SHR

This recipe was provided by SHR listener Angela Penna Here's what I do for komucha. You'll have to obtain a scoby or grow your own. One way to grow your own is to use that kombucha Alisa bought and let sit in a jar with a flour sack towel (fst) over top for a week or so in room temp. Should form a rubbery little organism called a scoby. Don't refrigerate the scoby or put in hot liquid or it will die. It'll probably take a bit to grow your scoby, or a few batches. If you do it that way you can use a smaller amount of sweetened tea to get things rolling and follow method below. It's important to take about a cup of liquid from the batch you fermented and keep it with the scoby and add to next batch. Ok so here we go. It's a lot...

There are many benefits to be gained from exercise and weight loss in the overweight-obese population, and both are commonly prescribed to achieve cardiometabolic health improvements. However, exercise for weight loss is an inefficient and unsustainable route for many individuals. Instead, exercise should be done for health while weight loss is achieved through dietary modifications. But which has a greater impact? The answer comes from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark who recently published additional data from the CUT-IT study where 64 overweight-obese out-patients (age 45-75 years) with coronary artery disease (CAD) were randomized to undergo 12 weeks of aerobic interval training (AIT) three times weekly or consume a low-energy diet (LED) for 8-10 weeks followed by 2-4 weeks of transition to a high-protein/low-glycemic index diet. The AIT protocol involved a 38 minute session beginning with a 10-minute moderate-intensity warm-up followed by high intensity interval training (85-90% of VO2peak, Borg scale 17–18) on...

Fish and fish oils are one of the few foods that appear to be universally accepted as healthy, and a massive analysis of all published meta-analyses and systemic reviews from 1950 to 2013 found fish consumption to be one of the most protective food groups against all diet-related chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease (CVD). Much of the focus has, however, been on fish oils and the fatty fish that contain them in appreciable quantities. But what if there are other aspects to fish that make it beneficial? Preliminary findings have suggested, for example, that the addition of fish gelatin to a fish oil supplemented diet enhances the cardioprotective effects. To answer this question, researchers from the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Norway, recruited 19 healthy middle-aged Caucasian men and women from the local area to participate in a crossover design RCT comparing identical diets differing only in their primary...

In a previous article I discussed a study showing that skipping breakfast does indeed lead to greater food and calorie intake during lunch, but not nearly enough to compensate for the calories not consumed at breakfast.  The researchers were able to show this outcome because they allowed for ad libitum food intake at lunch, meaning that the study participants could eat as much food as they wanted. This makes perfect sense considering the entire point of these studies is to compare how breakfast consumption or omission affects subsequent food intake, but it leaves an incomplete picture of the metabolic and hormonal effects breakfast may or may not have. What if eating as much food as you wanted at lunch wasn’t an option? What if you exercised later in the day? Many individuals who decide to skip breakfast do so in order to aid weight loss, and many may choose to monitor...

I’ll admit it- I still eat dairy!  Greek Yogurt is one of my favorite treats to enjoy.  I also enjoy Icelandic Yogurt however, for the sake of this recipe we will concentrate on the Greek version.  It’s not quite as thick as the Icelandic version making it eaiser to spread on the cookie sheet. With this recipe anything goes.  Depending on your personal taste, you can make this into whatever you want it to be.  I used the plain 0% fat yogurt as my blank canvas and added whatever was available in my pantry.  As a word of caution, check the ingredient label, so many of the fruit added yogurts have high sugar content.  And, why would you want to buy fruit added when you can add your own, fresh fruit?  So, let’s get started… You will need a flat cookie sheet, parchment paper, plain Greek yogurt, I used, fresh organic...