Lifestyles

Pegg: Crank Up Your Metabolism

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Crank Up Your Metabolism
By KENT PEGG

One of the key factors to weight loss and weight management is your metabolism. If you are want to lose weight and keep the weight off, one important thing to do is to rev up your metabolism.

Metabolism is a term that refers to how your body transforms the calories in the food you eat into energy. The food is broken down into sugars and amino acids that the body then has available for use as energy. The energy is then either used or it is stored as muscle or fat.

One very important key to keeping your metabolism high is to have a large amount of lean muscle mass. Lean muscle Read More

Food on the Hill: Loco Moco

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This Week’s Recipe: Loco Moco

This is considered Hawaiian comfort food.

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients:

1 cup of cooked rice
cooked hamburger patty (I like to smoke it on the grill)
Slice of cheddar cheese
3/4 cup of brown gravy, heated
1 or 2 poached eggs

Directions:

Poach eggs in simmering water with a tablespoon of vinegar.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
You can also use an egg poacher, usually use an egg poacher, you end up losing less of the egg white that way.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Layer this in a bowl, rice, hamburger,
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RTD Adds Buses to Accommodate Chimayo Pilgrams on Good Friday, April 18

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NCRTD News:

The North Central Regional Transit District is adding additional buses along its Española to Chimayo route to accommodate people making the annual pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayo on Good Friday, April 18.

Two ADA accessible buses will run on a continuous loop 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., throughout the day (the first bus begins at 8 a.m. and the second at 8:30 a.m.) departing from the RTD stop on the north side of the Big Rock Phillips 66 Station in front of the Santa Claran Hotel. 

The route will traverse N.M. 76 with multiple stops in each direction along the way. The route concludes Read More

Solo Traveler: Mexico’s Native Music

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The gazebo in San Cristóbal de las Casas where marimba concerts take place almost every night. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler: Mexico’s Native Music
By SHERRY HARDAGE

The marimba was supposedly invented in Chiapas and the city of Chiapa de Corzo is the Marimba Capital of the World. It hosts a school for musicians and a workshop where traditional marimba construction is taught.

It is the music of Chiapas. Over the years there have been many compositions composed specifically for the instrument, though any lively piece of music can be played on it. The bars on this type of xylophone Read More

United Church of Los Alamos Moves into Phase 2 of Facility Revitalization

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UNITED CHURCH News:
 
The Building Committee of The United Church of Los Alamos, 2525 Canyon Road, is hosting an informational Open House today, Monday, April 14, regarding the outside accessibility upgrades about to begin at its 67-year location.  
 
The Open House is 5:30-7 p.m., and especially for nearby neighbors, but the greater community also is invited to see the drawings and chat with the architect and contractor as well as members of the United Church Building Committee.
 
Work will begin soon to enlarge drop-off parking, enhance traffic flow around the multi-building
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Old Coots on Scoots Pay a Visit to Jemez Springs

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A member of Old Coots on Scoots shows off his vest near the group’s parked bikes in Jemez Springs. Photo by Ryszard Wasilewski
 
Motorcycles parked outside Los Ojos in Jemez Springs where on a recent ride, the group stopped for lunched. Photo by Ryszard Wasilewski

By SUSAN BURRITT

About 40 members of the Old Coots on Scoots Old Tyme Bikers rode up to Jemez Springs Thursday during beautiful weather. The group had lunch at Los Ojos, which member Mack Highfill said is one of their favorite places to go.

The Albuquerque-based chapter has about 175 members, Highfill said. The Coots go to lunch Read More

Izraelevitz: Happy Passover and Happy Shopping!

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Happy Passover and Happy Shopping!
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ

Monday night begins the Jewish holiday of Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egyptian slavery. Accompanied by friends, my family will be holding a celebratory dinner along with the ceremonial retelling of this story according to Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder.

There are many themes in this ceremony, the precious value of personal freedom, religion as a source of strength during adversity, many others. And if you will bear with me, the value of shopping locally here in Los Alamos.

The Seder has four Read More