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24th MayTracking The Junk Food The World Eats After Dark
People around the world show remarkable similarity in their daily eating habits: meals start off healthy in the morning, but get progressively worse throughout the day – until by nightfall we’re deep into junk food territory. Just take a look at these images from mobile startup Massive Health. I just downloaded this app and it’s very interesting.
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WWW. 12th AprilHealthy Filipino CookbookI generally don’t cook much Filipino food since I never can quite get it to taste like my mom’s home cooking, plus much of it can be less than healthy. Healthy Filipino food seems like an oxymoron. I found this Filipino recipe book/pamphlet today that has some alternative recipe to traditional Filipino dishes. I will try to make some of these and report back. You can download the PDF and try them on your own too! Plus, all the recipes are in English and Tagalog.
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12th AprilWhen the Chef is Also a Doctor
What a great marriage between public health and medicine. I wish I would’ve known about the Healthy Kitchens/ Healthy Lives conference. I would’ve loved to attend!
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Aa 15th JanuaryTrash the vitamins, eat better food!+26 notesmedicinepublic healthnutritiondietbest evidencehealthfoodvitamins -
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." 14th JanuarySource:Let Food Be They MedicineThomas EdisondietfoodhealthymedicineThomas Edison
It’s 2012 and like most people, one of my resolutions is to eat healthy but also to share healthy habits. I will be graduating from medical school and with a combined background in public health and penchant for cooking all things fresh (while on a budget), I feel compelled to utilize this blog to utilize all these interests to hopefully improve the lives of others. So I will be shifting the focus of this food blog (formerly known as Champagne Taste on a Caribb Beer Budget) to focus on healthy food and nutrition (with a medical twist, of course).
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1st JanuaryA New Year’s Quinoa salad
So it’s New Year’s day. I woke up semi-hungover with grand ideas for the new year. Yesterday, I fought through the crowds at Trader Joe’s by Union Square to pick up some goodies to get the new year to a healthy start. This is the salad I came up with for dinner.
Ingredients:
1 cup quinoa
1 clove of garlic, cut into slices
Peeled, cut and diced butternut squash (I used half of a container from Trader Joe’s)
2 slices of cooked Trader Joe’s uncooked, peppered turkey bacon, sliced into pieces (I had some leftover from breakfast)
A handful of cut up kale (minus the stems)
EVOO (maybe 2 Tbs?)
Half of a red onion, cut into little pieces (optional)
Salt, pepper, garlic powder
1. Start cooking the quinoa according to package (usually takes like 15 min)
2. Olive oil, fresh garlic in pan on medium heat
3. Add butternut squash and kale to pan and toss. Cover on med-low for 10 minutes-ish until the butternut squash isn’t but not super mushy.
4. Add the cut up turkey bacon to the veggies and toss.
5. Turn off heat, add quinoa to the mix
6. Salt, pepper, garlic powder, drizzled EVOO for taste.
7. I added a couple thin slices of pecorino romano but totally unnecessary.
Enjoy and cheers for a happy, healthy new year!
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12th OctoberMy Running Quinoa Salad.
It’s light, pretty quick to make and great after a run while hydrating. Plus, this salad can be made the night before and eaten by itself or as a side.
Ingredients:
1 c. quinoa, cooked
1 cucumber, cut up into little pieces
12-ish cherry tomatoes, cut up into little pieces
2 sticks of celery, cup up into little pieces
1 5.5 oz can of garbanzo beans/chick peas, drained
1/2 of a red onion, cut up into little pieces
Dressing: I winged this so play with the proportions
1-2 tablespoons of olive oil (I used a garlic-infused one from Trader Joe’s)
Freshly ground pepper
Minced garlic (I was lazy and used the preminced jar kind, but fresh is probably better)
Freshly squeezed juice from 2 lemons
1-2 tablespoons of honey
1-2 tablespoons of honey dijon mustard
A pinch of dill
A pinch of garlic salt
So cook the quinoa and let it cool some. Then mix up all the vegetables and toss in the dressing.
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12th OctoberApple pie a la mode via Hipstamatic looks even more delicious!
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12th Octoberapple pieNYI went apple picking a couple weeks ago in upstate NY. We picked probably like 80 or so apples and paid 25 bucks among 3 people. The last 2 weeks have been spent making delicious apple-y meals and desserts, including this pie. I am also back living stateside where the produce is not as deliciously fresh and dirt cheap! :(
About
An internal medicine physician's blog on finding and sharing ways to eat healthy on a budget. Food should make you feel better and improve your health. I love food... cook it, dream it, buy it, make it or just ogle at it. However, with a background in public health and medicine, I feel compelled to take my penchant for yummy things to encourage better health and wellness.
You can also visit me at christinechronicles.tumblr.com
