“…, the USDA has supplied schools with thousands of tons of meat from old birds that might otherwise go to compost or pet food. Called ‘spent hens’ because they’re past their egg-laying prime, the chickens don’t pass muster with Colonel Sanders — KFC won’t buy them — and they don’t pass the soup test, either. [...]
Unlike other fats, trans fats are not essential to our bodies functioning; they don’t serve any purpose. They raise bad cholesterol, LDL (the artery clogging kind) and lower good cholesterol, HDL (the kind that makes your brain and organs work). Everybody knows that trans fats have become a big issue recently. While not as [...]
I‘m writing this as one of the biggest offenders of holiday indulgence. I gain 5 to10 pounds every year between Halloween and New Years. I’m not bothered by it though because I do it intentionally. I love the gluttony of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, and I don’t particularly care, at the end [...]
I am an avid tea drinker and student of tea. I drink it because it’s healthy and it’s cheap (Works out to about 20 cents a cup for high quality leaves). Even my kids have gotten into the habit of drinking tea with me. I prepare them either white tea or green tea [...]
There are two primary kinds of bottled water that we drink in this country (I’m not going to talk about mineral water and sparkling water). There is tap water that goes through reverse osmosis or some other process to purify it, and there is spring water which comes from a spring and isn’t purified [...]
If there is one meal we all need to be eating it’s breakfast. During the night your body is in shut down mode producing little insulin. Our body metabolizes slowly at night but must make a full turn around in the morning upon waking. That means, like a car that’s out of gas, the [...]
For a long time I’ve insisted on buying what I referred to as fresh fruits and vegetables for my family. It was my understanding that the fruits and vegetables from the produce isle were the best I could get without going to a farmers market. I had shunned the frozen varieties because I always [...]
We might think all is lost for us when it comes to building strong bones. After all, we’re old and old people might as well just give up. Well that’s not true. We need to keep ourselves fit and healthy in the same way we expect our kids to become healthy. There are two [...]
Life Saving – as in your own life. Earle Liederman wrote a book entitled Endurance, back in 1926, in which he proclaimed the exercises that each man should be able to perform in order to save his own life. I became aware of this historical oddity of a book through the popular website, The [...]
Do I dare wade into this territory? I’m a man after all; I’ve never had to lose baby weight. Well, I’m going to do it whether anybody likes it or not. My wife had baby weight and I saw what she did to get rid of it. I think that makes me qualified enough, [...]
I was doing my typical routine this morning where I spend a few minutes poking around the Internet looking at blogs and other parenting related websites. I found a height calculator. They asked me to enter my height, and my wife’s height, which I did. It went “bleep bloop” and told me my kids [...]
