Healthy Eating – Chicken Fried Steak
HIghly recommended:
Chicken Fried Steak
4 lean cube steaks
1/2 cup fat-free buttermilk
1 cup flour (reserve 1 tablespoon)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon McCormick’s Montreal Brand steak seasoning
2 tablespoons oil
2 cups skim milk
Dip steaks in buttermilk. Combine flour, salt, and steak seasoning (remember to keep 1 tablespoon set aside). Dip steaks in flour mixture.
Set steaks on wax paper; let set for 20 minutes.
Heat 1 tablespoons oil in skillet, add steaks, cook until both sides are golden brown. Remove from pan and keep warm.
Combine milk and reserved 1 tablespoon flour in bowl until well mixed.
Stirring constantly, add milk mixture to skillet. Once added, bring mixture to a boil.
Lower heat and simmer until gravy thickens.
Serve over steaks.
5 points
Categories: Health Tags: chicken recipes, healthy eating, healthy living, weight watchers
Natural health is dependent on what you eat
If you really want your body to last, it isn’t too much to ask that you look after it, is it? The most obvious method to do this is with a natural health plan that uses natural products found in nature to help provide the body and mind with many of the nutrients it requires to function properly. There is nothing strange in this philosophy as it is just based on prevention of illness and disease instead of trying to cure it at a later stage.
The desire to be healthy is something we all want, but very few actually practice natural health methods or seem to have any concern about how unhealthy they actually are. As much as many people would have you believe otherwise, natural health is not something that is a cult or something that should be ridiculed. Looking after your body naturally requires a number of factors be considered including where you live and work.
To truly appreciate what natural health has to offer, you need to invest in a natural health book which will go into much greater depth about a growing field of medicine. For many people this has become their way of life and should not be approached as a short term solution to a specific problem you may have. You see, if you have been living the junk food and quick meal life, then your body will probably be deficient in many of the necessary nutrients it needs to function correctly.
To make this happen you will need to do a little more than just alter the type of diet you currently exist on but learn about the foods that contain the nutrients it needs to be healthy. There are many options available but you must first realize just what harm you are doing to yourself. This is why research is important as knowledge will help you understand just how you can improve your life.
Living a naturally healthy life isn’t just about the food you eat but about how you live your life. However, being healthy isn’t just about stopping sickness as a healthy body is one that is more active and where a person enjoys increased energy and vitality levels. Being healthy is a choice that most people cannot be bothered to make, but only you can make it.
Categories: Featured, Health Tags: fresh food, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, healthy living, nutrients
Botox – Staying forever young?
Botox has now been used for a number of years for men and women that want to hide signs of aging,the problem lies in the general misconception about the cosmetic effect it creates. To understand exactly what it is and does, we first have to look at just how this amazing miracle of modern science came to be. The first research into Botulinum toxin was carried out over five decades ago,originally the purpose of this was to treat neurological disorders.
It wasn’t until around 1989 that the Federal Drug Administration agreed to allow its use in medical procedures to help people with disorders of the eye,these included people with eyes that were not aligned correctly and those that suffered from uncontrollable blinking called blepharospasm. More research was carried out into other medical uses and in 2000 it was allowed to be used on patients that had a cervical dystonia condition,this disorder causes severe neck and shoulder contractions but they also permitted it to be used with other eye problems.
In all the research that was going on with botox, doctors had found that it was effective at reducing frown lines around the eyebrow area,after this in 2002 the FDA approved it’s use on the condition that it was a cosmetic procedure. Botox paralyses the muscles that cause wrinkles keeping them in a relaxed state,eventually, over a period of several months, given enough of these injections, the frown lines start to soften.
Continued treatments mean in many cases the lines disappear and now the same treatment is used on other areas of the face like the crows’ feet, laughter lines and other facial wrinkles. The injections are a purified and watered down version of the sometimes fatal Botulinum poison,these treatments are only a fraction of the true strength which, in other forms, could make us seriously unwell.
This popularity is due to the fact that we all have wrinkles and lines (increasing with age) when we smile, laugh and make other facial movements which are the result of muscles in the face. When we are young and our skin is more elastic, these lines do not show but as we age the constant use of facial muscles leaves us with lines,while many manufacturers have tried to produce creams that eliminate these wrinkles and creases (unsuccessfully), this treatment can at least for a short period.
These botox injections are used directly into the muscles that control facial expressions and paralyzing them for a short period, effectively making it almost impossible for a person to smile,many people believe that overuse leaves the recipient with a look similar to that of a mannequin.
While the face can still provide expressions, they are seriously reduced but this give the effect of someone looking much younger than they really are. However, this cosmetic treatment is still expensive,with injections in the low to very high hundreds of dollars each, it looks to remain expensive for some time to come. Whether there are any long term effects from continued use of botox is still unknown as the treatment is still to new but for those people who do use it, it doesn’t seem to matter.
Categories: Health Tags: anti ageing, anti-aging, botox