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Friday, November 26, 2010
This Week's Topics
Recipe: Barley Turkey Soup
It's Time We Started Venting About the Vending
Down with the Uppers
Is Your Metabolism Keeping You From Reaching Your Weight Goal?
Barley Turkey Soup
Serves 9

Ingredients
2 quarts low sodium chicken broth

1 1/2 cups diced celery

1 cup medium pearl barley

1 medium onion, diced

3/4 cup diced carrots

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon dried thyme

1 bay leaf

1/8 teaspoon ground allspice

1/8 teaspoon pepper

dash cayenne pepper

2 cups cubed cooked turkey

1/4 cup minced fresh parsley

 

Directions

In a Dutch oven or soup kettle, combine the first 11 ingredients.

Bring to a boil.

Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 30-40 minutes or until vegetables and barley are tender.

Stir in turkey and parsley if desired; heat through.

Discard bay leaf before serving.

 

Nutrition Information

Calories 150, Fat 2g, Saturated Fat 1g, Sodium 175mg, Carbohydrates 19g, Fiber 4g, Protein 14g

 

Source: www.allrecipes.com


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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all had a great day with family and friends. We did not have turkey (or tofurkey!)  at our house, but we still celebrated our gratitude for all that we have. 

Included in that is you! Our SN family would like to extend our gratitude to you, our readers, for reading SNaC Bytes every week. We're thrilled to have the opportunity to share our passion for nutrition, fitness and wellness with you and we hope you're gaining valuable information and tips along the way!

 

Have a healthy and happy week!

~Debra
It's Time We Started Venting About Vending  

vending machineMost vending machines in schools are full of junk food. This is what sells, and it lasts a long time on the shelf. These are both good things for the vending companies, but bad things for your kids' health. In a recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers report that 83 percent of the schools they looked at sold foods having minimal nutritional value, such as sodas, sweets and chips. In addition to looking at what was in the vending machines, the researchers also looked at what was in the kids' bellies - what they were eating from day to day. They found that the nutritional quality of the products in the vending machine was directly linked to a students' overall diet. For example, in schools that sold fruits and vegetables from their vending machines, the students consumed more produce overall, compared to students in schools whose vending machines were full of junk.


Schools are a place where lessons about healthful behavior should be learned. Offering children the ability to buy healthful foods to support their physical and intellectual development is imperative. What's happening at your school?


Bottom Line: Save vending machine quarters for parking and send your children to school with the healthful snacks they need for school and after-school activities. You can also get involved with your school's wellness activities and advocate for healthier vending!

 

Source: Rovner AJ, et al. Foods sold in school vending machines are associated with overall student dietary intake. J Adolesc Health online, 2010.

Down with the Uppers
You may have seen these on the shelf at the liquor store, or at your local pub: alcoholic energy drinks - yefour lokos you read that correctly. Alcoholic energy drinks, or caffeinated alcoholic beverages, are a class of alcoholic drinks that have added caffeine and other stimulants, such as guarana. These drinks are a fast-growing segment of the alcoholic beverage marketplace, with surging sales and market growth, particularly among younger drinkers.

 

Now these drinks are making headlines because four states (to date) have banned their sale following reports of blackouts and unsafe behaviors, especially among college students. These drinks are dangerous because they are cheap and because caffeine can mask the effects of alcohol, potentially allowing one to drink more alcohol than they would have without the caffeine. A researcher at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center found that college students who reported consuming alcohol mixed with energy drinks (like a Red Bull and Vodka) also had significantly higher prevalence of alcohol-related consequences such as riding with a drunken driver, sexual assault, and serious injury.

 

Interestingly, the addition of caffeine to alcohol has never been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Last year the FDA issued a mandate to the manufacturers of alcoholic energy drinks to produce safety data related to adding caffeine and other stimulants to their products and it's likely the agency may take action soon.

 

Bottom Line: The products such as Four Loko and Joose can be dangerous because they mix two drugs, alcohol and caffeine. Staying away from these and similar products is a sensible idea.

 

Source: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

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