Volume 124 Issue 42
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
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> If you're going to do it, be smart.
BAKING
Satisfying sweet tooth cravings without feeling guilty isn't always easy, especially when baking. Slightly altering a recipe, however, allows you to create a healthier version of your favorite treat.
Roxanna Silva, a junior from Olathe, loves to bake. Chocolate chip cookies and blueberry lemon zest muffins are two of Silva's favorite treats to make, but Silva doesn't always follow the recipes exactly. She alters them to make them more nutritious. "If I'm cooking with flour, I'll switch to non-bleached whole wheat or I'll use nonfat cream cheese or skim milk," Silva says.
Whenever you take in calories, you want to do so healthily, says Hilary Kass, owner of Ancient Grains Bakery in Lawrence. Reducing sugar and increasing whole grains in a recipe helps cut the calorie count while adding nutritional value. "For most things, you can take the recipe and only use half of the sugar the recipe calls for," Kass says.
Using natural sweeteners is another way to increase the nutrients in your baked goods.
Honey, guava, maple syrup and molasses all have some nutritional value, Kass says. "Maple syrup naturally has potassium and calcium, but it is more expensive," she says.
Cost isn't the only thing to consider when substituting sweeteners; taste is also important. "Black strap molasses has the most nutritional value, but it also has a rather strong flavor. Most people use regular molasses instead," Kass says. You can also use dried fruit instead of candy. "Dates are great because they are really sweet but they also have iron and fiber." Kass says.
CHRISTY NUTT
Photo by Christy Nutt
**Rethink Your Recipe:** Substituting healthy ingredients helps boost your treat's nutritional values.
GOOD FOR YOU, BAD FOR YOU // PUMPKIN SEEDS
> Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Since Cierha Berry was a child, her favorite part of carving pumpkins for Halloween was getting beneath the gooey, stringy orange pulp to pull out the pumpkin seeds, not caring about carving a jack-o-lantern face. After Berry, a senior from Salina, collects the seeds from her pumpkin, her mom dampens the seeds with water, sprinkles on a little salt and then bakes them in the oven.
Baking pumpkin seeds with no seasonings is your best option, but if you want a little flavor, use sea salt and pepper sparingly, says Gonzalez-Stuart.
Pumpkin seeds are nutritious when cooked a healthy way, says Armando Gonzalez-Stuart, research associate professor in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has researched pumpkin seeds and says the way you cook them is important. If the seeds are fried and salt's added, it takes away the seeds' nutritional properties.
When pumpkin seeds are made this way, they have a positive effect on your health. The seeds are a good source of potassium, which helps maintain normal blood pressure, says
Mary Meck Higgins, associate professor, department of human nutrition at K-State.
Iron is found in pumpkin seeds too, which helps carry oxygen in the red blood cells. They also are an excellent source of magnesium, which strengthens your bones and prevents osteoporosis, and contain vitamin E, which is an antioxidant, so it helps with heart disease and cancer, Higgins says.
Limit yourself to one cup of pumpkin seeds a day because they do contain dietary fiber, which can upset your stomach.
Verdict: Good for you, if baked and lightly seasoned.
KYLIE NUTT
Seed Snacking. Lightly seasoned, baked pumpkin seeds make a taste fall snack.
THAT'S DISGUSTING // DIRTY LAUNDRY
> Dude...gross
Every week, Brett Wright washes all of his dirty laundry in one big load, mixing pants, shirts, socks and underwear in cold water. Wright, a senior from Austin, Texas, says he shares two washing machines with 15 other guys in his fraternity house.
But, when dirty laundry is washed, it's not necessarily clean afterward.
Washing machines are contaminated with fecal bacteria because people wash undergarments with other clothes, says Charles Gerba, a professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona. Gerba has researched the germs that live in our washing machines and says germs are extremely present in laundromats because you don't know what's been put in their machines.
"The average pair of underwear has about a tenth of a gram of fecal matter in it," Gerba says. When you wash a load of underwear there are about 100 million E. coli in the water.
Bacteria survive in washing machines and on the wet clothes because they're not washed at a hot enough temperature or bleach isn't used. Cold water doesn't kill a lot of the organisms, and a typical permanent press cycle in the dryer doesn't kill them either. Clothes need
Photo by Kyliu
*By Kyle Nut*
**Dirty Duds:** Bacteria inside wash basin may keep your laundry from getting clean.
to dry for 45 minutes to kill bacteria, only an extra 15 minutes than the typical cycle.
"You probably wear clothes [with more germs] than any generation in the last 50 years because we used hot water only and harsh detergents," Gerba says.
To get rid of germs such as E. coli and Hepatitis A virus, it is important to use bleach, which kills 99.9 percent of germs on white clothing, and Clorox 2 for colored clothes, which kills 99 percent of germs. If using a communal washing machine, run a load of underwear first with bleach, Gerba says.
KYLIE NUTT
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I'll go with forward Kevin Young, the transfer from Loyola Marymount. Coach Bill Self said Young has a chance to be a starter, and he will have plenty of opportunities to prove himself this season. With forward Jamari Traylor ineligible, Young looks to be the third scholarship forward on the roster, garnering him plenty of playing time. Thomas Robinson will be consistent, somewhere around 12 points and eight rebounds a game. The rest of the production down low will have to come from Jeff Withey and Young. At Loyola in 2009, Young broke freshmen records in total rebounds (224) and rebounds per game (7.2). He's also played for the Puerto Rican under-19 team, so the experience is there.
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the moves were based on football, women's basketball was also affected by the changes.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson watches on as the one-on-one interviews progress at the 2011 Big 12 media day at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. This is Henrickson's eighth season as coach. The Jayhawks look to improve on their 21-13 record of last year.
Coaches such as Oklahoma's Sherri Coale stressed the strength of the conference that sent seven of its 12
KIM MULKEY
Baylor coach
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our relationship has no value to him, and then he asks to sleep with me, the answer is: no."
pentitive stamp point, it is even more challenging because of the strength that the southern part of the league has and how talented those teams are," Hendrickson said.
"When you play in a league that has the strength that the women's basketball conference or the Big 12 Conference and women's basketball has, you don't want to see that broken up for any reason," Coale said. "And that's not good
teams to the NCAA tournament last season.
The Jayhawks feature seven players from Texas and one from Oklahoma. Henrickson said the additions of
southern games would be more motivating for those athletes and would be a good opportunity for recruiting.
When asked about whether she
would continue to schedule Missouri if the school left the conference, she paused and winked.
"Our rivalry belongs in the Big 12." Henrickson said.
Tensions were highest regarding the decision of Texas A&M to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. The Aggies are the defending national champions and are predicted to
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finish second in the conference despite the loss of two starters.
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey compared the abandoned rivalry with Texas A&M to an ended marriage and admitted that she did not want to continue the competition beyond the conference.
"If a man wants to divorce me and says our relationship has no
value to him, and then he asks to sleep with me, the answer is: no," Mulkey said. "We are not going to play them anymore, because they decided that playing us was not important to them."
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