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Earlier I posted a blog about a Tofu recipe that I saw while waiting in the doctor’s office. I myself had never attempted to make Tofu, in fact the thought never crossed my mind. Read the rest of this entry »
I have two avocado’s downstairs and for the most part, I just mash them up with some onions and keep going. Yesterday I really wanted to some chips. I realized that my “guacamole” wasn’t anything close to what I was enjoying when i went out because it wasn’t cold for one, two it didn’t have all the ingredients. I was always afraid to make it because I thought I would add on the calories. So tomorrow I will go buy some peas for this recipe. When i think about it, I do love peas, and by adding in the avocado it’s probably going to overpower the taste of the peas, and this way I can enjoy much more of it then I would making a regular Guac Recipe. There is about 300 Calories in one medium Avocado Fruit, and while the fat is “heart healthy” calories don’t care about that. 300 calories are still consumed.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Ingredients:
- 10-ounce pack of frozen peas
- 1/2 small ripe avocado
- 1/2 cup cilantro, stems removed
- 1/2 ripe tomato, deseeded and chopped
- 1/3 cup chopped onion (optional)
- Squeeze of fresh lime juice
Preparation:
Cook peas according to package instructions. Empty into a colander, drain and rinse with cold water. Place peas, avocado and cilantro in a blender and blend to desired consistency. Spoon into a bowl with chopped tomato and onion. Add a squeeze of lime juice, stir and serve.
Yields 2 cups.
Per 1/4 cup Serving: Calories 52, Calories from Fat 16, Total Fat 1.8g (sat 0.2g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 44mg, Carbohydrate 6.8g, Fiber 2.6g, Protein 2.3g
You can add Chilies, and Hot Sauce to give it an extra kick its that’s your thing.
This Blizzard has me cooking up a storm…I just tried these today as a snack. The Previous Fish and Eggplant was only about 180 Calories and I guess it was suppose to be meal. So I was starving by 3:00 pm. I didn’t feel like cooking any chicken or fish, so I just made a snack.
I took pictures also, kind of looks like the picture in the book. I get excited when it looks like the book.
Ingredients:
Olive oil spray
4 medium button mushrooms
2 teaspoons chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
1 1/2 tablespoons crumbled fat-free feta cheese
1/2 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/8 teaspoon cayenne, or to taste
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Lightly mist a small baking dish with oil spray.
Pull the stems from the mushrooms by gently twisting the stem until it comes loose and
pulls from the mushroom top. Mince the stems and place in a small mixing bowl. Place
the caps in the reserved baking dish stem-side up.
Add the parsley, cheese, oil, and cayenne to the bowl. Stir to mix well. Spoon the
mixture evenly onto the reserved mushroom caps. Divide the remaining mixture evenly
among the mushroom caps, mounding the filling on each cap.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they are tender. Let the mushrooms stand to cool
slightly before serving.
Makes 1 serving
Per serving: 48 calories, 4 g protein, 3 g carbohydrates, 3 g fat, trace saturated fat, trace
polyunsaturated fat, 2 g monounsaturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, <1 g fiber, 157 mg
sodium.
It was okay. A bit salty. I think it was my Feta. I used Basil Tomato Reduced Fat Feta. I only used half of what the recipe called for. It was okay, but nothing I have to have everyday like the book says. :-S . 48 Calories for all 4 Mushrooms!! Can’t beat that at all.
I had another blog Called Negative 60…well I still do. I’m on a bid to get smaller and fit. Many reasons, I’ve had high blood pressure since I was 18…my doctor said it is stress mixed with my weight. I also don’t like being bigger, there are sooooo many health risk that are associated with being bigger. I want to wear cuter clothes…and I’m tired of being judged. I’m a good person inside, and I’m not naive that people like to judge people by their cover.
I wanted to start that blog with a couple of tips. So i decided to combine everything into one blog since I’m no longer aiming to become some “huge” blogger anymore. I get more satisfaction out of blogging about what i want to blog about. So I’m going to start with what I’ve been doing lately. I’m going to try to post some of the older entries from the other site.
It’s a sad world we are living in when a man has the nerve to willing inject his wife with a death wish. For selfish reasons such as this.
An HIV-positive man injected his wife with his own blood while she slept, infecting her with the virus that causes Aids.
It is believed the man wanted to give her the disease so she would start having sex with him again. She told police he also hoped it would prevent her from finding another man and leaving him.
The man, 35, admitted infecting his wife, in the first case of its kind in New Zealand. In other cases, HIV-positive people have infected others through unprotected sex.
The man has been remanded in prison awaiting sentence for wilfully infecting another with a disease, an offence that carries a maximum 14 years’ imprisonment. The pair cannot be identified.
In court documents, the woman, 33, described how her husband twice pricked her with a sewing needle laced with his infected blood as she slept and how she once caught him handling a syringe full of his blood.
In the year before the man pricked his now-estranged wife, the couple had been experiencing relationship problems, in part because of the woman’s refusal to have sex with him, as she feared she would contract the disease.
She had tested negative for the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) on at least four occasions before the year-long abstinence, so police were certain the needle stick had caused her to be infected.
In her evidence, the woman said when she confronted the husband with the diagnosis late last year he admitted dipping a “sewing needle” in his blood and pricking her with it.
“All he said [was] he was sorry. He said: ‘I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won’t leave me’.”
The man discovered he was HIV-positive during health checks imposed on the family upon arrival in New Zealand in 2004. Tests on the woman and their children showed they were not infected with the virus.
The couple received support from the Auckland Infectious Disease Centre and refugee services, and continued to live together, taking precautions against infecting others. The couple had protected sex for a number of years until 2007, when the woman became too scared of contracting the virus and insisted on abstinence.
The woman told the court: “I just wanted to maintain the relationship for the sake of the children … He insisted on staying and he mentioned that he was not worried about sex … any more. All he wanted [was] to see the children grow with both parents under one roof.”
Then in May last year she discovered a sting-like mark on her left thigh. “After having a shower I put some lotion on myself and I could feel pain on my thigh. When I looked at it, it was turning red like a circle, getting bigger and bigger.”
Later that morning, when she returned home from her nursing studies unexpectedly, she saw her husband in the bedroom with a syringe full of blood.
She said he pushed past her and walked away, refusing to talk about it. She searched the rubbish for evidence of the syringe but found nothing.
Two days later she awoke to a stinging feeling in her leg. “In my sleep I felt a prick on my leg. I got up … and I flicked the blankets … I looked at [the husband] and he was wide awake.”
She asked him if he had pricked her and he said no. Later she found evidence of “blood sprinkles” on their duvet, which she says her husband tried to hide from her.
Concerned by his behaviour, she told him to leave the house. It was only in September, when her doctor suggested a test at a routine check-up, that she found she was HIV-positive.
A nurse who had been caring for the family was present when the woman met her GP to receive the news. In her evidence to the court, the nurse said: “At this meeting [the woman] was beside herself with emotion. [She] could not work out how she had got HIV because she stated that she had not sex with her partner for about a year.”
The following month the nurse returned a phone call from the woman to hear her hysterical.
“The first words she said to me were, ‘He did it’, or something to that effect. [She] was crying and I asked her if I could speak to [the husband]. [He] came to the phone and I asked, ‘Is this true?’ He only replied that he needed to come and see me.”
The nurse and an infectious disease specialist then met the couple.
“During that conversation [the husband] continued to cry and repeated, ‘Please forgive me’.”
Police charged the man in October last year when the pair went to the local police station so the woman could make a formal complaint.
At first he was also charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, but the charge was withdrawn when he pleaded guilty to the other charge earlier this year.
He is due to be sentenced in the Auckland High Court early next year. Simon Harger-Forde of the New Zealand Aids Foundation said the the organisation had never heard of a victim being infected in such a way “and with such intent”.
“We are deeply shocked and saddened by the deliberate and intentional nature of the HIV transmission that is reported to have occurred in this case.”
He urged New Zealanders to view the case as an isolated incident.
HIGH-PROFILE HIV CASES THIS YEAR
* A man admits pricking his wife with a needle laced with his blood, after the couple stopped having sex because he was HIV-positive.
* Train driver Glenn Mills accused of infecting seven people with HIV and attempting to infect another seven through unprotected sex; he died in prison last week while charges were before the courts.
* A man was sentenced to 312 years in prison after infecting his girlfriend with HIV via unprotected sex. He repeatedly told her he did not have the disease.
Ladies and Gents please never ever trust a partner that says, oh I’m Negative. If you love yourself, make all partners get tested first. I dont care how clean they look, or how much swag they have. I can’t believe there are people in the world this sick.
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By Miriam Falco
CNN Medical Producer
CNN Medical Producer
(CNN) — A vaccine to prevent HIV infection has shown modest results for the first time, researchers have found.
In what is being called the world’s largest HIV vaccine trial ever, researchers found that people who received a series of inoculations of a prime vaccine and booster vaccine were 31 percent less likely to get HIV, compared with those on a placebo.
“Before this study, it was thought vaccine for HIV is not possible,” Col. Jerome Kim, who is the HIV vaccines product manager for the U.S. Army, told CNN.
Kim emphasized that the level of efficacy was modest, but given the failures of previous HIV vaccine trials, “yesterday we would have thought an HIV vaccine wasn’t possible.”
He called the results from the trial an important first step that will help researchers work toward a more effective vaccine.
Researchers have tried to prevent the spread of HIV since they discovered its cause in 1986. Previous vaccine trials failed to prevent infection. And during one trial, the vaccine seemed to boost the chance of being infected, which ended testing early.
The new study was conducted in Thailand, with more than 16,000 people between ages 18 and 30 participating. They were all HIV negative at the beginning of the trial.
Nearly 8,200 received a placebo and a similar number received a combination of six vaccines over six months. All were followed for three years.
“This shows a statistically significant effect,” Kim said.
He cautioned that a lot more research was necessary, because the vaccine did not prevent everyone from being infected.
Fifty-one people in the vaccine group eventually contracted HIV, compared with 74 in the placebo group.
“These results show that development of a safe and effective preventive HIV vaccine is possible,” said Col. Nelson Michael, who is director of the U.S. military HIV research program.
The combination of vaccines tested targeted strains circulating in Thailand. It was unclear how the vaccines would work elsewhere, Kim said.
Researchers will announce details of their initial findings in October at the AIDS Vaccine Conference in Paris, France.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
According to Kim, the U.S. military was involved in the study because U.S. service members are at risk and “there’s a national security threat from HIV.”
He said Congress set up a program to protect service members from HIV and the U.S. military has collaborated with health officials and researchers in Thailand for a long time.
The vaccines are manufactured by Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases and Sanofi Pasteur. The Thai Ministry of Health carried out the clinical trial.
