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2 Health & Fitness January 2009

The Berkshire Soul & Spirit Center in Lee is offering various methods to help regulate and improve health and fitness. Yoga is one of the approaches to fitness: ongoing, weekly classes are held on Monday evenings and Wednesday evenings. Specific Yoga weekend workshops like the upcoming ‘End Lower Back Pain’ and ‘Free the Neck and Shoulders’ with Kathi Casey, on Saturday, January 17th, are designed for people who wish to work on specific dynamics or specific areas of their body.

Yoga works in ways that honors the body-mind-spirit connection to allow rejuvenation through specific exercises and practices that enable us

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to strengthen our energy flow throughout our body and to dissolve energy blockages that might have begun to build up in our bodies. Yoga works on regulating the muscular-skeletal system, the respiratory function, the cir-culatory function, digestive and immune function, as well as the nervous system. People regularly comment on how the Center’s Yoga classes help them feel rejuvenated.

Aside from Yoga, the Berkshire Soul & Spirit Center also offers Healing sessions in the Native American Tradition, Magnetic (also called auric or subtle body) Healing sessions - these Healing sessions are intended to sup-plement Western Medicine by addressing emotional trauma, psychological conditions and more.

Natural Nutrition Support and Lifeguidance are also available, as well as workshops like: ‘How to See Your Health’ with Edward Esko, who is intro-ducing the traditional Oriental Art of Diagnosis as a guide for a healthy, natural lifestyle and self-health management. Massage, like Shiatsu and Swedish Massage are another tool for health by reducing stress and anxiety and relaxing the body.

The staff at the Center is happy to discuss the various approaches to health and fitness more in depth with you any time you stop by. Or join their email list to receive weekly updates about upcoming workshops and events. Berkshire Soul & Spirit Center, www.soulandspiritcenter.com, 69 Main Street, Lee, MA 01238, 413-243-2834.

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Ski Butternut will be offering a summer of excitement with three consecutive weekend events all to take place at the summer slopes of beautiful Ski Butternut in Great Barrington.

Beginning on June 26 & 27 the Green & Healthy Living Expo will return followed by the highly successful 8th annual Berkshire Arts Festival on July 3, 4, 5 and the new Art of Clay Festival in July.

This year joining the Green & Healthy Living Expo, the producers, American Art Marketing will be adding “Kids Fest”, combining two family events into one spectacular weekend.

The Green & Healthy Living Expo will be a vibrant marketplace combining 150 exhibitors, prominent speakers and workshops giving busi-nesses and providers exposure to a growing mar-

ket of consumers with interests in green products and services.

The event will feature two full days of lectures, exhibits, a farmers’ market, artists demonstra-tions and more. From acupuncture to green and sustainable building solutions, from integrative physicians to providers of renewable energy solu-tions, the Expo will offer something for almost everyone. Our goal for the expo is to educate the community and promote awareness about the choices available to maintain a healthy lifestyle and a healthy planet.

The directors, Richard and Joanna Rothbard, are looking for providers of products and ser-vices both for kids and the entire family. “While we seek everything that relates to improving the environment, sustainable living, and health, we welcome vendors who offer all kinds of kid related products. The combination of these two events makes for an ideal opportunity to promote

your goods and services to thousands of visitors both local and tourists.”

Kids Fest will be mountains of fun with non-stop activities that will thrill and delight children of all ages and interests. Highlights include a 25 foot rock climbing wall, water slide and kids’ dance party. Green Kids at Play will include a recycled art contest, and “Play With Clay All Day,” with adventures at the potters wheel and more. Other festivities will include Health & Environment and Arts & Crafts Camps, the Kids Fest Stage featuring kid’s local dance troupe, and martial arts exhibits, songsters, comedy kids, you name it.

Traditional Butternut July 4th fireworks taking place returns a week earlier on Saturday, June 27. Beginning at 5:30 p.m. until dark an admission of $20.00 per car load will not only include the fireworks but the Green & Healthy Living Expo

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and Kids Fest with fabulous food, shopping the unique marketplace, and all of the activities for kids and their parents until the fireworks begin.

The excitement continues the

following two weekends with the 8th annual Berkshires Art Festival featuring over 200 juried artists from 18 states, followed by “The Art of Clay Festival” July 11 & 12, sponsored by Sheffield Pottery with 100 potters and ceramic art-ists displaying, demonstrating and selling their work. Other high-lights will be a curated gallery exhibition & sale inside the lower lodge including a tea pot show and sculptural and functional clay show, and hands on clay action trying your hand on the potters wheel. All events take place rain or shine, indoors, under tents and outdoors.

All three events will be presented by American Art Marketing, the producers of all three events.

The Green and Healthy Living Expo and Kids Fest are presented in cooperation with Ski Butternut,

Berkshire South Community Center and the Noah Center.

Information on sponsor, ven-dor and volunteer opportunities is available at www.greenandheal-thylivingexpo.com.

For information and complete details on all of these events please visit www.berkshiressummer-events.com. Visit this site often for updated news and complete show information. Questions? Contact Richard Rothbard via email at [email protected] or (845) 355-2400.

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(MS) -- Are you carrying extra pounds that you’d like to send away? Do you hate diet food? If so, you’re not alone. Despite a booming weight loss industry, obesity is on the rise, and many people are fighting the battle against weight gain while missing foods that give them comfort and satisfaction. Devin Alexander, television chef, cook-book author and weight loss expert, offers her top 10 tips to losing weight in your own kitchen while enjoying the scrumptious foods you crave.

Whether you’d like to lose or main-tain your weight, Devin offers these tips to help cook healthier versions of many favorite foods:

1. Healthy cooking begins with hav-ing the right equipment, especially non-stick cookware and bakeware. My per-sonal favorite is Infinite Circulon(R), a beautifully styled collection that is both dishwasher safe and compatible with all types of ranges, including glass and state-of-the-art induction cook-tops. I’m also a huge fan of Circulon

bakeware. The nonstick cake and loaf pans, muffin tins and cookie sheets are incredibly durable, distribute heat evenly and clean up fast and easy. In my opinion, cooking and baking should be simple, hassle-free and guilt-free.

2. Get pumped with a delicious and nutritious breakfast. Losing weight was just about impossible for me until I started eating breakfast. A morning meal revs up your metabolism so you burn calories more efficiently through-out the day. A solid breakfast with the right balance of protein, carbohydrates and fats gives you energy and keeps you satisfied for hours. Try my “Bacon & Egg Breakfast Quesadilla.” Yes, you can have bacon and lose weight! Watch how easy it is to make this dish by viewing my Web cast on www.circulon.com.

3. Weigh your food to master portion control. Let’s face it, calories do count, and a kitchen scale can be tremendously helpful in guiding you to see what smaller portions look like. Especially in the beginning of retraining your way of

eating, a scale helps to be sure your ver-sion of 4 ounces is truly 4 ounces.

4. Misting trumps pouring olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil is very good for your heart, and because it’s unsaturat-ed, it’s wise to replace butter and other saturated fats with olive oil whenever possible. Nonetheless, one tablespoon has more than 100 calories, so in my kitchen, I use it sparingly. The easiest way to enjoy olive oil guilt-free is to use a sprayer to mist your salads and other foods.

5. Mini’s make my day. I’m big on making mini sized treats and snacks, and you’ll see a whole bunch of tempt-ing “mini” recipes, such as “Tiny Tacos” and “Banana-Coconut Mini-Muffins” in my cookbook, “The Most Decadent Diet Ever!” My philosophy is that eat-ing a whole mini-size muffin is much more satisfying than half or a third of a standard size muffin. Search out cook-ware and bakeware that fits the mini mentality.

6. Fire up the grill. Grilling gets high marks for adding flavor to food without

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adding fat and calories. It’s one of my favorite cooking techniques, whether it’s done outside on a gas or charcoal grill, or inside using a grilling pan. There are lots of great grilling pans on the market today to give foods appealing grill marks anytime of year. Check out the new Circulon “Cook Great, Look Great” 11-inch Square Deep Grill Pan. The pan’s deep grooves guarantee you’ll get a professional-style sear that’s the hallmark of juicy, great-tasting burgers, steaks and other favorite grilled foods.

7. Tasty substitutes to high-fat foods. Today’s marketplace is full of great tast-ing alternatives to high-calorie, high-fat foods. Here are some of my favorites: Yogurt in place of sour cream and mayonnaise. Look for plain, all natural low-fat yogurt, preferably strained for a thicker, creamier consistency that’s more like sour cream. Reduced-fat or light cheese, such as blue cheese, ched-dar and mozzarella. Just a little sprin-kle of shredded or crumbled lower-fat cheese makes just about any dish taste decadent. Smoked sausage, kielbasa and pepperoni made from lean turkey.

Sausage can be very unhealthy if it’s not made from lean meat, so check the package for nutritional information. Lower fat versions are ideal for soul sat-isfying pasta, chili, soup, or stew.

8. Go for the leanest cuts of beef. I love a juicy burger, the kind you need to eat with a napkin. Contrary to popular opinion, you can enjoy juicy burgers and steaks using the leanest cuts. The trick is to make sure you season the burger or meat properly, and place it on a grill that’s well heated to sear in the flavors. Still skeptical? Try my scrumptious “Blue Cheese Mushroom Burger,” made with reduced-fat blue cheese. The recipe is available in “The Most Decadent Diet Ever!”

9. Oven roasting bags rule. You may remember oven bags from the days when your mom cooked for you. They were a big hit in the 70s, and I think they’re perfect for making lean, yet ten-der roasted turkey breast. Try roasting a bone-in turkey breast half, an often overlooked, but excellent option for healthy cooking. Leftovers are terrific

for low-fat sandwiches, salads and cre-ative pasta and rice dishes the next day.

10. Indulge in great-tasting comfort food. When pressed for time and in need of comfort food, it’s easy to spend money and waste calories at a fast food restaurant. Avoid this unhealthy trap by recreating favorite dishes at home with a lot less fat. Fast food recipe makeovers are my specialty, having researched and written a book with more than 75 mouth-watering selections. Have a hankering for Subway(R) Meatball Marinara? I’ve got a better-for-you rec-ipe you won’t be able to tell apart from the original. It’s a terrific make-ahead recipe that you can double for family meals during the week ahead. If you’re short on time, you can even use a low-fat jarred marinara sauce instead of making my homemade version. For step by step instructions for this dish, view my Web cast on www.circulon.com.

For more information on how to cook great and look great, please visit www.circulon.com. HM091780

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