Join us for delicious eats at the Farm to City Dinner Oct. 6

What's better than an afternoon spent with friends? An afternoon spent with friends -- while eating delicious, local food and supporting area farms.

Fall brings the harvest in southcentral Pennsylvania, and Healthy World Cafe is excited to announce the first Farm to City Community Dinner to be held Sunday, Oct. 6 on Beaver Street in downtown York. Benefiting Buy Fresh Buy Local, the Horn Farm and Healthy World, the dinner will feature items from several York, Adams and Lancaster county farms.

Passed hors d'oeuvres and drinks begin at 2:30 p.m., with a family-style meal at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $65 each, available through EventBrite, and sales close Sept. 30. Questions? Email healthyworldcafe@gmail.com.

And of course, what everyone has been waiting for -- the menu. Please remember that our offerings are always based on whatever is available from our farmer friends. So also stay tuned for updates!

passed hors d' oeuvres
stuffed mushrooms
sausage, apple, goat cheese

deviled eggs two ways
pickled deviled eggs, snipped chives/deviled eggs, Old Bay, lump crab

bar-side hors d' oeuvres
hummus with crudités
chive oil, cracked red pepper, toasted pine nuts
 

epic pickles

shared plates
harvest caponata with grilled bread
peppers, eggplant, pine nuts, olives, capers

olive oil with grilled bread

cracked red pepper, herbs, parmigiano-reggiano

dinner, family-style
slow roasted pork
apple cider reduction, celery leaf-parsley salad

tomato-apple chutney
raisins, peppers, warm pickling spices

roasted cauliflower “steaks”
parsley butter, tomato puree

chopped kale salad
currants, parmigiano-reggiano, toasted walnuts, white balsamic vinaigrette

roasted vegetables
heirloom carrots, greens

rutabaga mash
crispy shallots, herbs

dessert, family-style
chocolate bread pudding
torn bread, egg custard, bittersweet chocolate

vanilla ice cream sandwiches 

HWC's signature dried fruit and oatmeal cookies, vanilla ice cream

Healthy World Cafe is open this Wednesday, Sept. 25!

Take a break from your day and head down to Healthy World Cafe for lunch Wednesday, Sept. 25. We'll be open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. serving up healthy, locally sourced eats at First Moravian Church, 41 N. Duke St., York.

(Photo courtesy of Flickr user Renoir Gaither)

Here's what's in store:

-- Mushroom, onion and cheese strata
-- Potato soup
-- Pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw
-- Corn succotash
-- Salad bar
-- Pear and apple cobbler

At Healthy World Cafe, we always feature our "eat what you want, pay how you can" philosophy. The ability to pay should never be a barrier to accessing delicious, unprocessed, healthy food.

Items worth noting:
-- PARKING: When coming to the cafe for our Wednesday lunches, please DO NOT park in the private lots surrounding 1st Moravian Church.  You may park on the street (metered), or you may park at First Presbyterian Church at E. Market and N. Queen Sts., and walk one block west down Clarke Ave. to First Moravian (enter on north side).

-- TAKE OUT: Take out orders for lunch are available by e-mailing your selections (by 10 a.m. Sept. 25) to healthyworldcafe(at)gmail(dot)com.

-- VOLUNTEERING: Don't forget our switch to volunteer shifts for Wednesday's lunches: In order to better respect our volunteers' time, we'll be splitting the Wednesday lunch into two volunteer shifts: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and noon to 3 p.m. Feel free, of course, to sign up for both shifts, if you wish.

If you can't volunteer for an exact shift, hey, we understand that, too! We love that you're still eager to help out when you can. We would just ask that, after signing up through VolunteerSpot, that you'd send a quick email to sarah.e.chain(at)gmail(dot)com and let us know when to expect you. That makes it easier for us to plan out volunteer duties.

Check out a calendar of other upcoming events as well.

Speaking in Lisbon on October 5

My friend Pedro Bastos graciously invited me to speak at a conference he organized in Lisbon on October 5 titled "Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases".  I will give two talks:

• "Ancestral Health: What is Our Human Potential?"  This talk will explore the health of non-industrial cultures in an effort to understand how much of our modern chronic disease burden is preventable, and it will briefly touch on one major aspect of non-industrial life that may protect against the "diseases of civilization".  This presentation will focus on age-adjusted data from high quality studies.  
• "Why Do We Overeat: a Neurobiological Perspective."  This talk will attempt to explain why most of us consume more calories than we need to maintain weight-- a phenomenon that is a central cause of morbidity and mortality in the modern world.  It will touch on some of the brain mechanisms involved in ingestive behavior, and outline a framework to explain why these mechanisms are often maladaptive in today's environment.

Pedro will speak about dairy consumption, vitamin D, and chronic disease.  

The conference is targeted to health professionals and students of nutrition, however it's open to anyone who is interested in these topics.  It's sponsored by NutriScience, a Portuguese nutrition education and consulting company.  Sadly, I don't speak Portuguese, so my talks will be in English.  

Access the full program, and register for the conference, using the links below:

Program

Registration

Know the symptoms of cervical cancer and how to prevent it

The women in the whole world would want to live happily and well. Women certainly do not want to experience skin irritation, excessive acne, breast cancer, and of course they want to avoid cervical cancer.

Signs and symptoms of cervical cancer in a pre-cancerous condition characterized by abnormal cells found in the bottom of the cervix that can be detected through a Pap test, or a recently promoted is by Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid.

 

A healthy woman. Image: blackenterprise.com

You should know that in the early stages of cervical cancer usually do not show signs and symptoms, so it is important to consultation and examination. Consider whether there are signs and symptoms of cervical cancer in advanced stages, among others:

a. Vaginal bleeding during intercourse, while not in the coming month period or after menopause.

b. Wet or bleeding in the vagina is thick and smells.

c. Pain in the hip or pain during intercourse.

d. Feel pain during urination.

e. In later stages of women will experience pain in the groin or thigh one has swollen, unstable weight, decreased appetite, difficulty urinating, even spontaneous bleeding.

Generally speaking the cancer occurs due to mutations in normal cells into abnormal cells. Normal cells will grow and multiply on a regular basis. However, cancer cells grow and multiply uncontrollably self and the cells do not die. Accumulation of these cells will be great and called tumor. Cancer cells invade nearby tissues and can break from its source to spread to anywhere on the body.

There are two common types of cervical cancer:

First: Squamous cell carcinomas are at the bottom of the cervix. This type is the cause of approximately 80 to 90 percent of cervical cancers.

Second: Adenocarcinomas occur at the top of the cervix. This type is the cause of 10 to 20 percent of cervical cancers.

What is the cause of squamous cell or glandular cells become abnormal and develop into cancer is not clear, but the HPV virus plays a role in this regard. A lot of evidence shows that the HPV virus is found in all cases of cervical cancer. But on the other hand there are many women who have never experienced HPV cervical cancer. This means that there are likely other factors also play a role, such as genetic, environmental or lifestyle.

Some activities that can increase the risk of cervical cancer are as follows:

a. Sexual intercourse with a lot of men.

b. Sexual intercourse at an early age.

c. Other sexually transmitted diseases.

d. The body's immune system is weak.

e. Smoking.

How to prevent cervical cancer:  

Women should consume more healthy food. Image: healthxwellness.com           

You can reduce the risk of cervical cancer by taking precautions HPV infection. Use a condom during intercourse because it can reduce the risk of HPV infection.

Additional measures that could be done by women to prevent cervical cancer, among others:

1. If you are still young girls, postpone sexual intercourse until the age of maturity

2. Be faithful to your partner.

3. Avoid as an active or passive smokers.

4. Use preventive HPV vaccination

5. Follow the inspection procedures cervical (pap smear test).

6. Arrange spacing birth of first child with the second child and onwards.

7. It is very important to eat vegetables and fruits that contain lots of beta carotene. Also it's highly recommended to consume vitamin C and E or food supplements that contain both these vitamins.

8. Start to exercise that increases your vigor and health such as jogging, yoga, swimming and other sports recommended by your doctor.

9. Enjoy a healthier life style.

It is recommended to consult with your doctor whether you need to vaccinate so that you avoid cervical cancer. Vaccination is a method of early detection for cervical cancer prevention. Through the vaccination the greater the chance cured of the disease and more likely to reduce the number of cervical cancer cases that threaten women. For that, immediately contact your doctor to help prevent cervical cancer. Immediately do vaccination as a preventive measure cervical cancer.

                             

Healthy World Cafe at the Kiwanis Lake Be-In -- and September's lunch!

Take a break from your day and head down to Healthy World Cafe for lunch Wednesday, Sept. 25. We'll be open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. serving up healthy, locally sourced eats at First Moravian Church, 41 N. Duke St., York.

BUT FIRST -- We're also excited to announce we'll be providing food for the Kiwanis Lake Be-In, an afternoon full of live music, on Sunday, Sept. 22. We'll be prepping and cooking Saturday, Sept. 21 at a location to be determined -- check back for updates!

Interested in volunteering for food prep or serving? Sign up through VolunteerSpot.

At Healthy World Cafe, we always feature our "eat what you want, pay how you can" philosophy.  The ability to pay should never be a barrier to accessing delicious, unprocessed, healthy food.

If you miss us at the Be-In (or just can't get enough of the yummy, local goodness), join us for lunch Wednesday, Sept. 25.

Items worth noting:
-- PARKING: When coming to the cafe for our Wednesday lunches, please DO NOT park in the private lots surrounding 1st Moravian Church.  You may park on the street (metered), or you may park at First Presbyterian Church at E. Market and N. Queen Sts., and walk one block west down Clarke Ave. to First Moravian (enter on north side).

-- TAKE OUT: Take out orders for lunch are available by e-mailing your selections (by 10 a.m. Sept. 25) to healthyworldcafe(at)gmail(dot)com.

-- VOLUNTEERING: Don't forget our switch to volunteer shifts for Wednesday's lunches: In order to better respect our volunteers' time, we'll be splitting the Wednesday lunch into two volunteer shifts: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and noon to 3 p.m. Feel free, of course, to sign up for both shifts, if you wish.

If you can't volunteer for an exact shift, hey, we understand that, too! We love that you're still eager to help out when you can. We would just ask that, after signing up through VolunteerSpot, that you'd send a quick email to sarah.e.chain(at)gmail(dot)com and let us know when to expect you. That makes it easier for us to plan out volunteer duties.

Check out a calendar of other upcoming events as well.

Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive?

[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots.  These are now corrected.  Thanks to readers for pointing them out.]

Recently, a new study was published that triggered an avalanche of media reports suggesting that refined carbohydrate may be addictive:

Refined Carbs May Trigger Food Addiction
Refined Carbs May Trigger Food Addictions
Can You be Addicted to Carbs?
etc.

This makes for attention-grabbing headlines, but in fact the study had virtually nothing to do with food addiction.  The study made no attempt to measure addictive behavior related to refined carbohydrate or any other food, nor did it aim to do so.

So what did the study actually find, why is it being extrapolated to food addiction, and is this a reasonable extrapolation?  Answering these questions dredges up a number of interesting scientific points, some of which undermine popular notions of what determines eating behavior.

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