Chances are, if you have a favorite seasonal fruit or veggie it is currently available at a local farmer’s market or grocery produce section. August is one of the best months to purchase and devour those fruits and veggies you wait all year for just as Kramer and Newman went crazy when the Mackinaw peaches…
As we all know, summer can be a relaxing and hectic season simultaneously. There are calm evenings spent on the back deck enjoying the company of friends and family while enjoying a well-earned beverage, while there are also days filled with travel, sight-seeing, planning, youth sports, yard work, and yes, even job-related work. With all…
Hundreds of years ago, purple-colored clothing was tough to come by. The dye used on fabric came from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon) and was acquired from either Mediterranean snails or mollusks (wait, is a snail a mollusk?). Thousands of these poor mollusks were required to produce a small amount of dye,…
It’s summer, the season of sun, more daylight hours, vacations, cookouts and fireworks. It’s also the season of disrupted daily schedules, ignored diets, and excuses for overindulgence. However, with just a bit of forethought and determination it is possible to maintain and meet your fitness and health goals. These six tips, as usually happens with…
So, if you “put that s–t on everything” (slogan from a hot sauce manufacturer, not my obscenity) research has shown that, so long as it has a low sodium content, it has positive health effects. And apparently, more Americans are putting it on everything .as sales of hot sauce have increased by five percent every…
Your heart works its a$$ off every minute of every day that you’re alive. It beats, on average, 100,000 times every day, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of arteries, veins and capillaries. And what do we offer in return? Fast food burgers and fries, soda, and processed snacks like potato chips, cookies,…
Yes, I went there. Where, you ask? To the famous anti-drug Public Service Announcement ad campaign from 1987 in which John Roselius compares your brain to an egg, drugs to a hot frying pan, and the frying egg to your brain on drugs. The ad returned for its ten-year anniversary in 1997 with actress Rachael…
Everyone, not just diabetics, should create some sort of meal plan. However, for diabetics, meal planning is crucial for controlling blood sugar levels and, therefore, their overall health and quality of life. And no, meal planning does not require a great deal of time. In fact, meal planning actually will save you time over the…
11 weeks, that’s all you have until Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer. Are you ready to expose more of your body to the public? If you’re like most, the answer to that question is a definitive “no!” Not to worry, avid reader, there’s still time to shed a few pounds and tone…
I’m guessing you’re familiar with the old saying, “eat, drink and be merry.” I think we need a 21st century update along the lines of “eat (slowly), drink (water), and be (more) merry.” Perhaps the easiest thing one can do to lose or maintain weight is to slow down your pace of eating. It’s really…