If you can imagine, this is my third piece on the FDA in a month and none of it is positive. This saddens me deeply. 
First, we had the use of cloned animals for food product, then the safety review of Botox®, which has now been used widely and rampantly for years, now we have the FDA recall of 143 million tons of beef that has been out on the market since February 2006 from the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Plant in Chino, California. So unless you have a deep freezer and hoarding food since 2006, and you buy supermarket ground beef, you could have already ingested it. What is so disturbing about this recall is that they were slaughtering non-ambulatory cows, which is against the law and inhumane, hence the Humane Society of the United States got involved, with undercover cameras. (You can see the footage on their site.)
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Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, was interviewed on Democracy Now yesterday. The interview focused on our diets, the food industry and genetically modified food. I though it was very interesting and wanted to share it with you!
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Don’t worry, I’ve not become an FDA watchdog. With my last post on the FDA’s approval of cloned animals for food product, you might think otherwise. This again is just me trying to keep my dear readers informed with thought provoking information.
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Over the years, I’ve given many a Valentine’s Day cards, to friends, family, co-workers, and, of course, to the cute little red haired girl in class. But this year, another cute red haired girl (more like red hot mama, actually) gave me a better way to send a Valentine’s Card and to Save the Children at the same time.
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A stressed body is not a happy body. Did you know stress can cause involuntary spasms or what are commonly called ticks or twitches? Working in a Web 2.0 startup company and blogging can be
extremely stressful – deadlines, clients, computers, and emails all add to my daily stress. I must be stressed because I’ve recently developed an eye twitch
- an involuntary movement of my upper right eyelid! I’ve seen characters with something like this on TV, but now it’s not so funny. This post is near and dear to me because I need it get rid of my twitch. It’s driving me nuts. After doing some research, I’ve found great ways to get rid of eye twitches by reducing daily stress.
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I was talking with one of our fitness Gurus, Misty Tripoli, yesterday. She co-hosted our recent radio show with me. After the show, we were chatting and told me that sometimes she thinks we’ve way over complicated this whole fitness thing; worrying about things like total calories, optimal heat rate and BMI. While we both agreed those are all important, her point was this; sometimes, when you want to feel better, shake off the blahs and get your heat rate going, all you really need to do is put on your favorite tunes and put a little boggie in it!
Dance around your house – naked if you want. Take it to the streets or treadmill with your iPod, have a personal concert in your car– whatever. Just crank up some music that moves you. It’s an instant pick me up.
When I am planning to teach one of my classes at Barry’s Bootcamp for the week, putting the music together is the by far the most important (and difficult) task. I know that it can lift the class up to levels they didn’t think they could otherwise attain, or it can bring them down, because like everything else – music has energy.
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It all started in 2004 with a group of scientists who studied the effects of sugar substitutes, specifically saccharine based lo-cal sweeteners, on rats. 
In this controlled study, with findings reported and published this month in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, 2 groups of rats were given yogurt — one group with the sugar substitute and the other group with regular white table sugar. The group given the lo-cal sugar substitute gained weight while the other group that was given white table sugar did not.
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In our fast paced, fast food culture, cooking at home has become a lost art. Most kitchens are more decorative than functional. But eating dinner at home has many benefits aside from showing off your new counter tops:
- Gets You More Greens. When you make your own meals, you have control over the nutritional value of the ingredients, like lean meats and fresh veggies.
- Saves You More Green - as in dollars, not the aforementioned spinach.
- Promotes Well Being. Experts say that in addition to meals higher in nutritional value, eating at home reduces stress and provides more family time together.
Where do you find the time to cook at home, though? Don’t worry, with a little planning, you can make great tasting , healthy meals in minutes. It all starts with your grocery list and these simple meal ideas.
Below are some essentials to keep stocked in your fridge or pantry. They’ll allow you to whip up a healthy meal for one or six in no time. While buying fresh is always the best way to go, frozen veggies, bagged salads and spinach can be great time savers. But remember - always wash your ingredients before cooking, even if they’re labeled “Ready to Eat.”
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