Calories – How Much Do They Really Count?
Not that they ever left, but calories are back in the news. New York City has recently passed an ordinance that requires restaurants with more than 15 outlets (i.e., chains) to post the caloric count in their dishes next to…
Look Flawless with the Right Foundation
It is the base of your make-up, the blank canvas where paints will be applied on to turn a plain looking face into a movie star… or a clown. Foundation! The huge benefit of foundation is that it covers your…
Climate Change: What’s Going to Happen?
Climate change is real and already transforming our lives like never before. Around the globe, seasons are shifting, temperatures are climbing and sea levels are rising. And because so many systems are tied to the climate, a change in climate…
Superfoods: Asparagus
The Food for Gods Is Now Yours to Savour A member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks and garlic, asparagus has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years by the ancient Romans, Greeks and also the Egyptians…
Superfoods: Watermelon
Hail the Fruits of the Pharoahs No other fruit can be as thirst quenching as watermelon – a fruit that can be found almost anywhere in the world. Originating in Africa, watermelons were first cultivated in Egypt. Its legacy has…
Stay Fit Tips While Vacationing
Isn’t it terribly impossible to stay fit when you’re vacationing? How could you with the long list of sumptuous buffets, drinks and desserts to savour? How to earnestly follow the do’s and don’ts of dieting when you’re supposed to be…
Make Saving Water A Culture
There is no resource more precious than water. And there is no resource that is much misused, abused, misallocated than water. The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations has warned that within two decades, the majority of earth’s…
Ageing Gracefully: Skin Care in Your 20s, 30s, 40s, and Beyond
How to keep your skin looking great! Invest some time and care! Everyone wants to have younger looking skin. Unfortunately, even the most expensive skin care products, with all their claims of ‘reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles’,…
Fasting for Weight Loss
For those of you who need to thin down at any cost, fasting for weight loss could be considered as being the best way. Fasting, or in other words abstaining from food, may sound like a very easy way out,…
Fat Free Foods: A Bad Idea?
Mention was made the other day in a class I was teaching about the delights of a specific brand of fat free cookies. “Have you had them?” one of the students asked me. To me that was like asking if…
