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Movie Stars’ 7 Smartest Power Food Picks

May 16

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Kimchi

Star Status: Oscar nominee and Les Miserables and Wolverine star Hugh Jackman is so enthusiastic about this traditional Korean staple that he cohosted an episode of the Kimchi Chronicles cooking show!

Power-Food Perks: Nearly every Korean meal features this spicy fermented dish that almost always features cabbage and sometimes other veggies like cucumber and radishes. It’s loaded with immune-boosting properties that promote better digestive health. And get this: In 2005, Seoul National University researchers found that a majority of chickens fed kimchi extract in their study recovered faster from bird flu!

Miso Soup

Star Status: Mother Nature Network reports that Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway traded in pizza and other junk food for the a vegan diet plan that included the likes of miso soup and other plant-based picks to comfortably squeeze into the skin-tight Catwoman costume in Dark Knight Rising. Read the rest of this entry »

The 7 Best Stress-Fighting Foods

May 14

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Your dietary dilemma: Instantly gratifying your anxiety-induced urge to eat won’t help you keep your cool, but neither will skipping meals altogether. The solution? “On a stressful day, you don’t have to be a nutritional star,” says Heidi Skolnik, nutritionist for the New York Giants. “You just don’t want to make an already bad day worse.” Here’s how to make it better, and keep stress whipped into submission all day long.

7. When You’re in Gridlock : Gridlock adds half an hour to your commute.

Stress antidote: A Starbucks skim-milk chai latte and half a bagel with cream cheese. The carbohydrates in the bagel provide energy, and they’re balanced by protein from the milk in the latte, which makes you feel alert. And both items are portable.

6. When You Have a Big Presentation: The IT guy never reserved the PowerPoint projector for your departmental presentation.

Stress antidote: Milk, hold the coffee and sugar. Stress may lower your levels of serotonin, one of the body’s critical stay-calm chemicals. But milk contains whey protein, which Dutch researchers found can help boost tryptophan, one of the building blocks of serotonin, by 43 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

Father’s Day Gift Solutions-Health

May 13

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This Father’s Day, June 16, is the perfect opportunity to show all the dads in your life just how much they mean to you.

Over the years, the Father’s Day gift has become synonymous with the impersonal and the uninspiring — the tie, the socks, the bottle of cheap aftershave to add to the unopened collection maturing beneath the bathroom sink. So come June, every American with a father who wants to do something different traipses through the mall and struggles to come up with a new answer to the annual question: What can I get my dad for Father’s Day that is not a tie, nor socks, nor aftershave? Well, why not give him a healthy Father’s Day gift this year? What about something that might make him feel better, either physically or mentally? What about giving him unique gift from LaimisEnergy — Personal Training Package to help him stay active every day? When you give a dad the gift of fitness, you are helping him open a door to better health (both physically and mentally). I can’t think of a more thoughtful gift that shows the recipient how much you care about his well being. By giving the gift of fitness you are providing him with unlimited health benefits. And, it’s a gift that you can truly feel proud to give. Of course, we all know that exercise can help people stay slim and fit. But, do you also know about all the other great benefits of exercising? Daily physical activity reduces stress and can help you sleep better. Fitness has been linked to reducing the risk of some diseases and to warding off depression. Researchers also believe that strength training can help prevent osteoporosis. Not to mention that exercise also improves self-esteem, increases stamina and ultimately helps you be able to do continuous work for longer. Do you agree with me????? …Then Take A Moment and call me, Laimis, Tough Love Personal Trainer.

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Your “Happy Hour” Herb Garden

May 13

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Herb gardens dedicated to cocktails may be trendy, but where I was raised, cocktail gardens were called mint beds, which are still as common in the South as kudzu. Today, cocktail enthusiasts have gotten creative in what we grow and how we present our herbs.

Container gardening is really a must to keep the herbs from going invasive. Pots also allow for portability indoors during colder temperatures, and, on a shallower note, they can just look pretty as a grouping. Spring’s last frost is my cue to begin planning my summer cocktail garden, using either seeds saved from last year’s incarnation or new small plants nabbed as soon as they’re available.

Even without alcohol, all of these herbs jazz up practically any beverage or dish. At parties, I guarantee guests will be delighted not only by the clever presentation of herbs, but also by the fun elixirs resulting from your creative and hospitable efforts.

 

Mint

‘Kentucky Colonel’ is the king of cocktail mints, being soft, creamy, and sweet with a hint of lemon. Branch out on occasion with chocolate, lavender (with a floral accent), and lemon (more citrusy) mints. Lightly bruise the delicate leaves into juleps and mojitos to release their flavorful oils and play around with pairing mint with melons, berries, peaches, and ginger. Added as a syrup (syrup recipe at the end of the slideshow), mint gives any drink a sweet and sprightly kick. Just don’t skimp on garnishing glasses with it.

Grow it: Mint thrives in containers. Buy some seedlings at your local nursery, and in spring, plant them in a container that you can place in a partially shaded or sunny spot.

 

Basil

Sweet basil has the fullest, sweetest, most complex earthy flavor, and lemon basil has strong lemon undertones. Use it in drinks that normally feature mint (a basil julep can be a pleasant surprise), but also try it in tequila- and rum-based drinks, like margaritas, daiquiris, planter’s punch, fruity martinis, and gin or vodka gimlets.

Grow it: Aim to have about three pots of basil, since you’ll use a lot. Buy a packet of seeds and plant eight each in Read the rest of this entry »

8 Ingredients You Never Want to See on Your Nutrition Label

May 8

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The year was 1950, and The Magic 8-Ball had just arrived in stores. It looked like a toy, but it wasn’t. It was a future-telling device, powered by the unknown superpowers that lived inside its cheap plastic shell. Despite a bit of an attitude—”Don’t count on it,” “My reply is no”—it was a huge success. Americans, apparently, want to see their futures.

A few decades later, Congress passed the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act that, among other things, turned the 45,000 food products in the average supermarket into fortune-telling devices. Americans inexplicably yawned. I’m trying to change that. Why? The nutrition label can predict the future size of your pants and health care bills.

Unfortunately, these labels aren’t as clear and direct as the Magic 8-Ball. Consider the list of ingredients: The Food and Drug Administration has approved more than 3,000 additives, most of which you’ve never heard of. But the truth is, you don’t have to know them all. You just need to be able to parse out the bad stuff. Do that and you’ll have a pretty good idea how your future will shape up—whether you’ll end up overweight and unhealthy or turn out to be fit, happy, and energized.

Here, I’ve identified 8 ingredients you never want to see on the nutrition label. Should you put down products that contain them? As the Magic 8-Ball would say: Signs point to yes.

8. BHA:

This preservative is used to prevent rancidity in foods that contain oils. Unfortunately, BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) has been shown to cause cancer in rats, mice, and hamsters. The reason the FDA hasn’t banned it is largely technical—the cancers all occurred in the rodents’ forestomachs, an organ that humans don’t have. Nevertheless, the study, published in the Japanese Journal of Cancer Research, concluded that BHA was “reasonably anticipated to be a carcinogen,” and as far as I’m concerned, that’s reason enough to eliminate it from your diet. 

You’ll find it in: Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles

 

7. Parabens:

These synthetic preservatives are used to inhibit mold and yeast in food. Read the rest of this entry »