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The older you get, the slower your metabolism can become. As your metabolism slows down, it gets harder to lose weight effortlessly. The main ways most health professionals encourage weight loss is through diet and exercise. However, many professionals will admit that weight loss is more reliant on the diet than the exercise. Of course, both work together to achieve the goal, but diet is estimated to account for 70% of a successful weight loss effort. If you 're ready to lose weight, it 's…

Fat Camp How many people wish to go back to when they were young? One can only imagine, but I cannot say the sam . For being a kid with not a lot of responsibility, it felt like the world cam crashing down like a rabbit under a landslide. With bullies and family issues, my weight was on top of my list of problems. By putting myself through “ Fat Camp”, it has shaped the person you see now. The first light of my happy meal and junk food addiction started around 5th grade. By 6th grade, I put…

The stories in this chapter are typical of the times and vividly portray the gradual, disarming, and even confusing nature of the transformation that took place shortly after the war as the Valley began to shed its agricultural roots. I was born in San Jose in 1947 (a third generation native), and started working on my grandfather’s ranch of apricots, prunes, and walnuts at the age of eight. Like the other younger children, I starting out picking up "ground fruit" from under the trees. I…

Water Bath Canning Vs. Pressure Canning Food preservation has become very popular with food costs rising over the years. Even though freezing food is easy, convenient and fast, canning has become popular due to the long shelf life that canning affords. When canning, many decisions need to be made prior to starting the process. When I decided to start canning, I had to choose between the water bathing method or pressure canning method. When water bathing, the filled jars are prepared and…

PORK, BACON, HAM AND GRAMMER: Define Pork: • Pork is the meat from the domestic pig which is most commonly consumed meat worldwide Define Ham: • Ham is the salted or smoked meat of upper part of a pig’s leg which has been preserved through salting, smoking, or wet curing Define Bacon: • Bacon is the beck or belly part of pork meat which is sliced into thin strips. • And the curing process consists of salting by dry method or by soaking in brine solution. Then it is smoked. • It is mainly…

Analysis of To Autumn by John Keats The poem ‘To Autumn’ is written by John Keats (31.October 1795 – 23.February 1821). The speaker starts the poem by describing autumns’ abundance and its intimacy with the sun. How autumn ripens fruits and causes the flowers to bloom. In the second stanza, the speaker describes the hard work in the field, how the crops and fruits are ready to be harvested. In the third stanza, the speaker describes the sound and the music of autumn. The speaker tells Autumn…

Abstract: The enzyme called catalysis breaks down hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. In this lab we conducted a series of experiment to find the effect of concentration of substrate and the temperature of catalase enzyme. Introduction: There are a lot of factors that can affect the rate of enzyme reaction such as the concentration of the substrate, temperature of the enzyme, and shape of the enzyme. In this experiment we only measure how the concentration of the substrate and temperature…

Hidden Sugars Are Where You Don't Think They'd Be There’s so much about added sugar that warrants your attention. Aside from how they make certain dishes sweetly irresistible, much has also been discussed about how they can get addictive and potentially lead to serious health problems (will insert link to dangers of sugar here). Dealing with these added sugars from obvious sources like candies, junk food, pastries, and the like is relatively easy - reduce your intake or just completely write…

dipping bowl and add the chopped tomatoes on top. Serve the quesadillas with the dipping sauce or pack for lunch on-the-go. Recipe #65 - Hearty Kelp Noodle Curry Ingredients: • ½ cup red bell pepper, julienned • ½ cup carrot, julienned • ½ cup zucchini, julienned • 2 teaspoons sesame oil • ½ cup fresh cilantro leaves, torn • ½ cup Thai basil leaves, torn • 1 cup bean sprouts • 2 tablespoons lime juice, freshly squeezed • 2 cups kelp noodles, raw • 1 avocado • 2/3 cup watermelon…

potassium, folate, iron, and zinc and so, considered as a vegetable group as well. Vegetable group has five subgroups and these are beans and peas, dark green vegetables (e.g. spinach, romaine lettuce, and spring greens), starchy vegetables (e.g. zucchini and yams), red and orange vegetables (e.g. red peppers and tomatoes), and other vegetables that are canned or dried, fresh or frozen, raw or cooked, whole, cut-up into pieces or pureed, Moreover, 100% vegetable juice is counted and considered…