Healthy Recipe Day! - Avocados in ways you've not experienced!

Dr. Jolley loves all of his food made from scratch as much as possible and is an amazing chef when it comes to making his own.

For Father’s Day I decide to make him homemade Fajitas. Lately I’ve been on a health kick myself. As I contemplated buying the guacamole from the store (to save time) I looked at the ingredient list. The prominent ingredient was ‘canola oil.’ Yuck! I knew I could do better, so I determined to buy the avocados fresh and make my own. Finding a good recipe was hard, so I ended up combining two and ad-libbing for this amazing result!

Guacamole to die for Recipe – and yes it is healthy!

2 medium very ripe avocados (soft to touch, but not blackened inside)

½ of a small onion, cut up

1 clove of garlic minced

¼ cup fresh cilantro

1 Tblsp Fresh lemon juice

¼ tsp salt

1 medium tomato diced

(optional) ½ cup sour cream 

Cut avocados in half and remove pits. Scoop out the flesh and place in blender. Place all ingredients into the container. Secure the lid select variable slow speed and then increase to medium. Run for 15-30 sec. Leave slightly chunky but mostly smooth.

Makes about 2 cups

Keeping reading to the end of this post for the Health Benefits!

Enjoy!

Avocado Shake Recipe

This is popular in Brazil and other warm climate countries.

As avocados are a fruit and not a vegetable, this combination makes perfect sense. The flavor is subtle and very addictive! The recipe is lightened up for less calories. It is so good! Give it a try and see what you think. (Definitely not a guacamole taste.)

Yields: 2 servings
Prep time: 5 min

Ingredients:

1 rip avocado, peeled and pitted*
2 cups ice (16 to 20 ice cubes)
1/2 cup< fat-free sweetened condensed milk
1/2 to 1 cup cold non-fat milk**

* The best avocados to use are those that gently yield to pressure and are free from dark blotches inside the fruit.

** Depending on how large the avocado is and how thick you want your shake.

Preparation:

Scoop the avocado flesh into a blender. Add the ice cubes, condensed milk, the least amount of non-fat milk; puree until completely smooth. Taste and add additional milk if a thinner consistency is desired. NOTE: I like to use the maximum amount of milk.

Pour into two (2) tall glasses and enjoy!

Makes 2 servings.

I  Love the ice cream version: 

1/2 large Avocado (take off outer shell and pit)

1 ½ Cups Low fat Ice Cream

1/2 cup of sugar

½ cup milk 

Blend together on high until smooth

Makes 2 servings

Recipe source: Whatscooking America.net

About Avocados

Many people dismiss the health benefits of avocado simply due to its high calorie count. With 322 calories per avocado it is quite high in calories, but that’s not the entire story. Avocados have 54% of your recommended daily value of fiber, which gives this fruit much of its fat burning abilities.

Sometimes called the alphabet fruit because just one avocado provides your body with vitamins A, C, E, K and B6 so you can be sure you’re getting plenty of body nourishments with each bite. Other vitamins found in relatively large quantities in an avocado include riboflavin, niacin, foliate and pantothenic acid.

When you’re looking for avocado nutrition facts, pay close attention to potassium because one avocado has 975 mg.

It’s important to note that the outer dark green skin of the avocado is inedible, as is the huge pit in the center. Halve an avocado and remove the seed prior to eating. Slice & scoop or simply scoop out the yummy green center!

Health Benefits of Avocados

The foliate contained in avocados is mostly responsible for reducing the risk of heart disease, especially compared to people who have a diet low in foliate. The vitamin E in an avocado has also been linked to a healthy heart, something needed to keep you successfully burning fat all day long.

Another health benefit of avocado is that it is extremely helpful in preventing both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. The many different antioxidants found in avocados help reduce inflammation, a major concern for sufferers of either type of arthritis. Avocado nutrients responsible for this health benefit include vitamins C & E as well as manganese.

Perhaps the biggest health benefit of avocados is that by adding avocado to certain foods, you can improve your absorption of nutrients. This means that when you combine other fat burning foods with avocado, you can improve your nutrient absorption up to 400%!

Avocados provide many general health benefits, in addition to its fat burning benefits due to its vitamin E and glutathione, which protects you against tons of diseases including several forms of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and cholesterol.

Avocados also help reduce the signs of aging, regulate blood sugar and promote eye health.

Health Benefits Source: http://www.fatburningfurnace.com/blog/avocado-nutrition-facts

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Children with crooked teeth often get bullied or teased for their appearance.  They appear less intelligent, less confident.  Have you ever seen anyone smile with their hand over their mouth?



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Healthy Recipe Thursday. Homemade Bread!

When I married Dr. Jolley, he would make the most delicious homemade bread! Yes Dr. Jolley can cook! While I claim to be a great cook, bread making was not something I had ventured out to yet. After all a lot can go wrong, right? Not with this recipe. Dr. Jolley had me give it a try and wala! I would dare say this is a no fail recipe and easy to follow. I've been making this bread for 9 years now. People think I'm an expert at bread making lol. (I'll introduce you to the real Bread Expert in August with some exciting stuff!) Anyhow, the staff always gets excited when I bring a hot loaf of my bread into the office. Here's the secret recipe ~

 

The Jolley’s Famous Bread

100 % Whole Wheat Bread 

Prep Time:  45 min.              Baking Time:  40 min.

Rising Time:  30-60 min.               Oven Temp.  350º F

Makes FOUR Loaves

5 cups warm water (105-115º F)

2T or pkgs active dry yeast

2/3 cup Honey or Molasses

2/3 cup oil

2T Salt

3T Dough Enhancer

½ cup Vital Wheat Gluten

3 cups Rolled Oats

12-13 cups Whole Wheat Flour

(Grind 8 cups of grain) 

Preparation

1-   Heat Water to 110 º F

2-   Grind wheat (8cups of grain)

3-   Measure oil, pour into a separate bowl.

4-   Use the same cup to measure molasses.

5-   Place warm water, yeast & molasses into a large mixing bowl.

6-   Stir until all is dissolved and let stand in a warm place until raises up and bubbly.

7-   Mix in Vital wheat gluten, Dough enhancer, oil & salt.  Speed #1 on mixer (Slow)

8-   Add oats

9-   Mix in flour 1c. at a time. Up to 10 cups, 1^st Slow speed (#2) then (#4) when thick.

10-W/ last cups of flour, dump on counter & on top of dough.  Knead for 10 min.  Div. into 4 loaves

     11- Place into bread pans and let rise.

    Place towel over loaves while rising

     12- When dough has nearly doubled. Place in preheated oven and bake.      Makes 4 loaves

When bread comes out of oven, rub butter across top of loaf and let cool on cooling rack with a towel placed over it. 

Enjoy with honey or jam! Makes great sandwiches too! 

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EVER SEEN A DOUBLE TOOTH?

Many parents wait with great excitement and anticipation for the eruption of their baby's first tooth. Once in a while baby teeth don't quite look right. This can cause extreme worry among parents. Pictured to the left is one such scenario of a baby's two upper teeth. The tooth on the left is a "double tooth" while the one on the right is normal.

Double teeth are two teeth that are joined together by dentin or even by the pulp. If you're not sure what dentin and pulp are, take a look at the layers of a tooth.

In 20 years of dental practice, Dr. Jolley has only seen one case of ‘Fusion’ and that happens to be our own son! He has one giant front bottom tooth with two roots. (The front teeth normally only have one root.)  It was quite exciting and fun for Dr. Jolley to finally see an x-ray of the tooth when our son became old enough. Now that our son has arrived to the age for his permanent teeth erupt, we have been watching this tooth with a lot of curiosity.

There are two scientific terms for teeth that appear to be two teeth stuck together as one tooth: gemination and fusion.

Teeth Stuck Together: What is Gemination?

Gemination is when one developing tooth has split off into two distinct teeth that remain attached to each other and develop together. Gemination comes from the latin word geminus which means twin. You can think of gemination as two "twins" that are permanently attached.

When you count the geminated tooth as one tooth, there are a normal number of teeth in the mouth. The picture of the baby is shown to have gemination because he has all of his other teeth when you count the "double-tooth" as one tooth.

The same boy pictured above, a year or so later. He has all four upper incisors including the double tooth. If he only had three upper incisors including the double tooth, it would be fusion.

Teeth Stuck Together: What is Fusion?

Fusion is when two different developing teeth have joined together to create one tooth. You can think of it as two teeth fusing together. Gemination and fusion look very similar. Sometimes the only way to tell them apart is to count the number of teeth.

When you count the fused teeth as one tooth, the person will appear to be missing one tooth. (See the picture of our son’s teeth shown on the right.) Notice there are only three teeth where there would normally be four, but the one on the left is extra wide.

How Common Are Double Teeth?

Gemination and fusion have been reported to occur in the baby teeth in anywhere from 0.5% to 2.5% of Caucasian children. It is more common in Asian children, where it has been reported to occur sometimes in excess of 5% of Asian kids.

Gemination and fusion occur most commonly in the upper front teeth. However, it can also occur on the lower teeth as well. As a general rule, if a double tooth is located in the upper teeth, it is probably gemination and if the double tooth is found in the lower teeth, then it is probably fusion.

Interestingly enough that is exactly what we have in our two scenarios. The baby boy pictured 1^st above and to the left, has an upper ‘double tooth’ which is Gemination. Our son, the toddler pictured 2^nd, has a lower ‘double tooth’ which is Fusion.

Can Gemination and Fusion Happen with Permanent Teeth, Too?

Gemination and fusion do occur in permanent teeth, although it is not nearly as common as in baby teeth. It reportedly occurs in one out of every 250 people.

Can Gemination and Fusion Cause Any Problems?

Gemination and fusion in the baby teeth can cause crowding, atypical spacing between the teeth, and can cause problems with or delay the eruption of the permanent teeth underneath.

Because of this, when a double tooth is found, you should have your dentist monitor the permanent teeth underneath it to ensure that they come in normal. (Which means Dr. Jolley can check it during each of your regular 6 month check-ups.) Sometimes, your dentist will have to remove the double tooth in order to allow the permanent tooth to erupt normally. Dr. Jolley's 1st recommendation though is to not pull it until seen as necessary.

Rarely, there are no permanent teeth located under fused double teeth. Your dentist will be able to provide more information about the permanent teeth through a simple x-ray.

One thing to watch out for is the propensity for fused and geminated teeth to have deep grooves between the "two" teeth. This groove can be very susceptible to developing cavities as it is hard to get a toothbrush all the way down in the crevice to clean it properly. You may want Dr. Jolley to put a sealant in this groove to help prevent a cavity. (See our previous blog post or website on sealants.)

How Are Gemination and Fusion Treated?

Dr. Jolley’s recommendation for his own son is to let the tooth run its own course. In other words, we treat the tooth as a normal tooth. There aren’t any deep grooves to worry about, and there is no reason to split the tooth, because his mouth appears to be allowing for ample space for both permanent teeth to come in.

Sometimes, your dentist will be able to shave down and smooth the double tooth so that it doesn't appear very obvious to the casual observer. (Cosmetics shouldn’t be an issue yet.) I say sometimes because the anatomy of twinned teeth can be complex. If the pulp (click here to learn about the different layers of the tooth) is too close to the surface, then the dentist won't be able to shave down very much of the surface.

Very rarely, the dentist may be able to surgically divide the teeth but usually this is not necessary. This often works best with fusion because both teeth usually have their own separate pulp chambers and root systems. In any case, when surgically dividing the teeth, both teeth will need to have root canal treatment performed on them, which can end up being quite costly. Again, not a recommendation by Dr. Jolley.

In case you're curious - no one really notices it at all. Only a few family members asked about the tooth when our son was a baby. When he was pre-school age to present, no one can even tell. Now that his permanent teeth are erupting there is a little bit of crowding and crooked teeth, but Dr. Jolley has learned through his education and experience that the tongue, to some degree, is a natural aid in pushing permanent teeth into place. We are keeping an eye on it and hoping not to have to pull the fused tooth. If we do, even that is minimal in treating it.

Since kids will most likely lose all of their front teeth by the time they're 9, you may elect to do nothing about the double tooth ~ unless it's a huge orthodontic concern. I noticed some pictures on the web show an open bite caused by it, but this is even rarer than the tooth itself. One lady commenting on a blog discussing a geminated tooth said to just "enjoy its cuteness"...and that may very well be sound advice!

Conclusion & Further Reading

Do you have any questions or comments about double teeth? Do you or your child have double teeth? If so, what did you do, if anything, to treat it?

Please share your experiences in the comments section below, so we can all learn from them. Thanks for reading!

Portions of this article were written and edited by Debie Jolley. (Dr. Jolley’s wife) My resource of expertise comes from the answers I get from Dr. Jolley himself. 

Article source:Tom @ http://www.oralanswers.com/2010/09/double-teeth-gemination-and-fusion/

Tom is a 4^th year dental student who has a lot of really interesting articles on his blog! Thanks Tom!

For the record, (Tom, a blogger and dental student) got his facts (the statistics) about gemination and fusion from this book: Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology by Neville. If you want to read more on double teeth, Tom highly recommends that book.