"Starve a fever, but feed a cold." This saying plagues me every time I take the temperature of one of my girls. I always wondered if the catchy saying holds any truth. The saying, which dates back to the late 16th century, is unfortunately wrong. Whether you're sick with or without a fever, it's best not to stress out your immune system by eating too much or too little. When your temp is above Read more

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Mark Tyrrell offers eight relationship tools to make your marriage work. "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble." — Raymond Hull So how do you make your marriage work? Or do you just blindly hope it'll take care of itself? Think of a hot, successful Read more

A spiral-cut ham seems right at home as the centerpiece of a hearty Easter meal. Of course, deliciously elegant substitutions exist, but why not have some fun with other kinds of cured or smoked pork? Ham, which comes from the hind thigh of the pig, is a cut revered internationally for its marbled fat content and complex flavors when cured, smoked, or cooked. So while picking up a prepared Read more

Even when the product is supposedly "disposable," you can always reuse it. Wise Bread shares awesome ways to reuse these 21 disposable products. It’s said that we live in a disposable society. But the word "disposable" is a misnomer. Disposable is considered throwaway, something you use once and dump, regardless of the life that may be left in it. As a frugal shopper with a concern for the Read more

Thanks to cold weather and short days, it's easy to get complacent about house cleaning during those long Winter months. But now that Spring has sprung, I'm feeling recharged and ready to tackle the tasks I've largely ignored since Fall's warmer days! I won't place full blame on my pup, but for such a small member of the household, she sure contributes a lot of the mess: muddy footprints, fur Read more

Holiday-approved (and healthy) brussels sprouts with cranberry — Lunch Box Bunch Feed your cold and beat your sniffles with these foods — Yoga Journal When it comes to dieting, it pays to NOT be a perfectionist — Prevention Celebrities love the blood-type diet. Nutritionists, not so much — Blisstree Healthify your lunch! Ten sandwiches all under 300 calories — Shape Easy ways to get Read more

If you suffer from allergies to dander, dust mites, or mold, it's time to take a closer look at the place where you spend one-third of your day — your bedroom. Here are some things you can do to reduce your allergy symptoms. Evict the Offenders Looked under your bed lately? To prevent a colony of dust mites from becoming squatters in the apartment below where you sleep, vacuum under your bed Read more

We're happy to present this article from one of our favorite sites, Yahoo! Shine: Man can not live on bread alone. Breast milk, maybe. A blogger named Curtis is going to find out, as he embarks on a diet consisting only of his wife's breast milk.  "Much more hungry yesterday, 104 ounces consumed, roughly 3120 calories," he writes on his blog Don't Have a Cow Curtis, where he and his wife, Kate, Read more

My luck with orchids has definitely been mixed. Some of my plants rebloom regularly, while others can't be coaxed to flower again no matter what I do. This particular orchid, seen here, was a gift from my mom three years ago, and it has rebloomed a stunning eight times in three years. As Flora Grubb told me when I visited her garden center, if an orchid seems to like where it is, just leave it Read more

We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Prevention here on FitSugar! Excerpt from The List Maker’s Get-Healthy Guide, By the Editors of Prevention Avoid touching these surfaces in public places to stay healthy. An average adult can touch as many as 30 objects within a minute, including germ-harboring, high-traffic surfaces such as light switches, doorknobs, phone receivers, and Read more