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Bottom Line Guide to Great Grilling

Bottom Line Guide to Great Grilling

June 17, 2014

Nothing beats the smell of barbecue wafting through the air…especially when it comes from your own backyard. But don’t grill…

Mangosteen, Longan Berry and Other Healthy Tropical Fruits

Mangosteen, Longan Berry and Other Healthy Tropical Fruits

Lona Sandon, MEd, RD, LD | June 16, 2014

Add Variety to Your Diet with Tropical Fruits There’s something about the tropical climate that grows foods that are especially…

Carambola, Cherimoya, and Other Healthy Fruits You Really Ought to Try

Carambola, Cherimoya, and Other Healthy Fruits You Really Ought to Try

Steven V. Joyal, MD | June 16, 2014

Are you feeling like you're in a fruit rut—apples and blueberries are getting boring? So now that summer is upon…

Grilled Watermelon? Grilled Pound Cake? 5 Foods You Might Never Think to Grill

Grilled Watermelon? Grilled Pound Cake? 5 Foods You Might Never Think to Grill

Linda Gassenheimer | June 16, 2014

Don’t limit yourself to grilling just meat. Grilling gives a caramelized, smoky flavor to all sorts of foods. Grill over…

Optical Illusion Explains How Alcohol Impairs Vision

Optical Illusion Explains How Alcohol Impairs Vision

Kevin Johnston, PhD | June 12, 2014

You know that driving after drinking is dumb and potentially deadly—even if you aren't legally drunk—because alcohol messes up coordination,…

5 Ways to Turn a Healthy Meal into a Delicious One
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5 Ways to Turn a Healthy Meal into a Delicious One

John La Puma, MD | June 10, 2014

The Smart Eater's Kitchen Take a quick look around your kitchen. If you pride yourself on eating healthfully, chances are…

Drinkers In the Operating Room: How Alcohol Affects Your Risk for Complications After Surgery

Drinkers In the Operating Room: How Alcohol Affects Your Risk for Complications After Surgery

Marie Eliasen, MSc | June 9, 2014

How many alcoholic drinks did you have yesterday? The day before? How many per day, on average, in the past…

Cooking Steak Just Right

Cooking Steak Just Right

Marc Weber | June 6, 2014

You don’t have to be a great cook to cook a great steak. Here are instructions for how to get…

Health-Boosting Hot Cocoa Recipes

Health-Boosting Hot Cocoa Recipes

Janet Bond Brill, PhD, RDN, FAND | June 5, 2014

By the time you're halfway through this article, I hope you're craving a nice toasty-warm mug of hot cocoa. Not…

Danny DeVito’s Favorite Pasta Dishes

Danny DeVito’s Favorite Pasta Dishes

Linda Gassenheimer | June 4, 2014

Emmy-award winning actor Danny DeVito loves to cook even when he’s on a set shooting a movie. He told our…

Forget Beer! Best Wines for a Barbecue

Forget Beer! Best Wines for a Barbecue

Conrad James Hunter | June 4, 2014

Wine at a cookout? Why not? Try these great wines—affordable, too—and you may never go back to beer. If you…

8 Great American “Craft” Beers

8 Great American “Craft” Beers

Rich Higgins | June 4, 2014

There now are more than 2,500 breweries in the US—more than 25 times as many as in 1980! Here are…

Eat Walnuts…Prevent Diabetes

Eat Walnuts…Prevent Diabetes

Margie Abrams | June 2, 2014

Four bites a day and you could cut your risk for diabetes by 24%. Just four bites of something that…

Hot Flashes? Avoid These “Yang” Foods
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Hot Flashes? Avoid These “Yang” Foods

Laurie Steelsmith, ND, LAc | June 2, 2014

When in the throes of a menopausal hot flash, we should rightly be given permission to strip naked and jump…

Beer Marinade Reduces Cancer Hazard from Grilled Meat

Beer Marinade Reduces Cancer Hazard from Grilled Meat

Isabel Maria Pinto Leite Viegas Oliveira Ferreira, PhD | May 29, 2014

Don't you love to fire up the barbie and get grilling? Problem is, charcoal-grilling your meat leads to the creation…