Weight Management

Lightening up your favorite recipes: A guide to recipe substitutions

Everyone has a recipe or meal that is a favorite.  Unfortunately, sometimes those foods do nothing to help your heart or your waistline. 

Recipe substitutions can help you enjoy your favorite foods while decreasing the amount of fat, sugar, salt, and calories.  When changing your recipes, you may want to eliminate, reduce, or replace.

Eliminate
When you look at your favorite recipe, ask yourself, “which of these ingredients is essential?”  For example, salting or adding fat to water before cooking pasta, rice, or vegetables is not essential to the finished product.  Try to identify any ingredients that can be left out or substituted without affecting the food.

Reduce
Sometimes you can reduce the amount of fat, sugar and salt in a recipe without affecting taste and texture.  For example, you can sauté vegetables or meat in cooking spray in a non-stick

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Sun, SPF, and Skin Cancer

Although I’ve always had a fair complexion, every year when the weather gets nice I am struck with an inexplicable feeling that my skin has magical properties that make it immune to sunburns. Every year, my delusion is shattered into a million pieces and I stock up on sunscreen. Then winter hits and I get sunburn amnesia once again, mentally building up to next spring’s annual charring.

A few weeks ago, some friends and I headed out into the sun for cocktails, hats, and horses – also known as Steeplechase. It was a chilly spring in Nashville, and this was the first time I planned to be outside all day in something other than a sweater.  My redheaded boyfriend slathered on sunscreen, urging me to do the same. I calmly explained that I would be fine, it was overcast anyway.

A week later my shoulders were still blistering.
Two weeks later I looked like a snake shedding it’s horrible, itchy skin.

As it turns out, you can get sunburned even on cloudy days. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, 80% of those harmful UV rays can actually penetrate through cloud cover. Even worse,

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Hemat dan Gaya Dengan Vintage Style

Siapa bilang gaya vintage atau klasik akan membuat tampilan keseharian Anda terkesan kuno? Dengan paduan tepat gaya vintage menjadi solusi untuk tampil hemat dan gaya.

Dilansir Dailymail, sejumlah model vintage saat ini yang masih tetap digandrungi, di antaranya adalah gaya Victorian dengan spesifikasi ruffles dan renda. Seperti contoh, design kemeja yang menggunakan aksen banyak renda, sebenarnya itu adalah model lama yang didaur ulang kembali dengan new touched (sentuhan baru).

Gaya yang banyak dipakai masa kini oleh kaum muda adalah jenis cropped jacket, yang merupakan jaket lengan panjang dengan ukuran menggantung pas menutupi bagian dada, gaya ini terpengaruh dari gaya Edwardian yang tampil dengan new style yang dipadankan dengan jins.

Lebih berdasar pada pengaruh model vintage berbagai mix and match dari model

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