Taco Bell For Breakfast

Divabetic: Taco Bell for Breakfast

Taco Bell is known as the fast food chain for your late night cravings. Now the chain is moving in reverse order by rolling out a new breakfast menu.

Breakfast items range from sugary sweet Cinnabon Delights (fried dough balls with cream filling) to healthier items such as oatmeal and yogurt parfaits as well as breakfast burritos and hash browns.

Taco Bell‘s new “First Meal” is part of a new extended menu which also includes the “Cantina Bell” menu. It is aimed at a slightly more upmarket audience and will include dishes such as black beans, cilantro rice and grilled corn salsa (i.e. Chipotle Mexican Grill, but with fast food diner in mind.)

CONFUSED ABOUT THE MENU? Tune in to Diva TalkRadio’s popular ‘Dining Out With A Dietitian’ segment to learn to master the menu so you can keep  healthy. Nationally recognized registered dietitians offer their advice on what’s right and wrong on the menu at your favorite restaurants.   Enjoy over 30 Diva TalkRadio show are available for free on i-tunes (search ‘Divabetic’) and at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/divatalkradio1

Etta James Dies At 73

Divabetic: Etta James

Etta James, a fabulous singer who combined blues, gospel and R&B and emerged as a major star in the ’50s and ’60s, has died after a long battle with leukemia. She was 73.

Best known for her 1961 version of ‘At Last,’ Etta James enjoyed a remarkable career that spanned more than a half-century. Her string of hits began with 1955′s ‘The Wallflower (Dance With Me, Henry)’ and continued with such classics as ‘Spoonful,’ ‘Something’s Got a Hold on Me’ and ‘Tell Mama.’ Over the years, she won six Grammy awards, and in 1993, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Born Jamesetta Hawkins to a 14-year-old mother on Jan. 25, 1938, James grew up in Los Angeles without ever knowing her father. She spent most of her early life in the care of friends and relatives, among them her grandparents, who took her to Baptist church. She soon joined the choir, and in later years, after she’d moved in with her mother in San Francisco — and begun to dabble in juvenile delinquency, she formed a singing group called the Creolettes. She eventually went solo and signed with Chess Records, the label that would bring the singer her greatest fame.

A major influence on generations of singers, James placed No. 62 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the greatest artists of all time. The legendary record producer Jerry Wexler once called her “the greatest of all modern blues singers … the undisputed Earth Mother.”

 

Divabetic Club: 7 Habits of Effective People Living With Diabetes

The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic is joined by special guests, Neva White, MSN, CRNP, CDE and Stephanie Gaber, PharmD from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA to talk about the Divabetic Club – Philadelphia program.

Mr. Divabetic kicked off this FREE monthly meeting for men and women touched by diabetes with a ‘Dancing In Cars’ fitness routine set to an Aretha Franklin classic.  The divas and dudes weighed in about Paula Deen‘s recent confession about living with type 2 diabetes during our Hot Topics discussion folllowed by a feature presentation on  ’The 7 Habits of Effective People Living With Diabetes’ by Stephen Covey and the American Diabetes Association of Educators (AADE).

JOIN US IN FEBRUARY: Our next Divabetic Club – Philadelphia program is Saturday, February 4, 2012. Find out more about Divabetic’s ‘free and fabulous’ monthly education meetings at: http://www.divabetic.org