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Cauliflower a superfood an essential part of my weight loss plan
Cauliflower is real superfood, no tis not famed by Andean tribes people or Himalayan yak herders, it’s an honest to goodness superfood.
I use it in numerous ways and probably have it every other day when I am losing weight. Some favourites include
Cauliflower mash Cauliflower rice Cauliflower soup Roasted with garlic and herb spices
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Superfood: Cauliflower Health and Fitness Articles, News, and Tips – Greatist.com Cauliflower is more than broccoli’s white-headed step-child. This super-power-packed veggie has plenty of benefits of its own. Part of the cruciferous family (including other superfoods like broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts), cauliflower includes plenty of vitamins and minerals, but its real power comes from cancer-fighting compounds known as glucosinolates.
Cauli-Flower Power — The Need-to-Know
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When we snack on cauliflower, glucosinolates split into isothiocyanates and indoles (is that even English?). These plant chemicals— technically known as phytochemicals— are responsible for cauliflower’s sometimes bitter flavor, but they may also help fight cancer. Specifically, glucosinolates and isothiocyanates have been shown to prevent damage to the lungs and stomach by carcinogens, and potentially protect against those cancers— though that’s no excuse to light up [1] [2] [3] [4]. Thanks to interactions with estrogen, cauliflower might even help prevent hormone-driven cancers like breast, uterine, and cervical, too [5].
But that’s not all this fluffy white veggie does. Research comparing a variety of fruits and vegetables found that produce with white flesh (like cauliflower) was associated with reduced risk of stroke. It also has a healthy dose of antioxidants, vitamin C, and fiber, but very few calories (25 per 1 cup).
Call Up Cauliflower — Your Action Plan
Cooks new to this vegetable will be glad to know it pairs well with rich (but healthy) foods like nuts, mushrooms, and garlic, and it’s sometimes bitter flavor is often toned down by these flavors and by cooking. Plus, it can be enjoyed almost any ol’ way— roasted, steamed, raw, or even microwaved (or try it instead of rice, a Paleo hack). But avoid boiling to reap as many nutrients as possible from the florets.
Speaking of vitamins, cauliflower does boast a healthy dose of vitamin K, though it’s worth noting deficiencies in vitamin K are not common. Another potential downside: Cauliflower may cause gas, so be weary of surroundings when adding this vegetable to lunch or dinner.
What’s your favorite way to enjoy cauliflower?
Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli
By Kate Morin
Serves 4
What You’ll Need:
1 head broccoli, broken into 1-inch florets 1 head cauliflower, broken into florets 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Salt and pepper to taste
What to Do:
Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Toss broccoli and cauliflower with oil and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Roast until browned and tender, 25 minutes, tossing veggies halfway through. Remove the pan from the oven, toss veggies with Parmesan, and return to oven for another 5 minutes. Serve alongside a lean protein for a healthy and filling dinner!
Further Resources
Huffington Post — Cauliflower
Mark Bittman’s guide covers all the basics.
Food Netowork — Cauliflower
All the cauliflower recipes we could ever need.
Ohio State University — Growing Broccoli and Cauliflower in the Home Garden
Get that green thumb to work on growing the good stuff.
CDC — Vegetable of the Month: Cauliflower
Selection and storage tips.
Chemoprevention of tobacco-related lung cancer by cruciferous vegetable. Balcerek, M. Katedra i Zak?ad Farmakognozji, Collegium Medicum UMK w Bydgoszczy, Poland. Przeglad Lekarski, 2007;64(10):903-5. Effects of cruciferous vegetables and their constituents on drug metabolizing enzymes involved in the bioactivation of DNA-reactive dietary carcinogens. Steinkellner, H., Rabot, S., Freywald, C., et al. Institute of Cancer Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Mutation Research, 2001 Sep 1;480-481:285-97. Effects of cruciferous vegetable consumption on urinary metabolites of the tobacco-specific lung carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone in singapore chinese. Hecht, S.S., Carmella, S.G., Kenney, P.M., et al. University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2004 Jun;13(6):997-1004. Chemoprevention by isothiocyanates and their underlying molecular signaling mechanisms. Keum, Y.S., Jeong, W.S., Kong, A.N. Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ. Mutation Research, 2004 Nov 2;555(1-2):191-202. Indole-3-carbinol is a negative regulator of estrogen. Auborn, K.J., Fan, S., Rosen, E.M., et al. North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, NY. The Journal of Nutrition, 2003 Jul;133(7 Suppl):2470S-2475S.
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Charles Barkley weight watchers scam
A lot of people in the UK have probably it heard of Charles Barkley, he is a huge basketball player a household name in the US.
Anyway he has been paid by weight watchers to lose weight as long as he loses at least 2lbs a week it sounds like he is getting a certain amount of cash.
Celebrities endorse anything and everything often we know on some level that Jonny Wilkinson and Tiger Woods might not use a Gillette Mach 2 razor. I suppose with weight watchers endorsing a celebrity to lose weight it’s performance based. My only problem is that there is no evidence that he is losing weight.
My question is this which UK sports star or celebrity should a company sponsor to lose weight?
Here is the info about the Charles Barkley story…
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/01/12/what-makes-chuck-skinny/ Weight Watchers has ads in heavy rotation with Charles Barkley saying: “lose weight like a man.”
You can also hear him mention his success in his Saturday Night Live monologue.
Something is working. Since starting WW, he’s lost 38 pounds. But what about the Weight Watchers program that has him shedding so much weight?
Is it the group weigh-ins? Is it the famous Weight Watchers point system? Or is it something else? A YouTube video of an overheard conversation with Barkley and his co-commentators at a recent Miami Heat/Atlanta Hawks basketball game suggests some answers. Barkley said:
I’ve been on Weight Watchers three months. I have to lose two pounds a week. I’m at 38 pounds now. They come and weigh me every two weeks. I ain’t never missed a weigh-in. Never going to. I’m feeling much better. But I ain’t giving away no money… I’m not giving away no free money. I thought this was the greatest scam going— getting paid for watching sports — this Weight Watchers thing is a bigger scam.
I think he was saying it was a scam just because he was getting paid for something he should be doing anyway the overweight lummox.
The video caused a minor stir because Barkley called Weight Watchers a scam, but in context, his comments just seems like “a provocative way of saying that he likes his job so much it doesn’t feel like work.” But Barkley’s description provides some insight about what’s really motivating his weight loss.
From the transcript, I’m guessing that the group weigh-in is not a large motivating factor. This doesn’t mean Barkley isn’t using Weight Watchers – since tons of people use WW online and forego the social support of weekly meetings. Barkley emphasizes that they go to him.
He doesn’t mention the point system as a cause of his success. But I was impressed in this conversation with Weight Watchers’ CEO, about how knowledgeable Barkley is with the point system and the need to change his pattern of eating. I’m convinced that Barkley is using the point system. (But in the conversation, he also discloses that he lost a bunch of weight before starting Weight Watchers. His weight peaked at 350, but he started WW at 336 and at the time of the interview, he was down to 299.).
What’s troubling to me about the “scam” transcript is that it suggests that Barkley might be losing weight because of the fear of losing money:
I have to lose two pounds a week. .. .They come and weigh me every two weeks….I ain’t giving away no money… I’m not giving away no free money.
It has the whiff of a commitment contract – even with a third-party referee. I don’t know the details of his endorsement deal, but there is a chance that Barkley’s pay turns on his weight at each weigh in.
In some ways this is unsurprising. Subway would stop using Jared Fogle as a spokesperson if he regained too much weight. Jenny Craig was not happy with Kirstie Alley when she regained most of the weight she had lost on their program. So it’s to be expected that Barkley’s spokesperson income would be tied in some way to his weight.
But if Barkley’s financial incentives in his endorsement contract are too explicit or too extreme (like Curt Schilling’s $2 million weight loss incentive), then it’s a little misleading for Weight Watchers to be running an ad campaign attributing his success to their product.
I’ve criticized the factual claims behind Weight Watchers (“because it works”) ads before, and I want to be clear that I don’t think the Barkley ads rise to the level of deceptive advertising under the Lanham act. But consumers might feel ill-used if they learned that the Weight Watchers deal contractually obligated Barkley to eat Nutrisystem meals. They might also be upset if (and it’s a big if) they learned he was losing weight, at least in part, because he would have to “give away free money” if he did not lose 2 pounds a week.
Such a diet sounds a lot more like my favorite diet program, The $500 Diet: Weight Loss for People Who Are Committed to Change — only in Barkley’s case he might have a lot more than $500 at stake.
(If you want to avoid paying $2.99 to read it through Kindle, you can read a free excerpt or even listen an audio-recording of me reading the entire booklet for free on iTunes).
From Weight Watchers:
We love Charles for the same reason everyone loves Charles, he’s unfiltered. We are thrilled that he is having great success and inspiring millions of men to join him. We agree that being a spokesman for Weight Watchers is a pretty great gig.
And from Charles Barkley:
I meant what I said, the fact that I’m dropping pounds, getting healthier and getting paid at the same time, is my definition of a great scam. The only problem is I’m going to have to use some of the money to buy a new wardrobe.
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Paula Deen US Celebrity Chef has diabetes
You reap what you sow. A renowned US Celebrity chef has got type 2 diabetes, if you are going to eat donuts and southern fried chicken all the time then what do you expect. The sickening thing about this situation is that she has signed a deal with a drug company to promote their diabetes medication.
What a joke…
It’s ok to eat crap and then take a drug to help you. NO NO NO I think she needs a visit from The Fat Loss Chef and Captain Six Pack to set her straight.
Protein Pizza with a Pumpkin Base
I really like the look of this recipe from Anna, you could have this as part of a maintenance phase or on a day off if you are on a strict fat loss phase.
I’ve made a lower carb version of this using left over cooked cabbage instead of pumpkin, this brings down the carb content of the meal.
Protein Pizza with a Pumpkin Base = PROTEIN POW(DER) ! I… have a weak spot for games and this recipe was the result of one so I love it even more. Granted, it wasn’t a game-game, I just asked a bunch of you guys on facebook to choose today’s recipe and this a pizza with a pumpkin base the winner! My name is Anna and I love playing with food 
Welcome to this pizza, a close relation to my sweet potato pizza. Let me now say a few things about it. The crunchiness of the outer crust was outstaaaaanding (notice picture numero tres). Also, the topping! Ah, topping it with cheddar + cottage cheese was such a good call because it reduced the fat content of the pizza while maintaining taste and nommmmmmmmness of it all! Voici la recette:
Ingredients (for the pizza base) – blended together and baked on a nonstick cookie tray at 150 C (302 F) for ~ 35 minutes (basically, until golden and cooked throughout):
1/2 cup of pumpkin puree 1/2 cup of egg whites 1/8 cup of chickpea flour (you could sub this with oat flour or buckwheat) 1/8 cup of pea protein (I do think it’s optional but it added a nice extra flavor dimension) 1 tbsp of ground almonds 2 tbsp of nutritional yeast (optional but, again, it added a great uhmph factor) 2 tsbp of oat flour (you could just ground some oats instead though) 1 tsp of sea salt 2 tsp of dried basil 2 tsp of dried oregano
That’s it. Two individual-sized pizza bases came out of the above mix (~ 7 inches in diameter). I let them cool and proceeded to top each one with 2 tbsp of cheddar + 2 tbsp of tomato pure +2 tbsp of cottage cheese + 2 tsp of dried thyme + 2 tsp of dried basil + 2 tsp of olive oil (which I drizzled around the pizza, on the edges, so it’d crunch-crunch in style). Result? Yummmm!
Macros per pizza base, without toppings because, really, you can add whatever you want on top (e.g. like a whole bunch of low/er fat cheese, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, spinach, etc, etc, etc): 166.7kcals, 16g protein, 18g carb (4.5g sugars), 3.6g fat (0.3g sat) and 6g fiber!
why athletes eat badly
Working with elite athletes I often find that it is those guys that are in their 30′s who are more focused on looking after their diet, they can see the end of their career looming up in the headlights.
For an athlete that time comes earlier most people have tom wait until their 60′s before the damage of the past starts creeping up. In most cases most of the damage is already done.
Like saving for a pension the best time to start looking after yourself is right now, not at some point in the future.
Charles Barkley, Weight Watchers and why athletes eat badly http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-charles-barkley-weight-watchers-dwyane-wade–20120110,0,7665835.story
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