It’s a dreaded phenomenon that affects office drones all across the developed world – the inevitable afternoon energy crash. In the hours immediately proceeding lunchtime, countless people began to experience increasingly worse feelings of sluggishness and lethargy at work. This ...
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The Bitter Truth: Uncovering Hidden Sugar in Your Diet
Growing up, one of the things your mother probably warned you against was eating too much sugar. Such admonishments likely came up during trips to the grocery store; this author remembers making regular pleas to buy certain cereals and snacks, ...
Read More »The Many Ways to Cook Chicken Breast
There are fewer foods that enjoy more popularity among US consumers than chicken. Whether it’s chicken breasts, chicken wings, chicken legs or chicken nuggets, Americans can’t seem to get enough of Gallus gallus domesticus (the Latin name for your everyday ...
Read More »The Best – and Worst – Foods to Freeze
If you’re like millions of other American workers, your free time comes at a premium. Between regular work shifts, commuting and overtime, many of us are thoroughly exhausted by the time we finally get home. This often means that our ...
Read More »Six Underrated Health Foods
You don’t have to be a health nut to know healthy foods when you see them. If asked to name some nutritious foods of the top of their head, your typical shopper could list quite a few items, such as ...
Read More »Growing a Green Thumb: Tips for Beginning Gardeners
When it comes to rewarding personal hobbies, it’s hard to top gardening. Working in a garden gets you off of the couch and into the sunlight, and the fruits of your labor are far more nutritious than most fare sold ...
Read More »What to Eat With an Upset Stomach
There are few things that can derail your day quicker that an upset stomach. The nausea, bloating, pain and other symptoms can prevent you from getting any work done at the office, and can just as easily ruin your downtime ...
Read More »Getting More Fiber into Your Diet
If you’ve walked through the cereal aisle at your local supermarket recently, you might have noticed that many cereals take pains to advertise their high fiber content. The reason for this strategy is obvious – cereal producers are simply trying ...
Read More »Making a Tasty (and Healthy) Homemade Pizza
There are few foods that are as wildly popular as pizza. If you enjoy eating pizza at least once per month, then you share a dietary choice with 93 percent of Americans. If that factoid piqued your interest, then take ...
Read More »Getting Rid of Love Handles
For most people, losing weight is no easy task. It takes much persistence and effort to pick a healthy diet and stick to it, and just as much work to adhere to a regular exercise regimen. Perhaps the most frustrating ...
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