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National Nutrition Month 2013:  Party Girl Diet author Aprilanne Hurley appears live on Good Day Sacramento with host Marianne McClary for the inside look at how to lose weight and keep it off without the deprivation and restrictions typical of fad diets.  On the Party Girl Diet you can drink wine, eat chocolate, even eat meatballs and spaghetti in addition to a wide variety of delicious foods…and lose weight while you are having the time of your life.

In addition to revealing how to lose weight with a healthy, sustainable lifestyle outlined in The Party Girl Diet,  Hurley emphasizes that the secret to weight maintenance is creating a balanced life by eating the right amount of food and getting the right amount of exercise.  Hurley is also a huge supporter of eating certain natural foods containing probiotics and prebiotics to help aid digestion and promote a flat belly.  Hurley recommends getting your probiotics and prebiotics from the foods you eat over taking an oral supplement.

The Good Day Sacramento Party Girl Diet segment below covers foods that aid in digestion, debuts Hurley’s Signature Fresh Flat-Belly Salsa Recipe, and demonstrates how to make The Party Girl Diet’s famous “Morning After Mocktail” as a natural and gentle detoxifying pick me up.

The Party Girl Diet enjoys cult status in books with a history of ranking in the Top 5 books on Amazon’s Best Sellers List for Kindle books in Weight Maintenance and Weight Loss, and #2 in Cooking, Food & Wine – Natural Foods on Amazon’s Best Seller list.

Special thanks to Good Day Sacramento cast & crew for a super fun day in Sacramento, CA.

Party Girl Diet’s Flat Belly Artichoke Salsa Recipe featured on Good Day Sacramento:

Makes 5 servings
Ready in 10 -15 minutes

2 cups marinated artichoke hearts, drained and chopped (coarsely)
3 Roma or plum tomatoes, chopped
2 tbsp red onion, diced
1/4 cup black olives, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tbsp small capers
2 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
Sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste.

1. Mix together all of the ingredients above in a medium bowl.
2. Serve PGD’s Flat Belly Salsa at room temperature with julienned fresh, colorful peppers, baked chips, etc. It also makes a great topping for salads, pasta, and pizza. (You can also make PGD’s salsa ahead of time and chill before serving).

Party Girl Diet’s Naturally Detoxifying “Morning After Mocktail” (In the book)
This antioxidant packed elixir has been formulated to replace some of the vitamins lost through alcohol consumption while providing gentle detoxifying benefits.

1/4 cup Vitamin D and Calcium added Orange Juice
1/4 cup Cranberry Juice – no sugar added
1 fresh grapefruit – juiced (fresh is best, yet you can substitute 1/2 cup grapefruit juice)
1/2 lemon – juiced
Pinch of Cayenne pepper (optional)
Orange wheel or lime wedge for garnish (optional)

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Pour all of the ingredients above into cocktail shaker and shake vigorously.
3. Serve it straight up! Strain contents of shaker into bar-ware for an fun presentation…Cheers!

Aprilanne Hurley has recently appeared LIVE on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX Networks to discuss The Party Girl Diet’s healthy new diet & lifestyle that lets you “lose weight while you are having the time of your life.”

 Special Pricing for National Nutrition Month:  The Party Girl Diet Book is $9.98 and the Party Girl Diet Kindle Edition is currently $2.99 on Amazon.com for the month of March 2013.

CA Living features Sam's Anchor Cafe Authentic Crab Cioppino

Healthy Party Girl:  Want a Winning Recipe to Enhance Your Beauty & Your Brains? Crab Cioppino is a dish you can serve a crowd, or make for an intimate dinner for two.

Crab Cippino – is a tomato based seafood stew that in addition to fresh crab, calls for an assortment of other fish – which, in line with the latest  US Dietary Guideline should be consumed at least twice a week as part of a healthy diet.

Originally crowned the ultimate “brain food,” Omega 3 Fatty Acid rich fish such as salmon, trout, and halibut to name a few offer numerous health benefits due to their Omega 3 Fatty Acid properties.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health – in addition to providing protection against heart disease and possibly stroke, higher does of omega-3 fatty acids are used to treat depression, and “new studies identifying potential benefits for a wide range of conditions including cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases and other autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.”

Omega-3 fats have been linked with health benefits such as lowering the risk of heart attack and may reduce irregular heart rhythms. Omega-3 fats work to prevent disease by regulating blood clotting and the contraction and relaxation of artery walls.  They also lower blood pressure and heart rates, improve blood vessel function, and at higher doses, lower triglycerides and may ease inflammation.

Since our bodies don’t produce Omega-3 fatty acids we need to rely on food sources containing them for numerous normal body functions, such as controlling blood clotting and building cell membranes in the brain.  It is however, always recommended that you seek to get your omega-3 from foods choices and not from supplementation.  Note of caution about supplementation – always, always, I repeat – ALWAYS check with your doctor or health care provider before taking a fish oil supplement.

So what foods can you find Omega 3-fats in?  Omega 3- fats are found in fish such as salmon, tuna, and trout, herring, halibut, and sardines, as well as Omega-3 eggs that have been fortified with DHA.  Omega-3 fats in the form of ALA’s (alph-linolenic acid) can also be found in flaxseeds, walnuts, and soybeans.  ALA can be found in olive oils, canola oils, and in dark green leaf vegetables such as kale, spinach and Brussels spouts, as well as in some animal fats such as grass-fed animals.

What about the health concerns regarding mercury and other environmental contaminants  found in some fish species?

According to JAMA – The Journal of the American Medical Association, “Overall, the health benefits of eating fish greatly out-weight the potential risks – especially when guidelines are used to reduce the small chance of being affected by these risks.”

“For men and women not of childbearing age, it is not clear that mercury exposure from typical levels of fish intake has any adverse health effects.  In contrast, fish intake has significant benefits for reducing the risk of death from heart disease, the number one cause of death.”  Pregnant and breastfeeding women should “avoid the 4 types of fish that are higher in mercury content:  shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and golden bass.”   In light of these cons however - research shows there are a multitude of beneficial health benefits associated with Omega-3 Fatty Acid rich fish and food sources and everyone should really strive to include two servings of fatty fish a week into their diets.  So why not start today?!  Try making the Authentic San Francisco Crab Cioppino Recipe we are featuring on the link below -compliments of Sam’s Anchor Cafe in Tiburon, CA (which also includes antioxidant rich tomatoes, garlic, rosemary, and olive oil) – and you’ll discover a great tasting way to get more “fish” into your family’s diet – Enjoy!  Aprilanne

Crab Cioppino Recipe compliments of Sam’s Anchor Cafe, Tiburon CA for California Living

Aprilanne Hurley SFN is a Certified Specialist in Fitness Nutrition, California Living TV Health Expert, and author of “The Party Girl Diet,” available on Amazon.com so you can “Keep the Party Going…While You Lose the Weight!”

Hurley’s new book “The Sexy Abs Diet” will be available this season!  Visit SexyAbsDiet.com for pre-order updates and release date info.