A Guided Tour of Your Body

Hey,

I just saw this compilation of articles on New York Times about things that happens to your body as you age. And for those future doctors, I think its a good read. And interesting too.

I was reading about what can happen to your feet as you age, beacuse I know doctors are on their feet all the time, and for me after an hour my feet start to ache. And the article was telling you what you can do to prevent this pain from becoming an chronic problem.

Enjoi!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/health/research/18nutr.html?ref=health

nuts are good for you! as if you didn't know that already.

Exucses are the only things that prevents us from making a change

"You’re never too old, too large or too busy to make a change in your lifestyle.” says Paula Bruchhaus, the founder of thePrien Lake Elementary School Running Club. A club were students and herself continuously exercise improving the life of many kids and their families through healthier lifestyles.

To learn more about her inspiring story visit:

http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/show_synopsis/460?section=synopsis

Healthy Drink??- Try Pineapple juice and seltzer water

I attended the Health Summit at Hostos Coomunity College last week and I was shocked by the amount of useful information I received. I got information on healthy vending options for my group, the campus group. The details of this is on the facebook Service Learning Page.
I also got information for the farmers market group and other general information that we all could use. For example, how many times do you consider the daily amount of salt that you consume? For one day, we should have approximately 1300mg of sodium. That means a snack that is 450mg of sodium is too high in salt!

Another interesting piece of information that I got was how to drink juice. Usually I just drink pure undiluted juice. But a healthier way to drink juice is to pour a small amount in a glass and then dilute with Seltzer water. At the summit, I tried a sample of Seltzer water and Pineapple juice and it was fantastic! It was refreshing and healthy at the same time and since summer is fast approaching, we need to have healthy and refreshing juice options.

Eventhough Seltzer water and juice is delicious and healthir than pure juice, the healthiest and most refreshing thing that one can drink is WATER. I am starting on this new challenge to drink water with every meal and if I do feel for juice sometime, I will dilute the juice with Seltzer water. Anyone wants to join the challenge?????

Bodega Group B Flier

Hello all, this is our bodega flier; hope everyone likes it.

Healthy Bodega Initiative Update Group B

This week was
of great
accomplishments
and basically our project was achieved, we are just hoping for it to be a great success in people buying the lunch. Today we printed out our posters and got the approved stamp and are already circulating around the campus. We also visited the bodega and placed the posters and got the first interview from a City College student who bought the special and was very pleased with was she was buying just for $4.50.

Hope everyone enjoys the special and make healthier food options!

Attempting to Eat Healthy on the Bodega Diet

So this is bascially letting people know that they can still eat a healthy meal using bodega products that are not fruits and vegetables. This is good for those bodegas that lack fruits and vegetables.

Gotham Gazette

Gotham Gazette

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Mount Sinai Study Finds Strong Link Between Neighborhood Factors and Childhood Obesity in Harlem

A study at Mount Sinai Medical School found children in Harlem [specifically East Harlem] to be three times more likely to be overweight than other US children. Click on the title to read more about their findings.

Press for the Healthy Bodega Initiative

Great story in the NY Daily News about how to eat healthy at your local bodega.

Fliers for Bodega Group A

Here is one of the flier that we are planning to put up around campus to promote the healthy sandwich deals. Hope people like it.

Farmers Market Now Green Market

I just wanted to comment that our flyers should now say " shop Green Market," rather than Farmers Market simply because the community board clearly stated that it would be a green market opening, and not a farmers market. Although the idea remains unchanged, I think it would be better to promote a green market just to avoid confusion.

Updates on our Healthy Bodega Group A

This week we confirmed the prcie for our healthy lunch options for each Bodega and created a flyer to hand out on campus, as well a flyer for posting in the Bodegas.

Campus Deli:
$5.00 which includes a grilled chicken wheat wrap, a piece of fruit and a bottle of water!!

Deli Grocery:
$3.25 which includes a grilled chicken sandwich on wheat bread as well as a bottle of water!!

If anyone has the chance please stop by either Bodega to order the lunch special in support of the project; the lunch meal flyer should be posted in Bodegas by next week. Enjoy!!

Recipes for Sauces included in our Earth Day festivities

We had Chef Margaret help us out in our recipes for Earth Day and here are ingredients/recipes for sauces, etc. Enjoy!! Also click on title link to be taken to our facebook page to view photos of the event.

Chipotle Mayonnaise

Ingredients


1 30-ounce jar Hellman's Mayonnaise(use light)
1 7-ounce can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce


Place chipotle peppers and adobe sauce in a blender or food processor and process until smooth.

Stir resulting chipotle pepper puree into mayonnaise according to taste.

For the sauce I brought to the demo, I used 1/4 cup of chipotle puree with 30 ounces of mayonnaise.



Tahini Sauce

Ingredients


1/2 cup tahini (sesame seed paste)
3 gloves garlic, crushed
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon parsley, finely chopped (optional)


In a blender or food processor, combine garlic and tahini. Add kosher salt.

Remove from food processor and add olive oil and lemon juice. If too thick, add a teaspoon of warm water until desired consistency.

You can adjust the amounts of water and lemon juice to achieve the consistency and tartness you prefer.

Mix in parsely.


Confetti Collards
(with red and yellow bell pepper)
Serves 4-6

Visually, this is a very appealing dish. The ribbons of sautéed collard greens sprinkled with a finely diced confetti of yellow and red bell peppers is beautiful.

Because collard greens are thick, they take some time to cook. Cutting them into a chiffonade (very thin ribbons) allows them to cook faster and retain more of their nutrients and pretty green color. Also, the collards take up a lot of room in the pan. Depending on the size of your pan, you may need to cook them in batches.

Ingredients

3-4 tablespoons of olive oil
5 cloves garlic, minced
½ cup red bell pepper, finely diced.
½ cup yellow bell pepper, finely diced
1 pound of collard greens, cleaned, stems removed, sliced into thin strips (see instructions below)
1 cup water
The juice of one lemon, fresh squeezed
Salt, to taste
black pepper (preferably fresh ground), to taste


Add olive oil to a hot frying pan. Add garlic and a pinch of salt, and cook, stirring, over medium heat for a minute. Add collard greens and sautee until coated with oil and softening. Add water and stir until the water has evaporated. Add peppers and lemon juice and cook until liquid has evaporated.
Enjoy!

To chiffonade collard greens: use a sharp knife to cut the stem out of each leaf. Don’t just cut the stem off at the base of the leaf, remove it from the bottom half of the leaf. Stack the leaves in a pile (5 or 6 per pile) and roll them up from the side. When you have a tight roll of leaves, take a sharp knife and cut the roll into very thin slices. When you unravel the roll, you will have thin ribbons of collard greens.

Bodega Group A Update

After contacting the bodega owners, we finally received the price list for the lunch specials from the two bodegas that are particpating in the Service Learning Project. Deli Grocery which is located at 1622 between 139th and 140th Streets will be offering a grilled chicken sandwich on whole wheat bread with a bottle of water for $3.25. Campus Deli located at 501W 139th Street will be serving a chicken wrap, a piece of fruit, and a bottle of water for $5.00. These lunch specials are extremely affordable and thus attractive so we hope to hear good things from the bodega owners once posters go up. We will actually be meeting in the next two days to discuss poster ideas to advertise the actual lunch specials. We will also be meeting this weekend (hopefully Saturday if the weather permits) to shoot our video. We plan to include short segments of us interviewing the bodega owners as well as random Harlem residents so that should be fun. Another productive week down, and only a few more to go until our celebration event!! We can't wait :)

Farmers Market Group Update

Today I attended the meeting with the Community Board No 9. It was very interesting, but the Good News is that hopefully next year we would have a Green Market at the Montifiore Park by the 1 train station. I think that this is a great location due to the high traffic of pedestrian that this area has, including students and residents. One of the members of the community board focused on the importance of letting the bodegas owners know that the green market would not open to take over the businesses around this area, but rather compliment what they have or don't have in their bodegas. Also she emphasized the lack of variety of foods in these bodegas for the diverse community. My suggestion is that the next class should still work on this project we have started, and try to better our results.

The good, the bad, the sugary

Studies show that those who have a high intake of processed sugars have a high concentration of LDL (the bad cholesterol). The reverse held affirmation in accordance to the studies. Sugar is highly consumed in the U.S. It's no wonder many suffer to high cholesterol.