Tender, juicy roast turkey - the main attraction - with old-fashioned gravy, cranberry sauce, smashed potatoes, baked green beans, and more offers quite a feast. But if you enjoy the food feast intelligently you can avoid the holiday weight gain. ( Photo: Ms Jones/Wikimedia Commons) Let’s Talk Turkey About Gobbling on Thanksgiving! Oh no, waist-watchers: here comes Thanksgiving dinner, the Big Kahuna of diet-busting meals! It is the unofficial beginning... News 25 Nov 2024 | 04:40
An estimated 157 million Americans use chewing or bubble game, according to statistics ( Photo: Jim McKluskey/Wikimedia Commons) Here’s Something to Chew On It’s hard to pop this bubble. Over 157.23 million Americans are predicted to chomp on $3.5 billion dollars’ worth of bubble... News 13 Sep 2024 | 04:00
Salt with a shaker. ( Kadri Damla/Wikimedia Commons) A Salty Story Like its crystals, salt is multifaceted. It’s a seasoning, a time-honored home remedy, and for some of us, a potential medical... News 06 Sep 2024 | 01:46
Oweston sting fish for sale at Tsukiji Fishmarket, Tokyo, Japan. ( Michael Maggs / Wikimedia Commons) Fish Facts, or Oil’s Well that Ends Well—Probably Dietary supplements are serious subjects. Case in point: Fish oil. By 1970, as the Mayo Clinic notes, nutritionists knew... News 26 Jul 2024 | 04:01
Bread of the whole grain variety is scoring high on the nutrition scale. Photo: Klaus Höpfner /Wikimedia Commons Bread Finally Getting the Respect It Deserves on the Nutrition Front The next time you put two slices of bread together for a sandwich, say a silent thank you to the Greeks and Egyptians. The... News 24 May 2024 | 02:07
Selma Hayek was in a 2012 celebrity milk ad, pouring a glass of milk for her daughter. A glass of milk contains the relaxing amino acid tryptophan. Photo: Milk Processing Education Program The Foods You Eat (or Drink) Impact Your Moods From breakfast until bedtime, your daily diet delivers a pharmacy full of foods whose natural chemicals influence your mood... News 29 Apr 2024 | 12:46
It’s all in the shorthand. Just as a baseball player would used RBI instead of “run batted in” after a hit enabled a runner on his team to cross home plate, nutritionists also have a language all their own. Photo: Wikimedia Commons How to Make a Nutritionist’s Word Salad a Little More Digestible Every profession has its own verbal shorthand. Cops abbreviate unknown suspects to “perps” short for “perpetrators.” Sportswriters... News 19 Apr 2024 | 01:15
There is a free government web site, nutrition.gov, that will let you track news on healthy eating based on age, gender, and how active your lifestyle is. Photo: clker.com How Healthy is Your Diet? Nutrition.gov Lets You Track It Yourself Are you are doing your best to follow a healthful diet but feeling buried under a growing mass of nutrition facts and fables?... News 29 Mar 2024 | 11:30
Nathan’s may be the most famous maker thanks in part to its annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, but the history of the frankfurter actually traces back centuries earlier. Photo: Steven Lek Wikimedia Commons ( STEVENLEK) The Frankfurter: Older Than Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog Stand The hot dog is food history in a bun. Its ancestry tracks all the way back to the 13th century in Germany when pork sausages... News 04 Aug 2023 | 12:24
