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Foodie Friday Video: Preparing Healthy Balanced Meals

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:36:59 +0000

You made it a New Year’s Resolution again this year: Eat more balanced meals . If it’s not working out as you planned, you may want to look at your strategy. Green Mountain registered dietitian Robyn Priebe walks us through one of her favorite tips for preparing healthy meals if you are stretched for time: batch cooking and freezing. Batch cooking and freezing is an effective strategy for easy healthy dinners. For instance, making a pot of vegetable soup or vegetable casserole and then freezing individual-size portions ensures you’ll be stocked with an array of healthy foods that only need to be heated before eating. In addition to vegetables and whole grains, Robyn has suggestions for pre-cooking and freezing other foods you may want to eat frequently, such as legumes, hot cereal or beans. As a bonus, Robyn walks us through the equipment to have on hand and how to organize your newly stocked freezer. Bon appetit! (Email viewers, head to the blog to watch.) Posts That May Be Related Healthy Cooking Thursday: Grilled Watermelon Salad Healthy Cooking Thursday – An Idea for Lousy Fruit Discover Greek Yogurt Healthy Cooking Thursday – Sensory Deprivation for Mindfulness

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The National Pregnancy Registry for Atypical Antipsychotics: Looking Ahead to 2012

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:00:28 +0000

We want to thank those of you who have continued to subscribe to our blog and who have visited our website. Some have written noting particular interest in the research conducted at the MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health, including the National Pregnancy Registry for Atypical Antipsychotics. The purpose of the National Pregnancy Registry for Atypical

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Topiramate (Topamax) Associated with an Increased Risk of Oral Clefts

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:33:34 +0000

Topiramate (marketed as a Topamax), in addition to its use for the treatment of epilepsy, is now being prescribed to reproductive aged women for a broad spectrum of indications, including migraine headaches, weight control, and mood stabilization. Limited information is available on its reproductive safety; however, the preliminary data we do have raises some concerns

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Creamy Italian Dressing

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:21:31 +0000

Lately I’ve been getting tons of requests for Chef David Smith’s Creamy Italian Dressing. So for all you fans out there, here it is: packed 1/2 c fresh basil packed 1/2 c fresh parsley 1/2 c chopped scallion greens 4 cloves of garlic, peeled 1/4 c honey 1/2 tsp salt 1/8 tsp ground black pepper 1 T Dijon mustard 1 c white balsamic vinegar 3 c canola oil 1/3 c cold water Blend all but the oil and water, until completely liquefied. While blending, slowly add about 1/3 of the oil until the dressing is emulsified and thick. Add a few tablespoons of water to thin, then continue to add oil and water, alternating, until all oil is incorporated into the dressing. Refrigerate in a glass jar and use to flavor salads, grains, legumes and meats. Enjoy! Posts That May Be Related Healthy Recipe: Asparagus Salad with Lemon Tarragon Vinaigrette Healthy Cooking Thursday – Quick Maple Dijon Slaw Healthy Cooking Thursday – Blueberry Balsamic Dressing Healthy Cooking Thursday – Quinoa Tabouli

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Fat, Fat, Fat-the critical voice inside

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:28:09 +0000

We are so hard on our bodies and just keep focusing on weight loss . I am not talking about the ways we don’t take care of ourselves physically. I am talking about our negative self talk . Could I pay you large sums of money to talk to any child the way you talk to yourself? No! Jan Chozen Bays, M.D. discusses the inner critic and suggests learning to listen for the critic. By changing the ways we talk to ourselves we can feel better, have more energy and add pleasure to our lives. “The energy of the Inner Critic/Outer Judge can be transformed. This is possible for anyone to do. The transformed energy offer us many gifts: clarity, discernment, determination to change things that are not working optimally, and access to a storehouse of energy and creativity that can be used for good in our lives and in the world . “~Dr. Bays I believe the first step to changing your critical voice is to notice . You can’t do a dang thing about the criticism until you recognize it. So, when you are feeling stressed, down, or funky, tune in and listen to the what you are saying. Dr. Bays suggests to listen for its favorite hurtful words: you are TOO ___ you ALWAYS ___ you NEVER ___ You are SO ____ you SHOULD ____ you SHOULDN’T ____ Listening and noticing “helps to separate from the Inner Critic to ask if what it is saying is something that would be good for a mother to say to a child. Or would it be heard as abusive language?” And then be ready once you recognize the hurtful words be ready to say: Even though I feel fat, I deeply love and accept myself . You don’t have to believe these words, you just have to start saying them, again and again to argue with the inner critic. Can you imagine practicing kindness to you inside your head today?

Fitness Friday Video: Relieving Tension in Your Neck and Shoulders

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:40:30 +0000

Friday is finally here, but chances are good that the cumulative stress from the work week has settled into your neck and shoulders. If you feel tight from sitting in the car and hunching over your keyboard, we have a few stretches you can do to relieve that tension quickly. Yes, getting a massage or making plans for happy hour can be helpful, too, but these movements are the best things you can do to loosen up that area right now and experience immediate relief. Green Mountain senior fitness specialist LynnAnn Covell demonstrates a quick two-minute routine that will have you feeling better in no time and ready to tackle the weekend feeling more relaxed! TGIF! (Email viewers, head over to the blog to see.) Posts That May Be Related Fitness Friday Video: How Do I Stretch This Muscle? Fitness Friday: Behold the Plank Fitness Friday: A New Year, A New Stretching Routine Fitness Friday: Beginner Yoga Modifications

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Food Preferences – Why So Different?

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:29:06 +0000

Generally people believe puppies and bunnies are cute and snakes and spiders are creepy. Sunsets are beautiful but drop-crotch skinny jeans are an abomination. How is it that visually, some preferences can be so similar for so many people, yet the sense of taste is so varied? How can one person can list broccoli as their favorite vegetable and another won’t touch it with a ten-foot pole? At our healthy weight loss spa , I find it’s interesting to look at our participants’ individual dietary preferences. I wonder how many aversions to foods stem from a genuine dislike of the flavor or if it’s other factors. Texture of food usually plays a big role in creating food aversions. However, memories tied to foods could also contribute to food aversions. Some individuals, due to genetic differences, can detect certain flavors easier than others and that may shape dietary preferences. Supertasters tend to have aversions to bitter foods and very high fat foods. Also, we are also born with dietary preferences based on what our mothers ate during their pregnancy. Before assuming all aversions to foods are something you are born with, try experimenting with changing the texture of foods to see if that helps you incorporate more foods into your eating patterns. For example, if the texture of legumes turns you off, puree them into a soup or spin them up in your food processor into a bean dip or spread. If the last time you had green peas they were canned, and you hated them, try fresh peas out of the garden in a pasta salad. What food have you found you actually like after years of assuming you hated it? Did your taste preference change as you got older? Posts That May Be Related Mix it Up – Variety with Exercise Variety or Repetition, Which is Best? Teach Your Children Well Variety, It’s Good Stuff

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PPHN and SSRIs: Yet Another Study

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:43:39 +0000

A few weeks after the FDA called into question the association between SSRI exposure and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn or PPHN, BMJ published another article supporting an increased risk of PPHN among infants exposed to SSRIs in utero. This large study is similar to the studies published by Kallen and colleagues using the

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Depression in Women: Is There a Role for Vitamin D?

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:55:50 +0000

Sources of vitamin D include sunlight (ultraviolet B, or UVB, rays), dietary intake, and supplements. Sunlight is the main source of human vitamin D. Vitamin D refers to different forms of a steroid hormone. Vitamin D3 (also called 1, 25-dihydroxycholecalciferol or calcitriol) is produced by the body when ultraviolet light (in the form of UV

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Where the Magic Happens

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:03:45 +0000

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks to Quan Yin on Facebook for this. Posts That May Be Related Fitness Friday: Standing Abdominals Mix it Up – Variety with Exercise Healthy Cooking Thursday – An Idea for Lousy Fruit Healthy Cooking Thursday – Sensory Deprivation for Mindfulness

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