This morning I demonstrated the recipe for Chicken Satay out of my Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook on KUSA’s Colorado & Co.
My husband declares this dish “insanely good,” and he’s right. While satay is
traditionally broiled or grilled, this Glorious One-Pot Meal version retains all the flavor yet skips the hassle of threading skewers, basting, and hovering over a grill.
Get the Chicken Satay recipe.
You may be surprised to learn this natural girl keeps her toenails prettily polished in fun magentas and reds. It’s a monthly ritual for my mother and I to steal an hour together at the nail salon while enjoying the decadent pleasure of a pedicure.
That’s why I was pleased to learn that OPI Products, the worlds’ largest nail polish manufacturer, responded to pressure brought on by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics by removing dibutyl phthalate and toluene from its nail polishes in 2006. These are petroleum byproducts (i.e., waste from refining) that are cancer-causing endocrine disruptors.
So when big companies whine that they couldn’t possibly find safer ingredients and still offer an effective product, we should remember the example of OPI and the millions of bottles of nail polish no longer emitting toxic fumes to sicken salon workers or leaching toxins through the nails of polish wearers.
As obesity has increased in the United States, diabetes has reached near- epidemic levels. About 24 million people are afflicted, most of them with Type 2, also known as adult-onset, diabetes. Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common effects of diabetes: About 65 percent of diabetics die from heart disease or stroke.
The Los Angeles Times reports research results showing that, “for most patients with diabetes and clogged arteries who have not had a heart attack, treatment with drugs and lifestyle changes are as effective at reducing death as immediate bypass surgery or angioplasty.” (italics are mine)
A 2007 study of nondiabetics also found that drug treatment and lifestyle changes were as effective as angioplasty in preventing deaths.
Hmmmm… Let me get this straight. Does this mean that someone suffering from heart disease, be they diabetic or not, could get the same clear-artery results just from changing their lifestyle (diet and exercise) and drug regimen as they can from undergoing a traumatic and invasive angioplasty procedure?
I’m not going to address the drug regimen as I’m not a medical doctor, but as a Certified Nutritional Consultant I do feel absolutely comfortable with the statement that one of the best lifestyle changes you can do to manage or reverse heart disease and/or diabetes is to follow a Perfectly Whole Foods Diet as much as possible and eschew the processed, artificial foods so prevalent in our modern world.
The mainstream medical community is starting to recognize that the prescription for robust health and healing must include as a whole foods-based diet. More and more alternative therapies are being integrated into mainstream medicine. Maybe some day more doctors will prescribe better foods along with or instead of more drugs and surgeries. The change is coming.
I’ve been spicing up my greens with a new salad dressing that I love: Spectrum Naturals Organic Pomegranate Chipotle Omega-3 Salad Dressing
It’s a little bit tart and a little bit sweet with a little bit of fire to keep your mouth awake. It makes a salad anything but the same old thing. Drizzled in a tortilla over beans and veggies it’s a departure from the traditional salsa. Delicious as an easy option spooned over chicken breasts or salmon in a Glorious One-Pot Meal.
With an ingredients list of familiar items (no chemicals or artificial substitutes) and topped off with flax seed oil for a boost of omega-3s to help nourish the brain and nervous system, this is a bottled salad dressing I don’t feel guilty about enjoying.
I’m happy to admit to being forty (see me perform and you’ll likely hear me announce my age!), but it drives me crazy to find gray hair streaking like lightening bolts through my dark head. I know I’m lucky since my dad was completely gray by the time he was thirty, but I’m not ready to go salt-n-pepper yet.
Besides the tremendous expense of a salon dye job in these belt-tightening times, I would rather avoid the ammonia and other toxic chemicals used in traditional hair dyes that can leach through your scalp and contaminate your systems. When one of my best girlfriends introduced me to Naturtint Hair Color,
At around $15, it’s a bargain that gives long lasting, radiant, permanent color without fumes, toxins, or frizzies. I usually pick a box up at Whole Foods or Vitamin Cottage, but you can order Naturtint Hair Color, too.
