Harvest Foods Fall

   Top recipes for fall's freshest farmers-market produce, 
like squash, 
apples, pears, 
sweet potatoes.
   Food is obtained directly from plants; but even animals that are used as food sources are raised by feeding them food derived from plants.
Plant species are cultivated for food. Many of these plant species have several.

Food Industry May Be Paying Too Much Attention

    Demanding increased transparency to more cooking at home, their desires are changing the food, nutrition and retail landscape. But what about our beloved Boomers? You know those 76 million Americans who changed the world forever and now are heading into retirement! How have their habits changed, and what do they look .
   Perception of healthfulness of certain foods varies between generations, most notably Boomers versus Millennials. Boomers are more likely than Millennials to rate whole grains (80 vs. 70%), protein from plant sources.
Millennials to be interested in foods that promote weight management, healthy aging, increased energy, and cardiovascular health.

For Your Next Weekday Meal Prep Best

Salt, to taste 
Pepper, to taste
1 teaspoon crushed garlic
½ cup soy sauce
⅓ cup honey
1½ tablespoons sesame seeds
1 onion, sliced
2 small bell peppers, thinly sliced
2 cups broccoli
1 green onion, thinly sliced

1.pan, cook cut chicken over medium-high heat until almost done. 
2. Reduce heat to medium and stir in the crushed garlic. 
3. Add in the soy sauce, honey, and 1 tablespoon of the sesame seeds. Stir until      thickened.
4. Remove the chicken from the pan, leaving the sauce, and add the vegetables to the pan.
5. Cover the pan for several minutes and cook until the vegetables begin to soften, then remove the lid and stir until the sauce is thick again. 
6. Split the rice, vegetables, and chicken evenly between 4 containers. 
7. Top with a sprinkle of sesame seed.

Für wen sind die gedacht?

      Diese Videoserie habe ich für die Kinder gedreht und natürlich für ihre Eltern, die ihren Kindern ein gesundes Frühstück und eine gesunde Jause mit in die Schule geben möchten und dafür ein wenig Unterstützung und Abwechslung suchen.

Ich weiß, dass vielen Menschen vor allem in der Früh die Zeit und die Ideen fehlen. Alle Kinder brauchen ausgewogene Mahlzeiten, damit gesund und fit bleiben, sich gut konzentrieren können und zuerst die Schule und dann ihr Leben meistern. Dafür legt die Ernährung einen Grundstein und liegt in unseren Händen!

App Takes All the Stress Out of Meal

       We’ve all heard “What’s for dinner?” and wanted to just order takeout and be done with.
(owned by Health's parent company, Time Inc.) takes the hassle out of the whole process. No more finding delicious healthy recipes, and then losing the links. No more forgetting to add items to your shopping list—or worse, not making a list, going to the store, and forgetting to buy a bunch of things you.
     Ecipes from your favorite sites in one place. Then you can drag and drop recipes to the week ahead, and even assign a recipe to each day. (Say goodbye to getting stumped by the “What’s for dinner?” question.) Easily transfer the ingredients from those recipes to a grocery list, so you always get home.
Makes cooking simpler: Call up the recipe you want to make, and the app keeps your screen lit—which means you won’t have to keep touching.

Is Listeria, and How to Make Sure

Is what Listeria? Well, it's a type of bacteria with the full name of Listeria monocytogenes. Every year in the United States alone, this germ sickens 1,600 people (causing an illness called listeriosis) and kills 260 more, often from just a handful.
Are responsible for a million illnesses in the U.S. each year, including 19,000 hospitalizations and 380 death.
Is not as common as Salmonella by any means [but] there's typically a graver outcome," says John Linville, DVM, a food safety expert and adjunct associate professor at the College of health Public.
 Dangerous in older adults, anybody who has a weakened immune system (say from HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, or after an organ transplant) and, particularly, pregnant women, because the bacteria can trigger miscarriages. "The mother themselves may have only mild flu-like symptoms.

Forgiving Other People Is GOOD

o do this, they asked 148 young adults to fill out questionnaires that assessed their levels of lifetime stress, their tendency to forgive and their mental and physical health.
But the researchers also discovered that if people were highly forgiving of both themselves and others, that characteristic alone virtually eliminated the connection between stress and mental illness.
The researchers speculate that people who are more forgiving may adopt better coping skills to deal with stress, or their reaction to major stressors may bE.
veness takes that bad connection between stress and mental illness and makes it zero,” he says. “I think most people want to feel good and it offers you the opportunity to do.
forgiving to yourself and others can protect against  and the toll it takes on mental health, according to  in the Journal of Health.

Time 12 Amy Schumer Got Real About image Body , Beauty Standard

but she’s also had her share of sincere moments. From her touching acceptance speech at the 2015 Glamour Women of the Year Awards to her in-the-nude Instagram post (celebs have body rolls, too!), Schumer knows how to create the perfect mix of hilarity and honesty and we can’t get enough. 
The Inside Amy Schumer writer and star isn’t afraid to confront , joke about the strange intricacies of the human body, or use humor to shed light on unfair gender stereotypes of it.

On refusing to belittle herself

You will not determine my story — I will. I will speak and share and f**k and love and I will never apologize to the frightened millions who resent that they never had it in them to do it. I stand here and I am amazing, for you. Not because of you.

On being a body-positive role model

“It’s really exciting for me to be in a position to say, what about loving yourself how you are. What about saying this is how I look and I’m beautiful and I’m strong...You’re not going to be what everybody loves. But you have to love yourself. Making the decision to do that is something you can actually.

Sweat Mecca: Once America’s Largest Bank Hall Is Now Under

      only is the Light Street location in the heart of the Inner Harbor, but developers kept the building’s history in tact, while merging it with the modern. The classic bank hall now sports a 60-yard field turf run, with each of the oversized teller bays off the hall still wrought with the original ironwork.When Cam Newton visits Under Armour in Baltimore, he heads to the bank. For workouts.

Already with an impreessive workout facility at its worldwide headquarters on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the new Under Armour Performance Center powered by FX Fitness at 10 Light St. has turned America’s largest bank hall in the 1930s into one of the most unique fitness stops anywhere.

     A stop Newton has already made since the facility opened in May. exercise classes shift outside onto the FieldTurf that connects the water to the brick building that houses the workout facilities,

Spotlight on Psoriasis Preventing Patches of Itchy, Sore Skin

ou may have heard of psoriasis, but do you know what it is? Psoriasis is a long-term, or chronic, skin disorder that affects more than 6.7 million U.S. adults. Symptoms can vary, but it’s usually recognized by itchy or sore patches of thick, red skin with silvery scales. There’s currently no cure, but treatment often helps.

Psoriasis occurs when skin cells quickly rise to the surface of the skin and build up into thick patches, or plaques. Ordinarily, skin cells mature as they rise from their origins below the surface of the skin. In psoriasis, these cells pile up before they’ve had a chance to properly mature.

Psoriasis actually begins in the immune system, which normally protects the body against infection and disease. In psoriasis, the immune system becomes misdirected and overactive. This can cause redness and swelling (inflammation) and lead to the rapid buildup of skin cells.

Plaques are most often found on the elbows, knees, or scalp. But they can also affect the face, fingernails, toenails, soft tissues of the genitals, or any skin-covered region. 

“Patients can have a lot of symptoms like itching, cracking, and bleeding that can disrupt their sleep and their social relationships,” says Dr. Joel Gelfand, a skin specialist (dermatologist) at the University of Pennsylvania. People with moderate to severe psoriasis may feel self-conscious or have a poor self-image, which can lead to depression or social isolation.

Some people with psoriasis also experience joint inflammation that produces arthritis-like pain. This condition is called psoriatic arthritis. Gelfand and other NIH-supported researchers have found that psoriasis—especially severe psoriasis—is linked to certain other disorders as well, such as heart conditions, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

What Is an Arrhythmia?

      An arrhythmia (ah-RITH-me-ah) is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. During an arrhythmia, the heart can beat too fast, too slow, or with an irregular rhythm.

A heartbeat that is too fast is called tachycardia (TAK-ih-KAR-de-ah). A heartbeat that is too slow is called bradycardia (bray-de-KAR-de-ah).

Most arrhythmias are harmless, but some can be serious or even life threatening. During an arrhythmia, the heart may not be able to pump enough blood to the body. Lack of blood flow can damage the brain, heart, and other organs.

Understanding the Heart's Electrical System

      To understand arrhythmias, it helps to understand the heart's internal electrical system. The heart's electrical system controls the rate and rhythm of the heartbeat.

With each heartbeat, an electrical signal spreads from the top of the heart to the bottom. As the signal travels, it causes the heart to contract and pump blood.

Each electrical signal begins in a group of cells called the sinus node or sinoatrial (SA) node. The SA node is located in the heart's upper right chamber, the right atrium (AY-tree-um). In a healthy adult heart at rest, the SA node fires off an electrical signal to begin a new heartbeat 60 to 100 times a minute.

From the SA node, the electrical signal travels through special pathways in the right and left atria. This causes the atria to contract and pump blood into the heart's two lower chambers, the ventricles (VEN-trih-kuls).

       The electrical signal then moves down to a group of cells called the atrioventricular (AV) node, located between the atria and the ventricles. Here, the signal slows down just a little, allowing the ventricles time to finish filling with blood.

The electrical signal then leaves the AV node and travels along a pathway called the bundle of His. This pathway divides into a right bundle branch and a left bundle branch. The signal goes down these branches to the ventricles, causing them to contract and pump blood to the lungs and the rest of the body.

The ventricles then relax, and the heartbeat process starts all over again in the SA node. (For more information about the heart's electrical system,                                                                               

including detailed animations, go to the Health Topics How the Heart Works article.)

             A problem with any part of this process can cause an arrhythmia. For example, in atrial fibrillation (A-tre-al fi-bri-LA-shun), a common type of arrhythmia, electrical signals travel through the atria in a fast and disorganized way. This causes the atria to quiver instead of contract.

Is what you're not eating causing your insomnia and upset stomach?

We’re big on inclusion here at Healthy Food Guide. Rather than cutting foods out (unless you have intolerances or allergies) we advocate eating a wide range of foods and thinking about how those are portioned.  

Simply put, eating plenty of plants and other nutrient-dense whole foods and having ‘treat foods’ in small quantities.

One of the great things about this approach to food is it’s more likely to deliver everything your body needs.  

 

When you cut whole food groups out of your diet you run the risk of missing out on essential nutrients, if you’re not mindful about compensating.  For instance, cutting out dairy makes it harder to get calcium.  It’s not impossible, but you need to work a bit harder to make sure you’re meeting your daily requirements. 

 

I came across an interesting bit of Australian research that highlights this problem quite well.  It looks at the effects of the Paleo diet, where dairy and grains are a no go, compared with a more inclusive diet approach.

 

Following a ‘Paleo diet’ is potentially associated with diarrhoea and trouble sleeping, the researchers found.

 

The Edith Cowan University study, published in journal Nutrients, involved 22 healthy women participants eating a Paleo diet, while the remaining 17 followed the government-recommended Australian Guide to Healthy Eating over a four-week period. 

- See more at: http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/blogs/jen-de-montalk/2016/august/24/is-what-youre-not-eating-causing-your-insomnia-and-upset-stomach#sthash.6RuRlTR7.dpuf
Avoiding whole grains cuts out an important source of dietary fibre and can impact gut microbes causing problems such as diarrhoea, Dr Devine says.

Help for Those with Advanced Prostate Cancer

          Sheila Hagar, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Wash.

     Dennis Phillips will commute more than two hours when he begins a new form of treatment at Providence St. Mary Medical Center for metastatic prostate cancer this month.

Phillips, 70, lives in Umatilla, Ore., retired from a 38-year career with Marlette Homes in Hermiston.

       The long trips to Walla Walla will be a bit of a haul, but worth every mile if the "Provenge" treatment system can tack time onto a life shortened by advanced prostate cancer, Phillips said. "As long as I can keep feeling good like I do now."

Prostate cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer in men over age 75, and is rarely found in men younger than 40, according to the National Institute of Health.

      The low-grade version of prostate cancer is most often heard about, touted as being a cancer men might die with, rather than from. Treatment of the slow-growing disease consists of doing little to nothing except monitoring through blood screening in many cases.

       St. Mary is the only cancer center in Southeast Washington offering the Provenge option, and providers there consider it to be one of the major breakthroughs in prostate treatment in recent years. It was approved by the U.S. Drug and Food Administration for use in 2010.

       It works differently than anything else has so far in treatment history of the disease, according to news reports of the medication. The company that manufactures Provenge mixes the chemicals specifically for each patient, designing the dose to attach to the patient's own white blood cells -- collected for the occasion -- that are in charge of fighting cancer and other intruders.

      A body's white blood cells could perhaps do the work on their own if cancer cells weren't so good at camouflaging themselves "with a whole host of tricks," said Dr. James Cunningham, an oncologist and medical director of the cancer center. "They want to survive and they are very devious."

     Provenge "teaches" the white cells to communicate with the tumor, he said. "So the antigen cells are sent to school. Like taking students and helping them learn about one particular danger."

The chemotherapy-and-white cell cocktail is then sent back from the lab and re-infused into the patient's blood supply. There is no discomfort associated with the procedure, Howard said, although an allergic reaction is possible. The option has no age cutoff.

     With his grandchild playing in the background, Dennis Phillips agreed. Surgery failed to stop his cancer, and "radiation didn't seem to matter, either," he said. "The doctor said he can't cure it, but it can make me live a little longer. Even a little longer is worth it."

Son's ADHD Inspires Mom to Write Children's Books

Stacie Spring, East Valley Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.

Most mornings, Kristi Grimm and her 9-year-old son, Dillon, go running together.

It's not your traditional run, since Grimm, a paraplegic from a horseback riding accident when she was 15, wheels along next to Dillon. It started as a way for Dillon, who has what his mother describes as severe ADHD, to burn some energy before starting his homeschooling lessons.

As walks around the blocks turned into mile-long runs, their time started to get boring, Grimm said.

"Mommy, tell me a story about a car," Dillon would say as they got started each morning. Sometimes it was a train or a horse.

As they wound their way through their Gilbert neighborhood, Grimm would make up stories to occupy their time and their minds. Dillon would interject with suggestions, plot twists, questions and additions.

And with his simple request, Dillon's stories have now become the inspiration for a children's book series by his parents: "Mommy, Tell Me a Story About ..." With Kristi writing in rhyme and husband Dave Grimm illustrating, the two have self-published two books this year.

WHO and partners battle multiple disease outbreaks in South Sudan

September 2016

Infectious diseases continue to pose a major public health threat in South Sudan. Adding to the chronic burden of disease, regular outbreaks further threaten people's health.

n Mingkaman, the “EWARS in a box” kits arrive by UN helicopter. Due to poor road conditions access to more remote areas or those in conflict is only possible by air, especially during the rainy season.

WHO/C. Haskew

In a conflict setting, WHO and partners are responding to multiple outbreaks including cholera, malaria, measles, suspected hemorrhagic fever, and kala-azar.
“In spite of the insecurity, WHO is taking every opportunity to ensure that we reach the people with health care services to protect them at this time when the health system has crumbled,” says Dr, Abdulmumini Usman, WHO Representative to South Sudan.

Displaced people risk cholera

Cholera was confirmed in Juba on 21 July 2016 in the aftermath of the recent escalation of violence in Juba where clashes between the military and opposition forces resulted in hundreds of people dead and thousands displaced. As of 6 September 2016, a total of 1762 cholera cases, including 26 deaths had been reported from five states: Juba, Terekeka, Jonglei, Eastern Lakes and Imatong.
WHO is working with partners to respond to the cholera outbreak, including treating approximately 1700 cholera patients and sending health promoters to visit around 88 000 households with prevention messages and items such as water purification tablets, oral rehydration solution and soap. Additionally, WHO has participated in an extensive health promotion campaign which has reached over 2 million people countrywide with cholera prevention messages through radio talk shows, radio spots and interviews on 17 radio stations.

Vaccination best protection against measles

Since the beginning of 2016, more than 1600 measles cases, including at least 19 deaths, have been reported countrywide. WHO has confirmed and responded to measles outbreaks in 12 counties. Since the fighting escalated in mid-2016, around 182 000 children have been vaccinated against measles. A follow-up campaign is planned for October 2016. Ensuring the majority of children receive vaccination is the best protection against this highly contagious disease.

Define health

Define health and other things

WHAT IS GOOD?

Full Definition of health

1. 1 a :  the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially :  freedom from physical disease or pain b :  the general condition of the body <in poor health> <enjoys good health>
2. 2 a :  flourishing condition :  well-being <defending the health of the beloved oceans — Peter Wilkinson> b :  general condition or state <poor economic health>
3. 3 :  a toast to someone's health or prosperity

HEALTH WEALTH

noun

noun: health

1. the state of being free from illness or injury.

   
   

   "he was restored to health"

   
   

   synonyms:

   good physical condition, healthiness, fitness, physical fitness, well-being, haleness, good trim, good shape, fine fettle, good kilter; More robustness, strength, vigour, soundness, salubrity "he was restored to health"

   antonyms:

   illness

   • a person's mental or physical condition.

     
     

     "bad health forced him to retire"

     
     

     synonyms:

     state of health, physical state, physical health, physical shape, condition, constitution, form "bad health forced him to retire"

   • used to express friendly feelings towards one's companions before drinking.

     exclamation: your good health; noun: your health; plural noun: your healths; exclamation: your health.