Archive for April, 2010
Applebees Has 500 Calorie and Under Meals
I must say, I’m not personally a huge fan of the Applebees chain of restaurants, but I have to give them kudos for being one of the only chains that offer lower calories options that don’t manufacture you want to run for the more “exciting” menu options of burgers and fries when you get a load of their descriptions.
They are Weight Watcher’s approved, and all are 500 calories or less, which is ideally what just about everyone should be sticking to for their meals, particularly at dinner duration when most of your calories aren’t going to be burned off any more for the rest of the day.
My husband’s brother actually works out of town most of the moment, and Applebees is one of that favorite choices considering they offer these tasty, nutritious and calorie appropriate meals. He’s super body and health conscious, so these meals are a pleasant surprise, particularly from a chain, to those that are health conscious.
Among the menu choices are light fish that are grilled and seasoned, an herb and garlic chicken breast dish, a mexican style fajita type of roll whether you’re wanting naughty mexican but want to be nice to your thighs, an onion soup with cheese, and a few other tempting sounding dishes. It’s refreshing that they offer hearty meals that are actually hot instead of just the plain old salads that many other places offer to satisfy their dieters.
All of the 500 calorie and under meals come with generous portions of low cal, high fiber and vitamin composition veggies too. that is a great way to fill up with out overloading on calories. I recommend the loading up on veggies strategy to anyone, whether you’re out enjoying a meal or cooking at home. Your meals should ideally be about 2/3 veggies and 1/3 meat and/or starch (your “main dish”).
There’s just something that is more satisfying about an actual hot meal I guess, so these are better for helping you to feel good about what you ate when you’re leaving a restaurant where there are a ton of BAAAAAD choices. And, on the flip side, by the way, whether you’re ever at Applebees and you’re in a naughty mood, and you want a dessert that is postively to die for (I know, who’d have thought it, at a chain restaurant no less), try that Maple drizzled blondie.
It’s a warmed up blondie (a cake-cookie like vanilla baked good) with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, and a side of that absolutely amazing maple cream sauce (also hot). It is TO DIE FOR. Of course it’s not low calorie – not even close, like I said, it’s only whether you’re in the mood to indulge. And I highly recommend you split it or else you’ll want to throw up you’ll be so full.
Original post by EatingToLive
Racial disparity study of knee OA
A recent study determined that African-Americans were less likely to have a varus thrust, but more likely to have valgus thrust than Caucasians. Varus thrust is visualized during gait as the worsening or abrupt onset of varus (bow-legged) alignment as the leg accepts weight, with a return to less varus and more neutral alignment during lift-off of the foot and the swing phase of gait. Previous research has shown that varus thrust seen in gait is linked to a 4-fold increase in the risk of progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA). Disparity in thrust presence amidst the races may help explain differences in the pattern of osteoarthritic involvement at the knee. Study findings seem in the recent issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology……..
Original post by Heather Craven
New method for developing HIV vaccine
Limited success in modelling the behaviour of the complex, strange and unpredictable HIV virus has slowed efforts to develop an effective vaccine to prevent AIDS. A new improved modelling system, developed by Chinese researchers, which attempts to incorporate more of the virus’ random behavioural dynamics, suggests that a specific type of T cell could be useful in the development of an AIDS vaccine……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Complex Brain Functions Help Adapt to New Situations
Researchers have enlarged known that the brain’s frontal cortex supports concrete rule learning. Less clear is how the brain processes more complex and unfamiliar knowledge. In a paper published recently (Wednesday, April 28, 2010) in the journal Neuron, a team of scientists at Brown University and the University of California-Berkeley tested whether the frontal lobe has the ability to process more abstract knowledge and how that ability could help navigate new situations and stimuli……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Eating Disorders Going Younger and Younger
In shocking developments by the past ten years or so, patients being seen for eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia are getting younger and younger, sometimes as young as within the ages of 7 and 12 years of age. Sheesh, I can tell you that about myself.
At that age, all I was concerned about were things like when we were going to the next amusement park, when my next trip to the corner store would be to get penny candy, and when my favorite TV show would come on – oh and Saturday dawn cartoons, of course!
It’s no wonder with the increasingly younger shift toward “growing up” society and media seems to have on young girls. I mean, have you seen those Bratz dolls that little girls love so much?
Barbie dolls don’t have much on the hoochie gear and heavy makeup and jewlery on those dolls! These are the types of messages we are sending to our young girls. They are learning that sexiness and being thin with big boobs is the ultimate goal in life, and to snag a man with that hot bod, when they should be learning to develop their minds, that is what is truly sexy in women.
The treatment of eating disorders as an eating disorder is plus suffering considering you nearly have to be so severely malnourished that you are more far gone in your battl with anorexia or bulimia.
There are actually definitions that healthcare providers and insurance companies adhere to when they consider whether to cover something that falls under “eating disorder”, and that often times leaves out those that are still of a “healthy” weight, but engage in high risk activities like bingeing and purging all the day (bulimia), taking extreme drugs to suppress hunger, or taking laxatives or water retention pills, both of which can be extremely dangerous and alter your body’s natural abilities to do these things themselves.
Jessica Simpson actually talked to a French model that is so severely anorexic your heart goes out to her when you see how emaciated she is. She is the new poster child for battling anorexia, and she has spoken out about her disease and the pressures she succumbed to to be uber thin and fit in a size zero in the modeling industry.
I can honestly say that aging has liberated me in some ways when it comes to my body image and the constant concern about my weight that used to plague me when I was younger. However, I still battle demons from the past, I just have to remind myself to be grateful to be happy and physically fit. whether you are trying to be a body type that’s just not in your genetic makeup, soon after you’ll just construct yourself miserable indefinitely.
Original post by EatingToLive
Preterm children and psychiatric disorder
Significant advances in the neonatal intensive care have resulted in increased survival rates of children who are born at less than 26 weeks of gestation, so termed “extremely preterm children”. Notably, however, improved survival rates have been accompanied by a higher risk for later cognitive, neuromotor, and sensory impairments in these children……..
Original post by Heather Craven
6 Tips For an Effective Adrenal Fatigue Diet
Regulating your adrenal glands is very fundamental, particularly since that is the part of the body which is responsible for different hormone production which in turn affects many facets of your health.
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