Search Weight Loss Topics:

Page 2,023«..1020..2,0222,0232,0242,025..2,0302,040..»

Home » Page 2023

The type of food we choose to eat determines a large part of our personal carbon footprint. With a long shelf life, pasta helps reduce the amount of food that is thrown away by serving as a base for vegetables and other leftover foods that might otherwise go to waste. When combined with pulses, a highly nutritious and climate-friendly crop, these two common ingredient groups can contribute largely to a sustainable diet.

According to the2015 Passion for Pasta Food Waste & Sustainability Consumer Omnibus Survey, 78 percent of respondents always had pasta in their home, while 74 percent of respondents never have to throw pasta away. Dry pasta can store fortwoyearsand doesnt have to be refrigerated, cutting down on household energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, pasta has alower carbon footprint and lower water footprintthan both red meat and poultry.

Often cooked in family-sized quantities,pasta and pulses are a symbol of the social importance of food and conviviality. Where pasta has been adopted around the world, it has taken on the unique flavors of the region and becomes a canvas for serving traditional and local foods.

Traditional semolina pasta is a staple of traditional Italian cuisine. Other nutritious grains such as quinoa and brown rice, which are also gluten free, are increasingly popular in North America and Europe. Asian noodles are often made with rice, yam, or mung bean, as well.

One serving of pasta contains plant-based protein and is an excellent source of folate, a good source of iron and provides a variety of B vitamins. Whole-grain pasta is an excellent source of fiber, and both traditional and whole-grain pasta can be fortified with additional protein and Omega 3s to improve their nutritional profiles even further. A common add-in to pasta dishes, pulsessuch as common beans, chickpeas, fava bean, dried peas, and lentilsare highly nutritious, rich in protein and essential micronutrients, and have a tiny carbon footprint.

Pulses are able to directly draw nitrogen from the atmosphere, converting it into nutrients vital for plant growth, meaning they dont require nitrogen fertilizers which use fossil fuel. Growing pulses makes fertile soil, which in turn reduces the need for fertilizer in other crops. Additionally, pulses are a highlywater efficient source of protein.

Dietary guidelines around the world are beginning to include sustainability considerations when making recommendations for nutritional health. Swedenhas taken the leadon sustainability research within the context of dietary choices and has formed the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, which include environmental impact assessments. In Germany, a consumer guide for dietary choices includes asustainable shopping basket. In the United States, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) was the first to include areview of sustainable dietsin their scientific report, which informs the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends that a quarter of the platebedevoted to grains such as pasta at every mealand that half of those should be whole grains.

When making pasta dishes at home, the used cooking water can be cooled and used to water plants. The starchy water gives plants nutrients to help them grow. (Be sure to not use water that has been salted or seasoned, though.)

Try it out with one of Food Tanks favorite pasta recipes:

Credit:Chef Lorenzo Boni

Warm Rigatoni with Asparagus and Bottarga Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Follow this link:
Eat Pasta and Pulses as Part of a Sustainable Diet - Food Tank (blog)

Read More..

New York Daily News

Fitness model nabbed in Connecticut bank robberies New York Daily News A beefcake model was arrested in San Diego Wednesday for a string of burglaries that began in Greenwich, Conn. David Byers, 34, of Solana Beach, Calif., evaded authorities for days before he was tracked down in a cross-country search. The hunky suspect ... Solana Beach fitness model arrested in cross-country robbery spreeThe San Diego Union-Tribune Tattooed Fitness Model Accused of Robberies Is Arrested ...U.S. News & World Report Tattooed fitness model accused of bank robberies in Connecticut is arrestedWABC-TV 10News -Mirror.co.uk -Greenwich Time all 45 news articles »

Go here to read the rest:
Fitness model nabbed in Connecticut bank robberies - New York Daily News

Read More..

Steve Nicol picks Liverpool to finish in the top four and Manchester United will be the team to miss out.

Liverpool forward Philippe Coutinho is having his fitness managed to maximise his chances of being able to play against Southampton on Sunday, sources have told ESPN FC.

Coutinho, 24, was forced off early in Liverpool's 1-0 win at Watford on Monday night after suffering a "dead leg."

The Brazil international was absent from team training at Melwood on Thursday afternoon, but sources say he took part in a light session as he recovers from the knock.

Coutinho downplayed the injury after the Watford victory, saying it was not "serious," while Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hoped for a swift recovery.

In an interview published on the club's official website, Coutinho says he is hopeful that he can play in Sunday's game against Southampton.

"The injury is much better," he said. "It was a hard tackle and what happened was a dead leg. It caused a lot of pain in the area I was hit, but the pain has reduced now.

"At the moment, I am feeling very well -- the first couple of days were the most painful.

"When you have to come out of such an important [game] like this one, and when you leave that early, it frustrates you. But thanks to God it was nothing major -- just a strong tackle."

Liverpool hope to have Coutinho fit and available at Anfield on Sunday as they look to keep their Champions League qualification hopes on course.

Glenn is ESPN FC's Liverpool correspondent. You can follow him on Twitter: @GlennPrice94.

Excerpt from:
Liverpool managing Philippe Coutinho fitness ahead of Southampton - source - ESPN FC

Read More..

TechCrunch

TuringSense scores $3 million to build fitness trackers smart enough ... TechCrunch TuringSense announced today that it's closed a $3 million early funding round, an investment that brings the Bay area-based sports tracker startup's total.. and more »

The rest is here:
TuringSense scores $3 million to build fitness trackers smart enough ... - TechCrunch

Read More..

Baltimore Business Journal

Baltimore fitness startup wins top prize in Salisbury U. competition Baltimore Business Journal The Baltimore business helps users find a gym and matches them with three to five peers led by a professional trainer. The idea is to make training more personalized, help users track their fitness progress and reduce individual costs by making fitness ...

Read the rest here:
Baltimore fitness startup wins top prize in Salisbury U. competition - Baltimore Business Journal

Read More..

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Kids of STEEL aims to help children form healthy habits Pittsburgh Post-Gazette So the Kids of STEEL duo of Mr. Fischer and Mr. Jones, on trips to schools for nutrition assemblies or exercise programs, tries to keep it simple when conveying that being healthy isn't hard. It's important, Mr. Fischer said, so kids can avoid health ...

View post:
Kids of STEEL aims to help children form healthy habits - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Read More..

Courtesy Photo Optimist President Mark Hulsey, right center, thanks Alpena Senior Citizens Center Director Annie Hepburn, left center, for presenting to the Optimist Club, along with Hepburns father, Butch Woloszyk, left, and BJ Sander, program manager, right.

Annie Hepburn, director of the Alpena Senior Citizens Center, addressed the Optimist Club of Alpena at a recent morning breakfast meeting. Accompanying Hepburn were BJ Sander, program manager at center, and Butch Woloszyk, Hepburns father.

Hepburn first told of her previous employment at Tendercare Greenview, where she was the social services director, before moving into the marketing end of the business and finishing as marketing director for Fortis. She also was a member of the Posen Chamber of Commerce, serves on the NEMCSA Senior Companion Advisory Board and is involved with the Alzheimers Association. She graduated from Spring Arbor College with a Bachelors Degree in Family Life Education.

Hepburn then told of all that is going on at the center, starting with the fact that they are trying to involve more youth in their programs because the two groups can both benefit from this interaction. She was excited to tell about a $200,000 grant they just received to begin a program involving the seniors and the students from ACES Academy about food preparation from the garden to the table.

The program will prepare the students for positions in the food industry. Another grant recently received was $500 from the United Way for a program called, How Rude. The program will focus on teaching proper manners and etiquette to youth in our area. The target date for this program is October 2017.

Another of the newer programs the center has been working on is transportation. Many of the seniors have difficulty driving and need to use public transportation such as the Dial-A-Ride buses. However, these buses quit running after 7 p.m. so if someone wants to attend a function later than that, the Senior Center wants to provide the ride home from the event.

They currently have a 14-passenger bus and two mini-vans that could be used for this purpose. Hepburn then told of in-home services offered by the center. Some of the services range from simple homemaker tasks like laundry and shopping, to personal care and companionship.

A new service is medication set-up. Some seniors have many pills to take at varying times and intervals. A contracted RN from the center will come to their home and help organize the medications so no doses are missed or taken too often. There are currently three clients using this program.

Hepburn added that a popular program at the center is the Medicare Medicaid Assistance Program. She said during the month of February they saved their clients over $59,000 in insurance and prescription costs. They also have kinship funds available to assist seniors who are raising their grandchildren.

Along with all these programs there are also many activities at the center for people of all ages, including card tournaments, bingo, exercise classes and meals.

Hepburn also noted that they are currently accepting nominations for the Alpena County Outstanding Older Citizen Award. If you know someone who is worthy of this award you are invited to submit a short essay of 250 words or less explaining why the nominee deserves the award. Take submissions to the center at 501 River.

Hepburn concluded by saying the goal at the center is to be the hub of resources for the seniors in the area by providing educational and social opportunities.

For information on any of these programs, call 356-3585, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or visit the website, http://www.alpenaseniors.com.

Out-of-door relief, properly managed properly managed, maam is the parochial safe-guard. The great ...

Follow this link:
Optimists hear from Senior Citizens Center director - Alpena News

Read More..

Meal prep and HIIT workouts are just the beginning.

Make your week work for you with these time-saving tips that well help you save calories and cash.

Being able to create a healthy meal quickly is key to staying on track with your weight loss goals. For me, the sandwich press is life-changing. It can cook anything from chicken, fish, eggs, pancakes, sweet potato, vegetables and the list goes on. It is portable so it can be taken to work or on holidays, and more importantly, you can just wipe it clean.

Another time-saving weight loss hack is cooking up a big batch of brown rice or quinoa, and keeping it in an airtight container in the fridge. This will last a good 3-4 days and you simply run under hot water when needed. Healthy meals are so quick and easy to put together and by adding in your choice of spices you can add flavour to any dish.

Food is everything when it comes to weight loss, and if you can prep some meals or ingredients on a Sunday your week will run very smoothly, nutrition-wise, anyway. Not only will preparing elements of your meals (or full meals, the choice is yours!) in advance save you time, but having protein-rich snacks as well as healthy meals on tap will save you money. No emergency 3pm trips to the vending machine needed.

It sounds obvious but it works: schedule in your workouts for the week like you would your meetings. This gives you a clear picture of how your week will look, and takes away any stress that relates to fitting in your work outs. Plus, it keeps you accountable as your days become longer and busier and that gym membership youre paying for is certainly not going to waste.

High intensity interval training is awesome when it comes to fat loss and also saving time. A HIIT session can be anything from boxing, stairs, hill sprints or skipping. These sessions only need to last 20-30 minutes as they are so taxing on your heart rate, after one of these sessions youll be feeling exhausted and amazing. The best bit? There are literally thousands online on YouTube, and beyond available for free. You can work-out in your living room while your meals are being prepped. If thats not efficient, we dont know what is!

If you can set up a regular order online with an organic grocer or major supermarket this will be life changing. Each week you will bring up your regular order make a couple of changes or simply just process the order, which will save you time, money, and help with our first couple of points. Life: simplified.

Originally posted here:
5 ways to lose weight while saving time and money - Body and Soul

Read More..

Two bills very pertinent to bicyclists and pedestrians are set for hearing at Mondays Assembly Transportation Committee: one would allow bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs, and the other would make clear that pedestrians are allowed to cross while their signals are counting down.

IDAHO STOP LAW A.B. 1103s authors, Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) and Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia), bring bipartisan support to a bill that rationalizes the vehicle code for people riding bikes.

Obernolte says he became interested in the issue when he first heard about the so-called Idaho stop law, which has been in place since 1982 and allows bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs. In Idaho, a bicyclist must still slow down and check for other traffic, and the right of way rules are no different. But riders can slow down, pause, and negotiate the right of way, without being required to come to a full and complete stop, especially if there is no other traffic.

Before that, said Obernolte, I was not aware that other states had tried this. So I did some research; I found the UC Berkeley study, and others, that support the idea that this could save livesthat it is far safer to do it this way than the way CA currently has its laws.

The UC Berkeley study is the work of Jason Meggs, who researched the law while completing a dual Masters degree in environmental health science and city planning.

Meggs found reports that indicated that after the law passed in Idaho, bicycle injuries fell 14.5 percent. He also compiled data on fatalities per bicycle commuter, and his results showed that over the last fifteen years, Idaho is half as dangerous as California, he said.

Meggs also searched for a city comparable to Boise, Idaho, to do a thorough comparison between a city with the law and one without. The best parallel he found was Sacramento, California. Not only do the two cities have similar weather and topography, he said, They have similar land use structures; they both have a river going through them; they are both capital cities with many one-way streets. They both have relatively high levels of cycling and bicycle commuting not high, he pointed out, just higher than most other U.S. citiesand there are many children and college students on bicycles. All those things and more matched up very well between the two cities, he said.

And lo and behold, in terms of injuries per commute, its twice as dangerous in Sacramento as in Boise, he said.

Of course there are other differences between the two states, he said, and Im not claiming that the Idaho stop law caused the difference in injury rate. But its very clear that the Idaho stop law is not causing mass carnage. Everything I found supports the idea that this bill should increase bicycling and reduce injuries.

There are many possible reasons to explain why allowing bike riders to treat stop signs as yield signs is safer. One is that it can clear up uncertainty about what behavior is expected. Current enforcement of stop sign law is inconsistent, and frequent stop signs along bike routes are enough of a hassle that many otherwise law-abiding cyclists dont stop when there is no cross traffic. Changing the law to legalize rational, safe behavior choices could also remove excuses for the kind of uneven police enforcement that leads to incidents like the recent jaywalking beat-down that happened in Sacramento.

Such a law would also allow bikes, which are fundamentally lighter and more agile than cars, to get out of the way and clear intersections where there is an opening, said Meggs. Because bicyclists lose momentum when they come to a stop, they spend more time in an intersection and take longer to clear it than most cars, which adds to the potential risk of injury. This could also reduce delay for motorists, as well as reduce their risk of colliding with a bike.

Intersections are the riskiest places for bicyclists, said Meggs, and the faster we can clear them the better.

There are a lot of risks bicyclists face that have little to do with stop signs, said Meggs, but more do to with whether other people see us or not. Bikes are more like birds; momentum is our friend. A bike rider can more easily slow down, speed up, and gracefully glide through an intersection than a car can.

There are also a lot of good reasons for a bike rider to avoid coming to a complete stop, despite what car drivers may believe. For someone on a bike, every stop take a lot of extra time and energy, as well as wear and tear on the body and risk of injury. Theres an extra strain on knees. And if youre carrying any kind of load, for example on a cargo bike, it is much easier to keep going, even if very, very slowly, then to start up from a complete stop, he said.

But, noted Meggs, the bill does not change the right of way law. Bikes can roll through [a stop sign], but they dont take precedence when someone else is therewhoever is there first still have right of way.

Specifically, A.B. 1103 would

authorize a person operating a bicycle approaching a stop sign, after slowing to a reasonable speed and yielding the right-of-way, to cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping, unless safety considerations require otherwise.

For his part, Assemblymember Obernolte sees other benefits from the bill. He hopes that making streets with a lot of stop signs more attractive to bike riders will incentivize bike traffic to divert off arterials and travel on slower side streets. They arent there now, because of the stop signs, he said. That would encourage a more compatible mix of bikes and cars, especially on quiet streets, he said.

And another big reason to change the law is that a lower incidence of crashes will encourage more people to try biking, which will help California meet its greenhouse gas emission goals, he said.

His fellow author, Phil Ting, represents San Francisco, which triedand ultimately failedto reform local enforcement of bikes stopping at stop signs. The law itself needs to be changed at the state level, however.

When asked about the chances of the bills passing, Obernolte said, Its hard to handicap that. But when you have a Republican from one of the most conservative parts of the state joining with a Democrat from one of the most liberal parts of the state, thats a good indication you have a strong, bipartisan bill. He is, he said, cautiously optimistic about the bills chances.

On the other hand, the same organizations that recently opposed a bill to allow the use of speed enforcement cameras in a pilot programthe California Police Chiefs Association and the AAAare also opposing A.B. 1103. Thats no surprise, really. Unfortunately those groups seem to pull a lot of weight, and they succeeded in stalling the speed camera bill.

PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS The other bill to be heard on Monday, A.B. 390, would clear up a different gray area, this one affecting pedestrians at crosswalks.

Current law states that pedestrians facing a flashing or steady Dont Walk or Wait signal may not start to cross an intersection, but newish countdown signals that have gone in around California arent covered by the law.

From a pedestrians point of view, its pretty clear that the countdown is just a more accurate source of information about the time remaining to cross a street than a random flashing hand. The countdown number varies with the width of the intersectionit can be as long as 26 or even 30 seconds, if the crossing is especially wide. Since some people can make it across more quickly than others, presumably the decision would be left up to the person crossing as to whether they can walk fast enough or not.

But in some areas, like downtown L.A., the police have applied the law as currently written to countdown signals, and have ticketed people for jaywalking when they step off the curb after the countdown starts. Its pretty ridiculous.

But A.B. 390, authored by Miguel Santiago (D- Los Angeles) and, again, Ting, would clarify that the intent of those signals is to give information to pedestrians:

This bill would authorize a pedestrian facing a countdown signal to proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal if there is sufficient time left on the countdown to reasonably complete the crossing safely.

Currently there is no formal opposition to A.B. 390.

The rest is here:
Legislative Update: Idaho Stop and Pedestrian Signals to Be Heard Next Week - Streetsblog California (blog)

Read More..

LIAM SCARROT lost 130lbs by doing this one simple exercise.

FACEBOOK/LIAMSCARROT

Liam Scarrot had always been fit growing up.

The Australian man would spend his days playing football and cricket, his parents would cook healthy meals and even at 17 he would go to the gym five days a week.

However, after he broke his leg at work the weight began to pile on.

When I was recovering, I got sacked and told I was useless, since I was on crutches, he told Mens Health.

That put a huge mental strain on me and I really went down hill. The start of the end you could say.

Liam put on over 2st while recovering from the broken leg which made his self-esteem plummet.

He turned to food for comfort. His daily diet would exceed 4,000 calories a day and would gorge on junk food, soft drink, alcohol and desserts.

At 18, Liams weight ballooned to 21st 4lbs. It wasn't until five years later, when in a long-term relationship, Liam decided to make a change.

He began to write down everything he ate and focussed on portion sizes and he would also take a walk regularly this alone helped him drop 3st 5lbs.

LDN Muscle founder Tom Exton shows off his shredded body

1 / 18

People were coming up to me, and noticing me, and saying how good Im looking and it honestly made me feel so good, I couldnt help but keep going, Liam explained.

Liam hit a weight-loss plateau but credits walking every day with helping him break through it.

These daily 40-minute walks eventually turned into 40-minute runs and this is when he decided to join a gym.

Now, Liam goes to the gym four times a week and has taken up strength training along with cardio.

Liam also changed his diet, cut out the sugar, and loaded his meals with protein and vegetables.

He also credits seeing a therapist as one of the major things that helped with his weight loss.

I had to keep telling myself and pushing myself to just keep going.

Its all a mental thing. If you can win the battle in your head, you will get what you want to achieve.

See original here:
The ONE simple exercise that helped this man lose over 9st - Daily Star

Read More..

Contact Us Today

Page 2,023«..1020..2,0222,0232,0242,025..2,0302,040..»

Home » Page 2023