General cooking tips
Buy Local Food : With local food you'll get exceptional taste and freshness, strengthen your local economy, support endangered family farms, safeguard your family's health, and protect the environment.
Oven Tips : Stagger pans and baking sheets on upper and lower racks to improve airflow, and don't cover racks with foil. Food cooks more quickly and efficiently when heat circulates freely.
Losing weight
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a weight loss system started by Florida-based cardiologist arthur agatston which encourages that one should eat "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Dr. agatston developed this diet for his cardiac patients, based on his detailed analysis of scientific studies completed on other weight loss systems.
Examples of good foods include, canadian bacon, skinless poultry, clams, fat-free cheeses, peanuts, nonfat milk and certain vegetables, such as split peas, cucumbers and water chestnuts.