What’s for Dinner?

October 12th, 2009

Monday
Flemish Beef Stew

Throw this recipe together in a slow cooker before you leave in the morning (or the night before), and you’ll have a flavorful hot dinner waiting and ready when you get home.

Tuesday
Chicken Chilaquiles

Wednesday
Chili-Rubbed Tilapia With Asparagus and Lemon

Thursday
Autumn Vegetable Succotash

Friday
Roast Chicken Dinner

Saturday
Golden-Crusted Pork Chops With Green Beans

Sunday
Caramelized Garlic and Shallot Pasta

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October 5th, 2009

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Acai Miracle Berries is Mostly Miracle Marketing

October 3rd, 2009

In experiments conducted by the US Dept of Agriculture, volunteers were asked to ingest large quantities of fruits that have been identified as having high levels of antioxidants, and their blood were subsequently tested for antioxidant capacity. One important note is the large amount of fruit required per ingestion – for example – volunteers in the Kiwi fruit group must eat 4 kiwis. The cherry group? 45 cherries. This should give consumers an idea of the potential “starting” dose needed to gain an antioxidant benefit – and this is PER DOSE. (imagine eating 45 * 3 cherries a day – if you want to get the benefit of cherries’ antioxidant properties with every meal.)

This does make for an attractive commercial market to give consumers “concentrated” forms of antioxidants – except most of companies providing these types of nutrition products are not regulated by the FDA – that branch of the government regulating food and drugs to make sure that you as a consumer aren’t being ripped off or worse – physically harmed by ingesting unsafe products. Unfortunately, history has shown that the FDA only steps in when enough people get sick or if a few people begin to die from the so-called “nutraceutical” – just look at the ephedrine cases in the multi-billion dollar weight-loss industry.

Currently there is no agreed projection of antioxidant intake because this can fluctuate based on individual energy intake, caloric consumption, and especially environmental or confounding health related factors like exposure to cigarette smoke or disease (increasing body’s oxidation burden). There are researchers who are trying to determine what these individual needs may be, but for the most part, consumers have been inundated by commercial entities eager to profit on a perceived benefit of “high antioxidant intake”. For example, via Quackwatch:
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/acai.html

The verdict? If you like to drink exotic berries for the taste, there’s no problem with indulging yourself but if you’re looking for some of these commercial products for bona fide healthcare benefits, require the claims to be backed up by randomized, double-blind placebo controlled clinical trials, with full disclosure of side effect profiles experienced by the human subjects.

(…and if there is really some miracle plant bearing amazing therapeutic properties, the pharma companies would outrun anyone to isolate the agents, synthesize/mass produce, and submit it through the proper legal govt channels for commercialization! that was how we got cancer drugs from the pacific yew tree.)

Great Snoring Discovery

September 27th, 2009

“This house,” said the real estate salesman, “has both its good points and its bad points. To show you I’m honest, I’m going to tell you about both. The disadvantages are that there is a chemical plant quarter of a mile to the north and a slaughterhouse quarter of a mile to the south.

“What are the advantages?” inquired the prospective buyer.

“The advantage is that you can always tell which way the wind is blowing.” replied the realtor.

Like lawyers, real estate agents are not high in the popularity stakes. That’s as the case may be, but years ago when Guy and I were looking to buy our very first house in South Africa, we made a new best friend in our agent Jilly. She was full of joie de vivre, hilariously self-deprecating and, above all, totally without artifice. In other words, she just didn’t believe in bull and was adept at showing us houses that would suit both us and, more importantly, our budget. It wasn’t her fault, then, that we ended up buying a house we couldn’t really afford. See, the thing is, after a long weeks of viewing and just not finding anything that rocked all the fleet, Jilly sighed piteously and said, “Okay, I’m going to take you for a peek at a house that has just come onto the market. It has everything on your wish list – and on mine too, for that matter – but there is no way in Hades that you can afford it. So forget about buying it. It’s strictly a ‘look and drool, but don’t touch’ house.”

Jilly unlocked the front door of No. 3 Havelock Square and motioned us through. Guy and I walked into the hallway, gazed up at the sweeping staircase, the beautiful architraves, the scrubbed wooden floors, the enormously high ceilings and huge sash windows and were both rendered speechless.

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As we were leaving, I looked back at the house…..and it winked it me. I kid you not. It winked and whispered, “I’m yours.” And so it came to be that we lived there for many very happy years with our girls and two fat Labs until the time came for us to say totsiens to South Africa and head off on other adventures.

During our recent house hunt here in England, I knew that we’d never find another Havelock Square, but the cottage we found on our safari to Norfolk last weekend did make us look at each other and squeal. Well, Guy doesn’t do squealing, but he grinned widely when I did, so I knew he liked it too.

It’s called The Red House – which I like – and it’s in a tiny village called Great Snoring – which makes me laugh. It‘s a few minutes from the wild and empty Norfolk coast which means long walks and seafood feasts and lots of sailing in the summer. It’s only an hour and 40 minutes from London by train, so not far for the girls and not far for us to go to get our big city hit every now and then. It isn’t very big, but there is enough room for friends and family. Most important of all is that The Red House feels happy and looks pretty. D’you know what I mean? Yes, I’m sure you do!

Right then, let me take you on a tour of England and show you a small selection of the houses we’d seen before we found the little red one in Great Snoring.

(Important to remember, though, that ‘one man’s meat…’  All the houses shown here are truly lovely, but just not right for us.)

 

6.hampshire

Hampshire. 

Lovely converted chapel, tiny courtyard garden and no room for family and friends.

 

 

 3.wiltshire

Wiltshire.

Cute, but too dark and squishy inside.

 

 2.wales

Wales.

Wonderful position, dreamy views, but it didn’t ‘wink’.

 

0.devon

Devon.

Adorable, but just a bit too teeny weeny.

 

7.worcestershire

Worcestershire.

Wrong county.

 

8.scotland

 

 

 

 

Scotland.

Blissful isolation.  Bit chilly.

 

9.berwickshire

Berwickshire.

More glorious solitude.  Too far away for weekend visits from family.

 

10.dorset

Dorset.

Too low for long people.

 

 

12.sussex

Sussex.

Enchanting, but looming pylon.

 

14.kent

Kent.

Almost… but not quite.

 

And finally……

 

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Norfolk.

The Red House.

 

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din.room

kitchen.redhouse

 

garden

 

Hold thumbs that all goes according to plan and do remember, the door will always be open for my bloggy friends! If you’d like to see a little more of Norfolk, I wrote about it here: Childhood Imaginings.

Baucus Healthcare Plan Would “Break Budget”

September 21st, 2009

Senator Max Baucus introduced the first “deficit neutral” healthcare legislation on September 16, but the bill would increase most people’s healthcare premiums and still “break the federal budget” — if you believe President Obama’s July 22 prime time address to the American people. Back then, Obama stated: “We also know that with health care inflation on the curve that it’s on we are guaranteed to see Medicare and Medicaid basically break the federal budget.”

Baucus’ bill, the America’s Healthy Future Act, replaces President Obama’s proposed “public option” with non-profit healthcare exchanges and would cost at least $774 billion over the next 10 years and cut the projected deficits by $49 billion from existing expected increases. But if the current Medicare and Medicaid spending trends would “break the federal budget,” would a bill that would cut that spending trend by less than $5 billion per year make the difference? Probably not, unless you believe that President Obama was being less than truthful and overly alarmist in his July 22 statement.

Baucus’ bill does cut some $409 billion in Medicare waste. That’s a substantial sum that could be used to reduce the deficit, but nearly all of it (plus $413 billion in tax increases) would be applied to new healthcare mandates loosely based upon the Massachusetts system that requires people to purchase insurance or face stiff fines on their income taxes.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) explained how the bill would work:

Starting in 2013, the proposal would establish a requirement for such residents to obtain insurance and would typically impose a financial penalty on people who did not do so (the size of which would depend on their income). In that same year, the proposal would establish new insurance exchanges and would subsidize the purchase of health insurance through those exchanges for individuals and families with income between 133 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL).

Tax increases would include a 35 percent excise on so-called “gold-plated” insurance programs, those costing more than $8,000 per year for a single person and $21,000 for a family. It would also impose fines for most people who don’t purchase their own private insurance plans, or those who do so through the non-profit insurance exchanges. The Baucus plan is loosely based upon the Massachusetts plan for mandating coverage. Massachusetts will impose a fine of up to $1,068 this year against those who have not purchased health insurance, a fine level that is added onto state income tax returns and will soon rise to about $3,500 per person as the fine is phased in.

Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post explains that one of the main innovations of the Baucus bill in achieving its “deficit neutral” designation is its failure to bring doctors’ reimbursement rates under Medicare and Medicaid up to reimbursement levels in the private sector. “If the House bill only raised their pay for one year, as Baucus does, the bill would shift pretty easily into deficit neutrality. And, despite the screaming that would emanate from the American Medical Association, some House Democrats are proposing to do just that.”

So why didn’t the House bill do that?

The CBO noted that Baucus’ bill would “substantially reduce the growth of Medicare’s payment rates for most services (relative to the growth rates projected under current law).” The House bill didn’t use Baucus’ gimmick because doctors already make a lot less money from their Medicare and Medicaid patients than private sector patients and are currently forced to make up much of the difference by charging more for their privately insured patients. Eliminating reimbursement level increases for doctors will put additional upward price pressure on private plans. In fact, most analysts believe that Baucus’ bill will create upward pressure on everyone’s private insurance premiums.

Princeton Economic Professor Uwe E. Reinhard told the New York Times that “the cost-control measures in the Baucus plan alone will not be enough to control skyrocketing health care costs.” He sees a future where both Democrats and the private insurance companies are blamed for making matters worse:

So imagine, if you will, solid middle-class Harry and Louise, sitting at their kitchen table and beholding the latest premium notice from their friendly private health insurer. The notice calls for a, say, 12 percent increase in the premium for the coming year at a time when the couple’s household income has been stagnating.

Irate Harry and Louise will, of course, curse the government — and especially the Democrats — for mandating their purchase of health insurance, thus making them swallow that 12 percent premium hike.

But in a populist fit of anger, irate Harry and Louise may also believe that the health insurance industry is just exploiting the mandate to line its coffers. Contrary to the facts, many citizens impute huge profits to the private health insurance industry.

It’s not just that the private sector would be paying for much of the government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs through government mandates to doctors. Government would have raised medical costs for insurance companies with new mandates, and has no plans to fix out-of-whack malpractice law. Malpractice insurance costs every doctor in Ameria an average of more than $50,000, and for some specialties pay more than $100,000 annually. That’s a cost doctors must pass on to their patients. Long Island’s Newsday recently profiled an obstetrician who will pay $175,000 in malpractice insurance costs this year, which has cut his compensation for nine-months of pregnancy care and delivery from about $5,000 20 years ago to just $2,600 this year. Doctors are not living as well as they were a generation ago, but ultimately, these costs must be passed onto consumers.

Massachusetts Lawyer James Sokolov used to run television commercials in the Boston market bragging, “When doctors make mistakes, I make them pay.” The reality is that the tort system is allowing Sokolove and his ilk to make everyone pay. The absurd nature of the malpractice tort system has meant doctors will often order additional, unneeded tests for patients in order to avoid any chance of a legal suit. The practice is called “defensive medicine,” and it is perhaps more costly than the cost of malpractice insurance alone. Stuart L. Weinstein, M.D., of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons estimates that “the average American family pays an additional $1,700 to $2,000 per year in healthcare costs simply to cover the costs of defensive medicine…. Excessive litigation and waste in the nation’s current tort system imposes an estimated yearly tort tax of $9,827 for a family of four and increases healthcare spending in the United States by $124 billion.” That’s a one-year cost, not a ten-year figure.

The future of the Baucus bill is in serious doubt, as many on the Left are protesting the lack of a “public option” in the proposal. But if the Baucus bill passes, the budget would still “break the budget.” Under a scenario where the Baucus bill is passed, the primary political question may be: Will voters blame Democrats for engineering a failing, government-managed, pseudo-private system, or will they blame the private sector “capitalism” for not delivering the goods?

Mike Huckabee Wins Values Voter Straw Poll

September 19th, 2009

In a telling, but non-scientific, survey of the Republican Party’s social conservative base, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) won the 2009 Values Voter straw poll with a 28 percent plurality of the vote. Five-hundred and ninety-seven people voted.

In October 2007, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) won the first straw poll held by this young event, a controversial result skewed by online voting by people who didn’t attend the conference. (There was no such online voting this year.) Mike Huckabee’s strong showing among voters who attended the conference foreshadowed his remarkable victory in the Iowa caucuses three months later.

Huckabee led eight other potential Republican candidates: Romney placed second with 12.4 percent, while Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) polled 12.23 percent, Sarah Palin polled 12.06 percent, and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) polled 11.89 percent. People included in the poll who didn’t the top five: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.

Only Pence, Huckabee, Pawlenty and Romney spoke to the conference before the vote, while Rick Santorum was scheduled to give a short invocation for Phyllis Schlafly at tonight’s banquet.

Most U.S. doctors want public-private mix: poll

September 14th, 2009

BOSTON (Reuters) – Most U.S. doctors favor having both public and private options in a reformed healthcare system, a survey published on Monday said.

The possible inclusion of a public option — a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers — is one of the most divisive parts of the reform that is President Barack Obama’s top domestic legislative priority.

When given a three-way choice among private plans that use tax credits or subsidies to help the poor buy private insurance; a new public health insurance plan such as Medicare; or a mix of the two; 63 percent of doctors supported a mix, 27 percent said they only wanted private options, and just 10 percent said they exclusively wanted public options.

The survey of 2,130 U.S. doctors, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that more 55 percent, regardless of their medical specialty, would favor expanding Medicare so it covered people aged 55 and older.

Medicare is the federal health insurance plan for people aged over 65 and some disabled people.

“The result shows that physicians see this system is broken and needs to be fixed,” Dr. John Lumpkin, senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which sponsored the survey, said in a telephone interview.

About half of doctors supported trying to save money by restricting care to treatments proven to be cost-effective, a separate survey of 991 doctors in the same journal said.

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The polls have been published less than a week after Obama addressed Congress to outline the plan he says will overhaul the $2.5 trillion industry to cut costs, improve care and expand coverage to many of the 46 million Americans without any healthcare insurance.

The concept of a public option has drawn much controversy and the American Medical Association, which represents about 250,000 U.S. doctors, has opposed it.

Drs. Salomeh Keyhani and Alex Federman of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, authors of the larger study, found broad physician support for a combination of private and public insurance, regardless of their region, medical specialty, how they earned their income, or how many hours they spent treating patients.

Similar results were seen when doctors were asked about extending Medicare to those aged 55 and above. Fifty-eight percent supported the idea, 23 percent were opposed and 19 percent were unsure.

In the smaller survey, 73 percent said every doctor ought to care for the uninsured and underinsured and 67 percent said they were willing to accept limits on payments for expensive drugs and procedures as a way to save money and make basic care available to more people.

“By contrast, physicians were divided almost equally about cost-effectiveness analysis; just over half (54 percent) reported having a moral objection to using such data ‘to determine which treatments will be offered to patients,’” said the survey team, led by Ryan Antiel of the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota.

Family doctors were more likely to favor reform than surgeons and other specialists.

Computers and Exercising

August 20th, 2009

Now that that one PC of mine has been cleaned out, it’s running much cooler. The fan above the heatsink has yet to spin up while doing something strenuous. In the past, anything that made the CPU work at 50% for more than a few seconds would cause the fan to spin up. It’s because the heatsink fins (or whatever you’d like to call them) were clogged with a layer of dust. Now that the dust is gone, the fan and heatsink are able to work much more efficiently at removing the heat from the CPU and I know that this will give the entire system a longer lifespan.

On the exercise front, I tried something a little different. I try to do leg workouts as often as I can because they can really get the heart racing and burn calories and fat. So the new exercise I did came from an idea I saw on TV and it’s certainly nothing revolutionary. It’s just something I’ve never tried.

There’s a padded chair intended for guys who want to do sitting shoulder presses (video) and I decided to use it as a temporary seat. I’d sit down and quickly stand up and either do a standing shoulder press or a bicep curl. Either way, I was working out my upper body, while also burning a ton of calories with the repeated sit-stand-sit-stand motion. It wore me out within an hour and I was done. Kaput. Throw my ass on a cart and wheel me out.

I intend to do this exercise more often now that I familiarized myself with it. It’s always interesting trying new exercises. Sometimes they prove to be awkward and some end up being less strenuous than you expected. This one was in fact strenuous, but I know it was good for my weight loss efforts.

Travel Tip Tuesday: Five Tips for Staying Fit When You Travel in Italy

August 18th, 2009

Two female joggers on foggy Morro Strand State BeachItaly is known throughout the world for its perfect pasta, creamy gelato and homemade dolci-as well as for their tall, dark and sexy men and graciously thin, yet-somehow-still-curvy women. So what’s the deal? How do these people live in a country where their food is celebrated and still look like they just stepped off of the cover of Vogue Italia?

Yea … I don’t know.

(But I find out, you’ll be the first to know!)

What I do know is that it isn’t always easy for travelers who come in search of that perfect pasta to leave with their pre-vacation waistline.

So here are five tips for staying fit when traveling in Italy.

1. Use Your Feet

Many Italian cities cater to pedestrians who take to the streets when buying groceries, visiting museums or going out for dinner. Join them. Instead of taking a taxi, hopping on a bus or using the subway, walk. You will get in some extra exercise and see new attractions along the way.

2. Chew on This

Although it is likely caused by too many lunches gobbled at our desks, many Americans have the sad habit of inhaling food. We are in a hurry, we have five minutes before our next meeting, we are starving. I understand that. But when you are traveling in Italy, take time to slow down and enjoy your meal. Chew slowly, savor the flavors and people-watch and you will begin to see the real beauty of an Italian meal.

3. Fill ‘er Up

Staying hydrated is one of the top weight loss tips on the Internet, so it makes sense that drinking plenty of water when you travel, will help you stay fit. Italy abounds with free water fountains. Keep a bottle with you and refill it often. On a side note, you can purchase bottled water in supermarkets at a fraction of what you will pay outside vendors or bars.

4. Be a Creature of Habit

That is to say, don’t change your habits just because you are traveling. If you regularly enjoy a morning run before breakfast, then bring your tennis shoes and spend some time jogging near your hotel or B&B. You will get a great view of the city and help work off some of those extra calories.

5. Choose Your Own

… breakfast items and snacks, that is. Much to my dismay, Italian breakfasts mostly consist of croissants and coffee, so if you are hoping for healthy bagels or low-fat oatmeal, you are out of luck. To help stay in shape, go to the local grocery store or market and stock up on fresh fruit. You can add this to your breakfast, alternate fruit with croissants or have fruit as a snack between meals or at a night.

Discover Useful Information About Carbs

August 18th, 2009

The question of whether you should get rid off carb based foods thoroughly or decrease them significantly has led to severe discussion in the slimming industry. Weight Loss Tablet Numerous people claim that you have to to cut out carbs completely in order to become slim speedily. Certainly I am sure you are all conscious of one particularly fashionable weight loss programme that advocates a enormous reduction in foods containing carbs. It will of course come as no surprise to you that the people who are selling these systems have become very wealthly.

Well let me inform you this, not only should you not cut out foods containing carbohydrates completely; it’s in fact unsafe to do so. Initially of let us analyse why you don’t need to cut out carbohydrates exclusively. Well contrary to what the so called “weight loss gurus” tell you, carb based foods are in and of themselves are not high in calories. Make sure that you take some time to really digest this statement. . Foods containing carbohydrates are not fattening….Weight Loss Appetite Suppressants Now I realise that this information is different to what you are being told by many “experts” but it’s the unconditional truth. It is one big lie to say that carbohydrates are fattening.

The only way that you can put on more weight, if if you are not active and eat more calories than you burn. It’s that straightforward. A calorie is just a calorie, nothing more. It doesn’t matter whether you get your calories from protein, foods containing carbohydrates or fat. What matters is that you are active enough (remember you must train) to burn more calories than you devour.

There are several reasons why carbohydrates have been singled out as the food that contributes to fat gain. First of all it is what we add to a lot of of our carb based foods that lead people to think that foods containing carbohydrates cause weight gain. Think about how much spread you put on a piece of toast. . What about all that extremely rich cheese sauce that you mixed in with you pasta dish.. It’s these trimmings that are artfully causing you to pile on the weight, not the foods containing carbs themselves. So if you want to get slim, cut down Appetite Suppressant these fats not the foods containing carbohydrates.

Secondly you need to be aware of a small diet history to see why foods containing carbohydrates have become so notorious. During the 60’s and 70’s scientists revealed a clear link connecting animal fat (i.e fatty meat, butter, cheese) and coronary heart illness. As a result low fat diets became exceedingly prevalent. In an attempt to cater for this (and profit) , the food industry started to produce a huge range of low-fibre white flower products (muffins, doughnuts, bagels and cookies), lots of carb snack food (popcorn, nachos etc) and a lot of unusual high carb fillings.. Note that most of these foods are “refined carbohydrates”,