Nutrition Momma
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Improve Your Skin With Red Wine Like Angelina Jolie and Christy Turlington: 1 Minute Makeover
Want to live a healthy, moderate lifestyle (red wine included?) Take inspiration from gorgeous-skin beauties Angelina Jolie and Christy Turlington…
The Problem: You want to have the gorgeous-skin benefits of red wine…but would rather put the calories towards dessert!
The Fix: If you aren’t a big wine drinker (or simply want to improve your skin without using harmful ingredients), try using the latest supplements from ResVitale: Collagen Enhancer and Resveratrol. Both sets of supplements contain healthy, natural ingredients (like polyphenol extracts found in red wine) to plump, smooth and reverse the signs of aging in your skin (without vigorous routines or tedious diets!)
* What Do You Think: Do you try and eat your way to better skin? What foods help (or don’t help) your personal complexion?
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Heal Your Body With Ginger Like Courtney Cox-Arquette and Joely Richardson: Double-Duty Diet
Courtney Cox-Arquette and Joely Richardson strive to eat healthy (it’s easier than you think!)
Do you use ginger like you use salt and pepper, spicing and sweetening everything that you bake, stir-fry, or marinate? Well, this super ugly but pungent root may be able to cure some of your most common ailments. Ginger’s ability to combat a variety of diseases and conditions is due in part to its impact on excessive inflammation, which is a significant underlying cause of many illnesses. arthritis, diverticulosis, gallbladder inflammation, and heart disease, the inflammation does not go away. It becomes chronic and leads to many other problems.
Ginger is particularly useful in treating chronic inflammation because it partially inhibits two important enzymes that play a role in inflammation gone awry — cyclooxygenase (COX) and 5-lipoxygenase (LOX). Most anti-inflammatory drugs can cause side effects, such as ulcers, because they also block the beneficial effects that COX has on the digestive tract, including protecting the stomach. Ginger does not cause stomach irritation; instead it helps protect and heal the gut. The root doesn’t shut down the inflammatory process entirely, ginger may actually allow it to work properly and then turn itself off, the way it does with an injury.
Besides reducing inflammation, ginger has many other benefits. It helps relieve nausea, destroys a host of viruses, and in some laboratory studies has shown promise as an anticancer agent. (MY favorite use for it is to stop painful PMS cramps and hangover nausea)
Here are two awesome ways to implement Ginger into everyday recipes (though a box of gingersnaps works too!)
Thai Hummus Recipe:
* In a food processor put…
- 1 can of chickpeas, drained
-2 tablespoons of lime juice
-3/4 of a cup of fresh grated ginger (more to taste)
- A few small pieces of chopped garlic
* Give the processor a couple of good whirls, then drizzle in chili sesame oil (about1/8 of a cup) in a pinch you can also use olive oil with a squirt of sirracha sauce
* I recommend with sweet potato chips or fries, but equally good as a spread on a wrap or sandwich
Ginger Tea: I would make my own video but how adorable is this tiny, sweet woman? You would rather watch her, trust me!
*All meal suggestions at Makeover Momma™ will include allergen information and suggestions for children with allergies, celiac disease, or additional health concerns. The above recipe is vegetarian and gluten-free.
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Written by Corey Vincent Holmes: VP and NEW Diet Guru on Makeover Momma, Wasty Cakes blogger.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Be Healthy At Any Age Like Kate Winslet and Kristin Scott Thomas: Real Momma Nutrition Insider
Moms of every age and size (like Kristin Scott Thomas and Kate Winslet) should strive to be healthy (and healthy doesn’t have a size!)
Wish that you could get inspired to make healthier decisions and reach your nutritional goals? We were thrilled to hear the amazing weight loss story of our Real Momma contributor Julie (a teacher, mother and health advocate), who inspired us with her amazing results. Read Julie’s story and please give her tons of encouragement!
A Makeover Momma Success Story: Julie
“I recently embarked on a weight loss journey, that has been successful thus far (as I am already down 35 pounds)! I am (much like other people) a person who has gone up and down on the scales my entire life. However, I think I have found the right combination of personal motivation and weight loss tools (that work!) to help me maintain a more steady, healthy, weight!
I started by joining Weight Watchers at work. I had heard about this program forever, and it is truly a wonderful teaching tool to help people who have difficulty maintaining a ‘healthy relationship’ with food. This definitely gave me the jump start I needed (because I lost 5 pounds the first week!)
Along with this, I have also really used the Makeover Momma website to gain not only nutritional tips, recipe ideas, links to other helpful blogs, and awesome ideas to work fitness into a busy daily routine, but also to boost my knowledge about fashion and beauty products that have resulted in an increased self-esteem and confidence. Because of Makeover Momma, I have taken the time to take care of myself and as a result have become a better wife and mother! The benefits to my mental and emotional well-being due to following and contributing to MM have been invaluable!”
* What Do You Think: What has helped YOU in the past? Please give Julie tons of encouragement and support!
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