Diet Reviews

By Caitlyn Elf

Brunch is one of my absolute favorite meals. And although some items found on a traditional menu certainly can take a toll on the waistline, that doesn’t always have to be the case. Belgian waffles, bacon, pancakes, eggs—the choices are endless but all can be made relatively healthy if you find the right ingredient substitutions!

Personally, Belgian waffles with a side of bacon is one of my favorite dishes, so when I found this recipe for Maple-Bacon Waffles I knew it was just the thing I wanted to tackle for this week’s recipe makeover.

Using the below substitutions, I was able to create a delicious brunch that held me over all afternoon and tasted just as delicious as the original!

These waffles were hearty and filling thanks to both the white whole-wheat flour and the turkey bacon. Althou

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In 2011 over a quarter of a million people read our blog articles as it has become more and more popular over the past several months. In this posting we take a look at the top ten most popular health and fitness articles posted in 2011. To determine popularity we looked not only at the number of Likes and Tweets but also factored in the number of readers and reader response. Hopefully some of your favorites made it into the final top ten list and I am sure that you will find a few other gems that you may have missed! Thanks again for the continued support!

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Regret might not make a list of the most powerful emotions. It would probably include things like anger, happiness, jealousy, sadness and especially for us English, embarrassment.

We tend to think of regret as essentially a backward-looking emotion. We regret things in the past, like not trying hard enough in school, how we treated a friend or the things we said to our partner in the heat of an argument. In this sense you might argue that it’s useless: why regret something you can’t change?

But regret isn’t just a backward-looking emotion, it also looks forward and it can be a terribly powerful emotion which affects our behaviour in the here and now.

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An astounding finding in a hormone derived from pig bladder stem cells has proven itself and the implications are nothing short of one of the most miraculous breakthroughs in medical history.

The substance, nicknamed “Pixie Dust” is a derivative of pig bladder stem cells that has been applied to a US soldier who had lost most of his leg muscle due to combat related injuries. The application of the technology has how allowed for him to grow back the 70 percent of the upper thigh muscled he lost in the accident.

Normally such tissue as muscle and bone and nerves wont grow back completely but this technology has proven it is effective and that opens doors to regenerative medicine that could change the way treatments around the world are done. Ju

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The UC Davis School of Medicine participated yesterday in the kickoff of academic medicines formal involvement in first lady Michelle Obamas Joining Forces initiative, which aims to bring attention to the needs of Americas military families in the areas of employment, education and wellness.

Hosted by Obama, the kickoff event took place at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Timothy Albertson, acting chair of the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine, represented the UC Davis medical school at the ceremony.

We are proud that UC Davis has had long and successful partnerships with different facets of the U.S. m

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