Wouldn’t it be great if every woman could get free mammograms? Always? Until that happens, visit The Breast Cancer Site every day and click.
The Breast Cancer Site is a sponsored site where your daily clicks add up to a free mammogram for someone who can’t afford one. And if you shop from the site, a percentage of the sale goes to help fund mammograms, too.
Visit the site every day where you can *
Click to help someone get a free mammogram.
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Last Saturday, Marilu was the keynote speaker at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) Gala, a major fundraiser for the Institute. The energy in the room was high, and Marilu – always a great speaker – held the audience captive with her story about her father’s death and how it led her to a healthy life.
Marilu Henner lost her father to heart disease. And his death transformed her life. Known for her roles on Broadway, in film, and on television, Henner is now a health and wellness advocate with a major following.
Her Total Health Makeover program is changing lives and Henner is the recipient of the 2010 Voice of Compassion Award from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). With PCRM, she is working to persuade Congress to reform the Child Nutrition Act.
Please join us to hear Marilu speak with wit, passion and expertise as MHIF celebrates 28 years of historic success. Your support has made all the difference!
We promise a dinner of great food—selected by Marilu—and inspired music from Kicked in the Jimmy, a band of five young MHIF cardiologists.
Come to be entertained and enlightened, but most all, come to support life-saving research aimed at stopping cardiovascular disease—the number one killer in America.
~ Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation invitation
Local media reports here and here. The second one is a radio show – listen to the first hour to hear the interview with Marilu.
Get smart about your heart. MHIF has put together Wine Dinner Kits so you and your friends can become conversant about women’s heart disease. The kits include a brochure with instructions for planning a gathering, an educational conversation guide and 10 preprinted invitations. To receive a free MHIF Wine Dinner Kit, contact Susan Fink at 612-863-9321 or sfink@mhif.org.
As we head into colder weather, it’s the perfect time to take a good hard look at your coat closet.
What are you hiding in there? Could you play “one of things is not like the others; one of these things doesn’t belong” in your coat closet? Find the right home for things that have migrated into the closet over the last year.
Sometimes the coat closet is the logical place for things that seem not to belong – a card table or vacuum cleaner or luggage or sports equipment. It depends on your home, the available closet and storage space, and the way you live. Make sure you have space for the oddball things you’ve designated for your coat closet.
Warm weather coats can be moved to the less accessible areas of the closet, or to storage. Be sure to wash everything, or have cleaned, before storing it during its off-season.
Cold weather outerwear includes a lot of extras – mittens, gloves, hats, scarves, shawls, boots, umbrellas. Our favorite storage system for the mittens, gloves, scarves, hats and shawls is one of those hanging shelf organizers, sold for shoes (narrow) and sweaters (wider). They hang from the rod, but give you shelving almost to the floor. Assign a shelf per person, or store all like things on a shelf (mittens on one, gloves on another, etc.).
Add hooks for umbrellas – on the door or on the side wall of the closet.
Our favorite place for boots is on a boot tray – a rubber tray with raised edges, so the wet mess boots leave behind is always contained. We like the boot tray by the door, but it works just as well inside the closet.
Make sure the cold weather coats are clean, in good repair and ready for use.
Add extra hangars for guests’ coats. Get nice sturdy hangars for the coat closet – we like wooden ones – to take the weight of heavy coats and to help hold the shape of the coats.
Tote bags seem to procreate in closets. Check yours. Do they need to be laundered or wiped clean? Is the coat closet the best place for your grocery bags (or do they belong in your car, where you’ll remember to use them)? If you have too many bags in good condition, check around for organizations that could use them. We’ve heard of libraries, schools, churches, and charity groups reusing donated bags.
Clean the closet while you’re decluttering it. Vacuum the floor, baseboard, and shelves. Dust the walls and ceiling. Wipe down the door. If you’re really ambitious, give the closet a fresh coat of paint inside. (Remember, there’s no rule about what color it has to be – if you want it a fun, bright color, now’s the time!)
Are your kids addicted to fast food?
Is your partner stubborn about trying new foods?
Is your kitchen table a battleground?
Has “healthy” become a bad thing at your house?
You need the 5-day class that starts TODAY here at Marilu.com. Coach Beth Miriam has tried-and-true strategies to get your family eating – and loving – healthy food.
Learn how to pick your battles when it comes to food and your family.
Learn how to adapt family favorites to healthier versions.
Get some tips on transitioning to healthier options.
Members are automatically enrolled in class – you received a class email today.
Not a member? Sign up now, and you won’t miss anything.
Here’s a complete meal for vegans – or anyone! (Just because a meal is meatless or animal-free, doesn’t mean other people won’t love it). They’re also budget friendly meals, especially if you purchase the beans and rice from the bulk bins, and get the produce from the farmer’s market.
If you don’t eat meat analogs (fake meats, usually made from soy or gluten), you can skip the soy sausage altogether (just add some Cajun seasoning or increase the Tabasco). Or if you eat poultry, try spicy chicken sausage. However you make it, the dish is delicious.
Chard and collards are typical southern foods that have just started getting positive reviews in the north. We challenge you to try something new with this recipe if you haven’t had cooked greens before. Cooking the greens (like tomatoes) makes their nutrition more available. If you chop the stems, it’s fine to eat them, too.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Red Beans and Rice Green * Serves 6-8
1 onion, finely chopped
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 pound spicy soy sausage,* cut into 1 inch pieces
1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 cups dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight
3-1/2 cups vegetable broth
3 cups water
1 bay leaf
2 cups uncooked brown rice, rinsed
Salt
Pepper
Tabasco
*or use spicy chicken sausage, or skip and increase seasonings
In a large skillet over medium heat, sauté the onion in the olive oil until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the soy sausage, bell pepper, and garlic and sauté about 7 to 10 minutes, or until the sausage is cooked through (if using chicken sausage, make sure it’s no longer pink).
In a large stockpot over medium-high heat, add the drained beans, broth, water, and bay leaf and bring to a boil. Add the sausage mixture, cover, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer 45-60 minutes, or until the beans are soft. Add the rice and 1/2 cup water (or more if needed; there should be enough liquid to be absorbed by the rice). Cover and simmer until the rice is cooked, about 25 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, and Tabasco.
Spicy Chard and Collard Greens Green * Serves 6
1 pound fresh collard greens, washed and coarsely chopped
1 cup vegetable broth
1 large red onion, cut in half
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 bunch chard, washed and coarsely chopped
Salt
Pepper
Tabasco or other hot sauce
In a large stockpot over medium-high heat, add the collard greens, vegetable broth, onion and red pepper flakes and cover with water. Bring to a boil, lower the heat to medium and simmer about 2 hours, or until the greens are tender. Add the chard and simmer 7 to 10 minutes, or until wilted. Remove the onion and season with salt, pepper and hot sauce to taste.
Autumn asks that we prepare for the future—that we be wise in the ways of garnering and keeping. But it also asks that we learn to let go—to acknowledge the beauty of sparseness.
Henner brings the same kind of effervescent energy to this staging as Lee [her character] brings into the drab lives of Marjorie and Ira. Having played the role on Broadway, Henner shows a clear affinity for this sagacious, sensual bon vivant – or, as Lee sees herself, “an abrasive, passionate pain in the ass.”
Read an interview between Marilu and Caroline Aaron – and listen to an audio clip of their interview – at the LA Stage Times website. (This is awesome!)
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
14900 La Mirada Boulevard, La Mirada, CA
7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays
Ends Oct. 17
Tickets $35-$50. Contact: 562-944-9801 or www.lamiradatheatre.com
Photo: Marilu Henner and Caroline Aaron in ‘The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.’ Photo credit: Michael Lamont.
In honor of our vacation (yes, we love being on vacation), and celebrating a family wedding this weekend, here’s a song that gets it’s message from New Orleans and its blues vibe from Memphis.
Now you go out and have a great weekend – be active, and energetic, and keep smiling.
Our next class is all about making your family happy. And “family” means all those people you cook for – spouse and children, roommates, in-laws, co-workers, partners or significant others, neighbors, friends. When they don’t think they want to eat healthy meals, and you love them enough to want them healthy – for a long, long time – what do you feed them? This class will show you.
The Family Class starts Monday, October 11, and runs through Friday, October 15. Coach Beth Miriam – wife and mother of two – will help you redefine and realign family meals.
Sign up now to get tips and tricks for making your healthy meals enticing and inviting, no matter who is around the table.
Members are automatically enrolled in classes, and will receive the class email on Monday morning.
Not a member? Join today and get the benefit of monthly classes, along with private message boards and a private chat room available 24/7.
The fly (or butterfly) builds up your pectoral muscles, the ones under your breasts, and they help give you that extra lift.
Using hand weights or soup cans, stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and knees slightly bent. Keep your back straight and your abs tight.
Put your arms out to your sides, then bend them at the elbow so your fingers point up to the ceiling, palms forward.
Squeeze your chest muscles to slowly bring your arms together in front of your chest. Your hands, forearms and elbows will meet in front of your chest.
Slowly press your arms back to the starting position.
During the whole exercise, make sure to use your pectorals, not your arms, to make the movement. Try two sets of 10-12 repetitions to start, and add reps (or weight) from there.
