Jerk Chicken Wings
You’ll Need 1 cup soy sauce ½ cup red wine vinegar ½ cup olive oil 6 green onions, chopped 1 medium onion, diced 2 to 3 jalapeno peppers, deseeded and finely minced ¼ cup fresh thyme leaves or 1 Tablespoon dried 2 Tablespoons fresh ginger, minced ¼ cup brown...
Rum Collins
You’ll Need ¼ cup golden rum ½ cup club soda 2 Tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 teaspoon sugar Directions Mix all of the ingredients. Pour into a glass filled with ice....
Get some exercise outdoors
Hey guys, need one more reason to get outside and enjoy being active? This article from Healthfinder.gov shows how far regular exercise can go toward lowering your risk of prostate cancer … and even if you do eventually develop this disease, exercise is associated with a less aggressive form...
Flight Home
It was just an incredible trip to the Obesity Help conference in Dallas. The response to our work was SO enthusiastic, and my head spins with the number of ways that we can really have a positive impact on this population of patients. I met Chef Dave, the bariatric...
Lifestyle medicine
This is a terrific article showing how lifestyle chanes are not only more effective at protecting your heart, it is cheaper and more long lasting too!! Lower Your Risk Of Heart Disease Without Drugs Sent from my iPhone...
Forgotten
I was to be called when everyone was together to go to dinner, then we'd go together. Never got the call. So I'm eating alone at the bar at a Mexican restaurant in the adjacent mall. Nice. Actually, it's not so bad. I think I have charged too much...
Our culture of health
This story show that Americans are never more than 107 miles from a mcDonalds. A McDonald’s Is Never More Than 107 Miles away How close are we to a farmers market? My guess is that it’s further. I wonder why we have such drastic health problems … Maybe it’s...
ObesityHelp
I'm in Dallas this weekend for the Obesity Help conference. I'll be speaking tomorrow. This is a group that I'm very excited to approach and coach. This group needs a structure of solutions around which they can Start applying healthy lifestyle solutions. And these solutions must be ones that...
Red Wine Pill
Paul Rozin is a food psychologist who studies different cultures and the way they interact with their food. In his surveys, he recently asked his groups if they would prefer a pill to get all their nutrients rather than food. Of all the cultures studied, Americans were the most...
Emotional Gravity Well
Ever listen to Click and Clack, the Tappert brothers, on NPR? They talk about perhaps the most boring subject on the planet … car repair. But you can’t listen to that program for more than 10 minutes without cracking a smile or just laughing out loud. Why? Because THEY...
“Ancient Grains”
Words are funny. Grains like quinoa, sorghum and teff are called Ancient. Okay, corn is just as ancient as those, as is wheat, potato, and rice. But what they MEAN by ancient is that it has not been messed with by us as much. There is a wide sense...