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Lemon-Garlic Chicken with Green Beans
Martine Berger CSMS Magazine Active: 20 min Total: 20 min Chicken Cutlets cook in less than 10 minutes! Can’t find them? Make your own from chicken breasts. Place each breast on a cutting board and, with your knife parallel to the board, slice into...
Natural Prevention for Heart Disease
By Esther Diaz CSMS Magazine Fats, like margarine, increase your risk for heart disease if you eat more than four teaspoons of it a day. That’s not a lot. The trans-fatty acids found in margarine increase the bad cholesterol over the good. So, do many...
Herb-Roasted Drumsticks with vegetables and potatoes
Emilie Monjoli CSMS Magazine Use your favorite dried herb blend to season both the drumsticks and the sauce in this sheet-pan dinner. A garlic-and-herb mix is crowd-pleasing, but something with a little more heat, like Cajun, would be delicious too. Whichever...
Why women use laxatives?
By Esther Diaz CSMS Magazine Some women use laxatives as a form of weight control. They think, erroneously, that by eliminating wastes in their colon they can keep their weight down. All they are doing is getting rid of the body’s wastes more quickly....
Postmenopausal Heart Disease
By Esther Diaz CSMS Magazine It’s true that the number one killer of postmenopausal women is heart disease and that estrogen seems to have a protective effect on cholesterol (HDL) and lowers the bad cholesterol (LDL). After menopause, with lower estrogen,...
Charred eggplant mixed with tomatoes and polenta
By Esther Diaz CSMS Magazine Eating right is quintessential to a healthy lifestyle. So, in the search to bring the best, I’ve found this juicy recipe: Charred eggplant mixed with tomatoes and polenta. Active: 45 min Total: 45 min The sweet flavor and...
Spinach, Cured Ham and Goat’s Cheese Salad with Hazelnut and Honey Dressing
By Esther Diaz CSMS Magazine Serves 4 As a Starter (Appetizer) Or 2-3 As Main Course 4 thin slices of jamón serrano oil for oiling 7 ounces or 4 3/8 cups baby spinach leaves 12 ripe cherry tomatoes, quartered 6 sun-dried tomatoes, finely chopped 5 ounces...
Cholesterol…Not What We Thought
By Martine Berger CSMS Magazine As shocking as it might seem, women have been brainwashed about cholesterol. Most of the studies linking heart disease to high cholesterol have been done to men only. And we know women and men have physiological differences...
Try pumpkin and tomato laksa
By Martine Berger CSMS Magazine Enough For 4 Pumpkin- 9 ounces unpeeled weight Small, red bird’s eye chiles- 5 Garlic- 4 cloves A lump of ginger the size of your thumb Lemongrass- 2 plump stalks Lime leaves- 6 Cilantro roots- 5 or 6, plus a large handful...