4 English muffins, halved, toasted (1 Point english muffins)
1/3 cup pizza sauce
1 cup fresh mushroom slices
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1 cup 2% Milk Shredded Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese
1 Tbsp. Reduced Fat Parmesan Style Grated Topping
SPREAD English muffins with pizza sauce.
TOP with remaining ingredients.
BROIL 3 to 4 minutes or until mozzarella cheese is melted
Makes 4 servings @ 3 Points each
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IF NOTHING CHANGES, NOTHING CHANGES
Muscle Helps Zap Stress Effects
Stress can ratchet up your blood pressure, but a fit physique might cancel out the effects.
It's true: Being a well-muscled machine helps your blood pressure return to normal faster following a stressful event.
Fat and Your Stress Response
The more body fat you pack, the more trouble your body will have in getting your blood pressure cooled down after stress. And this relationship probably explains, in part, why stress and obesity are connected to high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Stress can ratchet up your blood pressure, but a fit physique might cancel out the effects.
It's true: Being a well-muscled machine helps your blood pressure return to normal faster following a stressful event.
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Vegetable English Muffin Pizzas
Try these tips!
Thicken soups and stews by puréeing some of the vegetables cooked in them.
Use yogurt in place of sour cream or crème fraîche. Even in their low-fat versions, the new Greek-style yogurts are very thick and satisfying.
Make your own homemade ranch dressing out of buttermilk mixed with a little low-fat mayonnaise, minced garlic, and chopped fresh herbs.
Top the fish, meat, or chicken with a vinaigrette instead of a cream sauce or a flour-thickened gravy. It may seem strange to put a room-temperature sauce on top of a hot entrée, but the contrast between the protein and the sharp vinaigrette is pleasing. Use balsamic vinegar. The usual ratio for a vinaigrette is 3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar, but you won’t need that much oil when you use balsamic vinegar. And any vinaigrette can be stretched with a little water to lower the fat content per portion.
Try horseradish, mustard, and tomato salsa as low-fat sauces.
Roast cut-up vegetables in a hot oven to concentrate their flavors and bring out their natural sugars. They will not need any butter.
Use chicken broth in place of cream or whole milk when making mashed potatoes.
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I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
-- Elizabeth T. King
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EXERCISE
A not yet published book, “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain” argues that one of the most important benefit of exercise is better brain functioning. Just like the body, the brain benefits from regular stress, as long as it is given a chance to recuperate. In the same way that muscles grow stronger through regular exercise, brain cells also grow back stronger after being used. The science is complex, but here is a quote that pretty well describes the theory: “Assuming that the stress is not too severe, and that neurons are given time to recover, the connections between them become stronger and your mental machinery works that much better.” We can tell this is a rigorous book, and we look forward to buying in when it is published in January. You can read an excerpt in the December issue of Men’s Journal magazine.
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enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
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A great way to keep your mind sharp and clear is to do things when they need to be done. When you think of something you must do, get to work on it as quickly as possible, and then continue working on it until it is finished.
Tasks which you put off until later, or which you start and then put off finishing, will have the effect of clogging your thoughts. If you regularly and consistently procrastinate, your mind will soon become so filled with thoughts of what needs to be done that there will be little room for anything else.
Clear out all those "need to dos" from your thinking by actually getting them done. Rather than worrying about them over and over again in your mind, do them once and be finished. Free your mind to recognize new opportunities, to develop new insights and to focus clearly on the business at hand.
1. Exercise improves your mood.
2. Exercise combats chronic diseases.
3. Exercise helps you manage your weight.
4. Exercise strengthens your heart and lungs.
5. Exercise promotes better sleep.
6. Exercise can put the spark back into your sex life.
7. Exercise can be - gasp - fun!
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What's the rush? |
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A sense of urgency is useful, valuable, to be desired and encouraged. Yet there's a big difference between working with urgency and rushing through your work.
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