Discover the Secrets of Good health

Here in the UK, tomatoes are in season at the moment, and piled high at the market. They’re one of my favorite foods - healthy, delicious and useful in all sorts of dishes. Read on for tomato facts that you might not know, and some ways to eat more tomatoes every day.
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One of the easiest ways to boost your weight loss is to curb your alcohol intake. Not only do alcoholic drinks contain calories, they also tend to increase your appetite and reduce your will-power: a very diet-unfriendly combination!
Even if your social life doesn’t revolve around bars and clubs, don’t assume it’ll be easy for [...]

Are you crazy about puns and low calorie cooking?
If so, you will like Eat, Shrink & Be Merry - a healthy cookbook from Janet & Greta Podleski.

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Here is a comparison of 4 breakfasts from fast food outlets, along with 6 home-made breakfasts.
Each breakfast was actually prepared (or purchased) and photographed. Calorie counts are listed (full nutritional details also available).
Ranae (who compiled this list) lost 137 pounds by eating around 1400-1500 Calories per day (divided into 3 meals and 2 snacks). [...]

We’ve just added some “Buzz Up!” buttons to the foot of new posts. On Yahoo Buzz, people can vote for useful stories. Yahoo Buzz has a more broad selection of items than other news voting sites (such as digg).
If you see a post that you think would be useful for others, spread the word by [...]

It’s easy to think of fat as just inert tissue - useless blubber just sitting there on our hips taking up space…way too much space. On the contrary fat is smart. It is considered by many scientists to be an organ in and of itself - a hotbed of chemical communicators and the [...]

A little trivia here. What makes a bisque a bisque and not a chowder? Both bisques and chowders are made with seafood and vegetables, with a cream base. Chowders tend to be more stew-like or chunky, and bisques puréed. Bisques are traditionally made with shellfish, though these days a puréed tomato, [...]

I do it all the time. Promise to run extra miles so I can dive into a second piece of pie. Or pledge to take the stairs instead of the elevator so I can eat an extra donut. I know I’m not alone.

It’s the first day of school here and the mercury is sitting at 92 degrees. It certainly doesn’t feel like fall, but the winds of change are getting ready to blow in (tomorrow it’s supposed to be in the 70s).

During a sports lesson, A short, chubby fourteen-year-old girl stares at the hurdles ahead. They look impossibly high; she’ll never be able to clear them. But the teacher is blowing his whistle impatiently, so, with classmates lining the track, she runs, jumps as hard as she can, and trips at the first hurdle. She carries [...]