First a warning! I had some fun with google images and other pics for
this newsletter. So enjoy!
Labor Day has many different interpretations. For me it is used as a day
to spend with family and friends, unwind a bit, and generally have a nice
cookout. For others, it is a time to argue about proper diets, and who is
eating too much of this or too much of that, and this is right and that is
wrong....
Enough already!!!!
If you eat a proper diet, you will be healthy and energetic. So stop
fighting with your family and friends, and read on.
I have always loved cookouts. I love cookouts even more since I became an
avid low carbohydrate fan. As many dishes that are served from a barbeque
grill are not lacking in the protein and fat department, I rarely lack of
good eats!
The governments nutrition council may advise you to avoid meats and
saturated fats that go hand and hand at cookouts, but you will not hear that
from me. In fact
saturated fats have been shown to increase your good cholesterol or HDL,
and lower the risk of ischemic strokes.
So stop being afraid of saturated fats!
One of my favorite cookout items is a good burger. It is not exactly what
our caveman friends or hunter-gatherers ate, but is closer to caveman style
food than what the gentlemen pictured below, who another lowcarb blogger
aptly titled, a modern day hunter-gatherer will soon be eating!
But I am often asked, "How can I eat a burger without a bun?"
My answer is simple. Eat it like a chopped steak, with plenty of fixins,
including fresh lettuce,tomato and onion, homemade salsa, guacamole, roasted
red peppers, mushrooms, and mustard. All of these fixins are low in
processed carbohydrates and are very tasty on a burger, chicken, and even
fish.
While processed corn products are not my favorites, grilled corn on the
cob is very tasty along with some melted butter.
Are you getting hungry yet?
Try to avoid any food that came in plastic bags or boxes from the center
aisles of the supermarket. These food products are known as potato chips,
pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, etc. These food products are highly processed
and loaded with carbohydrates.
My new favorite fixin to have with my burger, chicken or fish is
guacomole. I did not always like guacamole, whose major ingredient is that
fatty fruit, which is actually a berry, the avocado. But since my favorite
hobby is now cooking, and my favorite cable channel is by far,
I decided to try to make fresh guacomole on my own.
I know. Pretty risque of me!
But would you believe that my family really enjoyed it, and asked that I
make it again!
So below is what I will call Dr H's Guac recipe. Try it yourself and let
me know. And it tastes best on a burger without the bun!!!!
And keep an eye out for my Food Network pilot show, to be aired sometime
in the distant future.
We are calling it , " Dr. Steve's Nutrition Peeves"
Enjoy your upcoming Labor Day Weekend!!
Dr H's Guac Recipe:
Ingredient List
2 ripe avocados
2-3 slices of white onion
1 small tomato
2 small jalapeno peppers
2 cloves of garlic
1-2 teaspoons of lime juice
salt and pepper to taste
fresh cilantro (optional)
Start by halving the avocados, and removing the pits.
Then using a spoon, remove the avocado from the skin.
Using the spoon gently chop the avocado into pieces and place in the
bowl. Dice the onion and add to the bowl. Core the tomato and discard the
seeds, then dice the remaining meaty part of the tomato and add to the bowl.
Peel the garlic and chop into small pieces and add to the bowl. Chop
off each end of the jalapeno, slice it open, remove the seeds and the
whitish inside lining. If you like it spicy, leave the seeds and lining.
Dice the jalapeno and add to the bowl.
Add the lime juice, salt and pepper to taste and mix gently. If you like
your guacamole mushy, then mix roughly. You are going to eat it, so mix it
how you like it. You can add some fresh cilantro at the end.
Enjoy!!!
Summer Goodies Bracket Contest!
The final round of The Institute for Medical
Wellness Boardwalk Munchie contest has concluded. My thanks to everyone who
entered the contest. The winner, to be chosen after Labor Day, will choose
from three prizes which include either a free one hour
therapeutic massage, a one month
Healthy Weight Program-Lite edition, or a half-price
Omega-3-Index test.
The four final boardwalk muchies were:
Kohr Brothers
Johnsons Popcorn
Curly Fries
Ben N Jerry's
And the favorite boardwalk muchie was:
Kohr Brothers,
followed closely by Johnson's popcorn.
Curly Fries and Ben-N-Jerrys were a distant
third and fourth.
Congrats Kohr Brother's. My daughter
definitely agrees with this outcome.
Keep an eye out for the next newsletter
where the winner of our contest will be announced!
Institute For Medical Wellness Supplement of the Month:
It's September again.
The summer is almost
over.
The kids are back in
school.
Time to work on better
health and nutrition.
No better way than to try
our supplement of the month for September.
Pro-Flora Immune is our
probiotic immune defense supplement. It is a good choice for
the upcoming fall season.
Pro-Flora Immune is
regularly $20 for 30 capsules, a one month's supply.
For the month of
September 2010, Pro-Flora Immune can be purchased for $15.
Other Institute For Medical Wellness Programs and
Events:
Twitter:
No I have not become a
full blown twitter twit who tweets all day about
nothing. But I have found a way to twit with twitter
to keep myself abreast of the newest and latest
directions in health and wellness. In my infinite
wisdom(?), I have learned how to tweet and retweet
other twitted and non-twitted articles of health and
wellness that I feel would be of interest to you. So
if you have a twitter account, please sign up for my
tweets! This entire paragraph was not something I
ever expected when I graduated from medical school ;
)
Now, wasn't that
"tweet"?
To Good Health!
Steven
Horvitz, D.O,
Board Certified Family Practice
Founder of The Institute For Medical Wellness
128 Borton Landing Road, Suite Two
Moorestown, NJ 08057
Phone
856-231-0590
Fax
856-294-0311
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