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Friday, August 24, 2012
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Japanese Curry with Edamame
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Less Meat, Healthier Environment
More Chocolate, Lower BMI
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Japanese Curry with Edamame

 

Serves 6

 

Ingredients

1 Tbs. vegetable oil

1 large onion, diced (2 cups)

3 large carrots, cut into �-inch thick half moons (1� cups)

2 � Tbs. curry powder, such as S&B

2 cloves garlic, minced (2 tsp.)

3 ⅔ cups low-sodium vegetable broth

2 small Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cubed (2 cups)

1 small apple, peeled and finely grated (� cup)

3 Tbs. ketchup

1 Tbs. vegetarian Worcestershire sauce

1 Tbs. miso paste

1 cup fresh or frozen shelled edamame

 

Directions

1. Heat oil in large pot over medium heat. Saut� onion 7 to 9 minutes or until starting to brown. Add carrots and saut� 5 minutes. Stir in curry powder and garlic and cook 1 minute or until fragrant. Add broth, potatoes, apple, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and miso; bring to a simmer.

2. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Add edamame and simmer 5 minutes more.

 

Nutrition Information

Per 1 Cup Serving: Calories: 179, Protein: 7 g, Total Fat: 4 g, Saturated Fat: <1 g, Carbohydrates: 30 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Sodium: 318 mg, Fiber: 6 g, Sugar: 11 g

 

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Do you know the top five food additives to avoid?

 

Unhealthful food additives are usually derived from unnatural sources and are added to foods to make them look more attractive or last longer on store shelves--yuck.

 

Here are the five additives to avoid:

1. Artificial Colors

2. Caramel Coloring

3. Artificial Sweeteners

4. Sodium Nitrate/Nitrite

5. Partially Hydrogenated Oils

 

For more information, check out this informative article.

 
Have a healthy week! 

-Debra

Less Meat, Healthier Environment

CattleFor decades, you've heard the heart-healthy advice to eat less meat. Here's another reason: the environment. New research from the University of Exeter shows that today's meat-eating habits could spell ecological disaster. Raising livestock for food(livestock production accounts for 78 percent of agricultural land use today) is one of the least efficient ways to use land and produces a lot of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming.

 

Currently, in Western cultures, we consume close to 30 percent of our calories as meat. Researchers claim that to make a significant difference in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide we need to reduce the average global meat consumption to 15 percent of average daily calorie intake.

 

The research team from the University of Exeter generated four different future scenarios based on dietary preferences and agricultural efficiency up to 2050: 'high-meat, low-efficiency,' 'low-meat, low-efficiency,' 'high-meat, high-efficiency' and 'low-meat, high-efficiency.' The different agricultural options looked at the type of livestock being produced, with beef being the least energy-efficient and pork being the most. They used established mathematical models to forecast the effects of each scenario on atmospheric carbon dioxide. By 2050, a 'high-meat, low-efficiency' scenario would add 55 ppm of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, whereas a 'low-meat, high-efficiency' approach with carbon dioxide removal could remove 25 ppm. A 25 ppm reduction could mean we avoid exceeding the two-degree rise in global temperatures that is now widely accepted as a safe threshold.

 

Changing our diets to include less meat and more plants (a low-meat, high-efficiency diet) could reduce the amount of land needed for farming and capture atmospheric carbon dioxide because plants capture and store carbon that would otherwise stay in the atmosphere. And this is even taking in to account the expected global increase in population, which is expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050.

 

Bottom Line: If meat eating is something you cannot imagine living without, start small. Try going meat free one day a week. The earth will thank you. Your arteries too! 

 

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More Chocolate, Lower BMI
It seems that those who regularly eat chocolate are thinner. Yes, you read that correctly. A new study from the University of California, San Diego shows that adults who eat chocolate on a regular basis are actually thinner that those who don't.
 
Researchers asked 1,017 men and women, ages 20 to 85, "How many times a week do you eat chocolate?" Those who reported eating chocolate two or more times a week, on average, had lower BMIs than those who ate it less frequently.

 

Bottom Line: This does not mean that to lose weight you should run out to the store and eat a chocolate bar, but managing cravings with small servings of your favorite chocolate treat may help you stay on track the rest of the day.

 
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Debra Wein, MS, RD, LDN, SN President and Co-Founder writes a regular nutrition column for the National Strength and Conditioning Association's  Performance Training Journal, has been quoted in Family Circle, Muscle & Fitness, Shape, Self, Men's Health, Allure and Prevention and has appeared on Fox 25, Channel 56, Channel 5, New England Cable News and several radio stations.

 

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