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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | OCTOBER 2017 | 35 Tennis Friends Ya'll come! Just look us up in directory and we will inform you of times and days. Times change according to the Hemet weather. The tennis drills/round robin play will start at 6:30 pm every Wednesday evening. Drills and/or private instruction by Chuck Sims on request. Make Four Seasons tennis part of your weekly routine. Call Tracy Trousset, Judy Bailey, Trish Moorhouse, Chuck Sims, Dennis Uhlken. Tennis Friends will be participating in the Fall Marketplace on Oct. 28 from 9 am to 2:30 pm, where Four Seasons Clubs and Committees will be giving out information. There will also be vendors, a swap meet, food and drink, beer and wine garden, arts and crafts and live music. We would love to see you there. HEALTHY LIVING Back row: John T., Mike McConnell, Bill Spreen, Earle Irvine. Front row: George Doktorczyk, Mason Arnold, Tracy Trousset, Trish Moorhouse, Hank Alberts, Jerry Jeran and Tanny. Service! This month we offer some healthy tips for eating out and a website with other healthy ideas. 1. Ask for it your way. Dining out is no time to be a meek consumer, notes Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and co-author of the book Restaurant Confidential. "You need to be an assertive consumer by asking for changes on the menu," he says. For instance, if an item is fried, ask for it grilled. If it comes with french fries, ask for a side of veggies instead. Ask for a smaller portion of the meat and a larger portion of the salad; for salad instead of coleslaw; baked potato instead of fried. "Just assume you can have the food prepared the way you want it," says Dr. Jacobson. "Very often, the restaurant will cooperate." 2. Ask to "triple the vegetables, please." Often a side of vegetables in a restaurant is really like garnish — a carrot and a forkful of squash. When ordering, ask for three or four times the normal serving of veggies, and offer to pay extra. "I've never been charged," says dietitian Jeff Novick, R.D., director of nutrition at the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa in Aventura, Florida. "And I've never been disappointed. I get full, not fat." 3. Ask how the food was prepared; don't go by the menu. For instance, cholesterol-free does not mean fat-free; the dish could still be filled with calorie-dense oil. Neither does "lite" necessarily mean light in calories or fat. 4. Order from the "healthy, light, low fat" entrées on the menu. Most chains will even list the calories and nutritional content of such foods. Applebee's, for instance, offers approved Weight Watchers options, Bennigan's has its Health Club entrées (which it will serve in half portions), and Ruby Tuesday lists the nutritional information for its entire menu. 5. Beware of the low-carb options. Restaurant chains have jumped on the low-carb bandwagon, offering numerous low-carb options on their menu. But low-carb doesn't mean low-cal. For instance, at Ruby Tuesday the Low-Carb New Orleans Seafood packs 710 calories and 42 grams of fat — ouch! A much better bet — the Low Carb Veggie Platter — leaves you with just 297 calories and 16 grams of fat. 6. Ask to box half your entrée before it ever gets to the table. Or split an entrée with your dining partner. A CSPI survey found that restaurants often serve two to three times more than food labels list as a serving. Check out the website below for other healthy "eating out" ideas: http://www.rd.com/health/healthy-eating/eating-out-healthy/ Info., Dave and Karen Tuvim, 599-4236.

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