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Fun Yum Dim Sum

These Chinese "Tiny Bites" are make-ahead simple and irresistible to eat. Try one for dinner, or do them all for a dazzling finger-food party.
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Composting 101

Our tips and tricks will help you master the art of composting. Not only does composting keep waste out of landfills, but it’ll make your garden – and houseplants – thrive like never before.
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Makeup Makeover

Put your best face forward with these all-natural options.
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Why Go Veg?

People are drawn to vegetarianism by all sorts of motives. Some of us want to live longer, healthier lives...
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Family

Good times, great people and heaping portions of soul-satisfying food are what reunions are all about.
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Greens Glossary

Know your greens, from arugula to watercress.
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Grains Guide

Quick-cooking whole grains give you all the healthy benefits without the wait.
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Conquering Tough Foods

Think tempeh is a town near Phoenix and seitan is a devilish spelling mistake? Assume egg replacer can be used to make an omelet?
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The Veg Pledge

6 personal stories, 1 great lifestyle.
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Ask the Doc: Veg Friendly Options for Common Supplements

Have questions about common veg-friendly supplements? Read our article by Neal Barnard, MD in our Heath Q&A segment to find out.
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Lillie's Story

Lillie Ogden made the decision to go veg in August 2005—at the age of 11! Read on to find out why she's doing it, how she's doing it and what she learns along the way.
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Mustard Mania

This spicy spread is a must-have—for far more than sandwiches.
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Off the Warpath

One vegetarian's surprising strategy for getting his message across.
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Shower Power

Turn your get-clean routine into a healing experience.
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This Just In

Need-to-know news about your health, diet, mind, body and the world you live in.
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High-Energy Grazing

Maintain stamina all day with healthful mini-meals.
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Sleep On It

Tired of tossing and turning? A new mattress could be the key to getting more zzz's.
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EcoBeauty: Hand Care for Cooks

Dodge the dishpan hands syndrome with these healing cures.
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Ask the Nutritionist: What are Phoods?

Do we need all of our foods to be functional? And are there any drawbacks to eating these foods? Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD explains.
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Home on the Range

Finding a stove to suit your style is a dream with these tips and top picks.
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Simply Organic

These days, everyone seems to say how much heathier you'd be if your apples, cereal, eggs, milk—even candy and corn chips—were 100 percent organic.
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Pamper Yourself

Make room in your bathroom cabinet for a new generation of eco-conscious beauty finds.
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30 Minutes - No-Cook Pasta Sauces

Can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen with these no-cook pasta sauces.
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Ask the Doc: Seasonal Allergies

How can you stop seasonal sniffles? Read our article by Neal Barnard, MD in our Heath Q&A segment to find out.
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Meat without Murder

Modern technology and a handful of motivated scientists may just make factory farms and slaughterhouses a thing of the past.
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Ask the Nutritionist: Are The So-Called Good Fats Really Good For You?

Q: Because I’m a vegetarian, everyone thinks my diet is fat-free. I know fats lurk in lots of foods, though. But aren’t there some “good” fats?
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Pollution inside your car

Informed consumers know by now that the “new car smell”—released by chemicals in seat cushions, armrests, floor coverings and other features of an auto’s interior—is not a good thing. But we’re just learning how bad it might be.
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1 Food 5 Ways - Buttermilk

Nobody’s neutral about buttermilk— mention it, and you’ll get a puckered-mouth “Eww . . .” or a dreamy smile. If you’re in the “eww” camp, just think of buttermilk biscuits, pancakes, muffins and scones. Because even if you never acquired a taste for drinking it straight, buttermilk is perfect for baking and has tons of other kitchen uses (ranch dressing, for starters).
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Nuke It!

Whether you’re a college kid cramming for final exams or an office worker who’s just plain tired of fast food, have we got some recipes for you! All you need: a microwave and a few minutes.
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Spoiled Rotten

Americans throw out 25 percent of the produce we buy because it’s gone bad. How to stop the waste? Know when to shop, learn which fruits and veggies don’t get along—and put one of these egg-shaped gizmos in your fridge.
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Lasagna Done Light

Lasagna is like a sandwich: You can put anything between the layers and it’s still lasagna. In America, that tends to mean a supersize stack of tomato sauce, cheese, vegetables, what-have-you—with calorie counts and fat grams to match.


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Opening day

Opening Day Come the middle of April—no matter how cold the weather or how hard the rainfall, regardless of whether the Lenten rose is blooming, or a single song bird has appeared, shivering, from the south—I can always depend on one harbinger of spring: the opening of our local farmers’ market.

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Kitchen Herbs That Heal

Gardening is in the air! Even those of us lacking a single green thumb can grow a handful of tasty and restorative herbs.
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A Meat-Free Pregnancy

I was just a couple of months pregnant when the questions started. My meat-and-potatoes mother-in-law would ask her son hopefully, “Has she started eating meat again?”
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Vegan Gourmet - Bowled Over

 


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Ask the Doc: Do My Genes Rule My Health?

Q: My parents are overweight, my father has high cholesterol and two of my grandparents had diabetes. How much good does it do to change my lifestyle if these problems run in my family?
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Can You Pray Your Pounds Away?

The Bible is not generally thought of as a recipe book, but food is definitely important in the Scriptures. And diet advice was dispensed from the beginning, when Adam and Eve were commanded to subsist on plant foods alone (Genesis 1:29). However, God didn’t get seriously involved with weight loss until fairly recently, when Bible-based diet books started becoming best sellers. Do they work better than South Beach, the Zone or plain old calorie counting? Here’s the skinny from dieters and experts.
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Tempting Tuscany

Tempting Tuscany A menu inspired by one of Italy’s picture-perfect Tuscan hill towns shows off springtime vegetables. Though I adore the pizza of Campania and the pesto of Liguria, I can’t help being partial to the fare of Tuscany, a region famous for its straightforward seasonal cuisine.

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Veglite - Rising To The Occasion


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5 Ingredients - Singing Garlic's Praises


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Ask the Nutritionist: How Can I Get Enough Iron?


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Skin Salvation

 


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Flavors - Parsley

With star chefs scattering cilantro over everything in sight and singing the praises of exotic herbs such as shiso and winter savory, it’s easy to overlook plain parsley.
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Fuel For Thought

With more and more manufacturers bringing hybrids to market, it’s a good time to examine their pros and cons. What’s best for you? For the environment? For your wallet? We’ll help you find the answers, but first, a little background.
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Saucy Talk

Simple sauces give you options galore for dinner.
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Pie For Dinner

Nothing takes the chill off a winter’s day the aroma of a pie in the oven. As the author of a great big book on pie, it’s no secret that these crust-and-filling delicacies are my passion.


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Cocoa

The chocolate power of this unsweetened powder goes well beyond warm winter drinks.
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Mind Over Muscles

Visit the Fitness Pointe health center in Munster, IN, on a weekday evening and you’ll likely come across a 30-something woman doing bicep curls while quietly whispering to herself, “Increasing my strength gives me power. I can be whoever I want to be.”


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Has Salt Gotten A Bad Shake?

I’m pretty healthy. Do I really have to worry about how much salt I eat?
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Ask the Nutritionist: How Can I End The Food Fights?

I’m a vegetarian, but my boyfriend is not. Going out for dinner every night isn’t an option, and we don’t have time to make two separate meals. What advice do you have for those of us in “mixed culinary relationships”?
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Blue Plate Special Updated

Favorite foods from another era inspire a delicious weeknight supper.
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Foods and News That Fight Colds and Flu

Colds are a fact of life every winter but that doesn’t mean you can’t take some precautions (and save some of your sick days for spring fever). A cold is a virus, so antibiotics can’t conquer it—they only work against bacterial infections—but you can shorten the misery and avoid spreading it to those around you.


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1 Food 5 Ways - Rice

Sure, bulgur is nifty and quinoa is cool, but rice remains our No. 1 grain—the daily staple for more than half the world’s population (can you imagine Mexican or Chinese food without it?).
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Dip, Dip, Hooray!

Everybody loves chips and dip—but not the fat and calories that come along for the ride. So ease the guilt, and get on with the party with these high-flavored, low-octane (in fat and dairy) versions.
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Green Gifts

It’s open season in malls across America, a time when even normally eco-conscious shoppers can find themselves sucked into the vortex of mindless consumerism.
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Simple Sautés

Sautéing foods is the French equivalent of stir-frying - it's a basic technique for quick, easy cooking. You just fast-stir small pieces of food in a little oil over moderately high heat, something all cooks do without thinking, "Oh, I'm sautéing!"
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Dressed To Grill

Grilling summer veggies outdoors yields delicious salads - without heating up your kitchen indoors! When the thermometer tops out, who wants to cook? You will - once you've tasted a grilled vegetable salad.
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Asian Accent

When I was introduced to Vietnamese food years ago, I was immediately taken with the incredible flavors of the simple dishes - aromatic rice, hot and sour soups, mild coconut-based curries, feathery noodles and Asian wraps. There is no mystery to this cuisine, just some easy techniques that turn simple ingredients into wonderful dishes.
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A Plea For Bees

Farmers' determination to spray their crops with herbicides and insecticides is one reason that American agriculture faces an imminent crisis. Pests, pesticides, disease and habitat loss have led to a 50 percent decline in the number of honeybees since 1950.
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Living Green

How one determined couple did what many of us long to do: chucked a high-rent life for what really matters

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A Question of Protein

Where do you get your protein?

Every vegetarian probably has been asked that at least once—and maybe 100 times.

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Pluck O' The Irish

A dash of caraway jazzes up soda bread, sweets, veggies - even grilled cheese sandwiches.
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Tumble, Cheer, Dodge & dance Your Way into Shape

Bored with exercise? Mix things up with some of these fun, unusual options. They’ll jump-start any stalled—or yet-to-be-started—fitness program.
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Cheery Chowder

What’s a surefire way to get kids dashing to the dinner table? Simmer up a batch of hearty soup, and then sit back and watch it disappear. Kids love soup—it’s warm and soothing and slurpy.
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White Bread vs. Wheat Bread

Simply switching from white to whole wheat bread can lower heart disease risk by 20 percent, according to research from the University of Washington reported in the April 2, 2003 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Wildfires: Stamp Them Out Or Let Them Blaze?

In the fall of 2003, in one of the biggest wildfires in California history, 22 people lost their lives, thousands more lost their homes, and hundreds of thousands of acres burned. Yet, by recent standards, 2003 wasn’t off the charts. In 2002, 7 million acres burned.
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8 Foods Every Vegetarian Should Eat

There is a world of reasons to go meatless, from heart health to animal welfare. But nutritionally, there’s one tricky trade-off. To help you fill in these gaps, we tapped the expertise of nutritionist Cynthia Sass, RD.
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Speeding Spring to the Family Table

Dragging through the last days of winter? Let the first breath of fresh air stir you to cook up flavor-packed fare that welcomes springtime with great gusto.
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Fall in Love ... with Vanilla

Romantic cooks—from chocolate chefs to vegetable lovers—are inventing new ways to use vanilla.


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Sleep Tight To Wake Up Bright-Eyed

Vegetarian TimesWant to keep your skin looking and feeling healthy and refreshed—versus tired
and drawn—all winter long? Try these five simple strategies. 


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Seductive St. John

On the least developed of the US Virgin Islands, natural beauty reigns, and we are its subjects.


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Sweet Revenge: Fair Trade Chocolate

Gourmet-quality chocolate is bringing health and hope to cocoa farmers and their families.
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There's more to good posture than meets the eye

"If someone poured a glass of ice water down your back, you’d instantly assume good posture,” says physical therapist Ben Crawford. Think of that happening often enough, and you’ll make better body lines a habit.


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What's Brewing?

Tea is not only a cozy drink. It has developed a second life as a trendy new “spice.”
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Ask the Nutritionist: Getting Enough Protein

As a fairly new vegetarian, I’m not sure I’m getting enough protein. Is there a formula to figure out how much I need, and is age ever a factor?
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Does Eating Vegetables Keep You Thin?

Although there is still much work to be done, the data are coming in: Vegetarians are significantly slimmer than meat eaters.
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Picking the Right Multivitamin

Vegetarian TimesIn general, do people need to take a multi?
Two large research reviews, published in 2002 and 2003, found that there really isn’t

a well-substantiated argument for—or against—a general multivitamin.


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Sodas pack on the pounds

 Americans’ battle with the bulge might be lost over a can of soda or sugar-sweetened fruit drink.


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The Other Holiday Leftovers

Candles, greenery, table decorations . . . they’re so pretty. Too bad they all turn into trash. Here’s how to put them to good use instead.
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Spicy Surprise

It’s good for your pies. It’s good for your pasta sauce. It’s even good for your blood.
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Beet Generation

Tastier and more nutritious, Irwin Goldman’s superbeets and other superorganic vegetables reflect new “smart breeding.”
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Healthy Habits

8 hints for healthy living
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Romantic Dinner A Deux

A delicious meal perfect for Valentine’s Day.
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Soup’s On

Spicy one-dish meals offer an antidote to the cold.
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Waffles Galore!

They’re not just for breakfast anymore.
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Light Your Fire

Warm a winter night with a fabulous fondue
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You Eat What?

Etiquette for Vegetarians

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