Celery: More Than Worth Its Salt

Mention celery in any group of people and you will usually get very polarized responses. In general, most folks don’t have very strong feelings about carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, or other vegetables, but when it comes to celery, it seems they either love it or they just plain hate it. And their reasons are as varied as are the characteristics of this many-splendored veggie. Continue reading

The Low-Fat Diet in a Nutshell

The low-fat diet (a maximum of roughly ten percent of total calories consumed) is universally recommended for maximum health and fitness results, by those health experts who consistently help people reverse disease and live vibrant lives. Understanding the low-fat concept can be a bit tricky for some people, as even small volumes of fat can provide such high quantities of calories as to be misleading. Continue reading

Cool Running

When a piece of machinery is running efficiently and is properly cared for, we do not expect it to overheat. Something must go very wrong before overheating becomes a problem. The human body works in much the same fashion: properly cared for, our temperature never reaches the danger zone we call “fevered.” Continue reading