This nutritious and delicious dessert comes to YHIOYP courtesy of Wendy Bazilian @eatmovebe and at wendybazilian.com, author of The SuperFoods Rx Diet. She calls this a super-easy recipe that you can adapt to your own tastes. It’s a simple recipe, with nuts and chocolate to nourish and satisfy your heart, mind, and taste buds! If you’re planning on a special dessert for a special dinner, this one is a great choice.
Author Archives: Dr. Sukol
Extending Your Health Span
I heard a great concept this week: the “health span.” It’s not exactly your lifespan, but rather the length of time you live in good health. So if you live to be 85, but spend the last 10 years of your life in declining health, then your lifespan may have been 85, but your health span was 75. Now let’s apply this concept to populations instead of individuals, because that’s where you see how we can make a real difference. Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Springtime Pea Soup
Whenever I enter the home of my friend Deena there is always something remarkable burbling on the stove. She says that she adapted this soup from the Barefoot Contessa, but I think it’s equally likely that Ms. Contessa gets her best ideas from Deena.
The Healthiest Way to Eat
An important article called “Can We Say What Diet is Best for Health?,” by David Katz and Stephanie Meller from Yale’s School of Public Health, was published in the scientific literature this week, and James Hamblin wrote a story about it for the Atlantic. He titled it “Science Compared Every Diet, and the Winner is Real Food.” You know, I would have edited out the word “Real” and called it simply “Food.” Then I would have reviewed for the reader the differences between Food and manufactured calories. Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Asparagus Leek Soup
This extremely elegant recipe comes from the incomparable Mark Bittman, at Kitchen Express and the NY Times. Enough said. Continue reading
Discipline Is Remembering What You Want
In the weeks prior to starting medical school, my brother-in-law gave me a small card with a calligraphed message: Discipline is remembering what you want. I soon affixed it to the wall of my new study carrel where it remained until, years later, I passed it along to a friend who needed it more than I.
Discipline is remembering what you want. What do you want? What do I want? Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Potatoes, Peas, and Asparagus
It’s a very special pleasure to share a recipe that combines the last of winter’s potatoes with new spring asparagus to create a dish that is so truly nourishing it serves as a complete meal with no assistance whatsoever. There is something about eating with the seasons that makes your entire self feel ever-so-satisfied. Serving it in a bright red bowl helps make it easier to notice each and every one of the beautiful ingredients that compose this seasonal specialty.
Book Group Talk
It’s a conversation that has lasted for more than fifteen years, one month at a time. Two members of our book group, Mo and Netta, have folded themselves comfortably, side by side, into big chairs separated by just a small table. Our host today, Deena, lies nearby on the floor, her head on a large, soft cushion.
Except for Zoe, the rest of us sit on various parts of the couch, facing all our friends and the big chairs opposite, with the coffee table in between. Casual tonight in a t-shirt, jeans, and baseball cap, Zoe has seated herself cross-legged on the floor, halfway between me and a crackling fire.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Dal (Lentils) Palak (Spinach)
This recipe is what thekitchn.com calls a very simple dal palak. I guess that depends what you usually eat. A parade of flavors, a mix of textures, and a happy, healthy-sized pot of food to serve a big bunch, it goes great with rice or chapatis (or warm pita if that’s all you have).
Diet-Controlled Diabetes
From what I’ve heard, people tend to divide the diagnosis of diabetes into three categories, two of which they suspect aren’t the real thing. Or at least not worth worrying about. Take, for example, diet-controlled diabetes. They’re not really sure if this is even worth mentioning, but they’ll take a shot anyway. “My sister might have something, I’m not sure, but she doesn’t have to take anything for it, as long as she eats right.” “Okay, so maybe diet-controlled diabetes?,” I ask. “Yeh, I think so,” comes the reply. More on this below.
The second is diabetes controlled by oral medications. They’re not sure if this is the real thing either, but they figure they’ll mention it, just in case. “I think my dad has diabetes,” they might say, “but he just takes a pill for it.” When I reply with “Well, okay, that’s important to know,” they nod, and then look relieved to have done the right thing by bringing it up.