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No-fail peanut oil pastry recipe: In a large bowl combine 1 cup of all-purpose flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Beat together 1/3 peanut oil and 3 tbsp. cold water with a fork until blended. Pour over flour and stir lightly until mixed. Press dough into a smooth ball; flatten slightly. Place between two 12-inch wax paper squares (on a dampened table top to prevent slipping). Roll pastry until it reaches the edges of paper. Peel off top sheet of paper. Invert pastry into the pie plate; then remove the second sheet of paper. Fit the pie crust into the corners of the plate, without stretching, to prevent the shell from shrinking. Use as baked or unbaked. Yields: One eight-inch pastry shell.
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A 20-oz. hazelnut latte from Second Cup made with two per cent milk contains 540 calories, 19 grams of fat and 70 grams of sugar. A slightly lighter option is a 20-oz. vanilla bean latte from the same chain. This contains 370 calories, 47 grams of sugar and 12 grams of fat. To reduce your calories even further, order the same beverage with skim milk. That would give you 330 calories, 48 grams of sugar and five grams of fat. The good news about lattes is that they contain calcium.
Though juices are filled with Vitamin C and other nutrients, don't be tempted to treat them as substitutes for fruits and vegetables. Juices are high in sugar and don't contain the fibre of whole fruit. For example, one cup of orange juice contains about 110 calories and 22 grams of sugar. White grape juice is ...
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It's really easy to fall into that category of 'every day can be ice cream treat day,'" says registered dietitian Gina Sunderland, who advises her clients to set up a "treat budget," particularly in the warmer months.
The bottom line: If you're going for full-fat ice cream, Sunderland says, you should look for a short, simple ingredient list without stabilizers such as carrageen and guar gum. "I don't like to see that huge list of foreign ingredients," she says, noting that you'll pay more for ice cream that contains just cream, milk, sugar and natural flavour.
Lighter options, she says, can include ice milk (Dairy Queen's soft serve is ice milk) as well as sugar-free ice cream sweetened with sucralose and sorbitol. (Note that ice milk, although lower in fat, still contains high amou...
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... the DPR by harmonizing the definitions for milk products and revising the existing identity and co...
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There's been concern that coffee may have an adverse effect on cardiovascular health. But researchers followed 20,000 coffee-loving Finns for 10 years and concluded coffee and non-coffee drinkers shared the same risk of coronary attack or dying from heart disease.
What does a cup of coffee do to our brain? We all know coffee sends a great wake-up call to the brain. But in addition, a European study showed those drinking three cups of coffee daily helped to boost long-term memory. But there's also a cup of caution when pouring yourself a cup of joe. For years, a suspicion lingered that coffee was associated with certain types of cancer. And the news is a combination of good and bad.
Here's the big negative. Only 35 per cent of people drink coffee black. And the recent specialty-coffee t...
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The test lunches began with a meal of chicken sandwiches accompanied by water, given as a control on the first day. On the second and third days, a liquid or a solid food sample accompanied the sandwiches. In one group, the sample was either high-protein milk or cheese (a nutritionally equivalent solid). In another, it was either high-carbohydrate watermelon or watermelon juice; in a third, it was either high-fat coconut or coconut milk.
The results: Compared with the sandwich-and-water control, subjects who ate solid test foods consumed fewer calories after their lunches, but subjects who drank their test foods ate more. This was true whether the sample calories came from sugary, fatty or protein-rich sources.
All three groups consumed the most total calories on days when a meal supple...
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Starting this month, kids' meals at Disney's domestic parks are being served with low-fat milk, 100 per cent fruit juice or water, along with side dishes such as apple sauce or carrots in place of french fries and soft drinks.
[Robert Iger] said the company also sees a business opportunity in promoting and licensing healthier products, ranging from breakfast cereals to the children's meals it serves at its 11 worldwide theme parks.
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The protein in milk is high-quality," Stuart Phillips, an associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton and lead author of the study, said in an interview.
One group drank 500 millilitres (about two cups) of skim milk that contained 17.5 grams of protein, 25.7 grams of carbohydrates and 0.4 grams of fat. A second group received a soy drink with identical ratios of nutrients, while a third group got a sports drink.
"The practical results are obvious: If you want to gain muscle and lose weight as a result of working out, drink milk," Dr. Phillips said.
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Overall, intake of total dairy foods wasn't associated with risk of infertility in the Harvard study. But when researchers looked at low-fat and dairy foods separately, and took age, weight, smoking, drinking and other factors into account, the team found that women who ate two or more servings per day of low-fat dairy foods increased their risk of ovulation-related infertility by 85 per cent compared to women who ate one or fewer servings of low-fat dairy food per week.
Harvard School of Public Health researchers, who followed 18,555 healthy married women without a history of infertility, found that those who consumed more low-fat dairy foods, especially yogurt, sherbet and frozen yogurt, were 85 per cent more likely than women who ate high-fat dairy foods -- notably ice cream and whol...