Did you know that in Traditional Chinese medicine, we eat pears to cool the lungs and throat when experiencing a hot scratchy sore throat accompanied by cough? Pears are loaded with fiber, which fights cholesterol and also contains vitamin K (which helps to build bones).
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day: If the idea of fruit isn't your game, here's a nice twist on the pear for you.
Roasted Pears with Brie and Pistachios
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut a few pears in half lengthwise and place on a baking sheet sprayed with a bit of PAM. Cook pears until a bit soft, but not mushy (about 10 minutes). Add a sprinkle of fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt, and few thin slices of brie on top of each pear half. Sprinkle on roughly chopped pistachio nuts. Bake for another 5 minutes until cheese is bubbly. Fabulous as an appetizer or even a dessert!
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Vegetarian Diet and Optimum Nutrition
This week, we're going to explore vegetarianism...what is a vegetarian, the different types and even if you're a meat and fish eater, there's some good stuff coming your way as well, so stay tuned this week!!
The Mayo Clinic offers a plethora of information and support for any individual who thinks he or she would like to embark on a vegetarian lifestyle. There are many reasons why people are vegetarians (religious, social, ethical or health problems such as cardiovascular disease). But whatever the reasons, make sure you are getting a proper and well-planned diet. Nutritional needs are paramount to good health no matter what type of lifestyle eating you are engaged in. If you're not sure about what your individual needs are, consult with your m.d., a nutritionist, or myself and together, we will plot a course to great and tasty nutritious meals!
Did you know that there are three types of vegetarian diets?
■Vegan diets exclude meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products and foods that contain these products.
■Lacto-vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish, poultry and eggs, as well as foods that contain them. Dairy products, such as milk, cheese, yogurt and butter, are allowed in a lacto-vegetarian diet.
■Lacto-ovo vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish and poultry, but allow eggs and dairy products.
Some people follow a semivegetarian diet (also called a flexitarian diet) which is primarily a plant-based diet but includes meat, dairy, eggs, poultry and fish on occasion or in small quantities.
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day: stay tuned tomorrow for the vegetarian food pyramid and learn more about healthy food choices (think out of the box here, folks), and Nancy....would you share your kale chip recipe with us??? I've never heard of them before, but they were one of the tastiest treats I've ever had!!! And anyone else who would like to share some vegetarian recipes, please do!
The Mayo Clinic offers a plethora of information and support for any individual who thinks he or she would like to embark on a vegetarian lifestyle. There are many reasons why people are vegetarians (religious, social, ethical or health problems such as cardiovascular disease). But whatever the reasons, make sure you are getting a proper and well-planned diet. Nutritional needs are paramount to good health no matter what type of lifestyle eating you are engaged in. If you're not sure about what your individual needs are, consult with your m.d., a nutritionist, or myself and together, we will plot a course to great and tasty nutritious meals!
Did you know that there are three types of vegetarian diets?
■Vegan diets exclude meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products and foods that contain these products.
■Lacto-vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish, poultry and eggs, as well as foods that contain them. Dairy products, such as milk, cheese, yogurt and butter, are allowed in a lacto-vegetarian diet.
■Lacto-ovo vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish and poultry, but allow eggs and dairy products.
Some people follow a semivegetarian diet (also called a flexitarian diet) which is primarily a plant-based diet but includes meat, dairy, eggs, poultry and fish on occasion or in small quantities.
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day: stay tuned tomorrow for the vegetarian food pyramid and learn more about healthy food choices (think out of the box here, folks), and Nancy....would you share your kale chip recipe with us??? I've never heard of them before, but they were one of the tastiest treats I've ever had!!! And anyone else who would like to share some vegetarian recipes, please do!
Friday, October 8, 2010
Columbus and The GPS
I never really understood the celebration of Columbus Day. The Stock Market is open, schools are closed. Some businesses are open, some are not. Throughout my prior career, I never had Columbus Day off, so it was never a big deal, but always left much for contemplation.
Columbus was a Genoese (there was no unified Italy for another 300+ years or so) who believed in the concept of a 'global' world, not a flat and linear earth. It wasn't the Genoese who funded his first journey to the Indies, it was under the Spanish flag he sailed. He didn't sail with veritable seaman, but prisoners and Sephardic Jews (remember, the Inquisition was alive and well then) - all who were given a choice to either rot in jail or take their chances to sail off the edge of the world with Columbus. Columbus, like Moses was lost - let's face it. Moses wandered throughout the desert for 40 years and Christophe just went the wrong way; he made a left out of port instead of a right. Columbus certainly didn't end up in India, but found a wild, beautiful continent full of natural resources he named the "New World". It was Amerigo Vespucci who figured out the real American deal....I've always wondered why we don't celebrate Vespucci Day....we did name the land after him...hmmmmm.
The bottom line here is this: Columbus and all his peers used the tools available at the time: a compass, a ruler, the stars. I think these guys had guts and did pretty well for themselves (forget Moses - he was just lost!). Just imagine if the explorers had a GPS?
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day: Quite often, I hear people 'poo-poo' modern medicine because they want to be 'natural'or criticize Chinese Medicine because it's 'foreign' to them. Today, we have the tools available to detect diseases before they make us suffer, we have diagnostics and certain drugs that help cure us. We also have Chinese Medicine which has been around for over 3,000 years and has been used worldwide integratively with allopathic medicine to ensure the best possible treatment to our patient population without harmful side effects. Quite often, new patients come to my office because although they have had MRIs, xrays and diagnoses, they still have had no relief from symptoms with surgical or pharmaceutical care. Examining diagnostic imaging gives me the tools I need to treat my patients effectively and efficiently with outstanding results. So, be smart! Take advantage of all the tools available to you - acupuncture, xrays, nutritional counseling, yoga, exercise, and don't forget FUN - for your best health care regime.
There will be no blog this upcoming Monday. I'm declaring it "Kelley's Day" and taking the day off for some self celebration. And as a friend just reminded me for all you pasta eaters out there...macaroni originates from China. It's as old and sustainable as Chinese Medicine.
Columbus was a Genoese (there was no unified Italy for another 300+ years or so) who believed in the concept of a 'global' world, not a flat and linear earth. It wasn't the Genoese who funded his first journey to the Indies, it was under the Spanish flag he sailed. He didn't sail with veritable seaman, but prisoners and Sephardic Jews (remember, the Inquisition was alive and well then) - all who were given a choice to either rot in jail or take their chances to sail off the edge of the world with Columbus. Columbus, like Moses was lost - let's face it. Moses wandered throughout the desert for 40 years and Christophe just went the wrong way; he made a left out of port instead of a right. Columbus certainly didn't end up in India, but found a wild, beautiful continent full of natural resources he named the "New World". It was Amerigo Vespucci who figured out the real American deal....I've always wondered why we don't celebrate Vespucci Day....we did name the land after him...hmmmmm.
The bottom line here is this: Columbus and all his peers used the tools available at the time: a compass, a ruler, the stars. I think these guys had guts and did pretty well for themselves (forget Moses - he was just lost!). Just imagine if the explorers had a GPS?
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day: Quite often, I hear people 'poo-poo' modern medicine because they want to be 'natural'or criticize Chinese Medicine because it's 'foreign' to them. Today, we have the tools available to detect diseases before they make us suffer, we have diagnostics and certain drugs that help cure us. We also have Chinese Medicine which has been around for over 3,000 years and has been used worldwide integratively with allopathic medicine to ensure the best possible treatment to our patient population without harmful side effects. Quite often, new patients come to my office because although they have had MRIs, xrays and diagnoses, they still have had no relief from symptoms with surgical or pharmaceutical care. Examining diagnostic imaging gives me the tools I need to treat my patients effectively and efficiently with outstanding results. So, be smart! Take advantage of all the tools available to you - acupuncture, xrays, nutritional counseling, yoga, exercise, and don't forget FUN - for your best health care regime.
There will be no blog this upcoming Monday. I'm declaring it "Kelley's Day" and taking the day off for some self celebration. And as a friend just reminded me for all you pasta eaters out there...macaroni originates from China. It's as old and sustainable as Chinese Medicine.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Friendship is Good Medicine
Today's blog is short...I'm back from a spectacular golfing sejour and up to my elbows in alligators back here in the office. While sifting through emails, bills, scheduling and preparing for today's round of patients, I received telephone calls from two of my oldest and dearest friends who wanted to share some very funny, ironic and engaging stories with me. I laughed until tears rolled from my eyes from one friend's tale and the other had a few good stories to share herself. I always try to make my patients laugh and smile and put their problems aside for the time they spend with me. Laughter is part of good medicine. Today, I woke up with no fun stories to share with my patients and just as I thought I hit the bottom of the creativity barrel - my friends called.
Friendship....one of the finer gifts in life and sometimes, the best medicine you can have. Call a friend today and let them hear your voice. Share something fun with them and give them a day's dosage of the most precious thing you can give to them....your love.
Friendship....one of the finer gifts in life and sometimes, the best medicine you can have. Call a friend today and let them hear your voice. Share something fun with them and give them a day's dosage of the most precious thing you can give to them....your love.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
So, What Am I Eating For Breakfast and How's That Knee????
Many of you ask me what I eat for breakfast and what my daily food intake is now that I'm on my way to health and fitness. O.K., here's a typical day:
Breakfast: 1 scoop low carb protein with 8oz skim milk and 2 tblspns of flaxseed oil.
Midmorning: an orange, or a half a grapefruit, or a banana
Lunch: 2 oz lean protein with a handmade salad. Dressing is a tblspn of olive oil with either balsamic vinegar or fresh squeezed lemon.
Midafternoon snack: a bit of peanutbutter and honey on a flatbread and a fruit.
Dinner: 3 oz protein, dark leafy greens (hot or cold) and a green vegetable. Maybe a flatbread or 1/2pita (since I'm a breadaholic).
Beverages: I usually have a cup of coffee in the morning...or not. I drink a pitcher of green tea during the day, plus lots of fresh water and at dinnertime, either seltzer with fresh lemon/lime or water.
That's basically the plan.
Today, it is 29 days since my knee surgery and my wonderful and talented surgeon tells me I'm doing just great! We are going to add a minitrampolene to the mix and I'm bound for the elliptical machine! Today, I wore real shoes (2.5" heel) and so far, so good! Stairs are still a bit challenging but we both feel that within another 4 weeks, I might just be seen running again in the downtown area with my trusty dog, Sooki!
What's the secret to the success so far??? Acupuncture and laser for the knee, lots of physical therapy exercises that I do everyday, and proper diet.
Someone asked me today if it is true that acupuncture really works for diet. YES!!!! Acupuncture and herbal pills can stimulate thyroid function and boost the metabolism. It can help drain excess fluid, reduce appetitie and clear toxins from the body that trap fats in the body.
Call or email me if you are interested in my 12 week total health program for Fitness! It's worked quite well for many of my patients and can work for you too!!
Breakfast: 1 scoop low carb protein with 8oz skim milk and 2 tblspns of flaxseed oil.
Midmorning: an orange, or a half a grapefruit, or a banana
Lunch: 2 oz lean protein with a handmade salad. Dressing is a tblspn of olive oil with either balsamic vinegar or fresh squeezed lemon.
Midafternoon snack: a bit of peanutbutter and honey on a flatbread and a fruit.
Dinner: 3 oz protein, dark leafy greens (hot or cold) and a green vegetable. Maybe a flatbread or 1/2pita (since I'm a breadaholic).
Beverages: I usually have a cup of coffee in the morning...or not. I drink a pitcher of green tea during the day, plus lots of fresh water and at dinnertime, either seltzer with fresh lemon/lime or water.
That's basically the plan.
Today, it is 29 days since my knee surgery and my wonderful and talented surgeon tells me I'm doing just great! We are going to add a minitrampolene to the mix and I'm bound for the elliptical machine! Today, I wore real shoes (2.5" heel) and so far, so good! Stairs are still a bit challenging but we both feel that within another 4 weeks, I might just be seen running again in the downtown area with my trusty dog, Sooki!
What's the secret to the success so far??? Acupuncture and laser for the knee, lots of physical therapy exercises that I do everyday, and proper diet.
Someone asked me today if it is true that acupuncture really works for diet. YES!!!! Acupuncture and herbal pills can stimulate thyroid function and boost the metabolism. It can help drain excess fluid, reduce appetitie and clear toxins from the body that trap fats in the body.
Call or email me if you are interested in my 12 week total health program for Fitness! It's worked quite well for many of my patients and can work for you too!!
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