Lifestyle, food and health articles
OK, confession time. I had no idea that the World Health Organization (WHO) has sponsored a World Health Day since its founding in 1948. Is that a commentary on the WHO’s “advertising” efforts or my lack of awareness or both? I tend to think it’s …
Remember when you mother used to hound, harass and harangue (the trifecta of alliterative nagging) you to eat properly? She utilized both the carrot (get it?) and the stick in a futile attempt to get you to eat your fruit and veggies such as rewarding …
I must admit, when I was assigned this topic my relatively advanced age clouded my thinking especially given that this blog appears on a food delivery site. I immediately began thinking of and searching for the most delicious appetizers out there. I actually began to …
Holy heck, March is one busy month. It is home to 24 national “whatever” designations. Of course, some are better known than others, such as National Women’s History Month and the previously discussed National Kidney Month. Others, are, how shall we say, not so well …
March is a busy month, not only is it Women’s History Month (hooray women), it’s also National Kidney Month (hooray kidneys). These paired bean-shaped organs, located in your lower back and roughly the size of your fist, are often the red-headed step-child of vital organs. …
Yes, here it is. The much anticipated annual post regarding 2018 superfoods. Faster than a speeding antioxidant, more powerful than an amino acid, able to leap tall viruses in a single bound. Look, inside at your immune system. It’s a flavonoid. It’s an omega-3 fatty …
There are just some meals that no one could make better than your mom, to include any of the Iron Chefs. And those meals vary from person to person. For me, no culinary specialist could top my Irish mom’s shepherd’s pie. Shepherd’s pie is, as …
Yes, there actually was a St. Valentine (or perhaps two) that lived in 3rd century Italy, was associated with courtly love, martyred (maybe) and then beatified on February 14th of God only knows what year. He and his day were then promoted by the famous …
Whew! It’s finally over, the holiday season that is. Now the grind of winter begins with the light at the end of the tunnel (in the form of spring) almost too far away to see. We all settle in to our “winter routines” and tend …
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