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Sumara's
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Greek Raw Dolmas
½ 16-ounce jar grape leaves
2 cups presoaked sunflower seeds (8-12
hours)
4 green onions,
chopped
2 tablespoons fresh mint
½ cup pine nuts
¾ cup fresh squeezed
lemon juice (2 large juicy lemons),
divided in half
1
cup cold-pressed olive oil, divided in half
2 tablespoons Bragg's Liquid
Aminos
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
1 tablespoon Savory Magic or
1 tablespoon
Nutritional Yeast
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 clove garlic, minced
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
In a food processor, process the sunflower
seeds, green onions, fresh mint and pine nuts until smooth. Add in
½ of the lemon juice, ½ of the olive oil, along with the rest of the
ingredients and process until blended.
Rinse the grape leaves under running cold water
to remove as much brine as possible. Pat dry and stack on a plate. Place 1
leaf at a time, vein side up, on a flat, clean work surface. Cut off and
discard the tough stem end. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of the seed mixture in
the center near the base of the leaf. Fold the stem end over to cover the
filling, fold both sides inward lengthwise and then tightly roll leaf toward
point tip end to form a compact packet. Place in a 8"x13" glass baking dish. Repeat
with the remaining leaves and filling.
Mix together the remaining lemon and oil and
pour it over the dolmas so they are evenly coated.
Cover dish with foil and place in dehydrator at
110 degrees. Allow to marinate in the dehydrator for at least 3 hours.
Makes 22-25 dolmas
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by Michael Conlon, Reuters
CHICAGO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - For parents worried
about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called
into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
A nasal spray made from Atlantic Ocean seawater eased wintertime cold symptoms
faster and slowed cough and cold symptoms from returning among children ages 6
to 10, researchers in Europe reported on Monday.
It may be that the salt water has a simple mechanical effect of clearing
mucus, or it could be that trace elements in the water play some more
significant role, though the exact reason why such a solution works is not
known, said Dr. Ivo Slapak and colleagues at the Teaching Hospital of Brno in
the Czech Republic...
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Readers Report Hygiene
Horror
by Robert L. Jamieson Jr., Seattle
PI
SGiven all the recent murder and mayhem around
town, the bullets and bombs overseas, and the growing anxiety about who will
be president, I thought it was a fine time to revisit one crisis we can all
get our hands on. Clean ones, hopefully.
My recent column about folks who are sink-averse brought a collective "yuck"
from hundreds of you. It was inspired after I saw a cook in a Seattle
restaurant use the bathroom, then walk out.
It is now quite evident that many of you also have horror stories from the
frontlines of hand hygiene.
A guy named Bill, for instance, wrote about how a fellow engineer at Boeing
feared that company supervisors weren't washing their hands after using the
toilet.
"So I started observing restroom behavior myself, and found this to be oh, so
true," Bill said. "After that, it was tough to shake any supervisor's hands..."
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Ask the Nutritionist:
Slow Metabolism
by
Theresa Stahl, RD, LDN, Nubella
Q: I’m a 54-year-old woman of average weight
and height. My diet is fairly healthy, and I try to monitor my calorie intake.
But any deviation from my normal eating pattern (eating an extra portion at
dinner, the occasional piece of cake for dessert) causes me to gain weight. My
best friend is also my age, but she can eat ice cream for breakfast and not
gain an ounce! Do I have a slow metabolism?
A: To answer this question, let’s take a closer look at metabolism.
Technically, metabolism is the sum of all chemical reactions that take place
in living cells. Energy metabolism includes all of the reactions by which the
body obtains and spends the energy from food. And basal metabolism (often
referred to as basal metabolic rate or BMR) is the energy needed to maintain
life when a body is at complete rest.
People have varying metabolic rates, and you’re probably asking this question
because you’ve observed this firsthand. We all know someone who eats anything
they want and never gains weight. This person most likely has a fast
metabolism. People with slower metabolisms often tell me, “I gain weight when
I look at food.” While this may be an exaggeration, this is often how someone
with a slow metabolism feels. But I have good news—you can increase your
metabolism...
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Scientists Discover
Way to Reverse Loss of Memory
by Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
Scientists performing experimental brain surgery
on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory
works.
The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to
suppress the obese man's appetite, using the increasingly successful technique
of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man's brain and
stimulated with an electric current. Instead of losing appetite, the patient
instead had an intense experience of déjà vu. He recalled, in intricate
detail, a scene from 30 years earlier. More tests showed his ability to learn
was dramatically improved when the current was switched on and his brain
stimulated.
Scientists are now applying the technique in the first trial of the treatment
in patients with Alzheimer's disease. If successful, it could offer hope to
sufferers from the degenerative condition, which affects 450,000 people in
Britain alone, by providing a "pacemaker" for the brain...
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