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The foods you eat can affect everything from the smoothness and clarity of your skin to the shine in your hair and the sparkle in your eyes. So with the help of the experts, we’ve put together nine of the best beauty foods—guaranteed make you even more beautiful than you already are, inside and out…
Summer is fast approaching, and berries are one of the most delicious (and beauty-enhancing!) foods of the season. “Berries are amazing,” says beauty and nutrition expert Lisa Petty, author of Living Beauty. They’re loaded with vitamin …

It’s a lesson many learned early in life: drink your milk to build strong, healthy bones. Moms and dads recognize the importance of milk - which is rich in calcium and other nutrients - in their growing kids’ diet.
Unfortunately, that message often is lost later in life. Karen Hudson, a registered dietitian at Kansas State University, said approximately 1.5 million people suffer fractures every year due to weakening or thinning of the bones, called osteoporosis.
And, she adds, “this number is expected to increase dramatically as our nation ages.”
Current figures indicate …

Healthy food may be the last subject on students’ minds by the time lunch arrives. With the demands of school, lunch can sometimes be a matter of grabbing anything edible.
But students require much more, said Sandy Procter, a Kansas State University Research and Extension nutrition educator and registered dietitian.
“Lunch is an important part of the day and makes a difference,” Procter said.
The midday meal typically provides a third or more of the total daily calorie intake for children, she said. Nutrients must also be incorporated into the combination to …

Short on cash? You’re not limited to the high-fat stuff. Add these good-for-you foods to your grocery list — they’re all under $1 per serving.
* Oats: A serving of oatmeal for breakfast can lower cholesterol and your risk of heart disease. Save your health while saving money.
* Eggs: The protein and fat in eggs keep you feeling full, so you’re less inclined to snack in between meals.
* Potatoes: One red potato contains 66 micrograms of cell-building folate — …

Fruits are an almost perfect healthy food and when dipped in chocolate they become sweet and yummy enough to replace any stuffing dessert, but nutritious enough to help your body out! They’re a good source of many vitamins and minerals. It is one of the most wonderful taste combinations, chocolate and strawberries, or chocolate and pineapple. Making chocolate covered fruit is not only simple but also very elegant looking when preparing desserts for gifts/guests.
Chocolate Covered Fruit is such a delicious way to enjoy chocolate on any event. These luscious combinations …

LONDON: High rates of obesity in richer countries cause up to 1bn extra tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year, compared with countries with leaner populations, according to a study that assesses the additional food and fuel requirements of the overweight. The finding is particularly worrying, scientists say, because obesity is on the rise in many rich nations.
“Population fatness has an environmental impact,” said Phil Edwards, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “We’re all being told to stay fit and keep our weight down because it’s good …

Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
“When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler,” and food production is a major source of greenhouse gases, researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in their study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. “We need to be doing a lot …

Bread, this ubiquitous basic food, is the forebear of all prepared foods. It is the foundation of cooking, as we know it, and in many countries represents one of the pillars of nutrition and gastronomy.
For a Middle Eastern, a meal without bread is unthinkable. Yet many nations use rice instead of bread, and indigenous peoples in the Americas ate corn until the first conquistadors arrived in the 15th century. To this day, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Indonesians and others in the Orient use rice as their basic starch. In fact rice …

THE Mediterranean diet’s guarantee of lightness, flavour and health has gained devotees all over the world because it is low in animal fat and high in fruit, vegetables and olive and sunflower oils. But a report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reveals that the people of Mediterranean countries increasingly spurn it.Increased affluence and the arrival of supermarkets and fast foods in countries such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal have also led to a massive increase in obesity, the report finds. The most dramatic example is Greece. …

I love cooking with cheese because it adds instant flavour and creaminess to so many dishes… If you are into cheese big time as well, these usefull tips may come handy:
A. To keep cheese from becoming tough and stringy, cook it at low temperatures and always add the cheese at the end of the cooking time.
B. Cheese melts and blends better if you shred it or cut it into small pieces.
C. To shred cheese with soft texture, use a grater with large holes, or finely chop it.
D. Lower-fat cheeses don’t …