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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s the last day to enter The Dorm Room Diet “Get A Tip, Give A Tip” contest for a chance to receive a free copy of the book written by Daphne Oz with a forward by her father and daytime TV host, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Be sure to also check out our exclusive interview with Daphne.

In The Dorm Room Diet, Daphne writes about “Danger Zones” or situations where you may be tempted to eat unhealthy high sugar, high fat and low nutrient foods like while watching TV, studying or working late at night or in social situations. One way to counter this is by eating berries during these times.

“They take time to eat, come in small pieces, and are sweet enough to curb sugar cravings,” Daphne writes.

Don’t forget to buy berries organic whenever possible, as some of them, like blueberries and strawberries, are on the dirty dozen list of produce that contains the highest levels of pesticide residue.

And that’s the final tip of the day. What’s yours?

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip in the Dorm Room Diet book giveaway is about reducing your impact on the planet by purchasing locally grown food. Fresher food is less subject to factors involved in traveling longer distances like light and temperature that may impact nutrient levels once it finally reaches your plate.

The easiest way to be a locavore is to buy food from the grocery store that was grown and traveled <100 miles to the shelves. But The Dorm Room Diet gives more tips for getting food closer to the source:

• Visit the local farmer’s market

• Set up home or dorm delivery of produce from a local farm

• Join a co-op

• Establish a Farm-To-School program

• Go to a local farm and help plant and harvest greens yourself

To enter to win The Dorm Room Diet, leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Full contest rules can be found here.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip in the Dorm Room Diet giveaway is all about budgeting. Sure, you need the right foods for energy, but it’s also about managing time and figuring out how to store you food in a tiny dorm room, cubicle or even in a studio apartment. It’s not just money that’s a part of the “budget.”

The Dorm Room Diet recommends keeping healthy, grab-and-go snacks handy for busy times and keeping small, nutrient packed foods like nuts, dried fruit, popcorn and peanut butter handy that won’t take up a lot of space in a refrigerator at work or home. Also, if you’re a college student, The Dorm Room Diet, advises checking out the cafeteria versus the restaurants on the off campus strip. You’re bound to find at least something your ethics and tastes are compatible with and it’s probably already paid for (by mom or dad, student loans, scholarships) as part of a campus meal plan.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

As part of our “Dorm Room Diet” book giveaway where we bring you a different tip from the book every day, today’s tip is about breakfast.

Every vegetarian should know how to whip up a simple breakfast tofu scramble, but that doesn’t mean they’ll remember to eat it in the 7:30 AM rush in between walking the dog, checking email and work/class. While it’s tempting to grab a sugary muffin or just swish juice down, Daphne Oz suggest you eat your biggest meal for breakfast in “The Dorm Room Diet.”

“I always try to live by the adage: breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper,” she writes, adding this method gives you more time to use the calories.

Shouldn’t be hard to do, considering the several breakfast recipes are included in her book like a breakfast sandwich with black beans and salsa on whole grain bread.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip for becoming healthier in our giveaway of  Daphne Oz‘s “Dorm Room Diet” book involves improving the quality of food at your college cafeteria.

When the factory farmed McBurger restaurants and imported produce salad bars outnumber whole wheat pasta and local veggies in the cafe court, don’t fret. Daphne says concerned students can help by encouraging their schools to start a Farm To School Program. These programs get schools to invest a portion of their cafeteria supplies from local producers. The result is a better grade for food, people and the environment as less fuel is used to transport food, local farmers get more business and fresher selections become available.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

We’re giving away a copy of The Dorm Room Diet by Daphne Oz, daughter of the daytime cardio surgeon TV host, Dr. Oz, and a graduate of Princeton University. Daphne found that although she followed a vegetarian diet, she wasn’t always putting the right things in her body and decided to write the book to assist anyone–living in a dorm or a cubicle–in getting on the right eating track.

Daphne’s book is full of tips for living healthy and green and every day of the contest, Vegetarian Star will bring you a tip from the book. To enter to win, simply “give a tip” back, or leave a comment on the post letting us know your tip for staying healthy.

Everyone knows nuts are good for you (full of omega-3 fatty acids, good source of plant based protein), but if you hate the bitter taste of walnuts you don’t have to miss out. Daphne and her family eat them in the traditional Turkish way by soaking them in water overnight. This takes away the bitterness and neutralizes an enzyme inhibitor, which helps your body absorb more vitamins and nutrients.

So that’s the Dorm Room Diet tip of the day. What’s yours?

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

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As promised, we’re giving away one free copy of the The Dorm Room Diet by Daphne Oz. Daphne’s book is full of tips to help you stay healthy while being kind to the Earth and the animals. Every day for the next week, we’ll bring you a tip from Daphne’s book. For a chance to win the book, you have to give a tip back.

To enter, simply leave a comment on a post with a tip letting us know how you stay healthy, like what you eat or how you exercise. It can even be a spiritual or charitable practice you do that leaves you feeling great physically and psychologically.

You can enter this today, Thursday and Friday, then we’ll be taking a break on the weekend. Next Monday, the contest starts up again and wraps up on Thursday at midnight Pacific Time. Winners will be chosen randomly and notified via email on Monday, August 23, 2010.

Only one entry per post is allowed, but you may give a tip every day for every post written with a tip. So if you’ve got seven ways to teach everyone to stay healthy, come back every day and give your advice! And now, for today’s tip:

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Daphne Oz

Daphne Oz, author of The Dorm Room Diet, and daughter of the famous daytime television host and heart surgeon Dr. Oz, has accumulated a wealth of information from her father, holistic nutrition adviser grandmother and vegetarian mother over the years. Daphne took her knowledge and wrote a book aimed to teach people how to fuel their bodies with food that gives energy, fights disease, and is healthier for the planet. The Dorm Room Diet contains an entire chapter especially dedicated to thinking about the impact of food on the environment, in addition to a chapter filled with vegetarian recipes.

Throughout the book, you remind readers of the benefits of being vegetarian (discuss how you get your nutrients without meat, pitfalls of meat protein, only vegetarian recipes in the book) without actually telling people to go veg. Was this done on purpose as a way to promote a vegetarian lifestyle without being preachy or did it naturally fall into place?
It naturally fell into place, partly because I have no idea how to cook meat, and partly because it’s a lot easier to purchase, store and cook vegetarian dishes when living in the dorm room. I’m glad you saw it as a natural way to promote the vegetarian lifestyle, and introduce readers to flavors, textures, and substitutes they might never have considered before, because that was certainly a goal of ours throughout the chapter. So often, knowledge and a little nudge is all people need to change old habits.

What’s your favorite recipe from the book and why?
My favorite recipe is the Nuttier Butter, just because it’s so easy and versatile–I would spread it on whole grain toast for breakfast, eat a spoonful before working out for a powerful shot of protein, fiber and energy, and even used it as the base for a spicy thai peanut salad dressing for dinner sometimes. Plus, it’s such a cool variation on the average peanut butter that adds omega fats and fiber.

The Dorm Room Diet sounds like it’s aimed at college students. How can a regular, working adult benefit from some of the advice in the book?
The advice in the book is really targeted at anyone looking to break free of the deprivation of fad diets and establish a permanent, healthy lifestyle that puts you in total control. The tips and tricks are targeted at anyone short on time, space, and/or money who still wants to make an effort to establish healthy habits to last a lifetime, so it’s equally helpful to people spending their time in a dorm room or a cubicle!

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