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About Broadmead's Chamber Music Series
We at Broadmead are an intellectually active group of folks. For many of us classical music is a passion. To cultivate this passion. for ourselves, our families and our friends, we maintain one of the Baltimore areas best classical chamber music series. This we achieve with a carefully thought out musical series with established professional musicians and talented young professional who are just beginning their careers. We strive for musical balance (something for everyone) with an active season of 8 concerts. …
Chamber music series: The Mark Meadows Jazz Trio to Be Featured in Sunday Performance, February 12, 2012
The Mark Meadows Jazz Trio
Mark Meadow, piano
Eric Kennedy, drums
Blake Meister, bass
Mark Meadows is a modern jazz pianist and composer who utilizes his versatile musical background in order to communicate to every walk of life. His sound is youthful, yet ageless, complex, yet effortless. Mark and his colleagues (Eric Kennedy, drums and Blake Meister, bass) will perform many of our jazz favorites from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
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Broadmead (Again) to Lead MaCCRA
Rappeport to Head Statewide Residents Organization
Jonas Rappeport, M.D.
Dr. Jonas Rappeport will be leading the Maryland Continuing Care Residents Association, succeeding William Root of Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, who is stepping down to concentrate on collecting data about the financial security of Maryland’s CCRCs.
Jonas, who has been serving as first vice president, will be acting president until the spring annual meeting. Also joining the MaCCRA executive board is Broadmead resident Alma Smith, who will take over as secretary. …
Chamber music series: Lura Johnson to Be Featured in Wednesday Performance, January 11, 2012.
Pianist Lura Johnson, who has recently been named a Steinway Artist, and who has established herself as one of the Mid-Atlantic’s most prominent ensemble pianists, will be featured in a solo performance here on Wednesday, January 11 at 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Broadmead Residents Association as part of its annual series, Johnson performs regularly with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop, and has collaborated on recordings with Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman. …
Nutrition: Nutritional and Activity Recommendations
Summary of Nutritional and Activity Recommendations from the World Cancer
Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research
1. Body Fatness. Maintain an appropriate weight for your frame size from age 21**.
2. Physical Activity. Be physically active, equivalent to a brisk walk for at least 30 minutes every day. Limit sedentary habits such a watching television.
3. Food and Drinks that Promote Weight Gain. Consume energy-dense food sparingly. …
Nutrition: International Group of Nutritional Scientists Recommend A Primitive Diet
This summer (2010) there was an international conference on nutrition in Washington, DC entitled, “Food As Medicine”. Broadmead’s Jerry F. Green was one of the lucky participants. When all the science was over and the participants asked, “how do we use this information to improve our nutrition?” the answer was repeatedly RETURN TO A PRIMITIVE DIET. In other words, we cannot improve on the foods we ate in our evolution to where we are today. …
Nutrition: Convenience Foods, part II
In the first of this two-part discussion on convenience foods, we discussed the reasons we enjoy eating fast foods and the reasons this is a dumb decision. In this part we dissect a typical convenience food to actually see what is in it.
I have chosen the McNugget to discuss because Michael Pollan in his "Omnivore's Dilemma" has analyzed in great detail the ingredients in this often eaten industrial meal. There are actually 38 ingredients in a McNugget, 13 of which are derived from corn. …
Nutrition: Are Today's Cheap Meats Worth the Price?
Except for minor exceptions most of the meat we eat today come from cattle raised as livestock specifically for their meat. The cow is artificially inseminated with sperm from a bull. This occurs on a ranch and after the calf is weaned it gets a healthy start by feeding on grasses. After a few months the calf is shipped to a feedlot where it is housed with hundreds of other cattle and fed an artificial diet of mostly corn mixed with vitamin and protein supplements, hay and silage for roughage and the antibiotics Rumensin and Tylosin. …
Nutrition: Convenience Foods, part I
This is the first of a two-part discussion on convenience foods, sometimes referred to as fast foods. First what exactly is a convenience food. It is any pre-packaged food prepared by a member of the vast American food-industrial complex (my term). It can be anything from pancake mixes in boxes, to frozen TV dinners, to the "Big Mac" at McDonald's, to foods prepared by the food industry for resale in restaurants and cafeterias. A common characteristic of these foods is that they appeal to our taste and satisfy our hunger. …
Nutrition: A Case for Wild Foods
Those of us living in the Western societies have grown to accept our familiar diseases (e.g., heart disease, diabetes and obesity) as part of life. Yet for those humans who still live in their native habitat and eat the way their ancestors did, there is little or no heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, hypertension, stroke and no tooth decay, varicose veins, ulcers or hemorrhoids. When individuals living in such remote places come to the West and adopt the Western diet they succumb to the same diseases that Westerners do. …