Miracle Noodle Blog

Chopped Liver: It's What's (Should Be) For Dinner (From Time to Time)
“What am I … chopped liver?”.... Certainly you've heard the colloquialism; a rhetorical question that implies you are being ignored, dissed, slighted, avoided or downright disliked by someone. The expression gained popularity because, well, most people do not like liver. While it’s true that liver is an acquired taste, eaten on occasion, organ meats like chicken liver can be a healthy addition to the diet, provided the livers come from Glatt kosher sources. Here’s why liver is good for you…. Fat-soluble vitamins You’ve likely heard of water- and fat-soluble vitamins,... Read more...
Want to Lose Weight? Learn to Manage Stress
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to live like a caveman? Wake up, forage for some berries, hunt some wild game, eat, nap, shape and sharpen tools, perhaps procreate, tend to the fire, eat leftovers, call it a day. The only two stressors our Neolithic ancestors faced, granted they were big ones: finding/hunting enough food and getting devoured by potential food sources like sabertooth tigers. Now think about how many stressors you have: paying the bills, taking care of kids, going through a divorce or trying to save a tenuous... Read more...
Recipe for Low-Carb Sesame Noodles
What do you think when you hear the words ‘noodles’ or ‘pasta’? Perhaps a rotund Italian male, wearing a faded, white tank-top shirt, covered by a sauce-stained bib? Whatever your association, noodles and pasta elicit a primordial pleasure response in the brain, a salivating Pavlovian physiological trigger. Why, then, do low-carb dieters avoid noodles and pasta like a malarial swamp? Because they are high-starch foods that rapidly convert into sugar, causing pancreases to pump insulin in an effort to escort the sugars broken down from the pasta into the cells.... Read more...
Sweet Potatoes Can Help Fight Diabetes
The main carbohydrate (read: sugar) source of the typical American dinner is either pasta, rice or potatoes. Anybody who is trying to keep their blood sugar down and improve their diabetes knows that these carbohydrates quickly convert into sugar during the digestion process, releasing a surge of insulin. This axis-of-evil blood-sugar-spikers are not a smart dining option for those looking to lose weight or lower their blood sugar levels. Dinners are most often consumed at around 7:00 p.m. Few Americans go for very long walks after dinner or engage in... Read more...
What's the Best Sweetener for Diabetics?
For someone trying to live a low-carb life in hopes of improving diabetes, it’s imperative to pick a sweetener for your tea or coffee, favorite dessert, homemade yogurt and ice cream, iced tea or once-in-a-blue-moon soda. Which sweetener is the best for diabetics? There are several options, including popular artificial sweetener brands like Splenda®, Sweet-N-Low®, Equal® and others which also contain synthetically-sweet additives such as aspartame, xylitol, erythritol, maltitol, sorbitol and saccharine. Any green thumbs out there? Love to plant chrysanthemums? One herb in the family of these perennial flowering... Read more...
You have heard of gluten but what is it? Are you allergic to it?
The next time you’re in the supermarket, take notice of all the gluten-free products: waffles, bread, ice cream, soy chips, cereals...the list is nearly endless. In fact, the gluten-free industry is now worth over $6 billion, up more than 33 percent since only as recently as 2009. Why the booming growth in the gluten-free market? The rates of gluten--which is the protein in wheat and other grains--sensitivity has exploded over the years. The National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the University of Chicago’s Celiac Disease Center released statistics that... Read more...
Why Counting Calories Doesn't Work
    In 2010, Weight Watchers, one of the most commercially successful diet programs, dropped a bomb on the weight-loss world by altering its points system. It was the first time in 13 years that Weight Watchers modified its mega-popular points system. The point system change acknowledged that while calories in versus calories out is still important, it’s more important what you eat. The old paradigm point system was flawed. Weight Watchers’ president came to the conclusion--which no doubt many natural health experts have known for decades--“Calorie counting has become... Read more...
How to be satisfied on a diabetic diet
Perhaps you’ve recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Your doctor has sternly warned you to improve your diet or else you’ll be susceptible to developing dire medical consequences. Even if you feel fine now, diabetes can harm all major organs, including the eyes and heart. It can also be a contributor to developing Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis. For a carb-crazy person, the notion of giving up their favorite foods to improve diabetes is a depressing thought. It’s very likely that some people with diabetes believe that they have to eat... Read more...
Celebrity Chef Rocco Dispirito Endorses Miracle Noodle
 Celebrity Chef Rocco Dispirito, in his latest best-selling book,  “Now Eat This,” writes a compelling argument in the forward of the book: “How can I be expected to eat healthy if the healthy foods aren't the ones I want to eat?” A valid argument for sure.... So how do most people adopt a healthy eating regimen even though they don’t necessarily want to eat many of the health foods recommended to them by a weight loss coach or registered dietician or other nutrition professional? “Surrender,” says Dispirito in his book.... Read more...
What are normal blood sugar levels?
If only you could feel like Superman all day…alert, energetic, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…. How do we often try to feel like Superman? By drinking energy drinks, multiple cups of coffee, a few donuts and other high-glycemic or caffeinated fixes. For the first few minutes after consuming a sugary or chemical-buzz inducing treat, we fleetingly feel like a superhero. How quickly, though, we come crashing back down to Earth as our blood sugar levels, after skyrocketing, fueling the brief energy burst, then plummets, making us... Read more...
Do Carb-Conscious Dieters Need to Avoid Pasta?
If you’re carb conscious, chances are you equate the word ‘carb’ with other dirty, four-letter words. Carbs bloat, carbs make you fat, carbs cause inflammation, carbs cause chronic diseases, carbs wreak havoc on your bikini figure... If you avoid most carbs like plague, you have good reason to: the modern processing of many carbohydrates and the overzealous snacking of the typical westerner has, in large part, caused our bloated federal health care system to devour nearly twenty percent of the federal budget. Feasting on carbs, in other words, is responsible... Read more...
Why You Shouldn't Cook with Canola Oil
Mmmm…rapeseed… Sounds delicious, does it not? Unless you live on a farm and grow all your own food and never eat packaged foods, you’ve consumed rapeseed. And if you do eat out often or buy packaged foods, you’re likely swallowing the seed’s unpalatable-sounding oil every day. It doesn’t take a marketing expert to realize how unappetizing ‘rapeseed’ sounds, so approximately 30 years ago, marketers decided that the product name ‘rapeseed oil’ would not fly off the shelves at supermarkets and rechristened it as “Canola oil,” in deference to Canada, which... Read more...