Miracle Noodle Blog

Take Care of Your Digestive System for Weight Loss
You’re not alone if you’ve ever felt some of the following unpleasant symptoms: heartburn bloating diarrhea constipation foggy brain skin problems abdominal weight gain What do all these symptoms have in common? They all stem from problems in the digestive tract. If you’re trying to lose weight, you must take care of your digestive tract, and that means first getting to know your system, which many people are ignorant about; we simply put food in our mouth when we are hungry and seldom think twice about how the food we... Read more...
How to Beat Your Sugar Addiction
The average American consumes over 150 pounds of sugar per year. Back when the United States was a fledgling group of colonies, the average yank ate under 10 pounds of sugar per year. Of course, in the 1770s, there were no processed foods.   Ring Dings, Ho-Hos and Twinkies and Big Gulps were still 200 years from hitting the shelves. But if you’re a sugar addict, is it possible to beat your addiction? First ask yourself, though, “What kind of sugar addict am I?”   In the book “How to Beat Sugar... Read more...
Wheat Flour vs. White Flour: Which is Better for Your Health?
What’s a better baking base ingredient for a carb-crazy foodie: wheat flour or white flour? Before definitively answering the question, you might assume that whole wheat flour is more nutritious. Creative advertising executives and copywriters--though some would argue they are manipulative--prominently plaster healthful claims on ubiquitous products. “Made with whole grains!” … “100% Whole Wheat Goodness” … “Organic Whole Wheat” … “Whole grains are part of a healthy, balanced diet” …. No doubt you’ve come across these clever marketing claims. But how accurate are they? Is whole wheat leaps and... Read more...
Does Pasta Cause Depression? (Ours doesn't.)
Have you heard about the latest study from Harvard that links eating lots of pasta to depression? In case you didn't hear about it, the research was published in the journal, ‘Brain, Behavior and Immunity,’ and tracked over 40,000 women over the course of a dozen years, and concluded that a diet high in carbs such as pasta can lead to a diagnosis of depression. This study, so-called “The Nurse’s Study,” analyzed the women, all 50-77 years old, and none in the group had depression at the study’s onset. The... Read more...
Is Coconut Oil Healthy To Cook With?
Many people, when they hear the word, “fat,” automatically think that this dietary macronutrient is bad for you. It’s too bad that fat isn’t called something else, such as the more scientifically accurate, “lipid.” Doesn’t that sound better if a food contains, say 10 grams of lipids rather than 10 grams of fat? If you want to cook healthy, choosing a healthy cooking oil is a must (read: What are the healthiest oils to cook with?). Coconut oil is often touted as a healthy to cook with. But at 12... Read more...
How to Make Low Carb Easy
Whether you’re new to the low-carb lifestyle or have shunned high-carb, belly-bloating dishes for quite some time now, the key to maintaining this diet is being able to create healthy dishes, easily and speedily. For those who are relatively new to the low-carb lifestyle, if it took cooking three meals a day at 45-60 minutes per meal, chances are the low-carb lifestyle wouldn’t work for very long. If, let’s say, you had to make your own low-carb noodles from scratch to be able to enjoy your favorite Italian or Asian... Read more...
How to Prevent Energy Crashes after Eating Part 1 of 3
The shrieking cacophony of your alarm jolts you out of bed way too early for your own liking. The only thing that will make you feel like you’re not a zombie is gulping down a cup or two of coffee. If you have time to make anything for breakfast, it’s most likely just a piece of toast. Your day is so busy that you don’t have time to eat anything else until 1:00 or 2:00 p.m. Maybe for lunch, you’ll scarf a turkey sandwich with wheat bread, mayo and tomatoes... Read more...
Best Ways to Prevent Weight Gain at Work (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog on learning how to prevent weight gain at work, drinking lots of water, working at a standing station and bringing healthy snacks to work were the three tips covered. Here are three more ways to stay healthy during the work week…. Do mini-workouts throughout the day If going to the gym for 90-120 minutes a night is impossible or sounds like the last thing on Earth you’d want to do, no problem. It’s actually healthier to break up your periods of movement into... Read more...
How to go Gluten Free the Easy Way
If you’re gluten-free, one of the most heart-wrenching--or gut wrenching--decisions you'll have to make is the decision to forgo pasta of all kinds. Noodles typically come from durum or semolina wheat, which are not ancient, heirloom varieties of wheat such as ‘emmer’ (farro) or ‘einkorn’, and therefore, contain genetic derivations in the gluten, potentially leading to something as innocuous as slightly fatter love handles, or conditions far more serious than bloating like celiac disease. It is sad indeed, tragic if you’re a true foodie, to not be able to enjoy... Read more...
Miracle Noodle Kugel: A Healthier Kugel
Say you’re at a dinner party and the host offers you a dessert platter of milk, eggs, raisins, cinnamon and cottage cheese, you might think these individual foods are a post-dinner oddity. But whipped up together, these ingredients form perhaps the most popular Eastern European Jewish dessert: kugel. Since the middle ages, noodles have been used in kugel recipes. Several hundred years later, noodle kugel is enjoyed by Jews around the world, heralding, observing and celebrating Shabbat and Jewish holidays and celebrations. For those who love eating kugel but are... Read more...
Are Gluten-Free Breads Healthy?
Count your lucky stars if you don’t have Celiacs Disease, an autoimmune disorder--meaning, the body attacks itself--that results in the destruction of the tiny finger-like protrusions of the small intestine called villi. The villi, though they are diminutive in size, play a gigantic role in health. They absorb nutrients from food and aid in the delivery of nutrients to the trillions of cells in the body. People who are diagnosed by a medical doctor with Celiac Disease often have to give up the tastiest treats: crackers, chips, cookies, cakes, pasta... Read more...
Your Bubbie's Chicken Fat Might Have Been Healthy After All
For the younger generation of Jews or anybody else who has recently adopted a kosher diet, this condiment might seem a little odd, and even downright unappetizing:  chicken fat. Better known as ‘schmaltz,’ chicken fat was a major ingredient to cook with for Ashkenazi Jews, who had little or no access to olive oil that Jews living in the Middle East were accustomed to cooking with. A common feature of Jewish delis in the U.S. decades ago were pourable containers of schmaltz on the table. At one time as ubiquitous... Read more...