General kitchen advice
Oven Tips : Cook with the oven door closed. A partially open door wastes energy, costs you money, and warms you instead of the food.
Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
- apples
- bell peppers
- celery
- cherries
- imported grapes
- nectarines
- peaches
- pears
- potatoes
- red raspberries
- spinach
- strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.
Dieting 101
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet invented by Miami-based cardiologist arthur agatston which encourages that one should consume "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Doctor agatston invented the south beach diet for his cardiac patients, based on his detailed analysis of scientific studies on other nutritional studies.
Examples of good foods include, broiled ham, turkey breast, oysters, ricotta cheese, almonds, eggs and certain vegetables, like asparagus, celery and spinach.