If you are among the numerous that want to reduce a couple pounds then toning up your muscle tissues and physical fitness training is among the healthiest ways that you could go. It is also among the fastest as well as most intensive ways for you to begin observing almost immediate results. This sort of weight reduction method is applied mostly by athletes?and should be taken carefully. This sort of weight reduction ought to be done with the supervision of a professional or a holistic lifestyle coach so that you do not over strain your entire body and also to be certain that you are adopting the correct steps.
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There are essentially 3 different types of fitness that you can use and each one of these will give attention to different concerns of weight loss and endurance building. The one which you are going to choose would depend on what you want to attain through your personal weight loss program.
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1. Resistance Training
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This kind of workout is also referred to as strength or weight training that will involve using the resistance to the muscular contraction to build up your endurance and enable you to achieve a healthy weight loss. It involves working against gravity or other pressure and is also proportional to the amount of weight you lift in addition to how many times you are able to accomplish this without stopping. If you begin with weights that are too heavy for you, you will become tired quickly and you will also not notice any changes in your in your weight loss or body.
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Therefore if you start with lighter weights before trying the heavier ones you will end up going to the correct direction. After a few weeks of doing this method you will observe a healthy weight loss and also a steady increase in the length of time that you are able to lift the weight loads. This is a good method to find out if you are doing this properly.
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2. Interval Training
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This type of exercise involves quick bursts of fat burning training and is usually used by sports coaches that work with runners and football professionals. These short bursts are then followed moment of rest. This has become a very popular technique in recent years because of the connection that it has to balanced weight loss.
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3. Continuous Training
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This is also popular among sports athletes who happen to need a good cardiovascular exercise and is also perfect for muscle toning. It has been reliable in the way of weight reduction.
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All of these, together with a healthy diet like raw food diet, are good for your weight loss program you simply need to find out which one works best for you.
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With polls showing Mitt Romney locked in tight races with President Obama in Colorado and Nevada, the Republican National Committee - in conjunction with the Romney campaign - is beefing up its operation in the two western battlegrounds.
GOP officials tell ABC News that the RNC is "adding additional staff" in both states - some of whom are being re-assigned from their posts in New Mexico (though the officials noted they "are maintaining offices and staff" there.)
Colorado, with its nine electoral votes, and Nevada, with six, are shaping up to be two of the mostly closely contested states on the 2012 map. The latest polls give Obama only a slight edge in both places.
A CBS News-New York Times-Quinnipiac University survey out earlier this week showed the president with 48 percent support compared to 47 percent for Romney. And a CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released on Thursday finds Obama leading Romney 49 percent to 46 percent among likely voters.
By contrast, ABC News rates New Mexico as solidly Democratic.
The Republican presidential nominee will hold a public campaign event in Colorado this weekend for the first time since early August. And he heads to Nevada on Friday for an afternoon rally in Las Vegas. It will be his sixth trip to Nevada since April.
"The GOP Victory team is bolstering our organizations in the key battlegrounds of Colorado and Nevada, two places where the president is hemorrhaging support thanks to his failed economic policies. We are reallocating a few staff members from New Mexico where we will maintain staff and victory offices through November," Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller told ABC News. "Our team will continue advocating for Governor Romney and his plan to strengthen the Middle class in each of these states where voters know that we can do better than the past four years."
Colorado voted for Obama in 2008, but went with the Republican presidential candidate in all but one (1992) of the nine previous presidential elections dating back to 1972. Obama has spent more time in the state during the general election than his Republican challenger.
And the well-respected former Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams served up some advice for Romney in an interview on Wednesday with Denver's Fox affiliate: "I think Mitt Romney needs to be here," Wadhams said, referring to the greater Denver area, "and he needs to be in the Jefferson County and Arapahoe County suburbs, not in Pueblo."
(Jefferson County flanks Denver to the West while Arapahoe extends eastward from the city's center. Obama won both counties by comfortable margins in 2008.)
GOP sources tell ABC they have already "passed the 1 million voter contact mark" in both states. In Nevada, Republicans say they have made "4 times more phone calls and 12 times more door knocks than this time in 2008? and in Colorado: "4 times more phone calls and 6 times more door knocks than this time" four years ago.
Other data points the Republicans cite: A 12 percent unemployment rate in Nevada and an 8.3 percent unemployment rate in Colorado where some 224,000 residents are out of work.
The Romney campaign has also been on the air with television ads in both states.
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? Everyone knows that what mom eats when pregnant makes a huge difference in the health of her child. Now, new research in mice suggests that what she ate before pregnancy might be important too. According to a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, what a group of female mice ate -- before pregnancy -- chemically altered their DNA and these changes were passed to her offspring. These DNA alterations, called "epigenetic" changes, drastically affected the pups' metabolism of many essential fatty acids.
These results could have a profound impact on future research for diabetes, obesity, cancer, and immune disorders.
"As parents, we have to understand better that our responsibilities to our children are not only of a social, economical, or educational nature, but that our own biological status can contribute to the fate of our children, and this effect can be long-lasting," said Mihai Niculescu, M.D., Ph.D., study author from Nutrition Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in Chapel Hill, N.C. "My hope is that, along with many other scientists, we will reveal this tight biological relationship between us as parents, and our children, and how we can improve the lives of our children using our own biological machinery."
To make this discovery, Niculescu and colleagues split mouse females into two groups before gestation, and fed them either a control diet, or a diet deficient in alpha-linolenic acid or ALA. This was achieved by replacing the type of fats in the diet, while keeping the number of calories the same. The females were bred with mouse males kept on a control diet. Immediately after the moms delivered the pups, each of these two initial groups were further split in two, so that each half of the initial groups received a flaxseed oil supplemented diet (rich in ALA), while the other halves from each group remained on the same diet.
Researchers used blood and liver to look at polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) levels and the DNA methylation of a gene called Fads2, which regulates PUFA metabolism. They found that in both the moms and pups, flaxseed oil induced a change in this chemical modification in the Fads2 gene. Flaxseed oil supplementation increased the methylation of this gene, which, in turn, decreased the activation of the gene in pups. However, flaxseed oil was not the only factor with impact upon Fads2 methylation in pups. Results demonstrated that regardless of the flaxseed oil intake, there was a correlation between the methylation of this gene in moms and in their pups, which suggested that pups also inherit this methylation from their moms. The pups' ability to transform PUFAs in their own livers was influenced by both the mother's dietary intake, and also by maternal Fads2 methylation status.
"New York City may be laughed at by some for banning large, sugary sodas and for encouraging a healthy diet," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, "This report shows that future generations might not find that funny at all. This report adds to the large body of evidence that an inappropriate diet can produce changes in the function of our DNA and the DNA of our children -- a process called epigenetics. As we begin understand the effects of diet on epigenetics, New York may go from being considered a funny 'nanny-state' to becoming appreciated as a public health visionary."
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Move to less impoverished neighborhoods boosts physical and mental healthPublic release date: 20-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: William Harms w-harms@uchicago.edu 773-702-8356 University of Chicago
Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood spurs long-term gains in the physical and mental health of low-income adults, as well as a substantial increase in their happiness, despite not improving economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study published in the Sept. 20 issue of Science by researchers at the University of Chicago and partners at other institutions.
Although moving into less disadvantaged neighborhoods did not raise incomes for the families that moved, these families experienced important gains in well-being in other ways. Moving from a high-poverty neighborhood to one with a poverty rate 13 percentage points lower increased the happiness of low-income adults by an amount equivalent to the gains caused by a $13,000 rise in family income.
Using data from a large-scale randomized social experiment called Moving to Opportunity, the authors found that neighborhood income segregation had a greater impact than neighborhood racial segregation in shaping the outcomes of adults in the study. "This finding is important, in part, because racial segregation has been trending down since 1970, but income segregation has gone up steadily since then," said lead author Jens Ludwig, the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy at UChicago and director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. "So the problem of adverse neighborhood effects on low-income families seems to be getting worse, rather than better, over time."
Another implication of the study is that looking at the growth over time in inequality with respect to family income a key focus of much of the inequality discussion understates the growth in inequality of well-being. Focusing on income inequality ignores the negative effects on poor families from growing residential segregation by economic status. The researchers estimate that the drop in happiness of low-income adults due to growing residential income segregation since 1970 is large enough to offset the full income growth for low-income Americans over the past four decades.
"Focusing just on trends in income inequality over time in the U.S., while ignoring the growth of income segregation over time, understates the trends towards greater inequality in well-being in America," Ludwig said.
The new paper, "Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults," was co-authored by a national team of collaborators in addition to Ludwig. It relied on data from 4,604 low-income families that enrolled in Moving to Opportunity, an experiment that used a random lottery to offer some families initially living in distressed public housing projects the chance to move into lower-poverty areas. The Science paper looks at outcomes among adults 10 to 15 years after they moved.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development operated Moving to Opportunity from 1994 to 1998 in five cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Families volunteered for the study, and some were picked at random to receive housing voucher subsidies to move to lower-poverty communities. Other families were randomly assigned to a control group that received no special assistance under the program.
People in the study were extremely disadvantaged economically. Most households were headed by African American or Hispanic females fewer than 40 percent of whom had completed high school. Their primary reason for participating was to get away from gangs and drug activity and find better apartments and better schools for their children.
A previous paper found that MTO participants who moved had fewer problems with extreme obesity and long-term risks. The study in Science showed that neighborhood environments have much broader effects on well-being for low-income families and implicate neighborhood income segregation as the key feature of distressed urban neighborhoods that seems to matter most for well-being.
"These findings suggest the importance of focusing on efforts to improve the well-being of poor families, rather than just the narrower goal of reducing income poverty, and the potential value of community-level interventions for achieving that end," Ludwig said.
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Ludwig's co-authors on the paper were Greg Duncan (University of California, Irvine); Lisa Gennetian (Brookings Institution); Lawrence Katz (Harvard University); Ronald Kessler (Harvard Medical School); Jeffrey Kling (Congressional Budget Office); and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (National Bureau of Economic Research).
The study was supported by HUD, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Services at the U.S. Department of Education, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Contact: William Harms, 773-702-8356, w-harms@uchicago.edu
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Move to less impoverished neighborhoods boosts physical and mental healthPublic release date: 20-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: William Harms w-harms@uchicago.edu 773-702-8356 University of Chicago
Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood spurs long-term gains in the physical and mental health of low-income adults, as well as a substantial increase in their happiness, despite not improving economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study published in the Sept. 20 issue of Science by researchers at the University of Chicago and partners at other institutions.
Although moving into less disadvantaged neighborhoods did not raise incomes for the families that moved, these families experienced important gains in well-being in other ways. Moving from a high-poverty neighborhood to one with a poverty rate 13 percentage points lower increased the happiness of low-income adults by an amount equivalent to the gains caused by a $13,000 rise in family income.
Using data from a large-scale randomized social experiment called Moving to Opportunity, the authors found that neighborhood income segregation had a greater impact than neighborhood racial segregation in shaping the outcomes of adults in the study. "This finding is important, in part, because racial segregation has been trending down since 1970, but income segregation has gone up steadily since then," said lead author Jens Ludwig, the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy at UChicago and director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. "So the problem of adverse neighborhood effects on low-income families seems to be getting worse, rather than better, over time."
Another implication of the study is that looking at the growth over time in inequality with respect to family income a key focus of much of the inequality discussion understates the growth in inequality of well-being. Focusing on income inequality ignores the negative effects on poor families from growing residential segregation by economic status. The researchers estimate that the drop in happiness of low-income adults due to growing residential income segregation since 1970 is large enough to offset the full income growth for low-income Americans over the past four decades.
"Focusing just on trends in income inequality over time in the U.S., while ignoring the growth of income segregation over time, understates the trends towards greater inequality in well-being in America," Ludwig said.
The new paper, "Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults," was co-authored by a national team of collaborators in addition to Ludwig. It relied on data from 4,604 low-income families that enrolled in Moving to Opportunity, an experiment that used a random lottery to offer some families initially living in distressed public housing projects the chance to move into lower-poverty areas. The Science paper looks at outcomes among adults 10 to 15 years after they moved.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development operated Moving to Opportunity from 1994 to 1998 in five cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Families volunteered for the study, and some were picked at random to receive housing voucher subsidies to move to lower-poverty communities. Other families were randomly assigned to a control group that received no special assistance under the program.
People in the study were extremely disadvantaged economically. Most households were headed by African American or Hispanic females fewer than 40 percent of whom had completed high school. Their primary reason for participating was to get away from gangs and drug activity and find better apartments and better schools for their children.
A previous paper found that MTO participants who moved had fewer problems with extreme obesity and long-term risks. The study in Science showed that neighborhood environments have much broader effects on well-being for low-income families and implicate neighborhood income segregation as the key feature of distressed urban neighborhoods that seems to matter most for well-being.
"These findings suggest the importance of focusing on efforts to improve the well-being of poor families, rather than just the narrower goal of reducing income poverty, and the potential value of community-level interventions for achieving that end," Ludwig said.
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Ludwig's co-authors on the paper were Greg Duncan (University of California, Irvine); Lisa Gennetian (Brookings Institution); Lawrence Katz (Harvard University); Ronald Kessler (Harvard Medical School); Jeffrey Kling (Congressional Budget Office); and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (National Bureau of Economic Research).
The study was supported by HUD, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Services at the U.S. Department of Education, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Contact: William Harms, 773-702-8356, w-harms@uchicago.edu
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While you may admire the sheer strength and work ethic of busy little ants, that certainly doesn't mean you want to invite them into your home for brunch every day. Unfortunately, not only are they hard workers, but they're also relentless breeders and voracious eaters, creating colonies of up to 100,000 ants that require a huge amount of sugary sweet food every day. Hungry ants are persistent ants, and that means they'll end up finding any way they can into your home to see what kinds of goodies you've got hidden around. In Missouri, most homeowners battle the odorous house ant, so named because of the rotten coconut or pine scent they emit when crushed. These little buggers are even more hardy than your run-of-the-mill ant -- they can work and breed even if injured, and they'll create a nest (or colony) just about anywhere they can, including in your home if it's hot and dry enough outside. They also have a nondiscrimination policy when it comes to queens -- they usually have multiple queens churning out new eggs every day, which means that as fast as you squash them, they're making new little ants to carry on their great scavenging tradition. Odorous house ants are notoriously hard to get rid of once they're in your home, so do all you can to ensure they don't enter. The same precautions that help keep other insects out also apply to ants, including reducing the moisture around your home's foundation and frame, caulking any cracks or holes around doors and windows, and keeping landscape mulch from touching your home. Odorous house ants are particularly fond of warm, moist mulch, so pay particular attention to keeping that away from your home. Within your home, try to keep potential food sources tightly covered and food contained to only the rooms that are regularly cleaned, such as the kitchen. If you have children, there's a great science lesson in teaching them why sneaking that PB&J sandwich to their bedroom isn't such a good idea! If you do find yourself being invaded by these little brown or black ants, act quickly to eliminate them -- they won't go away on their own. Even pest control professionals can have trouble getting rid of these tough little critters, so look for a pest control service with particular expertise on odorous house ants. Richardson Pest Solutions has extensive odorous house ant experience and expertise for St. Louis pest control issues and offers free inspections to help determine the extent of a homeowner's needs. For more information, contact the pest control experts at http://RichardsonPestSolutions.com.
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School carnivals, fall and Halloween festivals and church bazaars are on the near horizon, and with them come bake sales featuring all sorts of goodies, especially bar cookies that can be sold individually or in packages of multiples.
Bar cookies often save time-starved home cooks. The bar cookies are spread into a pan and do not have to be individually dropped onto baking sheets.
My late grandmother loved to bake and was awesome at it, but she disliked making cookies. She didn't have the patience. Baking cookies took too long, so I became her cookie baker. When my daughter was in school, I always volunteered for cookies. Holidays are not the holidays without baking cookies.
Today, home cooks do not have the time to bake dozens of cookies, but they can pop a pan or two of bar cookies into the oven. The bars usually take less than an hour from start to finish and offer a variety of flavors from citrusy or fruit squares to chocolaty brownies to rice cereal treats to healthy snack bars.
The hardest part of these bar cookies is not overcooking them. Home cooks often check the bars' doneness with a cake tester or toothpick. If the center of the bars still seems too gooey, they pop them back into the oven. The result? Burned crusts or crispy bars that should have been moist in the middle.
My daughter does this with brownies and another friend with lemon squares. There are few things as disappointing to cooks and their eaters?as crunchy brownies and burned bars.
Before starting a bar recipe, cooks should check to see if the bars are to be moist or to spring back at the touch. Some bars should be the texture of ooey gooey butter cakes; others a crisp granola.
Keeping an eye on the bars is a must. Just because a recipe says 30 minutes cooking time does not mean 30 minutes in each individual home oven. My gas stove cooks about 5 minutes faster than recipes say, sometimes 10 depending on how much I have used the oven that day. Remember, gas ovens cook on retained heat.
If fruit or gooey fillings are set on top, it is time to take them out of the oven. Overcooking will?place the
bars into the trash instead of onto a cookie platter.
In preparation for upcoming festivals, I thought I would share a few bar cookies from readers that are not run-of-the-bake-sale chocolate chip bars or brownies. These may make you the star of the bazaar.
Valerie Crane of Gulfport uses a cake mix and marshmallows for the crust part of her gooey-chewy Payday bars. Crisp rice cereal, peanut butter chips and corn syrup are some of the topping ingredients. This bar cannot be checked with the toothpick method. Timing is everything with these bars.
Barbara Salloum, also of Gulfport, makes?healthier oatmeal squares that?are crispy, but still chewy. Marmalade, apple butter or jelly is used as the filling. Watch that these bars are not overcooked. The crust and topping can burn.
In the family cookbook, "From Our House to Your House," Peggy Ryland?shares her chocolate peanut butter squares. These require no baking, but the topping is cooked in a double boiler. Perhaps an easier cookie for those who are bar-challenged. Graham crackers and crunchy peanut butter are in the cookie base. The topping is chocolate chips, butter, vanilla and pecans.
PAYDAY BARS
BASE
1 package yellow cake mix
1/3 cup softened margarine
1 egg
3 cups miniature marshmallows
Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, combine cake mix, margarine and egg. Beat at low speed until crumbly. Press into bottom of ungreased 13-by-9-inch pan. Bake for 12 to 18 minutes or until light golden brown. Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with marshmallows. Return to oven for 1 to 2 minutes or until marshmallows just being to pull. Cool while preparing topping.
TOPPING
2/3 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup margarine
2 teaspoons vanilla
12-ounce package peanut butter chips
2 cups crisp rice cereal
2 cups salted peanuts
In large saucepan, heat corn syrup, margarine, vanilla and chips, just until chips are melted and mixture is smooth, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in cereal and nuts. Immediately spoon warm topping over marshmallows; spread to cover. Chill. Cut into bars. Makes 36 bars.
-- Valerie Crane from "Tastes of Temple"
OATMEAL SQUARES
1- 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1- 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 cup brown sugar
1- 1/2 sticks butter
1 cup orange marmalade, strawberry preserves, apple butter or your favorite jam or jelly
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, rolled oats, orange peel and sugar. Add butter, working it into flour mixture with fingers until it looks like coarse cornmeal. Press half the mixture into a well-buttered 8-inch square pan. Spread with jam then top with remaining butter-flour mixture.
Bake 40 minutes. Let cool, then cut into squares
-- Barbara Salloum from "How to Be a Star (in Your Kitchen)"
CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER SQUARES
BASE
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup butter, softened
1 pound confectioners' sugar
1 (16.3-ounce) jar crunchy peanut butter
Combine above ingredients and press mixture into a 9-by-13-inch pan.
Combine chocolate and butter in top of a double boiler. Bring water to a boil in bottom of double boiler; reduce heat to low and cook until chocolate melts. Add vanilla. Pour over base mix and top with pecan pieces.
-- Peggy Ryland from "From Our House To Your House: Original Recipes from The Friendship House & Log House"
Chocolate pound cake
"I made a very good chocolate pound cake using the Grand Prize Pound Cake recipe from your Sept. 5 column, but using a box of a good dark chocolate cake mix instead of coconut or yellow," said Ed Walker of D'Iberville.
For those who may have missed this recipe, here it is with Walker's cake mix substitution.
GRAND PRIZE POUND CAKE
1 dark chocolate cake mix
1 cup sour cream
2/3 cup sugar
4 eggs
2/3 cup oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine cake mix and sugar with mixer. Add oil, sour cream, eggs and vanilla and beat 2 minutes. Pour batter into a greased and floured Bundt pan and bake for 45 minutes. Do not open the oven! Remove from oven to wire rack. Cool 10 minutes and remove from pan. May dust with confectioners' sugar. Makes 12-16 servings.
-- Submitted by Ed Walker
More on salsa
A reader requested recipes for good salsas, and Sheryl Miller of Palmetto, Fla., shares her family's favorite.
FRUIT SALSA
1 apple (any type of sweet apple)
1 kiwi
8 strawberries (more if you want)
Cut all fruit into small pieces and mix together. Serve with tortillas or cinnamon pita chips.
-- Submitted by Sheryl Miller
Still seeking these recipes
Readers are looking for a chocolate pound cake with a raspberry filling and gluten- and dairy-free recipes. Also, feel free to share your favorite bar cookie recipes or fall festival goodies. After all, 'tis getting to be the season.
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