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A Growing Sweet Potatoes With Style Roasted sweet potatoes could use a fresh take this Thanksgiving. That's why we selected two compound butters — one tangy and the other sweet — because life is about options. Ingredients • 4 sweet potatoes, medium-sized • 8 Tbsp. unsalted butter, softened • 1 Tbsp. maple syrup • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon • 1 teaspoon curry powder • 1 teaspoon lime zest • Pinch, coarse sea salt Directions Wash the potatoes and scrub them. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Using a fork, poke holes in the sides of each potato and place them on a baking sheet covered in foil. Set the time for 45 minutes (they may take an hour to fully cook). While the potatoes cook, prepare your butters. Split the softened butter into two cooking bowls. Add maple syrup and cinnamon to one and curry, lime zest and sea salt to the other. Mix the contents of each bowl, and lay down plastic wrap — one sheet for each butter. Shape the butters into logs, carefully covering them in plastic wrap and leaving no air pockets. Set them in the refrigerator to cool and harden. When the timer goes off and the potatoes have become soft, remove them from the oven and let them cool for 15 minutes. Halve the potatoes length-wise and place 1/2 Tbsp. serving of either butter on top. Nutrition Facts (Serving Size = 1/2 sweet potato with 1/2 Tbsp. compound butter) Servings: 8 Calories: 150 Total fat: 6g Saturated fat: 3.5g Total carbohydrates: 23g Dietary fiber: 4g Sugars: 7g Protein: 2g This recipe is courtesy of Maria Palma, chef and program director of The Children's Hospital of San Antonio's Culinary Health Education for Families (CHEF) program. Celina Paras, MSc, RND and nutrition education specialist, CHEF, provided the nutritional facts. Problem Since the late 1980s, the average American has put on at least 15 pounds without getting any taller, according to a 2016 report released by the National Center for Health Statistics. To date, about two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and half of those are obese. African-Americans have the highest rates of obesity — at nearly 48 percent — followed by Hispanics at just under 43 percent, and Caucasians at roughly 33 percent. WEIGHTY MATTERS "If you want to lose weight or maintain a hea lthy one, start with what you eat," says Eric Bernstein, M.D., MS, board-certified family medicine physician and medica l director of San Antonio Family Physicians. "The formula for weight loss is 80 to 90 percent diet and 10 to 20 percent exercise." Dr. Bernstein weighs in on three chief ways to achieve a healthy weight: Take charge of your health — visit christussantarosa.org/hra-diet and take our diet and nutrition assessment, or call (877) 250-DOCS to find a trusted physician to help you get on the right track to better health. REDUCE YOUR PORTIONS. "A merica n por tion sizes continue to increase," Dr. Bernstein says. " We're simply not desig ned to eat as much food as we've become used to eating. Your stomach is only about the size of a f ist. Don't eat until you're full — instead, eat sma ller por tions of low-ca lorie, low-ca rb, high-protein foods." HAVE — AND STICK TO — A SCHEDULE. "I recommend eating during the first 30 to 60 minutes of being awa ke and eating sma ll, frequent mea ls throughout the day," Dr. Bernstein says. "Do not wait until you're hungry to eat — that means your body is out of fuel, causing your metabolism to slow and your weight to ultimately increase." GET MOVING. "Exercising will help you lose weight a nd ma inta in a hea lthy one as well as help you sleep better," Dr. Bernstein says. "Poor sleep is directly related to obesit y." ✚ The average weight of Americans has increased substantially during the last 20 years, creating what some researchers call an obesity epidemic. Fall 2016 | christussantarosa.org 3 EATING WELL 3