Cooking & Home

Last month I wrote about the role fat plays in our bodies and how fat in our meals is actually helpful in losing weight. Today we will look at non-food items that can be helpful for weight loss. Awareness Bring awareness to everything food-related. So many of us rush to...

A Different Approach to Weight Loss Last month I wrote about dieting and why extreme diets create a state of stress in the body. Under stress, our body holds onto fat and does not release it to be burned for energy. Let’s look at other factors that influence our body’s...

Eating at Restaurants One big difference between a home-cooked meal and a restaurant meal is that at a restaurant, you are giving up control over your food. You no longer know where the food came from, how fresh it is, how much salt or spice has been added or what...

There are many ways to think about food. Being mindful of what we eat enables us both to enhance our enjoyment and to make the most beneficial food choices. In Energetics of Food: Encounters With Your Most Intimate Relationships, Steve Gagné describes how each food has its own particular character...

Last month I wrote about the benefits of oils and fats and the three different building blocks of oils, which determine whether an oil can be considered saturated and very stable (can be used for frying at high temperatures), mono-unsaturated or fairly stable (can be used for cooking, baking and...

Fats and oils have been the subject of misunderstandings, misleading recommendations and hype for some time. The cholesterol scare has us thinking that animal fats are bad for us, that saturated fats are bad for us, that fat in general is bad for us. These claims are untrue. Many weight-conscious...

For starters, let me give you a quick summary of the first part of this article published in January’s paper, which was subtitled Simple Carbohydrates. The summery is followed by the second part of this article, called Complex Carbohydrates. A simple carbohydrate or sugar consists of one or two sugar...

Since this is a bigger topic, I am going to divide it into two parts. Today we will cover the SIMPLE carbohydrates or sugars. Next time I will cover the COMPLEX carbohydrates found in whole foods. Carbohydrates have generated much confusion in the world of nutrition. The recent “low-carb” or...

Nowadays people eat under all kinds of strange circumstances – while walking down the street, while driving their vehicles, while sitting at their desks working, while reading the newspaper, while watching a movie. Eating is no longer something that deserves a dedicated setting or time frame. It does not call...

All life on our planet Earth originated in the waters of the primordial oceans, and water continues to play an essential role in our lives today. We can go for a month without food, but we can live for only two or three days without water. Water carries nutrients and...