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 Eating
dinner while listening to Mozart helps to improve your
metabolism and food digestion. When you eat while
listening to the pop or rock music you automatically
start eating faster. As a result you swallow bigger
pieces making it harder for your stomach to digest the
food, which inevitably leads to extra pounds. To learn
more check out, Top 10 Health Benefits of Music.
In fitness,
Namita
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Articles of the Week
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Hot Fitness Tip
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 The
USDA recommends 3 cups of dairy a day, preferably
low-fat or fat-free milk, yogurt or cheese. Avoid milk
altogether if you’re trying to lose weight but if you
don’t want to give it up, use organic whole milk (in
very small amounts) over skim (“back to the whole food
idea”). For added calcium, choose leafy greens both
cooked and raw, like collard and turnip greens, kale, bok choy or beans and fish, like canned salmon with
bones or sardines with bones.
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Words of Inspiration
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The Other Side
 A
Father was once reading a magazine and his little
daughter every now and then distracted him. To keep her
busy, he tore one page on which was printed the map of
the world. He tore it into pieces and asked her to go to
her room and put them together to make the map again.
He was sure she would take the whole day to get it done.
But the little one came back within minutes with perfect
map……When he asked how she could do it so quickly, she
said, “Oh…. Dad, there is a man’s face on the other side
of the paper….. I made the face perfect to get the map
right." She ran outside to play leaving the father
surprised.
This incident taught him that there is always the other
side to whatever you experience in this world.
Whenever we come across a challenge or a puzzling
situation, look at the other side…. You will be
surprised to see an easy way to tackle the problem.
Life is short, energy limited, with this limited energy
we have to find the unlimited; with this short life we
have to find the eternal. Don't waste it with
unimportant matters
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Success Quote
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 "The road is long and full of challenges but it is important to enjoy the journey! Enjoy what fate has given you!"
Alexandra Jekova, Silver Medalist in Snowboarding X at 2012 Winter X Games |
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Healthy Recipe
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Summer Veggie Soup
Makes: 6 servings
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Nutritional Information:
Per Serving
Calories: 210 Kcal,
Fat: 3.5 g,
Carbohydrate: 38 g,
Protein: 9 g,
Fiber: 7 g.
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Ingredients:
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1 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
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1 medium onion, chopped
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4 cloves garlic, minced
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2 carrots, sliced into 1/4-inch pieces
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32 oz. reduced-sodium chicken broth (vegetable broth
may be substituted)
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1 (15-oz.) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
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2 medium yellow squash, sliced into 1/4-inch pieces
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1 medium zucchini, sliced into 1/4-inch pieces
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2 medium potatoes, diced into 1/2-inch pieces
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1 cup corn kernels, fresh or frozen
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Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
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6 asparagus spears, cut into 1-inch pieces
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2 plum or Roma tomatoes, coarsely chopped
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1/4 cup fresh basil, finely chopped
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1/4 cup of fresh chives, coarsely chopped
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Directions:
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In soup pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion
and garlic and sauté about 6-8 minutes. Add carrots
and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
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Stir in broth, chickpeas, squash, zucchini,
potatoes, corn, salt and pepper. Bring to boil.
Reduce heat and simmer about 5 minutes. Stir in
asparagus and cook 2 minutes or until squash and
potatoes are tender, but not mushy. Then stir in
tomatoes and cook 2 minutes.
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Place in bowls, garnish with basil and chives and
serve.
Source: AICR
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Celebrity of the Week |
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Nastia Liukin |
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 Music can motivate you to workout longer and harder, says David-Lee Priest, PhD, a psychologist and researcher at University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.
Build on Pace: A study in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports finds that when the tempo of music was increased by only 10 percent (without participants knowing), cyclists went farther and pedaled with more power.
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