Tips from gaining health

Along with many readers, the Disease Management Care Blog is looking forward to the Care Continuum Alliances annual meeting, Forum12, two months from now in Atlanta. Not only will the DMCB get to make new friendships, the plenary presentations and smaller educational sessions are great way to learn how to apply the theoretical underpinnings of wellness, prevention and care management to the real world.

To help attendees better prepare for the meeting, the DMCB is pleased to offer this Lettermanesque "Top Ten" of things you may, or may not, see at the Forum12:

10. Someone genuflects upon hearing the term "CMS Innovation Center."

9. Only healthful fruit is served at one of the meeting breaks; in response, attendees riot.

8. A DMCB YouTube video is embedded in session PowerPoint (hey, its happened).

7. Three quarters of the attendees sitting in on a session are from the presenting facultys company.

6. Someone shows up at an early morning pre-meeting yoga class dressed in business attire, thinking it was a presentation on the return on investment from an employee yoga program.

5. The term "engagement" is used 20 times by a presenter in the course of ten minutes.

4. One faculty member hits a "presenters trifecta": 1) arrival flight lands on time 1/2 hour prior to the presentation, 2) he or she finds the meeting room within minutes and 3) catches the departure flight 1/2 hour after the end of the presentation.

3. The imposing booming disembodied voice asking you to take your seat at a plenary session is that of a female. With attitude.

2. The competition between the exhibitors for your attention becomes so intense, one offers free beer. Others follow suit.

1. The DMCB spouse "crowdsurfs" one of the plenary sessions.

NOTE #2: Wanna help out a good cause? Yay! The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation is asking CHG readers to fill out this Healthy Eating poll for research. They dont want any personal information – just a few answers to some very worthwhile questions. Head on over!

In my humble, meek, somewhat self-effacing (yes, I used the Thesaurus tool) opinion, one of the best recipes we’ve ever featured on CHG is the unfortunately named Cheesy Eggplant Bake. A tornado of vegetables and frommage, it’s most excellent for those days you just want to pack your face with large quantities of delectable healthiness.

Jeez, though. That name.

Today’s recipe has a similar problem. It’s a limey, fresh, summer-appropriate mixture of chicken and various guacamole-associated ingredients. And ideally, it goes in a wrap, on top of a few leaves of lettuce.

So, do we call our creations Deconstructed Guacamole Wraps? On one hand, the name sounds like the classy-like results of a Top Chef quickfire challenge. On the other hand, what everyday cook ever deconstructs anything? Besides his blender, I mean.

Or, do we go with Lime Chicken Salad with Avocado and Tomato? It lacks the upscale panache of the first name, but it IS much more picnic-ready. Like you can just throw it together and be off. Still, there’s the slight mayo-association that comes whenever you use the word “Salad.” And nobody wants that.

Sweet readers, what to call this thing? Would you go with either of the proposed titles? Would you call it something else entirely? How do we convey that it requires leftover chicken? Am I overthinking this?

(My answers: dunno, maybe, yes, beats me, yes.)

Before you get to brainstorming, though, know this: these wraps, while scrumptious, are much richer than our usual entries, due to a lot of avocado and a not-modest amount of olive oil. However, you can drop a significant amount of fat by reducing each ingredient by half. Not that you have to. This is all pretty healthy, fat-wise.

With that said, how about that name? Im stymied.

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If you dig this recipe, these might also float your boat:

• Chipotle Pork Tenders
• Pasta with Turkey Sausage and Broccoli Rabe
• Skillet Chicken Fajitas

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Deconstructed Guacamole Wraps
OR Lime Chicken Salad with Avocado and Tomato
Serves 4.


8 ounces grilled chicken, chopped into bite-sized pieces
1 avocado, diced
1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
1/4 cup red onion, minced
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
3 tablespoons lime juice
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
4 large leaves green lettuce
4 tortilla wraps

NOTE: I used grilled chicken thighs for this, due to their moistness and general tastiness. There were three of ‘em and I took each apart with my fingers.

1) In a medium bowl, combine chicken, avocado, cherry tomatoes, red onion, and cilantro. Stir, gently if you have very-ripe avocado.

2) In a small bowl, whisk together lime juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper to taste. Pour on to chicken mixture and stir to combine.

3) Place a few leaves of lettuce on each wrap. Split chicken evenly among wraps. Roll them up. Serve!

Approximate Calories, Fat, Fiber, Protein, and Price
368 calories, 23 g fat, 5.7 g fiber, 18 g protein, $1.30

NOTE: Your numbers will be slightly different depending on what cut of chicken and what kind of wraps you use. My calculations are for chicken thighs and Tropical brand tortillas.

Calculations
8 ounces grilled chicken, chopped into bite-sized pieces: 435 calories, 22.7 g fat, 0 g fiber, 54 g protein, $1.27
1 avocado, diced: 322 calories, 29.5 g fat, 13.5 g fiber, 4 g protein, $1.00
1 cup halved cherry tomatoes: 27 calories, 0.3 g fat, 1.8 g fiber, 1.3 g protein, $0.99
1/4 cup red onion, minced: 17 calories, 0 g fat, 0.6 g fiber, 0.4 g protein, $0.12
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped: 1 calories, 0 g fat, 0.1 g fiber, 0.1 g protein, $0.25
3 tablespoons lime juice: 12 calories, 0 g fat, 0.2 g fiber, 0.2 g protein, $0.50
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil: 239 calories, 27 g fat, 0 g fiber, 0 g protein, $0.24
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt: negligible calories, fat, fiber, protein, $0.01
Freshly ground black pepper: negligible calories, fat, fiber, protein, $0.01
4 large leaves green lettuce: 19 calories, 0.3 g fat, 2.4 g fiber, 1.4 g protein, $0.10
4 wraps: 400 calories, 12 g fat, 4 g fiber, 12 g protein, $0.72
TOTAL: 1472 calories, 91.8 g fat, 22.6 g fiber, 73.4 g protein, $5.21
PER SERVING (TOTAL/4): 368 calories, 23 g fat, 5.7 g fiber, 18 g protein, $1.30

The pouch, gut, abdomen, midsection, core or tummy has notoriously been a problem area for many men and women throughout their lives. This is how so many diet plans and new fangled exercise plans make promises that people invest a lot of time and money into hoping that one of them will be telling the truth. Frankly, many programs and natural dietary changes can help improve muscle tone, fat reduction and skin elasticity, but what can really offer long-term benefit? What can really offer long-term benefit for busy people: men and women who have physical difficulty exercising on a regular basis or the way that theyd like? Many men and women opt for augmenting their exercise and diet plans with the abdominoplasy procedure, which is better known as the tummy tuck.

But with extreme makeovers not losing steam, the benefits and side effects of the procedure are being weighed against the overall outcome of the body lift procedure as well. These days, men and women arent just opting for a little significant change to their mid-section, they prefer for it all to dramatically improve in one procedure. So a combination of the abdominoplasty within the surgical procedure of the body lift is what each patient can order. If he or she gains weight in their mid-section then they are likely to have struggled with back fat, hip fat and thigh fat as well and those areas are covered in the improvements a body lift is capable of providing.

An abdominoplasty, on its own, consists of three primary surgical techniques that have been designed to facilitate the removal of excess skin and attached fat from three degrees of abdominal profile size. The first option is the mini procedure that consists of a small incision just above the pubic area. The second option is the standard procedure, which includes a larger incision above the pubic area that extends from one hip to the other.

The third option is the extended procedure that makes a circular incision around the belly button as well as the longer incision at the pubic line from one hip to another. From there the skin and muscles are lowered and smoothed out by the surgeon who creates a tighter abdomen for each patient. The abdominoplasty, like the body lift, is ideal for men and women dealing with the effects of fluctuating weight, significant weight loss, body changes due to a combination of heredity and aging as well as post pregnancy body changes.

And where the tummy tuck leaves off, the body lift comes in for those additional problem areas that many men and women face as they struggle with weight maintenance and body shape. The body lift contributes to the sculpting of the midsection and upper portions of the lower body, which includes the abdomen, back, buttocks, hips and thighs. And as body improvements continue to involve cosmetic intervention, men and women will see less and less of a need to be discouraged by what their diet, exercise and time management attempts havent been able to do for the body yet.

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Article by : Ace Abbey

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