how much soy…
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Be kind to your gut flora! Don't cleanse!
From the NIH: "Gut microbes from lean people helped prevent mice from becoming obese—but only if the animals ate a healthy diet. This research could point the way to new treatments for obesity." -- http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/september2013/09162013obesity.htm Recent research seems to be finding more and more links…
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Must ... put ... iced tea ... in fridge ...
As soon as I finish typing this I'm going to make a great low effort, zero calorie, money-saving "recipe." Fridge tea. All you need is a container, tea bags, water, a refrigerator and time. The tea makes itself in the fridge. I put 4 "family sized" Luzianne teabags in a gallon container and fill it with tap water. I shove…
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Retired, a foodie, and back here again
I was a member of MFP for several months, with daily participation and steady weight loss, about a year ago. I don't think I ever introduced myself that first time around but rather just dove in. Some of you may remember me as my previous user name "Roundgal." Well, I fell off the wagon and slowly went back to my old…
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Tryin PT again --different this time?
My mom, who also has scoliosis, was sent by her dr. to physical therapy and she noticed that they were taking scoliosis more seriously in their working with her so she encouraged me to get a referral for PT. I went to my first session yesterday and it did seem MUCH more scientific and specialized for scoliosis than what…
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Butter & Olive Oil Spread = 1/2 the calories by volume
Homemade spreadable butter/oil mixtures are very easy to make and "make the calories go further" or so it seems. Whip together equal parts softened butter, olive (or other healthful) oil and water. This is most easily done with an electric mixer whisk but can also be done with a food processor. You can use salted or…
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OXYLITE LINKED TO LIVER DAMAGE -- WARNING!!
Sorry for the all caps hollering but please let anyone you know who might be taking this stuff. The Hawaii Dept. of Health identified 24 of 29 cases of liver damage in the last six months to Oxylite and has asked stores to take it off the shelf. Although the feds previously warned about some of the ingredients, since the…
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I can already predict the range of responses ...
We bought two thick pork chops yesterday -- weight a total (including bones) of 1.97 lbs. which is definitely more meat than we usually eat. So, should be have two nights of carving a single pork chop into slices for two or one night of meat-filled delirium? Decisions, decisions.
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I really KNOW what I'm doing wrong.
For the last, oh, three months-ish, I've been on a plateau of my own devising. When the plateau started to morph into a back-up-the-scale slide, well, I REALLY know what I'm doing wrong. 1. Eating too much. 2. Exercising too little, or, truth be told, not at all. In fact, I've always known that was the problem: eating too…
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Article debunks Dr. Oz's 15 Superfoods
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-closer-look-at-dr-ozs-15-superfoods/ There's really nothing much new here if you've been paying attention but if you question any of the debunking in the article, lots of MFPers can shower you with actual science confirming none of the 15 is a magic weight loss aid. As the author says,…
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Smells good chicken
Just whirred up a rub/sauce to put inside and outside the skin of a spatchcocked chicken and it's in the oven roasting on a layer of carrots and celery to keep it moist. It's two clementines (peeled), some fresh cilantro, ginger root, a bit of canola oil, cumin, curry powder, fennel seed, garlic powder, tellicherry…
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Roundgal's September Fresh Start Updates
On your mark, get set, go! 9/1 weight: 260.0 9/1 measurements (loose tape): 51-51-57 Goals are behavioral. New weight and measurement on 9/30 will be the prize. Next weigh and measure: 9/30 Calorie target: 1700/day (TDEE-20%) Exercise target: 30 min./day Log everything eaten and any >0 calorie drinks Snacks after supper…
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New found aphorism appropriate to some MFP discussions
First article I opened to index this morning had this: "Certainly, hoaxes can be highly elaborated, as gravity is the essence of diddling." -- Susan Amper (Poe Studies 36 (2003), p.2) Somehow this spoke to me.
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Frugality of a whole roasting chicken
The current $10.50 roasting chicken ($1.59/lb) resulted in 11 three-ounce (85g) portions of cooked meat plus scraps/bones/etc. to make several cups of strong stock. So that's $0.95/serving plus stock.
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Green'n'leafies
Green, leafy vegetables, the darker the better, may just be the healthiest things we can eat. I am not a rabbit so I strive to hide, disguise, and otherwise alter green leaves in a lot of my cooking. Hints for Tastier Green Leaves: MOST SALAD GREENS CAN BE EATEN COOKED. Sauté mushrooms and add julienned Romaine or other…
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Don't drink fruit juice, eat whole fruit
From: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/eating-whole-fruits-linked-to-lower-risk-of-type-2-diabetes/ "The study appears online August 29, 2013 in BMJ (British Medical Journal). The researchers examined data gathered between 1984 and 2008 from 187,382 participants in three long-running studies ... "People who…
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weights bothering hand bone broken decade+ ago
I broke the metacarpal under my right little finger years ago and it healed fine but it aches as I do weights (and in cold/damp weather but that's a different issue. Any suggestions for what I might do to protect it and reduce the strain on it when I use the weight machine?
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A suggestion for how we keep track through the month
Each of us is doing different things for our kick-start and we want to use the group to encourage each other so I've been trying to think how we can do that easily using the way MFP runs the message boards. What do you think of this idea? -Each of us starts a thread with our usernames in the subject line, e.g. mine could…
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Whole Grains: Easy Brown and Wild Rice in Single Servings
Whole grains are important to our diets but brown rice takes annoyingly long to cook. How to overcome this problem? Cook it in the oven in large amounts and freeze in single servings. Alton Brown's oven method of making brown rice means you don't need to watch it. No more worrying about it boiling over, scorching, etc.…
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Interesting Fructose Article
"The emerging role of dietary fructose in obesity and cognitive decline." Shaheen E Lakhan and Annette Kirchgessner. Nutr J. 2013; 12: 114. Published online 2013 August 8. doi: 10.1186/1475-2891-12-114 URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3751294/ Abstract The incidence of obesity has increased dramatically…
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My fresh start plan
1. Switching from a daily weigher to weighing Sept. 1 and Sept. 30 only 2. Two substantial meals (brunch and supper), which is not a change from my norm 3. Only liquids after supper but that may include a fruit smoothie 4. Daily cardio From _Food in History_ by Reay Tannahill (1973): "In the early centuries AD [Asian]…
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Greek yogurt bargain instructions with pictures
I posted instructions with pictures of how to turn cheap plain yogurt into Greek yogurt here: http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/snack/other-snack/greek-yogurt-bargain.html All you need is plain yogurt, a screen sieve and time to make yogurt thick enough to stand a spoon.
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Butternut Squash Gnocchi
Gnocchi are very handy. They can be made from a wide variety of ingredients and flours. Use the MFP recipe function to figure out how many calories are in a whole batch and set the servings to the number of gnocchi in your resulting batch. That way you know the calories per gnoccho and can count them out for meals of any…
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Sleep and appetite control -- new research
From _New Scientist_ (10 Aug. 2013): "People deprived of a good night's rest are more likely to see changes in brain activity that lead to an increased desire for high-calorie foods. ... Sleep deprivation diminished activity in three areas of the brain that help, among other things, to process odour and flavour signals. It…
