Stretching or Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking

Stretching (Quamut)

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Touched your toes lately?

You don’t have to be an athlete to experience the far-reaching benefits of stretching. Extending your muscles and tendons on a regular basis can help you relax and vastly improve your flexibility and overall health. Learn to:

• Keep basic supplies on hand for stretching alone or with a partner

• Stretch safely by using good form, breathing correctly, and addressing pain

• Practice more than 20 of the most common, effective stretching exercises

Interesting book: Functional Training for Sports or Scrawny to Brawny

Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking

Author: Lara Rondinelli

A unique new concept in cookbooks for people with diabetes

A unique cookbook concept featuring month-by-month, week-by-week, and day-by-day meal plans and recipes with dietitian and chef's tips that make it much easier for people to eat healthfully. The menus come with weekly grocery lists so you can purchase only what you need, saving time and money. As a bonus, each month features reminders of special ADA events and other health-related activities of interest.

Recipes include:

• Turkey and wild rice soup--prepared in just 15 minutes!
• Chicken breasts with raspberry balsamic glaze--prepared in 10 minutes!
• Banana chocolate-chip bread--just three grams of fat!

Lara Rondinelli, R.D., L.D., C.D.E. is a dietitian at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and an instructor for the College of Health Sciences at Rush University.

Jennifer Bucko is a certified chef and currently works as the executive chef and catering manager for The Market Place foodstore in Chicago. She graduated from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (CHIC), a Le Cordon Bleu certified program.