Recipes for health: yogurt soup with spelt, cucumbers and watercress

Andrew Scrivani for the New York Times

A summer soup with a lot of texture and crunch, is this significant and refreshment.

1/2 Cup spelt, Farro, or wheat berries, soaked for an hour or more preferably and permeable (don't worry, if you have not done, even though they last longer, until the Cook)

2 Cups of water

Salt to taste

1 Liter low-fat or whole milk plain yogurt (excluding gums and stabilizers) or buttermilk, or a combination thereof

ripe 2 but firm tomatoes cut into small cubes

1 Cup of chopped finely seeded cucumber (no need, seed, if Persian or European cucumbers use)

1 small bunch of watercress, thick stems discarded, coarsely chopped

1-2 cloves of garlic (to taste), finely chopped or pureed with a little salt in a mortar and pestle

2 Tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

3/4 Cup cold water (more as needed)

1/4 Cup finely chopped dill, parsley, mint and coriander

2 Tablespoons snipped chives

Freshly ground pepper to taste

3 or 4 radishes, thinly sliced for garnish

1. Combine the Dinkel, bring water and salt to taste and cooking. Reduce the heat and simmer, about 50 minutes to an hour, until supply and some of the cores that have begun to splay. How to remove you from the heat, drain and set aside.

2. While the River Dinkel is cooking, insert give the cucumber in a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Take and place in a sieve set over the bowl. Let drain for 30 minutes. Good washing you and and drain on paper towels.

3. Combine all ingredients except the radishes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Chill for 2 hours or longer. Serve, Garnish each bowl with sliced radishes.

Output: Six is used.

Preparation ahead: You can serve this several hours the day before the make. It is stable for three or four days in the refrigerator.

Nutritional information per serving (6 servings): 166 calories; 2 g saturated fat; 0 Of grams of multiple unsaturated fat; 1 Grams of monounsaturated fats; 10 Milligrams cholesterol; 25 Grams carbohydrates; 2 Grams of dietary fiber; 126 mg sodium (contains no salt to taste); 12 Grams protein

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Radiation polluted beef spread out over that Japan's markets

Max Hodges for the New York Times

Some ranchers in Fukushima Prefecture say that they had received no guidelines of radiation leaks for the precautions of government officials in the course.

MINAMISOMA, Japan - had also shaken the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after the explosions, said Kuniaki SATO, who rears cattle here about 20 miles of the crippled complex, receiving no clear warning from the Government about the dangers of radiation to his flock.

So he delivered six weeks after the accident on 23 April 12 his valuable cattle from his farm to the market.

Now Japanese agricultural officials say that meat from more than 500 cattle, expected to be contaminated with radioactive caesium had his way, supermarkets and restaurants very Japan has made in recent weeks. Officials say that Hay ate cattle, which had been stored outside and exposed to radiation.

"I was a little worried, but we had to sell, if we could," said Mr SATO, whose Vieh Hay not recovered and were probably were not contaminated.

If a careful all farm was lifted shipments to stop soon after the accident, range took farmers it as green light character, he said. "We all resumed shipments," he said. "Of course we have."

The revelations by the Government this month, which reached contaminated meat Japanese markets have stepped up food security concerns in Japan, underlines the Government inability to control the spread of radioactive material in the nation food .In a number of products, including spinach, tea leaves, milk and fish radioactive material was found. Contaminated Hay was found more than 85 miles of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant farm, which suggests that the radioactive fallout has reached a larger area than first anticipated.

Still, because of a serious lack of testing equipment, and local governments, which flooded with disaster relief are only a small percentage of farm products in the region grown checked for radiation.

The Government made exposed to agricultural programmes within a radius of 12 miles around the Fukushima plant, as well as a number of other identified radiation "hot spots". But companies outside these areas, even the relatively close at work, have some limitations in the delivery of their production.

Produce for months the Government shied away from, a larger ban on placing on the market from the region of Fukushima, despite sporadic discoveries contaminated products, bring out of fear of a fresh confusion in the field of disaster affected thousands more people are unemployed and compensation for Tokyo electric power, operates the Fukushima plant growing needs Add.

Now, with the number of contamination cases rises, the Government finally moves to ban beef shipments from the Prefecture Fukushima, an area of 5,300 square miles, slightly smaller than Connecticut. Yukio Edano, the Chief Cabinet Secretary said Tuesday that the Government in which such a ban to coordinate and advertisement "Final phase was" could come later in the day.

Fukushima Prefecture has also said, it issued statements late March, that warning farmers to ensure that inside Hay was stored, to prevent possible contamination of rain. But many farmers said that they were not such a policy-aware.

Areas in high radiation readings, also here in Minamisoma, a city in Fukushima, who had to radiation on the surface of your skin before checked on the market has been. But those checks insufficiently whether cattle radiation internally feed made available through consumption of contaminated, officials say measure.

Fukushima said Government officials, that they began inspections of all 4,000 or so beef in the Prefecture, to ensure that any of them radioactive Hay was used. Meanwhile prompting ranchers that correspond to a new voluntary shipping ban.

This month recognized test officials radioactive caesium Hay fed to cattle on a ranch in Minamisoma 250 times on official border and Japan. Beef from the farm include almost five times the official border.

Officials suspect that the Hay was stored outside and with rain water, which can carry radioactive elements in the atmosphere, as it falls was corrupted. Although Hay cattle here, is not usually fed a feed supply deficiency after 11 March earthquake and tsunami some farms forced to replace it for other foods.

Some farmers in the region say that they welcome tighter controls and livestock from Fukushima can be delivered, if precautions against radiation exposure.

Max Hodges research contributed.

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103 Km with the sharks to swim ready

Nicole Bengiveno, the New York Times

Long-term goal Diana Solstice, a marathon swimmer, hopes that the first person from Cuba to key will to cross West without a shark cage. «More photos»

KEY WEST, FLA. -Every day, Diana Solstice is set out to do something, no athlete has ever done: swimming, all day and all night then all day and all night, then all day again.

Are swim about 60 hours in the roiling sea, 103 km of the Florida straits from Cuba to key West. Every hour and a half, stops water for a few minutes to enter it, as she gulps down a liquid mixture of predigested protein and an occasional bit of banana or BLOB eating peanut butter. You most probably hallucinating and endure the spines of many jellyfish. On the way, is sea salt swell their tongue of cartoonish proportions and rub their skin raw.

"it is absurd, outrageous against most, incredible physical endurance activity, certainly, in my life", Steven Muñatonessaid an open-water swimmer, who runs the Organization of open water source and serves as independent observers swim during Mrs Solstice. "I can't imagine being in the ocean for 60 hours." I can not imagine, to do something for 60 hours. It is inconceivable. "It's easy."

"Especially," he added, "at her age."

Her age is 61. Mrs Solstice trying this swimming once before, without success, 1978 at the age of 28. She, to the harsh weather and high-performance current far away course pushed sponge in a shark cage for 41 minutes her and had to give up. It had only 50 miles traveled. (A year later sponge 102 miles of the Bimini in the Bahamas, Jupiter, Florida, without a shark cage.) (She keeps always still the record for the world's longest Ocean swim.)

This time armed with better technology and battered but hard body, she will certainly make it. "Physically, I'm much stronger than I was before, although I was faster in my twenties,", said Ms. Solstice, that is robust enough to a linebacker defy looks. "I feel strong, high-performance and endurance-wise, I am fit".

Dr. Michael j. Joyner, Professor of anesthesia and exercise research at the Mayo Clinic, agrees that older athletes, especially excellent ones, do well in endurance sports, as experience and training of the need for speed can make up for.

52 Jeannie Longo still counts as top competitive cyclists. Gordie Howe played in his 50's, and Jack Lalanne was 60, if swam it from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf, in San Francisco, a second time, handcuffed, shackled and haul a 1,000-pound boat. Swimming is powered especially technology that greatly help Mrs Solstice.

"There are a ton of examples of people in their late 50's and early 60's in all kinds of wild things,", said Dr. Joyner. "If the logistics work for blocking bad it's feasible storms and currents." There is no sure thing. "But it would be a sure thing it would be Michael Phelps."

If Mrs Solstice from Cuba makes difficult to key West, have done the first person without a shark cage. Completed in 1997 by an Australian woman swimming in a shark cage. But with a boot of the vehicle pull, the swimming is easier and faster; the woman, which it completed in less than 24 hours.

"I'm in uncharted territory," said Mrs Solstice.

This time, takes wife Solstice, an accomplished Marathon swimmer and Sportscaster, no chance. You taught and half - harder - for one year and changed their therapy. Instead of every day, they swim swimming every other day. Last year, she completed a 24-hour swim in Mexico.

Thus their success, they an armada of people organised - 22 in all - as your support team to serve. All of them travels to Cuba, visa in your hand, and will try to arrive three days after their swimming. (Shoots was last year because of the difficulties, Visa cancelled.)

"This is the part that really interests me about Diana," said Mr Muñatones. "It is not only the swimming part." There are people who can swim the. But they have not the passionate, organisational and political oratorical skills, which she has. "

It has also technology on their side: satellites, global positioning systems, navigation software, advanced even shark of shields, of which none in 1978 were available. For all of this costs $500,000. She raised funds and their own bank account with depleted, but it is still $150,000 short. Mrs Solstice, a commentator for the Los Angeles-based public radio station KCRW, shrugs it off.

"If I wind up to $150,000 in debt, I sleep about it not lose", she said.

At the moment, find four experts seven days in advance to locate the ideal weather for her, to Cuba and Wade in the Ocean: a satellite oceanographer and meteorologist trained at the whim of the Gulf stream; working an another meteorologist for CNN; and two officials at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The slowdown, hope you are all for the beginning of a low pressure system, sea, for a few days could create a tension water level.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: 20 July 2011

An article on Tuesday about Diana Solstice, prepared to swim from Cuba to Florida at the age of 61 falsified their professional role. She is a commentator for the Los Angeles-based public radio station KCRW; It works not for national public radio.

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Personal best: for runners, can be soft soil on the body

Hirofumi Tanaka, an exercise physiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, bristles, when he carved out of the grass sees dirt paths along cobbled cycling or routes running. The paths are created by runners, who think they soft ground protects against injury.

Dr. Tanaka, a runner once tried it yourself. He was primarily of an knee injury, and an orthopedic surgeon told him to stay away from hard surfaces such as asphalt roads, and instead run on softer surfaces such as grass or dirt. So he ran on a dirt path that an asphalt cycle path had beaten runner in the grass together.

The result? "I twisted my ankle and tightened my injury while running on the soft, irregular surface," he said.

In the aftermath of his accident, Dr. Tanaka, he said not could find no scientific evidence, a softer surface is beneficial for runners, other experts asked he could. In fact, said it also make sense to think that runners on soft surfaces that are hard to smooth, are often irregular, rather get violated it.

His experience makes me wonder. Is there a good reason why many runners think a soft surface is smooth at their feet and limbs? Or this is another example for a common errors, we all trust, what seems like common sense and never make the questions whether the conventional wisdom is correct?

Perhaps, a runner who is like me, the ground with their forefoot instead of their heel, may risk more injuries on soft ground. Every time I push off on a soft surface, winding I finally mean foot.

Exercise researchers say there is no strict gold-standard studies where large numbers of people on soft or hard surfaces lead assigned to have been, then followed compare injury rates.

It is a good reason, said Stuart j. warden, Director of the Indiana Center for translational musculoskeletal research at Indiana University. It's too hard to recruit large numbers of people ready, area, or a different one for their runs after the random will be assigned to.

"I think that is reason why still people not answered this question, that it is not a simple question to answer," said Dr. warden.

As Dr. Willem van Mechelen, head of health at work at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam to published studies to run of injuries and how she sought to prevent, closed it, also, that there was no good studies that directly support on soft ground running. "Clearly seem not relating to ongoing injuries, age, sex, body mass index, with hills, running on hard surfaces, participation in other sports, the time of the year and the time of the day," concluded Dr. van Mechelen.

So what is on? It seems obvious that the forces on your legs and feet are different, depending on whether you on soft packed dirt or hard concrete running. Why not injury rates are affected?

A response that accept many comes from studies that indirectly addresses the issue. Some people ran out of them on plates, which measured the force, with which they hit the ground. Instead of vary the hardness of the soil, the researchers varies the damping of the shoes. More attenuation applied on soft ground running.

Time and time again studies like this found that the body automatically adjusts to different surfaces - at least, as imitated by cushioning in shoes - to keep forces constantly, when foot plate.

This statement makes sense, said Dr. warden. If you jump from one table to the floor, you automatically bend your knees when you land. If you jump on a trampoline, you can keep your knee stiff when you land. Something similar happens when you run on different surfaces.

"If you run on a hard surface, your body takes its rigidity," said Dr. warden. "Their knees and hips flex more." "The legs stiffen on a soft surface." Run on a soft surface "is another activity in fact," he said.

But not really forces within the body measure these studies, Dr. van Mechelen found. Instead, she used bio-mechanical modeling to estimate those forces.

"It models, so that God knows whether it is true," said Dr. van Mechelen. "But, it seems far-fetched to me."

Dr. Warden told some people faster than others run adjust surfaces, and he advised that all want, to change to a hard surface from a soft or vice versa, number safely and gradually make the change.

Change your running surface, said Dr. warden, "is a lot of how to increase your mileage." change your shoes or a different aspect of your training program abrupt changes can be risky.

But without evidence, that softer surfaces prevent injuries, there is no reason on soft ground run, if you, like Dr. warden and said other experts. Dr. van Mechelen tells a few comfortable shoes to runners and run on what they prefer.

Dr. van Mechelen, a runner himself, says that his favorite surface is asphalt. Mine is to.

My coach, Tom Fleming, never proposed soft surfaces and never thought it prevents that injury. And he said: there is a good reason to run on asphalt, at least if you want to compete.

"Are the most road-race on hard surfaces," he told me. "Let us as they get."

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Pledge of the stores for 'Food deserts' make large retailers

WASHINGTON-Führungskräfte von Wal-Mart, Walgreens, SuperValu und andere speichert verknüpften Michelle Obama im Weißen Haus am Mittwoch zu verkünden Versprechens zu öffnen oder zu erweitern eine kombinierte 1.500 Shops in Gemeinden, die haben begrenzten Zugang zur nahrhaften Nahrung und sind als "Lebensmittel Wüsten." bezeichnet

Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Michelle Obama mitteilte die Zusagen am Mittwoch.

Mit die Zusagen, gesichert durch die Partnerschaft für eine gesündere Amerika, die in Frau Obama-Kampagne, um Fettleibigkeit zu verringern ist, wollen die Stores 9,5 Millionen der 23,5 Mio. Amerikaner zu erreichen, die in Gebieten leben, wo die Suche nach erschwinglichen gesunde Lebensmittel kann schwierig sein. Biegen Sie in diesen Bereichen viele Menschen, Fast-Food-Restaurants und Convenience-Stores.

"Den Verpflichtungen, die Sie alle heute haben das Potenzial machen, ein Spiel-Wechsler werden", sagte Mrs. Obama auf der Veranstaltung. "Wenn diese Läden erfolgreich zu sein, können sie als Anker in unseren Gemeinschaften dienen."

Das Ministerium für Landwirtschaft definiert "Essen Wüsten" als mit niedrigem Einkommen Bereiche, wo mehr als 500 Menschen oder 33 Prozent der Bevölkerung mehr als eine Meile vom eine erschwingliche Lebensmittelgeschäft lebt. In ländlichen Gemeinden ist der Abstand 10 Meilen.

Walgreens, der Illinois-basierte Einzelhändler mit mehr als 7.000 Informationsspeichern zugesagt, 4,8 Millionen Menschen in solchen Gebieten durch Drehen 1.000 von den Standorten in "Oase Lebensmittelgeschäften", die verkaufen werden, Obst, Gemüse und anderen Lebensmittel, die sie nicht in der Regel hat zu erreichen.

Wal-Mart sagte er öffnen oder erweitern Sie essen Abschnitte in 275 bis 300 Geschäften bis 2016, schätzungsweise 40.000 Menschen beschäftigen. SuperValu, die vielen regionalen Lebensmittelketten wie Jewel-Osco und ACME besitzt, wird 250 neue Save-A-Lot-Stores in fünf Jahren geöffnet.

Fettleibigkeit ist eine Signatur-Ursache von Mrs. Obama angenommen. Eine von drei amerikanischen Kindern ist übergewichtig oder fettleibig, was einige Wissenschaftler sagen voraus, dass die Jugend von heute die erste Generation kürzere Leben als die vorherige Generation nach ins Weiße Haus haben werden könnte.

Mrs. Obama sagte, dass Lebensmittel Wüsten, wo 6,5 Millionen amerikanische Kinder leben, dem Phänomen beitragen. Die Regierung und dem privaten Sektor müssen zusammenarbeiten, um Lebensmittel Wüsten zu beseitigen, sagte sie.

"Mit Ihrer Verpflichtungen heute, Sie alle uns zeigen was möglich ist" Mrs. Obama sagte. "Dies ist nicht einige geheimnisvolle Frage, die wir ansprechen kann nicht. Wir kennen die Antwort. Es ist richtig, es."

Die Obama-Verwaltung Healthy Food-Finanzierung-Initiative, von Frau Obama im Februar 2010 begonnen soll finanziell Assist-Läden, die in Essen Wüsten öffnen.

Die Initiative erhielt ein 35-Millionen-Dollar-Budget in diesem Jahr, auch kurz von den Hunderten von Millionen von Präsident Obama angefordert. Die Verwaltung gebeten für mehr als 300 Millionen Dollar in den nächsten Haushalt für es genehmigt werden.

In 2009 New York begann ihre Food Retail-Expansion Unterstützung Gesundheitoder frische Programm, eine Gemeinschaftsarbeit Staat-Stadt, die Anreize für bietet zu speichern, um in unterversorgten Gemeinschaften zu öffnen. Frisch wird als einer der größten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von Essen Wüsten in einem Staat oder lokaler Ebene zugeschrieben.

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