Veggie Bread

So what's a gal going to do when she is trying to eat healthy?  Hey why not put vegetables in your bread!  Why not!  You can throw any veggies you like in this bread and add any herbs and spices too!  A meal in a slice!  Excellent with soup or salad, or with grilled cheese on it!  My kids really like it..and.your kids will too!Veggie Bread1 2/3 cups warm water                                              ...

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Pita Pocket Bread

I love pita bread!  It is easier than you think to make.  I really think you should try it!Pita Pocket Bread1 cup warm water2 tsp yeast1 Tbls honey3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour1/2 tsp salt1 1/2 Tbls oilYou can add a little garlic and other spices for fun!Mix together first 3 ingredients and let sit till frothy.Add all remaining ingredients and knead for 5 mins.Put in oiled bowl and let dough rise.  45mins till doubled.Divide into 8 balls of dough(keep them covered) roll into flat rounds about 6" across.Let the rounds rise till slightly puffy.Bake in HOT oven 550 on bottom rack for 41/2 mins.Note - Only a sudden blast of heat will...

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CHG Best of April 2010

April: there were showers. There were flowers. There were even the New York Mets, exercising their baseball powers. And here at CHG, it was a lovely month. Let us now look back on 30 days of local produce, questionable food photography (see: recipe #1), and the best little ol’ posts you ever did see. To borrow from the great Stan Lee, excelsior!APRIL RECIPESBreakfast Couscous Custard with PeachesCrustless Spinach Mushroom QuicheLemon-Ginger DressingRoasted Asparagus with ChickpeasStrawberry Rhubarb CrispSweet Potato KugelTofu Bahn MiWhole Wheat Pasta with Asparagus and Turkey SausageAPRIL ARTICLES‘Twas a month of lists here at CHG, and it all started with The 10 Cheapest, Healthiest Foods Money Can Buy.Then we moved on to Cheap, Healthy Asparagus: 81 Recipes for the Springiest of Spring Vegetables.And...

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Top Ten Links of the Week: 4/23/10 – 4/29/10

Happy Friday, folks! Quick update on Tuesday’s Ask the Internet question: the broth and new ratio totally worked with the polenta, and the addition of pancetta provided some much-needed depth and textural variation. Howevs, the spinach still needs work. I sautéed it much faster this time, using the oil left over from the meat, but the aftertaste remained. I’m thinking a switch to either kale, chard, or baby spinach is in order. Almost there, though! Look for the final version on Monday.Meanwhile, BEHOLD! Here’re the links.1) Oregon Live: Meet some of Portland's radical homemakersA fantastic piece. Just stellar, and I love the reconceptualizing...

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HERBDAY - Celebrate on a new day

2010 HERB DAY - SATURDAY 1 MAYHerbDay Moves to Spring Date = Requests from herb lovers all over the country, HerbDay will officially be celebrated on the first Saturday in May going forward, starting with Saturday, May 1, 2010. More people in more parts of the country have a larger variety of herbs growing at this time of year than do in fall. Since HerbDay is a grass roots movement and belongs to the people, the coalition that got the event started wanted to support the populace in taking ownership of HerbDay by moving it to a date more conducive to a greater number of celebrations across the country. If you already have an event slated for...

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Bill Gates Needs a Few Lessons

ORIGINALLY POSTED: 1/29/10Ten Billion dollars will go a very long way to improve health if only it were used to provide super nutrition and supplements that are known to be superior sources of health.Vaccines just do not prove effective over time and the science proves it.  The Rotavirus vaccine was proven very problematic as has been the pneumonia vaccine.  The AIDS vaccine development was a flop!Focusing on vaccines really provides welfare to the pharmaceutical industry, little for human beings in need of good food and supplements to help them rebuild their nutritional status.  A few armed guards are needed as well to insure that these life saving items reach the people.Malaria can be both prevented and treated with supplements and netting.Drug resistant TB is cured with garlic. ...

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Saving Billions without Electronic Health Records

The issue of one single set of rules for insurance billing was promulgated in the 1970s. It is now almost 40 years since this was proposed and someone is actually showing what many, including me, have been saying.Note that is was always Big Insurances that created more layers, more paper, separate paper, and higher cost during this time.Simpler medical billing saves $7 billionBOSTON, April 29 (UPI) -- Simplifying and standardizing administrative procedures for medical bills could save about $7 billion a year, U.S. researchers estimate.Bonnie B. Blanchfield of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and colleagues have created a hypothetical model for medical billing that involves a single set of payment rules for multiple payers, a single claim form and standard rules of submission.If doctors'...

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Posted in: Big Insurance,costly and wasteful health care,electronic records,medical billing

Fructose Worsens Liver Disease

32 + articles about liver health concerns can be found in Natural Health NewsOur Liver cleansing and Liver care products have provided excellent results to hundreds of clients over the years...contact us for more information.This is one indication of the need for detoxification. Colon cleansing IS NOT detoxification. Our decades of experience with detoxification products and programs offers much more to our clients than found elsewhere.Cigarette smoking, fructose consumption exacerbates liver disease, study findsScienceDaily (2010-04-27) -- Recent studies suggest that modifiable risk factors such as cigarette smoking and fructose consumption can worsen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). With NAFLD, fat accumulates in the liver of overweight individuals despite drinking little alcohol,...

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Garlic Gives You That Sulfur

UPDATE: 20 August, 2010 -  Garlic to lower blood pressureGarlic was once used to combat the Black Death, but doctors now claim it can tackle a modern-day epidemic of heart disease.Just 12 weeks' treatment with garlic tablets led to a 'significant' cut in blood pressure, slashing the risk of a heart attack or stroke.Researchers claim people with hypertension, the medical term for high blood pressure, could control their condition better by adding garlic to conventional medication. Read complete articleMy comment to this article is that it is good information except for the misunderstanding that the researchers focus on standardized supplements rather than food based products.  We recommend you consider using the garlic you'll find in the right column, or Immortal Garlic or our specific...

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Posted in: garlic,H2S,high blood pressure,hydrogen sulfide,hypertension,natural,sulfur

Health Risk and Cadillac Insurance

Its always been will known in the health industry - and for decades - that the better your insurance, the better your care.A new study shows consistent outcomes - especially if you require critical care.Critical care outcomes tied to insurance status, systematic review findsScienceDaily (2010-04-28) -- Among the general US population, people who are uninsured are about half as likely to receive critical care services as those with insurance, according to systematic review of the literature by the American Thoracic Society's Health Disparities Group. They also found that once admitted to the hospital intensive care unit, uninsured patients are less likely to have invasive procedures or pulmonary artery catheterizations and more likely to have life support withdrawn. ... > read full arti...

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Oatmeal Cookies

So if you have been reading my goals for the week, you would notice that I said I was going to stay off baked treats.  Well who was I kiddin.   Hopefully not you!I let my 2 kids have the kitchen last night.  They found a recipe for oatmeal cookies and I told them to go for it!2hrs later... Kaitie was the photographer.  You like how they decorated the cookies with chocolate chips!  Wow!  They made the greatest cookies!  Andrew was so proud!  He brought me a cookie to show me and of course I had to taste it!  It was so good!  But I just had one!Kaitie and Drew's Yummy Oatmeal Cookies!Please...

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Vitamin D and Fatigue

It never ceases to amaze me when these multiple reports about the benfits of Vitamin D always seem to overlook the issue of deficiency directly related to faulty information promulgated since the late 70s and early 80s to cut all fat out of your diet.If you do not have healthy saturated in your diet your diet you CANNOT absorb Vitamin D, nor can you use calcium or have good support for healthy cholesterol levels and hormone production.   Please eat unsalted-organic butter (you can make "spread" by blending one stick of butter with 1/2 cup olive oil), and any dairy products MUST contain at least 2% butter fat.Vitamin D deficiency associated with chronic fatigue in brain injured patientsScienceDaily (2010-04-28) -- New evidence has shown that vitamin D deficiency is closely associated...

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Posted in: chronic fatigue,TB,traumatic brain injury,Vitamin D

Veggie Might: Tofu Bánh Mì - Spicy Vietnamese Sandwiches

Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.Living in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, I’m surrounded by restaurants of nearly every nationality. I’m proudly well versed in Indian, Korean, Japanese, Ethiopian, Afghan, Thai, and all manner of Mediterranean delicacies. One cuisine, however, is conspicuously missing from my neighborhood United Nations: Vietnamese. I’ve had many a phō when venturing beyond these borders; but I just recently had my first bánh mì, the outrageously spicy, Vietnamese baguette sandwich, piled high with pickled daikon and carrots, cilantro,...

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Death Effects and Schizophrenia Drugs

MEDLINE Abstract--------------------------------------------------------------------------------11-year follow-up of mortality in patients with schizophrenia: a population-based cohort study (FIN11 study).Lancet. 2009; 374(9690):620-7 (ISSN: 1474-547X)Tiihonen J ; Lönnqvist J ; Wahlbeck K ; Klaukka T ; Niskanen L ; Tanskanen A ; Haukka JDepartment of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuopio and Niuvanniemi Hospital, Department of Clinical Physiology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland. jari.tiihonen@niuva.fiBACKGROUND: The introduction of second-generation antipsychotic drugs during the 1990s is widely believed to have adversely affected mortality of patients with schizophrenia. Our aim was to establish the long-term contribution of antipsychotic drugs to mortality in such patients....

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Longterm Steroid Use Causes Problems

UPDATE: 29 April 2010Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken heart more than previously thoughtScienceDaily (2010-04-28) -- Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken the heart more than previously thought, a new study finds. Steroid-related heart impairment is severe enough to potentially increase the risk of heart failure. The left ventricle, the heart muscle primarily responsible for pumping blood throughout the body, was significantly weaker among steroid users. ... > read full articleORIGINAL POST DATE: 12/8/07 Recently I have met several people who have been taking steroids for many years without the awareness that this class of drugs can cause serious health problems. Along with the understanding I have because of my many years of pharmacology in college, grad school and continuing...

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Cheap, Healthy Asparagus: 81 Recipes for the Springiest of Spring Vegetables

Despite the snow that fell in Syracuse yesterday, spring is pretty much upon us. And along with the warming sun and astronomical pollen count comes that earliest of vegetable bloomers, asparagus.I don’t know about you guys, but during April and May, I buy as much asparagus as humanly possible. (Perhaps an exaggeration, but you catch my drift.) What's more, I’m always looking for different ways to prepare it. Because I loves me some roasted shoots, but after awhile, you know – variety, spice of life – all that jazz.This may be coming a week or two early in some areas, but this compilation of 81 asparagus recipes should keep you in the culinary...

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Posted in: Breakfast,Cooking,Mains,Sides,Soups and Stocks,Vegetarian

Health Risks and Industrial Wind Turbines

UPDATE: 28 April, 2010 - Wind farm off Cape Cod approvedPerhaps Barry is ignorant of the risks of wind turbines.SAVE OUR SOUND announces law suits to be filedORIGINAL POST 1/24/09Dr. Magda Havas Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies at Peterborough’s Trent University and one of the world’s leading research experts in the areas of electromagnetic pollution, radio frequency radiation, ground current and dirty electricity delivered alarming warnings about the dangers to human and animal health, posed by Industrial Wind Turbines.full articleWind Farm raising issues on Nantucket SoundUPDATE: 3 March, 09Wind Turbine Syndr...

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Posted in: Green Living,green living expert,health news,health risk,independent health news,natural health news,natural news,Save Our Sound,wind farms,wind turbines

EWG publishes new food list

Just out from the Environmental Working Group"FOOD SAFETY: CLEANSING OPTIONS”CLEAN 15Onions, Avocado, Sweet Corn, Pineapple, Mango, Sweet Peas, Asparagus, Kiwi, Cabbage, Eggplant, Cantaloupe, Watermelon, Grapefruit, Sweet Potato, Honeydew MelonDIRTY DOZEN (BUY ORGANIC)Celery, Peaches, Strawberries, Apples, Blueberries, Nectarines, Bell Peppers, Spinach, Kale, Cherries, Potatoes, Grapes (Imported)Why Should You Care About Pesticides?The growing consensus among scientists is that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can cause lasting damage to human health, especially during fetal development and early childhood.Scientists now know enough about the long-term consequences of ingesting these powerful chemicals to advise that we minimize our consumption of pesticides.What’s the Difference?EWG...

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I'm Walking on Sunshine! The Sunshine Award!

Today is a beautiful day!  Walking home from the gym this morning and seeing the sunrise and shine!  I just needed to spread some Sunshine about!  Thanks to Lis at An American Girl in Bristol for awarding me with this bright and  beautiful award!  Now I can bring a little sunshine to you all!  And of course to 12 very fine blogs that bring a little sunshine to me with every post!I didn't have any problems with picking these 12 blogs at all!1.  Jen at The Misadventures of Mrs. B.2.  Priscilla at Heart Sparrow.  3.   Alyse at Sushicookie Fitness.4.   Sskar at Writing To Wellness. 5.  ...

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Watch My Weight Wednesdays

So...How was you week did you meet your goals? My Goals this week...1. Go to the gym 3 times! 2. Keep up with my water! 3. Work out on the wii fitt everyday.4. No Junk including coffee, alcohol, and baked treats for this week.5. Keep up with portion control!Looking for recipes, tips, and your weight loss stories!Hoping to find some inspiration and helpful tips from you all!What are your goals this week? Let me know in the comment section!Add your old or new post below with Linky! Can't wait to see all the helpful tips/recipes/stories you have!Please link directly to your post and not your blog URL. Please link back here so that everyone can join in the fun.If you like what your reading please subscribe! click he...

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Another Health Reform Bill Conundrum

As I understand it, hidden deep inside the 2700 or more pages of the recently passed health bill is a small detail I think my readers should know.As you may know the issue of pre-existing conditions was a major PR focus in the efforts to ram this bill through Congress, and get the citizenry to think they were really getting something.What's missing is this tiny detail I fell upon in the past day or so about exactly what happens to one of the Big Insurance carriers that will be allowed in the "pool" to sell you something that will continue to give their CEO at least $13 million a year in salary without perks. And you might end up not getting your claims paid if you happen to have one of these items, obscure and otherwise, deemed "pre-existing" by insurance profiteers.It just so happens that...

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Posted in: corporate backing for health reform,denying health insurance claims,health reform,preexisting conditions

Selecting Fruits and Vegetables for Your Best Health

From the BBC comes a good report on the ins and outs of the whys and wherefores of eating a varied diet, especially when it comes to fruits and vegetables. Get more information here and here.'Pick the right veg' for health Obvious choices of fruit and vegetables are not necessarily the healthiest, say researchers. According to US experts, making simple swaps like eating sweet potatoes instead of carrots and papaya rather than oranges could make a difference. Foods, like raspberries, watercress and kale, are richer in phytonutrients which may help prevent disease, they told a US meeting. UK nutritionists said a balanced diet is essential to good health. The British Nutrition Foundation warned that relying on eating a few select food types to boost health was ill-advised and said there was...

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