Is coffee good for you? What are the limits of coffee consumption? This is a nice summary article from WebMD. Early studies linked coffee to cancer. This connection, though, was later shown to be confounded by cigarettes … those who drank coffee often smoked as well. When you subtract...

A new independent clinical study has shown yet again how effective the Mediterranean diet can be to lower the risk of heart disease and to improve overall health. Women who followed a Mediterranean diet were almost 1/3 less likely to experience heart disease and also 13% less likely to...

You know the food label on the back of all food products? It’s that table of macromolecules that you are required to balance against a standard 2000 Calorie per Day diet … every day … as you separate carbs (good ones versus bad ones),from your fats (good ones versus...

Remember Recess? For those of us “of a certain age”, recess at school was a normal part of the day. This practice, however, has been phased out slowly and steadily over the years. Now, new research suggests that play (and “down time”) may be as important to a child’s...

Serves 8 You’ll Need · 1 cup barley · 6 cups chicken broth · 1 cup onion, chopped · ¼ teaspoon butter · 3 Tablespoons fresh mint, or 1Tablespoon dried · 2 Tablespoons parsley, minced · Yogurt Directions Place the barley and the broth in a soup kettle and...

Rogue Creamery leads American cheeses to Europe http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_7738/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=sLKFtU6r Sent from my iPhone...

  You’ll Need 1 cup uncooked lentils   ½ teaspoon salt   2 ¼ cups water   1 Tablespoon olive oil   6 green onions, sliced   1 garlic clove, minced   1 ½ Tablespoons parsley   1 dash cayenne   1 dash turmeric   ¼ cups water, as...

Failure can tell you as much about yourself as the object of the lapse. Two large Type 2 diabetes trials were just presented at this year’s annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association. Each began with a theory that was “obviously correct,” but somehow failed to give the expected...

Why is our Culture of Health in such a sorry state? Why are we having such a hard time with health? One of the biggest reason is that food interests have an incestuous relationship with our voices of good nutrition — those we SHOULD be able to trust. Where...

I love Saturdays. After "couch time" with Dottie reading the paper, followed by the nytimes crossword, I go to the strip district to shop at the local markets. But it begins with the Italian coffee shop, LaPrima. Incredible coffee, and a family like atmosphere of people who know you,...

Make it last as long as possible: Chocolate melts at about 90 degrees, but our body temperature is 98.6 degrees. As a result, just a small piece of chocolate “melts in your mouth,” and slowly, lovingly gives of itself while doing so.Moreover, the natural vegetable oils in chocolate help...

Size, As We Know, Matters: Just as two glasses of wine help the heart, and two bottles per day kill the liver … a little chocolate is beneficial, but becomes a health (and weight) liability when over-consumed. Thus, what makes chocolate “good for you” or “bad for you” has...