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The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the wonderful school I attended in 2005-2006, recently held a “What’s on Your Plate?” contest.
Here’s the yummy recipe winner from chef Frank Giglio. Thanks, IIN and Frank, for sharing this with us!
Seared Scallops with Cucumber Salad
Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons coconut oil
4-8 Large scallops (U-10)
A sprinkle of Frank’s Finest Lemon-Pepper Blend
1 large English cucumber
2 Tablespoons thinly sliced red onion
1 cup snap peas, cut into 3rds
1/4 cup fresh dill, roughly chopped
2-3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1-2 Tablespoons olive oil
Sea salt to taste
Freshly cracked black peppercorns
1/2 lemon for drizzling
1 green onion, tops sliced thin
Directions:
With a Japanese mandolin or sharp knife, thinly slice the cucumber. Place into a large bowl, mix in the snap peas, onions, and dill. Drizzle in the olive oil and vinegar, then season with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper. Toss well and allow flavors to meld.
Place the scallops on a dish and season with Lemon-Pepper blend
Heat a large heavy bottom skillet over medium-high heat. Melt the coconut oil and when a light amount of smoke is visual, add the scallops. Cook on one side until well browned, then flip each scallop, turn off the heat and allow to rest in the pan for 1-2 minutes before removing.
Place a small amount of cucumber salad onto 2 plates. Place 4 scallops around each salad. Drizzle the plate with lemon juice and sliced green onions. Serve and enjoy!
Frank Giglio is the owner of Frank’s Finest. He is also the Executive Chef and Contributing Editor to The Best Day Ever. Learn more about Frank at www.FrankGiglio.com.
If you have an interest in nutrition, I highly recommend that you contact the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Learn more information at www.IntegrativeNutrition.com. Or you can call IIN with questions. From the US, use this number: (877) 730-5444, and International callers can use this number +1 (212) 257-6171. You can also set up an appointment to talk to an admissions advisor. Please make sure to say that Connie Bennett referred you. (I’m a big believer in being “as transparent as an ocean breeze,” as marketer Alex Mandossian calls it, so let me reveal that, yes, if you sign up, I would get a referral fee. However, the only reason I’m recommending the school is because the training you get from IIN is an amazing, one-of-a-kind experience. So I encourage you to contact IIN now.
I invite you to read my Huffington Post blog today to read the definition of Sugar Shock.
You’ll learn about the consequences of your sugar-seeking behavior and how it can lead you on a path to danger, disease and early death.
Share your tales of sugar shock with us. We’d love to hear how your sugar habit has affected you.
You’re also invited to tonight’s End-of-Summer Teleclass. Sign up here to this free program at 8 pm Eastern (5 pm Pacific).
Stop Sugar Shock! Large Are you wondering if you should cut out or reduce your sugar or carb consumption?
Many people get scared at the thought of making this change, and they focus on how they’ll miss their favorite sweet treats instead of on the many benefits they’ll gain.
Rather than try to convince you myself about the many wonders of kicking sugar, I’m going to let several Successful Sugar Kickers do it themselves.
First, I invite you to read tales here of Successful Sugar Kickers to learn how their lives have dramatically improved just by making that one diet change.
Then, given the exciting technology now available, you also can now listen right now to inspiring tales from more Successful Sugar Kickers.
I invite you to check out this last preview call for my Fast-Track, Kick-Sugar Countdown program.
Just click on the yellow buttons below to listen.Check out Part 1 now.
Stephanie continues to share here.
And now here’s Part 3. I invite you to listen below now.
Yes, Virginia, Jennifer, John, and Stephanie (or whatever your name is), when you kick (or cut back on) sugar and refined carbs, youi’ll marvel as benefits pile up. I daresay that you’ll experience all, if not some of these benefits — plus a lot more! You’ll:
* Boost your energy.
* Get along better with loved ones and not-so-loved ones.
* Banish your “brain fog.”
* Toss out your temper tantrums.
* Focus better.
* Watchthe pounds peel off easily.
* Look and feel better.
* And maybe even revv up your sex life.
Listen now to these Sugar Kickers.
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In late June, I invited you to make a donation to encourage my bold biking goal of riding 100 miles to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). As a participant in LLS’s Team In Training program, my goal was to go 100 miles (or at least 60) on my bike in the Seagull Century Race on Oct. 9 in Maryland.
But my training came to an abrupt hatl on July 4, when as I shared on this Sugar Shock Blog, I accidentally slammed head first into glass and when plagued by dizziness and headaches, I soon discovered that I was suffering from post-concussive syndrome.
Concussion cartoon The doctor’s orders were explicit: Drop out of the Team in Training program. In fact, he even insisted that I stop working out. (Yikes, was I bummed out.) To be honest, I haven’t followed his advice all the time. In fact, at the end of July, on my birthday, I went on a rigorous bike ride, only to experience a major setback, with the headaches and vertigo returning.
Anyhow, I’m now feeling a lot better, and I’m back to gently, carefully working out, and I hope to soon to re-enter the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s respected Team in Training program.
Now, even though I’m not back to my rigorous workout schedule, I invite you to an exciting Gab with the Gurus Radio Show on Sept. 8 at 2 pm Eastern with two Team in Training representatives.
All the while, my fundraising page is still staying up, and I still invite you to support me by making a contribution to this worthwhile organization.
Despite my head injury, I’m excited that I found a way to do one of my favorite things — biking — and to do good at the same time by raising money for an important cause.
Team-in-Training1-Schwinn Although I’m uncertain as to when I can start training again and wha date I’ll ride, but I still invite you to please use this link to donate online quickly and securely. You’ll receive a confirmation of your donation by email, and I will be notified as soon as you make your donation. Of course, I’ll keep you up to date on my efforts, too.
Each donation — which you can make here — helps accelerate finding a cure for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
More than 823,000 Americans are battling these blood cancers. I hope that my participation in Team In Training will help bring them hope and support.
On behalf of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, thank you very much for your support. I greatly appreciate your generosity.
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P.S. I’d be grateful if you could forward this blog post this email to as many people as you can to encourage them to donate as well.
P.P.S. Would you be kind enough to visit my fundraising page now and donate to this worthwhile cause? All your contributions go straight to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Please make your contribution now.
And please join us on the Gab with the Gurus Radio Show on Sept. 8 at 2 pm Eastern so you can learn more about the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program.
To get directly to my fundraising page, just go here: http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/seagull10/cbennetbqu
Often, just about whenever journalists, radio hosts or TV reporters interview me, they ask me what I mean by the phrase “Sugar Shock.”
As you can guess, I’ve thought about this a log, given that I wrote a book called Sugar Shock!
Here’s how I define Sugar Shock.
Bear in mind that this Sugar Shock is a condition that afflicts millions of people
worldwide, including possibly as high as 80 percent to 90 percent of the U.S. population.
SUGAR SHOCK™ – A mood-damaging, personality-bending, health-destroying, confusion-creating constellation of symptoms affecting millions of people worldwide, who often turn to processed sweets and much-like-sugar carbs, which send their blood sugar levels wildly soaring and plummeting.
These people are suffering from what they may call sugar addiction or carb addiction.
The term Sugar Shock is intended to encompass the often-misdiagnosed and maligned
condition of reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), as well as other blood sugar disorders,
from insulin resistance to diabetes.
Considerable research reveals that repeatedly overconsuming sweeteners, dessert foods,
and culprit, quickie carbs (such as white rice, French bread, chips, etc.) wreaks havoc on
your blood sugar levels, overstimulates insulin release, triggers inflammation, and
could contribute to more than 150 health problems, including obesity, diabetes, heart
disease, cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, severe PMS, failing memory, depression,
mental confusion or “brain fog,” mood swings, Candida, sexual dysfunction, infertility,
wrinkles, acne, and early aging.
Victims of Sugar Shock also may experience such baffling symptoms as excessive fatigue,
headaches, dizziness, cold sweats, anxiety, irritability, tremors, crying spells, drowsiness or
the opposite (sleeplessness), forgetfulness, heart palpitations, nightmares, blurred vision,
muscle pains, temper outbursts, suicidal thoughts, and more.
Ultimately, this insidious Sugar Shock roller-coaster effect brought on by eating
too many inferior carbs hampers sufferers’ ability to function at full throttle–or even
half throttle.
Learn more about the dangers of Sugar Shock in my book Sugar Shock!
Get tips to break free of your sugar addiction by joining my End-of-Summer Tele-Party on Tues., Aug. 31. Sign up here. http://bit.ly/bx8Bkf
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Today, I’m introducing a new feature on the Sugar Shock Blog — Man or Woman of the Day. Each day (excluding most weekends), I’ll feature a spectacular person, who stands out for some extraordinary quality.
I was inspired to begin this feature because of something so incredibly nice that a woman I didn’t know did for me today.
Earlier today, I was impressed and so awed by the integrity and kindness of a woman, Donyale Reavis, who I met while trying to buy a ticket to the 2010 BlogHer conference in New York City. (Tickets were not available at the door.)
Donyale reavis Donyale — an intellectual property attorney, charity founder and independent film producer with Coyopa Productions, who also runs Success Happens.org and Pure Imagination.org — quickly revealed that she was a spectacular human being.
When I met her this morning in front of the BlogHer registration area, Donyale offered to sell me her ticket to tomorrow’s BlogHer because she had to fly to Atlanta tonight and give a presentation tomorrow.
Later, I learned that someone else had offered Donyale more money for the ticket than the amount she and I had agreed upon.
But Donyale turned down the higher offer and followed through on her agreement with me. She wouldn’t even take more money from me when I offered!
Wow is about all I can say! I was so touched.
Anyhow, Donyale demonstrated such amazing integrity, she is Today’s Woman of the Day.
Thank you so very much, Donyale!
People often want to know: What’s the best way to overcome a sugar addiction, a bad mood or another challenging situation?
One of the best ways to get out of your funk is to begin with an attitude of gratitude.
Why should you be grateful?
Learn about the wonders of being thankful on my Gratitude Week radio shows.
During these five shows, you’ll hear from 21 experts, who shared insights on the miraculous powers of gratitude.
Listen now to Gratitude Week’s five shows with21 different experts.
