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Changing your diet in simple ways could nearly halve your chance of a heart attack .

Researchers found 45 per cent of deaths from heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes were linked to a lack of nutrients.

And the US study of 700,000 people said diets packed with sugar, salt and processed meat are big no-nos.

So here are the key eating habits to shake and make to protect your heart, Sunday People can reveal.

CUT BACK ON SALT

One in ten deaths in the study was down to high levels of sodium, making it the biggest baddie on the menu.

Adults should have no more than 6g of salt a day, which is about one teaspoon.

Victoria Taylor, British Heart Foundation dietitian, said: Most of the salt we eat comes from foods we buy ready-made, like bread, cereals and sauces.

"So its important to check labels.

DODGY DRINKS

Drinks with added sugar think fizzy pop, flavoured juices and energy drinks are bad news.

Victoria said: Switching to sugar-free versions or water will help reduce the sugar and calories in your diet.

MEAT CHOICES

Lamb, beef and pork can be high in saturated fat, which raises cholesterol levels. So aim for only one 100g serving a week.

Victoria said: Lean red meat is a good source of iron but it doesnt need to be eaten every day. Other sources of protein like beans, pulses and white or oily fish are healthy choices and are consistent with a Mediterranean diet associated with lower levels of cardiovascular disease.

Try to cut down on processed meat, such as sausages and cured ham, which have been linked to heart disease.

Victoria said: Keep these for every now and then and instead choose lean, unprocessed meat, eggs, fish, beans, pulses and tofu.

FRUIT AND VEG

A really easy one eat more fruit and veg for a longer life. Citrus fruits are packed with vitamin C while pomegranates, contain heart-promoting polyphenols and anthocyanins.

Victoria said: Around 75 per cent of us still arent eating our five-a-day.

Veggies are essential for your plate. Legumes like green beans, help control blood sugar, while potatoes are high in fibre.

NUTS AND GRAINS

The study linked a low intake of nuts and seeds with 8.5 per cent of deaths from heart disease.

Happily, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, macadamias and peanuts contain fibre which is good for your heart. Try to get five 28g servings a week.

Victoria said: Theyre high in calories but a small handful can be a nutritious snack.

Also, swap white pasta or rice for wholewheat versions and try quinoa. Go for 125g a day.

Victoria said: The soluble fibre that wholegrains provide can help lower cholesterol.

SEAFOOD

Omega-3 fatty acids in oily fish such as salmon and mackerel have been shown to lower the risk of irregular heart beat and a build-up of plaque in arteries.

Victoria said: We should all be eating two portions of fish a week, with one being oily fish.

GOOD FATS

Polyunsaturated fats known as good fats reduce bad cholesterol levels in your blood, lowering your risk of heart disease and strokes.

Victoria said: Use oils like rapeseed or olive oil for cooking. Include foods that are sources of unsaturated fat, such as avocado and oily fish, not foods high in saturated fat like fatty meat, biscuits, cakes and chocolate.

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Eating a high fat and high sugar diet when pregnant leads to metabolic impairments in both the mother and her unborn child, which may 'program' them for potential health complications later in life, a study in mice has shown.

In a study carried out in pregnant mice, a team of academics found that an obesity-causing high fat and high sugar diet disrupted processes within the pregnant mothers body, leading to poor metabolic control. These changes were found just prior to birth and may make her more susceptible to conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease, as well as to further fat accumulation, in later motherhood.

The exact impact on her child during pregnancy was harder to ascertain, but the researchers found that metabolic dysfunction in the mother compromised the flow of nutrients to the foetus, altering its growth and metabolism at critical stages during its development. This strongly suggests that an obesogenic diet (a diet which promotes obesity) also has consequences for foetal development. It may also explain why babies from mothers who are obese or eat obesogenic diets during pregnancy have a tendency to develop conditions such as obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes as adults.

In particular, the researchers found that a higher than recommended intake of fat and sugar exacerbates and distorts metabolic changes which occur naturally as a result of the pregnancy, so that the mother can appropriately allocate nutrients to the foetus.

The study was carried out by a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. The lead author is Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri, from St Johns College, Cambridge, and the Centre for Trophoblast Research in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. She said that the findings were especially relevant for women in western countries.

In places like the UK, the US and Australia, many women of child-bearing age are also eating higher amounts of fat and sugar than the National Dietary Recommendations, she said. We know that obesity during pregnancy is a risk factor for health complications for mother and baby both during and after pregnancy. This study offers insight into the mechanisms operating during pregnancy that may cause this.

The study involved feeding a diet that contained high amounts of fat and sugar to pregnant mice. The researchers then assessed the impact of this on both the metabolism of the mother and her levels of body fat, compared to mice which were fed a more balanced diet.

They related these changes in whole-body metabolism to the expression of proteins in the mothers tissues, which are responsible for processing and storing nutrients, as well as to the supply of nutrients, growth and metabolism of her developing foetuses. All of the experiments were carried out in line with the UK Home Office Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. Overall, the researchers found that excessive consumption of sugar and fat compromised the mothers glucose tolerance and her sensitivity to insulin the hormone that controls blood sugar levels.

Specifically, they found that the mothers ability to respond to insulin was reduced in tissues like her muscle and fat, which take up glucose from the circulation. By contrast, the sensitivity of the maternal liver to insulin was increased, which reduces glucose production during pregnancy. As a result, the mother was unable adequately to control glucose levels or produce enough glucose to support the pregnancy.

The high fat, high sugar diet also changed the expression of proteins in the mothers body that control fat storage, leading to an increase in body fat. Collectively, the researchers suggest that these effects promote a pre-diabetic state in the mother, resembling many aspects of gestational diabetes; a pregnancy complication which affects up to 5% of women in the UK.

One of the main reasons for this may be that an obesogenic diet exaggerates natural metabolic changes associated with pregnancy. During a normal pregnancy, the mothers body will change the way it handles nutrients so that some can be freed up for the foetus, Sferruzzi-Perri explained. The mothers metabolism is shifted to an insulin resistant, glucose intolerant state, such that her own glucose use is limited in favour of foetal supply. We think that in cases where the mother has a high fat, high sugar diet, these metabolic changes are exacerbated or perturbed.

These effects, the researchers suggest, may alter the mothers disposition to develop health complications after she has given birth as well a phenomenon that they refer to as a metabolic memory, putting her at greater risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular problems in later life. The study also found that the defects in the mothers metabolism impaired nutrient flow to the foetus, as they resulted in the preferential storage of nutrients within the mothers tissues, in favour of allocating these to the developing foetus.

Because the placenta also plays an important role in nutrient allocation (as previous studies have shown), the babies of mice fed the obesogenic diet were still born at a normal size. However, because the foetus receives different amounts of nutrients and shows defects in its ability to use these during development, the researchers believe that the child will still be more susceptible to metabolic dysfunction later in life.

We still dont know what the exact consequences for the foetus are, but the findings match existing research which already suggests that the individual will suffer from these metabolic problems during adulthood, Sferruzzi-Perri said. This is because changes to the nutrient and oxygen supply, at a stage when individual organs are developing, can cause a permanent change in the structure and function of certain tissues.

Reference: Musial, B., Vaughan, O. R., Fernandez-Twinn, D. S., Voshol, P., Ozanne, S. E., Fowden, A. L., & Sferruzzi-Perri, A. N. (2017). A Western-style obesogenic diet alters maternal metabolic physiology with consequences for fetal nutrient acquisition in mice. The Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1113/jp273684

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The UFC light heavyweight champion tipped the scales at 206.2 for his Saturday night title defense against Anthony Rumble Johnson, himself no stranger to weight-cutting issues. Just 144 seconds after his failure to make the proscribed limit of 205 pounds, DC returned to the scale shortly before the expiration of the commission-imposed time cutoff. He miraculously hit the weight limit on the nose. Strangely, when Johnson, a former welterweight who boasts a win at heavyweight over a former UFC champion,took to the scales the reading registered 203.8, precisely 1.2 pounds below the limitthe same amount Cormier lost in less than three minutes.

Rather than scale skullduggery, ESPNs Brett Okamoto takes a crack at solving the case of the missing weight by pointing to a pay-not-attention-to-the-curtain prevarication.

Cormier (18-1), who cuts a good amount of weight to compete at 205 pounds, may have used an old wrestling trick to lose 1.2 pounds in such a short amount of time, Okamoto writes. During the second weigh-in, UFC officials held a towel out in front of Cormier, who had stripped off all his clothes. Cormier clearly pushed down on the towels, which would presumably offset his weight slightly.

Fighters employ unusual measures to make weight. Desmond Green, fighting onUFC 210sundercard, once described to Breitbart Sports how he cut his dreadlocks to make weight. Cormier wished such an option existed for him at the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. He made the 211.5-pound limit. Then his kidneys failed. The medical event prevented him from competing and nearly killed him.

That Daniel Cormier competed in his twenties rather than his thirties. And he did so at a weight limit nearly seven pounds higher than the one he encountered on Friday. A bowling-ball-of-a-guy who did not look outsized in dispatching Frank Mir, Antonio Big Foot Silva, and Josh Barnettnone exactly small for their divisionat heavyweight appears like a skeleton at the scales as a light heavyweight.

But even Skelator Cormier initially failed to make weight. His Daniel Cormier Diet, surely now as in-demand as anything peddled by Jenny Craig, shed more than a pound in less than a commercial break. At that rate, the Daniel Cormier Diet figures to lose fatties 50 pounds every two hours. Alas, like most get-slim-quick products, thediet wins its fair share of skeptics seeing it as snake oil. But people watching scales, whether athletic commissions or unathletic gargantuans, see what they want to see.

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Jake Tapper is a busy guy. The CNN anchor hosts The Lead with Jake Tapper on weekdays and State of the Union on Sunday mornings, where he interviews guests like Kellyanne Conway and Paul Ryan. That six-days-a-week schedule may sound intense to the rest of us, but Tapper told the Cut that hes been on a new diet and fitness regime (thanks to his friend Paul Rudd) that has helped him deal with the stress of it all. We recently chatted with Tapper about how he incorporates wellness into his busy life, his obsession with protein shakes, and how hanging out with his kids helps put things in perspective.

How I start my mornings: I am awakened sometime between 6:30 and 7 a.m. by one of my two children and one of my two dogs, depending on the morning and who is loudest. My wife and I get the kids breakfast and let the dogs out, feed the dogs. Im on this new diet and fitness routine that I started near the beginning of the year, from an actor friend who got really in shape for a movie role and I was really impressed. Since he and I are roughly the same age and roughly the same ethnicity, I thought that was achievable. So I have a bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein in addition to that hard-boiled eggs or turkey bacon. Then I do 40 minutes of cardio. I do that either on the elliptical machine we have at our house or I go to the gym, and maybe three or four days a week in addition to that, I also work out with a trainer to do core and weights in the morning.

On becoming more health-conscious: Well, Im 48, so Im getting older. I dont have the best back in the world, so having a better core and less weight to haul around helps. Also I think its fair to say this job has gotten a little bit more intense in the last year, and its good to be at the top of my game physically so that I can be at the top of my game intellectually.

Wellness, to me, is: A lot of things. There is certainly emotional wellness, which is the state of being content with ones life, in terms of relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. There is physical wellness, which has to do with limiting the amount of toxins and poisons one puts in ones body and exercising and being as physically possessed as possible. Its not just about looking good in a bathing suit on the beach, but also about how you feel day-to-day walking around in your office. And then there is a spiritual wellness, which to me means attempting to understand and be at peace with larger existential questions that have very little to do with the day-to-day activities of jobs or disappointments or Twitter or trifles, and more to do with trying to be a good person, trying to do good for the community, and trying to improve the world however much one can.

How I deal with stress: The exercise and the diet, to be honest, really help with stress. I have friends who meditate. I am not there yet I dont know if I could ever clear my mind, but when I come home I try to turn off. I try to put the phone away, spend time with my family, not focus on the day-to-day machinations of the Trump White House or Congress, and instead on my familys issues and their problems and whats going on with them. You know, a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl are not really interested in the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the rest of us might be really fired up about. They are focused on school, friends, and our dogs, and thats where my focus is: with those two and my wife. So that really helps me decompress a lot. Im also working on a novel, which believe it or not, is a huge stress-release as well because it takes place in 1954. So its focused on politics, but its an entirely different set of politics. And since its fictitious, I get to control it.

My skin-care routine: My wife every now and then will force me to get a facial, thats about it. I wash my face and I have makeup artists here who think more about my skin than I do, but every now and then, my wife will say, Youre going to such-and-such to get a facial, and I obey.

On keeping up with wellness at work: I have a yoga mat in my office that I can use for stretching, and I drink a lot of water and have protein shakes its part of this diet that Im doing, where I have a protein shake late morning and a protein shake late afternoon, in addition to a salad and a protein for lunch and dinner. In terms of what we do around the office, in addition to focusing on news, we try to have a fun atmosphere where people laugh and make jokes. We have a 2 p.m. meeting where my senior producers and I go over all the segments for the 4 p.m. show. I would say that, in addition to discussions about how a segment could be better or how a discussion could be more pointed or what we want to focus on, I think well, I hope its a rather friendly atmosphere where were joking around and friends as well as colleagues. Youd have to interview my staff to find out whether thats a delusion or not.

How I sleep: The diet and exercise have also been amazing for my sleep pattern. I go to bed, depending on the night, lets say 10 or 11 p.m., and Im always reading at least one or two books. I lay in bed and the lights are out, and Im reading that on the Kindle. Right now Im reading a book called Red Sparrow, which is about U.S. versus Russia espionage, so thats not hugely a change of subject but it is fictitious. Not drinking as much alcohol and this new diet, which is much more about protein and vegetables and low sugar, low carbs, have really been great for my sleep pattern, and meant that its much easier to fall asleep and also much easier to wake up.

My best wellness advice: I have to say, this diet was the best advice Ive received. My friend whos the actor, we were just talking about fitness and I was talking about how I needed to lose weight and get in much better shape and all that, and he told me about his diet and his routine and how he got in shape for his role it was Paul Rudd, and that was the exercise he did to get in shape for Ant-Man. If you look at pictures of Paul before when he did I Love You, Man and when you look at pictures of Paul when he did Ant-Man, he just completely transformed his health. Hes the one who gave me this rundown and its changed my life. I feel better and Ive lost about 12 pounds since January. That was a huge impact on me, and now Im a bit crazy about it when Im in another city Im always looking for a place where I can get a protein smoothie. Im a little obsessed, but its okay to be obsessed with health.

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The Fitbit Charge 2.

A Connecticut woman is crediting her Fitbit with saving her life, after the device detected signs of life-threatening blood clots.

The woman, 73-year-old Patricia Lauder, had recently retired and bought a Fitbit to help her get in shape, according to a statement from the University of Connecticut, where Lauder was treated. But then, she began to feel ill, even though doctors' tests for health problems came back negative.

She also noticed that her heart-rate reading on her Fitbit was gradually increasing, until one day, it spiked to 140 beats per minute. She called 911 and was taken to the hospital, where tests showed that she had a condition called pulmonary embolisms, or blood clots in her lungs. Doctors gave her anti-clotting medication, which got rid of the clots.

"If I didn't have a Fitbit on my wrist, I would never have known that my heart rate was getting dangerously high," Lauder told UConn Today, the news website for the university. "And I might not be here to tell my story." [Top 10 Amazing Facts About Your Heart]

Experts say that, because some fitness trackers include heart rate monitors, the devices can potentially alert people to certain health problems that cause changes in heart rate.

"Heart rate is a general signal for how much stress your body's under," Dr. Allen Taylor, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., told Live Science in a 2015 interview. Like a fever, a high heart rate could be a symptom of many conditions, so it cannot be used by itself to make a diagnosis, Taylor said. But "for certain conditions, [if] patients find their heart rates running faster, it could alert them to say 'something's not right here,' Taylor said.

A rapid or irregular heartbeat can be a sign of a pulmonary embolism, according to the Mayo Clinic. The blockage caused by the clots can require the heart to start working harder to pump blood through vessels, and this can also lead to an increase in blood pressure inside the lungs, the Mayo Clinic says.

Other conditions that a fitness tracker might detect include atrial fibrillation (an erratic heartbeat), anemia (a low red blood cell count) and an overactive thyroid. All of these conditions can lead to a faster-than-normal heart rate. A normal resting heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute, according to the Mayo Clinic.

In September 2015, a high school senior credited his Apple Watch with saving his life, when the device showed he had a heart rate of 145 beats per minute. An exam revealed that he had rhabdomyolysis, a condition in which muscles release a protein that damages the kidneys and other organs.

And last year, doctors in New Jersey used data from a man's Fitbit to determine how to treat him when he arrived at the ER with a rapid and irregular heart rate.

Still, it's important to note that having a normal heart rate doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy, Taylor said.

And fitness trackers like the Fitbit aren't approved medical devices, so they cannot be used to diagnose cardiovascular conditions. A study published last year found that wrist-worn heart rate monitors, which are typically used on fitness trackers, are not as accurate as chest strap monitors. The researchers advised fitness-tracker users to be aware that the devices' heart-rate readings aren't always accurate.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> The Spa City will soon have a new place to get fit, with the upcoming opening of Full Circle Fitness on Route 9.

Full Circle Fitness-NY, a locally owned and operated business, will open its second Capital Region location this spring at 3257 Route 9 in Saratoga Springs.

Joining the current location on New Karner Road in Colonie, the new studio will have a grand opening event on June 3, and sessions will begin on June 5.

Founded in 2013 by Dan and Laurie Romand, Full Circle Fitness-NY is a fitness studio focused on helping those who have been ignored by or are disenfranchised with the current fitness center model.

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When we started Full Circle Fitness my husband and I wanted to help that segment of the population that the fitness industry rarely pays attention to; those who feel who intimidated by or who think they are too out of shape to join a gym, said owner and CEO Laurie Romand in a press release.

She continued, Many of the members of our fitness family have come to us because they felt out of place at the bigger gyms or felt like they couldnt keep up at other fitness studios whose mentality is to Push them til they drop.

Co-owner and head trainer Dan Romand, who has lived in Saratoga for almost 30 years, said many people have contacted him because they cant find a place where they fit in.

Theyve practically begged me to open a location in Saratoga and we are looking forward to being able to provide them with our unique brand of fitness programs, he said in the release.

The new fitness studio will be managed by Tyler Adamczak, a certified personal trainer and small group fitness specialist who has been with the company for almost three years.

Im really excited to help the Saratoga Community reach their fitness goals Adamczak said in the release. Whether you are aiming to improve your health, lose weight or simply just want to feel better were here to help.

The new studio will host several sessions per week, including the Capital Districts only program custom tailored for those who have felt too nervous or embarrassed to join a gym or who havent worked out in a while: Full Circle Fitness-NYs Beginner Bootcamp program.

In addition to the this program, Full Circle Fitness-NY offers a wide variety of fitness options, including small group and personal training, boxing, TRX, yoga, nutrition coaching and massage, as well as corporate wellness programs.

More information on Full Circle Fitness-NY can be found at http://www.fullcirclefitnessny.com or http://www.facebook.com/fullcirclefitnessny.

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SEAL BEACH >> It did not fetch the raucous crowds of recent political rallies. Instead, the protest drew a mob of SUVs and minivans that offered quiet resistance outside an upscale shopping mall.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, about 200 demonstrators drove to the Shops at Rossmoor. They parked their cars behind the Sprouts in a wide-open lot and left to do some shopping or simply walk home.

Others stayed behind to wave signs advertising their mission: No LA Fitness!

I am 100 percent against the fitness center, Rossmoor homemaker Karen Schultze said in an interview after the protest. Already the traffic problem here is terrible.

This is deja vu for residents of Rossmoor and the Seal Beach condominiums edging it. After the Seal Beach Planning Commission approved the 37,000-square-foot LA Fitness last year, condo dwellers filed an appeal. In July, the City Council took their side 3 to 2.

Real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle, also called JLL, pulled the application rather than subject it to a second vote in August that would officially uphold the appeal.

Opponents breathed a sigh of relief. But the health club reared its head again in December when JLL resubmitted essentially the same plan. In the five-month interim, two Seal Beach council members who voted against the project, David Sloan and Gary Miller, termed out.

The deadline for public comment is April 24, after which the project will return to the Seal Beach Planning Commission.

We expect to break ground in September and be up and operating by fall of 2018, said Marty Potts, senior vice president of JLL.

Rossmoor, a bedroom community of about 10,000, is its own island community. The unincorporated patch of Orange County holds little political sway with neighbors Seal Beach and Los Alamitos.

And, despite its name and location, the sprawling Shops at Rossmoor belongs to Seal Beach. Thus, it is Seal Beach that will decide the fate of the health club.

Last week, LA Fitness and JLL representatives wrapped up a series of three outreach events at the Old Ranch Country Club. Exhibiting maps and pictures, the spokesmen came to promote the gym as a local asset. But Rossmoor residents, for the most part, came to complain.

This is just a schmooze session to make us change our minds, said Marjorie Whitney, a retired speech pathologist.

A consulting firm hired by JLL completed a traffic study showing that the health club would generate about 1,218 additional daily trips to the center.

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However, the analysis concluded that minor alterations to the entryway off Seal Beach Boulevard would offset that influx.

Opponents are skeptical.

Former Councilman Miller said he cast his vote against the LA Fitness plan partly because it did not include an additional entry into the shopping center.

The developer was not willing to do that because it would reduce parking spaces, Miller said. I felt traffic would back up and create a hardship on the community.

Instead, the current plan would widen a left-turn lane into the mall and add a lane to an already existing entrance.

That solves nothing, said Jason Natanson, 39, who lives in one of the condos adjacent to the gyms proposed location.

As well as traffic, he and his wife, Melissa, say they worry about noise emanating from a health club open 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays.

For years, the back parking lot has sat mostly vacant except for cars belonging to nearby condo residents. Most shoppers and diners park out front.

The potential loss of that condo parking means yet another issue for Rossmoor. Short on parking space at their complexes, condo dwellers could be pushed out of the lot and onto residential streets.

I understand why people dont like the idea of more traffic, but the truth is, they do not own that parking lot, said retired teacher Carol Brody, one of the few attendees at the recent meet-and-greet who supports the LA Fitness.

Brody does not live in Rossmoor, but in a gated nook of homes on the other side of Seal Beach Boulevard. Right now I drive 15 minutes to a 24 Hour Fitness, she said. I could just walk across the street to this LA Fitness.

JLLs Potts said he, too, understands the concern among Rossmoor residents.

Commercial properties and residential properties just dont live together well, he said. Thats why we always work to soften our footprint.

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Mubarakah Ibrahim didnt expect a cancer scare to lead her to any sweet treats. But when a doctor found a growth on her uterus, she was hit with a thought that pierced her to her very core: What if I never get to eat bean pie again?

Ibrahim survived that scare. Now she is revisiting a culinary history she grew up with, and bringing it to New Haven.

Ibrahim is a well-known local fitness trainer and founder of the womens health not-for-profit Fit Haven (as well as a radio host). She has now launched Mmm Pies and Gourmet Desserts, a New Haven bean pie bakery and distributor.

Watch out, New Haven. A new treat, with a backstory, has arrived.

On a recent Sunday, Ibrahim was in her kitchen, blending soaked navy beans, milk, eggs and sugar into a smooth, fragrant custard that would puff up in the oven. She crimped the bright edges of pie crust, ran through buttons on a blender, checked the temperature of the oven. She paused to adjust the corners of a headscarf printed with bright flowers and leafy swags.

The ritual, she said, anchors her to a rich history of food, black culture, American diaspora and religious revolution.

Ibrahim is a practicing Sunni Muslim. The bean pie has its roots in the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black Muslim organization founded in the 1930s. In 1967, NOI leader Elijah Muhammad published his book How To Eat To Live, a set of gastronomic guidelines for followers that doubled as a tribute to whole foods unprocessed foods, as well as particular types of beans, grains, natural sweeteners like honey, and meats and fish that exclude bottom-feeders, scavengers, and pork. Among the most heralded were the navy bean.

Not just heralded, but revered as a culinary staple. Muhammad said he could raise a man from a baby to 100 years old on the navy bean alone; he instructed his readers Do not eat any bean but the small navy beanthe little brown pink ones, and the white ones.

Of the bean recipes that emerged from the book, two stuck: a thick, savory navy bean soup, and sweet bean pie. The latter took on a life of its own, baked and distributed in NOI strongholds including Detroit, Chicago, and New York City. Carried onto street corners, small bodegas, and bake shops in these cities, Ibrahim recalls them as accompanied by four magical words, spoken by their vendors: Bean pie, my brother? Or in her case, Bean pie, my sister?

Thats where Ibrahim found them, and they found her. Spending her formidable years as a child in Brooklyn, she and her sisters developed a routine. Midday during the summers, they would head to a neighborhood playground nestled between Alabama and Georgia Avenues. The boys would head to the basketball court to shoot hoops. She and other 8 and 9 year olds would eye a wide expanse of cement, where teenage girls including her older sister were practicing double dutch, precise and mesmerizing as they jumped through the ropes. A few of the really nice older girls would offer, without fail, to teach Ibrahim.

When she and her friends took a break, theyd grab cash from their mothers and walk over to a cool basement corner store, where the owner was selling six-inch bean pies. Theyd buy a few, and munch on them for the rest of the day, practicing new double dutch moves until the sun went down and it was time to head back inside and eat dinner.

One bite of the sweet, spicy pie meant friends, family, community, safety, said Ibrahim.

Then she grew up, moved to a state where there was no plentitude of bean pies, and started the road to fitness trainer. A road that didnt include a lot of sugar-studded signposts.

That changed with a cancer scare a few years ago. At a routine appointment, a doctor found a growth in her uterus and ordered a biopsy. Results took around a week to turn around; Ibrahim remembers time slowing down and dragging during those seven days. Among those thoughts and fears that she experienced: Will I ever get to eat bean pie again?

In the face of not knowing anything, you think of worst case scenario, she said. And so at that time, I was like: Do I want to die not having not had the slice of pie? That was literally my thought process. LikeIve given up so much ... are you going to enjoy life along the way?

One week later, she got good news: it wasnt cancer.It really was a wakeup call for more moderation, for more enjoyment of life, she recalled. Enjoyment that included eating bean pieswhile still working out five of six days a week and eating lots of greens.

Shed fantasized about them from time to time, almost tasting their sweet, decidedly un-beany texture on the tip of her tongue. Her husband, who had belonged to NOI before converting to Sunni Islam, recalled how he used to sell the pies, and missed them still.

But there wasnt a distributor in Connecticut. After considering getting in her car and driving over an hour to Brooklyn, Ibrahim decided to try making them herself.

She thought she might find a recipe online. But a Google search returned a result as horrifying as it was side-splittingly funny: a bean pie in a soggy, tired-looking crust, with whole navy beans spilling out from the sides of a slice. That was a non-starter: cooked bean pies arent supposed to resemble the humble legume from which they come. Theyre golden brown, with a custard filling just a few shades lighter than pumpkin or sweet potato. She put a screenshot of the bean pie on Facebook; friends familiar with the culinary tradition chimed in, suggesting she try her own recipe. She still knew the texture and flavor profile from childhood, she reasoned.

In Abdussabur, she had a willing taste-tester. So she got to work, pulling out kitchen utensils and measuring tools, scrutinizing overnight soaking practices and best dry bean distributors, writing down every amount of every ingredient.

It was slow going, she said. Just when she thought shed nailed an amount, Abdussabur would say it came close to the bean pies hed sold and eaten years ago, but didnt hit the exact mark. She recalled being deeply grateful for her training in science, and aversion to naked numbersmeasurements without units attachedthat a teacher had instilled in her some 20 years prior.

She tried different recipe permutationsblending the milk, then the eggs, then the vanilla, then the beans, then the sugar; the sugar, then the beans, then the eggs, then the milk, then some of her secret ingredientsbut the consistency and flavor werent quite right. Back to the oven, and several rolled-out pastry shells, shed go with a pie-scented cotton apron never far from reach.

Then one night, Abdussabur took a piece into his mouth, chewed pensively, and proclaimed the recipe spot-on.

Ibrahim checked the amounts to make sure shed committed everything to paper. The recipe was typed up and slipped into a pamphlet with Mmm Pies/SECRET/Recipes in large black and red typeface on the front.

Before she would allow her daughter to join her in the kitchen, she made her swear not to share the ingredients, amounts, or order with anyone. While she beta-tested batches for friends and family to get their feedback including one weekend where she made 25 pies in 48 hours she also moved forward with the business end of things. She secured a commercial kitchen, at Katalinas on Whitney Avenue, where she can bake two days per week, and got the right licenses to sell food. She learned that ingredients, each painstakingly weighed out, needed to be listed in order of metric weight on each box. Then she took a deep breath, and reached out to local distributors.

Willoughbys Coffee & Tea was the first to say yes at least for a test run. When its two small coffee shops on York Street and Grove Street were sold out of individual, 3-inch pies within a week, the shop doubled its order. Then she asked herself, Who [else] would be interested in this unique type of pie?

Thyme & Season, a Hamden market run by State Rep. John Elliott and his mom, offered to test them out. People started messaging Ibrahim to say theyd tried to get pie and found them out of stock. Edge of The Woods and Sheltons Common Bond market jumped on next.

Of the two, Edge was of particular significance to Ibrahimshes been shopping there for the better part of 25 years. When she dropped pies off there last week, an employee asked how quickly he could buy one from her. It turned out that as a kid in New York, his grandmother used to take him down the street to buy bean pies from NOI practitioners. For her, that was bean pie juju coming full circle.

I love the fact that every time [I sell bean pie], someone tells me about the memories, she said. Those kind of things really touch you. Youre able to bring back that memory of just love and care to people and thats what food does.

No matter what ethnicity or culture that youre from, theres some type of food from your childhood that is attached to a memory, she added. That is the commonality between us allthat we have these memories that are attached to very tangible things that we taste, things that we smell, things that we touch. We have these memories that are attached to them. So food is kind of the common denominator.

And she has a new maxim for her trainees. Life is short. Eat a piece of pie.

Click on or listen to the audio above to hear a discussion with Ibrahim about her bean pie business on WNHH radios Kitchen Sync, or check out Kitchen Sync on iTunes or any podcatcher.

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FAIRFIELD The first of the year has come and gone. For those who made a promise to do better this year and get in shape its not too late. January ushered in a new contender for fitness training, Alpha Strength and Performance, that offers a variety of options for those looking to loss weight, or get fit.

Owners Justine Haynes, Piete Lentz and Blaire Camarda come from a long background of athletic training and experience.

Haynes grew up in Fairfield and as a high school athlete he recalled being frustrated by the limitation of the coaches. He works as the head coach for the center.

Outside of sports there is a deficiencyin the area because there is no access to training or the coaches, he said. That really bothered me, so I wanted this to fill the place for young athletes to come for prep, coaching and development.

But the training center isnt just for youth or athletes, its geared for people of all ages, experience and skill levels. They feel that anyone can train like an athlete andso that is what the center does trains people for performance, balance, strength and speed like an athlete.

They dont need machines to get results, Haynes said. The body is made to do incredible things, so anyone can benefit from training.

Sarah Doolittle, of Suisun City, started coming in February to work on a little weight loss and toning.

Im working on all-around transformation, she said. So far, so good. Im not out of breath and I can keep up with the more experienced people in class.

She heard about the center from Lentz, who was in the military like her and they were neighbors.

I kind of got bored with the gym. People are really supportive here and I get really motivated, Doolittle said.

The classes are small with only 4 to 7 people and run from 45- to 90-minutes long depending on which class.

Blaire Camarda, Director of Fitness and Sports Performance, has eight years of training experience and saw this business as a great opportunity to help the community. As an athlete she knows that off the field many struggle to find their place when not doing sports, so this is also a way for them to practice outside of the season.

Our vision is to help reach as many people as possible, she said. This is for longevity and a lifestyle change to bring out the best in who you are.

For more information call 724-0608.

Reach Susan Hiland at 427-6981 or [emailprotected]

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The greatest workout class I have ever taken was at a studio called 305 Fitness on 8th street in New York City. The dance-cardio class had a live DJ, vibrant murals and neon signs(an homage to founder Sadie Kurzbans Miami roots), and an addictive energy that could rival SoulCycles. It was a party. It was also a killer workout.

For years, Ive hunted for a Dallas equivalent. Ive hit up many a class that mentionedthe words dance and cardio intheir description filled with hope, only to be let down by the rigidness and the general lack of Beyonc songs. The magic of 305 is apparently quite elusive. Yes, shaking it to Sean Paul with a group of strangers feels awkward at first, but after a few songs, all self-conscious feelings fall to the wayside. Its partially the endorphins, but theres something specific about 305s blend of an uninhibited instructors infectious energy, a club-like atmosphere, and high-intensity combinations that was apparently impossible to reproduce.

Then I met Brit Rettig.

My only real knowledge of Rettigs studio, Grit Fitness, was my friends experience with theGrit HIIT class; a type of workout I actively avoid at all costs. This is, as I now know, just one of many classes Grit Fitness offers. While meeting with the studio owner to talk about her new Park Cities studio and impending smartphone app (which will be awesome; more on that later), 305 Fitness came up. Im really good friends with Sadie, the founder, Rettig said. Embarrassingly aggressive gasp from me.

It turns out that Rettig and Kurzban used to take turns renting out a little studio in the Flatiron neighborhood, when Rettig lived in New York. Kurzban was testing out 305, and Rettig would do a kickboxing class. We did that for about eight months, and thats where I got the idea to open a studio, Rettig says. She kind of served as a mentor to me in opening my studio. If you go to the Design District location, you will very much feel the 305 aesthetic.

Of course, the only thing Rettig didnt love about 305 was the variety, which is why there are so many other styles of workouts (spinning, yoga, kickboxing, etc.) in addition to their Dance Club Cardio class.

They had a 7pm dance-cardio class that night. I attended, of course. Some things were totally on point (neon signs! dark room! amazing, energetic instructor!), some things were a bit off (no DJ, which created some lulls between songs, lessening the intensity), but the magic was intact.

So, dear readers, whatever goals you have in the year 2017, just do yourself a favor and go to a dance-cardio class at Grit Fitness. Because its awesome, but alsobecause I spent three years looking for it, andsomeone besides me should really benefit from that.

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