If you don’t have diabetes, why do you need to think about your blood sugar levels?
It’s simple: Blood sugar problems don’t happen overnight. And, as your blood sugar rises, not only does your risk of developing diabetes increase, but so does your risk of coronary heart disease.
Here’s what everyone needs to know about blood sugar [...]
If you’re looking for inexpensive, quick and versatile meal ideas - consider pasta.
Carbohydrate-rich foods - like pasta, bread, fruits, and vegetables - are a critical part of nutrition and an active lifestyle. In fact, they are the preferred source of fuel for your body. Whether you enjoy brisk morning walks or an evening workout at [...]
The farm bill provides far more money for hungry people than it does for farmers. Nearly 80 percent of the cost of the farm bill is for food programs, including $10.2 billion for domestic food assistance programs and $7.8 billion for food stamps. There’s also $1 billion for a program to provide healthy snacks of [...]
I could barely bring myself to plunge the knife into its skin. For a day or two, it just sat there on the windowsill a picture of serenity too perfect to touch let alone cook.
I take pleasure in watching fruit a pear or a peach perhaps ripen on the kitchen shelf, giving it [...]
Machu Picchu may be one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, but it is really just a four-day schlepp up a big hill to watch the sunrise over a pile of rubble. The real reason to visit Peru is the food. While more athletic types huff and puff their way to high altitude [...]
As people across the globe switch off for Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29, some will turn the occasion into an atmospheric dinner date. At their organic farm and B%26amp;B at the Oaks, near Camden, Margarita and Shaun Carrick will hold a three-course candlelit dinner to celebrate the event.
Its just so lovely to eat [...]
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We could all use a brain booster. Seniors and those of us who are middle-age want to stay sharp, parents of young children need the mental energy to chase toddlers, and college kids need to focus on their studies.
While medicine has helped many people counter the effects of attention disorders, nutrition [...]
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It seems that every few weeks, there is a new vaccine being started or an older one being reformulated or combined. Things are not as simple, but they are better.
How it worksFor those who do not know how this works, immunization is like giving the person a little disease. You get a [...]
This brings up a question about effectiveness of treatment in general: How do we know it works?
We often say that something works, at least when we talk about health problems, because we got better. But suppose we would have gotten better anyway?
It looks like cause and effect, but it may not be.
The first group did [...]
