Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable? Top 10 Confused Foods
A cucumber. A pickle. They’re the same thing, but are they fruits or vegetables? Cucumber is actually a fruit.
19 Ways to Enhance Your Sense of Humor
As Mark Twain once said, “Studying humor is like dissecting a frog — you may know a lot but you end up with a dead frog.” Nonetheless, we’re giving it a try. Here are 19 tips for getting — or growing — your sense of humor, based partly on the idea that you can’t be funny if you don’t understand what funny is.
Worlds Healthiest Foods- Food of the Week: Spinach June 19, 2017Spinach is generally regarded as being native to the Middle East, and appears to have been cultivated there for well over a thousand years. Trading between the Middle East and Asia is believed to have been responsible for the migration of spinach to ...
- Recipe of the Week: 1-Minute "Quick Boiled" Spinach June 19, 2017This way of preparing Spinach has the best flavor because it helps remove some of the acids found in Spinach and brings out its sweetness. Make sure thewater is at a rapid boil before adding Spinach. Taken from page 417 of the 2nd Edition of the ...
- Best sources of Vitamin B2 June 19, 2017Vitamin B2, also known as riboflavin, is arguably the only vitamin that gives you a visual cue as to its passage through your body. When there is a lot of vitamin B2 in the diet (or in a supplement), your urine turns bright yellow to show you it is ...
- From the kitchen: Tips for Preparing Spinach June 19, 2017Spinach should be washed very well since the leaves and stems tend to collect sand and soil. Before washing, trim off the roots and separate the leaves. Place the spinach in a large bowl of tepid water and swish the leaves around with your hands as ...
- Unwanted Consequences of High-Heat Cooking June 19, 2017High heat cooking is problematic because it creates toxic substances as well as causes the loss of nutrients. Virtually all nutrients in food are susceptible to damage from heat. Of course, whether a particular nutrient gets damaged depends on the ...
- What nutrients are most likely to be deficient in a vegetarian diet? June 19, 2017If you look at all types of vegetarian diets as a group, and all research studies of these diets, vitamin B12 is the nutrient most likely to be deficient in this type of eating plan. Adequate B12 intake can be and is a genuine concern if a ...
- Can organic foods really improve my health? June 19, 2017Yes. Consumption of organically grown food is a great way to reduce your exposure to contaminants commonly found in foods that have been grown using conventional agricultural practices. These contaminants may include not only pesticides - many of ...
- How does pasture-raised organic chicken compare to organic chicken? June 19, 2017Pasture raising of chickens (with plenty of time allowed for pecking, foraging, and moving around outdoors) has been recently analyzed, with fascinating results, by a team of researchers at the University of Perugia in Perugia, Italy. In their ...
- Is it okay to cook with extra virgin olive oil? June 19, 2017Even though we strongly recommend the inclusion of extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) in most meal plans, we do not cook with this plant oil and we do not believe that cooking with EVOO is the best way to incorporate it into your diet. However, we also ...
- What are the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits of bok choy? June 19, 2017Antioxidant Benefits of Bok ChoyAs an excellent source of vitamin C, vitamin A (in the form of carotenoids), and manganese, and a good source of zinc, bok choy provides us with a concentration of these core conventional antioxidants. Yet, its ...
- Is there more than one form of vitamin K? June 19, 2017Vitamin K is named after the German word for blood clotting (koagulation). In fact, this is probably the most common connection that people make with vitamin K - they associate this vitamin with the process of blood clotting. However, it's important ...
- Food of the Week: Spinach June 19, 2017
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