| Medicaid program offers ‘coaches’ to nurse chronic ailments
JEFFERSON CITY — Coaches are called upon to strategize and execute a game plan. In Missouri, there is a need for this type of coach — not to aid the floundering St. Louis Rams, but to help patients in lower income brackets who are suffering from chronic illnesses. Nina Stewart is one of these coaches, and her work is part of the new direction Missouri is taking with its Medicaid program, renamed MO HealthNet. Stewart tells one success story of a diabetic whose chances of achieving a healthy lifestyle have increased through the aid of a health care coach. “A coach recommended to the patient the use of a food diary to help monitor blood-sugar levels; now the patient will have good news to deliver to the physician, instead of just bad news," she said.
Takes these lean ideas from kitchen to table this turkey day
You've been eating well so far this fall, avoiding over-sized pieces of fresh apple pie ala mode and steering clear of the kids' trick-or-treat buckets. But a major diet challenge lies just around the corner: Thanksgiving dinner. Here's a buffet of lean ideas for approaching the feast. • Consider roasting a brined, whole, bone-in turkey breast . Brining keeps the lean breast moist and flavorful (and leftovers make terrific turkey sandwiches). If you're having a large get-together, cook two whole turkey breasts. Since I first shared that idea and the recipe several years ago, reader response has all been positive. Some noted how much their teenagers finally enjoyed the white meat. • If your guests really count on dark meat, brine a whole turkey so both the white meat and the dark meat benefit from the seasoned bath.
Researchers discover link between oral cancer and ethnicity
Clinicians from the USC School of Dentistry unravel connection between the incidence of oral cancer and race and ethnicity-- as part of first epidemiological study of oral cancer in California. Dr. Satish Kumar and Dr.Parish Sedghizadeh, clinical professors in the school�s Division of Diagnostic Sciences, gleaned through 20 years of records from the California Cancer Registry (CCR)�the state�s cancer surveillance database�for the incidence rates of invasive squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of oral cancer. .
Chef's Night In: At home, Maggie Pond's special is chicken
If an enlightened administration at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley hadn't ditched the stodgy, traditional home economics courses, Maggie Pond might have never become the top-notch chef she is now. Cooking had not been on the front burner for Pond as a teenager, but when the boring home economics curriculum was sent to the dustbin, to be replaced by a program called Feast in which students were taught real cooking, her interest was suddenly awakened. Several times a week, the students prepared meals for faculty and for themselves. Young Maggie soon decided that cooking and feeding people appealed to her on many levels. It still does. As executive chef of Cesar wine bar and restaurant on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto and its sister restaurant, which opened in 2006 on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, she fills her days with planning, experimenting and preparing small plates that fit one of the preferred contemporary dining styles without ever shouting "trendy." But at home, Pond often opts for comfort food like a fragrant chicken fricassee (see recipe): "It's delicious, it keeps well and you can make it with stuff you have on hand anyway," she explains.
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