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Of course it’s possible to create an amazing-looking kitchen if you have massive amounts of cash. What’s really remarkable is doing the same thing on a limited budget. The good news is that it can be done! You don’t have to spend a ton of money to get a countertop, backsplash, or floor that looks great.
Here are eight examples of humble, inexpensive materials looking really great in the kitchen.
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Surely everyone is familiar with the classic pineapple upside-down cake, topped with rings of canned pineapple and dotted with neon-red maraschino cherries, all nestled in a brown sugar glaze? What many people don’t know is that nearly any fruit can be subbed in for the pineapple-cherry combo with fresh, delicious results. Read on for our master recipe for making upside-down cakes with fresh fruits all year long!
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My husband is currently doing a Whole30, and I really can’t wait for the month to be over. Okay, simmer down, simmer down. I kid — mostly.
But if you’ve ever had a partner go on a super-strict diet, you know where I’m coming from. You know, it’s Friday night and you want to order a pizza and catch up on Sneaky Pete, but you can’t because … white flour and dairy, and sugar in the tomato sauce, and that pepperoni is surely processed. So instead it’s meat and vegetables for the nth night in a row, and that’s way less fun to curl up with and eat on the couch.
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Genevieve Gorder has completed more than a hundred kitchen renovations for clients and on television, and she’s a serial renovator herself. “I’ve redone the kitchen in every single home I had as a child, young adult, and grown-up,” says Gorder. “The only period in my life that prohibited me from doing a kitchen was two years in the dorms, and it killed me!”
But even with all this experience, redoing her own spaces (vs. a client’s), has taught her things about the process and herself. Here are the six biggest lessons Gorder learned during her own kitchen renovations.
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This weekend I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Judge John Hodgman, and heard something I just had to share. If you’re unfamiliar, John Hodgman plays a fake internet judge in a fake court that’s open to hearing various disputes from listeners. Although the lawsuits are not always food-related, there certainly are a lot that are. Perhaps the most well-known case included two people arguing whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich. (The court ruled it is not.)
Back to this weekend: I was listening to episode 358 (cheekily named Chips Annoy!), featuring a couple who disagreed about how well-done chocolate chip cookies needed to be before they could be pulled out of the oven. Alton Brown was a guest witness, so naturally I was even more enthralled than usual.
He had lots to say about the process of making chocolate chip cookies. The biggest takeaway, however, came around 32 minutes in … and it was more about the eating of the cookies than the making.
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While I like the idea of always buying a block of cheese and grating it at home for whatever I’m cooking, that is not my reality. Sure, there are a few exceptions, but here’s the thing — more often than not, a bag of shredded cheese (and the convenience that comes with it!) is totally worth it.
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For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering three questions. First, is power yoga—a more “intense” version of yoga that includes strength exercises—a suitable alternative to strength training for aging women? Probably not, but that doesn’t make it bad or wrong to do. Second, what’s the deal with pelvic floor dysfunction after menopause? What’s the best way to improve that situation? And third, is the Keto Reset right for older women with osteoporosis?
Let’s find out:
Shannon asked:
Would you consider power yoga “lifting heavy things”? I do power yoga 2-3 times a week and it involves a lot of standing strength and arm/hand stands? Thanks and I love everything on Marks Daily Apple!
Not quite. Nothing can really compete with strength training and high-intensity work for building bone resilience and strength. Your bones need impact and intensity, and yoga generally doesn’t supply enough of it.
That’s why hopping in place can help strengthen hip and thigh bones in older folks. The jarring impact of landing—even from a modest height of six or eight inches—triggers bone resorption and remodeling in the legs.
That’s why lifting heavy things makes bones strong. The bone acts (along with the muscle) as a lever during the lift, which places a lot of stress on the bone. To recover from the activity and be ready for the next time it has to fulfill lever duty, the bone remodels itself, gaining density and getting stronger and more durable.
Power yoga is closely related to ashtanga yoga, long considered a more “intense” form of yoga. Yet an 8-month study found that Ashtanga yoga yielded only mild benefits to bone health. As for strength, another 8-month Ashtanga study by the same group found that it improved leg press strength but little else. It’s better than nothing, but it’s probably not enough to stave off the worst effects aging has on muscle and bone.
Still, if yoga is something you love, continue doing it. Yoga will improve your balance, coordination, flexibility, and even strength under certain contexts. Throwing in a single day or two of dedicated strength training on top of the yoga is a great way to have it all. One day a week is “enough,” two days a week is better (a recent study found that while older women training one day a week maintained strength, training twice a week was necessary to gain ever-critical lean muscle mass).
Power yoga varies a lot from place to place, so it really depends on how your instructor chooses to implement it. I just wouldn’t bank on it providing enough stimulus for your muscles and bones.
Michelle Reese wrote:
I’d like to know a little about how to strengthen and support the pelvic floor, which really gets compromised after menopause, making it hard to do the squats. I’ve really noticed the decline in function after menopause, even though I’ve been working out consistently my entire life. Thanks for doing the research and sharing today’s wisdom!
My pleasure. Thanks for reading!
Realize that the pelvic floor is a system of muscles, and muscles need to be used and loaded, lest they degenerate—which only speeds up as we age. The same thing applies to the rest of your muscle. It’s just that actively using the pelvic floor muscles is harder and less intuitive than actively engaging your biceps or hamstrings. They’re also hidden, so it’s easy to forget they even exist and need our attention.
For pelvic floor stuff, go with Katy Bowman. Check out her articles and books on the subject. Her expertise is unmatched.
Vicki M asked:
No doubt this has been discussed before…..however, for a 60 year old post menopause woman with osteoporosis (but still active, going to gym, walking etc), is Keto reset a good option?
The bad news is that this particular diet has never been studied in this particular population.
The good news is that, as a human, your species has been well-represented in the ketogenic diet literature.
In a long-term 5 year study of human adults, ketogenic dieting failed to produce any negative effects on bone health.
In a shorter study, a low-carb, high-fat diet (no word if it was “ketogenic” or not) failed to worsen bone turnover markers.
Some critics claim that ketogenic diets (and pretty much any diet that includes “evil” animal protein) “dissolve” bones by throwing off the acid/base balance, such that the body must break down bone to ameliorate the acid load. It’s not true, but if it were? In a recent study, elite female race-walkers on a ketogenic diet saw no change in their acid/base balance.
There are more wrinkles to the keto/bone health story, which I’ll explore in the near future. Stay tuned for that.
But long story short, keto reset is fine, provided you don’t just go keto and do nothing else. You still have to train (including strength training), get plenty of sleep, get vitamin D, and focus on the micronutrient content (including the bone-relevant potassium, calcium, magnesium) of your diet and not just the macronutrients.
That’s it for today, folks. Thanks for reading, writing, and commenting. Include any further questions or input you have down below and have an incredible day!
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Potato leek soup is spring’s answer to winter’s potato soup. With the arrival of warmer weather, switch from a heavier baked potato soup to a light and elegant potato leek soup. Mellow and mild, leeks are the unsung hero of spring.
The refined flavor of potatoes and leeks are often overshadowed by bacon and fennel, so here we’ve gone back to basics, simmering the classic combo all day in the slow cooker.
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Any room can benefit from a bit of organization, but it’s the kitchen — a high-functioning space that’s often the most-used room in the house — that reaps the highest rewards. When you can find exactly what you need, or when you know what’s stocked in your pantry, or when you’re not wasting time walking around the room in the middle of cooking a meal — that’s when the organization really counts.
It’s easy to make mistakes if you don’t give this space the thought it deserves. Here are five mistakes to avoid when organizing your kitchen.
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Chances are, if you’ve had Filipino food at one time or another, you’ve probably had adobo: a dish common in the Philippines that usually features some sort of meat, poultry, seafood, fruit, or vegetable cooked in a mixture of vinegar, bay leaves, garlic, black pepper, and a combination of salt and/or soy sauce. Although simple in nature, these braises are always complex and robust, yet remain nuanced and balanced.
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