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Carnitas are the Mexican version of pulled pork. Braised first in a spicy sauce, pork shoulder is slow cooked until so tender the meat just shreds easily with a fork, then it’s roasted at high heat to make crispy browned bits full of flavor. It’s taco meat, burrito meat, or just stewy meat […]

Many people find it challenging enough to stick to their outdoor exercise plans when the weather’s nice. But what if you don’t have access to a gym and it’s really cold outside? Can’t it be dangerous to go out in frigid temperatures?
The surprising answer, is: nope, it’s never too cold to exercise outdoors. […]

Would you get heavier shoes in order to burn more calories?
That’s exactly what Power Diet Shoes are - a Korean invention that allows small weights to be inserted into specialized walking shoes.
Apparently you can burn 300 calories by walking 30 minutes.
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The January issue of Men’s Health has an interesting article about 16 secrets of the restaurant industry.
The article begins with a report about a recent legislative proposal that would have forced all California restaurants to disclose their nutritional content to all consumers. Unfortunately, Governor Schwarzenegger never signed the bill, so California restaurant goers will have […]

I used to think that a good leg workout necessitated heavy duty equipment like a squat sled and a calf press machine. Then I discovered that a great leg workout can be had at home, or anywhere for that matter, without any specialized equipment at all.

The 100-Mile diet â?? now an international phenomenon written by Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon has helped spark a movement of eating foods that are locally produced (within 100 miles of the home).
Based on the staggering fact that the average distance our food travels from farm to plate in North America is 1500 […]

Aerobics, Walking/Running in Place
I’ll bet you never thought that a 20 minute aerobic workout could be effective in helping you to lose weight.

Those of you who love blood oranges don’t need to be told how exquisitely wonderful they are. In the kingdom of citrus, blood oranges are royalty. You know that every bite is an explosion of sweet, deep orange flavor, with hints of raspberry.
I wish there were more of you, then growers […]

In the recently published book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, Gary Taubes challenges our dietary beliefs, often accepted as true, by approaching the published research from the perspective of a skeptic.
Taubes finds much of what we think lacks support from findings from data published throughout the […]

If you are eating now you might just want to come back later…
From the bowels of the patents database comes patent number 1493222 - the feces scale.
It’s the ultimate scale for the most weight obsessed person.

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