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When counseling people on healthy living, most details are negotiable. What kind of veggies they eat and how they prepare them, what kind of cardio they do and when, whether they cut back or eliminate an item - you get the picture.
One thing that is not negotiable is resistance training (weight training). Every adult […]

So says the propaganda in an old advertisement from “Sugar Information Inc”.
The ad (below) was an attempt to stave off the commercial threat from the burgeoning artificial sweetener industry.
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Ever since I started making quince jelly people have been telling me about membrillo, a quince paste that is practically the national snack of Spain when paired with Manchego, sheep’s milk cheese. Nicky and Melissa have written about membrillo, enough to inspire me to go to Whole Foods and buy some to try […]

The following is a guest article by Amy Tenderich, MA, author of www.diabetesmine.com and co-author of â??Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetesâ??, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Diet Blog authors.
You probably know by now that thereâ??s no such thing as an official “diabetes diet.” In fact, there is no […]

…in mice that is.
A brief article in the Sydney Morning Herald tells us that smoking is linked with lowered caloric intake - but not with fat loss.
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In 1981 Judy Mazel released the Beverly Hills Diet and a marketing juggernaut was born. She died recently of complications relating to peripheral vascular disease.
The million+ selling book blazed a trail for countless other fad diets that continue to plague todayâ??s bookshelves. The Beverly Hills diet cast the mold of which […]

Those of you who have been reading Simply Recipes for a while probably sense (rightly) that my father is a committed carnivore. Thus you may appreciate that dad, spending an afternoon making this vegetarian chili with vegetables that he had bought at the farmers market that morning, would only put so much care into […]

From the recipe archive, in honor of the season.
Fall has arrived and with it, the pumpkin season. There are always plenty of pumpkins to carve up around Halloween time and a great way to make use of the pumpkin seeds is eat them, salted and toasted. Our preference is with the shells on […]

The memory has faded some, but the feeling of pure joy is as strong as ever - dad coming home and pulling out from behind his back, to the raucous squeals of us kids, boxes of Cracker Jack, caramel corn that rattled when you shook the box. (Remember those commercials?) We had to have […]

Tesco supermarkets in Britain are introducing a new kind of trolley (according to InventorSpot).
The aim is to provide shoppers with an opportunity to get some exercise.
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