Category Archives: Health

How do you feel? If you’re like me, you don’t feel too good. You feel guilty because you gorged yourself from Thanksgiving through Christmas, and then, even though the holidays were over, there’s still plenty of snacking going on. I mean, you miss it, don’t you? You miss the pies and turkey sandwiches and gravy [...]

Q: How does wheat make us fat, exactly? A: It contains amylopectin A, which is more efficiently converted to blood sugar than just about any other carbohydrate, including table sugar. In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two [...]

Labor Day weekend was a nutritional travesty for me. To help celebrate the three-day weekend, the start of college football, and the ceremonial end of summer (a big deal in Florida, I assure you), my wife and I went nuts and plundered the frozen snack section. We got jalapeno poppers, taquitos, buffalo wings, and all [...]

This week has been all about the menu plan and grocery list. Please forgive my singular, obsessive focus. It’s just one of those things that’s important to me. When I’m at the grocery store, I tend to shop by impulse: “Look! Chervil! Why, every house needs some chervil. And…and…Passion fruit! How have I survived this [...]