Efficacy of lemon fruit can inhibit the growth of cancer cells

Efficacy of lemon fruit can inhibit the growth of cancer cells - This fruit is very fresh when served with drinks and food. The content of vitamin C are also many benefits to the body. In addition to toning properties, it turns out lemons are also useful for the treatment of cancer, which is to slow the growth of cancer cells. There was also a lot of other benefits, what are the benefits and other advantages, such as in the quotation er to the Huffington Post following.

Enzyme

Lemon helps the liver to expel toxins from the body through natural enzymes contained therein. It also triggers the bodys overall health and keep skin clean.

Calcium

Citric acid in lemons role in cleaning calcium deposits in the blood vessels, pancreas, and kidney stones at the same time.

Antioxidants

Lemon accounted for a high dose of antioxidants in the body in the form of vitamin C in it. Eating lemons also effective to reduce wrinkles in the face.

Immune system

Vitamin C is also an immune system booster which counteract fever and flu.

Electrolyte

Lemon is a good source of electrolytes because it contains potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Electrolytes are tasked to prevent the body from dehydration and maintain its functions in order to keep it running smoothly.

Circulatory

Flavonoids in the fruit juice are compounds that improve blood circulation, blood pressure control, and reduce inflammation.

Acidity

PH or acidity levels in the body can be kept balanced with diligent eating lemon.

Cancer

Lemons contain citric pectin and limonoids were shown to inhibit the spread, growth slows, and kill cancer cells.

Thats 8 health benefits of fruit juice for the body. You can try it in a practical way, namely by making the lemon juice and drink it every morning. With regular drink it, you will get the properties.

Spicy Herbed Breadsticks My Guestpost for Sangeetha

Doing guest post to a co-blogger is quite interesting, recently i got a message from Sangeetha of Recipe Excavator asking whether i can do a guest post for her. Who will say no to this great opportunity, immediately we chitchat through mail and she kindly asked me to make something baked for her with stepwise pictures. She was asking me from a long why am not posting stepwise pictures, as most of you know i have almost more than 2000posts in my space, coz of this space contraint i couldnt post stepwise pictures.

I truly used this opportunity to make a stepwise pictures of my guest post for Sangeetha. Initially i want to make some cake but finally i decided to make this excellent,super delicious spicy herbed breadsticks,they came out pect. She was quite happy for getting her requested stepwise pictures from me and this breadsticks i prepared for specially for her.

2cups All purpose flour
1cup Whole wheat flour
1tbsp Active dry yeast
1tsp Sugar
1tsp Salt
1/2cup Luke warm milk
2tbsp Olive oil
2tbsp Coriander leaves (chopped)
1tsp Red chillyflakes
1/2tsp Dry Oregano
1/2tsp Dry Thymn leaves
1tbsp Butter (room temperature)

Add the yeast,sugar and salt to the luke warm water and keep aside until the yeast turns foamy.

Take the flours in a bowl with chopped coriander leaves,red chilly flakes,dry oregano and dry thymn leaves,add gradually the foamy yeast,olive oil and water.

Knead as a soft and smooth dough,cover the bowl and keep the dough in a warm place for two hours..

Once they doubled their size,punch down the dough,dust the dough with flour and roll them as a medium size long rope like strips.

Arrange the rolled breadsticks over a baking sheet lined over the baking tray.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Arrange the baking pan in middle rack of the oven and bake for 25-30minutes until the crust of the bread stick turns golden brown.

Brush immediately the bread sticks with the butter.

Serve warm with a bowl of soup.

Benefits of Avocado

Health Benefits of Avocado

Avocado Butter

Benefits of Avocado - Avocado is including special fruit because they contain 20-30 times more fat than other fruits. Benefits of Avocado fat can provide enough energy as it consumes. Type of fat in Health benefits of avocado found in fruit avocado is an unsaturated fat, which is easily digestible and useful to the body. Thus Spake, an avocado provides a high enough energy behind it is tasty and delicious and not bitter.

Almost all parts of the avocado tree has its advantages. Benefits of Avocado tree useful for wood fuel. Seeds and leaves can be used in the garment industry. Shell can be used for dyeing leather products brown. In the field of beauty, avocados are frequently used as a facial mask. The fruit is able to make the skin firmer. Avocado is also useful for hair care materials, such as cream bath.

Avocado Garnish

Nutritional Benefits of Avocado

95 mg phosphorous,
23 mg of calcium,
1.4 mg of iron,
9 mg of sodium
1.3 mg of potassium
8.6 mg niacin
660 mg of vitamin A,
82 mg of vitamin C.

5 Health Benefits of Avocado 

1. Avocados are the best sources of carotenoids from the carotenoid and phytonutrient. Avocado, also known as the fruit that offers not only various types of carotenoids like beta carotene, alpha carotene and lutein, but also lesser-known varieties of this type of phytonutrient such as neoxanthin, zeaxanthin, chrysanthemaxanthin, neochrome, beta-cryptoxanthin and violaxanthin. Every time you eat foods rich in carotenoids, your body will receive a lot of good intake of vitamin A for eye health. Carotenoids also enhance immune system function and improve the health of the reproductive system function. Carotenoids are fat soluble, thus optimizing the absorption of nutrients.
2. Anti-inflammatory effects of the combination of the nutrients in Avocado offers great benefits as an anti-inflammatory (anti-inflammatory). The unique combination of avocado such as Vitamins C and E, carotenoids, selenium, zinc, phytosterols and omega 3 fatty acids help to prevent inflammation. This suggests that the avocado can help prevent or reduce the risk of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid disease.
3. Protein Avocados provide all 18 essential amino acids needed for the body to form a complete protein. In contrast to the proteins in meat are difficult to digest for most people, Avocado protein is easily absorbed by the body because it also contains fiber. If you are trying to reduce the sources of animal protein in the diet, or if you are a vegetarian and want to look for more protein, avocados can be a good nutritional choice.
4. Avocados provide the type of beneficial fat healthy fats our bodies need. Such as olive oil, avocados can increase levels of HDL ("good" cholesterol). HDL cholesterol may help protect against damage caused by free radicals. Even this type of cholesterol can also help regulate triglyceride levels and prevent diabetes. Unsaturated fats, vegetable fats in avocados have a high unsaturated. Fats are useful for lowering blood cholesterol (LDL), which means it can prevent stroke, high blood pressure, cancer or heart disease. Unsaturated fat in avocados is also easy to digest the body so as to provide maximum results in the body. Unsaturated fat in avocados also contain anti-bacterial and anti fungal. A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that a vegetarian diet, which includes HDL fats, can reduce levels of LDL ("bad" cholesterol).  
5. Heart health in the Avocado fat content is often considered a bad influence on health. In fact, fat is actually very good for protecting the health of your heart. Studies have shown that oleic acid in avocado can improve heart health. Oleic acid is the major fatty acids in avocado. Oleic acid, oleic acid is a powerful antioxidant that can capture free radicals in the body due to pollution. Free radicals in the body will cause a variety of health complaints.

 You can get the Benefits Of Avocado fruit to eat every day. All fruits have their efficacy, including Avocado Fruit. It is time consuming Avocado fruit from now. Prevention is better than cure!!

Why Grains ARE Important For Most People

Its been a while since Ive talked about grains. Like over a year. Too long. Ive written Why You Dont Need Grains, about why you dont need grains. Duh. And Whole Grain Destruction, providing some hard science on the pitfalls of whole grains. Oh, and then there was Modern Wheat, explaining the difference between the wheat of the past and the wheat we eat today. Despite the nutritional shortcomings discussed in these articles though, most nutritionists still recommend a grain-based diet like the one depicted in this here food pyramid. Yes, its outdated, weve moved on to the Plate now. The philosophy is still the same.

As a nutrition professional, I think its important to talk to other nutrition professionals and understand their views on things, as they often differ from mine. Sometimes you learn something new from considering someone elses perspective.

I can remember one situation when I was doing my counseling internship at Student Health Services at UConn. I was shadowing a dietitian there, and a client that day mentioned that she didnt eat bread; she had heard we didnt need it in our diets to be healthy. Being the intern, I kept my mouth shut and let the counselor handle it. Of course, her advice was that we DO need bread, as it provides important vitamins and minerals. She may have had a point; ined flour products like white bread are enriched and fortified with B-vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin), folic acid, and sometimes iron. For people who havent eaten vegetables or red meat in six months, maybe ined grain products actually serve a purpose.

So I started thinking... I wonder what it takes to get enough of these nutrients without grains?

B-Vitamins
This section will be short. If youre eating enough calories, its pretty difficult to be deficient in any of these vitamins. In fact, the only realistic way we would see a deficiency is if were getting most of our calories from ined grains that were not enriched; all of the ined grains in America are enriched. B-vitamins are found in meat, eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, veggies, fruits, nuts... pretty much all whole foods. I mean youd have to really be eating straight sugar or butter all day to not get enough of these. Theyre a non-issue. Next!

Folate
I say folate, not folic acid, because folate is the natural form found in food. Folic acid is the form added to foods (like grains) and used in supplements. This folate stuff is pretty darn important... its needed for several reactions involving DNA, which is the foundation for every cell in the body. Its also been found to be extra important in pregnancy; adequate folic acid levels can prevent the birth defect spina bifida.

Most of the food sources of folate are plant foods, with liver being the exception. Too bad liver is disgusting. I wish I could choke it down, I really do! Anyway, some of the best sources are greens and beans. Nice, that rhymed.

What does a full day of folate look like for a non-pregnant person? Glad you asked, here are a few examples:

• 1/2 cup steamed spinach, 1/2 cup steamed collard greens, 1/2 cup kidney beans, 1/2 cup green peas
• 1/2 cup lentils, 1 cup raw spinach, 1/2 cup asparagus, 1 small orange
• 1/2 cup black beans, 1 cup steamed broccoli, 1 cup romaine lettuce, 1/2 cup Brussels sprouts
• 6 oz. beef liver (Yuck.)

Some folate may be lost in cooking as well, depending on how long its cooked, so theres that to worry about too. 

You can get to the RDA for folate, sure. But is your average schmo doing this? No. Good thing those cheap grains are fortified with folic acid. And this doesnt even take into account a pregnant womans requirements, which are 50% higher. :-o 

Iron

This stuff.

First, its important to note that men and women have completely different iron requirements. According to the RDA, men only need 8 mg/day, while women need 18 mg/day. Premenopausal women, that is... losing all that blood every month has its consequences. After menopause, iron requirements for women drop back down to 8. Men should never have an issue getting enough iron. Women, on the other hand, have a little more trouble; girlies have a 6-10x increased risk of developing iron-deficiency anemia! (1)

The best sources of iron are animal foods. Clams, oysters, and liver are your most iron-rich foods. Red meat and poultry are second. And then weve got some random plant foods like pumpkin seeds, white beans, and lentils that sport nice iron profiles. Plant iron is less bioavailable than the animal type though, so the hard numbers are a little misleading.

The following are realistic ways to get 18 mg of iron in your day:

• 2 cups kale, 1 cup steamed broccoli, 1 oz cashews, 1 cup edamame, 1/2 cup lentils, 1 medium baked potato, 4 oz boneless chicken breast, and 6 oz ground beef
• 1/2 cup steamed spinach, 1/2 cup white beans, 1 oz pumpkin seeds, 1 1/2 cups roasted red potatoes, 5 oz chicken thighs, 3 oz shrimp
• 1 cup roasted Brussels sprouts, 1/2 cup steamed Swiss chard, 1/2 cup prunes, 1/2 cup olives, 3 fried eggs, 1 oz canned clams, 6 oz sirloin steak
• 10 oz beef liver (Okay, not realistic. Yuck.)

Thats kind of a lot of food, no?? You women have a tough life! Sure, a determined, health conscious woman would have no problem with this kind of intake, but your average American? Hell naw. Probably a good thing those junk breakfast cereals are fortified with iron.

Okay. Obviously we dont need grains in our diet. Theres nothing special in grains that we cant get elsewhere. But for the average person who doesnt give a crap about his or her diet, eats Hot Pockets and McDonalds all the time, and hasnt touched spinach since the 90s... theyre pretty important. Folic acid and iron are vital, especially for certain populations... pregnant women in the case of folate, young women in general in the case of iron.

If its nutrient density and optimal health youre after, theres no reason for you to eat grains in any significant amount. But most people arent you. If youre an average American, I say you need them. Call me crazy. 

Top 10 Links of the Week 4 30 10 – 5 6 10

So much good stuff going on this weekend: Mothers Day, beautiful weather (in NYC), and tonights Season 4 premiere of Friday Night Lights, the best hour-long drama on TV. 

But before any of that: Clear eyes! Full hearts! The links!

1) New York Times: For Corn Syrup, the Sweet Talk Gets Harder
HFCS has taken a huge publicity hit in the U.S. the last couple of years, and it’s being lected in sales. Less money is never a good thing for any business, so food manufacturers are taking steps to replace corn syrup with real sugar. Honestly, I don’t know how much better that is anyway, but HFCS admittedly kind of freaks me out. So … yay?

2) Almost Frugal: You vs. the Grocery Store
LOVE this post about combating supermarkets’ subtle ways of getting you to buy extra stuff. Think of it like a casino: go in with a plan, and you’ll walk out with your pants still on. (Um … you know what I mean.) (Thanks to Casual Kitchen for the link.)

3) Frugal Green Family: Considering a CSA? Weighing the Pros and Cons
For those of us still on the fence about a CSA share, this fabulously thoughtful post should seal the deal, either way.

4) Get Rich Slowly: The Savvy Shopper’s Guide to the Farmers’ Market
Need help navigating your farmer’s market? Go here. Do it now. Before you start cluelessly wandering your local produce gathering like a noob. Heh. Noob.

5) Surviving and Thriving: I glean ketchup packets. So what?
“Want to be considered weird, embarrassing or just plain cheap? Be frugal among people who aren’t.” In her new blog, MSN’s Donna Freedman discusses life as a frugalist, and why some people look at it weirdly (but probably shouldn’t). Good stuff.

6) Publix Penny Pincher: How to Make Your Cashier Love You
I first read the title as “How to Make Your Cashier Make Love to You.” Needless to say, it’s not about that. BUT, these simple supermarket tips will turn grocery shopping into a much more pleasant experience for everyone involved. Remember: Cashiers are people, too! (People who enjoy making love.)

7) HuffPo: A Table, Les Enfants! Dinner Is Served!
Neat piece about mealtime cultural differences between the author’s American family and French in-laws. At home, she’s always eaten quickly, mostly for fuel. Abroad, she parks her derriere and takes the time to enjoy the frommage. Tres bien.

8) stonesoup: 10 tips for optimum vegetable storage
Yes! This! Your parsley will never wilt prematurely again. (Photo courtesy of The Kitchn.)

9) Non-Meat Athlete: 7 Steps to Eating Less Meat Now
We all know that consuming less beef, poultry, and pork is better for our health and bank accounts. But how do we start? This guy knows. Oh, how he knows. (Thanks to Casual Kitchen for the link.)

10) The Atlantic Food: Among Dorms and Dining Halls, Hidden Hunger
Hey low-income college kids! Do you want an education, or do you want to eat? Unfortunately, more of you are being forced to make that decision. Fortunately, there are an increasing number of food programs being created to address the problem. Still, yikes.


HONORABLE MENTION

Associated Press: Expert: Surface area of Gulf oil spill has tripled
The AP piece is a few days old by now, but it’s still a solid overview of the Gulf catastrophe. This NYT article is newer, and explains how it might affect our seafood supply. What a mess, people.

Casual Kitchen: Meat Versus Miles - Why Less Meat is Better Than Going Local
Ideally, you can be doing both and still saving some cash. But slowly phasing meat out is a tad more effective.

Culinate: Gas vs. Electric Cooktops
I grew up on electric, and started using gas when I began renting. I will never switch back. And you can punctuate it. (Photo from Wikimedia.)

Food Politics: Where Do Farm Subsidies Go? Now We Know.
It’s your tax dollars at work. In the fields. For major corporations, mostly.

Get Rich Slowly: Getting Paid to Lose Weight with Healthy Wage
Is competing for a cash prize a good way to drop some pounds? Adam Baker is gonna find out. His Healthy Wage team has three months to lose, with $10,000 at stake.

The Kitchn
How Does a Food Lover Maintain a Healthy Weight?
Whipping Cream or Egg Whites: Soft, Firm, and Stiff Peaks - A Visual Guide
Link #1: Huge comment thread chock full of sweet suggestions.
Link #2: Ooo! My angel food cakes will be much happier now.

Money Saving Mom
Freezing Homemade Baby Food
Is Freezer Cooking Really Worth it?
Link #1: Looking to cut down on Gerber jars? Here’s how.
Link #2: Crystal’s first reason alone is enough to make me want to try this. Dishes are the scourge of humanity, people.

My Paper Crane: the dirty dozen cheat sheet
Need a super-cute graphic reminder of what organics to buy? This is your post.

NY Times: Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds
Dude. Nature ALWAYS wins. This could be very not good. Or just the opposite, if it’s publicized enough.

Serious Eats: Are There Foods You Can’t Keep in the House?
M&Ms. I will eat every one of them in a single sitting, lick the bag when they’re gone, and snort the air for chocolate dust particles afterward.

Simple Bites: Ten Ingredients You Must Have on Your Spice Rack
Guest poster Lydia Walshin runs down a list of her ten essentials, including a surprising #10. While I might add cloves, it’s a solid roundup.

This Mama Cooks: Healthy Comfort Food Weekly Meal Plan
It’s essentially a recipe roundup, but it’s a REALLY good recipe roundup. I want to go to here.


AND ALSO

The Seattle Times: Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day
Favorite. Story. EVAH. 13-year-old Erik Martin is struggling with cancer, and loves superheroes. So, Make-A-Wish got most of Seattle together (seriously, it’s a cast of thousands) to turn him into one. I swear, this will warm your heart, kidneys, spleen, and every inch of your intestines. Go now!

Betty White SNL Promo
If you can’t catch FNL, go for SNL. The second take nearly made me cry laughing. St. Olaf, represent!



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Lifestyle Changes That Motivate Weight Loss

(Article first published as How to Motivate Your Weight Loss Lifestyle on Technorati.)

It’s a fact that nearly three-quarters of adults and an alarming number of children fall into the overweight or obese category with potentially devastating effects to their health and psychological well being. The vast majority of these people have tried valiantly to lose weight but have failed despite their best efforts. A big part of the problem is that sustainable weight loss must become a seamless part of your lifestyle, with proper planning and food portion control central to your success.

Planning to Lose Weight

You’ve tried to lose weight before and came close to hitting your ideal weight, but just couldn’t seem to maintain your diet and exercise routine for long term results. This happens because you haven’t properly planned to lose weight, and your powerful survival instinct takes charge causing you to eat all the bad foods that caused your weight gain initially. The only way you can overcome this is to develop a plan you can live with for the remainder of your life and incorporate it into your permanent lifestyle.

Don’t Estimate Serving Sizes

When we’re hungry, we tend to make very poor decisions on the proper foods to eat as well as the serving sizes we consume. According to a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, participants were less likely to correctly identify the number of calories in a food item if they were presented with a high calorie choice before a lower calorie option. The results show that estimated calories were 38% lower, a significant discrepancy which can sabotage your weight loss plans.

Make Healthy Weight Loss a Lifestyle Priority

Making even the smallest lifestyle change will be a difficult task and require much discipline and effort. Altering your diet to promote weight loss may be one of the most difficult tasks you will undertake, but the results are so rewarding and worthwhile. 

Before beginning, you must make a commitment to yourself to see your actions through to the end. Before completing your goal, you’ll need to incorporate these changes as part of a new lifestyle and never look back. You’re in this for the long term, so speed is not an issue, and an occasional dietary slip is inevitable and won’t knock you off course.

Get a Food Scale, Accurate Measuring Cup and Progress Journal

You should attack weight loss in the same way you would take on any critical project – assemble all the right tools to ensure your success. Purchase an accurate food scale and assemble all your measuring cups, tablespoons and teaspoons. These will be your keys to success, as you cannot accurately estimate food portions and weights. 

Start a food journal where you chart every food item eaten, portion size and calories. Be sure to include any between meal snacks, as these can really drive up your daily calorie totals. Also keep track of your weight, exercise and any other pertinent activities.

The sobering fact is that only 1 out of 20 people is able to lose more than 10% of their body weight and keep it off for at least a year. This is because many people don’t begin their weight loss journey with the commitment to make permanent lifestyle changes. Once you have made the decision to drop those excess pounds for good, incorporate the proper tools which will lead to sustainable weight loss.

Butter Beans Masala Sundal

 Navarathiri is around the corner and i miss this 9 days of festivals.When i was in India during this 9 days, we never failed to go to temple and do poojas. Eventhough we dont keep golu, we will go to our friends and neighbours houses during this festivals to enjoy the poojas and sundals they gives us at the end of the pooja. Every year, navarathiri makes me nostalgic and wish a year ill be in India to celebrate this 9 days of festivities.Everyday for this 9 days celebrations, people whoever celebrates will definitely make different sundal and gives it to everyone whoever visiting their home for the pooja. Its a tradition and obviously everyday its will be different sundal.

Eventhough i dont celebrated navarathiri at home, i love to make variety of sundals for our evening snacks. Sundal makes a nutritious and healthy snacks as they are prepared with legumes. Any legumes works wonder for making sundal and for todays post am sharing here a delicious, nutritious and flavourful sundal.Usually we make a tempering and add the cooked legumes, for a change i prepared a coarse paste of spices and added it after tempering, seriously this coarse paste of spices makes the difference. Am sure if you make this masala sundal once, you will definitely make all your sundal this way.Coming to this butter beans masala sundal, they tastes fantastic,nutritious and quite filling, an excellent evening snacks to enjoy without any guilt. Sending to WTML guest hosted by Asiya, event by Gayathri and to MLLA 64 guest hosted by Lourdes Princy, event by Lisa and Susan.

2cups Butter beans (soaked & pressure cooked)
1tsp Mustard seeds
1tsp Urad dal
Few curry leaves
Salt
Oil

To Grind:

1no Onion (diced)

3tbsp Coconut (grated)

1tsp Fennel seeds

2nos Red chillies
4nos Garlic cloves
1tsp Peppercorns
1tsp Cumin seeds

Grind all the ingredients given under to grind as bit coarse paste without adding water.

Heat enough oil in a kadai, add the mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves, fry until they turn brown.

Add immediately the grounded coarse paste,salt and cook for few minutes.

Now add the cooked beans and cook everything in simmer for few minutes.

Cook until the butter beans gets well coated with the masala paste.

Serve as snacks.

Kodubale IC Challenge

Kodubale, the famous ring murukku this is how we call it. Kodubale is our this months Indian Cooking Challenge and Valli shared two recipes of this kodubale, one is from Sumas space and the another one from Lathas space. I chosed Lathammas recipe coz of peanuts, as i ran out of them i couldnt able to do Sumas version. Ill making her version soon as everyone at home enjoyed munching these cuties.Coming to this kodubale, this is a quite famous snacks in Karnataka eventhough Andhralites shared almost a same murukkus called chegodilu, we have already tried for Indian cooking challenge and you can see them here.

While am rolling the dough, my lil one was very curious and helped me to roll some, he just loved it and very much proud of rolling these kodubale. He couldnt stop himself calling his grandparents saying that he rolled perfectly these ring murukkus.Yep kids will definitely have fun and those lil hands will help you very much while making this murukkus. Dont forget to ask them to help you, that too if you are preparing kodubale in huge quantity.With a wonderful coconut flavour and crispiness, these kodubale are quite addictive.

2cups Rice flour
1/2cup All purpose flour
1/2cup Wheat flour
1/2cup Roasted gram flour/pottukadalai maavu
1/2cup Dessicated coconut or kopra
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
1tbsp Ghee
Salt
1tsp Chilly powder
Oil for frying

Dry roast the dessicated coconut and grind as fine powder.

Also dry roast both the all purpose flour and wheat flour in simmer until they turns slightly golden brown.

Now take the flours, coconut powder, asafoetida powder,ghee,salt and chilly powder in a large bowl.

Gradually add the water and turn as a soft dough.

Take a small ball from the dough and roll as a log. Join both the ends to form a ring.Continue the same process until the dough gets finished.

Heat the oil for frying in medium flame,dont put the flame in high.

Gently drop the rolled kodubale to the oil, fry them in small batches until the kodubale gets well fried.

Drain the excess of oil with a paper towel and store in an air tightened box.

Enjoy with a cup of masala tea.

Raw Banana Peels Stir fry Kaya Tholi Thoran

Have you ever tried a stir fry with raw banana peels? you guys have to give a try to this wonderful stir fry. You wont ever trash these peels anymore if you try your hands in making this stir fry. Once you peel the skins of the raw banana aka green plantains, just chop them and cook in water until these peels get cooked.With usual spices, temper this stir fry and cook along with a coconut,green chilly,garlic cloves and cumin seed paste, your kaya tholi thoran is ready. I crossed this thoran long back in this blogworld,but somehow i couldnt able to prepare them earlier.

Last week, i got super fresh raw bananas from Indian store,after making chips with the raw bananas,instead of trashing their peels, i simply prepared this peels as this thoran. I served this thoran with hot piping rasam and everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly.Until i revealed the secret, none at home noticed that this thoran is prepared with raw banana peels.Sending to my own event Healthy Diet-Go green guest hosted by Amurta.

4nos Raw banana peels (chopped)
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
Salt
1/2tsp Mustard seeds
1/2tsp Urad dal
Few curryleaves

To grind:
2tbsp Grated coconut
1tsp Cumin seeds
3nos Green chillies
4nos Garlic cloves

Grind all the ingredients under the list to grind as fine paste and keep aside.

Meanwhile cook the chopped raw banana peels in water with turmeric powder and salt until they get cooked. drain the water.

Heat the oil, let splutters the mustard seeds,urad dal and curry leaves, now add the cooked raw banana peels, grounded paste and salt(if needed) and cook until the raw bananas get well coated with grounded paste.

Serve as side dish with rice and dal.

What to know about Glucose Blood Meters before you Buy One

There are many important things one requires to know before buying Glucose Blood Meters. This is one of the efforts that require being made towards maintain optimal health. A glucometer can facilitate people with diabetes keep better track of their blood sugar levels. Doctors usually advise their patients to keep track of the blood sugar levels so as to identify problem at an early stage.

Many different types of glucose blood meters are available on the market these days. Patients have an option to choose from these varied ranges of devices available on the market. A small bit of blood needs to be placed on paper specially designed to be used in the unit. This will trigger the machine to do its job and process the blood sample. The results will be soon displayed on the screen. The entire process is of huge help for diabetics in a close track of sugar levels in an individual’s blood.

When looking for a glucometer there are certain crucial things one should look into. These include the following listed below:

Test strips

Memory capacity

Size of the device

Display screen

The above listed are only a few of the very important things one needs to take into consideration when buying glucose blood meters.

Remember that the test strips are different for various units. The pricing are also different. The test strips are supplied during the purchase of the unit. Replacing these strips can be an expensive affair. Choosing with care is important to buy the best. Making a list of requirements and budget will help you in this respect.

Researching online will help you get the best glucose blood monitoring device. This is possible via researching on the internet. You need to take some time to compare features and prices online prior to making an investment.

The Medical Home News Question The DMCB Answers Other

The Disease Management Care Blog is happy to serve on the National Advisory Board of Medical Home News.  MHN has important insights and updates on the implementation of Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH).  It also regularly poises a "Thought Leaders Corner"question and prints answers from the PCMH community.

The December 12 issue question was:

What is the single most important issue to overcome in terms of widespread implementation of the medical home model?
A growing shortage of PCPs?
Lack of payer commitment to reimburse care coordination?
Lack of incentives to adopt/implement EHRs?
Lack of sufficient team culture being taught?
Other?

The Disease Management Care Blog naturally answered "other...."

"While I used to think the most important issue was finding generalizable approach to care (template) and an accompanying business model that has consistently been shown to reduce health care costs in a clinically and statistically significant manner, I’m changing my mind. 

The most important issue is the emerging link between accountable care organizations and the medical home to the exclusion of all other approaches to care.  The medical home has had its victories, but much of the published high quality research is from highly integrated settings and even then, it’s unclear if the avoided claims expense is greater than all the indirect and direct costs. We still don’t know if the medical home can succeed in the other kinds of networks being established by ACOs. 

As a result, if ACOs stumble and prove to be an unsuccessful reprise of the 1990s style physician-hospital initiatives, the medical home could be taken down before we know if it can work in non-academic, non-Medicaid community settings. 

This promising baby could be thrown out with the bathwater."

If, despite the DMCBs participation, youre interested in subscribing to MHN, getting your boss to pay for it or giving a years worth of issues as a fitting holiday present, more information can be found here.

Masala Sweet Potato Chips

Am starting again today the 4th week of blogging marathon, this weeks theme is going to be kids delight - Street foods. Who will say no to street foods, especially kids. What is street food? street food is ready to eat food or drink sold in street or in any other public place. Mostly street foods are finger foods and fast food,obviously street foods are cheaper when compared to the foods served in restaurant.You can see a decent bunch of street food stalls everywhere now and we cant keep ourselves away from this foods.

For my first day of this weeks blogging marathon, am posting this masala sweet potato chips. Usually i love to munch these crispy munchies and ill literally beg my mom to get a packet of chips whenever we go out. I know even now, i wont forget to grab a packet of chips whenever we plan to go for a picnic, chips have their important place in our weekend plan too. This sweet potato chips is one among the chips, my kids just love them to munch them. Whenever i make this chips, needless to say how fast these crispies will get vanished. Usually ill go for a chilly powder and salt for spicing this chips,but when i crossed this masala chips at Rumanas space,i really want to give a try and i spiced my chips with chaat masala.You guys have to make these masala chips to know how tasty they are.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#26.Sending to Srivalliss Kids Delight-Street Foods guest hosted by Preeti.

4nos Sweet potatoes (peeled & sliced thinly)
Oil for frying
Red chilly powder (as per need)
Chaat masala (as per need)
Salt

Wash the sliced sweet potatoes and spread them for few minutes over a kitchen towel.

 Heat enough oil, drop gently the slices one by one and fry until they turns crispy.

Remove the chips from oil, drain the excess of oil with a paper towel.

Springle immediately the red chilly powder ,chaat masala and salt, give a quick toss and continue frying the remaining uncooked chips..

Conserve in a air tightened box.

Enjoy munching..



Medicaid Disease Management No Impact on Emergency Room Utilization or Inpatient Costs for Enrollees with Diabetes

Regular readers of the Disease Management Care Blog know that Medicaid is coming. While many of the nations Governors have declined President Obamas invitation to run Medicaid the Affordable Care Act way, others have agreed to use the ACAs generous funding to enroll millions of their indigent citizens into this vastly expanded public insurance program.

"No problem!" says the disease management vendors.  For years, theyve been offering their services to state Medicaid programs and would be happy to expand their contracts.

Unfortunately, an article by Matthew Conti that was just published in the journal Health Services Research suggests that that may not be a good idea.  The articles title is Effect of Medicaid Disease Management Programs on Emergency Admissions and Inpatient Costs.  The only thing thats missing are the words "The Lack of Any" at the front of that sentence.
   
The article studied the impact of diabetes "opt-out" disease management on diabetic patients emergency room utilization and admissions in three states Medicaid programs: Washington (started in 2002), Texas (started in 2004), and Georgia (started in 2005).

These states with were compared to states without diabetes disease management.  These control states were selected on the basis of baseline Medicaid enrollment trends that were similar to the three study states. These control states were Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, Nebraska, South Carolina and Tennessee.

To perform the comparison, Dr. Conti used the Agency for Health Care Research and Qualitys (AHRQ) National InPatient Sample (NIS) from the Health Care Cost and Utilization Project ("HCUP"). These databases contain patient-level and longitudinal hospital information on inpatient stays, including cost, payer, admission type (e.g., emergency, urgent and elective), age, gender, primary payer, and total charges. The span of data that was used went from 2000 through 2008.

A complicated pre-post "difference in differences" model was used to compare baseline vs. follow-up:

1) total inpatient charges/Medicaid enrollment (which averaged $430 per diabetic enrollee, with a 95% confidence interval of $265 to $700) and

2) emergency admissions/inpatient admissions (a ratio of 0.37 per admission with a standard deviation of plus or minus 0.12)  All Medicaid enrollees with diabetes were included in the analysis, whether or not they had been enrolled or opted out.  The author used this approach figuring that if a statewide disease management program enrolled up to a third of eligible persons with diabetes (that was the case in Texas), there should have been an observable impact on the entire population. Thats the approach favored by the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium.
 
The results?  No state with disease management had lower emergency room utilization or inpatient costs for their Medicaid enrollees with diabetes. The DMCB couldnt find a table with numbers, but the figures (which cant be reproduced without permission) show little impact over time.

What can readers conclude?  Assuming that, during the period of study, the three states Medicaid programs suffered from the programs endemic issues of underpayment to providers with a relative lack of access to primary care:

1. "Blanket" call-everyone telephonic disease management cannot make up for fee-for-service Medicaids shortfalls.  It remains to be seen if the ACAs revitalization of Medicaid will make up for this and increase the parallel impact of disease management. 

2) This also means that Medicaids experience with disease management cant be generalized to other types of insurance with better provider payment rates and patient access to care.

That being said, the DMCB has two concerns:

1. If the DMCB is reading this right, it appears all persons of any age with diabetes were included in the study, including Type 1 diabetics.  If thats correct, that could have also blunted the impact of any disease management program, since children are over-represented in Medicaid and the impact of remote telephonic coaching in Type 1 is widely viewed (even among the disease management vendors) to be ineffective.  Insulin-requiring kids need lots of face-to-face hands-on care.

2. The DMCB is unfamiliar with the three study states disease management programs, but if they were set up the "old fashioned way" to contact all persons with diabetes without the modern regard to future risk and "impactibility," then its little wonder that the programs failed.  State-of-the-art population health management tailors its programs by focusing on subsets of persons with chronic conditions that are most likely to benefit.  Any impact on emergency room use or inpatient charges for these patients would be lost in the data "noise" of everyone elses utilization.

Should Medicaid programs that are facing huge jumps in enrollment abandon Medicaid as a result of this study?  Based on this study, the DMCB doesnt think so.  The findings are interesting, but more research is needed.

Tips for cleaning fruits and vegetables are naturally

Tips for cleaning fruits and vegetables are naturally - You certainly know that washing fruits or vegetables with water alone is not enough to eliminate chemicals attached to them. But whether vegetable washing liquid packaging safely used?

If you are often alarmed when using cleaning fluid packaging, now you can use natural ingredients to wash vegetables and fruits. Here are some tips provided by Baeet in the Kitchen for cleaning fruits and vegetables naturally.

1. Make sure you clean the sink. If not, use a large bowl or pan to wash fruits and vegetables.

2. Enter the fruits or vegetables to be washed, then add cold water. Do not put too much fruit or vegetables so there is a gap to clear.

3. Add 1-2 cups of white vinegar, then let stand until 10-15 minutes. After that, wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly.

This method can be used for all kinds of vegetables and fruits. If you rinse it with clean, there would be no remaining vinegar taste. When cleaning the fruit, you can gently rubbing them with the hands.

For green vegetables such as lettuce, usually only soaked for one to two minutes, then rinsed. After being washed, should you drain it, because if left wet, lettuce will quickly rot. Lettuce leaf through until slightly dry before storing.

While the fruit is slightly soft fruit such as strawberries or other berries, use one cup of vinegar, then turn around in the water and do not rub. Soak for five minutes, then drain the water. After that, rinse them one by one.

Besides eliminating bacteria, wax, and pesticides that exist on the skin of fruit and vegetables, berry fruit vinegar also helps last longer. Drain the berries first before saving.

You can also clean the fruits and vegetables with sprays. Mix three parts water and one part vinegar. After that sprayed on fruits and vegetables, and rinse thoroughly. Good luck!

6 Ways to get quality night sleep

6 Ways to get quality night sleep - Good nights sleep - at least 7 hours per night - is a must for our body. From the perspective of health and fitness, a good nights sleep can help us stay slim by helping to maintain insulin sensitivity. It also reduces the risk of colds and increase the bodys resistance to stress. A good night sleep also improves memory and brain performance. Here are six ways to get quality nights sleep, as reported by Livestrong.

1. Off lights or reduce the level of lighting at night

Lighting at night can disrupt the production of melatonin and ruin the quality of your sleep. Turn off all lights and electronic devices so that you can sleep in peace.

2. Keep your cell phone close

Radiation emitted from cell phones may increase the amount of time needed to reach the deep sleep cycle and reduce the amount of time spent in the cycle. A small study conducted in 2007, found that radiation from cell phones could actually cause insomnia and interfere with sleep quality.

3. Make your room as quiet as possible

Noise has been shown to decrease the overall quality of sleep. Difficult to fall asleep when people talk loudly or when there are disturbing noises. You can also use ear plugs so the noise does not disturb your sleep.

4. Set sleep schedule and keep to it

You need more discipline to do it, but it could not hurt to try. Wake and sleep at the same time every day, even on weekends though. Your body will not be able to establish an effective rhythm, if you do not obey the pattern.

5. Read something light for 15 minutes before bed

Avoid reading something heavy and can stimulate you intellectually. Use your time to read something light. It can make you relax and sleep soundly.

6. The quality of your mattress

Make sure that the quality of your mattress can make you sound asleep. Mattress clean condition and good quality can support your nights sleep quality.

Heres six ways to get a quality nights sleep. Remember, do not stay up and the frequency of time spent sleeping at night without good reason. Theore, a quality nights sleep affects the productivity and fitness.

Blood Glucose To A1C Conversion Tool by ACCU CHEK

I like this tool so much Im going to post it again:

By the way, it works backwards too. You can either enter your blood glucose (and it will calculate your A1C), or you can enter your A1C (and it will calculate your blood glucose).

These are only estimates!
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Smoking marijuana can lower the risk of diabetes

You would have to know the negative effects of smoking marijuana. But it turns out marijuana also has benefits. Recent research has shown that people who regularly smoke marijuana have a lower risk of developing diabetes.

Marijuana users had lower insulin levels. This indicates control blood sugar better. If the link between cannabis and prevention of diabetes clarified, then it is likely researchers will develop diabetes treatments using the substance in cannabis, namely THC (tetrahydrocannabinol).

The study, published in The American Journal of Medicine found that people who smoke marijuana regularly have insulin levels 16 percent lower compared with those who never smoked marijuana.

Those who used marijuana also known to have a smaller waist, while a large waist circumference can increase a persons risk of developing diabetes.

Currently marijuana is generally used in patients with cancer or experiencing severe pain. The use of marijuana as medicine is allowed in 18 states, as reported by the Daily Mail.

The study looked at 4,657 patients. Approximately 579 people use marijuana, 1,975 marijuana use in the past but had stopped, and 2,013 people have never used marijuana. Insulin and glucose were then measured through participants blood samples after fasting for nine hours.

As a result, users of cannabis had insulin levels 16 percent lower than those who had never used marijuana at all. Murray Mittleman of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center also explained that in previous studies researchers found that rates of obesity and diabetes is lower in cannabis users.

Although the substance in the cannabis plant is known to control and prevent diabetes insulin, Indonesia would allow the use of marijuana for treatment?

Health benefits of coconut water

coconut water

Coconut water provides numerous health benefits to us. It could potentially be the greatest energy drink in the world, to top it off, it’s all-natural. Low in calories, naturally fat- and cholesterol free, more potassium than four bananas, and super hydrating - America’s latest health craze: It contains more potassium than the majority of energy drinks. The chloride it holds is at 118g, and it’s natural sugars extent to about 5mg. 

Coconut water is the juice or liquid inside an immature green coconut and it is best to drink when it is more than 5 months as the water will have a bitter tinge if consumed earlier. Its water is one of the nature’s most reshing drinks, consumed worldwide for its nutritious and health benefiting properties.
 
The coconut palms grow abundantly along the coasts of tropical environments.Botanically, coconut plant belongs within the Arecaceae family of palm trees and has the scientific name: Cocos nucifera.

The coconut tree has been called the "Tree of Life" for its uncanny (nearly miraculous) healing properties and usefulness. A study of the coconut tree reveals an almost supernatural evolution to become one of the most useful species of plant life known to man.
 
Coconut palm flourishes well along the costal tropical environments. A coconut tree may yield several hundred tender nuts each season. Different species of coconut palms are grown all over the tropics. Naturally, their taste and flavor of water show variations according to saline content in the soil, distance from sea shore, mainland, etc.

tender coconut

The palm can yield 150 to 200 coconuts a season and each coconut contains 200ml to 1000ml of water depending on its cultivar size and type. This water is rich in vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, enzymes, amino acids and cytokine. This water is now popular all over the world for its reshing nutty taste as well as its health benefits.

Any nuts younger than five months of age tend to be bitter in taste and devoid of nutrients. In contrast, mature nuts contain less water, and their endosperm thickens quickly to white edible meat (kernel). Coconut milk obtained from the meat is theore should not be confused with coconut water. Coconut milk is obtained by grating and grinding this ‘meat’ and passing it through a sieve. It is very high in fat content – a cup of coconut milk has 550 calories whereas coconut water has only 50 calories a cup.

Surprisingly, Coconut water is more nutritious than whole milk. Its crammed with Natural Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to block out fatigue. Drinking coconut water straight from a green tender coconut in the summer heat is simply divine. Not only is it reshing, it also has a number of health benefits. Most importantly, coconut water contains less sodium than any other energy drink. See the table below for in depth analysis of nutrients:

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	354 kcal (1,480 kJ)
Carbohydrates	24.23
- Sugars	6.23
- Dietary fiber	9
Fat	33.49
Protein	3.33 g
Water	47
Thiamine (vit. B1)	0.066 mg (6%)
Riboflavin (vit. B2)	0.02 mg (2%)
Niacin (vit. B3)	0.54 mg (4%)
Pantothenic acid (B5)	1.014 mg (20%)
Vitamin B6	0.05 mg (4%)
Vitamin C	3.3 mg (4%)
Calcium	14 mg (1%)
Iron	2.43 mg (19%)
Magnesium	32 mg (9%)
Phosphorus	113 mg (16%)
Potassium	356 mg (8%)
Zinc	1.1 mg (12%)
Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. Source: USDA Nutrient Database

Fresh tender coconuts are readily available in the markets in tropical countries year around. However, they require importation into the semitropical and cold regions. Nowadays, ready to use prepared tender coconuts are made available in USA and Canada imported from Thailand and Malaysia.

In the stores, coconut water sold in packets, and bottles. However, their overall nutritional profile may not be up to the mark in terms of vitamins and enzyme levels, since some kind of additives and preservative added in order to enhance shelf life.  

Health benefits of coconut water:
Coconut water is very beneficial after a bout of diarrhoea, as it replaces fluid loss. It is rich in amino acids, enzymes, dietary fibre, vitamin C and minerals such as potassium, magnesium and manganese; at the same time it is low in cholesterol and chlorides. This fluid is ideal to maintain body fluids when a person gets dehydrated. Coconut water contains a good amount of electrolyte potassium, thus it can replenish the electrolyte composition in body fluids. 

Coconut water was used as a “universal donor”, making it identical to human blood plasma. It was used in the Pacific War to save thousands of lives through Coconut IV’s, and emergency plasma transfusions.

A study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine suggested that coconut water can be successfully used as a short term intravenous hydration fluid for hydration and resuscitation of critically ill patients in the remote regions of the world where medical resources are not available. Other health benefits are as under.

Quick energy boost
Abundant in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, Coconut Water makes a wonderful energy drink. In particular, coconut water has less sugar and sodium content compared to most sports drinks, while packing more Potassium, Calcium, and Chloride, which makes it a better choice to rehydrate, replenish and boost the bodys energy levels after any strenuous activity or workout. 

Weight Loss
Coconut water is a natural electrolyte and isotonic beverage which help increase the bodys metabolism. Theore, it can greatly benefit people who are struggling with weight issues. Drinking coconut water helps a person to lose weight as it is low in fat and it keeps a person feeling full. It also reduces food cravings.

Useful in aging spots, wrinkles, and other skin problems
Researchers have found that Cytokinins help regulate the cell growth and their divisions. Coconut Water contains these cytokinins and lauric acid which can minimize the aging of skin cells, balance PH levels, and keep the connective tissues strong and hydrated. Theore, simply applying ccoconut water onto affected skin areas every night before going to bed may help with acne, age spots, wrinkles, stretch marks, cellulite, and eczema. Within two to three weeks, it clears up the skin.

Cardiovascular health
Coconut water promotes health as it is rich in potassium and it also helps to reduce the risk of hypertension and strokes. According to researchers, individuals with high blood pressure usually have low potassium levels. Theore, drinking coconut water on a regular basis can be quite effective at regulating blood pressure. 

There are several animal studies suggesting coconut water can lower cholesterol and blood pressure, but this research is too preliminary to make claims about it’. But they do agree that coconut water may be a healthier option as compared with other beverages. Similarly, some recent studies have found that coconut water can help increase HDL (good) cholesterol, which makes it a wonderful natural treatment for maintaining good cardiovascular health.

Dehydration
Rich in Potassium and other minerals, Coconut Water helps to regulate our internal fluids and replenish and rehydrate the body. It has been used to treat dehydration caused by dysentery, cholera, diarrhea and stomach flu, and the electrolyte balance and plasma in coconut water has been found to be similar to that of human blood. 

Theore, drinking one cup of Coconut Water twice daily during digestive tract abnormalities, hot temperatures, and after strenuous workouts can help rehydrate the body quickly.

Good in diabetes 
It is good for diabetics as it is good in nutrients required by diabetics to keep their sugar levels in control.

Anti viral
If you are suffering from flu or herpes due to some type of viral attack on your body, drinking coconut water is very beneficial as it has anti viral and anti bacterial properties.

Reduces the risk of kidney stones 
Due to the minerals, potassium and magnesium, present in coconut water the risk of kidney stones is greatly reduced.

What are the side effects of coconut water?
Fresh coconut water is one of the best natural drinks on the face of the earth. It doesnt have any known side effects unless somebody is prone to having allergic reactions or have severe nut allergies. 

It is considered to be safe for children, pregnant, and breastfeeding women. If you are taking potassium supplements it is recommended to regulate your potassium levels since Coconut Water is high in potassium.

NOTE: Once a coconut is cut open the water should be consumed as exposure to air can result in loss of nutrients. It is low in fat though rich in vitamins and the potassium level is twice the amount found in banana.

The Latest Cavalcade of Risk Is Up!

The latest Cavalcade of Risk happens over at Lynch Ryan Workers Comp Insider. Light bulbs, threats to health worker safety, coming costs for individual health insurance, the regulatory environment, claims management and the details behind life insurance are among the many interesting topics for your risky reading pleasure.

Enjoy!

Antiaging skin care

�Antiaging skin care' is a very poplar concept in today's world. Today everyone wants to hide their age using antiaging scrape care procedures (besides a number of people are noteworthy too). However antiaging skin care is not achieved by any magic potion. �Antiaging gall care' is about qualification. It is about being proactive. Antiaging skin strain is retarding the ageing process. Here are a few tips owing to proactive antiaging scrape care:

1. Maintain healthy eating habits: A well balanced diet is the key to maintaining a apt body metabolism. Eat a batch of fruits and vegetables (raw), they are the first-rate jumping-off place of fibre and have a very reshing effect on your body. Avoid oily and fatty food; not only attain they shrinking in essential nutrients but also cause obesity and far cry diseases which aid the aging process

2. campaign stress: This is casual the most capital antiaging skin care measure. Stress disturbs the body metabolism and accelerates the aging plan. Sleep, exercise and a relaxing bath, are exhaustive right ways of beating pressure. Aroma-therapy is again known to bust stress.

3. Drink a lot of water: Antiaging skin care can't be any simpler than this. Water helps in flushing out the toxins from the body, hence keeping it clean and making it less prone to disease. Around 8 glasses of water (per day) is recommended by whole-hog doctors.

4. unique movement is a pretty antiaging skin difficulty procedure. again toning your muscles, rightful again helps in cleaning the skin by flushing out the toxins string the form of examine. Exercise should be followed by a warm deluge in command to entirely remove the toxins.

5. avoid the use of strong, chemical based merchandise on your skin. Natural skin care products are a good option. Use of organic canker care goods (inland made or commercial) can represent a very driving antiaging skin accountability measure.

6. effectuate not overuse skin care produce. Excessive and harsh application, both are harmful.

7. Do not ignore canker disorders; it liability establish to permanent skin maraud. one's darnedest through the counter medication and if that doesn't help, immediately visit your dermatologist and seek his/her advice.

8. Vitamin C based skin misfortune products are very popular instrument of antiaging sore care. However, these seem to oxidise very quickly (which makes them harmful for the skin). So store them properly. If the product turns Yellowish brown, positive influence that vitamin c has oxidised and the prodct is no longer profitable in that use.

9. Protect your skin against UV radiation ; UV rays are known to speed augmenting the aging process. So, a felicitous sunscreen lotion should buy for a part of your antiaging skin care view.

Bothersome pain afflicts half of older Americans

More than half of older adults in the United States – an estimated 18.7 million people – have experienced bothersome pain in the previous month, impairing their physical function and underscoring the need for public health action on pain. Many of those interviewed by investigators for a study published in the current issue of PAIN® reported pain in multiple areas.

The interviews, which included assessments of cognitive and physical performance, were completed by trained survey research staff in the homes of study participants living in the community or in residential care facilities, such as retirement or assisted-living communities. "Pain is common in older adults and one of the major reasons why we start slowing down as we age," says lead investigator Kushang V. Patel, PhD, MPH, of the Center for Pain Research on Impact, Measurement, and Effectiveness in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington.

The researchers gained several insights from the new study:

- Bothersome pain afflicts half of community-dwelling older adults in the United States.
- The majority of older adults with pain reported having pain in multiple locations, such as in the back, hips, and knees.
- The percentage of people with pain did not differ by age, even when researchers accounted for dementia and cognitive performance.
- Pain was strongly associated with decreased physical capacity. Older adults with pain, particularly those with pain in multiple locations, had weaker muscle strength, slower walking speed, and poorer overall function than those without pain.

The researchers analyzed data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), which was designed to investigate multiple aspects of functioning in later life and is funded by the U.S. National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. Investigators conducted in-person interviews with 7,601 adults ages 65 years and older who were enrolled in the NHATS in 2011. All were Medicare beneficiaries.

The overall prevalence of bothersome pain in the last month in the study group was 52.9%. Pain did not vary across age groups, and this pattern remained unchanged when accounting for cognitive performance, dementia, proxy responses, and residential-care living status. Pain prevalence was higher in women and in older adults with obesity, musculoskeletal conditions, and depressive symptoms. The majority (74.9%) of older adults with pain reported multiple sites of pain.

Several measures of physical capacity, including muscle strength and lower-extremity physical performance, were associated with pain and multisite pain. For example, self-reported inability to walk three blocks was 72% higher in participants with pain than without pain. Participants with one, two, three, and four or more sites were 41%, 57%, 81%, and 105% more likely to report inability to walk three blocks, respectively, than older adults without pain.

"Considering that pain is often poorly managed in the geriatric population, our findings underscore the need for public health action, including additional epidemiologic research and the development and translation of interventions aimed at improving pain and function in older adults," Patel concludes.

Population aging is occurring in nearly every country of the world. Not only are the number and proportion of older adults increasing globally, but the older adult population itself is getting older as well. Gains in life expectancy at older ages have fueled the rapid growth of the oldest-old segment of the population, although it is unclear whether improvements in functional status of older adults have kept pace. Since disability in late life is a major predictor of medical and social service needs, investigating risk factors for functional decline is a major public health priority. Todays published study in PAIN® by Patel and colleagues clearly identifies the high burden of pain in the older adult population.

Type 2 Diabetes Rates Increasing Among Teenagers

A poor diet and lack of exercise arent leaving their mark on just adults.

Researchers who analyzed data from the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) found that 1 in 10 boys (10%) and 1 in 25 girls (4%) between the ages of 12 and 19 had a pre-diabetic condition. For overweight teens, the rate jumped to 17.8%. After an 8-hour fast, these adolescents had a blood glucose level between 100 and 125 mg/dl, a condition known as impaired fasting glucose (IFG).

People with IFG are at increased risk for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease as they age.

For adults, theres evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent this progression. From the National Institutes of Health (NIH):

"Progression to diabetes among those with pre-diabetes is not inevitable. Studies have shown that people with pre-diabetes who lose weight and increase their physical activity can prevent or delay diabetes and even return their blood glucose levels to normal. "

The study was published in the November issue of Pediatrics. The authors are examining whether these rates may have increased in the 5 years since their analysis.

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For a summary of the study:
Study: 2M Adolescents Have Pre-Diabetes

For the study itself:
Prevalence of Impaired Fasting Glucose and Its Relationship With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in US Adolescents, 1999–2000

5 Symptoms of a sleep disorder that needs to be known

5 Symptoms of a sleep disorder that needs to be known - Rights that people frequently experience insomnia every night is. If you often have trouble sleeping, you are suffering from sleep disorders. Try to identify the first symptoms, as reported by ABC News following.

Still exhausted

ve Slept for eight hours a day, but when you wake up, the body is still feeling fatigue. If this is the case, you may be suffering from a sleep disorder. Because the normal sleep cycle will actually make the body more fit when you wake up.

Snore

Try asking couples who sleep with you, if hes told you snore while sleeping? Some people believe that snoring is harmless. But snoring can also be an indication of sleep apnea disorder - a condition when breathing stops a few seconds while sleeping.

Fell asleep during the day

While reading, watching television, or driving, whether you are asleep? It is normal if you are lacking sleep the night before. But if it happens many times despite hours of sleep a night is filled, it is one of the symptoms of sleep disorders.

Wakeful

Some people who are used to staying up finally closed his eyes hard. If left unchecked, this fact can be dangerous insomnia. Theore when you have trouble sleeping more than a month, immediately contact your doctor to ask for help.

Other symptoms

Besides sleeplessness, do you also often wake up in the night because of depression, nightmares, or chronic pain unbearable? If so, sleep disturbance may have led to other problems that need to be taken seriously.

That the various symptoms of sleep disorders that need to be known. Contact your doctor immediately if you have symptoms mentioned above.

Saturday Throwback Defending the Doyenne The Semi Cheap Kind of Healthy Goodness of Rachael Ray

Every Saturday, we post a piece from the CHG archives. This one is from November 2007.

From The Onion

Yes, she plugs Dunkin Donuts.

Yes, her recipes occasionally dont work. (The applesauce in this one? Takes almost 45 minutes to mushen.)

Yes, she undertips on her $40 a Day show, the nutritional aspects of her 30-Minute Meals are occasionally questionable, and if I hear “yummo” one more time, I’m going to kill a kitten.

Yet, undoubtedly, Rachael Ray is one of the best things to happen to American kitchens in the last 20 years.

Sweet, sweet Anthony Bourdain was pretty rough on her in his Time interview (“She genuinely offends me.”), but I think he might have confused her with She Who Shall Not Be Named. And while some of his criticism was warranted (seriously, WHY is she shilling for Dunkin?), most of it was a wee bit off.

Think about it. No other ‘90s and ‘00s cheflebrity (not even Emeril) has driven average citizens back to their stoves like Ray has. Nor has anyone else made sort-of upscale cooking look as affordable and achievable. Oh, it’s easy to rag on the ear-splitting accent and the kitchen-sinkiness of some of her meals, but Ray-Ray’s good points far outweigh the bad. In fact, let’s break ‘em down:

She encourages fresh ingredients. Though Rachael’s the spokesperson for donuts, Munchkins, and other assorted sugar, her shows nearly always highlight produce and non-processed foods. I’ve never seen her break out a pre-chopped onion or a store-bought meal base. And while her dishes may be high in calories and fat, they don’t contain half as many bizarro chemicals as most convenience foods.

She tries to keep things vaguely affordable. As opposed to other, more upscale TV chefs, Rachael thinks like a middle-class mom, focusing somewhat on frugality. She may use a large number of ingredients, but most aren’t particularly exotic or expensive. Plus, she’s pretty good about mentioning thriftier substitutes.

She stretches. You will never find authentic Mughal Indian or Indonesian dishes on 30 Minute Meals. You might even raise an eyebrow at what she calls Greek food. However, Rachael often tries to bring one or two ingredients relatively unfamiliar to American palates into her cooking. It’s a solid way to introduce kids and finicky adults to foreign cuisines without overwhelming them, and she should be lauded for it.

Her recipes are available for free. Sure, Ray-Ray makes sweet bank off her cookbooks, but as of this morning, 1558 recipes were on Food.com, and several hundred more were listed at her personal website (stunningly, at RachaelRay.com). She doesn’t HAVE to do that, and would make even more moolah if she didnt. Yet, its a concession she make for her economy-minded fans. Its really great, actually.

She knows her audience. Maybe this is an insult to those who believe all cooking shows should be aimed at French Culinary grads, but working moms can’t be braising beef or whipping up a gelee every night of the week. Rachael aims her food at families and/or young people getting into a kitchen for the first time, not professional or even proficient chefs. That’s why her dishes are relatively simple, fresh, and fast. In her case, brevity is the soul of food, not complexity. And that’s just fine.

Her food isn’t intimidating. I’ve been to two of Mario Batali’s restaurants, and the man doesn’t make dinner; he makes manna. Alas, trying to duplicate those dishes at home would be extraordinarily time-consuming, expensive, and well beyond most folks’ humble culinary expertise. For better or for worse, Rachael avoids cooking methods that busy people would find unmanageable. Like Bourdain says, taking the path of least resistance should never be encouraged (especially in the kitchen) but again, she’s marketing to home cooks with massive time constraints.

She’s not a chef, and doesn’t pretend to be. Ms. Ray is not a dummy. (Loud, yes. Dumb, no.) She knows her limitations, admits them readily, and tackles the big, bad job of meal-prepping anyway. That takes guts, as well as some level of competence in the kitchen. Ray/Batali didn’t beat Flay/DeLaurentiis on Iron Chef because they got lucky.

I’ve now spent the first day of my thirties defending a celebrity. If youll excuse me, I’m going to the bathroom to wash my brain, but if anyone has any other convincing arguments for or against her, bring ‘em! I’d love to read.