Discover the Secrets of Good health

Please welcome Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic as he shows us how to cut up a prickly pear. ~Elise
Known to few, the magenta fruit of the nopales cactus (cacti with beaver tail-like paddles), are actually quite edible. Called prickly pears, these neon fruit provide delicious juice that tastes like a cross between all-natural bubblegum [...]

Don’t worry, the title doesn’t refer to math homework. Here in the UK, the government advises all adults to do a minimum of thirty minutes of moderate exercise, five times a week. Are you managing it? What about your partner, parents or friends?
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Very recently Canada became the first country to ban baby bottles made with the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA). The substance is commonly found in bulletproof glass, computer cases, eyeglass lenses, CD’s, but also finds its way into reusable water bottles, sippy cups and storage containers. The reason for precautionary ban is the possibility [...]

Updated. From the recipe archive.
“Rice pudding is how God intended us to eat rice,” my father announced when I mentioned I was thinking about making some. Well that settled it, rice pudding it would be. With a little investigation, I found that there are two basic ways to make rice pudding - baking [...]

The Sunday Times announced that John Prescott (former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK) suffered with bulimia for many years. The news quickly made national headlines. Prescott has spoken candidly about the illness, emphasizing that he wanted to reveal his struggle with bulimia in order to help others who have struggled on in silence.

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Just when we thought we were finally doing something nutritionally sensible… It seems that nurseries are taking the campaigns of eating more fruits and vegetables too far - neglecting other dietary needs that may lead to nutritional deficiencies that can impact development.
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The Zone Diet is a well-known and respected diet from Dr Sears. However the commercial diet and website does seem to be quite focused on making products.
One particular product may be of interest - Zone pasta. The pasta was made to conform to Zone diet standards - and has a much higher amount of protein [...]

Updated. From the recipe archive.
Growing up, we had some of the standard American foods for breakfast - cream o’ wheat, oatmeal, waffles, fried eggs, pancakes (no sugar coated cereals in this household!) - and a couple things I never saw in any of my friends’ homes - huevos, and my favorite chorizo with eggs. [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a magic wand that we could just wave that would make fitness easier to attain? I used to think that some people were just born fit and other people, well - we weren’t so lucky. Fitness is a state of mind, it’s who you want to be.

British raw food author Angela Stokes lost around 160lbs through adopting a raw food lifestyle, reversing morbid obesity. Now a svelte 138lbs, at her biggest, the 29 year old was nearly 300lbs and her health was extremely compromised. She was constantly ill and underneath a false mask of contentment, she was also deeply unhappy and [...]