Women’s Health Magazine
http://eatthis.womenshealthmag.com/slideshow/12-foods-your-dentist-wont-eat#sharetagsfocus
Life is sweet, all right—so sweet that each of us will eat the sugar equivalent of 6,047 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the next 12 months. Impossible, right? Sure, you like a piece of birthday cake now and again, and you’re not above raiding the kids’ Halloween stash or Christmas stockings or even stealing a serving of ice cream once a week or so. But 140 pounds of the sweet stuff? How can that be?
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The authors of the best-selling weight-loss books, Eat This, Not That!, reveal 12 of the most sugar-packed foods in America. Some are ice cream treats, sure. But just as many are regular food products that you’d never in a million years consider “desserts”—that is, until now. Steer clear of these 12 sugar-packed foods. Your blood sugar—and teeth!—depend on it.
12. Most Sugar-Packed Canned Product
Del Monte Peach Chunks in Heavy Syrup (1/2 cup)
23 g sugars
100 calories
0 g fat
Unlike most food on this list, these peaches aren’t bona fide junk food; they are, after all, still fruit. But why manufacturers feel the need to can, package, and bottle nature’s candy with excess sugar is a question we will never stop asking. In this case, the viscous sugar solution clings to the fruit like syrup to a pancake, soaking every bite with utterly unnecessary calories. Looking for cheap sources of fruit to have on hand at any time? Opt for the frozen stuff—it’s picked at the height of season and flash frozen on the spot, keeping costs low and nutrients high.
11. Most Sugar-Packed Breakfast Baked Good
Tim Horton’s Whole Grain Raspberry Muffin
29 g sugars
400 calories
16 g fat (4 g saturated)
These are the types of nutrition numbers you’d expect from a hunk of coffee cake, not a whole grain muffin. Truth is, the two are more similar than you’d think. After all, this bevy of berries is teeming with more sugar than you’d find in a pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. If you want an easy-to-eat breakfast food, grab a croissant over a muffin. They may be heavy on flaky, buttery flavor, but they’re usually one of the safest baked goods you’ll find at a cafe or coffee shop.
10. Most Sugar-Packed Cereal
Quaker Natural Granola Oat & Honey & Raisins (1 cup)
26 g sugars
420 calories
10 g fat (1 g saturated)
10 g fiber
Like eating dessert for breakfast? Because that’s basically what granola is. Sure, there’s a splash of fiber, but it’s completely diluted by a tidal wave of sugar. In fact, sugar accounts for more than a third of the calories in this bowl, and unfortunately, Quaker’s is the rule, not the exception. The only acceptable use for granola is to crumble a small handful into plain yogurt. Save your bowls for a cereal more wholesome.
9. Most Sugar-Packed Chinese Meal
Manchu Wok Honey Garlic Chicken with Fried Rice
34 g sugars
840 calories
34 g fat (6 g saturated)
2,100 mg sodium
Why does this simple Chinese meal pack as much sugar as a pack of Skittles? Blame the Honey Garlic Sauce bathing the chicken. The Honey Garlic Chicken packs about twice the sugar as the Pineapple Chicken, so making that switch will automatically improve the dish. Do yourself one extra favor and switch to mixed vegetables instead of rice as a side. You’ll earn flavor and nutrients while eliminating 280 calories.
8. Most Sugar-Packed Mall Snack
Auntie Anne’s Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel with Sweet Dip
61 g sugars
600 calories
12 g fat (7 g saturated)
The combination of the sweetest pretzel with the sweetest dip (there are 32 grams of sugar in that little cup!) makes this the most nefarious option for your blood sugar and your chompers. Nothing trumps marinara in the battle for a better dip, but to compliment the sweet flavor of a raisin pretzel, cream cheese is far safer than the other options. Cut an extra 30 calories by asking them to prepare your pretzel sans butter.
7. Most Sugar-Packed Fast Food Breakfast
Dunkin’ Donuts Apple Crumb Donut with Small Coffee with Cream and Sugar
66 g sugars
610 calories
24 g fat (13 g saturated)
Fruity names aside, crumb doughnuts are the worst doughnut option. Just as bad is the normal coffee order. Cream and sugar add 115 calories to a small, so if you slug through two or three a day, expect to carry around an extra 25 to 35 pounds. Surprisingly, eight of Dunkin’s 10 “Kreme” doughnuts are less than 320 calories—a rare feat in the world of fat-stuffed pastries. Tack on a 10-calorie cup of Caramel Coffee, and you have a decadent start to your day that won’t budge the needle on that dreaded scale.
6. Most Sugar-Packed Coffee House Drink
Starbucks Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino Blended Creme (Grande size with 2% milk and whipped cream)
71 g sugars
450 calories
15 g fat (9 g saturated)
Frappuccinos are easily the worst beverages on offer at Starbucks, so if you must have one, make it a Frappuccino Light. Even if you order a Grande, you still have a good chance of landing one under 200 calories. Your best bet at Starbucks, though, (aside from black coffee, of course), is a Vivanno beverage. They offer two key elements that put them leagues ahead of any Frap: Real fruit (one whole banana in each smoothie) and a shot of whey protein and fiber. That means you get a kick of antioxidants with a helping of slow-digesting nutrients to keep your blood sugar stable.
5. Most Sugar-Packed Fruity Ice Cream
Cold Stone Creamery Blueberry Ice Cream (Gotta Have It size)
74 g sugars
760 calories
47 g fat (31 g saturated, 1.5 g trans)
The Gotta Have It size at Cold Stone is about 12 ounces, which is equivalent to ordering three scoops at Baskin-Robbins or Ben & Jerry’s. Order any ice cream in this size and you can expect to spoon down about a day’s worth of saturated fat and the same amount of sugar as you’ll find in 11 rainbow popsicles. Downsize your order, and focus on toppings, which can make or break an ice cream. Most of the cookies and candy bars at Cold Stone have between 100 and 200 calories per serving, so limit the indulgent toppings to Nilla Wafers and Yellow Cake. Fruits and nuts, of course, will always be your safest bets.
4. Most Sugar-Packed Smoothie
Jamba Juice Banana Berry (22 fl oz)
82 g sugars
400 calories
1.5 g fat (0.5 g saturated)
Be on the lookout for smoothies—like this one—that are made with juice, not whole fruits. Sure juice is derived from fruit, but it burdens your smoothie with loads of extra sugars without contributing a shred of fiber or protein. You’re better off with all-fruit or dairy-based varieties.
3. Most Sugar-Packed Hot Beverage
Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate (Venti size with 2% milk and whipped cream)
81 g sugars
560 calories
19 g fat (11 g saturated)
Since when did hot chocolate require salt and caramel to meet the expectations of consumers? Seems a bit gratuitous, no? Thanks to Starbucks’ monstrous creation, the classic winter comfort beverage is now sullied with more than half a day’s worth of saturated fat and more sugar than 3 Hershey’s chocolate bars.
2. Most Sugar-Packed Shake
Cold Stone BP&C Shake (Gotta Have It size)
140 g sugars
1,750 calories
118 g fat (64 g saturated, 2 g trans)
There’s no such thing as a healthy milkshake, but there are varying degrees of bad. Unfortunately, this belly-bloating beverage takes unhealthy to the extreme. It contains nearly as much sugar as an entire 15-ounce box of Chewy Chips Ahoy! Cookies! It’s also the only drink in America to stretch across the 2,000-calorie mark. The combination of peanut butter—good in small amounts, horrendous when liquefied in bathtub-size quantities—and chocolate ice cream outpaces even the worst cookie- and candy-strewn shakes that clutter Cold Stone’s embarrassing shake menu. Suck this thing down and you’ve just blasted away a day’s worth of calories and more than 3 days’ worth of saturated fat.
1. Most Sugar-Packed Menu Item in America
Baskin-Robbins Oreo Layered Sundae
146 g sugars
1,330 calories
61 g fat (31 g saturated, 1 g trans)
Outrageous? That’s an understatement. Cookie and candy bar flavors reign supreme at Baskin-Robbins, and the results are almost always dismal. If you must have a sundae, try to limit it to two scoops with a bit of hot fudge and chopped nuts—that’ll run you about 550 calories. Your better bet at Baskin, though, is to stick to scoops to mitigate the damage of ice cream indulgence.
http://eatthis.womenshealthmag.com/slideshow/12-foods-your-dentist-wont-eat#sharetagsfocus
A great article and a great website that was created by 2 members of our dental family.
By Jeffrey Sheban
Erin Weist thought she was a good judge of films that were appropriate for her children.
Then a friend referred the Utah mother of three to the website Kids-in-Mind.com, operated from the home of a husband-and-wife team in Dublin — which takes movie ratings to a whole new level.
The results proved eye-opening for Weist, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom who became more aware of the violence, profanity and even sexual undertones in films being marketed to her children, ages 1 to 5.
“I never realized how much innuendo I was missing,” she said. “Things that would go right over my head, my kids were acting out or repeating.”
Since she started using Kids-in-Mind several months ago, Weist said, she feels empowered.
“It’s the best website for this purpose that I’ve found,” she said. “There are no more gasping moments when I say: ‘Oh! I didn’t want my kids to see that.’ ”
Kids-in-Mind is the brainchild of Aris Christofides and Lori Pearson, who make a living from the business. The parents of two teenage children devised their rating system 20 years ago while living in Cincinnati. They were in a library and saw a patron grow frustrated trying to understand why a particular film was rated PG-13: Was it related to violence, profanity, sex or a combination?
The librarian had no idea and seemed unsure where to turn.
“It was like an epiphany,” said Christofides, a former telecommunication administrator who oversees website operations. His wife, previously a buyer for Federated Department Stores, reviews movies and edits the work of contributors. (The couple and the business moved to Dublin in 2005.)
“We thought there must be a way for somebody to tell why a movie had a particular rating.”
Commercial movies are assigned a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America — G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17 — that carry age guidelines for parents and theater owners. Critics say MPAA ratings are inconsistent and lack enough details for consumers to make judgments.
A case in point is The King’s Speech, a critically acclaimed film that received an R rating because of one scene in which the stuttering King George VI of England is instructed by his speech therapist to swear. Besides the burst of profanity, the movie contained none of the sex and violence typically found in an R or even PG-13 film.
Given the educational nature of the film, the R rating — no one younger than 17 admitted without a parent or guardian — was probably too harsh, Pearson said.
“Every kind of age-based rating system is bound to fail you because every child is different and matures at a different rate,” she said. “We go out of our way to not make recommendations but to provide more information, because information is power.”
Kids-in-Mind rates movies with three numbers on a scale of zero to 10 that measure incidents of sex/nudity, violence/gore and profanity. The ratings are supported with detailed descriptions of various scenes.
The site has been around since 1992, offered originally as content on Internet service provider America Online. In 1998, the couple left AOL and created their website, which is free for users and supported through advertising. A small number of subscribers get the same content without the ads.
Other popular family-oriented ratings services have a religious or ideological bent; Kids-in-Mind is strictly secular and not affiliated with any political party, the founders said.
Competing services include the Catholic News Service, which has movie reviews geared toward Roman Catholic parents (www.catholicnews.com/movies), and Focus on the Family, which caters to conservative Christians (www.pluggedin.com).
In addition to Christofides, 56, and Pearson, 50, Kids-in-Mind employs two full-time reviewers, supplemented by free-lancers as needed. Pearson trains new reviewers and edits their work for consistency.
Reviewers generally attend screenings several days before movies open to the public.
Pearson reviews about 50 to 60 movies a year, taking copious notes with black felt-tip pens on white legal pads (easier to read in the dark, she said). The process can be taxing.
“I have to read and write and watch at the same time,” she said. “Sometimes I’m writing from the opening credits to the closing credits.”
The hard work is appreciated by thousands of regular users — including Layla Manganaro of Upper Arlington, who said the service is indispensable.
“I rely on this because I’ve definitely been burned by the MPAA ratings,” said the 39-year-old, whose children are 10 and 7. “Every family has different values and feels differently about what to expose their kids to and at what age.
“I always check to see just what we’re in store for.”
jsheban@dispatch.com
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Celebrating courage
Cancer-patient radiation masks turned into artistic tributes set for auction at fundraising gala
By Amy Saunders
The Columbus Dispatch
Tom dodge | DISPATCH
Cancer survivor Harry Grzeskowiak with artist Sandy Reddig and her interpretation of his radiation mask, Stars, So Many Stars
The mask trapped Harry Grzeskowiak during 34 radiation treatments, immobilizing his head and shoulders so that the cancer could be targeted.
It was an unpleasant reminder of the 72-year-old’s illness, which also required six rounds of chemotherapy and five surgeries to remove afflicted portions of his jawbone and tongue.
Asked to decorate the plastic mask for an art exhibit, Columbus portrait artist Sandy Reddig had no idea how to work with a medical accessory complete with surgical tape, stains and holes for a tracheotomy in Grzeskowiak’s throat and suction tube in his mouth.
Listening to his story, though, she noticed how often the Plain City resident thanked the people he called his “stars”: family members, friends, and doctors and nurses at Ohio State University’s Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital.
Reddig painted the mask in a swirling celestial theme, adorning it with stars and rosary beads like the ones Grzeskowiak used to pray.
She preserved the bolts that restrained the patient to a table, along with the holes. But in her re-imagining of the mask, Grzeskowiak gasps in awe of the people who helped him fight cancer.
Stars, So Many Stars is one of 26 pieces in “Courage Unmasked,” an exhibit commissioned for the Joan Levy Bisesi Foundation for Head and Neck Oncology Research that turns radiation masks into often-uplifting works of art.
On display through next Thursday at the Davis Group, a Short North-area furniture showroom, the masks will be auctioned the next night during a fundraising gala at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.
The artwork, completed last year and displayed throughout 2011, was inspired by a Washington project of the same name that featured the work of 100 artists nationwide.
The artists in the Columbus version of “Courage Unmasked” — most of them from central Ohio — developed relationships with cancer survivors treated at the James. The collaborations yielded artistic representations of experiences with head and neck cancer.
Many masks in the exhibit were actually worn by the survivors; others are substitutes for patients who couldn’t bear to keep their masks after treatment.
“I’ve heard of people who run them over in their car or take them to a shooting gallery to shoot them with a gun,” said Melinda Fenholt Cogley, executive director of the foundation and a survivor of thyroid cancer. “People hate these masks.”
One piece in the exhibit features a mask cut into numerous pieces, arranged into falling leaves, because the survivor wanted the mask destroyed.
When Jim Walker told artist Randall Ater of his emotions throughout a five-year battle with tonsil cancer, the unexpected result was a 10-foot sculpture depicting the mask rising above a field of debris.
“I was truly amazed at what I saw,” said Walker, 73, of Columbus. “It pretty well summed up the way I had felt the whole time.”
Fenholt Cogley hopes that the gala and auction raises $100,000 for Joan’s Fund, a research endowment at the James named for the Bexley woman who succumbed to oral cancer at age 34 — when her firstborn daughter was just 10 weeks old.
Since Bisesi’s death in 2001, the fund has raised more than $700,000 mostly through payroll contributions at the James.
The Joan Levy Bisesi Foundation, a separate entity, was formed this year to produce fundraising events — including “Courage Unmasked,” which could become a biennial exhibit. (The board is seeking an artist to transform Bisesi’s mask.)
Participating in the exhibit was an emotional experience for Ruth Ann Mitchell, the only artist tasked with decorating a mask for a subject who did not survive cancer.
Michelle Theado died in 2009, just 15 months after learning that a sore under her tongue was not a canker sore but cancer. The 26-year-old had been approaching her second wedding anniversary and fourth year as a teacher.
Her family hoped that the mask would focus on her life at Gahanna’s Goshen Lane Elementary School, where the first-grade teacher was known for her bubbly personality and knack for working with children not always enthusiastic about learning.
“It just made me feel so committed to the project, to want to share who she was and the standards she set for herself and her students,” Mitchell said.
Covering the mask with materials from school workbooks and photos of Theado, Mitchell attached it to a chalkboard displaying a message written by the artist’s granddaughter: “Education + Funds = CURE.”
Theado’s father, Chuck Peltier, began crying when he first saw the piece earlier this year.
“It really got to me that this is part of your daughter and what she represents,” said Peltier, of Piqua. “It was a tough thing to see hanging there, but it captured what she was about.”
At the auction next week, he hopes to purchase what is no longer a dreaded mask but a memorial to his daughter.
asaunders@dispatch.com
- Every 2 1/2 minutes a woman in the US is diagnosed with breast cancer.
- 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Breast cancer is 2nd only to lung cancer as the leading cause of death in women.
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WATER
# 1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (This likely applies to half of the population.)
#2. In 37% of Americans the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.
#3. Even MILD dehydration will slow your metabolism about 3 percent.
#4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of dieters, according to a University of Washington study.
#5. Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
#6. Preliminary research shows that 8-10 glasses of water a day may ease back and joint pain for 80% of sufferers.
#7. A mere 2% drop in water can trigger a fuzzy short term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or a printed page.
#8. Drinking 5 glasses of water a day can decrease the risk of colon cacer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%. And, one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink everyday?
COKE
(diet or otherwise)
#1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highways.
#2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.
#3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coke into the bowl and let sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from china.
#4. To remove rust spots from a chrome car bumper: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of aluminum foil dipped in Coke.
#5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coke over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
#6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coke to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
#7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coke into the pan, wrap the ham in foil, and bake. 30 mins before the ham is finished, remove the foil allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a fantastic brown gravy.
#8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into the load, add detergent, and run through a rinse cycle. The Coke will help loosen grease stains.
FYI
The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.
To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous material sign reserved for highly corrosive material.
Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or Coke??
That’s why we use VELscope Vx.
Each year in the US alone, approx 37,000 individuals are newly diagnosed with oral cancer. If you add throat cancers to the number that number will increase to about 48,000. The death rate from oral cancer is very high; about 43% of those diagnosed will not survive more than five years. While these numbers are definitley alarming, this is directly related to two factors:
Awareness and Early Detection
Awareness
Knowing that lifestyle choices you make, tobacco use, alcohol, and HPV being the most common, are causes of this disease, is part of the process. Avoidance of risk factors greatly reduces your chance of developing oral and throat cancers. Knowing the signs and symptoms is also part of awareness.
Early Detection
Engaging in regular annual screenings to look for signs and symptoms at the dentist office helps ensure early detection. Most oral cancer can be caught early, even as pre cancer. With early detection, survival rates are high, and side effects from treatment are at their lowest. Screenings are quick, painless, and easy. All you need to do is stay up to date on your dental check ups! Your hygienest will use the VELscope Vx at your routine visit to check for any abnormalities.
Signs and Symptoms
- A sore or lesion in the mouth that does not heal within two weeks.
- A lump or thickening in the cheek.
- A white or red patch on the gums, tongue, tonsil, or lining of the mouth.
- A sore throat or a feeling that something is caught in the throat.
- Difficulty chewing or swallowing.
- Difficulty moving the jaw or tongue.
- Numbness of the tongue or other area of the mouth.
- Swelling of the jaw that causes dentures to fit poorly or become uncomfortable.
- Chronic hoarseness.
Please call today to schedule your 6 month cleaning appointment which includes and oral cancer screening. Early detection is the key to fight oral cancer.
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Botox Cosmetic is used to treat a variety of medical and cosmetic concerns. More than 11 million men and women have been treated with Botox Cosmetic. Botox Cosmetic is a prescription medication that is administered by Dr. Edwards to relax muscles that cause line and wrinkles, gummy smiles, and TMJ pain.
“I had deep frown lines between my brows that made me look angry and unapproachable. A 30 minute consultation with Dr. Edwards has changed my life forever. I was surprised by how quick and painless the procedure was. It has been 14 days since my treatment and I finally look like the happy, carefree person I have always been on the inside.” – Jenni
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