If you’ve never heard of jackfruit before, you’re not totally out of the loop (yet). This starchy member of the fig family is a staple in South and Southeast Asian cuisine, but has become more popular, and readily available in canned form, in the Western Hemisphere in recent years. And it’s time we all get well-acquainted.
Packed with potassium, fiber, and anti-inflammatory benefits, it’s not only a nutritional powerhouse, but when cooked and shredded, it has a freakishly similar texture and flavor to pulled pork—how great is that? While there are many ways to enjoy the versatile ingredient, start with these seven easy jackfruit recipes.
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Deportation Fears Prompt Immigrants To Cancel Food Stamps
Groups that help low-income families get food aid report a big drop in the number of immigrants seeking help. Some are canceling government benefits for fear it will affect their immigration status.
(Image credit: Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe/Getty Images)
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Groups that help low-income families get food aid report a big drop in the number of immigrants seeking help. Some are canceling government benefits for fear it will affect their immigration status.
(Image credit: Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe/Getty Images)
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4 Yoga Poses with Magical Benefits
Source http://dailycupofyoga.com/2017/01/04/4-yoga-poses-with-magical-benefits/
We all know yoga postures affect our body, but did you ever think about the way they affect your mind, feelings, and psyche?
I was thinking about this the other day as I attended a random vinyasa-style class. The teacher was making up the postures as she went, stringing postures together spontaneously as the class progressed. After the class I felt agitated. I felt exhausted. I felt irritable! Why?
When I was in a 28-day Sivananda Yoga Teacher’s Training Course in New York, we learned about the postures in a way I never thought about before. The postures aren’t mere stretches and strengtheners for our muscles. They affect a much larger part of us, and they affect our insides in a big way–body and mind.
Let me back up for a paragraph or two. Do you know about Swami Sivananda? He is a world-renowned guru, and the inspiration behind all the Sivananda Yoga centers and ashrams in the world. Before he became a swami (a monk in the Hindu tradition), he was a highly revered medical doctor for decades. He healed his patients of countless ailments.
The interesting thing is that he often prescribed his patients yoga postures, or ‘asanas’ to help them heal. This isn’t something we see in our world today, at least not in the West. Scientific studies have only begun to tap into th…
Source http://dailycupofyoga.com/2017/01/04/4-yoga-poses-with-magical-benefits/
We all know yoga postures affect our body, but did you ever think about the way they affect your mind, feelings, and psyche?
I was thinking about this the other day as I attended a random vinyasa-style class. The teacher was making up the postures as she went, stringing postures together spontaneously as the class progressed. After the class I felt agitated. I felt exhausted. I felt irritable! Why?
When I was in a 28-day Sivananda Yoga Teacher’s Training Course in New York, we learned about the postures in a way I never thought about before. The postures aren’t mere stretches and strengtheners for our muscles. They affect a much larger part of us, and they affect our insides in a big way–body and mind.
Let me back up for a paragraph or two. Do you know about Swami Sivananda? He is a world-renowned guru, and the inspiration behind all the Sivananda Yoga centers and ashrams in the world. Before he became a swami (a monk in the Hindu tradition), he was a highly revered medical doctor for decades. He healed his patients of countless ailments.
The interesting thing is that he often prescribed his patients yoga postures, or ‘asanas’ to help them heal. This isn’t something we see in our world today, at least not in the West. Scientific studies have only begun to tap into th…
Sharath Jois on Experiencing Yoga Beyond Goals
Source http://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-goals/
Many people believe that success is only how much money you’ve made and what you’ve created for yourself and your family. The thought process goes, ‘If I do this, I’ll get that’… with that being, ‘I’ll get wealthy’ or some other kind of reward. The reward becomes a target that you have to achieve within a certain amount of time.
However, imagine that you have gained happiness and prosperity, and then something terrible happens, causing you to lose everything. What is your state of mind then when your success or money is gone? You’ve spent all your time working toward that target. You break down. You get depressed. This is a tragedy. How do you keep your equanimity in times like this?
Yoga is different. Yoga is all about the experience. Experience has no agenda. Yoga has no agenda. Yogis don’t have a target. In fact, yogis are in a state of bliss because they are untouched by anything. When you enter the path of yoga, things change. In yoga, you aren’t looking for success. You are here to gain a higher consciousness within yourself. Something in which you can relish every day in this life. Because of the love yogis have for the spiritual, they are free. Spirituality doesn’t have any target. For the love to happen and the experience to happen, it’s not done all at once. These things happen stage-by-stage, like your yoga practice.
Over the past 25 years, the <a h…
Source http://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-goals/
Many people believe that success is only how much money you’ve made and what you’ve created for yourself and your family. The thought process goes, ‘If I do this, I’ll get that’… with that being, ‘I’ll get wealthy’ or some other kind of reward. The reward becomes a target that you have to achieve within a certain amount of time.
However, imagine that you have gained happiness and prosperity, and then something terrible happens, causing you to lose everything. What is your state of mind then when your success or money is gone? You’ve spent all your time working toward that target. You break down. You get depressed. This is a tragedy. How do you keep your equanimity in times like this?
Yoga is different. Yoga is all about the experience. Experience has no agenda. Yoga has no agenda. Yogis don’t have a target. In fact, yogis are in a state of bliss because they are untouched by anything. When you enter the path of yoga, things change. In yoga, you aren’t looking for success. You are here to gain a higher consciousness within yourself. Something in which you can relish every day in this life. Because of the love yogis have for the spiritual, they are free. Spirituality doesn’t have any target. For the love to happen and the experience to happen, it’s not done all at once. These things happen stage-by-stage, like your yoga practice.
Over the past 25 years, the <a h…
How to keep running when you really want to stop
Source http://www.thefitbits.com/2017/03/how-to-keep-running-when-you-really.html
I ran 18.1 miles today, and my legs hate me.
They didn’t hate me for the whole 18 miles though. They were carrying me quite nicely indeed along the Downs Link towards the half way turn point. So nicely in fact that when we got to the RunBrighton van for water and gels, I didn’t even realise we’d ran a whole nine miles to get there.
Probably because I forgot my watch and my phone was in my Fleetfoot III running bag, but hey.
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Source http://www.thefitbits.com/2017/03/how-to-keep-running-when-you-really.html
I ran 18.1 miles today, and my legs hate me.
They didn’t hate me for the whole 18 miles though. They were carrying me quite nicely indeed along the Downs Link towards the half way turn point. So nicely in fact that when we got to the RunBrighton van for water and gels, I didn’t even realise we’d ran a whole nine miles to get there.
Probably because I forgot my watch and my phone was in my Fleetfoot III running bag, but hey.
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To Hell and Back: The Untold Story of Male Eating Disorders
Source http://www.bornfitness.com/male-eating-disorders/
Patrick Devenny was a football kid. He didn’t just love the game. He was built for it, with the 6’3” frame and all the muscle it could hold. He blossomed his senior year at Granite Bay High School in northern California as a quarterback and all-area MVP, which brought out the recruiters. After graduating in 2005, he took his game – and big frame – to the University of Colorado where they converted him to tight end. Five years later, in the spring of 2010, he got a shot with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent.
And the more he progressed, the better he got, the higher he climbed, the more he destroyed himself each and every day.
That’s not a euphemism for “playing hard” or “putting his body on the line.” Patrick Devenny was sick, and getting sicker – especially after his NFL dreams flamed out before ever playing a game with the Seahawks — and no one around him had any idea anything was wrong. Patrick Devenny, big, fast, strong, had a disease a lot of guys get but don’t talk about.
Patrick Devenny was bulimic.
The Picture of Perfection or the Edge of Disaster?
“People ask me when the food issues started,” the now-29 year old says. “I don’t want to say it happened in college or high school. I know I’ve always had this ability to eat a tremendous amount, but I was also working out so much. So I don’t know if it was disguised by lifting, running, practice, all of that, so it just seemed n…
Source http://www.bornfitness.com/male-eating-disorders/
Patrick Devenny was a football kid. He didn’t just love the game. He was built for it, with the 6’3” frame and all the muscle it could hold. He blossomed his senior year at Granite Bay High School in northern California as a quarterback and all-area MVP, which brought out the recruiters. After graduating in 2005, he took his game – and big frame – to the University of Colorado where they converted him to tight end. Five years later, in the spring of 2010, he got a shot with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent.
And the more he progressed, the better he got, the higher he climbed, the more he destroyed himself each and every day.
That’s not a euphemism for “playing hard” or “putting his body on the line.” Patrick Devenny was sick, and getting sicker – especially after his NFL dreams flamed out before ever playing a game with the Seahawks — and no one around him had any idea anything was wrong. Patrick Devenny, big, fast, strong, had a disease a lot of guys get but don’t talk about.
Patrick Devenny was bulimic.
The Picture of Perfection or the Edge of Disaster?
“People ask me when the food issues started,” the now-29 year old says. “I don’t want to say it happened in college or high school. I know I’ve always had this ability to eat a tremendous amount, but I was also working out so much. So I don’t know if it was disguised by lifting, running, practice, all of that, so it just seemed n…
Two U.N. Rapporteurs take on pesticides
Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/03/two-u-n-rapporteurs-take-on-pesticides/
The Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and the Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, have issued a report on pesticides as a human rights issue.
They
Told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that widely divergent standards of production, use and protection from hazardous pesticides in different countries are creating double standards, which are having a serious impact on human rights…The Special Rapporteurs pointed to research showing that pesticides were responsible for an estimated 200,000 acute poisoning deaths each year. The overwhelming number of fatalities, some 99%, occurred in developing countries where health, safety and environmental regulations were weaker.
The site says the full report is available here, but I could not access it from that site and requested it. It is here).
In the meantime, The Lancet has an editorial about it: “Phasing out harmful use of pesticides.”
The UN rapporteurs are damning about the “aggressive, unethical marketing tactics” of the pesticides industry and the money spen…
Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/03/two-u-n-rapporteurs-take-on-pesticides/
The Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and the Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, have issued a report on pesticides as a human rights issue.
They
Told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that widely divergent standards of production, use and protection from hazardous pesticides in different countries are creating double standards, which are having a serious impact on human rights…The Special Rapporteurs pointed to research showing that pesticides were responsible for an estimated 200,000 acute poisoning deaths each year. The overwhelming number of fatalities, some 99%, occurred in developing countries where health, safety and environmental regulations were weaker.
The site says the full report is available here, but I could not access it from that site and requested it. It is here).
In the meantime, The Lancet has an editorial about it: “Phasing out harmful use of pesticides.”
The UN rapporteurs are damning about the “aggressive, unethical marketing tactics” of the pesticides industry and the money spen…
Get A Grip: How to Improve Your Hand Strength And Wrist Mobility
Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/how-to-improve-your-wrist-mobility-and-grip-strength/
This is an article from NF Head Trainer Jim Bathurst
Do your wrists hurt during the day?
Do you find grip a limiting factor in the gym (I see you chin-ups and deadlifts) or in everyday life (looking at you, pickle jars)?
If so, don’t worry! We’ve got a handle on this (pun 100% intended). In today’s article, we’re going to outline a number of helpful, handy (sigh) stretches and exercises to help eliminate pain and build you some powerful, useful hands.
Like, Fists of Fury. Or…hands of Fury? Wrists of Fury?
Either way, today we’re going to teach you everything you need to know about hand strength. This is a favorite area of expertise for me. I’ve worked my grip for years and years, and recently won a local grip competition!
In fact, I’m currently typing this one handed while squeezing coal into diamonds with my other hand.
Not really, but I promise my grip strength is above average.
Now, it goes without saying that the hands and forearms are anatomically complicated areas. I am also not your mother, or your doctor. If anything in the article below causes pain, or your pain is not alleviated by these stretches – call in the pros! See a physical ther…
Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/how-to-improve-your-wrist-mobility-and-grip-strength/
This is an article from NF Head Trainer Jim Bathurst
Do your wrists hurt during the day?
Do you find grip a limiting factor in the gym (I see you chin-ups and deadlifts) or in everyday life (looking at you, pickle jars)?
If so, don’t worry! We’ve got a handle on this (pun 100% intended). In today’s article, we’re going to outline a number of helpful, handy (sigh) stretches and exercises to help eliminate pain and build you some powerful, useful hands.
Like, Fists of Fury. Or…hands of Fury? Wrists of Fury?
Either way, today we’re going to teach you everything you need to know about hand strength. This is a favorite area of expertise for me. I’ve worked my grip for years and years, and recently won a local grip competition!
In fact, I’m currently typing this one handed while squeezing coal into diamonds with my other hand.
Not really, but I promise my grip strength is above average.
Now, it goes without saying that the hands and forearms are anatomically complicated areas. I am also not your mother, or your doctor. If anything in the article below causes pain, or your pain is not alleviated by these stretches – call in the pros! See a physical ther…
Weekend reading: Supersizing Urban America
Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/03/weekend-reading-supersizing-urban-america/
Chin Jou. Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
I first read this book in manuscript form and have been its biggest fan ever since. It’s terrific that it is now out and can—and should—be read by everyone.
I was delighted to do a back-cover blurb for it:
This page-turner of a book tells a virtually unknown story. Federal policies to assist small businesses deliberately introduced fast-food outlets into low-income minority areas to the benefit of franchise owners but promoting widespread obesity in these communities. For anyone interested in the role of government policy in food, health, and race relations, Supersizing Urban America is a must-read.
I met Chin Jou last year when I was at the University of Sydney, where she now teaches. They are so lucky to have her there. This is first-rate work–a model of how to make historical research totally relevant to today’s food issues.
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Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/03/weekend-reading-supersizing-urban-america/
Chin Jou. Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
I first read this book in manuscript form and have been its biggest fan ever since. It’s terrific that it is now out and can—and should—be read by everyone.
I was delighted to do a back-cover blurb for it:
This page-turner of a book tells a virtually unknown story. Federal policies to assist small businesses deliberately introduced fast-food outlets into low-income minority areas to the benefit of franchise owners but promoting widespread obesity in these communities. For anyone interested in the role of government policy in food, health, and race relations, Supersizing Urban America is a must-read.
I met Chin Jou last year when I was at the University of Sydney, where she now teaches. They are so lucky to have her there. This is first-rate work–a model of how to make historical research totally relevant to today’s food issues.
…
The Power of Asparagus
Source http://refineryfitnesspdx.com/the-power-of-asparagus/
Spring has started to pop here in Portland and with the sunshine has come a hankering for fresh spring vegetables and fruits. One of my favorites is asparagus. I love it cooked all different ways and can’t wait to put it back into regular rotation in my food repertoire. Not only do I love it’s taste but asparagus is a very good source of fiber, folate, vitamins A, C, E and K, as well as chromium, a trace mineral that enhances the ability of insulin to transport glucose from the bloodstream into cells. Asparagus is an excellent source of glutathione, a detoxifying anti-oxidant that is a liver protecting powerhouse, helping break down carcinogens and other harmful compounds like free radicals. With its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, asparagus is a robust fighter against bladder, breast, colon, lung, prostate, ovarian and other cancers. Inulin, a carbohydrate in asparagus, encourages the growth of Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli, two bacteria that boost nutrient absorption, lower the risk of allergy and colon cancer, and help prevent unfriendly bacteria from taking hold in our intestinal tract. This fiber is an amazing prebiotic to feed all the good bacteria in our guts. Furthermore, one cup of asparagus contains over 11% of t…
Source http://refineryfitnesspdx.com/the-power-of-asparagus/
Spring has started to pop here in Portland and with the sunshine has come a hankering for fresh spring vegetables and fruits. One of my favorites is asparagus. I love it cooked all different ways and can’t wait to put it back into regular rotation in my food repertoire. Not only do I love it’s taste but asparagus is a very good source of fiber, folate, vitamins A, C, E and K, as well as chromium, a trace mineral that enhances the ability of insulin to transport glucose from the bloodstream into cells. Asparagus is an excellent source of glutathione, a detoxifying anti-oxidant that is a liver protecting powerhouse, helping break down carcinogens and other harmful compounds like free radicals. With its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, asparagus is a robust fighter against bladder, breast, colon, lung, prostate, ovarian and other cancers. Inulin, a carbohydrate in asparagus, encourages the growth of Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli, two bacteria that boost nutrient absorption, lower the risk of allergy and colon cancer, and help prevent unfriendly bacteria from taking hold in our intestinal tract. This fiber is an amazing prebiotic to feed all the good bacteria in our guts. Furthermore, one cup of asparagus contains over 11% of t…