Map Of The Gallbladder

http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/gallbladder

Healthline.com recently launched a free interactive "Human Body Maps" tool. I thought your readers would be interested in our body map of the Gallbladder: http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/gallbladder

The gallbladder is a pear-shaped, hollow structure located under the liver and on the right side of the abdomen. Its primary function is to store and concentrate bile, a yellow-brown digestive liquid produced by the liver. The gallbladder is part of the biliary tract. The gallbladder serves as a reservoir for bile that is not immediately used for digestion. The gallbladder's absorptive epithelial lining concentrates the stored bile. When food enters the small intestine, a hormone called cholecystokinin is released, signaling the gallbladder to contract and secrete bile into the small intestine through the common bile duct. The bile helps the digestive process by emulsifying fats and neutralizing acids in partially-digested food. An excess of cholesterol, bilirubin or bile salts can cause gallstones to form. Gallstones are small, hard deposits inside the gallbladder that are formed when the stored bile crystallizes. A person with gallstones will rarely feel any symptoms until the gallstones reach a certain size, or if the gallstone obstructs the bile ducts. Surgical removal of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) is the most common way to treat gallstones.

Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Fat Free Vanilla Chobani Yogurt
• 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
• 3/4 cup stick pretzels, broken into thirds
• 1/2 cup caramel bits
• 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

Instructions

1. In a stand mixer, cream yogurt with sugars. Add vanilla & egg. Incorporate & scrape bowl.
2. Combine baking soda, & flour. Gradually add to wet mixture. Mix until combined.
3. Fold in broken pretzels, caramel bits, & chocolate chips with a spatula.
4. Spoon onto a baking sheet with parchment paper.
5. Bake at 350*F for 11-12 minutes.

http://annalunchideas.blogspot.com/2014/05/caramel-pretzel-chocolate-chip-cookies.html

Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

1/2 cup unsalted butter divided
8 oz. package Fat Free cream cheese, room temperature
1 t. vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
1-3 T. Fat Free milk

In a small saucepan, over medium heat, heat 1/4 cup butter until browned. Cube up the other half of butter and place in a small bowl, pour browned butter over top and mix until all the butter is melted. In a large bowl beat butter, cream cheese, vanilla and sugar until creamy. Add 1-3 T. cold milk if needed to thin to a spreading consistency. Frost any cake with this frosting. Chill until ready to serve. Makes about 4 cups frosting.

http://www.bigredkitchen.com/2008/11/browned-butter-cream-cheese-frosting/

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White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies

1 Cup Vanilla Fat Free Chobani Yogurt
1 1/2 Cups granulated sugar
1 Cup packed brown sugar
2 Eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 Cups white chocolate chips or 1 C white & 1 C milk chocolate
1 Cup dried cranberries
1/4 Cup shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix yogurt, and sugars.  Add vanilla and eggs.  Blend in flour and baking soda.  Add white chocolate chips and cranberries.  Roll cookies in sugar.  Drop by spoon onto cooking sprayed baking sheet.  Bake for 8-12 minutes.     

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Cranberry Cookies

Ingredients
2 1/4 cups unbleached flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup Fat Free Vanilla Chobani Yogurt
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
3 1/2 ozs instant vanilla pudding mix
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
6 ozs white chocolate chips
3 ozs dried cranberries

Directions

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly Spray two baking sheets. Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl.
2. Beat the yogurt, white sugar, brown sugar, and instant pudding with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat the first egg into the yogurt until completely blended, then beat in the vanilla with the last egg. Mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the white chocolate chips and cranberries; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Drop spoonfuls of the dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until edges of the cookies become golden brown, 9 to 12 minutes. Cool in the baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/lindas-cranberry-cookies/detail.aspx