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2 Healthy Cooking Tip: Boil Potatoes Whole
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3 Healthy Cooking Tip: Slow Cooker and Steaming
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4 Healthy Cooking Tip: Olive Oil Shelf Life
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5 Healthy Cooking Tip: Start With Cold Water
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6 Smarter Eats: Analyze Your Recipe With Calorie Count
Knowledge is power. Now you can take those recipes you have followed for years and learn how they stack up nutritionally. Calorie Count has a great recipe analyzer. It's simple to use — mostly just cutting and pasting — and you can find out how many calories those holiday cookies really contain. For a short tutorial on how the recipe analysis tool works, read more Read more
Hot water boils faster, so to save time in the kitchen, you might be tempted to cook your pasta with hot tap water. This time-saving trick is bad for your health. The problem is lead. Hot water is much more likely to leach the heavy metal from your plumbing pipes. Using lead to solder pipes wasn't banned until 1986, and unfortunately brass plumbing parts might contain a bit of lead as well. Read more
Being the cornerstone of the Mediterranean-style diet, olive oil tastes great and offers a wide variety of health benefits. But that bottle that has been in your pantry for two years — not so much. As olive oil ages, it loses its nutritional potency. Researchers found that when stored for over six months, the antioxidants in olive oil decrease by about 40 percent. If you don't use much of the Read more
To me, falling temperatures at sunset mean cooked veggies for dinner. Raw carrots just don't cut it when it is sweater weather inside my house. But don't just boil your vegetables, because how you prepare your produce affects its nutritional quality. Two simple methods help preserve vital nutrients: steaming and slow cooking. Steaming helps veggies retain nutrients better than other methods, Read more
Potatoes, reviled during the low-carb days of yore, are once again showing up on many American plates. Labor Day means potato salad, and potato salad means boiling potatoes. I just read in the Berkeley Wellness Letter that you should boil your potatoes unpeeled and whole, which is easy to do if you buy the small red-skinned variety. Potatoes are a great source of potassium, especially the skin, Read more
Since Thanksgiving is almost here, I'm sure you're all thinking about the delicious food you'll be making. If you're like me, I know you have a lot to prepare, so whatever makes things easier is always a plus. That's why I love the broths made by Pacific. You can find them at most health food stores, and I've seen them in the health food section of regular grocery stores too. They come in 32 oz. Read more
Grilling season has officially arrived. And whether you're looking for the best veggie burger or side dish recipe, calorie breakdowns of everything you'll find at a backyard barbecue, or cooking gadgets to make grilling even more healthy, we've got you covered! Keep reading for our best healthy grilling tips, tricks, and recipes. Read more
Summers can be incredibly busy — between shuttling kids to and from activities to planning and going on vacation, all the activities that come along with the season can leave you pressed for time. Luckily, we've got a few suggestions for how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, even if you've only got minutes to spare. Total-body in 20: Breaking up your workout in just 10- or 20-minute increments Read more
Go the extra mile with your food budget with these tips from LearnVest. For years, many people — my husband, mom, sister and even my son — told me to stop wasting so much food. Throwing away half a piece of chicken here or a handful of grapes there never seemed like such a big deal to me. If I was full or no longer in the mood for that particular food, then I had no problem tossing Read more
You are what you eat, but how you eat is almost as important. If you're trying to lose weight, here are three eating strategies that may work for you. Eat more frequently: Grazing or eating smaller meals more frequently is a strategy that works for many people. You'll avoid the blood sugar spike and crash that can happen when you eat a big meal. And waiting too long between meals can cause you Read more
