General kitchen advice
Buy Seasonal Food : Most food, from fruit to fish, has a season -a time when it is abundant and at its best. Knowledge about food's seasons was once essential to survival and became culturally ingrained over the centuries. Today, we have all but lost this accumulated wisdom, but it still matters! Buy local and seasonal to guarantee the best quality food you can get.
Kitchen Tip : Solid disk elements and radiant elements under glass stove tops are easier to clean than conventional electric coil elements, but they take longer to heat up and use more electricity.
Weight loss
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a weight loss system created by Florida-based cardiologist arthur agatston which stresses that dieters should be eating "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbs" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Agatston developed his weight loss regime for people who have heart disease, as a result of his detailed analysis of scientific studies completed on other dietary studies.
Examples of good foods include, canadian bacon, turkey bacon, oysters, parmesan cheese, peanut butter, lowfat or nonfat milk and some vegatables, such as kidney beans, eggplant and spinach.