You might already have guess it. Farmer’s Markets help you mark the changing seasons with fresh, local goods.
Fresh fruit equals good nourishment.
I’m sure that it’s better to simply buy all your food in one place, but the superstore can’t give you that sense of local, seasonal eating the way your [...]

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Simply because foods have less fat, sugar, or calories doesn’t make them sensible foods.
Remember when carbohydrates were the bad guys?
A couple of years back, when everybody was doing the Doctor Atkins diet, we were deluged with everything from the impossible-sounding low carbohydrate bread to carb-counter’s chocolate fudge. The [...]

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Burgers will generally never have a name as a health food, but that doesn’t mean that you should not consider what you slap between 2 halves of a burger bun. The concept some beef ( or meatlike ) product, seasonings, and equivalent to 2 bits of bread doesn’t need to fly in the face of [...]

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A recent article in the LA Times carried a headline that said, in effect, that watching television makes you gain weight.
No news there – after all, unless you’re doing sprints across the living room while watching your favorite show, you’re not burning calories.
Susan Bowerman, MS, RD, CSSD. Susan a consultant for Herbalife have written [...]

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Latterly Yahoo’s page 1 news featured a twenty year study on 4 habits : smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and unsatisfactory diet.
Those habits swing your effective age by as much as twelve years!
This report had some superb news :
1. Non-smokers and previous smokers, and
2. Folk who drink less than two drinks / day,
3. Those that [...]

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