One key to better health is to eat more meals at home. The humble crock pot is a great tool to help squeeze more home-cooked goodness into our busy lives.
Here are two quick tips to hack your crock pot cookery:
1) Freeze all ingredients the night before cooking. Put them in before leaving for work and your food won’t be mush by dinner time, though it will be cooked. Great for roasts.
2) Don’t have a fancy model with a timer? Use a cheap lamp timer available at any hardware store. Set it to turn off an hour before you get home and the food will be cool enough to feed your kids as soon as you walk through the door.
March 11th, 2007
My Crew over at the Health Hacks Podcast have an episode with a theme inspired by Dr. Who villains the Daleks.
Episode 18 is all about helping you stick with the resolutions you might have made at the start of January:
- Reinhard Engels continues to explain the relationship between the everyday systems “Chain of Self-Command” and “Personal Punchcards” which were introduced last week. Hint: it involves evil robots!
- Occupational Therapist Eve The O.T. takes a break from her multi-part report on office ergonomics to help you bolster your willpower and patch up any lapses now that you’re ten days into your New Year’s resolutions.
January 15th, 2007
Grasshopper New Media is very proud to present, GNMHealth’s first Video Podcast, Healthy Helpings TV.
Host Michelle Koen will be taking classic recipes like burgers and treats like pudding and cake and showing you how to adapt them to your diet, whether it’s a low-fat approach like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig, or a carb-controlled plan like the South Beach diet or Atkins.
In the premiere episode, Michelle will be taking the humble yet fatty hamburger and re-inventing it as a delectable yet quite healthy Asian-style lunch or dinner entree!
Join us each Monday for another healthy culinary delight!
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January 7th, 2007
The Lucky Thirteenth episode of the Health Hacks Podcast features our regular contributors Reinhard Engels, Eve the OT, Patrick “Vitamin P” Sullivan and Myself (Kevin Kennedy-Spaien) giving our top five tips on everything from Magnesium to Arbitrary Numbers for health.
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November 24th, 2006
Getting back in the groove, here’s a handful of links for your reading pleasure!
Resveratrol on MeFi
The Thanksgiving Menu of the Gods at Wired.com
Genetics of muscle performance at BoingBoing
Geek’s Guide to Getting in Shape: 13 Surefire Tips
November 24th, 2006
Episode 10 of the Health Hacks Podcast is now live!
In this episode, I discuss a new twist on using up those pumpkin seeds and what to do with that extra candy.
Reinhard Engels has more on habits for behavior management, Chris Brogan talks about Nuts.
Occupational Therapist Eve the OT teaches about breathing as a form of stress management, and Patrick “Vitamin P” Sullivan discusses a law called DSHEA, which is the reason nutritional supplement companies (like his) cannot simply tell consumers what an herb or mineral compound is supposed to treat.
Also, in this episode, we begin the use of transcripts in our show notes. These are not complete, but do cover much of the show.
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November 1st, 2006
There has been a major shift in the restaurant industry away from the use of once-prevalent trans fats. An optimist would say this is because of good corporate citizenship, a pessimist might say this is due to threats of lawsuits and changing regulations. In truth, there is more to the picture.
KFC (formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken, now ashamed of the word “fried”, apparently) will have dropped its current trans-fat laden cooking oil in favor of soybean oil by April ‘07. They are not alone; recently, Wendy’s removed trans fat from its fries, earlier this year Disney announced it will eliminate trans fats from food sold at its theme parks, McDonalds is actively experimenting to find the tastiest way to make trans-fat free cuisine a staple at the golden arches, as well. Kraft, ConAgra and Frito-Lay have also reduced trans fat use in their products.
Since the NYC Board of Health is holding hearings on a potential city-wide ban on trans fats, and companies like KFC have been targets of lawsuits by the likes of the Center for Science in the Public Interest over non-disclosure of trans fat use, it seems that corporate America has been forced to act by forces outside of the boardroom. That is only part of the story, though.
The real movement seems like it may be coming from within these organizations. Pollsters working for KFC, for instance, have determined that they will actually sell more product if they make the switch. That’s a pretty compelling argument. It seems that 25% of KFC customers said they would eat MORE fried chicken if they didn’t have to worry about trans fats.
Consider the strength of that factoid- this is not a boycott. This isn’t some potentially disinterested group of people saying “don’t eat at KFC”, and picketing with banners and cardboard signs. These are people who are already money-in-the-bank customers claiming they’d eat MORE. From an Aesopean perspective, the bird in the hand is worth two in the picket line.
Can capitalism save our collective health? I doubt it, but then again… every little bit helps.
AND PLEASE DON”T EAT MORE CHICKEN JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN!!
Inspiration:
KFC plans ‘important’ trans fat ‘milestone’ (USA Today)
October 31st, 2006
Our GNMHealth Podcast, The Health Hacks Podcast has had its ninth episode posted today. Come check it out for great new stuff and an opportunity to win a copy of Disc of Light’s newest meditation and relaxation CD, BodyMind.
October 26th, 2006
Earlier this week, I posted about online fitness tools/portals, and somehow, I forgot to mention one site I’ve been looking at for some time now: HyperStrike.
According to the website, Hypersrtike offers:
Workout plan customized to fit your needs
* Personalized 90-Session Workout Plan to Fit Your Goals
* Personal Fitness Calendar to Record Your Progress
* Add, Delete, Move Workouts to Fit Your Schedule
Variety & Flexibility in Your Workouts
* Workouts Draw from a Large Database of 3D Exercise Animations
* Take Your Workout on the Go Via Progio
* Swap Exercises to Fit Your Equipment Needs
Exercise Instructions to Help You with Proper Technique
* Written Step-By-Step and Animated Exercise Instructions
* Subscription to HyperStrike Motivator Monthly Newsletter
* Access to Articles on Fitness & Nutrition
Hyperstrike is a pay service, but they have a free introductory period offered on their web site.
I likes the animated exercise videos and found them useful. Check it out!
October 26th, 2006
I’ve been spending some time looking at online health community and tool sites, and here are three interesting ones to share:
Traineo Weight Loss Community
A community-based portal to encourage weight loss.
From the splash page:
* Stay accountable, reach your goals!
Been to the gym today? Record this in a couple of clicks and see how many calories you burned. traineo will report your totals to your motivators at the end of each week.
* Keep your diet on track
Have you stuck to your diet today? traineo will give you a daily ‘training diet rating’ to easily gauge how good you’ve been.
* Visualize your progress
See how your workouts and diet compare over time with intuitive graphs and see if you’re on target to reach your goals.
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Keep in touch with your ‘motivators’
Exchange messages with your ‘traineo motivators’ straight from your online account.
* Meet others in the traineo community
Share weight loss tips, give your fellow members encouragement or talk about anything else!
* Get your personal traineo.com page!
You’ll have your very own traineo.com domain where you can leave comments on your progress or comment on other pages with ease!
Collabofit Online Fitness
Virtual teams compete against each other by maintaing an exercise regimen.
Currently invitation only. Sorry! On the upside, they even have a Shovelglove team!
From the site:
Regular memberships are FREE and include these features:
* Join up to 3 teams
* Create your own team
* Enter workout activity stats:
o Walking
o Running
o Swimming
o Cycling
o Situps
o Pushups
o and more…
* Easily track your weight and stats over time
The Daily Plate
A free, online food diary system with food count lookups available.
From the site:
A diet coach, nutritionist, and food plan at your fingertips, just a click away.
Food Journal Food Journal
Keep track of what you eat
Calorie Calculator Calorie Calculator
Determine your daily goal
Fitness Log Fitness Log
Calculate and log the calories you burn each day
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October 23rd, 2006
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