power picks
“Power-full Women know how to network and share information. Whether it’s a great place to buy shoes, a way to look your best on a budget, innovations in health and nutrition, or a few tips to keep your family “green”, the Power Picks page is the place to come for new and useful information.
Power Picks will be updated every week, so check in regularly for ideas to make your “Power-full” life a little bit easier and a lot more fun. Our mothers and grandmothers used to exchange ideas over the back fence. Today, we don’t need a fence; we have the world wide web.
Got a Power Pick of your own that you’d like to share? Send it along to Info@PowerOfWomen.net. Our Power Picks Editor, Margo Mukkulainen will check it out. If your suggestion makes it in to Power Picks, we’ll send you one of our great Power Of Women purse-size notebooks or a Power Of Women pen as a thank you.
Fashion/Fun
EDITOR'S PICK
Turkey Leftovers to Die For
Gourmet magazine is folding after this month’s issue, so in honor of this long-running foodie magazine, we are giving props to one of the greatest post-Thanksgiving online resources ever. View this slideshow of dishes and click on the recipe names in the caption box to get the ingredients and cooking instructions. Our personal favorites: turkey hash and turkey potpie with cheddar biscuit crust.
Health/Beauty
Low-Fat and Happier for it
Good things really do come to those who wait. A study recently published in Archives of Internal Medicine found that a low-fat diet is associated with improved mood even after a year of following the healthy eating style. Researchers followed some 100 obese adults who were on either a low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet. After one year, participants lost an average of 14 kg (close to 31 pounds), with no significant weight-loss difference between the diets. Both diet groups also saw initial improvements in mood. But a year later, the low-carb group saw its mood scores return to average levels again, while the low-fat group still reported improvements in the areas of depression, anger, and confusion.
Family/Relationships
20 Million Sandwiches!
New Research posted by Communispace shows there are many adults out there there who have become caregivers of both their kids and parents, and that age is just a number when it comes to the sandwich generation. Over 20 million Americans find themselves "sandwiched," simultaneously taking care of aging parents while raising their own children. One particularly eyebrow-raising finding to emerge from the research is that the caregivers in this category range from those in their 20s to those in their 60s, and the challenges they face span income and geographies ranges as well.
Business/Finance
Unfortunate 500 for Females
Catalyst.org posted some sobering statistics about women in business showing that Fortune 500 companies are still lacking a fair number of female executives. The percentage of women in the U.S. labor force is 46.3% and the percentage of women in management, professional and related occupations is 50.6%. The percentage of female Fortune 500 corporate officers, however, is a mere 15.4%. Only 14.8 percent of Fortune 500 board seats are held by women, and of the top earners in these corporations, only 6.7% are female. As far as CEOs go at these companies, a dismal 2.4% are women.
Catalyst, founded in 1962, is the leading nonprofit membership organization working globally with businesses and the professions to build inclusive workplaces and expand opportunities for women and business.
Power Picks is edited by Margo Mukkulainen, a freelance writer whose work on a wide variety of topics has appeared in such national publications as “Prevention”, Women’s Health”, “Men’s Health”, and “Medizine”. Margo can be reached at Info@PowerOfWomen.net