Master speed eating When you sign up for your new diet, you want to speed-eat so your food spends more time in your gullet than in your mouth. Otherwise, you’ll taste your low-whatever, cardboard-flavored food product. You really don’t want to taste it, because it’s nasty. Remember, your goal...

Follow the fad Be on the lookout for the newest of all the new diets – the more esoteric and absurd the better. Think cabbage soup, peanut butter and fat-be-gone rings. Statistically speaking, these have failed so often that sooner or later they must finally work. This is your...

Americans face every January with renewed resolutions to fight the fat, battle the bulge, handle the love handles. And yet, every year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that our obesity rates are increasing. What’s wrong with this picture? We are either the very definition of...

  You’ll Need:   4 ounces of canned salmon   1 ounce of fresh spinach   2 ounces broccoli florets   8 ounces bow tie pasta   3 teaspoons lemon juice plus wedges to serve with entrée   2 ounces butter   1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper   1/2...

Why do we have such huge weight problems …… Maybe we are too impulsive in the checkout aisle? Just a thought....

You’ll Need: 3 garlic cloves 5 medium onions   2 ½ Tablespoons butter   ¼ teaspoon dried thyme   ¼ teaspoon salt   ¼ teaspoons freshly ground black pepper   1 quart chicken stock   Freshly grate Parmesan cheese Directions: Peel and mince the garlic. Peel and thinly slice...

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2009) 63, 11–17; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2008.2; published online 13 February 2008 US and France adult fruit and vegetable consumption patterns: an international comparison Background/Objectives: To observe fruit and vegetable consumption as it relates to body mass index (BMI) and other variables, by analyzing the health surveys...

This is a funny article from Mairi Beautyman. The kitchen is a good place to start when it comes to green living. We already know that eating organic is better for both your body and the earth. But there are a few things I’ve heard about recently that may...

World's Oldest Woman Dies at Age 115 http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8516/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=HtlsNVeE Sent from my iPhone...

It’s funny. The visibility and growing popularity of “Raw Food” presents a problem for its adherents. It’s kind of like my son, who was into indy rock, from independently produced garage bands that had something novel and truly interesting. Once people realized how fresh it was (and its economic...

Here’s the question: Should we look at legislating junk food advertisments aimed at kids? I understand regulation of cigarette ads to children, because nicotene is addictive and tobacco is lethal … a terrible combination that mystifies anyone who asks, “and WHY is a lethal addictive carcinogen on the market...

The truth, as always, lies most often in the middle. Are the florid bloom of detox miracles just a bunch of biological ponzi schemes … fueled by clever marketing, a gullible populace, and the Placebo effect? Or perhaps we really do need to flush the synthetics and chemicals that...