Lifestyle, food and health articles
Have you noticed that the heat is coming on less and less in your home? If not, just look at your last heating bill. And in our world of cause and effect, the cause is increased outdoor temperatures and the effect SHOULD be increased outdoor …
Yes, it’s coming, like a shark’s dorsal fin speeding through the water that can’t be stopped…duuuh-nah……..…..duuuuh-nah……………duuuh-nah, duuuh-nah…………….duh-nah, duh-nah, duh-nah, duh-nah………dunn, dunn, dunn, dunn, dunn, dunn (yes, that’s my poor attempt to put the theme to Jaws into words, sorry). Of course, that dorsal fin represents …
As you probably know, making a New Year’s resolution is easy, keeping it…well, that’s where things get difficult. A recent study found that 80% of New Year’s resolutions are toast by mid-February, and since it is now mid-January, we here at MagicKitchen.com thought we’d help …
Yes, devoted reader, it’s time to set yourself up for failure once again by making a non-specific (eat healthier) and unattainable (cut out ALL junk food) New Year’s resolution. Those two reasons, setting broad and impossible to achieve goals, are why 92% of all resolutions …
Yeah, I know the quote is usually “DON’T sweat the small stuff,” but sometimes the small stuff matters. If you think about it, our entire lives are comprised of “small stuff,” in the form of the thousands of decisions we make on a daily basis. …
How often do you look to the Internet for something to send to a friend, loved one, or co-workers when they are grieving or, perhaps celebrating? You want to show your friend you are thinking of them and that you care when they are going …
Summer, of course, means more than just heat. It also, for most of us, means a more, shall we say, relaxed pace to life. And in this more relaxed lifestyle, we tend to sleep in a bit more whenever possible and then scramble (egg pun …
There’s a commonly held belief…rule, really… held by surfers that one should never eat shark. It’s a karma kinda thing…why tempt fate by eating what might someday eat you out there on the waves. However, the vast majority of us do not surf, therefore, we …
For the 21 million Americans with diabetes, losing and/or maintaining weight is of critical importance in order to avoid complications caused by the disease. Most of them manage their weight through exercise and diet…and by diet I don’t necessarily mean being “on” a diet, because …
From time to time we all experience that mess in our kitchen: the unfinished meals and huge amounts of leftovers we often don’t know what to do with. Before cleaning up your fridge, think about these numbers: The annual food waste amount is enough to …