A delicious recipe of apples, cinn/sugar, crescent rolls and maple glaze in less than 30 min.
Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients 1 (8 oz.) tube of refrigerated crescent rolls or crescent dough sheet 1 medium apple- small diced 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter-melted (divided) 1/3 cup sugar (you can use half light brown sugar and half white granulated sugar) cinnamon-to taste ( I added about 3/4 teaspoon) For the Glaze: ½ cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon maple syrup 1 Tbsp. milk-or more to reach desired consistency
Instructions Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line cupcake pan with paper liners and set aside. You’ll have 8 rolls. On a sheet of parchment paper unroll crescent dough sheet. If using crescent rolls, seal the perforation to make large rectangle. Brush the dough with about 2 Tbsp. melted butter (reserve remaining butter for later use).
Stir together cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle over melted butter. Scatter diced apples on top. Beginning on the long side of the rectangle, roll the dough into a log. Slice the log in 8 (1 ½ inch)pieces. Arrange pieces in paper liners. Brush the top with melted butter and bake until golden brown (about 15 min). If it starts browning too quickly, tent top w/ foil.
Stir together glaze ingredients and spoon over slightly cooled cupcakes.
Coffee or Tea? Drinking Both Tied to Lower Stroke, Dementia Risk (Two+ cups of both best)
Medscape / PLOS Med ^ | Nov. 16, 2021 |
Kelli Whitlock Burton / Yuan Zhang, Hongxi Yang, Shu Li, Wei-dong Li, et al
Posted on 12/11/2021, 11:30:19 AM by ConservativeMind
Drinking coffee or tea is associated with reduced risk for stroke and dementia, with the biggest benefit associated with consuming both beverages, new research suggests.
Investigators found that individuals who drank 2 to 3 cups of coffee and 2 to 3 cups of tea per day had a 30% decrease in incidence of stroke and a 28% lower risk for dementia vs those who did not.
Synergistic Effect?
Whereas earlier studies have shown significant health benefits from moderate coffee and tea intake separately, few have examined the effect of drinking both.
Researchers enrolled 365,682 participants from the UK Biobank for the analysis of coffee and tea consumption and stroke and dementia risk and 13,352 participants for the analysis of poststroke dementia. During a median follow-up of 11.4 years, 2.8% of participants experienced a stroke and 1.4% developed dementia.
After adjusting for confounders, stroke risk was 10% lower in those who drank a half-cup to a cup of coffee per day (P < .001) and 8% lower in those who had more than two cups a day (P = .009). Tea drinkers who had more than two cups a day saw a 16% reduction in stroke (P < .001).
Those who drank both coffee and tea during the day saw the greatest benefit. Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee and 2-3 cups of tea lowered stroke risk by 32% (P < .001) and dementia risk by 28% (P = .002).
Drinking both beverages offered significantly greater benefits than drinking just coffee or tea alone, with an 11% lower risk for stroke (P < .001), an 8% lower risk for dementia (P = .001), and 18% lower risk for vascular dementia (P = .001).
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