Mild halibut pairs nicely with this tangy relish, starring tasty late-summer tomatoes. Any other meaty, firm fish, such as wild salmon or striped bass, will also work.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 fillet and about 1/3 cup tomato mixture)

Ingredients:

2 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 (12-ounce) beefsteak tomato, halved crosswise and seeded
3/8 teaspoon salt, divided
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
Olive Oil cooking spray
2 tablespoons thinly sliced fresh basil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped shallots
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 ounces pitted green olives, coarsely chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
4 (6-ounce) halibut fillets

Preparation: 1. Preheat grill to medium-high heat. 2. Brush 1 1/2 teaspoons oil over cut sides of tomato; sprinkle evenly with 1/8 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Place tomato, cut sides down, on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Cover and grill 8 minutes. Cool slightly; peel and chop tomato. Combine tomato, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 1 tablespoon oil, basil, and next 6 ingredients (through garlic); toss gently. 3. Brush fillets evenly with 1 tablespoon oil; sprinkle evenly with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Place fillets, flesh side down, on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill 5 minutes; turn and grill 3 minutes or until fish flakes when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness. Serve with tomato mixture.

Nutrition Information:

CALORIES: 318 (from fat)
FAT: 16.3 g (sat: 2.2 g, mono: 10.3 g, poly: 2.6 g)
CARBOHYDRATE: 6.7 g
FIBER: 1.2 g
CALCIUM: 97 mg
CHOLESTEROL: 52 mg
IRON: 2 mg
PROTEIN: 35.3 g
SODIUM: 548 mg

Health and Happiness,

Jay

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]]> http://nixonelite.com/halibut-grilled-tomato-olive-relish/feed/ 0 http://nixonelite.com/1-5-young-people-obese-2020/ http://nixonelite.com/1-5-young-people-obese-2020/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:26:21 +0000 Nixon Elite http://nixonelite.com/?p=3905 Continue reading →]]> In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for reducing obesity rates by 2020, children in the United States would need to eliminate an average of 64 excess calories per day, researchers calculated in a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This reduction could be achieved by decreasing calorie intake, increasing physical activity, or both. Without this reduction, the authors predict that the average U.S. youth would be nearly four pounds heavier than a child or teen of the same age was in 2007-2008, and more than 20% of young people would be obese, up from 16.9% today.

“Sixty-four calories may not sound like much individually, but it’s quite a consequential number at the population level, and children at greatest risk for obesity face an even larger barrier,” says Y. Claire Wang, MD, ScD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and lead author of the study. “Closing this gap between how many calories young people are consuming and how many they are expending will take substantial, comprehensive efforts.”

The daily difference between how many calories young people consume and how many they expend through normal growth, body function and physical activity is known as the energy gap. The 64-calorie difference between consumption and expenditure is an average for the population. Dr. Wang and her colleagues note it is not intended to represent a change for any individual young person, and that many young people would need to see even greater reductions.

In particular, children and teens who currently have higher obesity rates would require larger energy gap reductions to reach the obesity rate goal. For instance, based on their current obesity rates, white youths would need a 46-calorie reduction, on average, in their energy gap to reach the goals. But given their higher obesity rates in 2008-2010, the average reduction needed to close the energy gap for Mexican-American youths is 91 calories and, for black youths, it is 138 calories. Youths in lower-income communities also need greater reductions than their peers in higher-income areas, again due to higher rates of obesity. Additionally, an earlier study by several of the same researchers found that the problem is especially acute for teens who are already overweight.

In order to project how many young people would be obese in 2020, Dr. Wang and her colleagues analyzed decades of data on obesity rates. Height and weight among U.S. youths ages 2-19 were taken from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1971 to 2008. Based on the trends, the authors projected that the childhood obesity rate would be about 21% in 2020, up from 16.9% now.

Dr. Wang and her colleagues then compared the projected rate of 21% to the goal of 14.6% set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a 2010 report titled Healthy People 2020 and calculated how much of a daily energy gap the average youth would need to close in order to achieve that goal. A childhood obesity rate of 14.6% has not been seen since 2002.

“Reaching the 2020 goal will require significant changes to calories consumed and expended,” said C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, co-author of the study and senior scientist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Because we know that children and teens who already are overweight or obese will need larger reductions, and that preventing obesity will be more effective than treating it, we must focus our attention on the policy and environmental changes likely to have early, broad, and sustainable impacts.”

The authors outline several policy strategies that could help to close the daily energy gap for American youths. For instance, they point to research showing that:

• replacing all sugar-sweetened beverages in school with water and not consuming any additional sugary beverages outside of school could reduce the energy gap by 12 calories per day;
• participating in a comprehensive physical education program could eliminate 19 calories per day among children ages 9-11; and
• engaging in an after-school activity program for children in grades K-5 results in an additional 25 calories expended per day.

In a commentary accompanying the study, William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, writes that the research “provides important data that highlight the promise of prevention and raise the challenge of treatment in children and adolescents.”

Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology at Harvard School of Public Health was senior author of the study. Funding for the study was provided by grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U48/DP00064-00S1) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Question: How many of you have purchased P90X, Insanity, Diet in a Box or one of the thousands of at home do it yourself weight loss programs?

Answer: I would bet that over half of the people who read this article will raise their hand when asked this question.

The next question and answer is however the real eye opener!

Question: How many of you that said YES to the first question actually achieved the goals you set for yourself when you purchased the product?

Answer: Based on statistics and my REAL LIFE experience asking people this question, the answer will be: Less than 5% of the people who purchase these “do it yourself programs” actually achieve any results at all, much less the goal they had set.

This is not because these programs don’t work or because they are somehow misleading people with their advertisements. The reason they fail is because there is NO support, NO accountability and the person’s mindset has not changed just by purchasing the DVD set.

This same failure rate occurs with diets and cookie cutter nutrition programs. 99% of the diets and nutrition programs don’t give people the tools they need to make true changes to their lives. Most people are handed a piece of paper with a list of foods to eat and foods to avoid. This isn’t a weight loss program! This is a piece of paper that worthless to someone who truly wants to change their life and lose weight.

The nutrition and fitness components of the weight loss program are important, but they are not the most important features of a successful plan. They are just two piece of a very large and complex puzzle. In order to achieve true success with weight loss you need a combination of 5 modalities: Nutrition, Fitness, Support, Accountability and Mindset. If even one of these pieces is missing your weight loss puzzle cannot be completed.

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The carcinogen forms when ammonia or ammonia and sulfites are used to manufacture the caramel colouring that gives those sodas their distinctive brown colours, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the nonprofit watchdog group that commissioned the tests.

CSPI first petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban ammonia-​sulfite caramel colouring in February 2011. CSPI has reiterated its call to the FDA to revoke its authorisation for caramel colourings that contain 4-​MI, and in the interim to change the name of the additive to ammonia-​sulfite process caramel colouring or chemically modified caramel colouring for labelling purposes.

CSPI executive director, Michael Jacobson, said: “Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer. The colouring is completely cosmetic, adding nothing to the flavour of the product.

“If companies can make brown food colouring that is carcinogen-​free, the industry should use that. And industry seems to be moving in that direction. Otherwise, the FDA needs to protect consumers from this risk by banning the colouring.”

CSPI collected samples of Coca-​Cola, Pepsi-​Cola, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Diet Dr Pepper, and Whole Foods 365 Cola from Washington (US) stores. Pepsi’s products had 145–153 micrograms (mcg) of 4-​MI in two 12oz cans. Regular Coca-​Cola had 142 mcg per 12oz in one sample and 146mcg in another. Diet Coke had 103mcg per 12oz in one sample and 113mcg in another.

To put those levels into context, the state of California has a 29mcg benchmark for 4-​MI. Levels above that in a serving of food or beverage may be required to bear a warning notice. Based on California’s risk model, CSPI estimates that the 4-​MI in the Coke and Pepsi products tested is causing about 15,000 cancers in the US population.

While federal law bans food additives that cause any number of cancers, the FDA has an exception for contaminants of food additives, for which it tolerates a lifetime risk of one cancer in one million people.

Three of four samples of Dr Pepper or Diet Dr Pepper that CSPI tested had low levels of 4-​MI, with about 10mcg per 12oz. But even those levels pose a cancer risk of seven in one million-​seven times greater than what FDA allows. The lower levels in those three samples indicate that it is possible to lower, if not eliminate, the amount of 4-​MI.

Pepsi told CSPI that it has switched to a colouring in California that contains much less 4-​MI and plans to do the same in the rest of the country.

“When most people see ‘caramel colouring’ on food labels, they likely interpret that quite literally and assume the ingredient is similar to what you might get by gently melting sugar in a saucepan,” Jacobson said.

“The reality is quite different. Colourings made with the ammonia or ammonia-​sulfite process contain carcinogens and don’t belong in the food supply. In any event, they shouldn’t be obscured by such an innocuous-​sounding name as ‘caramel colouring.’”

As troubling as the new test results are, CSPI says soda drinkers should be much more concerned about the high-​fructose corn syrup or other sugars used in soft drinks. Soda drinkers are much more likely than non-​soda drinkers to develop weight gain, obesity, diabetes, and other health problems.

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Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center. However, in contrast, they found that regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events. The research¹ appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine², published by Springer.

In the current climate of escalating obesity rates, artificially sweetened soft drinks are marketed as healthier alternatives to sugar-sweetened beverages, due to their lack of calories. However, the long-term health consequences of drinking diet soft drinks remain unclear.

Gardener and team examined the relationship between both diet and regular soft drink consumption and risk of stroke, myocardial infarction (or heart attack), and vascular death. Data were analyzed from 2,564 participants in the NIH-funded Northern Manhattan Study, which was designed to determine stroke incidence, risk factors and prognosis in a multi-ethnic urban population. The researchers looked at how often individuals drank soft drinks – diet and regular – and the number of vascular events that occurred over a ten-year period.

They found that those who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event than those who drank none, after taking into account pre-existing vascular conditions such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes and high blood pressure. Light diet soft drink users, i.e. those who drank between one a month and six a week, and those who chose regular soft drinks were not more likely to suffer vascular events.

Gardener concludes: “Our results suggest a potential association between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes. However, the mechanisms by which soft drinks may affect vascular events are unclear. There is a need for further research before any conclusions can be drawn regarding the potential health consequences of diet soft drink consumption.”

References:

1. Gardener H et al (2012). Diet soft drink consumption is associated with an increased risk of vascular events in the Northern Manhattan Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. DOI 10.1007/s11606-011-1968-2

2. The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine.

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“While we knew there was a relationship between metabolic disorders and very low muscle mass,” says lead researcher Preethi Srikanthan, MD, of the University of California-Los Angeles, “we were surprised to find that this relationship was preserved across the range of muscle mass.”

Dr. Srikanthan and colleagues examined data on 13,644 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III, from 1988 to 1994. When researchers compared the one-quarter of participants with the most muscle mass with those at the bottom of the spectrum, those with the greatest muscle mass were 63% less prone to diabetes.

When the results were adjusted to omit people already suffering from diabetes, the association between muscle mass and improved insulin resistance was even stronger. The benefits of increasing muscle mass went beyond countering the metabolic effects of sarcopenia: “Increases in muscle mass above even average levels were associated with additional protection against insulin resistance and prediabetes.”

Insulin resistance is a condition in which the body’s muscle, fat and liver cells don’t respond properly to insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas that helps cells take in and use glucose. As a result, excess glucose—a form of sugar that’s the body’s main source of energy—builds up in the bloodstream, setting the stage for diabetes.

According to Dr. Srikanthan, “Our findings suggest that beyond focusing on losing weight to improve metabolic health, there may be a role for maintaining fitness and building muscle mass. This is a welcome message for many overweight patients who experience difficulty in achieving weight loss, as any effort to get moving and keep fit should be seen as laudable and contributing to metabolic change.”

The study was cross-sectional rather than interventional, so the researchers can’t say for certain that increasing your muscle mass will lower your risk of developing insulin resistance or pre-diabetes.
Source of information:  Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter

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Healthy Recipe Idea for the

I wanted to share one of my favorite recipes with everyone. Chicken Lettuce Wraps!!! These are simple to make and they are a great meal or snack idea while on the Body Fat Detox. Sever them with black beans and you have perfect combination of nutrients for a high quality meal.

Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Makes 4 Servings

Ingredients:
4 tablespoons of olive oil
1 cup diced yellow onion
1 tablespoon of minced garlic
1 pound ground chicken or ground turkey
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 cup chopped scallions
1/2 cup chopped water chestnuts
2 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoons gluten-free soy sauce
1 teaspoon chili flakes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 large lettuce leaves (you can use iceberg, butter lettuce, romaine)

1. In a large wok or skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and garlic and cook, stirring, until lightly browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the chicken and cook, stirring, until the meat is cooked and no pink spots remain, around 10 minutes.
2. Add the cilantro, scallions, water chestnuts, fish sauce, gluten-free soy sauce, and chili flakes and cook, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes. Season with the salt and pepper.
3. Using the lettuce leaves as cups, fill each with a heaping spoonful of the meat mixture. Serve with additional gluten-free soy sauce.

Health and Happiness,

Jay

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It only last 12 minutes, but it will kick your butt!!!

· Step onto the elliptical trainer and begin striding
· Set to Quick Start – make no adjustments to the ramp
· Set the resistance at a minimum of 10 – 12. If you weigh over 200lbs., set at 12 -   13. You should feel like you are moving against resistance, but not too much.
· Increase stride rate to between 150 and 160 – maintain this rate
· At the 3 minute & 45 second mark, increase resistance by 2 – from 10 increase to 12, or from 12 increase to 14
· At the 4 minute mark increase your stride rate to 200 to 230 range, maintain for 30 second, and then drop back to the original rate of 150 to 160 range for 30 seconds
· Repeat on the minute mark for a total of 6 intervals, then cool down by reducing resistance to start setting, decrease stride rate to 140 to 150, and finish at the 12 minute mark.

This is a hands-free, high intensity exercise. The unstable environment created by going hands-free increases in-exercise caloric demand by 30%. Pump your arms as though you were running. Focus on activating your core. Move from the hips, keeping your upper body very stable.

Do this 3 days per week for the 30 days….and you are going to be in the best shape of your life!

Health and Happiness,

Jay

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