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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 »

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 »

7 Stealth Health Foods

May 6

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Power up your diet by expanding your menu with the healthiest foods you can eat.

 

More Than Just a Plate of Veggies

Call ‘em Rodney Dangerfoods. They get no respect. Consider celery, the Bloody Mary swizzle stick. Or Kohlrabi, kale’s black sheep cousin, which sounds more like a throat-clearing than a root vegetable. These are just two of many underappreciated and under-eaten foods that can instantly improve your diet. Make a place for them on your plate, and you’ll gain a new respect for the health benefits they bestow—from lowering blood pressure to fighting belly fat. And the best part? You’ll discover just how delicious organic health food can be.

 

Celery

This water-loaded vegetable has a rep for being all crunch and no nutrition. But ditch that mindset: Celery contains stealth nutrients that heal.

Why It’s Healthy: “My patients who eat four sticks of celery a day have seen modest reductions in their blood pressure—about 6 points systolic and 3 points diastolic,” says Mark Houston, MD, director of the Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital, in Nashville. It’s possible that phytochemicals in celery, called phthalides, are responsible for this health boon. These compounds relax muscle tissue in artery walls and increase blood flow. And beyond the benefits to your BP, celery also fills you up—with hardly any calories.

Eat It: Try this low-carbohydrate, protein-packed recipe for a perfect snack any time of day.

In a bowl, mix a 4.5-ounce can of wild Alaskan salmon (rinsed and drained), 1 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, 1/4 cup of finely chopped onion, 1/4 cup of finely chopped apple, 2 tablespoons of fat-free mayonnaise, and some fresh ground pepper. Then spoon the mixture into celery stalks. (Think salmon salad on a log.) Makes 2 servings.

Per serving: 114 calories, 15 grams protein, 12 grams carbohydrates (3 grams fiber), 1 gram fat

 

Seaweed

While this algae is a popular health food in Japan, it rarely makes it into U.S. homes.

Why It’s Healthy: “Seaweeds are a great plant source of calcium,” says nutritionist and fitness expert Alan Aragon, contributing editor at Men’s Health. They’re also loaded with Read the rest of this entry »

Weekend Diet Tips. Don’t let your off days make you fat!

May 3

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Saturday and Sunday backsliding can erase your fitness gains made during the week. Here’s how to party like a rock star and still feel fit on Monday.

IF YOU PLAN TO . . .

. . . party:
* Pencil in at least one longer workout later in the week to counteract the extra weekend calories you’ll no doubt consume.

* Take a break from your typical routine to cross-train or, say, attend a boxing class. You’ll burn more fat as you put demands on different muscles. Take a swim instead of your typical stint on the elliptical machine; or play basketball or soccer. Maybe swap a short run for a longer one that includes sprints and hills.

* Try to start Saturday and Sunday with a healthy breakfast, even if you’re waking up later. It’ll rev up your metabolism. Successful weight control is consistently linked to breakfast-eating.

. . . chill at home:
* Jump on the scale on Saturday morning, and plan to do it again on Monday. Researchers say people who weigh themselves are better at weight control.

* Variety is the cornerstone of a healthy diet, but having too many options spells doom for persistent snackers. Restrict afternoon snacks to one healthy choice, such as almonds, popcorn, or pretzels. No refills!

* Avoid mindless eating while you commune with your DVR. Leave food and drinks in the kitchen. When food’s directly under your nose, you eat more. Read the rest of this entry »