Healthy Diet at Home

 today we’re going to talk about a way toplan your meals that many healthcare professionals recommend-- it's called the plate method. the plate method uses the dinner plate itselfas a blueprint for healthy meals. by reserving a portion of the plate for differenttypes of food, it can help you build meals with the proper amounts and proportions ofprotein, starches, fruits and vegetables. the traditional plate method uses a nine-inchplate. you’d better measure yours, as most platesthat people use are bigger than this. when you set your plate on the table, imagineit divided in half and then one side divided again. the large space is for non-starchy vegetables,with most experts recommending at least two in each meal. non-starchy vegetables include lettuce, tomatoes,cucumbers, mushrooms, green beans, broccoli, and cauliflower. one of the smaller spaces is for your proteinserving—like meat, fish, or eggs. a properly-sized serving is usually 3 oz.for women and 4 oz. for men, or abou...

today, i'd like to talk aboutturning around an epidemic. one hundred million americans right nowdo have either diabetes or pre-diabetes, and that puts themat risk for amputations, for heart disease, for blindness. and we're exportingthis epidemic overseas. the word "epidemic" comes from old greek: 'epi' means 'on', 'demos' means 'people', so an epidemic is something we study withsterile statistics, and maps, and graphs, but the truth is, it's something that impinges directly on people,on living, breathing human-beings. but my story actually startsin the basement of a minneapolis hospital. the year before i went to medical school,i was the morgue attendant, or as i'd like to say,"the autopsy assistant". what that meant was, whenever anybody died,i would bring the body out of the cooler, and put the body onan examination table, and the pathologistwould come into the room. and one day, a person diedin a hospital of a mass...