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Quite often on a Sunday night my wife will make a salad with a precooked chicken. After the business of a weekend this seems like a nice healthy way to end it and and easy way to get started for the week ahead.

Today my daughter came grocery shopping with plans for a different kind of chicken salad. This time there were a lot more toppings, and I just wanted to share

Here is The Great Salad Toppers Salad

So first of all today we just had some fresh chicken breasts that we grilled on the BBQ and cur up to put underneath of the salad

For the salad itself we just mixed spinach and lettuce

Look at all these toppings!

• Avocado
• Mandarin Oranges
• Slivered Almonds
• Cranberry spiced pecans
• Walnuts
• Cranberries
• Apples (two kinds)
• Feta Cheese

All of these were easy enough to prepare and pretty easy to pack up again after dinner. We never put Apples in our salad but I am sure we will start now as the crunchiness is a fantastic way to just get a little more flavor and texture to the salad

 

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Healthday News had this article on urban exercise based on a report by the The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

Your intentions may be good, but exercising outdoors in a city may be riskier than you think, one expert says.

Exercise Issues In Cities

Outdoor activity can cause serious damage to a person’s health because of elevated air pollution levels. Those especially at risk are those who exercise by running, bicycling or skating.

According to Dr. Joseph T. Cooke, associate professor of clinical medicine and patient safety officer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the danger lies in the components of air pollution.

The three main culprits are fine particulate matter, (the mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets in the air), ozone (a gas composed of three oxygen atoms) and carbon monoxide.

These components of air pollution irritate the lungs, making it harder to breathe and worsening problems initially caused by asthma, bronchitis, cardiopulmonary maladies, and emphysema.

“The pollutants affect the lungs by causing inflammation or irritation of the airway lining,” Cooke explained in a prepared statement. “More mucus and phlegm is produced, and small muscles surrounding the airway respond by squeezing down. The work of breathing increases, and it becomes more difficult to get oxygen into the body,” he said.

The three pollutants are located in cities around the world. Fine particulates are emitted from the diesel engines of buses and trucks. Carbon monoxide arises from cigarette smoke and automobile exhaust, and it has the ability to force oxygen out of a person’s circulatory system.

For those exercising, overexposure to carbon monoxide can lead to dizziness, confusion, headaches and dangerously high body temperatures. Ozone, which is the largest component of smog in cities, adversely affects breathing patterns and decreases the size of airways, making the lungs more resistant to oxygen.

For those determined to work out outdoors, Cooke offered the following tips:

• Do not run on or near roads where there is heavy truck or bus traffic.
• Work out in the early morning or later in the evening.
• Exercise indoors if possible.

If you experience any difficulty breathing, stop exercising immediately and see a doctor.

Dirty air is definitely an issue that is becoming worse every year in most major cities.

The one strange thing I have run across though is that the city of Los Angeles, which used to be among the most polluted cities, is actually better and much less polluted now than it was 20 years ago

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A couple of days ago my son was not eating his dinner and my daughter piped in

“Jaiden eat the chicken, it has protein, it will give you energy”

I cringed a little but this myth has gotten legs over the years. If you are tired and need energy nothing can beat a big steak.

Protein or Carbs or Fat for Energy?

In fact this idea is not at all true. Carbohydrates are the choice of energy sources in the body the fact is that the simpler the carb the more likely your body is to break it down and use it.

The way that I look at energy sources your body will use the following in order; glycogen stores in your muscles, sugar, starch, and then equally protein and fat.

Many people on a diet will try to cut down on all of their carbs and will try to lose weight. This works initially because the body uses up all of the easy to get carbs and then will then move on to eating away at fat and protein.

After a while you will get tired as your body will be really craving some kind of simple carbs for energy and it is a struggle for your body to use protein and fat as quick energy sources.

This problem is even more of a problem when you exercise as there are no easy ways to get energy for your workouts.

So now you see why I am always writing about how important it is to get protein in your diet, not for the energy but more to counteract your body eating away at the protein in your muscles as well as the fat on your body when trying to lose weight.

Your goal should be to look healthy not to look starved and muscleless (is that even a word?).

So yes your body can use protein for energy buy mostly as a last resort. The problem is that when losing your body will use the protein in your muscles for energy as well as the fat in your body. But it will not use that steak right away.

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