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It’s the day after St. Valentine’s Day and you are sitting in front of a beautifully wrapped box of chocolates. While you already promised yourself not to have any more, inadvertently your hand reaches again into the box as you surf the web, chat on the phone, or flip the television remote. Before you know […]

Last month I posted about the free nutritional programs Johns Hopkins University is offering online. I decided to take the Nutritional Health, Food Production and the Environment one and see what it was like.
It was pretty intensive. The lecture “notes” are actual MP3s of some lectures and have some commentary. It was like actually attending […]

Like millions of people around the world, I suffer from osteoarthrits (AO) . My first signs were in a knee that had been operated on years ago, for torn cartilage. I learned that the same operation that relieved my pain at one time, was now contributing to painful arthritis in the knee. […]

Perhaps you’re like me and find it impossible to get up early to work out and have to wait till the end of the workday. Or maybe you’re one of those runners I envy who bounce out of bed during the wee hours of the morning, ready to don your sneakers and hit the […]

Valentine’s Day is just a day away now. Can you believe it?
Now you might think that just because we are all about healthy living here at Fit Fare that we would oppose the exchanging of chocolates. Not so. Everything is okay in moderation. And furthermore dark chocolate is known to have positive health benefits. Dark […]

Probiotics, or the healthy bacteria that support digestive functions, have gotten a lot of press. Women often find it necessary to increase the amounts of probiotics in their diets when they are taking antibiotics; as the name implies, antibiotics kill bacteria, which can include the naturally-occurring bacteria in the body. This can lead to yeast infections […]

This originally appearaed on Sugar Savvy. 
My mother always said there would be days like these. And if I were my mother, I would have had leftovers loaves of sweet breads and cookies waiting in the freezer that I could have easily thawed in a moment’s notice. But alas, I’m not my mother and I don’t […]

Everyone knows that it is best to eat seasonally. Seasonal food is fresher and so tends to be nutritious. Not to mention that strawberries in the summer just taste better, right? Now with better food shipping options it is possible to get strawberries in the winter from a far off climate that taste pretty close to […]

I was under the impression that red wine was the only type of alcohol that could be enjoyed with the excuse that it had health benefits.  For example, I would think: “Oh, I have to drink this glass of Zinfandel for my heart.  It’s more of an obligation than a luxury.  Really.” When I attended the Worlds […]

Cornbread can be a great Southern breakfast dish, side dish or even main dish. In South Louisiana breakfast might include leftover cornbread and milk. In Louisiana they call this Cush Cush. For lunch a piece of cornbread goes well alongside beans and rice, and for dinner a bowl of crawfish and cornbread casserole will warm […]