Are Cornflakes Better or Oatmeal!!!

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The lining of your blood vessels? Super important. Keeping those cells healthy can help ward off heart disease and more.

So treat them right. Eat your oatmeal. Or your Fiber One. A recent study suggests that a high-fiber breakfast may be kinder to the lining of your blood vessels than a high-glycemic-index breakfast like cornflakes.

Breakfast Breakthrough
When researchers evaluated how eating different types of food affected the health and function of the endothelium-- that all-important layer of cells that lines the inside of your blood vessels -- the results suggested that glycemic index matters. After having cornflakes, a high-fiber cereal, a glucose supplement, or just water first thing in the morning, the study participants’ endothelial cells were most impaired after having either the cornflakes or the supplement. Not good, because impaired function may eventually translate to damage -- and damage opens the door to atherosclerosisand heart disease. Is your blood pressure also putting your heart at risk? Find out here.

Glycemic Index Breakdown
Researchers don’t really know why the foods on the higher end of theglycemic index, like cornflakes and glucose, had a harsher effect on participants’ blood vessels. All that is known for sure is that these types of food move blood sugar higher, faster. And somehow this may translate into wear and tear on blood vessels. Here’s a more detailed explanation of the glycemic index.

Recipe Corner
Got a little extra time this weekend for your morning meal? Keep your blood sugar steady with this delicious high-fiber take on hash browns from EatingWell: Kale & Potato Hash. Or if you have some strawberries and a few minutes, make this for your morning meal:Strawberry Bruschetta.

RealAge Benefit: Learning to read labels and avoiding foods with saturated and trans fats, simple sugars, or processed grains as one of the first five ingredients can make your RealAge 3.6 years younger.

A Good Reason to Stay in Bed

This is an interesting article and I agree completely to this.. I have experienced uneasy feeling for lack of sleep resulting in palpitation.. so make sure you get your full dose of sleep...

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Is your sleep quality kind of poor? Then go ahead and sleep in. New research shows it might be best for your health.

Yep, a study links poor sleep to a greater risk of high blood pressure. But making up for fitful shut-eye with some extra ZZZs seemed to level the risk back down.

Dangers in Dreamland
In the study, researchers surveyed the sleep habits of 1,700 middle-aged adults and had each of them spend a night in a sleep lab. People who slept less than 5 total hours were twice as likely to have high blood pressure as those who slept 6 hours or more. And a self-reported history of sleep problems greatly compounded the effect. But -- and this is the good news -- any fitful sleepers who still got at least 6 hours of total sleep didn’t have the extra hypertension risk.

Solutions for Better Sleep
The combo of short sleep and poor sleep increases heart rate and bumps up production of stress hormones, which could help explain these recent study results. Not getting the shut-eye your body needs to stay healthy? Time to get serious about slumber with these easy drift-off-to-sleep strategies:

• Pull the plug. Find out what surfing the Web late at night does to your sleep rhythms.
• Let your worries out. Here’s how setting aside time to worry can help you knock off.
• Don’t forget to stretch. These limber-up activities can help you fall asleep faster.

Here are three more sleep-better tricks to try.

RealAge Benefit: Getting 6 to 8 hours of sleep per night can make your RealAge as much as 3 years younger.

Saturday lunch..

woke up today and went for a game of badminton after long time. .. and had been thinking of lunch and what needs to be done... I have been a forced bachelor since past few weeks still to continue for another couple of weeks..

After a long time i thought of catching up with one of my favorite tv soaps.."House" which comes on AXN.. its all about this Doctor "House" who tends to be brilliant doctor at this hospital & has a team of junior doctors and doctor friends. The stories cover unqique medical cases that is a speciality of Dr. House.. Apparently he is very irritating with his behaviour with his colleagues.. although he behaves this way superficially but cares a lot for them & is willing to do things for them without making it look more emotional... so this episode.. was good as usual.. & had some light & witty moments. His behaviour still tends to make his friends & colleagues consider his comments seriously & ultimately working towards bettering themselves.. so coming back to lunch..

I just had a thought for Lemon rice & went on the internet to hunt for the recipe.. on another thought I also wanted something better than usual vegetable.. so thought of making egg bhurji but with using spring onion.. it made me feel like a different saturday lunch today..

here goes the recipe for anyone who could be interested..

Lemon Rice is a delicious South Indian dish you can easily put together when in a hurry. You can also make it with leftover rice. Serve Lemon Rice with a Raita (yogurt salad) and Poppadums for a simple yet tasty meal.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cooked Basmati rice (or leftover rice)
• 2 tbsps vegetable/ canola/ sunflower cooking oil
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 3-4 curry leaves
• 2 green chillies slit lengthwise
• 1" piece of ginger grated
• 1/2 cup peanuts (roasted and unsalted)
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• Juice of 2 lemons
• Salt to taste

Preparation:

• Gently roast and then coarsely powder the coriander seeds. Keep aside.
• Heat the oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chillies. Fry till the spluttering stops and add the ginger and peanuts. Fry for another minute. Add the turmeric powder and turn off the fire.
• Add the lemon juice and mix well.
• Add the rice, roasted coriander powder and salt to taste and mix thoroughly.
• Serve with a Raita and Poppadums.

have a lovely weekend..