Heart Disease Videos.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.

 

 Like most systemic conditions, heart disease can affect your eyes.  As well, a dilated eye examination can sometimes reveal the early signs of heart disease.

 

Are you willing to do anything to lower your risk of developing heart disease?

 

If you or a family member has heart disease or you are wanting to learn more about how to reduce your risk for heart disease, these four videos by Dr. Greger are a must watch. 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Greger is a physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. A founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. Currently he serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.



JACKPOT!!!

I ran across this websight with the top 25+ blogs for Vegan/Vegetarian Moms!!! We are super excited to check them out and find some wonderful ideas, we hope you find some good info too!

http://www.circleofmoms.com/top25/Top-25-Vegan-Vegetarian-Moms-2013

Pep Talk

 

I love inspirational videos like this! 

 

 

 

Suffer from Migraines? Watch this video:

Many of my patients suffer from migraines.  When someone has a migraine, their quality of life diminishes significantly.  All their body wants to do during one of these migraine episodes is to curl up in a dark and quiet place until the discomfort and pain subsides.  Unfortunately, most people have to proceed with their daily grind despite their migraine suffering. 

 

 

This is an interesting video by Dr. Greger for you to watch and share with anyone that experiences migraines.  Even if only one of you watching this video benefits from the suggested treatment option, then it is worth my time posting it.

 

I hope this helps.

 

 

 

Michael Greger M.D.

Dr. Greger is a physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. A founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. Currently he serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.



Protect your children online.

Vernon's Vision is so much more than just a site for information about eyes and nutrition.

 

 

If your children are online, you need to watch this with them!

 

 

 

 

Colorblindness

I had a colorblind patient and their parent in recently and we were joking about this very topic during the exam, so I thought I would share:

 

I try to make a point and inform all of my colorblind patients that there are some occupations that may need to be avoided like that of a  pilot, police officer, fire fighter, electrician, etc.   After stating this, the father of the child that I mentioned above then added, "....and bomb defuser".   I had to laugh because it caught me off guard and he was correct, I will have to add that one to my list.

Chris Kutcher?

OK...so, despite the horrible video quality and the sounds of screaming teen age girls is ear piercing, Chris Kutcher actually has some really great points that are worth watching with your teenager.

 

Thanks to A.H. for bringing this video to my attention. 

 

 

 

 

This Quote Applies to Many aspects of life

Nutrient Density

This is a great clip by Dr. Joel Fuhrman called "Nutrient Density is the Key to Good Health" 

 

What Vegans Eat, by Sophia

Our daughter took the I-Pad into the other room and secretly made this video without us knowing.  Ever since she saw me making videos for the blog in the past, she has been interested in making her own videos on our phones/I-Pads.  This is the video that she made today.

She makes us so proud and we could not be more excited that the information we are providing our children is sinking in and becoming part of them and their every day independant choices.  I hope she can be an inspiration to other kids.

Vegan Chocolate Banana Nut Ice Cream

4 frozen bananas

 

 

Add 1/2 to 1 cup of raw almonds and/or walnuts

 

Add 2 tablespoons of ground flax seed

 

Add Just enough chocolate almond milk (~1 cup) to blend but not too much or else it will liquefy.

 

I did add a teaspoon of organic cocoa nibs for added nutrition, but this is optional.

 

I like the tamper feature with the Vitamix.  The tamper(see below) allows you to push down the solid material into the blades but the tamper is not long enough to hit the blades.  It is great for making these type of deserts. 

 

Here is a picture from the Internet of the tamper on the left. The clear portion of the lid comes off and the tamper goes into that hole in the lid so you can push down the solids.  Without the tamper, you would have to put so much liquid in that you would end up with just a smoothie instead of the ice cream consistency we are trying to achieve.

The end result (below) tasted like ice cream, melted like ice cream but was so much more healthy than ice cream...compare the fat, cholesterol and calorie counts of this versus your ice cream.  This is so much more healthy.  There is the calcium in the almond milk, the protein from the nuts, the omega 3 fatty acids from the nuts and flax, antioxidants from the cocoa nips and all the nutrients from the bananas. 

 

 I wish all of you could just taste how amazing this ice cream was. 

 

I plan on evolving this recipe as time goes on and I will share with you all the different flavors we come up with.

 

Why raise your cholesterol, blood sugar, fat intake and calorie intake with regular ice cream when you can make this instead?   

 

And yes, I did make this the next night with spinach in it because I realized the kids hadn't consumed any green leafy vegetables that day....so, yup, we had spinach chocolate ice cream.....and it tasted good.

 

And, yup, the kids ate it all without complaints.

 

And, yup, Vitamix blenders RULE!  

 

I dare you to try this recipe.

 

I double dare you to share this recipe with one of your friends.

Lalibela Ethiopian Cuisine

We met some friends for dinner at a restaurant we had never been to. The friends we met there have been there several times and LOVE it. We were excited to try something new.

 So the restaurant is Ethiopian. Lalibela is on the Northeast corner of Saddle Creek and Cass. 

We have never had anything like it.

 This was what we ordered, the Vegetarian Delight. 

 It's different flavors of split lentils cooked in red pepper sauce with spices, fresh spinach steamed with garlic, onion, green pepper and olive oil and other steamed vegetables like cabbage and carrots.

 The bread that it's on is injera sourdough flatbread made with fermented teff flour (which is high in fiber and iron providing protein and calcium ~ it is similar to millet and quinoa, but the seed is much smaller and cooks much faster). It had such a cool texture. Very rubbery and almost like a sea sponge. Ethiopians eat exclusively with their right hands, using a piece of injera to pick up bites of the entree. There was no silverware to be seen in the restaurant, but I'm sure they had it upon request. We jumped right in with our hands (after washing of course)! It was fun and different and not as messy as I thought it would be.

We also got Ethiopian Spiced Hot Tea (I forgot to take a picture). It's FREE and delicious!!! 

The whole dinner was a VERY reasonably priced. The Vegetarian platter we got was $12 and we split it and it was definitely enough to fill us both up.

You should give it a try. We will definitely be back. 

Joe Cross

Did any of you see Joe Cross from "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" on the Yahoo News board tonight? 

 

THIS VIDEO is what Yahoo highlighted tonight.

 

It has been about 18 months since we last made this juice.  I just told Casie that we need to try to make it in the Vitamix soon.  Of course, I will let you know how that turns out.

Watch Forks Over Knives for Free

Although the documentary, Forks Over Knives, can be viewed on Netflix, you can also watch it for free (with some commercials/ads) on Hulu.

 

CLICK HERE TO WATCH FORKS OVER KNIVES ON HULU FOR FREE.