Cooking advice
Kitchen Tip : Make sure stovetop electric coils work properly. A worn-out element is a real power drain.
Kitchen Tip : Use a covered kettle or pan to boil water; it's faster and it uses less energy.
Dieting 101
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a weight loss system started by Cardiologist arthur agatston which stresses that dieters should eat "good carbs" instead of "bad carbs" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Agatston invented his nutritional system for people who have heart disease, as a consequence of his detailed study of scientific data completed on other diets.
"good" foods include, lean beef, skinless poultry, fish, parmesan cheese, pecan halves, nonfat milk and certain vegetables, such as butter beans, eggplant and spinach.