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Weekly Roundup: 8 Entrees for Winter Weight Loss

Weekly Roundup: 8 Entrees for Winter Weight Loss

​8 Entrees for Winter Weight LossWeekly Roundup   I used to think I could snuggle into a big coat all winter long and that no one would notice that the pounds packing on.  Winter is a tricky bugger, wooing us with cold weather into big, steaming bowls of soup and warm muffins.  It's always a bit of a shock when spring arrives and we emerge from our cocoons, a little ... Read more »

Farmers Markets: A Field Guide, Part I

Farmers Markets: A Field Guide, Part I

On cold Sunday mornings, the local farmers market is the only thing that tempts me awake before 8 a.m. Just-picked strawberries waft the scent of summer to still sleepy shoppers. Apples crisp from the morning dew—not the warehouse refrigerator—promise the crunch of fall. Discreetly bagged mushrooms, whose names require beginning-level knowledge of an Asian language—these are just three perishable (eat or share within the week) reasons to visit your local ... Read more »

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  • Weekly Roundup: 9 Fridge-Clearing Recipes

    Weekly Roundup: 9 Fridge-Clearing Recipes

    9 Fridge-Clearing Recipes for a Fresh New Year  Weekly Roundup Don't let the title fool you.  This isn't a get-on-your-knees-and-clean-the-fridge article.  Because, let's face it: December is a sluggish month.  Students are nose-deep in final exams, we're ankle deep in rainwater ...  Read more »

  • Weekly Roundup: 11 Warm, Heart-Healthy Soups & Stews for Winter

    Weekly Roundup: 11 Warm, Heart-Healthy Soups & Stews for Winter

    ​11 Warm, Heart-Healthy Soups & Stews for WinterWeekly Roundup How was your Thanksgiving?  If it was anything like mine, you're in the process of deleting complicated, gut-busting, knife-and-fork foods out of your memory in favor of something simpler. Throw a scarf ...  Read more »

  • Weekly Roundup: Thanksgiving Gone Vegan

    Weekly Roundup: Thanksgiving Gone Vegan

    ​Thanksgiving Gone Vegan Weekly Roundup Every November, turkeys quake with fear and we sigh at the inevitable bloating to come.  Do we really want this?  Is an uncomfortable, food coma-inducing stupor really the ideal way we want to spend the our day ...  Read more »

  • Weekly Roundup: 10 Ways To Eat This Fall

    Weekly Roundup: 10 Ways To Eat This Fall

    10 Ways To Eat This FallWeekly Roundup I don’t know about you, but the leaves just started turning color here in Northern California. It’s probably much colder wherever you are in the world, but we Californians tend to get a ...  Read more »

  • Fat Heads and Exercise

    Fat Heads and Exercise

    A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Minnesota suggests that exercise can protect your brain from fatty foods. Most people are aware that a high-fat diet is a major contributor to weight gain and overall poor health, ...  Read more »

  • Seven Steps for Setting and Reaching Goals

    Seven Steps for Setting and Reaching Goals

    Ever been on a diet—just one diet? Not likely. The pattern is more like 20 or 30 diets, often gaining a little “interest” in weight—and discouragement—after each attempt at paring those pounds. And that’s the way it seems to go, ...  Read more »

  • Ask the Doctor: Is a Vegan Diet Healthy?

    Ask the Doctor: Is a Vegan Diet Healthy?

    VIDEO- Here is the first installment of our new series 'Ask the Doctor' with doctor David DeRose. We tackle the question, "Is a vegan diet healthy?". Have a question? If you'd like us to answer it, email us at: ask@lifeandhealth.org  Read more »

  • The Entertainment Trap: Are We Entertaining Ourselves to Death?

    The Entertainment Trap: Are We Entertaining Ourselves to Death?

    How much is too much? We Americans now spend half of our free time in front of the television. Ninety-nine percent of us own at least one television—more than have refrigerators or indoor plumbing! What is the effect of excessive ...  Read more »

  • Growing Gardens

    Growing Gardens

    If you’ve ever eaten produce coming straight from the garden or farm, you know how delicious it tastes. And what’s more, you know where it came and more about how it was produced.  Today, much of our store-bought produce is ...  Read more »

  • The High Cost of Inexpensive Food

    The High Cost of Inexpensive Food

    “More than any set of practices, factory farming is a mind-set: reduce production costs to the absolute minimum and systematically ignore or ‘externalize’ such costs as environmental degradation, human disease, and animal suffering. For thousands of years, farmers took their ...  Read more »