Discover the Secrets of Good health

Welcome to Monday morning and to the next installment in our I Want to Know series. Mondays are hard days for me, at least lately, with my amount of time spent subbing increasing, I have to be more creative about getting my exercise in along with my writing and time with my daughter.

The Cheat To Lose Diet is a new book from Body-for-Life Grand Champion Joel Marion.
Body-for-Life (started around 1996) in many ways marked a change in traditional dieting principles. It advocated plenty of aerobic and strength training, along with frequent higher-protein smaller meals, and - of course - the “free” or “cheat” day.
Mr Marion has delved [...]

September is fig season here in Northern California and at Casa Simply Recipes. In fact, we are in the midst of our annual “what to do with all these figs?” problem. My mother has a fig tree that my father and I are not allowed to trim, or even touch, so the tree [...]

A survey undertaken by the British Food Standards Agency highlights how confused consumers are when it comes to a “healthy” diet.
That’s because of the constant debate over exactly what constitutes healthy.
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