At a time when more than a third of adults in the United States are considered obese, a plant-based, cruelty-free diet known as veganism has been shown to offer multiple health benefits for women. A vegan diet is void of all animal-based products. That means no meat, including seafood and poultry; no dairy, including milk, [...]
Editor’s Note: A post by Alexandra Sifferlin at Time.com’s Healthland reports on a study out of the University of St. Andrews which found an increase in consumption of fruits and vegetables will likely convey noticeable improvements in the apparent healthiness and attractiveness of facial skin. Pass those peaches — a new study finds that eating [...]
Editors note: I recently ate at True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach. I ended up there by accident, the name and Yelp reviews drew me in. It was the greatest meal I’ve had in ages. The waiter explained that it is based on Dr. Andrew Weil’s anti-inflammatory diet. After reading The End of Illness, I’ve [...]
Last week, for work purposes, my husband brought into our peaceful home not one, but TWO chocolate chip cookie cakes. If you’re not familiar with the “cookie cake” then let me school you: It’s a Big Freaking Cookie, about as large in circumference as a delivery pizza. The equivalent of thirty cookies, it seems to [...]
Like of many of you, I cook meals for our family virtually every day trying my best to produce healthy food. We scour the Farmer’s Markets, Trader Joes, Costco and finally Whole Food for organic milk, eggs and any produce on sale. On special occasions, I frequent the Food Network website for ideas, though Ina [...]
I think it has happened to all moms – you sprint through your morning routine liberally pouring milk in your kids’ bottles, cups and cereal when you realize that there is but a drop left for your beloved coffee. If you’re like me you devise a clever plan to combine all morning responsibilities: caring for [...]
New Year’s Eve is tomorrow and I can smell the chocolate chip cookies that just came out of the oven. We have great friends coming over (we have a tradition of spending New Year’s Eve with them), and we have another tradition: enjoying chocolate chip cookies. We get together often – we cook, we laugh, we [...]
