We all get tired. After a hard day of work, a stressful period in our lives, or a lot of physical activity, our body needs rest. In our younger years, we probably didn’t think about sleep, night came, we fell asleep and our bodies did the necessary work of repair…

How popcorn became the snack giant of the 20th century, even though it became the worst thing for us to eat. — Popcorn. Even the name is fun to say, popcorn. …

Poor health usually shows up first on the skin. It’s true. The skin, our largest organ in the human body — or actually on the human body, wears stress, depression and illness like a bad suit, hanging off of us, off-color, and for everyone to see. If you’ve ever noticed…

Every new year millions of people make a health resolution of some kind, invariably setting a fitness goal is one of them — running or jogging year in and year out tops the list of activities we most like to see ourselves taking up. To non-runners, running is the athletic…

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines, a small, rather hard, tart red berry, usually grown in colder climates in the US and Great Brittan, have been used to make the obligatory compliment to turkey for our holiday tables for years. Recently, though, cranberries have gone…

Every year around Christmas we begin to see an odd little vegetable sprout up in our local grocer’s and farmer’s markets. Amongst the oranges, cranberries, chestnuts and other typical winter-harvested produce, we’ve come to expect to find the little Brussel Sprout in and amongst them. As a hardy, biannually harvested…

Smile and the world smiles with you.. as the old saying goes, implies that smiling can be infectious, and if you smile others will too. …

Gaining weight is a normal phenomenon that our bodies are able to deal with — on a short-term basis, and on a small scale. The body has fail-safe structures in place to deal with the extra cells we make during periods of weight gain and the knock-on effects of increased…

Winter is rolling in and with it comes the foods of the holidays. Rich flavors and bold aromas fill the kitchen once again, and seasonal spices become central to our cooking. One such spice is cinnamon, a favorite of modern holiday cooking and a treasured ingredient throughout history, dating back…