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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Slow Cooker Butterkin And Nuts

Ever tried a butterkin squash? It’s a variety of winter squash that’s a mix between a butternut squash and pumpkin!...

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How to stop sugar sneaking into your child’s diet

(CNN)A lollipop after a morning doctor visit. A cupcake for a classmate’s birthday with lunch. A bag of cookies, gummies or a few little doughuts before after-school activities begin.

And dessert is still a few hours away.

Even the word “snack” — once thought of as a healthy, energizing source of calories for children — can seem like a euphemism for a sugar solution IV these days.

“Sugar (specifically fructose) is metabolized in the liver just like alcohol,” said Dr. Robert Lustig, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. “This is why children are getting the diseases of alcohol, like type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease, without the alcohol. These are diseases that were unheard-of in children prior to 1980.”

According to the CDC’s 2014 diabetes report card (PDF), more than 5,000 new cases of type 2 diabetes are estimated to be diagnosed among Americans younger than age 20 each year.

There’s also been an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome in adolescents; that’s a cluster of conditions, including increased blood pressure and excess fat around the waist, that can increase diabetes and heart disease risk. Lustig’s recent research, published in the Public Health Nutrition journal, found that it wasn’t the fault of the pounds that sugar packs on to young people; it was another result of excess sugar.

“Sugar doesn’t cause disease just because of its calories. Sugar causes disease because it’s sugar,” Lustig said. “Thin people get metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes, too. Obesity increases the risk, but sugar is an independent risk factor apart from calories or obesity.”

Sweet suggestions

So what can parents do to keep sugar from overtaking their kids’ diets? Here are a few suggestions from experts.

Don’t deprive your kids of sweets.

Despite the consequences, health professionals agree that parents shouldn’t deprive their child of sweets.

“Sugar is not a ‘toxin’ that must be excluded from a child’s diet,” Isoldi said. “Often, children who have sweets restricted and feel deprived will not learn how to regulate sweets. Instead, they often overindulge whenever the possibility is presented.

“The key is to help children find a balance with food, helping them learn how to enjoy healthy foods and enjoy (and self-regulate) treats.”

Even Lustig agrees. “I’m for dessert — for dessert. I’m not for dessert for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks,” he said.

Allow children one sweet treat or dessert per day.

Good choices include animal crackers, vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt. However, if kids are set on having chocolate chip cookies, this should not create a “food fight,” Isoldi said. And — deep breath — don’t restrict portions, even if it makes you anxious to watch.

“Parents should let their little one decide on the amount to eat, because only allowing one or two cookies will create a restrictive environment that is counterproductive.” That doesn’t mean that you have to offer the whole box, however. You can start by giving your child two cookies, but instead of saying, “You may have ONLY two cookies, do you hear me?” you can instead say, “Here are two cookies. Oh, you want three? Sure.” The idea is that your child should be able to learn his or her own internal satiety cues, which can ultimately help prevent eating issues later in life.

Keep fruit drinks, soda and sugary beverages out of the house.

“There’s no nutritional benefit to drinking sugar-sweetened beverages,” Isoldi said. AND although liquid calories can still add up, you don’t feel as full as you would from solid foods. The result? People who drink sugary beverages don’t necessarily cut back on their calorie intake to compensate.

For an alternative to soda, dilute 4 ounces unsweetened juice with 4 ounces seltzer water and flavor with lemon, lime or other fresh fruit.

Watch out for sugars in foods that you don’t think of as sweet.

Keep an eye on breads, sauces and condiments by searching ingredient lists for names such as high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, glucose, sucrose or other words ending in “ose,” evaporated cane juice, brown rice syrup, malt syrup and molasses. Food packages will soon list “added sugars” as a separate line on nutrition labels, so the amount of these sugars will no longer be “hidden.”

Remember, even natural sugar is sugar.

Many people think that “natural” sugars like honey and agave are healthier than ones that are more highly processed, like sucrose or table sugar. But when you look closely, you see that all of these sugars contain fructose and glucose. And while honey may offer some antioxidants, you would probably have to consume a lot of honey calories in order to experience any health benefits. Honey and agave are actually sweeter than table sugar and contain more calories: One teaspoon of sucrose has 16 calories, while 1 teaspoon of agave or honey has 21 calories.

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This doesn’t mean foods containing natural sugars aren’t healthy. But how these natural sugars are packaged matters.

A piece of whole fruit like an apple contains naturally occurring fructose, but it also delivers 4.4 grams of fiber, thanks to the peel and pulp. Apple juice, on the other hand, lacks fiber and is a more concentrated source of sugar and calories. This translates to a more rapid rise in blood sugar when you drink juice — and may even help explain why eating whole fruit, including apples, has been associated with decreased risk for type 2 diabetes, while greater consumption of fruit juices has been associated with a higher risk, according to a Harvard study published in 2013.

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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

BBQ Pork & Butternut Squash Skillet

13 Stuffed Paleo Recipes

These stuffed recipes are sure to get your mouth watering! Stuff mushrooms, peppers, pears and even mango with protein and veggies...

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Parents who feed children vegan diet face prosecution under proposed Italian law

Centre-right MP says he wants law aimed at protecting children from diets that can leave them lacking in iron and other vitamins

An Italian politician is calling for laws that would see parents prosecuted for imposing vegan diets and other reckless and dangerous eating behavour on their children.

Elvira Savino, the deputy of the centre-right Forza Italia party, has proposed legislation that would see parents who give their children aged 16 and under an inadequate diet sentenced to up to six years in prison.

Known as the Savino law, it aims to stigmatise the reckless and dangerous eating behaviour imposed by parents … to the detriment of minors, reports Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

It encompassed vegan diets those without meat, eggs, dairy or animal products of any kind which Savino said can leave children lacking in the iron, zinc, B12 and other vitamins necessary for their development.

Savino, who worked in public relations before being elected a parliamentarian in 2008, wrote in the introduction to the law that the belief that a vegetarian diet, even in the rigid form of a vegan diet, results in significant health benefits was becoming more widespread in Italy.

There is no objection if the person making this choice is an informed adult. A problem arises when children are involved.

To counteract ideological excesses linked to diet, she proposed a one-year prison sentence for the basic offence, extended if the child is aged under three.

The suggested penalty for parents whose children became sick or injured as a result of malnutrition ranged from two years and six months to four years, and four to six years if death resulted.

But the Italian Society of Food Science rejected Savinos assertions, with president Andrea Ghiselli telling La Repubblica that diets containing excessive sugar and fat were of greater concern than the risks of deficiency of a vegan diet.

The proposal follows a string of high-profile cases of malnutrition brought on by veganism.

A one-year-old boy in Milan raised on a strict vegan diet was last month removed from his parents custody after he was found to be severely malnourished, weighing just 5kg.

Levels of calcium in his blood were said to be at the lowest necessary for him to survive and he underwent emergency surgery because of a heart condition, the English-language Italian news site The Local reported.

In June, a two-year-old toddler spent several days in intensive care in a pediatric hospital in Genoa, being treated for vitamin deficiencies as a result of her vegan diet.

In mid-April last year, an Italian court ruled that a woman in Bergamo, northern Italy, must cook meat for her son at least once a week following complaints from the boys father.

She had been raising him on a macrobiotic diet, the Local reported.

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Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin cookies are a sweet fall treat that will get you in the mood for the upcoming festive holiday season....

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Inside Ryan Lochte’s extreme Olympic Games training diet

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Every Friday of his life, Ryan Lochte has pizza and wings. It doesnt matter if hes in China, Houston, or Rio, he will find it and eat it. Dominos is everywhere. Because this is a family tradition, and you cant let down your family.

In the lead-up to the Rio Olympics, we spoke with Lochte after a training practice, about the meals he eats the night before big races. And by big races we mean head-to-head-with-Michael-F*cking-Phelps. Watch him in the mens 200m individual medley on August 10.

First of all, this guy takes in 7-8,000 calories a day. I dont get sick of it, he said, referring to the act of eating itself. When I first started [professionally swimming], I was eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and now Ive stopped. I was just constantly eating, and I was getting tired of eating. My jaw was getting sore. But I guess Ive been doing it for so longIve been doing it for 12 yearsthat its eerie now. If Im not eating, then something is wrong.

The 8K day begins with eggs. Ha! Did we say eggs? We mean five to six eggswith spinach, tomatoes, and ham

And hash browns (or some kind of potatoes).

And pancakes.

And oatmeal (I love oatmeal).

And fruit.

And French vanilla coffee with one sugar and cold milk.

But Lochte doesnt casually whip this up himself, in an apron over his Speedo, oh no. He has a chef. Me behind the kitchen is not so good, he said, Ill burn down the place. So Glenn Lyman, who used to be Lebron Jamess personal chef, takes care of that part of things. Lyman keeps the protein high, and to stick to Lochtes favorite foods, which are everything. Except beans.

I really dont like beans.

About a week before a competition, he carbo-loads. A week of spaghetti, fettuccine Alfredo (chicken alfredo is my favorite), any and all carbs, plus chicken, steak, proteins like that.

Then, two or three hours before a race, hell have another full meal. No energy drinks, just a caffeine pill after that morning coffee, which replaced his soda habit (because my weakness is soda.) If hes hungry in between events, a peanut butter Kind bar is always in his bag.

Hes been really getting into health trends, too. The other day, he had spiralized pasta, or as Lochte put it: Instead of regular pasta, I had this cucumber pasta.

Did he like it?!? I was just like, oooh, when I saw it I was like, Yeah, Im probably going to vomit from this. This doesnt look good. Wheres my other pasta? It was definitely good, he told me. I would have it again, but I would want a big old steak next to it or something. I need something else than that.

To replace his soda addiction, Ive been drinking water with You know those little drops? We work out that he means the lemonade flavored MiO drops.

In other lifestyle blogger foods, hes been having one of the other most popular food trends of the decade for breakfast every morning (well, three or four of them)but Ill let you guess which one by the description: You get a piece of toast and then you put some avocado, mushed up avocado, and you spread it on the bread. Plus, Lochte likes to add spinach, a sunny-side egg, hot sauce, and tofu sausage. Anything tofu Im just, Im loving it.

That said, theres still that Friday cheat day of pizza, wings, and Mountain Dew. Its a family tradition and Ive been doing since I was eight years old, and Ive only missed it six times in my life. If youre wondering: Ranch or blue cheese? Blue cheese all the way.

After a huge event, say, the Olympics, its more than pizza and wings for Lochte. Im going to a steakhouse and Im getting a big, fat steak, he said, I love filets. Anything, really. The bigger the better. Its going down one tube, so Im okay with that. On the side Im eating French fries, I love sweet potatoes, cooked vegetables, broccoli. And replace that Mountain Dew with a big, red Cab.

The Duckhorn Cab, that is hands-down my favorite. Ive been to vineyards, Ive been to all these different wine places. People try to get me to taste other wines. I taste it, but Im like, Nope, Duckhorn is still my favorite.

And in the dessert course of this hypothetical celebration meal? I dont really do desserts, he said, If I did it would have to be mint chocolate chip ice cream, the green kind, not the white kind.

But none of these food habits are set in stone, he said. I just go with the flow, because I always thought if people that have rituals, say, something happens where your phone dies and you cant call your mom or something, and something gets out of place where its not what youre used to, youre going to get discouraged. Youre going to start freaking out.

Thats energy that I dont want to waste, so if I dont have a routine or a ritual, I just go with the flow, so anything that happens, its new to me.