Posts Tagged ‘food’

Hooray for D.C. Schools!

Posted in General Health on 06/29/2010 01:23 pm by AMMA

Schoolchildren in Washington, D.C. are set to benefit during the upcoming school year. The city’s schools will no longer serve flavored milks or sugary cereals.  We were surprised to learn that an 8 oz. serving of chocolate or strawberry flavored milk contains as much sugar as Coca Cola or Mountain Dew!  While the sodas have been banned from the school system since 2006, these sugary milk drinks have remained part of the children’s daily diet.  Combine it with standard items on the school breakfast menu (sugary cereals and pop tarts) and the kids consume consume a meal consisting of 60 grams of sugar before classes even begin. . .  That’s the same as 15 teaspoons of sugar - over 1/4 cup!  How was this ever considered a good idea?

Read the article at Better D.C. School Fund blog:

http://betterdcschoolfood.blogspot.com/2010/06/dc-schools-to-discontinue-flavored-milk.html

 

Healthy Hospital Food

Posted in General Health on 05/26/2010 05:23 am by AMMA

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Thanks to this news from the Washington Post’s Martha Thomas, we’re feelin’ good about improvements in hospital menus. . . .  Go, Georgetown!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/22/AR2010032202870.html

 

Right Foods and Plenty of Water Can Help You Deal With Arthritis

Posted in Uncategorized on 08/02/2008 09:49 pm by AMMA

By Janet Martin

In the US alone, there are over 70 million people suffering from some type of arthritis. Most people who are suffering from this condition will tell you that the pain from the inflammation of joints and bones are truly excruciating, enough to even make some sufferers avoid moving or doing activities they previously enjoy. This debilitating problem is preventing a lot of people, particularly the elderly, from enjoying an active and a happy life.

The food that you eat and don’t eat can actually influence the development, or treatment, of your arthritis. Sometimes getting rid of the pain, inflammation and other symptoms of this condition is as simple as eating an apple a day or including certain types of food that contain minerals and vitamins that can combat the pain, inflammation, accumulation of uric crystals and cell damage caused by arthritis. Here are the types of food you need to start incorporating in your diet to help ease arthritis symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Having Foggy Memory? Don’t Forget to Deal With Stress

Posted in Therapeutic Massage on 07/02/2008 09:28 pm by AMMA

By Janet Martin

It is quite normal to forget where you have placed your keys or parked your car once in while. Everybody has dealt with such phenomena. However, if you keep on forgetting a lot of things, then you may need to see your doctor. Remember that even if you are getting older, it doesn’t mean that you should accept memory lapses and fogs as if they are inevitable age-related changes.

For so long, people were led to believe that difficulty in remembering things often are just symptoms of old age. Most of the time, however, fuzzy memory is actually caused by stress and anxiety. If you want to minimize or totally eliminate memory lapses, you should first alleviate stress or deal with what makes you feel anxious and tensed. Read the rest of this entry »