Warm bacon & egg salad, Carnuba wax in salad, latest ab photos

Yesterday I promised to post photos of my warm bacon & egg salad.  Here they are:

Here’s the recipe:
For serving 4:
2 romaine hearts, coarsely torn
4 eggs (hard boiled)
2 tbsp of sunflower oil (I used canola becuase I didn’t have sunflower oil)
2 thick slices of bread (I used sourdough) crusts removed, and bread cubed
1 &1/3  cupd of crumbled smoked bacon (I used no nitrite bacon)
12 cherry tomatoes (I used grape tomatoes), halved
Dressing:
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp of red wine vinegar
1 tsp dijon mustard
pepper
Easy Directions & Prep:  Whisk dressing ingredients.  Wash and dry romaine leaves.  Cook eggs and cut into quarters.  Heat sunfloweroil in large skillet, place bread in pan and brown on each side (turn frequently).  Remove and set aside.  Cook bacon and drain, crumble up into large pieces.
(For warm salad add tomatoes and dressing to the skillet for another minute. I didn’t do this step.)  Gently toss bacon, tomatoes and dressing into the coarsely torn romaine lettuce.  Add the quartered eggs sprinkle the bread (as croutons).  Serve immediately.  Here’s a closer look:

I got this recipe from a book I purchased at ALDI for only $4.99!  Great pictures, very colorful.  I’m getting ready to make a smoked salmon and arugula salad.  Also from this new book that I love!  The book is simply called “Salads” (It’s big).

That was some good news, unfortunately, here’s some unfortunate news.  I found this on a vegetable/fruit box that used when I ran out of bags while at ALDI:

Some of you may say you can buy organic.  Not always an option if you have a family of 5 and want a red pepper dish at $4.99 a pepper.  I got this whole beautiful book for the price of an organic red pepper!  Buy organic when you can, if you can’t or don’t want to buy organic, start scrubbing and hope for the best.  Even some of the ‘organic’ pesticides are now being put into question about their safety.  So unless you want to live in your own biosphere and grow fruits and vegetables all day, you’ll have to eat some pesticides.  I know it’s a shame.  Fruits and vegetables have become more dangerous to eat than meat.

Here’s more great news.  At my heaviest I wore these jeans (at 165lbs.)  Now look at yesterday’s 2-pack ab photos:

I will continue using my Minky Way principles.  I feel great about shifting my heavy meals, at every meal I ask myself:

1. Where’s the protein?
2. Where’s the live food?
3. Where’s the omega 3’s?

I got this concept from a book I love called the Gabriel Method. 
You can read more about Jon Gabriel’s incredible transformation HERE.
I also strategically timed my meals to be at the best ‘fat-burning’ stage and I exercise
only 2 days a week.  (NEVER on Mondays).

Just a reminder that The Minky Way Virtual Coaching will begin in June.  More information at www.theminkyway.com
I utilize 2 books in this coaching.  The ones that worked best for me. 
First, Richard Morris’, “A Life Unburdened”.  Second, Jon Gabriel’s, “The Gabriel Method”.

Please mark your calendar for Sunday, May 30, 2010 for my “Meet the TRX”.  I will have TRX demonstrations and you can taste my yummy and nutritious whey protein shakes made with Montel’s Healthmaster machine. 
(banana/walnut and spinach/orange/banana both are sweet without adding sugar)
“Meet the TRX” - Sunday, May 30th, 2010, 3-6pm
Informed Touch Therapeutic Massage & Wellness
136 Brighton Ave.
Deal, NJ  07723 

Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com/sq
minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 620-2193

Here we go again.  Fats in the headlines.  I love it.   Go HERE to read ‘Natural Awakenings’ magazine article,
“In Minky’s Kitchen…FAT rules”, page 17.  Dr. Christina Northop is on the cover.  Also there is a very good article
on Dr. Udo Erasmus and his research on oils, page 16.  Finally, there is a grand article on JoAnn Morgillo, her journey
with a breast cancer battle and using massage to heal and help with lymphedema (swelling of the tissues), page 22.

A new study says “High fat breakfast burn more fat”.
In a study to observe the development of metabolic syndrome and two distinct diets in mice, researchers found

• The High-Carb Breakfast Group ate a higher-carb breakfast and a lower-carb, higher-fat dinner
• The High-Fat Breakfast Group ate a higher-fat breakfast and a lower-fat, higher-carb dinner

Strengthen & Stretch classes
You know, muscles don’t lengthen, they only tighten when you use them and when you don’t use them.  You have to actively ’stretch’ them.  Can you still raise your arms all the way over your head?
If you are trying to reduce your waist, you can’t exercise your abdominal muscles effectively with very tight hip flexors.  If you sit all day or commute, chances are you have tight hip flexors and a protruding belly.  Here are photos of where my new Strengthen & Stretch will be at Informed Touch Massage & Wellness in Deal, NJ:

I also discovered that I had the wrong sized ball all along.  So I got a bigger ball (if you can stand it). 
Using the bigger ball is for ‘ringers’ only…

 You can read more about my Strengthen & Stretch classes, location in Deal, NJ and schedule and fees CLICK HERE.  Then click on Strengthen & Stretch classes link to the right.  These classes are limited to only 6 people.  You do what you can, no competition.

I got a lot of e-mails over the weekend sharing good information on exercises and food tips to decrease your ‘muffin-top’.

Here they are but remember, I never exercise on Monday.  Since I don’t consider walking an exercise modality, if you want to go some a casual walk or stretch on Monday that’s fine.  But nothing stressful.  Here are the 6 tips:

#1 – The best interval training work-to-rest ratio for losing belly
fat might be 1-to-1.5.

In an Australian study, researchers found that doing intervals for
8 seconds followed by 12 seconds of rest resulted in significantly
more belly fat burning than long slow cardio.

Now I know that 8 seconds on and 12 seconds off sounds a little
annoying (just try doing that on a machine), but the good news is
that these researchers found that going for 24 seconds followed by a
36 second rest works just as well for boosting fat burning hormones.

Exercise Casualty campers get ready to reduce your recovery time on ‘Manny’ the manual treadmill.

#2 - This is really nothing new.  But it’s worth repeating.  In Minky’s Fried Chicken Diet, the sample meal plan includes carbohydrates that have higher protein content; but does encourage and recommend you get MOST of your carbohydrate from fruits and vegetables.  After eating satisfying deep fried chicken, vegetables are welcomed by you.

#3 – You need to be able to do a Plank exercise for 2 minutes.  Exercise casualty campers know that planks on the TRX are very challenging and effective.  You can see photos CLICK HERE.

If you can’t do the plank for 2 minutes, then you need to lose belly
fat and you need to get a program that works your abs properly.

#4 – New research shows that supersets training burns more calories
than traditional straight set resistance training.  Super set training is going immediately from one exercise to another exercise but still working the same muscle group.  Not only do we do this at the Exercise Casualty Camp; we will also do this type of training in my NEW Strengthen and stretch class starting in May, in Deal, NJ

#5 – Stop snacking all day long.  Move first thing in the am, BEFORE you drink your coffee.  Doing ’stick squats’ are a great why to utilize your fat-burning mode in the morning.  Then eat your full breakfast  before 10am, at the latest!  I will talk more about this tonite on the
HOT Minky Show,
Every Monday evening 4/12,
9-9:30pm EST, (760) 569-9000 call in and listen number and
access code 623104#

Of course, the more muscle you have, the easier it will be too see
your abs, but what’s even more important is maintaining your independence as you age.
Best carbs to eat when trying to lose belly fat and how eating fat helps to stabilize your blood sugars
will be discussed tonite on the HOT Minky Show.  Participation is optional.

#6 – Stretch every chance you can get.  Muscle only tighten, they don’t ‘lengthen’ when you exercise.  Much of your pain is due to very tight muscles, especially in your midsection.  This tightness causes wasted abdominal exercising efforts.  Learn an awesome hip flexor stretch in my NEW Strengthen & Stretch class in Deal, NJ, beginning in May.  More information CLICK HERE.  Then click on ‘Strengthen & Stretch’.

Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
Minky@hotminky.com
(732) 620-2193

My new e-book on how to enjoy pleasurable food, satisfy your cravings, get in the most effective exercise, lose inches,
“Minky’s Fried Chicken Diet”
will be available April 12, 2010 over the internet.  Here’s a sample of the table of contents:
During tonite’s HOT Minky Show, I will discuss Chapter 4,
“There ain’t no gym in the ‘hood”
Call in tonite:  (760) 569-9000 / Every Monday night
access code:  623104#
9-9:30pm EST

Wow! 
I cant believe it’s been this long since my last entry!
I received this e-mail discussing Alan Watson’s book, “Cereal Killer”.  This short 3 minute interview explains a lot of his position, like mine, with the past 30, maybe even 50 years, of the promotion of excess carbohydrates in the diet that’s causing type 2 diabetes, obesity and heart disease…NOT saturated fats.  He also feels Michele Obama is ‘off target’ with the low-fat cheese and vegetable oil spreads for kids.  Also I urge you to listen to his related videos, while on You Tube.  You can listen here:
Cereal Killer video on You Tube.  Click Here.

Want to try Minky’s Yummy Deep Fried Chicken in the best, healthiest fat you’ve ever tasted?  You can come to my next show in April 14 &  17, 2010, next month and taste the chicken! 
“Why Is Everything I Want To Do BAD For Me?” (scroll down for the things Iwant to do)
Where:  Informed Touch, LLC, 136 Brighton Ave., Deal, NJ  07723
This is a 4-week series, where you can come either Wednesday Night beginning, April 14th, at 7pm OR Saturday, April 17th at 4pm.
The fried chicken will only be served during this first week!
SPACE IS VERY LIMITED!
Call (732) 531-7300 – Informed Touch (ask for JoAnn)  OR (732) 620-2193 – Minky
You can read the original flyer and for more information please go to:
www.Minkysfriedchickendiet.com 

E-mail Minky@theminkyway.com OR minky@hotminky.com

Not only will you enjoy Minky’s deep fried chicken, you will discover the 6 exercises you must do to stay out of the nursing home and you laugh during the presentation.

Here are the things that I want to do; but I am told that they are bad for me:

1. Never say, “I eat healthy” and I suspect you if you tell me that you eat healthy (no one is healthy)
2. Sit & lie in the sun between the hours of 11am and 1pm
3. Eat eggs, liver, butter and lard and cook with sea salt
4. Eat deep fried chicken (without rancid vegetable oils and trans fats)
5. Don’t exercise on Mondays
6. Exercise short; but hard (no ‘cardio’ or gimmick fitness)
7. Move before I eat: not eat before I move
8. Ignore the food pyramid (diabetes starter kit)
9. Avoid soy, low-fat and fake sugar foods
10. Only eat 3 meals a day and one alcoholic drink daily (usually)
11. Never diet; I ‘EDIT’ (add my favorite fiber to my pizza)
12. Think for myself.  I ignore nutrient claims (orthorexia) and think nutrition for survival (it’s a jungle out there)

I speak on 2-4 numbers over 4 shows.  I hope to see you there!  It’ll be fun!
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky

How?  You ask.

Well, deep fried chicken is like pre-marital sex because as with pre-marital sex, you should abstain.  Abstinence is the best.  But if you must indulge… protect yourself!
As with deep fried chicken, you should practice abstinence too.  But if you must indulge… protect yourself!

I hope you know how to protect yourself sexually. 
You may not know how to protect yourself when you indulge in deep fried chicken though.
Without a doubt, the best way to protect yourself when you eat deep fried chicken is to cook it in a stable, saturated fat.  Full fat, not hydrogenated, a very safe and virgin fat called  BEEF TALLOW, from grass-fed and grass-finished cows.  I just got my shipment last Friday.
What’s beef tallow?  It’s the fat of a ruminant animal.  (A cow, goat, sheep or lamb)

I am not going to argue meat vs. non meat; but I will argue saturated fat vs. vegetable oils.  How many ‘experts’ in the past 40-50 years told you to that saturated fats were bad for you?  They told you that saturated fat and trans fats were the same.  So you cut them out, right?  You switched to Crisco, soy, corn, canola oils.  Even olive oils.  But you still had to have your fried chicken.  You are not only fatter, your sicker. 
Lessons learned:

1. You can’t live without fats (FAT-FREE, like stress-free is not reality.  There is a trade-off)
2. When you ate fats, in an attempt to ‘eat healthier fried foods’, you ate the rancid fats that made free radicals when heated and have deadly trans fats.  You’re sicker and never satisfied.
3. Go back to what your grandmother and/or great grandmother did.  Ate real fats.

If you want to learn more about Minky’s Fried Chicken Diet and watch an interview with Eric Schlosser, producer of Food, Inc. and Katie Couric go HERE.  They talk with former FDA Commissioner about minority children and obesity and how it’s about the food; not about the weight.

Call in to “The HOT Minky Show”
Monday night, 9-9:30pm EST
Topic, “Why can’t they say ‘processed fats’ instead of just ‘fats’ that have been known to increase your risk of heart disease and diabetes” when there is an advertisement for a “healthy” eating program in print advertisements?  It’s very hard to believe that so many people, doctors, teachers, dietitians, mothers, even news people have “drinken the kool-aid”.  Doesn’t the past generation of getting fatter and sicker (can’t blame saturated fats) tell you that you’re doing something wrong?  What’s that definition of crazy again?  Something like doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

Call in and listen to more of this topic on Monday, 3/1/10, 9:00pm EST:
(760) 569-9000 ph. no.
access code:  623104#
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky

Minky’s here to talk about the importance of saturated fats…again.
I just got my new Blackberry.  Watch out!  I’m into the 21st century! Texting and checking e-mail on my phone!  I can’t stand myself!  I’m just like President Obama!

On the Monday night HOT Minky Show, 2/22/10,  I will read off the 7-day sample meal plan from Minky’s Fried Chicken diet.
You MUST order the beef tallow to cook the chicken in before you start.  Please don’t think you can ’subsitute’ the beef tallow for vegetable oil and do the diet!  
NO, NO, NO!  Don’t tell me the diet doesn’t work if you are cooking the chicken in vegetable oils! 
You can get the beef tallow and a hard copy of the 7-day sample meal plan sent to you if you fill out the form at:
www.IHaveaLittleSugar.com

I have updated new photos on the food that I utilize on this diet at
www.IHaveaLittleSugar.com

The recording of last week’s saturated fat talk on the HOT Minky show is under Hot Minky Show recordings.

On Feb. 22, I will talk specifically about strearic, lauric, and capric saturated fatty acids and which food they are in and what they do.

 

I have some good info  for you tonight, 2/22/10, Monday night.  The HOT Minky show:
9pm-9:30pm EST
(760) 569-9000 ph. no.
Access code:  623104#

Keep It Real…Food,
Minky

Below is the actual email I received from Weston A Price Foundation, which I am a member and former Chapter Leader.  It is long.  It is about how Whole Foods is promoting a unhealthy vegetarian agenda.  Scroll down to read the entire e-mail. 
Right now I want to mention my (Minky’s) “I Have a Little Sugar” (no more) blueprint and my new “Exercise Casualty” bootcamp.

“I Have a Little Sugar”…
Is a reality blueprint only for those who understand the title.
“We change NOT because what we know; we change because how we FEEL”
~Oprah Winfrey

How do you feel?
Overwhelmed, disappointed, deprived, in pain?
Want to FEEL good about YOU and what you know?
If you have been on Puritan diets and have been a casualty of exercise,
this blueprint for change is for you!
Designed by a Fitness Nurse with 27 year of fitness & nursing experience.
You will answer the question,
“Why does my body want/need to be fat?”
NOT “Why can’t I lose weight?”
You having ‘a little sugar’ is so much more than,
a lack of willpower, calories in; calories out or hereditary factors
Yes, you can have fat back, and cook with saturated fats.
You can eat what you want and I encourage you to “ADD” more
food to what your already eating
What’s the catch?…
Contact Minky to present, for FREE, this 30-minute
“I Have a Little Sugar” (no more) blueprint
of what to do… if “you have a little sugar”, to your group
Here’s a hint, a large part of it has to do with the…
Timing of your meals and your proper exercise.
We care more about the metabolic tissue and the ‘vascular’ than the ’cardio’.
No repetitive ‘calorie muscle burn’ exercising that makes you hungrier and
if you lost weight you put it back on as soon as you stop.
Besides that… How’s your knees?  Your back? 
We Never exercise on Mondays!
Are you an Exercise Casualty?
Tune into the Hot Minky Show tonite and discover the exercise
that cured my back pain.
I do it everyday. 
My muffin top is gone, this exercise helped me
truly strengthen my abs and
utilize them for the 16 hours I’m NOT exercising!
My new Exercise Casualty bootcamp will begin next week.
It will be by appointment only and it is available to only 2 people at a time.
Prerequisite:  You had to have tried exercise in the past and got no results, hurt yourself or hated it.
Here are a few photos of the sample equipment used in the Exercise Casualty bootcamp:

 This pillow will change your life!  (And your muffin top!)

 There are other exercise options in the Exercise Casualty bootcamp.  I am revamping my bootcamp website now.  Look for the e-mail.
In the meantime call into The HOT Minky Show tonite discover the one exercise that must be done daily to ease your back pain and improve your abdominal strength almost immediately:
(760) 569-9000
Access code:  623104#
9-9:30pm EST
Tonite 2/8/10, Monday

Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com
Minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 361-6779 home office
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HERE’S THE WESTON A. PRICE E-MAIL ABOUT WHOLE FOODS:

Dear Members,

The Weston A. Price Foundation has issued the following press release about the “Health Starts Here”
low-fat, mostly vegetarian marketing program at Whole Foods Markets.

Please feel free to distribute this press release to your local media.  In addition, you can
contact Whole Foods at customer.questions@wholefoods.com to share your experiences
with low-fat versus traditional high-fat diets. 

Sincerely,
Sally Fallon Morell, President

WHOLE FOODS PROMOTES MILITANT VEGETARIAN AGENDA
Has the Upscale Market Outlived Its Usefulness?

WASHINGTON, DC. February 3, 2010:  Whole Foods Markets has launched a nationwide
“Health Starts Here” marketing scheme that endorses a low-fat, vegetarian diet, with promises
that the diet will “improve health easily and naturally.” The plan promotes the books and private
business ventures of Joel Fuhrman, MD, and Rip Esselstyn, both of whom worked with
Whole Foods to formulate the new guidelines. Customers now receive a pamphlet urging
them to adopt a low-fat, plant-based diet and to cut back or completely eliminate animal foods. 
Many Whole Foods stores no longer sell books advocating consumption of meat, eggs and dairy
products.

The plan will feature new Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI) labels for foods in the store;
the index is designed to make plant foods to appear “nutrient dense” by favoring various
phytonutrients in plants and ignoring many vitamins and minerals essential to health.
“Whole Foods has stacked the deck against animal foods by choosing ANDI parameters
that do not include a host of key nutrients, such as vitamins A, D and K, DHA,
EPA arachidonic acid, taurine, iodine, biotin, pantothenic acid, and vital minerals
like sodium, chloride, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, copper, manganese, boron,
molybdenum and chromium,” says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the
Weston A. Price Foundation. “Many of the phytochemicals that Fuhrman includes
in the index he developed for Whole Foods play no essential role in the body and
may even be harmful.”

“Animal foods like meat, liver, butter, whole milk and eggs contain ten to one hundred
times more vitamins and minerals than plant foods,” says Fallon Morell. “Plant foods
add variety and interest to the human diet but in most circumstances do not qualify
as ‘nutrient-dense’ foods.”

“For years before becoming deathly ill, I followed the dietary suggestions in the
Whole Foods plan,” said Kathryne Pirtle, author of Performance without Pain.
“I ate large amounts of organic salads, vegetables and fruits, lots of whole grains,
only a little meat and no animal fat. I had chronic pain for twenty-five years on this diet,
then acid reflux, then a serious inflammation in my spine followed by chronic diarrhea.
Without switching to nutrient-dense animal foods, including eggs, butter and whole
dairy products, not only would I have lost my national career as a performing artist,
I would have died at forty-five years old! I am not alone in this story of ill health from
a low-fat, plant-based diet, which does not supply a person with enough nutrients to be
healthy and can be very damaging to the intestinal tract.”

“Consumers can send a message about Whole Foods’ misinformed scheme by
voting with their feet,” says Fallon Morell.  “Most major grocery store chains now
carry basic organic staples and a larger array of organic fruits and vegetables than
Whole Foods markets. And citizens should purchase seasonal produce  and their
meat, eggs and dairy products directly from farmers engaged in non-toxic and
grass-based farming. It’s not appropriate for Whole Foods to promote a scheme that
has no scientific basis and that bulldozes their customers towards the higher profit
items in their stores.” The local chapters of the Weston A. Price Foundation help consumers
connect with farmers raising animal foods in humane, healthy and ecologically friendly fashion.

“The growing emphasis on plant-based diets deficient in animal protein also serves to
promote soy foods as both meat and dairy substitutes,” says Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN,
author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food.  
“Soy is not only one of the top eight allergens but has been linked in more than sixty
years of studies to malnutrition, digestive distress, thyroid dysfunction, reproductive
disorders including infertility, and even cancer, especially breast cancer.” 

“Low-fat patients are my most unhealthy patients,” says John P. Salerno, MD,
a board certified family physician from New York City. “The reason we are
spiraling into diabetes and obesity is because of the low-fat concept developed
by the U.S government decades ago. Low-fat diets have a low nutrient base, and
phytonutrients in vegetables cannot be properly absorbed without fat.”

Fallon Morell cites recent studies from Europe showing that low-fat diets
promote weight gain in both children and adults, and also contribute to
infertility. A meta-analysis published January, 2010 in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition found no significant evidence that saturated fat consumption
is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

“Whole Foods CEO John Mackay has stated that eating animal fats amounts to
an addiction. But in fact, animal fats are essential for good health,” says
Fallon Morell. “The nutrients in animal fats, such as vitamins A, D and K,
arachidonic acid, DHA, choline, cholesterol and saturated fat, are critical
for brain function. In the misguided war against cholesterol and saturated
fat, we have created an epidemic of learning disorders in the young and
mental decline in the elderly.”

“Perhaps the vegetarian diet has affected the thinking powers of
Whole Foods management,” says Fallon Morell. “It’s time for the
stockholders to insist on leadership devoted to increasing customer
base, not promoting a personal vegetarian agenda.”

Comments about the Whole Foods Health Starts Here scheme can be
emailed to customer.questions@wholefoods.com.

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a 501C3 nutrition education foundation with
the mission of disseminating accurate, science-based information on diet and health.
Named after nutrition pioneer Weston A. Price, DDS, author of the book,
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the Washington, DC-based Foundation
publishes a quarterly journal for over 12,000 members, supports 400 local chapters
worldwide and hosts a yearly conference.
The Foundation headquarters phone number is (202) 363-4394, westonaprice.org, info@westonaprice.org.

CONTACT
Kimberly Hartke, Publicist, the Weston A. Price Foundation
703-860-2711, 703-675-5557 press@westonaprice.org