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News story #1 of 3:
Chocolate Milk Diet
Source:
Yahoo! Health article from “Men’s Health” magazine, May 13, 2010 by
David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding: Zinczenko reports that chocolate
milk isn’t just for kids. It’s for anyone who wants a scientific way
to lose weight.
Here’s the short story. Researchers in Nebraska determined that while
vitamin C helps to build strong bones, it also has the capacity to
inhibit the human body from absorbing fat.
Milk is a great source for vitamin C. But you just can’t drain a
bottle of milk and lose the pounds. There’s a difference between
ingesting calcium in any form and actually be able to absorb it.
That’s where Vitamin D comes in.
The human body needs an ample amount of vitamin D to be able to absorb
an ample amount of vitamin C. Milk has vitamin D but not much.
People can make a sufficient amount of its own vitamin D just by being
exposed to sunlight a few minutes a day but that’s difficult if you
stay indoors or work the night shift. Enter chocolate syrup.
Vitamin D, found in fortified chocolate syrup (as well as other
foods), greatly helps people to absorb the vitamin C.
Chocolate syrup or cocoa doesn’t have to have vitamin D in order to
taste chocolaty. Manufacturers can and sometimes do add, or fortify,
vitamin D to the syrup or cocoa to make them more beneficial so check
the “Nutritional Facts” label.
The average healthy diet already supplies you with vitamin C but,
according to Zinczenko, the optimum added intake of calcium to lose
fat is 1000 mg more per day. That translates into three servings of
chocolate milk each day. And use 1% instead of whole milk as it saves
on the calories.
Bonus #1: An article in The International Journal of Sport
Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism also reports that athletes are able
to work out longer and harder with milk than other liquids. Why? Milk,
with naturally occurring electrolytes, hydrates better than water or
fortified sports drinks.
Bonus point #2: Milk also provides muscle building protein, and
your muscles, even at rest, burn more calories than fat.
To summarize: Vitamin C can block the body’s absorption of
“excess” fat. Vitamin D helps the body absorb vitamin C. Three
servings a day of chocolate milk fortified with vitamin D will not
only help drop the weight but improve your workouts.
News story #2 of 3:
The Hershey Company Plans Modernization
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review- June 16, 2010: The Hershey
Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania announced today that it will soon
undertake the “Next Century” construction project designed to
modernize one of its West Hershey manufacturing plants built in 1992.
Between $200 and $225 million will be spent to provide a modern
manufacturing plant to replace the original production facility built
by Milton Hershey over 100 years ago. Another $75 million will be
spent to upgrade the current administrative and distribution
facilities in Hershey as well as turn the old production plant into
offices.
Although 500-600 layoffs will be anticipated during the transition the
project will put the company in a more secure financial and
competitive standing saving $80 million annually by 2014.
News story #3 of 3:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway?
Source:
New York Theater Guild.com, June 4, 2010 – According to Mike Fleming
of Deadline.com the stage version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
is headed to London in 2011 and New York’s Broadway in 2012. The
original storyline, written by Roald Dahl in 1964, is about a boy
named Willie winning a tour of a fantastic chocolate factory run by an
equally fantastic character named Willy Wonka.
Sam Mendez is reportedly to be the director with music by Marc Shaiman,
lyrics by Scott Wittman, and book by David Greig. Shaiman and Whittman
won a Tony Award with the musical Hairspray and Mendez has a long
history of stage direction including Broadway’s The Vertical Hour, and
the revivals of Gypsy, the Blue Room, and Cabaret for which he was
nominated for his own Tony Award.
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was twice made into a movie; in 1971
with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and again in 2005 with Johnny Depp
playing the role.
The story is based on the true-to-life experiences of Dahl as a boy in
England where spies were employed by two big-time chocolate companies,
Cadbury and Rowntree's, to steal secret chocolate recipes from each
other.
Mendez’s production company, Neal Street Productions, has brought the
shows, “Enron”, “After Miss Julie” and “Shrek the Musical” to Broadway
as well as “Red” which just won the 2010 Tony award for Best Play
along with five other Tony’s.
Dessert Recipe
We only feature dessert recipes that we have made, tasted and
phenomenally enjoyed. Now it’s your turn.
Paradise Dessert Pizza
Serves 16
Source: The Pampered Chef
Ingredients:
1 package (16 oz) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
8 ounces of vanilla, strawberry or banana low-fat yogurt
8 ounces of crushed pineapple in juice, well drained
¼ cup flaked coconut
2 kiwis, pealed and sliced
2 cups of red grapes, or strawberries, cut in half
11 ounces of mandarin orange segments, well drained
2 tablespoons chopped almonds, unblanched
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Form dough into a ball and place in
the center of a cookie pan and form into a 12-inch circle, about ¼
inch thick. Bake 16-18 minutes or until it becomes a light golden
brown color. Cool 10 minutes. Carefully loosen from the pan and cool
completely.
2. Combine yogurt, pineapple ad coconut. Spread this mixture evenly
over the top of the cookie. Arrange the mandarin oranges, kiwi slices
and grape halves in a circle over the yogurt mixture.
3. Chop the almonds and sprinkle over the fruit. Slice and serve
immediately.
Holiday Feature
Father’s Day – June 20, 2010
Source:
history.com, morning-glow.com – Sonora Smart Dodd and her five
siblings were raised by their father, William Jackson Smart, a US
Civil War veteran, after his wife died in childbirth.
In 1910 Sonora started what would eventually become an international
honoring of dads and fatherhood with the first Father’s Day
celebration in Spokane, Washington. She chose the month of June to
honor her father as that was the month of his birthday.
As the custom grew the holiday was supported by President Calvin
Coolidge in 1924. The US Congress officially established Father’s Day
in 1956 and ten years later President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed
Father’s Day a national holiday. In 1972 President Richard Nixon
decreed that it be observed on the third Sunday in June.
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