Best of the Blogosphere From the Last Week!! Protein, Police Chiefs, and Women's Supplements! Plus: RECIPE of the Week & Holiday Gift Guides!

Here's a roundup of my blogosphere favorites from this week!:  (click on the links to read the posts yourself!)

1) The Engine 2 Diet (Rip Esselstyn)'s "Daily Beet's" Q & A on High Protein Diets for Athletes with Fitness Expert Lani--this is a fantastic post because it really explains why "protein-loading" athletes to "build muscle" is not only scientifically incorrect but it also is linked to the supplement industries' marketing machine.  I find it absolutely fascinating that the World Health Organization recommended daily dietary intake of protein is only 5%!  Yes, 5%!  I love learning more about this after spending so many years thinking the key to strength is protein intake!


2) The Healthy Librarian's post on Police Chief Patrick Berarducci's Plant-Strong Diet Movement in Medina, Ohio.   LOVE this post--it really made me smile. :-) A police chief with poor health basically followed Dr. Esselstyn's program & after seeing such amazing results, has been pushing the whole town to join him!  


3)  The Plant-Based Dietician's profile of the Everyday Happy Herbivore Cookbook--a bunch of preview recipes & an opportunity to win a free book!  Check it out:-)


4) Dr. Andrew Weil's Q&A: Are Supplements Really Harmful to Women?  This is a really interesting post in which Dr. Weil discusses a newly published Archives of Internal Medicine journal article which suggests the possibility of increased death rates in women taking suppplements in the Iowa Women's Health Study.  I am particularly fascinated with his comments about "never taking multivitamins with iron in them" because iron is toxic when it builds up in the body.   


5)  Gluten-Free Girl's How to Make Gluten-Free Dough Ornaments!!  Silly one I know but its that holiday time of year & I used to make these (non-gluten-free) with my Mom as a little girl!

6)  Great Holiday Gift Guides from the last few weeks:
      -The Engine 2 Diet Daily Beet's Ultimate Plant-Strong Holiday Gift Guide!
          -The 100 Days of Real Food's Homemade Holiday Gift Ideas (beyond cookies!)
          -The Happy Herbivore's Holiday Gift Guide
          -The Healthy Librarian's "Money Well Spent" Review (scroll down to see the products)
   
Yummiest Looking Recipe This Week (I can't wait to try it!!): The Fat-Free Vegan's Roasted Squash & Red Lentil Spread (I LOVE curry!)


What were YOUR favorite blog posts this week?  

Coming Up Next Week:

• BOOK REVIEW:  "29 Gifts!"
• SuperImmunity for Kids ~Part 2~!
• Practical Stuff:  Kitchen Tools That Help & Products I Like! (Gift Ideas?!)

Coming Up on Medical System Tuesday: 

• Tip #9 For The Best Hospital Care:  Pay Attention ~ Insider Tips on How to Get the BEST Medical Care in the Hospital ~

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Friday's Best of the Blogosphere From the Last Week!! Breast Cancer, Steve Jobs & Pizza is a Vegetable?? Plus: Recipe of the Week!

Wow there have been some extremely interesting posts on the blogs this week!! 

Here's a roundup of my favorites:  (click on the links to read the posts yourself!)
1)  Fighting Breast Cancer with Flaxseeds (From "Disease Proof"--Dr. Barnard's blog) Really interesting piece about breast cancer prevention--very medical but fascinating.
2)  Why Did Steve Jobs Die? (Dr. McDougall's Newsletter) Ok this piece was a bit of a shocker.  Dr. McDougall's premise is that Steve Jobs had cancer since early adulthood and the vegan diet helped delay its onset.  This seems like an incredible leap until you follow through Dr. McDougall's calculations of tumor production intervals and the track of Jobs medical treatments.  What a read!  I'm still pondering on it!
3)  Congress Declares Pizza a VEGETABLE??? (Healthy Girl's Kitchen) Ok, in case you missed it, our legislative representatives actually are actively choosing to reduce the health of our kids in favor of the food lobby! This has been going on for awhile but this latest move is SO unbelievably ridiculous that Saturday Night Live had to get in on the act!  Pizza as a vegetable.  Are you kidding me?  I already knew that they classified "fries" as a vegetable, but pizza?? To be perfectly accurate the debate wasn't about pizza actually--it was about whether the tomato paste that GOES ON pizza can be counted as a vegetable!! To me, that doesn't sound a whole lot better.  Sometimes I wonder.  And so does SNL.  This video that the Healthy Girl posted on her blog is hilarious.
4)  From Dr. Esselstyn's Facebook Page:  Newly released:  Dr. Esselstyn's Heart Disease Reversal Program on VIDEO!!  Just in time for the holidays its a stocking stuffer that can save a life!  His whole program in a four hour video!  Dr. E is amazing. 

Yummiest Looking Recipe This Week (I can't wait to try it!!):  How to Make Plant Strong Sushi!!

Coming Up THIS Week!

• RECIPES & Ideas: Snacks!  YUMMY & Portable Plant-Based Snack Food--all sugar-free, gluten-free & without adding oil or fat!!

Coming Up on Medical System Tuesday: 

• Tip #8 For The Best Hospital Care:  Be Nice ~ Insider Tips on How to Get the BEST Medical Care in the Hospital ~

Coming Up Next Week:

• BOOK REVIEW:  "29 Gifts!"
• SuperImmunity for Kids ~Part 2~!

The medical information on this site is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. This information is not intended to be patient education, does not create any patient-physician relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment.  Please consult your health care provider before making any healthcare decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition. The Happy Rehab Doc expressly disclaims responsibility, and shall have no liability, for any damages, loss, injury, or liability whatsoever suffered as a result of your reliance on the information contained in this site.  By visiting this site you agree to the foregoing terms and conditions.

RECIPES: Thanksgiving Ideas for Plant-Based Folks Like Me!

Ok so if you are like me and are JUST starting to figure out what you are going to bring to Thanksgiving Dinner than this post is for YOU!!  I"m going to come back to my medical series after the holiday but for now its time for a favorite topic for a Compulsive Overeater like me....FOOODDDD!!!!:-)  Its nice to be able to laugh about that now :-)


This is going to be my first Vegan Thanksgiving--and now that I think of it, it will be my first Thanksgiving being Gluten & Sugar Free too!! Ack!!  So in this post, I've turned to other bloggers to get some much-needed advice and ideas on what I can eat/bring to the family table!


Totally Vegan:

Happy Herbivore: Vegan Thanksgiving

VegKitchen's Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner

The Fat-Free Vegan's Thanksgiving Meatless Loaf  (a bunch of other bloggers are raving about this too!)

A Plant-Strong Thanksgiving (post by Rip Esselstyn on Whole Foods site!)

Vegetarian But Lots of Great Ideas:

New York Times: A Thanksgiving Feast, No Turkeys Allowed!


New York Times: Well's Vegetarian Thanksgiving


Vegan & GLUTEN & SUGAR FREE!!


Vegan Pumpkin Bread (this recipe is from one of my favorite bloggers (Amy Green) that I've been following ever since I became sugar-free and gluten-free last spring!!  Her baking recipes are just amazing.  Check it out:  Simply Sugar and Gluten Free!)


Vegan Peanut-Butter Cups!  (Ok we really don't keep peanut butter in the house anymore but maybe for a holiday....:-))


Ok and now what I'm certain I'm bringing:

1) Ann Esselstyn's Artichoke & Spring Onion Dip (from Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (Amazon link) with my favorite non-oil, gluten-free, vegan crackers:  "Mary's Gone Crackers" Mary's Gone Crackers!!!
2)  Herbivore's Brownies!! (made out of black beans!!  I'll let you know how they turn out!)

....The rest....we'll just see!!! 

Next time:  Tip #6:  Know the Role That Each Person Plays In The Hospital Team ((Who ARE These Different People Taking Care of You & What DO They Do??!!))

Coming Up AFTER Thanksgiving:

• SuperImmunity Foods for KIDS (Calling All PARENTS!)
• RECIPES & Ideas: Snacks!  YUMMY & Portable Plant-Based Snack Food--all sugar-free, gluten-free & without adding oil or fat!!

The medical information on this site is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. This information is not intended to be patient education, does not create any patient-physician relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment.  Please consult your health care provider before making any healthcare decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition. The Happy Rehab Doc expressly disclaims responsibility, and shall have no liability, for any damages, loss, injury, or liability whatsoever suffered as a result of your reliance on the information contained in this site.  By visiting this site you agree to the foregoing terms and conditions.

RECIPES: Soups Galore!!

I'm a big fan of soup--particularly when winter starts to creep ever closer!  Whether you are sitting in the sun out in the Southwest or cuddled by the fire in the Midwest & Northeast, November means that winter is here!  

Soup is a simple way to cook in bulk and have tons of yummy leftovers.  I'm VERY big on maximizing the number of meals we get out of everything we cook--cooking in bulk is the most efficient way for me to eat well and work the hours I work!  An extra bonus of soup is that it is an extraordinary money saver--it costs very little to make soup (particularly when you use inexpensive ingredients like squash, potatoes and dried beans) and it lasts forever! 

Delicious Homemade Split Pea Soup!!

Hilariously I had quite a grand scheme in mind to post a bunch of beautiful photos of all the soups we made last week but I experienced a small wrinkle:  when I went down to check our fridge, we were completely out of the fresh Butternut Squash Soup & Potato Leek Soup!  The only soup not completely consumed was the split pea soup--the largest batch of soup we made!!  So there you go--in our amazing disappearing kitchen I can treat you all to only a lovely photo of the split pea soup :-)

I'll post more recipe variations of my own in the coming weeks after I've tested them more thoroughly--of note, I'm not a chef!  I'm a doctor!  So when I say "recipes of my own" I really mean my own variations on other people's recipes! But for now, please enjoy some of my favorite blogger's soups:

1.  Dr. Esselstyn's son Rip (a triathlete & firefighter who has his own awesome cookbook:  The Engine 2 Diet) posted a fantastic directory of yummy soup recipes that are his favorites on the web: http://engine2diet.com/the-daily-beet/soup/

2.  Another awesome blogger:  The Fat-free Vegan Kitchen has a fantastic recipe for Pumpkin and Roasted Corn Soup!  If you are short on time you can skip a few steps and use canned pumpkin:   http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/11/pumpkin-and-roasted-corn-soup.html 

3.  The Happy Herbivore (beautiful recipes and great nutrition facts) has a wonderful recipe for Red Lentil Curry Soup! I'm never one to pass up a good curry! http://happyherbivore.com/recipe/red-lentil-curry-soup/

Enjoy!!

Next time:  PAIN: How to Treat Everything from Arthritis to Fibromyalgia With Food

Coming Soon: 

• RECIPES: Applesauce (sugar free!!)
• How To Get The BEST Medical Care: Tips to Patients from a Doc

The medical information on this site is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. This information is not intended to be patient education, does not create any patient-physician relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment.  Please consult your health care provider before making any healthcare decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition. The Happy Rehab Doc expressly disclaims responsibility, and shall have no liability, for any damages, loss, injury, or liability whatsoever suffered as a result of your reliance on the information contained in this site.  By visiting this site you agree to the foregoing terms and conditions.