Tomato Cilantro Chicken Indian Style

I’ve posted a new recipe on the Suite 101 network. It’s quick and easy and a good way to use up extra vegetables that I hope are bursting from your garden.
Tomato Cilantro Chicken Indian Style.
Let me know how you like it and any modifications that you think make it better or make it yours.
Have a safe and healthy week.
Annie

Warm Weather Breakfast – Smoothie Savvy

It’s been hot on Nantucket this week, so anywhere else it must be nasty. I have a longtime smoothie habit, and have gotten into adding crushed flax seed to my morning blend. I knew that coffee grinder would come in handy someday. I’ve been re-evaluating the benefit of nutritional supplementation, and it just feels better to me to get a little omega-3 this way rather than through a pill.
Here’s a new piece I’ve posted to suite 101 on Smoothie Savvy. Enjoy.

Kaiser Permanente study finds keeping a food diary doubles diet weight loss

Nobody. And I mean nobody, likes to keep a food journal. It’s time consuming, and requires you to face up in a big way to what, how much and when you eat. But, if you really want to improve your diet, it’s a terrific tool and worth the temporary discomfort. Think of it as growing-conscious pains. What I tell people is to remember that it’s not forever, but to take a few days, particularly if you are going to work with a nutritionist, and dive in.
Here’s the link to the Kaiser Study, which was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, and will be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Does Law & Order Trigger Overeating?

I admit it – I watch Law & Order. Actually, what I watch is the last half-hour when, like clockwork, it transitions from the street to the courtroom. I love rightous Jack – he reminds me of the passionate do-gooders from my public health days. And I do love knowing that no matter what, by the top of the hour, they’ll have a verdict and a moral. BUM-BUM.
I recently joined a writing bank called suite 101, and came across this article written by one of the other writers on the site. Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen writes about psychology and health, and her report on a recent study suggesting that watching television shows that show or discuss murder make us dwell somewhere in our psyche on our own demise. That makes us nervous and that makes us eat.
I can’t say that how it happens in my own life, but take a read of her interesting piece here.