Kesehatan Makanan Matters

Beberapa teman saya mengatakan bahwa mereka lebih suka tidak tahu apa-apa tentang makanan kesehatan dan bagaimana tepatnya mereka makan karena ketidaktahuan adalah kebahagiaan dan menikmati makanan lebih penting dari apa pun. Tapi aku akan mengatakan pengetahuan adalah kekuatan, itulah yang mendorong saya untuk membaca dan memahami cara memasak makanan sehat apa makan sehat adalah semua tentang, mengapa beberapa orang menjadi begitu tertarik pada makanan kesehatan, dan apa yang menginsyafkan manusia ingin mengubah gaya hidup mereka. Mengetahui apa yang baik untuk makan membantu Anda merencanakan diet Anda lebih bijak dan menjaga apa yang paling penting, kesehatan Anda. Di sini, saya telah mengumpulkan empat paling banyak dibicarakan topik di makan sehat dan makanan kesehatan: Lemak, Daging, Fiber, dan Gula. Jika Anda tidak pernah tahu fakta-fakta sebelumnya, mungkin mereka akan mengubah seluruh perspektif Anda tentang makan yang benar, seperti itu untuk saya.
1. Daging untuk Kekuatan
Daging mungkin tidak tepat disebut makanan kesehatan tetapi memberikan kita banyak mikronutrien seperti vitamin B12, kalsium, dan vitamin yang dibutuhkan tubuh tumbuh dan merupakan sumber utama protein. Misalnya daging sapi mengandung sangat diserap trace mineral seperti besi, seng, dan mangan. Unggas dan makanan laut berkontribusi vitamin B6, dan babi merupakan sumber yang kaya tiamin. Namun, daging dan unggas mengandung sedikit lemak, dan sekitar sepertiga dari lemak yang jenuh. Asam lemak jenuh dalam diet telah terbukti berkorelasi positif dengan kadar total kolesterol darah, kadar kolesterol, dan berkorelasi negatif dengan (menguntungkan) kadar kolesterol HDL. Asupan lemak jenuh setidaknya sama terkait erat dengan arteri pembekuan. Asupan tinggi lemak hewani dapat meningkatkan risiko sejumlah kanker, termasuk kanker usus besar, payudara, prostat dan pankreas. Aku digunakan untuk peduli apa-apa tentang makanan kesehatan dan mendambakan daging karena rasa dan bahkan bersikeras bahwa saya memiliki daging untuk setiap kali makan. Tapi setelah belajar begitu banyak tentang diet sehat, saya tidak akan berani berbisik "umur panjang untuk semua pecinta daging!" seperti saya memiliki begitu terang-terangan di masa lalu.Saya menyadari bahwa makan panggang atau daging panggang, atau makanan laut juga menyebabkan kita untuk karsinogen disebut amina heterosiklik (HCA). Kesehatan zat berbahaya ini terbentuk pada makanan seperti yang mereka memasak di api terbuka atau di bawah panas tinggi panggangan, terlepas dari apakah atau tidak char terbentuk. Selain itu, menarik untuk dicatat bahwa ketika lemak menetes ke sumber panas, menciptakan flare-up dan asap yang kemudian deposito pada makanan kelompok lain karsinogen, yang disebut hidrokarbon aromatik polisiklik (PAH).
Salah satu cara untuk menghindari karsinogen dan masih menikmati daging panggang sebagai makanan kesehatan adalah untuk menempatkan mereka di bawah foil membungkus sebelum menempatkan mereka di atas api. Selain itu, makanan mendapatkan aroma panggangan, terutama jika Anda meninggalkan bagian atas longgar disegel. Baking dan pemanggangan adalah metode memasak sehat. Mereka cenderung untuk menghasilkan HCA karena suhu memasak yang lebih rendah, dan memasak dengan cairan (merebus, mengukus, perburuan, kesal, dll) tidak menghasilkan HCA.
2. Serat untuk Pencernaan
Diet serat ditemukan dalam makanan nabati, yaitu sereal, kacang-kacangan, kacang polong, gandum, buah-buahan dan sayuran, dan merupakan bahan ajaib yang membantu memelihara sistem pencernaan kita dalam bentuk yang sempurna. Ini terdiri dari bagian-bagian dicerna atau senyawa tanaman yang lulus relatif tidak berubah melalui perut dan usus kita, meskipun bakteri dalam usus besar sebagian dapat mencerna serat melalui fermentasi. Serat memperlambat laju pencernaan makanan, yang mengarah ke pengosongan lebih bertahap dari makanan dari lambung ke usus kecil. Ini pada dasarnya berarti makanan akan dicerna lebih cepat, dan bit dicerna, termasuk serat, yang pindah lebih cepat. Pencernaan yang sehat memberikan kontribusi untuk menurunkan berat badan dan meningkatkan kesehatan, yang berarti lebih sedikit risiko terkena banyak penyakit modern seperti penyakit usus dan bahkan diabetes. Dengan memperlambat pengosongan lambung, serat membantu menghindari situasi di mana tubuh harus menghasilkan sejumlah besar insulin (sebagai akibat dari rilis cepat diulang glukosa ke dalam usus). Hal ini pada gilirannya membantu melindungi terhadap diabetes. Sebuah diet serat tinggi bahkan lebih penting untuk orang tua karena sistem pencernaan kita melambat dengan usia.Serat juga dikenal untuk menyerap air menjadi lebih ringan, lebih besar dan lebih mudah untuk bergerak bersama. Inilah sebabnya mengapa hal ini membantu mencegah sembelit. Ketika menyerap air dalam perut, memberikan perasaan kenyang sehingga mengurangi jumlah makanan yang dikonsumsi. Jadi, jangan lupa untuk minum banyak air sepanjang hari, sehingga serat yang anda makan dapat membengkak menjadi seringan mungkin.

pounding mochi

The Oakland Museum presented a multi-faceted celebration for the Lunar New Year.  There were many activities for children, Chinese dances, calligraphy and ichibana demonstrations, taiko drummers, and this mochi pounding ceremony.  Happy Lunar New Year to all.

James Beard Foundation Semifinalists

Housemade Ricotta Gnudi, The Macintosh

Eater Charleston shared the James Beard Foundation semifinalists. Yeah! Check out all the Charleston candidates. The finalists will be announced on Monday, 3/18 and the winners will be announced at the James Beard Foundation Awards on Monday, May 6, 2013 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. We are so lucky to live here. I am glad I don't have to pick winners from this group:

Best New Restaurant
The Ordinary, Charleston, S.C.

Outstanding Chef
Sean Brock, McCrady's and Husk

Outstanding Wine Program
Charleston Grill at Charleston Place Hotel

Best Chef Southeast
Jeremiah Bacon, The Macintosh
Craig Deihl, Cypress
Joshua Keeler, Two Boroughs Larder

Cotton pickin' cotton

Cotton processing, S.C.

Driving the back roads of South Carolina there appears to be more and more cotton each year. Maybe I should consider cotton farming. It appears to be a profitable crop.

In other news, I dashed home from work and made dinner for six people so we could clear the table and solve the world's problems. I think we got things taken care of. Well worth the roasted beet salad, mini chicken pot pies and pear tart. Yum. I always feel like I am playing grown up when I entertain :).

Sign to The Pond

The sign to the pond at Pole Bank.

See four photographs of the pond on Hyde DP Xtra.

A contribution to signs, signs.

Happy 1st Birthday Landon!

I got to photograph Landon and his family over the weekend to capture him at the one year mark! (Although technically his birthday was a couple weeks ago.) He's such a sweet little guy! I was so thankful that the rain held off for us, and even though it was a bit cold, these kids did great!

Happy 1st Birthday handsome Landon!

Little Riley is so cute and such a great big sister! 

An unexpected Voyage.....

We had a bit of an unexpected treat last night, Dave (mon fils) flew in for a business meeting and we had just enough time to catch up with him and enjoy a meal at Voyage Kitchen Cafe on the West Coast road. I've been here for breakfast and coffee a few times but not for dinner, very nice! The cosy relaxed atmosphere and no loud music was perfect for catching up on all the news from Sydney. A glass of cold white wine and a dish of tomato, oregano and bocconcini and Aimee and I were transported back to the isle of Capri, lovely! Anyway it's late so will catch up tomorrow, take care.. p.s. do we bloggers ever go anywhere without taking photos haha!

Italo Morales - Overnight Generation

Title: Overnight Generation
Photographer: Italo Morales
Concept and design: Francesco Vedovato
Type of publication: book
Number of pages: 128
Size: 14,5 x 20 cm
Edition: 600 copies
Offset printing
35€ +shipping

"Overnight Generation is a post-clash reportage over the complex shades that being young adults can assume in the contemporary Sarajevo. A research on a fascinating, complex, and often unknown european capital, plagued by what has been acknowledged as the longest siege in modern history. Overnight Generation is a portrait of Sarajevo and a tribute to its young citizens: a generation that had to grow up overnight, while we were asleep."

website / to order

Walter Hoving Home, 2

Continuing from yesterday:

Many of the women at the Walter Hoving Home come there from jail. Others are literally found on the streets of neighborhoods I avoid, by founders John and Elsie Benton. John Benton's little red book, One Lady at a Time, recounts harrowing adventures of witnessing about Jesus in places where I might think he's a kook to go. But the man gets results: For the most part (85%), these women do not go back to the streets.

(The book is free and I have a few copies, so email me if you want one, or send for it by clicking the link.)

 

Some would say the heart of a home is the kitchen. At the Walter Hoving Home, the heart is the Learning Center. Here, residents focus on the teachings of Jesus, and pretty much nothing else. For the first year or so a woman lives in the Walter Hoving Home, she doesn't watch TV, surf the web, or even read library books. She learns about Jesus Christ.

Oh--and please note the chandeliers, ceiling fans and columns as we go.

As I mentioned yesterday, the women do all the chores in the Home. (Even though the heart of this home may not be the kitchen, apparently working there is a blast.)

Larissa, at left in red, is in charge of "Blessingdale's," the basement cache of clean clothing, where each woman can "shop" for what she needs. No money changes hands; these items are donated (hint hint), and what the Home can't use is donated in turn to the Acts Thrift Store, a popular Pasadena resale shop also associated with Christian causes.

Teresa Wolf, Associate Director of the Walter Hoving Home, shows me around

The second floor is like a dormitory. Over the door of each room is a plaque with a word like "cheerfulness" or "loveliness" on it. There's a separate room where a woman can stay with her children when they come to visit. While you live at the Walter Hoving Home, you will be in company almost all the time.

(Another way to donate is to "adopt" a room. An old building like this always wants renovation to keep it up.)

The women learn that it's okay to love themselves. There's also an awareness that they're vulnerable to missteps. Therefore, their lives are very structured. Everyone works and studies all day. Meals are at an exact time. Each woman must raise a minimum of $500 in monthly donations while she stays there (although Teresa told me no one will be kicked out if she can't make it). This is why you'll see them at tables outside stores from time to time, handing out Mr. Benson's little red book.

It's not a prison or a rehab center. It's a choice the women have made in order to get a handle on chaotic lives.

I asked Teresa what happens if a woman doesn't get, or doesn't want to get, the Jesus part? "We'll find them another place," she said. "We don't think we're right for everybody. We're right for us."


Part 3 tomorrow.

Financial Center Building

The Financial Center building is downtown at 14th St. and Franklin.  It was built in 1929 and is considered to be an example of Art Deco.  It was previously featured here.  Here's a closer look: 

Linked to ABC Wednesday.

Thawing Out . . .

ABC Wednesday: F is for Freshfield Road

Freshfield Road leads from Gower Road to Grosvenor Road. This was taken during the spell of snow that fell four weeks ago in January.

For ABC Wednesday.

Marvelous Macropodes....!

Ok I agree, not quite as spectacular as yesterdays shots but much easier to execute! One of the things that visitors to Australia love to see are the kangaroos, here in Perth there's no need to go to the zoo to see these marvelous marsupials, one of the many spots where you are guaranteed to see a mob of  'macropods', and if you're lucky espy a 'bit of a biff' (I was mega excited the first time I saw boxing kangaroos) is Pinnaroo Memorial Park, I've shown you them here before, but not with an appreciative audience. I found this super short video on youtube taken by a group of American, or maybe Canadian tourists (can anyone recognize which!) who had a fab experience on a visit here. Aimee and I see this sight often on our walk, but I know how unique an experience it would be for travelers from over the sea. Hope that your week is going well, happy Wednesday, take care and stay safe.....

Walter Hoving Home, 1

Teresa Wolf embraced me when we first met. "We're huggers," she said. Truly, I received more than my share of hugs during my visit to the Walter Hoving Home in Pasadena.

I had long wondered about the place. Then recently I met Montonya Sauls and Laurie Reno outside Smart & Final, where they were collecting donations. We got to talking and they invited me to make an appointment to come by.

Quoting Wikipedia: "The Walter Hoving Home is a non-profit, faith-based rehabilitation center serving women 18 years and older who have been involved in drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution and other life-controlling problems."

But it's not a rehab facility, says Associate Director Teresa Wolf. "It's a home." The women who live there are her "sisters." Dad and Mom are John and Elsie Benton, who founded the home in 1967 and named it for Walter Hoving, the one-time Tiffany and Company chairman who funded their work. (Incidentally, a couple of Mr. Hoving's descendants are named Petrea.)

The Walter Hoving Home is actually three homes: the original in Garrison, New York, another in Las Vegas, and the Pasadena branch, housed in what was originally Pasadena's Mira Monte Hotel.

The tour Teresa gave me began at the front door where you approach the reception desk (personed by a resident). To the left of the photo frame is a sign that greets you with your name on it. "Most of the women who come here have never been important enough to have their name on a sign," said Teresa. My heart warmed at seeing my name there, but I didn't photograph it for the sake of the privacy of the others listed. I probably could have, though. Nobody seemed to mind my presence, nor that of my camera. They welcomed me.

Teresa watches over lunch set-up in the dining room. 

The residents do all the work, from cleaning to cooking to chores. It's a lovely house, and for a while, it's their home.



Part 2 tomorrow.

Travel Tuesday: Black Beach, Maui, Hawaii

When volcanic rock is subjected to the constant forces of nature, a magnificent beach can result.  This place is unforgettable!

James Christopher Hill does Folly Beach

Planet Follywood, Folly Beach, S.C.

Artist James Christopher Hill happened upon my photo albums and realized what y'all have known for years, I am a big fan. I take a couple pictures of his mural on Planet Follywood every time I am at the beach. I once asked one of the British Black Cabs to park in front of it just so I could get a shot. Here is his etsy shop with darker fantasy, horror and science fiction paintings to steampunk designs and images and his gallery web site.

As far as I am concerned I keep going back to my old favorites of his work - the stars on the side of the building on Folly Beach. Thanks for the smiles James Christopher Hill!

Red car outside iFood

There is a mix of takeaways and terraced housing on Stockport Road. The Indian takeaway has recently changed its name to "iFood" but the Chinese takeaway has been known as "Happy Family" for at least the last fifteen years. On the other side of Lumn Road is the Clarkes Arms.

For Ruby Tuesday and Our World Tuesday.