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SALEM, Va. (July 25, 2019) – Feeding America Southwest Virginia welcomes Cheryl Cobbs to the organization as the new Director of the Community Solutions Center (CSC) in Northwest Roanoke.
Cobbs' background is a blend of community action, management, educational leadership and small business ownership, making her well suited to guiding the CSC's programs and activities. Most recently, Cobbs served as the Community Program Developer for VA Cares, where she helped develop innovative re-entry programs for ex-offenders. Prior to her work with VA Cares, she spent 10 years as the director of a private k-12 day school in Franklin County for students with disabilities.
A longtime Northwest Roanoke resident, Cobbs says she's excited to support the CSC's mission to positively impact the surrounding community. "I live, work and worship in this community – it's important to me," she said. "I'm happy to play a role in the positive changes taking place. It's really where my heart is!"
Cobbs will take the reins from Rick Morrison, FASWVA's current Chief Impact Officer and a retired Roanoke Police Captain. A 29-year veteran of law enforcement, Morrison has become a sought-after community policing and leadership consultant and plans to continue that work through his company, Inspired Policing Solutions.
"Without Rick, the CSC simply wouldn't exist," said Pamela Irvine, FASWVA's Chief Executive Officer. "His contributions to this project, to Northwest Roanoke, and to the success of our Culinary Arts students have been immeasurable. We're going to miss him greatly, but wish him the absolute best."
About Feeding America Southwest Virginia
Feeding America Southwest Virginia was founded locally in 1981 and proudly commemorates 38 years of fighting hunger and changing lives through community partnerships. For the last three and a half decades, the Food Bank's ultimate mission has remained the same: eliminate hunger in the region. The primary function of the Food Bank is to secure and distribute large quantities of food for Southwest Virginia's hungry. Approximately $27 million worth of food and grocery related products are channeled annually through a network of more than 350 partner feeding programs in our 26-county, 9-city region that provide food or meals to those in need. The local Food Bank is an affiliate member of Feeding America. Visit www.faswva.org for more information or like us on Facebook.

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This week has seemed sooooo long to me for some reason. Not to mention I've been a very busy bee. Every night this week was taken up by some obligation or another, which is great, but I'm looking forward to relaxing a little this weekend.
On to the procrastination!
If you're not as gung-ho about the holidays as I am, you might be interested in Metromix's Holidaze list for some "alternative" holiday movies.
If you"re a Twitter-phile like me, you'll probably find this as amusing as I did. Twitterpillar Emerges as Fail Whale Becomes 'Endangered'.
Wired explores the discovery of the X-ray and the DIY craze that followed with some really cool photos.
The BBC went inside a frozen pizza factory. I love these kind of videos. Kind of makes me wish I had cable. . . just kind of though.
I still haven't seen the new James Bond movie yet, so shut it! if you have. Gizmodo looked at a 1966 article on the Inventions of James Bond.
Megaman ftw!
I'm sure everyone has seen this, but in the chance you haven't, please go look at this drawing of a spider. And then go to eBay and see how much it won at auction.
And lastly, um, apparently I am in food porn. Scroll down and you'll see me. . . curious.
Don't forget! The second challenge is due on Sunday by midnight! So get those pens writing, shutters clicking, and err, whatever you do, just do it!


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Health and fitness involve good food plenty of body-mind exercise and simple meaningful life.
A healthy diet begins at home and with proper knowledge and technique, it is easy to ensure that you and your family live a healthy lifestyle that facilitates good health for long life.
There are different facets to healthy cooking, all with their own goals:
• Low Fat/Heart Health
• Low Carb
• Low Cholesterol (Synonymous with Heart Health)
• Low Calorie
• Low Sodium
• Low Sugar
It is common for these categories to interlace, and it's also typical of people to choose from more than one category.
No matter the specific goals people might have, one thing that should concern everyone is heart health and healthy weight management.
3 biggest risk factors for heart attack:
• High Blood Pressure
• Smoking
• High LDL Cholesterol
Diabetes, overweight and obesity, poor diet, lack of exercise and too much alcohol are also risk factors for heart disease.
Both heart health and healthy weight management start in your own kitchen. And when you have kids it's crucial to live by example and teach them healthy habits that they will learn and follow for life. This is even more crucial when conditions such as Diabetes, obesity and heart disease run in your family.
Many times people think about their diet when it's too late, such as, after a heart attack, or after a diagnosis of clogged arteries or when they are diagnosed as pre-diabetic as a result of obesity.
Diabetes Statistics
According to the Center for Disease Control, and other experts, Type 2 Diabetes is a preventable form of Diabetes that is so very common these days as it accounts for about 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes; the other cases are cases of Type 1 Diabetes that is purely genetic and not preventable.
Biggest risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes:
Poor diet
Excess weight (especially belly fat)
Lack of exercise
Family history
If one parent has Type 2 Diabetes, their child's risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes is 15%, but, if when both parents have it, the risks to the child increases to 75%.
Type 2 Diabetes can be avoided by starting early in healthy cooking and following a healthy diet and setting such an example for your children.
How A Healthy Diet Prevents Disease.
We live in a "super size" world, where double baconcheeseburger, extra-large fries and a tub of soda is commonplace and suggested by most drive thru attendants.
Healthy cooking at home can go a long way to counteract this world around us and to control what goes into our bodies, to support a long, healthy and disease-free life.
According to Whole Foods Market's annual Food Shopping Trends Tracker survey, 20% of parents make sure to provide healthy food for their children even when it costs more. Also, 41% of people who cook at home reported they do so to ensure that they eat a proper and nutritious diet.
A Cambridge study showed that people who cook up to 5 times a week were 47% more likely to still be alive after 10 years.
The Nurses' Health Study found that weight loss was greatest among individuals who consume more vegetables, yogurt, and nuts.
Your Kitchen Your Control
One of the most important aspects of healthy cooking and choosing to do so is the fact that when you do, you have full control of the ingredients that go into the meals you eat along with the cooking methods chosen to cook those meals.
That control is integral to a healthy lifestyle, because typically when you consume meals cooked by others, such as, those prepared at restaurants you really only have an inkling of what ingredients are used or how the foods are prepared.
Sometimes when people think about healthy cooking they think it means removing certain foods and ingredients, but, they do not consider that it includes adding an abundance of food that is healthy, tasty and supports a healthy body.
Another key aspect of healthy cooking is substitutions, this means substituting something unhealthy with some other appropriate and relevant ingredient that is healthy.
For example, using non-fat Greek yogurt instead of sour cream in dips and sauces.
Besides ingredients, healthy cooking greatly revolves around proper cooking methods and tools. Choosing healthy foods in order to eat right is important; however, it is just as important to know how to prepare these foods in a healthy way.
If you choose to change the way you eat, you may need to learn some better cooking techniques. In fact, when healthy ingredients are not prepared in a healthy manner, it negates their purpose. For example, steamed fresh vegetables support healthy cooking. But, when those same vegetables are covered in batter and deep fried, then that would not constitute a healthy dish.
In order to begin with healthy cooking and a healthy diet, it's important to understand proper nutrition.
While the experts have changed their minds over the years, there are some things that always hold true. Bad fats should be eliminated as much as possible and a healthy diet always consists of proper servings from the various food groups on the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Pyramid, and especially those from the vegetable and fruit groups.
Here are the recommended daily servings from each food group:
Another essential step in healthy cooking is ingredients, and an important element of identifying healthy ingredients is learning to read food labels.
Food labels can be confusing, and for those who don't have a basic understanding of what they mean, it can be like reading an unknown language. Worse than not understanding what they mean is having a misconception about some of the terms used.
Manufacturers, usually want to maximize their profits, and use these misconceptions to lure people into buying stuff which they think is good for them.
Terms such as "organic" or "natural" can be misleading. People often equate these terms with healthy food, but, this might not always be the case.
"Natural" foods contain only those ingredients which are found in nature, but, that does not make them "healthy." A food product can have a huge amount of calories, sugar, and salt, and still, be "natural."
Similarly, foods that carry the label "organic" are those which are grown without the use of artificial chemicals, but, they still might be bad for your health. The standards for the labeling of products as organic are governed by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). An organic product can still have a tremendously high percentage of sugar, like premium ice cream, making it less than ideal for a healthy lifestyle.
Low Fat Or Fat Free
Similarly, a "low-fat" or "fat-free" product can have a lot of sugar, and calories, which, makes it very fattening.
Reading Food Labels
It is mandatory by law that packaged foods supply nutritional information. Deciphering the information on the nutrition label is essential in order to lead a healthy lifestyle.
• The amount of servings per package and the size of one serving is mentioned at the top of the label. Serving size is important in order to calculate the number of calories and other nutrients you are consuming for each individual serving of the product.
• Calories: A calorie is a unit of energy, and in food refers to energy consumption through eating and drinking, as well as, through physical activity.When one eats more calories than they burn it results in weight gain.
Calories From Fat: Calories come from, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. This part of the food label indicates just how much fat the food has, and is an added perspective to fat content.
• Percentage of the daily value (%DV): This tells you the amount of nutrient present in a single serving, compared to the recommended daily intake value. The recommended intake value is based on a daily diet of 2,000 calories. You might need more or less depending on your activity, age, gender, and your personal weight change aims.
A food that has less than 5% of a particular nutrient is considered to have a low of an amount of that nutrient, higher than 20% means the food contains a high of an amount of the nutrient.
• Nutrients: protein, carbohydrates, calcium, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, and potassium are the ones that are vital for your health; opt for foods with higher amount of these nutrients.
Protein: Adults should eat a minimum of 0.4 grams of protein daily for every pound of body weight.
Carbohydrates: A type of macronutrient that includes, both simple and complex varieties. The complex carbs (good) come from whole grains, vegetables, and fruits. The simple carbs (bad) have little or no nutritional value and are typically found in foods like candy, sweets and refined sugar, white rice and slices of bread.
Fiber is an essential nutrient and helps with weight loss.
• Sugars: Refined sugar should be consumed in moderation. Those foods that are high in processed sugar, cookies, candy, cakes, should be eliminated as much as possible to support healthy weight management and to reduce the risk of Diabetes.
• Fats, cholesterol, and sodium should be eaten in moderation.
If you want to reduce your heart disease risk, consume foods with higher dietary fiber and less fat, sodium, and cholesterol.
Not all fats and cholesterol are bad for your health:
Unsaturated fats, when consumed in moderate amounts, are healthy. No more than 7% of total daily calories should be from saturated fats.
Trans fat should be avoided like the plague, aim to consume the lowest possible amount of trans fat daily, less than 1% is recommended by the American Heart Association.
Two Types Of Cholesterol: High-density lipoprotein (HDL – good cholesterol) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL – bad cholesterol). Look for foods with higher amount HDL and lower amount of LDL.
Sodium: Excessive sodium can increase blood pressure; many foods have really high sodium content without tasting "salty." Always check the %DV before buying and don't add salt to foods that are already high in sodium.
Cooking Tips For Heart Health
The heart is a marvellous organ, it beats and beats for years and years, but, sadly heart disease is topmost on the list of things that kill people in America. Heart disease is can cut several precious years from your life.
Many studies have demonstrated that the risk of heart disease is increasing among young US adults and this increase is mostly linked to an unhealthy lifestyle and diet. So, eating a heart-healthy diet and regular cardio exercise is key.
Are you wondering how to eat better? Afraid it might be tough and complicated? Well, follow these simple tips and guidelines to ensure that your diet changes from one that increases your risk of heart disease to one that
Low Fat Cooking
A low-fat diet involves limiting the amount of food that is high in fat content. Having a low-fat diet comes with many benefits, with the main two being lowering the risk of heart disease and for healthy weight management. There are many ways in which to cut back on fat when cooking, without losing the flavor of the food.
Tips To Reduce Fat In Cooking
• Use only heart healthy oils for cooking, dressings, baking and marinades, such as, canola, soybean and flaxseed.
• Deep-frying food items results in addition of a lot of fat and calories and should be avoided.
• Heart healthy cooking methods include, braising, grilling, steaming, baking, roasting, stewing or stir-frying.
• Make the best use of the large variety of spices and herbs to add a lot of flavor with any fat. They work amazingly well for enhancing the flavors of salads too, no need to use oil for salad dressings.
• Don't eat mayonnaise every day; it is basically an emulsion of oil and egg yolks, extremely dense in calories and fat. Opt for low fat and healthier sauces and condiments, such as mustard and non-fat dressings. There is also the option of Canola Mayonnaise a much better choice for heart health.
• Remove as much fat and skin as possible from your meats and poultry. This will decrease the fat by as much as 75%.
• Avoid processed meats like bacon, salami and hot dogs as they are high in saturated fat.
• When buying pork or beef, choose the leaner cuts. Looks for cuts that are labeled "round" or "loin."
• Use skim milk cheeses for recipes and snacks.
• Choose skim milk, there are 2%, 1% and non-fat options available.
• Use spices and herbs, orange or lemon juice, vinegar, non-fat Greek yogurt, wine and vegetable broth for marinades and to add more flavor with no fat.
• Avoid cakes, pastries, cookies, pies, doughnuts and crackers. These foods have a lot of calories and fat. Many manufacturers use the very harmful partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (Trans fat) too. Read the labels and choose smartly.
• Cook stews, boiled meats, soups and other liquid based dishes the day before serving, in these dishes the fat cooks into the liquid so that when refrigerated it hardens at the top and can be easily removed.
• When browning meat before placing it in the oven, such as for roasts, use the broiler with a drip pan so fats drip away from the meat, instead of browning in a pan where fats actually sear back into the meat.
• Duck and goose are high in fat, chicken and turkey are lower fat options.
6 Low Fat And Healthy Meal Ideas
Chicken Breast with steamed Brown Rice and Vegetables:
1. Steam brown rice with parsley, carrots, spinach, onion, green peppers and chicken breasts for 30 minutes.
2. When it is ready, add olive oil and some herbs and spices like rosemary and turmeric.
Steamed Carrots:
1. Steam carrots with a few cloves of garlic.
2. Then blend them together and serve with olive oil and fresh herbs.
Turkey Meatballs with Mediterranean Steamed Veggies:
1. Make meatballs with any recipe, just use Turkey instead of ground beef. Make it healthier by using whole wheat bread crumbs instead of white.
2. Steam tomatoes, onions, peppers, eggplant and garlic for 15 minutes. Then blend them together, add olive oil, olives and fresh herbs.
Veggie Soup With Chicken Breasts And Lentils:
1. Boil cubed chicken breasts for about 6 minutes.
2. Add carrots, lentils, peas, cabbage, turnips, cauliflower, and onion and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Add some herbs, parsley olive oil and smashed cloves of garlic, and cook until chicken is tender.
4. Serve with hot whole grain rolls.
Whole Grain Pasta With Grilled Chicken Cubes, Herbs And Vegetables:
1. Boil any shape of whole grain pasta.
2. Grill chicken breasts and cut into cubes.
3. When pasta and chicken are done toss the two together with a little olive oil, fresh garlic, oregano, basil, cherry tomatoes, slices of steamed zucchini and a little parmesan cheese. You can add any and all vegetables that you love into this recipe.
Broiled Fish, Vegetables And Sweet Potato Wedges
1. Broil any fish, Salmon is a good choice because it's full of nutrients and Omega 3s.
2. Make a vegetable side, can be a fresh salad, steamed medley or even a stir fry blend.
3. Cut sweet potato into thick wedges, drizzle a little bit of canola oil and bake at 375F until crispy on the outside and tender inside.
Cooking With Lower Fat Proteins
Protein is an essential part of a healthy diet, however many proteins have a lot of fat. It is important to choose foods that are high in protein to keep your energy levels up, but, low in fat in order to maintain heart health and weight.
Protein-rich foods include eggs, black beans, soybeans, chicken and red meat.
Eggs do have cholesterol, but the American Heart Association says that healthy people can safely eat one egg per day.
Some recipes may call for proteins that have a higher fat content than others, but, in order to make a dish healthier, you may choose to replace it with a lower fat protein.
In order to do this with meat, for example, you will need to choose either leaner alternatives or leaner cuts.
Poultry, in general, is much leaner than other meats as it is naturally lower in fat.
Turkey and chicken white meat (breasts) are especially lean, as compared with dark meat.
When cooking hamburgers and other recipes that call for ground beef, consider replacing it with ground turkey breast which can significantly cut the amount of fat in your burger. To put this into perspective, if you have a pound of ground beef, you will find about three grams of saturated fat in comparison to around half a gram of saturated fat in ground turkey breast. You can also add tofu to replace some of the beef for lower fat and calorie burger.
List of Lower Fat Proteins
• Chicken/Turkey/White Meat Pork (the leanest selections are skinless white meat portions)
• Egg Whites
• Cottage Cheese
• Non-Fat Greek Yogurt
• Soybeans or Edamame
• Beans – Most beans contain 14 to 17 grams of protein and less than 1 gram of fat per cooked cup.
1 cup soybeans has28 grams of protein
1 cup tempeh has 30 grams of protein
1 cup lentils have 18 grams of protein
1 cup garbanzo beans/hummus has 14.5 grams of protein
1 cup pinto, kidney, and black beans have 13-15 grams of protein
• Soybean Tofu and Tempeh
• Nuts and Seeds High In Protein
Sesame seeds
• Steamed Fish And Seafood – You can get around 15 to 20 grams of protein with as little as 1 to 4 grams of fat in 3 ounces of salmon, cod, haddock, bass, carp, flounder, or halibut
Clams, mussels and scallops have a whopping 15 to 20 grams of protein with only 1 to 4 grams of fat.
Vegetable Proteins
1 cup broccoli has 2.5 grams with 0.2 grams fat
1 cup spinach has 1 gram protein and 0.1 grams fat
2 cups cooked kale has 5 grams protein and less than 1 gram of fat
1 cup boiled peas have 9 grams protein and 2.3 grams of fat
Low Calorie Cooking
Calories are the energy source that our bodies need, and having a diet with the right amount of calories can allow us to have a happy, healthy life. However, if you don't consume enough calories, or you consume too much, it can result in health complications.
Somewhere in the human psyche diet and starving became one and the same, but that way of thinking is for people who have no imagination. The best part of dieting is meals that are both healthy, delicious and prepared with wholesome goodness without adding too much fat and calories.
Be open-minded when it comes to low-calorie cooking and it can actually be fun experimenting with so many different alternatives.
Low Cal Cooking And Eating Tips
• The Internet is loaded with low-calorie recipe versions of popular dishes that are long on flavor and short on fat. There are many ways to spice up dishes with ingredients that are low in fat, and calories, but, big on taste.
• By choosing the right ingredients, you can drastically cut back on calories you consume and be full and satisfied. For example, eating a lot of vegetables will yield a lot of food with very little calories and a lot of essential vitamins and minerals. Basically, the more vegetables you include in every meal, the more food you can eat and still lose weight.
• Meatloaf and meatballs can be made with a lot fewer fat calories by substituting ground beef with ground turkey.
• Fiber is an essential element in low calorie eating as it keeps you full longer resulting in less intake of food and healthy weight management. Green leafy vegetables and whole grains are the best choices in fiber-rich foods.
• When cooking, a great tip if you want to cut back on the calories is to replace some meat with wholesome vegetables. You can enjoy soups, stews or casseroles, which can still be high in flavor without the meat.
• If you are cooking a dish that requires cheese, try using half the quantity of a stronger flavored variety. Some cheeses with strong flavors include sharp cheddar or gorgonzola. You will still have the cheese flavor with half of the calories.
• Enjoy egg white omelets, you can cut out 54 calories per egg, 41 of which are from fat, by eliminating the yolk.
• If you'd rather sit and watch paint dry rather than go on a diet for fear of bland tasting food and low calorie-no-flavor ingredients, think again. There is a whole world of herbs and spices out there waiting for you to try.
• High-fat foods are often high in calories, so choose lower fat options.
• Cook on a pan with a zero calorie cooking spray instead of butter or oil.
• Avoid foods with a lot of cheese and creamy sauces.
• Choose non-fat or low-fat dairy products.
• Non-fat Greek yogurt can be used as a substitute in dip recipes for the highly caloric sour cream and mayonnaise ingredients.
• Skip all processed foods, they are loaded with calories and bad fats which increase calories. This includes chips, cookies, soda, and many "so-called healthy" granola bar products.
• Avoid processed sugar and sweets, these are loaded with empty calories that hold no nutrition and only add pounds, choose fruits and nuts for snacks.
Vegetables: Natures Perfect Food
Eating an abundance of vegetables each and every day is critical for good health, nutrition, weight loss and long term weight management.
Low In Calories
Vegetables are very low in calories, in fact, many vegetable's calorie content is insignificant, and so they can be eaten in in unlimited amounts.
Nutrient Rich
They also contain essential anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals.
Antioxidants protect the body from various types of oxidant stress, cancers and diseases and also increases its capacity to fight against conditions because they increase the body's immunity potential.
Vegetables are also important sources of fiber, both soluble and insoluble. Fiber regulates digestion, and protects the body from conditions like hemorrhoids, colon cancer, chronic constipation, and rectal fissures.
Fiber is also essential in weight management as getting the recommended daily dose of keeps you full longer and keeps the body balanced.
Recommended Daily Intake
The United States Department of Agriculture recommends that people eat a minimum of 3 to 5 servings of vegetables every day.
And, those seeking to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight will be glad to know that since vegetables, especially, green ones, are so low in calories that they can safely fill a plate in abundance, which, allows people to eat more while losing weight.
Frozen Versus Fresh Vegetables
Frozen vegetables are just as good and sometimes better than fresh, since, many varieties are available year round. Frozen vegetables also keep much longer and so can eliminate the need to go shopping more often for fresh. Of course, not all vegetables are available in frozen, but, those that are, such asbroccoli, spinach, carrots, green beans, lima beans, stir fry mixes, etc., are all great options for healthy cooking.
Green Vegetables
Green vegetables are very low in calories and can be eaten in abundance for good health, energy, nutrients and weight loss.
They are also very low in carbs and so make a great food choice for those who have or are concerned with Diabetes and weight loss. Nutrients include, Fiber, vitamins, A, C, E and K, and also calcium, potassium and magnesium.
• Asparagus
• Green Cabbage
• Broccoli
• Swiss chard
• Bok Choy
• Spinach
• Brussels Sprouts
• Celery
• Artichoke
• Cucumber
• Kale
• Green Beans
• Cilantro
• Snow Peas
• Sprouts
Green Leafy Vegetables
Dark green leafy vegetables offer the most nutrients calorie for calorie than any other food.
Along with all the nutrients offered by the other green vegetables, they are also a source of various phytonutrients, which include, beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin. These protect the body's cells from damage and a lot more.
Dark green leaves also contain small amounts of Omega-3 fats, a lot of fiber, and since they are already low in carbs and so high in fiber they generally do not even count carb-wise at all.
• Spinach
• Mustard greens
• Broccoli
• Kale
• Collard Greens
• Turnip greens
• Swiss Chard
• Romaine Lettuce
• Cabbage
• Parsley
• Watercress
Red, Yellow And Orange Vegetables
Color veggies are rich sources of iron, beta-carotene, vitamin B-complex, vitamin-C, vitamin A, vitamin K, calcium, magnesium and potassium.
Red tomatoes offer high concentrations of lycopene, which is an incredible antioxidant that helps to prevent various cancers.
The American Diabetes Association recommends squash,which, is available year round in both winter and summer varieties. It also provides a high amount of vitamins A and C, B vitamins, along with iron and calcium.
• Carrots
• Baby corn
• Corn
• Squash
• Tomatoes
• Radishes
• Peppers
White Vegetables
The University of California Cooperative Extension has reported that white vegetables help to reduce the risk of various health conditions, including, heart disease, cancer and some types of infections. They also help to lower cholesterol and regulate high blood pressure.
• Cauliflower
• Mushrooms
• Jicama
• Water Chestnuts
• Onions
• Garlic
• Bamboo shoots
• Leeks
• Scallions
Purple Vegetables
Vegetables that have a deep purple color offer phytonutrients, and most importantly the essential antioxidant-rich flavonoids.
Purple vegetables, such as turnips are low in calories and are a good source of fiber, protein, and B-vitamins.
• Eggplant
• Turnips
• Purple Cabbage
• Rutabaga
Cautionary Vegetables And Diabetes
There is some concern as to certain vegetables for those with diabetes or those who are pre-diabetic.
According to the American Diabetes Association, potatoes, corn, peas, and other similar starchy vegetables are higher in carbohydrates and really ought to be classified as starches.
These starchy vegetables are what are known as insulin triggers, which means they have more of an impact on blood sugars. This can also be problematic for those who are not diabetic, but simply, want to lose weight, in which case, they should be eaten in moderation, and especially potatoes as they are quite fattening.
Using Vegetable In Healthy Cooking
There are unlimited ways to add vegetables to every healthy cooking. They can be eaten raw as well, so they make great snacks. Eating them raw is the best way to get the most nutritional value. Raw vegetables can be eaten in salads and snacks.
How To Cook Vegetables
The best way to cook most vegetables is by steaming. The key to vegetables is to never overcook them because it is easy to cook out their nutrients. Steamed vegetables will have vibrant color and taste fresh and delicious.
Boiling is the worst way to cook them because the boiling water will quickly kill all the essential nutrients.
How To Steam Vegetables
You can buy a vegetable steamer, which is the easiest and most convenient method. There is also a simple pot method.
Pot Method
1. Simply add a tiny bit of water to the bottom of a pot
2. Bring to boil
3. Place vegetables inside
4. Set the heat to low
5. Cover with an airtight lid and steam until they turn a bright color.
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Other options to cook vegetables are:
• Grilling on an open flame
• Pan
• Microwave steaming
• Wok
Healthy Cooking Tools
Nonstick And Hard Anodized Cookware
Nonstick cookware allows you to cook foods without oil and butter without food sticking to the pan.
There are many varieties available in nonstick cookware, but, in this case you get what you pay for. It's best to spend more and get long lasting quality.
With a durable non-stick surface, there is no need to use a lot of butter or oil to season food or protect it from sticking because a little goes a long way with this technology. Hard Anodized cookware can be bought by piece or in sets that include various sizes of pans and pots. There is also bakeware available.
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Pressure Cooker
Pressure cookers use less energy and retain more nutrients in the foods you love. It makes healthy foods like grains and legumes more digestible. Pressure cookers reduce unsaturated fat in cooked meat and retain nutrients in food.
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Bread Maker
According to the American Heart Association eating whole grain foods (brown) instead of white starches may lower your risk for heart disease by 33%.
This includes white bread products that are loaded with unhealthy carbs, low amounts of fiber and are culprits in weight gain.
Getting a bread maker gives you full control of the ingredients in bread and allows you to make use of the healthiest flours. Making bread at home also eliminates the ingestion of preservatives that are found in store-bought products.
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Breville JE98XL Juice Fountain
At home Juicing of fruits and vegetables has become very popular in the last couple of years as it is an ideal way to get pure nutrition without the added sugar and preservatives usually included in store-bought juice products. Also, juicing has been shown to help the very obese lose significant amounts of weight as well.
The Breville Juice Fountain comes with 850 watts of power and will take your diet and juicing to new heights. For more "dense" ingredients blend at top speed, 12,000 RPM, to whip up that tasty concoction of apples, peaches, pears, plums, and even cantaloupe into a frothy mix.
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iCollections is an expertly designed application which helps you keep your desktop organized. The app's unique features are what make it one of the most popular methods of desktop organization for Mac users.
- iCollections lets you create areas on your desktop so you can sort and arrange your icons. This helps you keep related items together so your files (pictures, documents, screenshot, applications, etc.) are organized and easy to find. iCollections fully supports Retina display.
- iCollections lets users see their images – even in slideshow form – right on their desktop. Each Collection and Photo Frame can be customized, including style and color, to suit the user's preferences, offering a fun, personalized way for Mac users to make their desktop more of their own.
- Select Photo Frame from the main menu to create a picture frame on the desktop. The Photo Frame will display a collection of your pictures as a slide show (e.g., new picture every day). Just select your pictures folder or Photoshop app album and revisit your most wonderful moments.
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It will be interesting to see how much emphasis is put on the new streaming services vs. iPhone today.
. . . while the iPhone still makes up more than half of Apple's sales, Tuesday's event may nudge it off center stage after a decade in the limelight, as analysts suggest Apple is in a "holding pattern" until it rolls out 5G phones with faster mobile data speeds next year.
The new strategy shift (to services), which Apple hinted at an event in March where it gave some details about the streaming TV service, comes as iPhone sales have declined year-over-year for the past two fiscal quarters and investors are fixed on the growth potential for services.
Keep an eye on those Apple Price Triggers today!
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Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom #6 Preview
The sixth and final issue of Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom is hitting the shelves at your local comic book store this Wednesday, but you can get a sneak preview of the cover and the first five pages (lettered and in color) by clicking HERE. Right click on that link and you can save the preview to your desktop as a PDF file.
I'm already hard at work on the next Tom Strong series, Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril, and I'll post release dates and other details (including artwork, of course) at a later date right here on this blog.
In other news, I'll be a guest again for about the nineteenth time at the Mid-Ohio Con here in Columbus, Ohio this upcoming weekend (Nov. 6-7). I think I have a booth again this year, but I won't know until the day of the show. Wherever I end up, I'll be signing books and sketching and (hopefully) selling original artwork. Come out to the show and say "Hi!" If you need more reasons to come to the convention, check out the guest list HERE. I'm looking forward to seeing a bunch of people I haven't seen in a while including Adam Hughes and my Modern Masters interviewer Todd Dezago. Should be fun!
Pencil art for the next page after the final preview page
Monday, November 01, 2010
3 comments:
- Kyle Latino said...
Thank goodness! I was afraid for the future of Tom Strong with what happened at Wildstorm and everything. What a relief!
Are you going to have some pages from the next story at MID OHIO?
- Unknown said...
I hope the show went well for you. I'm very sorry I didn't attend, and show my support.
It's fantastic that Tom Strong continues to have his tales told.
- dusty abell said...
Very much looking forward to the further adventures of the Strong Family........Just finished TSATROD this week......fantastic art! Inspiring as ever!
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Dancing In The Dark
Several months ago, I wrote about how certain songs can push me into a mental time-slip, allowing me to instantly travel to a specific place in the distant past of my 55 years. I wish that I had some control over this phenomenon, but it just sorta sneaks up and goes BOOM when one of those songs drifts into my conscious state. I am powerless to stop it. I just let it roll and see what mental images, sights, feelings and emotions pop up from my gray matter's hard drive.
As I've only recently discovered, the musical time slippage is usually keyed to a strong emotional happenstance. It doesn't seem to matter if the connection is good or bad, pain or pleasure, because none of those emotions are wrong, they are just… human. Methinks they are what really separates us from the rest of the life forms on this small Blue Planet. At least, the acknowledgement of those emotions, because I believe there are many other life forms dwelling here that feel emotions, but are not quite capable of understanding the resonance they hold. Wasted effort compared to, you know, surviving.
'Born On The Bayou' by Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of those songs, and when I hear it I whip back to the same place, every time.
'Born On The Bayou', released on their 1969 'Bayou Country' LP, had become a major hit for the band. As a fevered 8th grader at Willow Junior High School in Southern California, I was enthralled with this new 'swamp rock' sound, all moody and slow and a little sleazy and sexy. So it was no surprise that on a certain evening in late 1969 or early 1970, I was among a gathering of guys and girls who found themselves together, dancing in the darkened Willow choir rehearsal room to a stack of vinyl 45rpm singles, moving as only junior high schoolers can.
I don't know if it was a normal practice for other teens in dem days, but for some strange and wonderful reason I remember being at lots of dance parties, sometimes at a friend's home or in a school cafeteria, and always with the ever-present chaperones hovering on the fringes. This time, though… I cannot recall there were any adults around, and I remember the electricity in that beautiful darkened room. There was likely a single bank of accent beams glowing just to keep the place from going totally dark. Oh yeah.
I remember the girls were all cute in that junior high way, wearing mini-skirts or culottes or some other junior high-approved fashion of the day. We guys had crushes on the girls, and I'm sure they knew it and played us like little fiddles. All we knew was that cute girls were dancing with us, fast and slow, and they smelled good and moved good and were smiling and laughing and clapping their hands and spinning around and flinging their hair and they made us a little crazy.
And there we were, perhaps three dozen guys and girls, about the same age of 13 or 14 years young, dancing and moving and flirting and swaying and posing and trying to be cool. Most of us knew each other, so there was no veil of anonymity. We'd done this before, so the familiarity helped with the mood of friendly teenage lust, the kind junior high schoolers used to have all the time before rampant libidos and unfettered freedom and electronics smashed down the borders we shared. There we were, dancing, and one song ended and the next single dropped onto the spinning platter and the needle drifted gently down and clicked into the groove.
That's when the magic happened. I will never, ever forget it.
(Click to play for a relevant sountrack)
The first sounds of 'Born On The Bayou' are a stretched guitar chord that morphs into a sequence of notes and chords, and it slowly choogles into the melody, pure rock sexuality. We had been dancing in a scattered fashion all over the place in that barely-lit room. But for some reason, when this song came on, something came over us. As the intro filled that room, we began to form two long lines, one of guys, one of girls, facing each other with about ten feet between us. No one spoke, no one said 'HEY… let's get in a line!' Nope, nothing like that... it was unspoken and it just happened. We were all dancing in place, and the guys were facing the girls who were facing the guys. Our parents would have recognized the set-up for 'The Stroll', but we knew nothing about that. It just happened.
The song was swampy and sexy and we all danced facing each other across that ten foot space. Then, without a word, one guy and one girl at the far end dropped into that space and began to dance side-by-side and slowly danced to the far end of the line, then took their place in line again. How we all seemed to move in synch evades me now, maybe we weren't in synch at all, but I remember everyone swaying and dancing in a weird unison. The 'inside' couple were a matched pair, shuffling and dancing along between the lines, with the rest of us whooping and clapping and doing the same where we stood. Eventually, it came time for me and my female other to 'drop in' and so we did. I think during that 5-minute plus song, we rotated thru the lines at least twice, each couple taking the limelight in a room with very little light. When the song ended, another single dropped and began to play, and the lines scattered and some of us danced and others went outside or went… someplace else?
Why this song, this moment, this memory? What made it so special that I whip-saw through time when this song plays? Was I smitten with puppy love for one of those cute dancing girls? I know that sometime during that party, one of those girls and I snuck into the small adjacent storage closet and necked for a few minutes… nothing serious, just goofy French kissing and, you know, necking… nothing more. For the life of me, I can't remember who it was, but I know that I was over the moon for the rest of the evening, and her sweet perfume stuck to my Pendleton shirt like the nectar of the gods. How many other couples snuck off like we did, creating a vibrant memory or (more likely) none at all?
I don't remember who all was dancing in that room, but I know they were all my friends, my classmates, guys I liked and girls I wanted to 'go around' with. I know that many of them were among my classmates in high school, and mebbe I even dated a couple of the girls when we got older. Some of them disappeared into the time/space continuum, never to be seen or heard from again. I can sit here at my keyboard, close my eyes and see the choir room and people dancing, but the 41 intervening years have fogged the names and faces in my mind's eye, perhaps now gone forever. But the two lines dancing, the moving, the necking, the music... it never fades, never leaves me, always stays with me and offers a mental anchor to another time, another place, another person that was me.
Was it a simpler time? My first reaction would be 'Yes', but it's really a matter of measure. Compared to our parents, we were all little rebels with flared pants and untucked shirts and hair over our collars, or too-short skirts and nylons and heavy eyeliner and mebbe a pack of smokes hidden in our locker. We thought of ourselves as awkwardly unique, as so totally different and misunderstood. Such has it always been for each succeeding generation of youngsters who sneer and sniff at the previous pack, all old and responsible and, you know, parental.
I'm glad that I was in junior high in 1969 and 1970, because now I know that it was a time of major change and upheaval, of so many new things to see and touch and eat and love and hate and want. It was all good, and I was barely a teenager and every day was filled with youthful anticipation. And now, as I recall those teenage minutes and hours and days, I get it. It is with me instantly, every time I hear 'Born On The Bayou' and the guitar chords progress and time slips and I am once again in that darkened choir rehearsal room, dancing and laughing and feeling strange and gawky and alive. Just like right now.
Choir rehearsal room image, Gracias de chestnutst.org; 'Born On The Bayou' vid by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Muchismas Gracias de youtube.com. Keep On Chooglin'.
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Forbes has released its India Celebrity 100 list and it is Salman Khan who has topped the list for the third consecutive year with an earning of Rs 253.25 crore.
The 2018 Forbes India Celebrity 100 List rankings are based on estimates of entertainment-related earnings of celebrities. The period under consideration is October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018.
Salman tops Forbes India Celebrity 100 list
While, Deepika Padukone, has managed to become the highest-earning woman celebrity at No 4 with total earnings of Rs 112.8 crore. She is the first woman to break reach the top five positions since the inception of the List in 2012.
Here are the Top 10 in the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list:
1 Salman Khan Rs 253.25 cr
2 Virat Kohli Rs 228.09 cr
3 Akshay Kumar Rs 185 cr
4 Deepika Padukone Rs 112.8 cr
5 Mahendra Singh Dhoni Rs 101.77 cr
6 Aamir Khan Rs 97.5 cr
7 Amitabh Bachchan Rs 96.17 cr
8 Ranveer Singh Rs 84.67 cr
9 Sachin Tendulkar Rs 80 cr
10 Ajay Devgn Rs 74.5 cr
The 2018 #ForbesIndiaCeleb100 list is now LIVE! @BeingSalmanKhan is the highest earning celebrity in 2018 & @deepikapadukone is first woman to break into the top 5! https://t.co/vZncgjBwIc
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— Forbes India (@forbes_india) December 5, 2018
#ForbesIndiaCeleb100 | @deepikapadukone is the only woman in the top 5, and one of 18 women on the list!
She's also on the cover! Check this out: https://t.co/wAwjekVhQy pic.twitter.com/FnK2zpVGZG
— Forbes India (@forbes_india) December 5, 2018
Among the stars who have moved down the list is Shah Rukh, who had held the number two spot last year, but has come down to number 13 this year. Similarly Priyanka Chopra who was at number 7 last year has now dropped to number 49 in 2018.


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I Am,
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I Am
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of understanding god
whose every revelation
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It's only recently that I have ventured into the world of crochet amigurumi. I've made lovey dolls for my daughter and niece and decided to try my hand at designing an owl as a gift for my niece's first birthday. Her nursery is purple, pink and green with an owl theme, so I though this cute toy would fit right in! { Add it to your Ravelry Queue or Favorites } Skill Level: Easy Size: Finished toy measures 6″ tall … Continue reading
I have this dream of crocheting tons of home decor items, like these pillow covers, and changing them out as the mood suits me. The problem is, I can picture these in so many color palettes that I don't even know where to begin! 1. Ripple Pillow Cover on Charmed By Ewe http://charmedbyewe.com/new-free-crochet-pattern-ripple-pillow-cover-16/ 2. Sunshine Lattice Pillow on Moogly http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sunshine-lattice-pillow 3. Copenhagen Pillow by Yvonne Eijkenduijn for Red Heart http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/copenhagen-pillow 4. Chevron Cushion Cover by Lisette Eisenga (PDF includes English … Continue reading
A vintage inspired hat with a whimsical flower that is perfect for the Fall and Winter seasons. ~ Add It To Your Ravelry Queue Or Favorites ~ Skill level: Easy Sizes: Newborn, 0-3 Months, 3-6 Months, 6-12 Months, Toddler, Child, Teen / Small Adult, Adult, Large Adult Materials Worsted weight yarn such as Red Heart Super Saver Size 5.5 mm (I-9) crochet hook Yarn needle for weaving in ends Button (3/4″ – 1″) Ribbon (optional) View the free pattern here: … Continue reading


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OPWP has a busy weekend coming up. We'll be at the Orchard Park Summer Fiesta tomorrow, Saturday 16th July 2016 from 2.00pm – 5.00pm at the Sports Ground, come along and say hello. There'll be another opportunity to play wildlife bingo – look for our local wildlife and let us know what you see – for your chance to win a filled bird seed feeder. Bring a print out of the wildlife bingo card if you can, if not, we'll have a limited number of printed cards. You can also make a recycled plant pot and plant some wild flower seeds, as well as decorating dishes for birds and bees to drink from, or do some wildlife colouring.
On Sunday 17th July we'll be at the first ever Wild South Cambs Zone at Milton Country Park's Parklife. Don't forget today is the final chance for you to enter the Wild South Cambs Young Photographer of the Year Competition. Click here for ideas on photographing Orchard Park's wildlife. As well as wildlife activities for children, we'll be promoting Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count on Sunday – everyone who takes part will be in with a chance of winning a butterfly feeder. You can download the app for android here, or iOS here. We will also have a limited number of spotter sheets printed out for you to use if you don't have access to the app and/or a computer. The Big Butterfly Count is a nationwide survey aimed at helping Butterfly Conservation assess the health of our environment. Simply count butterflies for 15 minutes during bright (preferably sunny) weather – let's hope the sun shines at the Country Park on Sunday. Click here to watch a video about the Big Butterfly Count.
On Sunday evening we're having our second Orchard Park Summer Safari. You'll be surprised to see what lives here if you look. Meet at the Travelodge Hotel, Chieftain Way, CB4 2WR at 7.30pm.
If you can't make any of the events, you can still join in and have a wild time by taking part in the Big Butterfly Count – just do your 15 minute count on a day you choose from today (15th July) to 7th August – do let us know what you see, we look forward to hearing from you 🙂


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December 11, 2007
Welcome to Go2marine's Blog.
The crew at Go2marine would like to welcome all boaters to check out future articles and posts on our blog pertaining to the world of boating. We are an on-line boating supply company with a crew that consists of well-traveled sail-boaters, boat builders, boat restoration experts, boat mechanics, power-boaters as well as folks from the commercial boating industry. Our goal is to provide pertinent information on boat maintenance and repair as well as provide information about boating products.


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Organization Description
The National Sporting Library & Museum, located in historic Middleburg, Virginia, is dedicated to preserving, sharing and promoting the literature and art of equestrian, angling and field sports. Founded in 1954, the institution houses over 26,000 books dating from the 16th thru 21st centuries. The Museum displays artwork from the NSLM permanent collection as well as rotating temporary loan exhibitions. The permanent collection includes paintings, sculpture and works on paper by American, British and European artists ranging from the 18th to 21st centuries. For more information about the institution and programming, please visit www.nsl.org.
Position Description
The NSLM Curatorial Department is seeking an Intern for Summer 2014. The intern will work directly with curatorial staff to assist with inventory of the permanent collection of art, to include paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Intern will have the opportunity to learn about standard collections management practices and gain hands on experience with collections management database software. Additional internship projects will include researching works of art and contributing to educational brochure material.
Ideal candidate will be an undergraduate or graduate student with strong research and writing skills, will be detail oriented, and will have coursework experience in Art History, Museum Studies or Arts Management.
Summer internship dates are from late May through early August. Please indicate availability in application.
This position is unpaid. Weekday and weekend hours are available.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit cover letter, resume with two references (at least one academic reference), and academic transcript (unofficial is acceptable) by March 31 via email to:
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Healthcare is evolving rapidly. Nothing demonstrates this fact more clearly than genomics. The original Human Genome Project took 13 years to complete and cost $2.7 billion. Today, according to IDC, whole-genome sequencing costs less than $1,000 and can be completed in as little as 27 hours.
Genomics medicine is the direction in which the healthcare industry is moving. Healthcare providers want to target diseases more precisely with treatment specific to each patient. But this level of care relies on access to each patient's individual genomics information – and that requires the ability to process massive amounts of genomics data quickly.
In order to keep pace – and more importantly, to support and even drive change in healthcare – its underlying IT infrastructure must have the ability to change and evolve just as quickly.
Therefore, hospitals, genome centers, pharmaceutical companies, medical research centers, and other clinical institutes need to explore new methods of storing, accessing, securing, managing, sharing, and analyzing significant amounts of genomics data. Healthcare and life sciences organizations that are running data-intensive genomics workloads on an IT infrastructure that lacks scalability, flexibility, performance, management, and cognitive capabilities need to modernize and transform their infrastructure to support current and future requirements.
Genomics and disease research provide unique analytical challenges to IT, with large, high velocity, and diverse data sets, strict regulatory compliance requirements, and complex workflows with different input/output characterization. Beyond the complex analytics involved in making genomics a foundational part of our healthcare future, the simple volume of data becomes a serious challenge. IDC predicts that by 2020, healthcare activities collectively will have generated two Zettabytes of raw data – that's thousands of terabytes in just the next few years!
What kind of IT infrastructure can address the magnitude and complexity of such IT challenges in a way that prevents costs from skyrocketing? Healthcare IT architects are focusing on solutions that combine Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI); High Performance Computing (HPC); and modular compute, storage, and network concepts to effectively drive the digital future in healthcare and life sciences.
One such solution architecture for healthcare is based on the principles of "composable" infrastructure. It enables healthcare IT architects and IT administrators to build IT infrastructure in a way that separates or "disaggregates" the underlying compute, storage, and network services. Disaggregated services can provide the required flexibility that enables the IT infrastructure to be sliced, diced, expanded, and contracted based on actual need. Such a composable building block-based approach allows healthcare organizations to most effectively and flexibly store, access, manage, share, and analyze huge volumes of information, especially genome sequencing data.
IBM offers an integrated composable infrastructure solution for genomics based on IBM Spectrum Scale™. IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, highly scalable, high performance data and file management solution that provides simplified data management and integrated information lifecycle tools capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files. IBM Spectrum Scale started out as a file system for high performance computing but has evolved into so much more. Today it's a full-featured set of file data management tools, including advanced storage virtualization, integrated high availability, automated tiered storage management, and high performance configurations to effectively manage very large quantities of file data. Spectrum Scale is designed to support a wide range of application workloads using a variety of access protocols and has been proven extremely effective in very large, demanding environments.
The IBM integrated solution for genomics workloads based on IBM Spectrum Scale offers many benefits:
- It's a single, cohesive, easy-to-deploy solution for genomics workloads based on the principles of composable infrastructure using IBM SDI components. It includes three disaggregated building blocks: storage services, compute services, and network services.
- The solution is based on best practices of fully tested and detailed architecture definitions. It enables IT architects to quickly design and implement an end-to-end genomics solution, integrate selected building blocks into existing infrastructure, and have each individual resource scale independently – thus protecting already-made investments.
- It's a policy-driven storage building block approach based on IBM Spectrum Scale designed for high-performance and large-scale workloads with integrated data analytics. Healthcare IT architects can start small and scale out quickly based on needs with flexible deployment options.
In the increasingly competitive healthcare and life sciences IT market, the IBM integrated solution for genomics based on composable building blocks using IBM Spectrum Scale is ready and able to take on the digital challenge today, helping healthcare organizations deal with data-intensive genomics workloads and accelerate discoveries at a lower cost.
Read the IDC InfoBrief on the latest research challenges and the modular approach to genomics infrastructure at scale and learn more about how your IT team can help drive change – instead of simply reacting to it.


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You have spent months backward and forwards with Doctors, numerous blood tests, and you've finally got a diagnosis. But the relief of having a name for all the symptoms you've spent so long struggling with is short lived when yo realise how little is known, and that there is no treatment for you. An ME / CFS diagnosis; What an M.E (CFS) diagnosis actually means for you & a breakdown of symptoms and next steps.
If you have just started on your ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) journey this post is for you. Or even if you want to learn more about what this condition is and how it affects people.
The symptoms of M.E
The symptoms of M E are pretty far reaching, and on their own can in fact be indicators of many other illnesses. One of the reasons it can be so hard to diagnose. The most obvious of symptoms is the pure debilitating exhaustion that seems permanent and doesn't dissipate no matter how much you sleep.
Other symptoms include brain fog, forgetting or mixing up your words, feeling sick, dizzy and disorientated, losing your balance & feeling like you have no spatial awareness, not being able to sleep, not being able to deal with noise and colour and feeling overwhelmed by people and sounds light sensitivity. As well as being unable to control your body temperature, IBS symptoms and digestive problems, and chest and back pain.
ME can also include elements of pain. Aching muscles and joints, twitching muscles, and fibromyalgia-type symptoms which can in themselves be exhausting. Fibromyalgia is where you have widespread, chronic pain, & a heightened pain response to pressure.
All these symptoms can come and go in severity, but are always worse when you are having a bad day. These bad days are often accompanied by feeling like you have the flu. Sore throat, flu-like symptoms, and even swollen glands. These are all common when your body is struggling.
So what's actually going on in your body?
What causes M.E
Although doctors don't actually know the exact causes of M.E for sure, causes include a series of things including a traumatic personal event such as a breakup or a family trauma, a bad / stressful relationship, a trauma to your body such as glandular fever or a major health occurrence, an over-stressful job where your fight or flight response is elevated over a looooong period of time …………………… or a combination of the above
More importantly , here's whats going on in your body:
– huge adrenal fatigue
– body-wide inflammation
– an overactive immune system
– your body is over-stressed, overwhelmed & no longer able to cope with the amount of stress you have been putting it through. It's reached breaking point.
This effects nearly every system in your body – nervous, endocrine, digestive, and immune systems. Your body is out of balance and depleted.
It needs rest, and it needs to heal.
What are you feeling after your M.E diagnosis?
You have been given a diagnosis but have you been left feeling lost and like you haven't actually achieved anything but a name for your symptoms?. I've felt that Frustration & Confusion
If you're feeling Sadness and a little down and depressed, turning to food for comfort and eating biscuits by the packet because you don't know what else to do. But feeling worse afterwards. I've been there.
If you're trying to do the most basic of tasks but cannot think straight, or keep forgetting and mixing up your words. I've had that debilitating Brain fog, I know how frustrating it can be to not be able to do the things you want because your brain is letting you down.
There is definitely an element of mourning a person lost when an illness like this knocks you off your feet and life as you know it brings to a halt. It is completely ok for you to feel anger, sadness, loss…
There is a complexity of emotions you will (and can) go through on the way to acceptance and moving forward.
Don't stop yourself from feeling any of them. Your body and mind need to go through this process to come out on the other side. It's part of your healing process.
And despite what the Dr's say, you can heal from all this!
How do I know? Why am I telling you all of this?
Because I've been where you are now. I know all of those feelings and frustrations that you have right now. I've sat in numerous doctors chairs and been told I'm already doing everything I can….
And I refused to accept that this illness would be my story for the rest of my life. So instead of listening to conventional medicine. I started doing my own research.
Basic next steps to healing M.E
What an M.E diagnosis actually means is that you're at the start of your healing journey. Knowing what an M.E (CFS) Diagnosis actually means is one thing, but that is only the beginning, and often Dr's are not in a position to heal a patient, only to help them manage symptoms. But healing from M.E is possible!
As well as the advice from specialists and doing your own research. Here are some basic steps you can start to implement today, to begin your own healing journey:
1. Accept life has changed
A huge part in moving forward now you have a diagnosis is accepting that your world has completely changed and things are going to be very different. A lot of people, myself included, have a stubborn view that they can just continue on as normal and it'll all be fine.
This may work for a while, but ultimately you are just taxing your body even more & you will end up crashing even harder. The best thing you can do for your sanity, peace of mind, and healing, is to start to work through all your emotions & work towards accepting the changes and what your limitations are for now.
That doesn't mean that you are accepting defeat, or that you are giving up in any way. You are just saying to your body "I hear you. I'm slowing down & trusting you know whats best for me".
This acceptance process definitely involves a period of mourning what you have lost. But ultimately accepting where you are now instead of trying to go back to the 'old you' that no longer exists will save you a lot of wasted energy and heartache.
2. Start a food & feeling Journal
This is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Start tracking your days, what you eat & how it makes you feel, how you feel first thing and throughout the day, when you woke up & what time you went to bed, what you manage to do each day. Then at the end of each week reflect back & analyse.
See what's working and what isn't and make changes where you need to. I would also recommend you include adding some gratitude practice into your journaling. Make it a daily task to list 3-5 things that you are thankful for that day.
This tracking method will help you eliminate foods that make you feel worse or add you your inflammation, find out what your energy limits are, narrow down causes for your relapses & bad days, track and improve your sleep, and see where you should make changes.
In the long term it will also help you see how far you've come and what you have accomplished!
3. Learn what your limits are
Pacing and learning to use your spoons are things that you will most definitely go over with your Dr. or specialist, so I won't go into huge detail here. But learning to listen to your body and knowing what your early symptoms are when you have pushed too hard and done too much (and finding these out early on), will help you to manage your energy. Both mentally and physically.
If you know that you have to do 'X' and that will use up 90% of your energy. Make sure that you don't do anything else taxing that day. Don't try to fit in A,B&C other tasks too, because you feel like that what you 'should' be doing.
Similarly if you find social occasions, more mental tasks, or travel draining and know you will need a recovery day afterwards. Make sure you are putting measures in place to manage your condition, your energy, and your days. This way your body can begin to heal and recuperate, instead of just fighting to get through the day and have nothing left to heal the damage.
This won't be a permanent thing. Over time you will most likely find that you can increase what you are able to do each day in small increments. So try not to worry about what you can't do now. But focus on the small achievements and what you are doing to make yourself feel better NOW.
Your journal (see no.2) can help you with this too.
4. Find the things that bring you joy
With that being said. Your mental well being is just as important as your healing. When you are limited to what you can do and achieve in a day it becomes even more vitally important that you are taking care of your emotions and mental state too.
Your emotional state and the energy you surround yourself with can either boost you up and aid your healing, or bring you down and reverse all the good you are trying to do.
When it comes to keeping positive it is the little things each day that make up a bigger picture and feeling of well being and happiness. Noticing the flowers and animals around you, enjoying the weather, listing to good music, watching something that makes you laugh, read, write, paint.
Even if it just for a short period of time each day, this is your time to experiment, to learn about yourself and this new version of you. To find out what things you can do now that you enjoy and bring you happiness.
It is these little things each day that will get you out of bed, keep you motivated, keep you moving forward, give you something to focus on, and most importantly give you things to be grateful for. These are the things you can record in your gratitude practice.
And making a habit to notice all the little things in each day that make you smile or cheer you up also works to keep you grounded in your body and focusing on the present moment. These are two powerful steps in starting a mindfulness practice!
5. Look into supplements to support your body's healing
I fully believe that plants, nature, and natural supplements provide all we need for healing our bodies. This is a huge subject topic. But as your first steps I would recommend that you look into Adaptogens for supporting your adrenals and immune system, natural options for helping you Sleep, Pain management, improve Brain function, and general Immune support.
These bases will help give support to your body as it starts to heal and recover from the stress it has been on. It will help you manage the worst symptoms of your M.E. I would always recommend that you get a full blood work done with your Dr. first too, and ask for a copy yourself, to check all your levels of vitamins & minerals etc. and ensure there is nothing else you should be addressing.
If you want more in-depth information and to learn everything I have over the past five years, including specific information on healing M.E & chronic illness through natural remedies, nutrition & lifestyle medicine. I have something that will be perfect for you.
Visit my healing ebook page to find out more.
Next Steps
Although I have given some general information and steps as starting points for you here. If you would like to read more I have included a list of further blog posts if you would like to read more:
Essential Oils for pain relief
14 All Natural calming remedies
Adaptogens | Why they should be part of your daily routine
11 ALL Natural energy boosters
Healing IBS | Tips & simple natural ways to reduce flare ups & increase gut health
Healing IBS with Natural Supplements & More
How to Detox Your Body Naturally
12 little things to get you through a bad day
If you are also dealing with fibromyalgia I have found this resource helpful:
You can also connect with me at any time. Just add your questions below, or send me an email, I'm always happy to help!
There was nothing available to me when I was diagnosed 5 years ago. So I am hoping that by writing a bit more on what an M.E (CFS) Diagnosis actually means on a more human level this can help at least a few people out there find their next steps forward, and not feel so lost.
xo Emily


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This article was written by Amal Mohamud, a Canadian intern with Challenges Media.
Vishalatchi Arunagiri was working as a peer specialist leader at the Malaysian Mental Health Association when I interviewed her. She shared her life with Schizophrenia which is a brain disorder that affects the way a person behaves, thinks, and sees the world. Today at the age of 23, Vishalatchi is an honorary mental illness advocate.
At the age of 19 she suffered schizophrenia which took her three years to come out of the closet and speak of her illness. Growing up Vishalatchi states "I had low self-esteem. I've suffered in getting pn with my education throughout my life as they told me I was a slow learner and I couldn't get an education. I was bullied a lot at school. But I have a mean streak too, so sometimes there's tension at school."
She spent the last three years in rehab and psycho-therapy and also studied short courses like makeup. "I took many courses because I was trying to find what I like", she added.
"My lowest point was when I lost all my ability to function and I was stuck with a label which has a stigma. I was in hiding until I became brave and came out of the closet after meeting Reshma.*"
Three years after the incident, Vishalatchi met a young woman named Reshma who also underwent schizophrenia. Reshma inspired her because she earned an award as Woman of the Year in India as well as won numerous awards and had a documentary film of herself on the local television in India.
"I also got inspired that she lived alone and independently and how she made it to the UN and TEDX India. She lives in India and she is half Malaysian."
For Vishalatch, it gave her confidence that she too could also prosper in life. Another individual that inspired Vishalatchi was her mother,
"My role model would be my mother. She inspires me to be positive and happy in any suffering." She is very pleased of her accomplishments in this present day. She not only spreads awareness about mental illness but has started working on the concept of creating beauty as therapy for all age groups and gives henna services since 2014.
Vishalatchi has written her own book entitled, "In my shoes' part one: living with schizophrenia." She states, "Those who take life for granted, nothing lasts forever. When you fall, you will understand how much life is more valuable."
During the interview I felt really passionate. Vishalatchi is an inspirational, intelligent and kind young woman. Throughout the difficult challenges she encountered, she managed to surpass it. I want to be able to give back to my own community and be the voice for the unrepresented just like her.
As for myself, I grew up in Canada. Mental illness is a major concern. In Canada, schizophrenia is the youth's greatest disabler as it strikes most often in the 16 to 30 years of age. Research has shown that of the 4,000 Canadians who die every year as a result of suicide, most were confronting a mental health problem or illness. Currently in Canada, the people are demanding to invest more money in the system to ensure these people get the care they need. Even though access to healthcare is free, booking an appointment to see a therapist takes months occasionally.
*Reshma or Val Resh. (http://challengesmedia.com/val-resh/)


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Events | Word on the StreetPosted By:Celine
Canada's largest book festival...
I've been looking forward to this weekend for a long time, as the Word on the Street Festival in Toronto is finally here and Pure Green will be taking part! We have our own little booth, nestled into Magazine Mews (how cute is that) for small publishers. You'll be able to browse copies of our currently published volumes, get discounts on subscriptions, chat about food with Jonathan... it should be a fantastic day. The festival takes place outdoors at Queen's Park in Toronto, this Sunday from 11-6. There are hundreds of vendors and nearly 200,000 people visit each year. This year I'm told David Suzuki and Jian Gomeshi are making appearances!! So put on your boots, tie on a scarf, grab your bookbag and your takeout coffee mug and come by! I can't wait to say hi. Read More
The Carriage House CooperagePosted By:Celine
Several weeks ago we had the pleasure of visiting Prince Edward County (a well known wine region in Eastern Ontario) with friends. As part of our day we visited The Carriage House Cooper—a cooper is a craftsman who makes wine barrels in the traditional way, which is to say, by hand. Pete the cooper was a really kind man who gladly answered our many, many questions, mostly resulting from our amazement that he produces one barrel per day using a manner taught to him by a master tradesman, of which there are only a handful left in North America. Read More
Inspired Living | Grape JellyPosted By:Celine
I'm always really excited when I try something new and it works out really well. I love the sense of accomplishment, even though perhaps it's slightly exaggerated with me since I'm not an expert in the kitchen (that's Jonathan's area of expertise). This time, the new task was grape jelly. Read More
Best of Pure Green | Bean BurritosPosted By:Celine
This is probably one of my favourite Organic Kitchen recipes to date (just ask Erin, the photographer)—Jonathan made it again for friends this past weekend and I was reminded of just how good it is, so I thought I would share it again here (and that same friend requested the recipe, so here it is Kelly!). Making your own refried beans is surprisingly easy, just don't walk away from the pan while cooking. It has a nasty habit of exploding all over the stove-top if it's overheated, so just be patient and stir away. You can cook the refried beans ahead of time so when it comes to serve this dish all you have to do is assemble and bake. Let us know if you decide to try this recipe out, you'll be so, so glad you did. YUM!!! Bound to become a family classic. Read More
Destination | Treehouse PointPosted By:Celine
Of course, this being the first day after labour day, I can feel fall on the heels of summer, quietly settling in, fall produce starting to grace the farmers market and cool nights making me grateful for cozy quilts. Perhaps this is why I so instantly and completely fell in love with this series of fall-inspired images from Fox in the Pine, a new favourite source of inspiration, where they stayed in this two-story treehouse called the Trillium (love the windows!). The images are from Treehouse Point in Washington, a seemingly magical place meant for snuggling up under blankets with hot tea and a good book after hiking through the verdantly green and lush forest. Read More
Inspiration | Send More MailPosted By:Celine
A few weeks ago I was lucky to receive this lovely note from one of our contributors Jaime Maddalena, of the talented photography duo Joseph+Jaime. They contributed the breathtaking travel feature in our current issue featuring the Amalfi Coast—based on those photos, one day I must go there!! Jaime also pens a really neat blog titled Send More Mail, where she chronicles the delight of sending and receiving mail, paper goods and her lovely stamp collection. I like to visit every so often as I am reminded of life's simple pleasures such as receiving or writing a letter, something I never take the time to do (but I love the romance of it). Thank you Jaime for the letter!!! Read More
Inspiration | Alex BeechingPosted By:Celine
Star-gazing has been a loved activity of mine since childhood and admittedly, I've never been very good at picking out all the constellations, which must be why the star map was such a fun project. That said, star-gazing can be more than identifying age-old groups of stars with fabled stories from centuries ago. Sometimes, it's nice just to let one's imagination run amok—get lost in the celestial heavens and make up your own fabled stories. This is what artist Alex Beeching set out to do in this series of drawings where he interpreted his own 'constellations' based on the idea that with a little imagination one can see what one wants to see, just as a cloud can look like a camel, a hat and a trombone respectively to different people. Read More
Destination | The Grounds of AlexandriaPosted By:Celine
What a lovely place! The Grounds of Alexandria is a coffee roaster alongside a café and luscious herb and heirloom vegetable garden. Located in Sydney, Australia in a circa 1900 pie factory, the café has embraced it's industrial roots by incorporating vintage industrial elements such as the exposed brick, black steel shelving, windows and doors, concrete floors, minimalist subway tiles and metal Tolix chairs. Aside from the heritage building, The Grounds is committed to sustainable practices through it's pursuit of local and fresh ingredients, most of which is harvested straight from the garden, along with eggs from their three hens. Read More
DIY | Place CardsPosted By:
I've mentioned before in this space how much I'm a fan of simple projects. For me, the idea of elaborate table decorations at dinner parties is beautiful in theory, but I often find that after making the dinner itself and setting out the plates and cutlery, I've about exhausted my hostess energy stores. Read More
Organic Kitchen | Israeli Roasted Tomato CouscousPosted By:Celine
It's around this time of season when tomato vines in the garden are literally dripping with fruit, so much so that in my garden I have to wonder what on earth I'll do with them all. One of my favourite late summer recipes is this Israeli couscous and roasted tomato dish, a recipe I love from an issue of Gourmet (September, 2002). Read More
New Stockist | TerrainPosted By:Celine
Many a time I have wished I lived closer to Terrain, a wonderfully gorgeous store that transforms the local garden center into a celebration of nature inspired by the idea of merging house and garden to create an experience for the senses. Now with two locations in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania and Westport, Connecticut, each location has an onsite nursery, gorgeous homewares and gifts and an event/cafe space with delicious, seasonal menus. It's a magical place where one can get lost in the pleasure of the combined shopping and natural experience, and now I am so very pleased to share that Pure Green Magazine will be available at Terrain as well! What an incredible delight!! Thank you so much to the folks at Terrain for supporting Pure Green! Perhaps one day I'll have the pleasure of visiting myself! Read More
Best of Pure Green | Poached Egg MeltPosted By:Celine
Like many of the recipes we create for the Organic Kitchen, this one is part of Jonathan and my personal roster of favourites. It's a regular Sunday breakfast at our house, heartily filling, easy but so so tasty, and impressive enough to serve to guests. Take advantage of your fresh garden basil while you still have it and whip up this fabulous open-face sandwich, it makes a great light dinner option too! Enjoy! Read More
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