Lifestyle, food and health articles
If you’ve read this blog with any regularity, you know I often begin with a definition or two and that’s the case with this one. Essential fatty acids are forms of fat which our bodies break down into fatty acids. The “essential” part comes from …
I guess the first question that should be addressed for this post is, why does flexibility matter? Improved flexibility is just another way of saying improved range of motion and that simply means that you can move easily and farther primarily around your joints. You …
First, why do you need a “healthy gut”, and why is it so important? The short version is that you are born with a certain microbiome. A microbiome consists of trillions of tiny organisms, all of which we don’t need to know anything about. Suffice …
Wow, that’s quite a philosophical question, no? It’s also one of those questions that has no right or wrong answer.
Look, a beach vacation is no excuse to allow your workout regime to lapse for a week or two. There are several reasons for this…if you stop exercising for more than a week it will be that much more difficult to get started back up …
There’s a difference between barbecuing and grilling, we all know that, right? The terms can be used interchangeably, but generally speaking, barbecue is meat cooked low and slow over smoke, and grilling is meat cooked fast and with that great brown exterior. Yum either way. …
Water is awesome. It’s necessary for our very survival. It’s wet. It’s fun to ski and surf upon. It allows things to float on it. It supports forms of life too numerous to list here. It’s perfect for balloons and squirt guns. It falls from …
Life is complicated enough without brown bananas, mealy apples, yucky lettuce or green potatoes. Do you toss what seems like newly bought fruits and veggies in the trash or down the disposal every week? If so, that’s just like tossing money in the trash or down …
Summer can be your best friend, your worst enemy or both. I tend to think it’s both. Why do I feel this way? Summer offers many enticing aspects. However, it’s the season that most reminds of the sirens from Homer’s Odyssey. You remember them, right? …
I’ve written, many times, about the benefits of a meal delivery service on this blog. I mean, after all, I work for a meal delivery service so it kinda makes sense. However, I normally write about the convenience, or how it saves time and money, …