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If your pants tart feeling tight
between the holiday , you may need
help. Being creative about 10 ing
tho e extra holiday pounds remove
the drudgery, reports th January
1992 Reader's Digest.
Here are orne surpri ing uggcs­
lions to help you feel slim and trim
again by Valentine's Day.
- Be a kitchen cop. Fat contains
nine calories per gram, car­
bohydrates only four. Rid your cup­
board and cookie jar of leftover,
high-fat food: packaged n ck
foods, whole-milk chee e , high-fat
cold cuts and meats. After browning
ground beef, drain the fat. Rinse the
meat under hot water to remove
more fat.
Buy low-fat foods. Stock up on
fresh fruits and vegetables and skin­
less liced turkey brea t (try it
poached in white wine or sauteed
with vegetables, apples or apricots).
Experiment with foods you haven't
eaten such as jicama (hee-kuh-muh),
a delicately flavored, crisp-textured
root now available in many super­
markets. Peel and dice it into salads,
or drizzle with lemon or lime juice
�nd serve with dips as a substitute for
potato chips or corn chips.
Eat more carbohydrates such as
baked potatoes - but substitute
nonfat yogurt for butter er sour
ay yes. "A few drinks and a plateful'
of hors d'oeuvre' and you can con­
sume the equivalent of an extra
meal's worth of calories, without
even noticing," .ay yndicated
columni ts Joe and Terry Gracdon,
co-authors of the "People's Phar­
macy" books.
Instead, add your favori te fruit
juice to eltzer.
- Prepare for '"'nack ttacks.
Snacking i not a vice. "For weight
control, it' a neces ity," ays
dietitian Tri h Ratto, as ociate direc­
tor of heat'th promotion at the
University of California at Berkeley.
"If you wait until you become
ravenous, it' easy to binge on high­
fat foods."
Keep low-Iat snac handy: pret­
zels, fruit or air-popped popcorn.
Sprinkle popcorn with paprika and a
shake of Parmesan chee .e, soy
sauce, pepper or powdered ginger.
Instead of high-fat spreads, try jam,
jellies and apple butter.
- Indulge your sweet tooth­
carefully. Choo e ugary treats that
aren't high in fat. Instead of fruit
tortes, try fruit alad. In tead of
cheesecake, buy ange I food cake.
For ice cream, -su st te sorbet or
nonfat frozen yogurt.
. - Trick your apoetlte. Serve
portions on a salad plate - and fill it
up. Drink water before and during
meals - it help you feel fuller.
Homemade soups are OK hut
watch out for meal stocks that can be
high in fat. Skim off fat. Substitute
evaporated skim milk for cream in
soups.
Salads can be a wetght-Ioss
staple, if you don' t heap on croutons
and dre sing. Look for oven-dried
croutons and fat-free or reduced-fat
salad dressings. Low-cholesterol
mayonnaise-type dressings are high
in fat. Try raspberry puree and wine
vinegar; nonfat yogurt, vinegar and
cream.
Make chore do double
duty. Start spring cleaning early.
Wash windows, scrub floors, clean
the attic. Take up bowling, garden­
ing, swimming, table tennis,
ballroom dancing, square dancing.
Any physical activity helps shed ex­
cess weight.
- Banlsb booze. At seven
calories per gram, alcohol is almost
� fattening as fat. Worse, after a
drink or two, nutritional judgment
falters, and when the tray of ap­
petlzers arrives you're more likely to
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Digitali� Side EtTects: What to Look For
Digitalis is a common name for a group of medicine that h ve been
prescribed for over 200 years to treat conge tive heart failure. It wa not
until the 19405 that the mechani m of action of the digitalis medicines
becameknown. Themo tcommonlypre cribedofthedigitali medicine
i digo�n.
Digitali cau es an increase in the output of the heart without cau ing
a corresponding increase in blood pre ure, Digitali commonly i u ed
·withdiureticmcdicine (waterpill ) for the treatrnent of heart failure. One
of the problem as ociated with digoxin use i its so-called "narrow
therapeutic index. n What thi mean is that the difference between an
effective blood level and � toxic blood level of medicine is very narrow.
If digitalis i not taken correctly, adve effects can re ult.
Digitali users hould be aware of adverse effects that ometime can
occur. Some person may experience vi ual problems, uch altered
color perception, flashing lights, or the presence of yellow halo around
objects. G trointe tinal problem include nausea and vomiting. Other
side effects include fatigue, depres ion, and lethargy. If ide effects are
uspected, the medicine hould be topped and the prescribing phy ician
contacted.
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mustard; or vinegar, oy sauce, gar­
lic and ginger.
Abuse near1y
universal
among
home and
housed poor
vvomen
Wlr!trer rom: or roused.
poor women are at exceptiorally
high risk of being physically or
xually used at some time in
�ir lives, acoording to a study
mnductcd by an NIMH-s�
�ycOOlogisL Nearly nine out or ten
women participating in the survey
reported one or both types of
mseeaerem,
Dr. Usa A Goodman of !h:
American PsycOOlogical Associa­
tion compared rates. of abuse
aroong 50 cla;ely-matchod OOOle­
less aoo 5Otx>used poor (or
pregnant women) in thier late
twenties, living in the uwer oonh­
east, TIl: survey corssed of ex­
iersive and detailed questions
· relevant to the women's childbxx1
ml adult lives.
Few differeoces emerged in in­
cide� or types of aoise during
childhood or adulthood between
the two groups except that, surpris­
ingly, more boused mothers had
experierud sexual abl& as adults.
M>re than half of all 100 respon­
den5 recalled instm:es of child
physical abuse; nearly reported
child sexual abise. About two­
thirds of � total sample said they
were victims of spousal physical
abuse.
Overall, 90 percent of the
oomelcss group mi88 percent of
� oo\l9Cd teSpOOOcn repoi1cd
me form of ph�ical or xual
abU9C during their lifetimes, sac­
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findirlS' which de�ttate sig­
nificantly higll:rl1lte8ofabuse than
previous studies, dramatically
highlight the lJQFnt need for ade­
quate and appropriate mental
health services forbotbsegmenrsof
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KI FISH WITH CUCUMBER AUC
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into thin lie ; plac in bowl and prinkle ev nly with alt. Let tand 30
minute; to ocea ion ally. Meanwhile, plac fi h in ingl layer in hallo
pan; pour in '14 cup teriyaki auce, turning fi h over to c!>at both. ide.
Marinate 30 minute ; turn over once. Rin cucumb r hce, dr In and
que ze out xc wat r; r turn to b wI and combine with vin r nd 2
Tb p. teriyaki auc. Let tand 15 minute. tir in our cream and dill;
cover and refrig rate. Cook fi h n grill 4 to 5 inche from hot coale 3
minute on each ide, or until fi h flak ea ily with f rk; erv with
cucumb r au e. Make 4 to 6 ervin .
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the microwave way
Stir.frying i a imple way to
prepare a light, nouri hing
meat-and-vegetable main dish. The
u e of a microwave browning di h
offer two more advantage ,accord­
ing to Whirlpool Corporation home
economi t - peed and a cool
kitchen. Thi recipe feature a ten­
der cut of pork, cut into trip and
marinated, then micro- tir-fried
with celery, red pepper, a gr en
onion and green bean or pea pod .
A touch of ginger accent the gently-
weetened oranfe ,laze. Orange­
Glazed Pork Stu-Fry erve ju t
two, making it ideal for mall
hou ehold or when the occa ion
call for omethinf unique when
entertaining a pecial friend.
ORANGE-GLAZED
PORK STIR-FRY
(2 rvln I)
I,'j pound por tenderloin
1 tablelpoon lOy .. uee
3 tablelpoonl OraDle juice
� teupoon ll'Ound lin er
1 tablelpoon v letable 011
14 cup reel pepper Itri.,.
� cup dlaconally IUcecI celery
1 n onion, IUcecI .
� cuP n beanl or frelh pe
pocla
1 tabl poon com.tareh
3 tabl_poonl honey or'Upt
comlyrup
2 tabl poonl toutedlnced
almondl (optional)
1. Cut pork into bite- ize trip or
chunks. Combine with oy auce
orange juice and ginger in smali
bowl. Refrigerate at lea t 1/2 hour.
2. Re erving marinade, remove
and drain pork. Preheat microwave
browning di h 8 minute or as
directed by manufacturer of di h.
Add oil, red J>ep�r and celery.
Microwave at HIGH ") for 1
minute or until c . p e der, tir­
ring once. Add to browning
di h. Microwave at IGH 3 min­
ute . Stir in onion and beans. Mi- .
crowave at HIGH 2 minute longer,
tirring once.
3. In 1 '12-quart gla erving dish,
tir together corn tarch corn yrup
and re erved marinade. Add pork-
vegetable mixture. Stir. Cover and
microwave at HIGH until .auce il
thickened and cl r, about 1 min­
ute. Sprinkle with almonds, if de-
ired. Serve with rice.
Nutrition Information
(per erving)
Calories
Protein
Fat
Chole terol
Carbohydrates
Sodium
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