Many restaurant chains are now printing menus with calorie counts. But here’s something to chew on: Eating out might cost you more calories than you think. Researchers at Tufts University bought 29 dishes from 10 restaurant chains, including Ruby Tuesday, McDonald’s, and Wendy’s, and analyzed them to see whether the menu calorie counts were right. [...]

Did you know that watching your weight and exercising can be as effective as taking one or two drugs to lower your blood pressure? So says Mark Houston, M.D., an associate clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. In one clinical trial, for example, 40 percent of the people who started a [...]

Here are some healthy protein sources to include in your diet regularly: Seafood Seafood is one of the best sources of protein because it’s usually low in fat. Fish such as salmon is a little higher in fat but it is the heart-healthy kind: omega-3 fatty acids. White-Meat Poultry Stick to the white meat of [...]

 Chia is a member of the mint family and grows naturally from the Mojave Desert all the way down Argentina. Chia for centuries was of great economic importance to Native Americans of Southwest and California Coast. It was a major food crop of Aztecs.  The roasted seeds were mixed with water and eaten as gruel [...]

When is a stubbed toe not just a stubbed toe? When you have diabetes. Because diabetes affects all parts of the body, a simple cut or scrape may be slow to heal and can turn into a serious infection fast — especially in the feet or legs. Anyone with diabetes can develop foot ulcers. These [...]

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts.  That’s what little girls are made of – to heck with sugar and spice.                                             Bethany Hamilton – greatest surfer of our time