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Sweet Spot Sweet Spot
- From: LeGreta_Hudson_MS_RD_CDE
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My Sweet Spot
Have you noticed the addition of more sugar substitutes on the market? As an HGTV/Food Network junkie, I’ve noticed more commercials for stevia products. Stevia has been around for years…however it has just become palatable (in my humble opinion). It is made from the leaves of a plant from South America…with a very intense sweet taste. A very small amount…1/2 tsp or a few liquid drops would render some recipes too sweet to eat…...and don’t make a mistake and use a teaspoon
.Stevia is generally recognized as safe by the FDA; However you won’t see it on the tables at restaurants…like the yellow packet (Splenda), blue packet (Equal, NutriSweet) and pink stuff (Sweet’N Low). After attending a diabetes conference last month, where food manufactures sign you up to receive a mountain of samples on your door step weeks later. I finally got the opportunity to try one of the newest Stevia products. The brand name was Truvia. I used it in my coffee…one packet was plenty and there was no aftertaste. WOW…it was pretty good.
It’s packaged like the other non-nutritive sweeteners (calorie free)…but it’s green & white!
I suspect we won’t be seeing it on the tables at restaurants soon… Still a bit pricey!
Most of the other sugar substitutes have information about their cooking or baking ability. PureVia and Truvia hasn’t been released in a useable form for cooking…well, I‘ll take that back. An apple pie recipe I found for Truvia calls for 24 packets. That’s a little inconvenient.
But it does live up to the advertisement… “Our new sweetener is more than splendid. It’s natural.”
I just found my sweet spot!
Le Greta
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- 1 year ago
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Adding STYLE to Lifestyle Adding STYLE to Lifestyle
- From: Jan_Swaney_MD
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In common parleance, we all have a lifestyle. What I mean by this is that we all have a certain pattern to how we work, eat, sleep, exercise, use substances, and spend our free time. Even people who say, “Not me, every day is different and I don’t have a pattern” are expressing a pattern of inconsistency that differentiates them from others who go about their lives in a highly routinized way.
When we think about use of the word “style” in other contexts – like in art, architecture, and design – it conveys an element of structure, planning, and choice. It can be described by a recognizable set of features that allow categorization for purposes of discussion, and it’s in this context that I think we might each look within ourselves and examine our individual “lifestyles.” What’s your style? What’s your plan? Consider this analogy: if your life is likened to a decades-long construction project, what kind of structure are you building? What do your blueprints look like? If you don’t have a set of blueprints, then it’s time to get some!
A recent report from the medical literature1 shows the benefit of having blueprints, i.e. having a plan - and I’d like to share it with you briefly. Adults with pre- or stage 1 hypertension (average BP 135/83 mm Hg) were randomized to 3 groups: 1) general advice only, 2) specifics about planned lifestyle change for BP control (lowering sodium, weight loss, and increased physical activity), and 3) these specifics combined with instruction on the DASH-diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension - which I’ve written about before.)
Researchers found that people in group 1 didn’t do as well as those in groups 2 and 3 with regard to lowering their BP and overall cardiovascular risk, and groups 2 and 3 successfully lowered their risk for future stroke and heart attack. In other words, they got a plan - a blueprint!
Here is what I think a blueprint should look like for most of us:
- Exercise a minimum of 150 minutes per week – and the more the better while avoiding injury. This should include 2 sessions of strength training with the use of weights, exercise bands, or the equivalent resistance work)
- Eat 8-10 ½ cup servings of a variety of fruits & vegetables per day
- Keep saturated fat to no more than about 6% of daily caloric requirements. This will take a 1-time calculation and some daily mindfulness by reading food labels and determining sat fat grams. To find YOUR target amount of saturated fat go to calculatesatfat.)
- Avoid all trans fats
- Supplement with Vitamin D3 (~1000 mg/day) and calcium (more details on this in an upcoming blog)
- Take Aspirin 81 mg/day if you are over 45 (male) or 55 (female) unless you have an allergy or underlying bleeding disorder
- Don’t smoke
- Drink no more than 1 alcoholic drink per day (for women) and no more than 2 per day (for men)
- Get at least 7 hours of good sleep at night (see Jennifer’s recent blog on how to do this without the use of sleep aids)
- Build a social network that helps fill your life with meaningful, supportive relationships
- Find work or volunteer work that helps you feel fulfilled
- Be happy. This is a choice you make. When life gives you lemons, make lemonaide. Buy a pair of rose colored glasses. Find the silver lining in that cloud. Feel (and spread) the love.
JAN
1. Maruther NM, Wang NY, Appel LJ. Lifestyle interventions reduce coronary heart disease risk: results form the PREMIER Trial. Circulation 2009; 119*15):2026-31.
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- 1 year ago
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Health = Friendship and Friend Health = Friendship and Friendship = Health
- From: tracy_korman
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Health = Friendship and Friendship = Health
Don’t you just hate that trite expression – “It isn’t what you know… it’s who you know?” Well it turns out that it is true in a way that you might not have expected. Just knowing how to make good health choices isn’t enough. You need to be connected to people in your life that care that you make those healthy choices. A strong network of friends is an essential ingredient to achieving your health objectives and that is now being supported by real academic research.
Here is a quote from today’s “Well” article from the New York Times:
“Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of friendship and social networks in overall health. A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period than those with fewer friends. A large 2007 study showed an increase of nearly 60 percent in the risk for obesity among people whose friends gained weight. And last year, Harvard researchers reported that strong social ties could promote brain health as we age.”
It makes so much sense that eating, exercising, drinking, smoking and managing stress have very strong social dimensions – we do these things as part of our lives with our friends and relations. Just think how many people you know smoke, drink and overeat when at parties or in other social situations. The social norm seems to approve of and support these decisions.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Why has Weight Watchers and other support-based health improvement approaches had so much success? For one, they are establishing a friendship network that supports eating healthier and exercising more. Because with a strong friendship network that is connected to our shared health, we can all truly live better longer – sound familier?
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- 1 year ago
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My Award Winning Huntingtons D My Award Winning Huntingtons Disease Blog
- From: HeatherDugdale
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I am 25, am experiencing Huntington’s disease symptoms. I am in home care. My family is one of the few in the world who have early onset. I was a Nurse Assistant before I got sick. I made a positive, comprehensive website. It has a blog, Articles, care giving tips, research, ways to fight brain fog, myths, my story, my families’ story, history, ways to have a positive testing experience, and ways to cope. I also put on there the poems I got published in the horizon. I now have my personal support group. I have won more awards in a short period time than any other site, 67. 25 are international Awards. I am on the Top Disability/ Disease Blog List. I also have won the Disability Network Award.
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- 2 years ago
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