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10 Dumb Recipe Instructions
Cooking and baking should be an enjoyable experience, but many recipes do out of their way to may cooking hell. It is frustrating for home cooks to see a recipe on television, in a magazine, or in cookbook and only to discover that it doesn’t look or taste as appetizing ... more
Read moreSoy and Breast Cancer
Along with all the misinformation about diets there are websites and nutritionists that profit by research by taking statements and conclusions out of context for there own gain; publicity or monetarily. Published research conducted using mice and other animals has not always been a good indicator of how a food or substance ... more
Read moreDo Carbs Cause Dementia?
I am becoming more and more skeptical of reports, best selling books, diet plans, and dietary supplements that claim to be the magic bulletin to cure all. Carbohydrates, better known as carbs, are now responsible for a series of ills including dementia which has become as feared in the United ... more
Read moreEat More, Exercise Less, and Lose Weight
What person needing to lose 20, 40, 80, or more pounds does’t want to hear they can eat more, exercise less, and still lose all the weight they want? It is dieting utopia. This bogus philosophy has been promoted for decades. Want to con someone into trying your diet product ... more
Read moreCost of Dining Out
For decades, Americans were told dining out is more cost effective than cooking at home. Than can the Great Recession of 2008. Americans hit hard by the recession realized it was cheaper cooking at home. So many stopped eating out that many restaurants went out of business or bankrupt. Even ... more
Read moreHappy New Year 2015
Another year has ended and a new year begins. 2014 was a year of many accomplishments: 34 cooking videos published Over 40 new recipes added 4 Italian Med Diet cookbooks published 700 Calorie Meals published Planned For 2015 2nd edition of Live Longer and Healthier Eating Foods You Love 50 ... more
Read moreNot So Great Value
Store Brands and Savings Large corporations, like Walmart, spend tens to hundreds of millions of dollars advertising their low, low prices guaranteed to save you money. Store brand products are as common as national brands. Walmart has Great Value, Costco has Kirkland and Kirkland Signature, Kroger has multiple store brands. ... more
Read more15 Dieting Tips When Dining Out
Whether you dine out for pleasure, a special occasion, travel, or due to necessity you can eat healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and prevent weight gain. Many restaurants do not make it easy. Large portion sizes, like the meal pictured, are the norm making it easy to eat more calories than your ... more
Read moreBoycott Fast Food Restaurants
There is a growing movement to increase the minimum wage paid to workers in the fast food also known as quick serve industry. Not only are millions of people paid a wage that hasn’t kept up with inflation and the cost of living, they are usually part-time employees not eligible ... more
Read moreWhat’s Up With Sodium?
Here we go again! For years we’ve been warned to limit sodium intake to 2,300 mg per day; about 1 teaspoon of table salt (2 teaspoons of kosher salt). Americans average around 4,000 mg per day. Now, three newly published reports state a high sodium diet is good and low sodium diets ... more
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