MORE nutrition facts about eggs – the nutrition powerhouse food!
Eggs can be eaten hot or cold, at a meal or on the go. They are inexpensive and can be cooked to tailor anyone’s taste!
Scrambled eggs are easy to eat and good for people who may have trouble with chewing or swallowing.
-Eggs contain Lutein and Zeaxanthin — Antioxidants (our favorite word!) that have major benefits for eye health.
– Eggs have naturally occurring omega-3 or pastured eggs lower triglycerides.
-High in quality protein, with all the essential amino acids in the right ratios
-Eggs do not raise your risk of heart disease and may reduce the risk of stroke
-Are filling and tend to make you eat fewer calories, helping you lose weight!
-Perfect to eat after a workout, when sometimes you do not feel hungry but need to eat something nutritious! Also a good option for a midnight snack (instead of junkfood!)
Eggs are one of the most nutritious foods on the planet!
A single large boiled egg contains:
Vitamin A: 6% of the RDA Folate: 5% of the RDA Vitamin B5: 7% of the RDA Vitamin B12: 9% of the RDA Vitamin B2: 15% of the RDA Phosphorus: 9% of the RDA Selenium: 22% of the RDA Eggs also contain decent amounts of vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, vitamin B6, calcium and zinc This comes with 77 calories, 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of healthy fats.
Eggs also contain various trace nutrients that are important for health.
In fact, eggs are pretty much the perfect food. They contain a little bit of almost every nutrient you need.
-Eggs may be high in cholesterol, but they do not adversely affect blood cholesterol! Studies have found that in 70% of people, eggs don’t raise cholesterol at all. In the other 30% (termed “hyper responders”), eggs can mildly raise total and LDL cholesterol
-They raise HDL, which is the ‘good’ cholesterol
-They are known to actually be linked to a REDUCED risk of heart disease
Eggs are a delicious and simple food, people all over the world for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Check out 59 (!) different ways to cook eggs. It is said that every ridge in the traditional French chef hat represents a way he knows to cook eggs!
For a little while people steered clear of eggs due to worries about high cholesterol content. But in 2000, the American Heart Association guidelines were revised to say that an adult can enjoy an egg a day and remain well within the daily cholesterol limit.
It is National Rotisserie Chicken Day! Rotisserie chickens are juicy and delicious. The secret is that the whole chicken is slow cooked over a rotating heat source. This means that the chicken slow roasts and sears the skin to seal in the flavor. You can make it at home or buy it ready made at the store.
Rotisserie chickens are a great, protein-packed option for busy families because they are so convenient. They are delicious as is, and you can eat it hot or cold. You can cut it up and put it over a greens salad, as part of a sandwich, or casserole and make wonderful leftovers.
Unexpected guests are coming over soon? Run out and buy a rotisserie chicken and you have a delicious meal ready for them in a snap.
The American Heart Association, or the AHA, recommends that Americans eat more chicken, along with more fish and beans, than red meat. the chicken contains robust amounts of niacin and phosphorus as well as smaller amounts of other minerals and vitamin B-12. Private Home Care always loves delicious, protein packed food that is versatile and everyone can enjoy!
A pen pal is someone you correspond with by regularly writing letters, sharing aspects of your life, personal events, and more. The relationship is based on exchanging letters, and many times the pen pals have never met, or it can be someone who you once knew.
Nowadays with less people using snail mail, receiving and exchanging letters in the mail with a pen pal is exciting! Having a pen pal is a lovely pastime, and sometimes they even meet up in person. Pen pals may seek out others with a shared commonality, like hobbies,
A friend’s mother has had a penpal in Germany since childhood, and they have been in touch for decades! They have even come to visit each other in their countries!
Pen pals come in all ages, nationalities, cultures, languages and interests. There are many benefits of having a pen pal! Whether your pen pal is in a different country or in a different city, having a pen pal offers people a broader view of the world. Writing letters helps improve our writing skills, and gives us a break from technology! If your pen pal speaks another language, you can practice learning languages with each other! A great way to connect to a pen pal is through shared hobbies!
The Heimlich Maneuver is lifesaving, here are the steps. It is important to remember that the Heimlich Maneuver needs to be preformed differently on different people for safety reasons and require alternate methods This includes infants (under 1 years old), pregnant women, and performing it on yourself.
Standard Heimlich Maneuver:
Determine whether you need to perform abdominal thrusts. If a person who appears to be choking is conscious and coughing, they may be able to dislodge the object on their own. Administer first aid if the person is:
-not coughing -unable to speak or breathe -signaling for help, typically by holding their hands around their throat
First, if there’s a bystander, have them call 911 (or your local emergency phone number) for emergency help. If you’re the only person present, begin first aid treatment:
1. Get the person to stand up. 2. Position yourself behind the person. 3. Lean the person forward and give five blows to their back with the heel of your hand. 4. Place your arms around their waist. 5. Make a fist and place it just above the navel, thumb side in. 6. Grab the fist with your other hand and push it inward and upward at the same time. Perform five of these abdominal thrusts. 7. Repeat until the object is expelled and the person can breathe or cough on their own.
Alternatively, if the person can’t stand up, straddle their waist, facing their head. Push your fist inward and upward in the same manner as you would if they were standing.
Video demonstration by a registered nurse (also named Mary 🙂 )
Today is National Automated Vehicle Day! What was once science fiction from an episode of ‘The Jetsons’ has become reality!
Automated vehicles are still being developed but they are close to being on the road everywhere!
One benefit of automated vehicles is that they drive and navigate without humans having to drive, so they are safer and help to not get lost.
Another great benefit is that it makes driving more accessible to everyone! Older adults may have to stop driving due to decreased eye sight, but with automated vehicles they can continue using a car and maintaining independence!
Elon Musk is the founder of the company Tesla, who pioneered automatic vehicles. On Saturday he successfully launched the Falcon rocketship for SpaceX, which is the first private company to launch for NASA. Space exploration is important because it helps us develop new technologies in engineering, industry, and medicine!
The Heimlich Maneuver is a simple, life saving technique for when someone is choking on an object stuck in their throat. Unfortunately, each year many people die from choking on objects that obstruct their airways and cause suffocation. Choking is in fact the fourth leading cause of unintentional death.
At Private Home Care we ensure that each and every member of the company is very well versed in signs indicating choking and preforming the Heimlich Maneuver. We are proud of our role and ability to ensure safety in every situation.
Food is often responsible for choking incidents in the elderly. Living alone, and having dentures or difficulty swallowing can increase risk. If you see someone clutching their throat, coughing, gagging, wheezing or passed out, would you know what to do?
Up until the 1970’s the procedure for freeing objects obstructing the throat was to deliver sharp blows to the back. The surgeon Henry Heimlich noticed that it was not effective, so he devised a method of using air expelled from the victim’s lungs to propel the object up and out of the throat. The Heimlich maneuver, also called abdominal thrusts, is used only when the victim’s airway is totally obstructed and he is rendered unable to speak, breathe, or to cough the object out. The Heimlich Maneuver is part of every First Aid, CPR, emergency, or general medical training. Countless lives have been saved by preforming the Heimlich Maneuver and it is a very important safety procedure that everyone should know!
On National Say Something Nice Day we have an opportunity to make June 1st extra pleasant for everyone. The purpose of this holiday is to counteract bullying and the lack of civility and common courtesy that is growing among people in today’s world. Hopefully, the practice of saying something nice today will continue into all tomorrows.
This day is about more than saying nice things to others, it is about genuinely listening to others and tending to put others first. Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
There are different ways to practice kindness. One way to be kind is to open your eyes and be active when you see people in need. Do you notice when people could use a helping hand? A sense of community is created when people are kind to those who need help.
Opening your eyes means noticing when others are suffering. A kind word, a smile, opening a door, or helping carry a heavy load can all be acts of kindness. Celebrating someone you love, giving honest compliments, sending an email thanking someone, telling someone how s/he is special to you, helping an elderly neighbor with yard work or food, taking a photo of someone and sending it to the person, sharing homemade food, refusing to gossip, and donating old clothing and things you don’t need are all ideas about how to practice kindness.
Kindness is a spark from a match that creates a fire within a forest of anger, selfishness, and cruelty. Kindness can burn through all of those things. In dark times, kindness can be a light to make bleaker things brighter.
We currently live in distressing times where so many people seem polarized and are quick to express their outrage and disdain for others. Our country’s politics have certainly reinforced this way of behaving towards others. People seem to have strong opinions and they are not shy about expressing them with vigor. However, regardless of one’s point of view, refusing to treat others with respect and civility become a toxic virus that can spread easily.
Being nice matters, and perhaps now more than ever. Focusing on being nice is important but seems very hard to do in current times. First, try and accommodate others by putting yourself in their shoes to better understand appreciate, and connect with their experience of the world. Second, approaching conversations with humility and acknowledging that you may not have all the answers can help you be kind. And finally, expect goodness in others, anticipating them to ultimately want to work towards the common good with good intentions. If we try to embrace accommodation, humility, and goodness in our interactions with others, being nice will quickly follow.
Give kindness a chance. Let’s bring it back in fashion. We need it! And perhaps it can act like a positive and healthy virus that will spread far and wide in our currently toxic environment.
Today is National Say Something Nice Day! Private Home Care loves to promote kindness and positivity, and saying something nice is a great way to practice that!
Watch this video of a ‘say something nice’ experiment in New York City. It is impossible not to smile watching it!
It only takes a moment and does not cost anything to say something nice, but it can make someone’s day! It also brings joy to the person saying something nice, and it makes you beautiful inside and out!
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