Muscle More Important than Weight Loss Ina’s Roast Chicken Recipe, Why is She the Barefoot Contessa? Moisturizers 25% Off for February Too! Celebrating 30 Years of Improving Lives Since 1992…and Once Again, a Top Doc
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Muscle More Important than Weight?
A recent study from the University of Alberta has found that women with a “healthy” BMI (weight) but low levels of lean muscle have the highest risk of death, even compared with those who have excess body fat.
While low muscle levels are epidemic among older women, the researcher is seeing it in younger women. The two reasons are declining activity and detox and ultra-low-calorie diets. These diets cause your body to burn muscle for fuel.
(Did You Know? On average we lose 8% of our muscle mass every decade after age 30.)
Weight training has benefits besides increasing muscle mass. Sleep can be improved, a stronger heart helps ward off cardiovascular disease, there may be some immune advantages from an increased muscle mass, fewer sick days and falls, and lastly, some believe exercise reduces memory lapses.
-Women’s Health
LA DOLCE VITA, JOIE DE VIVRE
Ina Garten or The Barefoot Contessa has a wonderful roast chicken recipe below. She got the nickname “Barefoot Contessa” from a food specialty store she bought and owned for a while before selling it. Barefoot Contessa is from the 1954 movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.
Roast Chicken:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Rinse a 5–6-pound roasting chicken and pat dry. Salt and pepper liberally inside and out. Stuff the cavity with thyme, a lemon cut in half, and a head of garlic cut crosswise. Tie legs together and tuck wings under body. Place a thickly sliced onion, 4 carrots cut in 2-inch chunks and a fennel bulb cut in wedges in a roasting pan. Toss with salt, pepper thyme and olive oil. Spread around the roasting pan and place chicken on top. Roast for 1.5 hours. Remove chicken and vegetables and place on platter. Cover with foil for about 20 minutes before cutting chicken.
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