Visit www.spinarecipe.com to play the slot machine for delicious, nutritious recipes. Nuts are a powerhouse of a snack. They provide protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals. Satisfying and flavorful, almost everyone enjoys including nuts in their diet. With all of the news in the media about the benefits of nuts, many people wonder “which nuts are best and why.” [...]
The standard joke about social networking is everyone is telling you what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do I really care that Joe had nachos for lunch? So you may wonder why I would bore you with what I had for breakfast today. Actually, I’d like to start a series of blogs sharing with [...]
You have to feel sorry for nuts. No, I’m not talking about people! I’m talking about the hard-shelled fruits of some plants, such as walnuts, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, pecans, etc. For years, especially during the 70′s when low-fat diets were in vogue, the poor nut was maligned for its very high fat content. At the time, no [...]
The “halo effect” as described by Brian Wansink, a professor in the fields of consumer behavior and nutritional science at Cornell University, is where certain foods, which are healthy, take on a “more is better” concept in people’s minds. Through the media, Americans have been told that some foods should really be called “super foods” [...]
