Rainbow Potato Salad

This creamy potato salad made with rainbow potatoes, celery, pickles, mustard and dill is lightened up using half mayonnaise, half yogurt. Perfect for picnics and backyard parties all summer long!

Mashing half of the potatoes also adds to the creaminess of the final dish, without having to add more mayonnaise.

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Rainbow Potato Salad

5 Smart Points 178 calories

Total Time: 25 minutes

This creamy potato salad made with rainbow potatoes, celery, pickles, and dill is lightened up using half mayonnaise, half yogurt. Perfect for picnics and backyard parties all summer long

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ pounds multi-color baby potatoes
• Kosher salt
• 1/3 cup 2% Greek yogurt
• 1/3 cup olive oil mayonnaise (or light mayonnaise)
• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard
• 1 ½ teaspoon fresh dill
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 1 dill pickle spear, finely chopped
• 1 medium celery stalk, finely chopped
• 2 small green onions, chopped
• 1 tablespoon pickle juice

Directions:

1. Place potatoes in a large pot of salted water and bring to a boil. Boil for 10-15 minutes, or until fork tender. Drain and set aside to cool.
2. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, mustard, 1 teaspoon dill, pinch of salt and pepper. Set aside.
3. When potatoes are cool enough to handle, set aside half. Peel the other half by gently pinching the skin and pulling it away. Place peeled potatoes in a medium bowl and mash with a potato masher. Dice the remaining potatoes into 1-inch cubes and add to the bowl with the mashed potatoes.
4. Add pickle, celery, ¼ teaspoon salt, pepper, and all but 1 tablespoon of the green onion. Add the yogurt mixture and pickle juice to the potatoes and toss gently to evenly coat. Garnish with remaining dill and green onion.Place potatoes in a large pot of salted water and bring to a boil. Boil for 10-15 minutes, or until fork tender. Drain and set aside to cool.Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, mustard, 1 teaspoon dill, pinch of salt and pepper. Set aside. When potatoes are cool enough to handle, set aside half. Peel the other half by gently pinching the skin and pulling it away. Place peeled potatoes in a medium bowl and mash with a potato masher. Dice the remaining potatoes into 1-inch cubes and add to the bowl with the mashed potatoes. Add pickle, celery, 1/8 teaspoon salt, pepper, and all but 1 tablespoon of the green onion. Add the yogurt mixture and pickle juice to the potatoes and toss gently to evenly coat. Garnish with remaining dill and green onion. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, up to overnight, to allow flavors to combine. Best served at room temperature. Best served at room temperature.

Nutrition Information

Yield: 5 Servings, Serving Size: ¾ cup

• Amount Per Serving:
• Smart Points: 5
• Points +: 5
• Calories: 178
• Total Fat: 7g
• Saturated Fat: g
• Cholesterol: 7mg
• Sodium: 373mg
• Carbohydrates: 24g
• Fiber: 3g
• Sugar: 2g
• Protein: 4g

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10 Exercises to Do on a Treadmill That Aren’t Running

Treadmills … they’re for walking and running, right? Well, yes, but this guest post (and workout!) from fitness expert and founder of DIAKADI Billy Polson will show you that they can do so much more than that. In fact, he’s got 10 exercises to do on a treadmill that are anything but ordinary. If you have a treadmill at home or at your gym but are getting a little bored with the run/walk routine, mix things up with these moves and full workout from Billy! 10 Exercises to Do on a Treadmill That Aren’t Running Typical gym workouts and equipment can be a bore for all of …

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11 Weeks Out from the Half Marathon: I Relax About the Process

Once upon a time, I took my half marathon training super seriously. I mapped out my workouts every Sunday for the upcoming week. I planned my cross training and my rest days and stuck to them like a champ. I was paranoid about injury so I was doing everything in my power to remain injury-free. Then, of course, because I live in a petri dish of children, I got sick, which is maybe one of the worst things when it’s 100 degrees out. Sniffles that turned into a hacking cough and sinus and ear infections plus pink eye. I mean, …

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Slow-Cooker Banh Mi Rice Bowls

If you’ve ever had the classic Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwich, you probably know the bread can easily overpower the pork, pickled carrots and all the wonderful flavors, so I scrapped the bread and put all the goodies in a bowl over brown rice (it’s great over any grain) in my slim remake which is easy to make any night of the week!

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Foods That Keep You Full Longer To Avoid Gaining Weight

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Foods that keep you full helps you feel satiated longer and helping you avoid giving in to food cravings that could cause you to lose track of your fitness goals.

Food that keep you full to control cravings

It would be good to know what foods can help you curb your appetite not just to lose weight, but also help manage your meals effectively.

Here are some of the most common foods that can help you feel full longer and prevent you from craving food.

Apples

Ah, the ever ubiquitous apple. It is made up mostly of fiber and water to help you feel full faster. Eat a piece at least 30 minutes before a meal so you would crave food less.

Avocado

Half a regular sized avocado for lunch can help you feel full for the rest of the afternoon.

Legumes

Beans, chickpeas and lentils are protein superfoods packed with a lot of fiber, antioxidants, iron and complex vitamins. Having these as part of your meal can help you eat less and satiated longer.

Dark Chocolate

It helps you control your craving for sweets. This is no joke. Studies show that pure dark chocolate has been found to help reduce blood pressure levels and contains antioxidants and powerful minerals that help protect the brain and heart.

Eggs

Eggs are high in protein and helps reduce hunger. Start your day with eating eggs and you may not crave for anything until you get to your lunch period.

Check the table below, it will provide you with a guide on satiety levels of common foods. Try to plan your meals around this. The higher the number, the bigger the potential that it can keep you full longer

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Watermelon Feta Arugula Salad in Jars

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Gene Could Turn Off Asthma Discovery Seen To Cure The Condition

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A gene could turn off asthma according to scientists have been identified that could find more effective ways of treating this condition.

ADAM33 gene could turn off asthma

Researchers from the University of Southampton reveals that by silencing a gene called ADAM33, they might be able to prevent an onslaught of symptoms associated with asthma.

One of the primary concerns that plague asthma sufferers is that the condition is triggered by an inflammation of the airways that makes it fairly difficult to breath. Current methods of addressing an asthma attack involve arresting the inflammation, but not eliminating the factors responsible for it.

This recent discover, however, may well be the answer to the problem as the scientists claim that by silencing the ADAM33 gene, it can prevent, better yet eliminate asthma attacks from happening.

The study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, scientists found that the ADAM33 gene creates an enzyme that attaches itself to muscle cells in the airways. Once the enzyme detaches itself from the cell surface, it travels around the lungs, thereby enhancing more muscle tissue and blood vessels that make it more difficult to breath.

Switching off the rogue gene

Study author Hans Michel Haitchi, associate professor of respiratory medicine at Southampton University, points out that turning off this gene stopped asthma in tests conducted with lab mice.

‘In future by blocking ADAM33 or preventing it from going rogue, the features of asthma – airway remodelling (more muscle and blood vessels around the airways), twitchiness and inflammation – will be reduced,’’ says Haitchi.

He also said that their findings change the way medicine may understand asthma, where traditional knowledge claims that asthma is triggered by an allergic reaction, but the findings would serve to dispel that notion, otherwise.

This would also help provide a better understanding and approach to the treatment of asthma attacks.

“We have shown rogue human ADAM33 initiates airway remodelling that promotes allergic inflammation and twitchiness of the airways in the presence of allergen. More importantly, we believe if you block ADAM33 from going rogue or you stop its activity if it does go rogue, asthma could be prevented, “Haitchi added.

An estimated 300 million people all over the world suffer from asthma and has been proven to be deadly in some cases. The common treatment for attacks are usually two inhaler devices, one for relaxing constricted airways and the other a steroid formula that address inflammation in the lungs..

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