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Forget the BMI (Body Mass Index), try your postal code instead. Researchers from the University of Washington have found a pronounced correlation between a persons address ZIP code and their weight.
Closer analysis shows the issue is more about demographics (income and race) than geography.
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“I just love to dance - always did. But it got so the men simply would not ask me. I could see them looking my way and shrugging their shoulders. It was heartbreaking.”
So goes a newspaper advertisement from the 1930s. What was the answer to the heartbreak?
Marmola. 4 times a day.
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As any Southerner will tell you, the proper way to cook ribs is to barbecue them “low and slow” in a smoker built for that purpose. But not everyone has a smoker, and not all of us have the time or patience to watch over cooking ribs for several hours. The following is […]

Andy Schloss and Dave Joachim have created the new standard textbook of grilling with their Mastering the Grill: The Owner’s Manual for Outdoor Cooking.
I so wish I had had this book at the beginning of the summer. Though at least now I can understand why so many things didn’t […]

NYC Food blog Blogsoop digs into some of the reasons why we overeat.
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The last 15 years of research have been unkind to this once-promising theory of antioxidant vitamins (C, E, Beta-carotene) and chronic disease.

The latest dagger in this hypothesis was released in the August 13th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, which concluded that there was no overall benefit or risk of taking vitamins C, […]

Does your child hula hoop? Before the Nintendo age, the hula hoop was a hit on every child’s block. I owned three of them and I could hoop with all three. My daughter has a pair of hoops and she loves to hoop herself, though she complains she’s not that good at it yet.

This is a salad of bold flavors, but somehow they all manage to work together well. Sweet corn tossed with peppery arugula, bacon, onion, cumin, and wine vinegar to balance the sweet corn, and you have stimulated all the major tastes your tongue can perceive. If you have the a grill, and the […]

There is a local KFC outlet that I often drive past. There is no escaping the powerful wafting aromas that seem to find their way into my car.
I’ve often joked that maybe KFC have some very large extractor fans rigged in such a way as to maximize that distinctive KFC smell.
KFC have realized this, and […]

100 Calorie packs are great for portion control - but the excessive price of these packs is not so great.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has compared the costs of 100 Calorie packs against the bigger portions and found price increases of over 200%.
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