You are headed out for a long walk, or trying to do your best time on a 10K or half-marathon. What should you eat and drink for energy?  Is that expensive energy bar any better than a Pop Tart or some trail mix?  The Stone Research Foundation’s Athletes’ Advisory Board says no, that energy bars [...]

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When on the trail or a long walk, take along a snack with protein, carbohydrates, and salt replacement.  Trail mix or gorp (“good old raisins and peanuts”) is the natural answer.  But use portion control – on average trail mix has 140 calories and 9 grams of fat per ounce. Basic Trail Mix Equal parts [...]

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How many of your friends are Tweeting or on Facebook complaining of head colds, flu and allergies?   Did you know that you don’t have to spend alot of money on over-the-counter medicine or sit in Urgent Care with other ‘sick’ people exposing yourself to God knows what.  Instead of running off to the medicine aisle [...]

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Our national struggle with obesity is all over the news. Hardly a day goes by without a headline, including the one this week that 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is now obese. In Washington, D.C., alone, there are 60,000 obese children, according to the Centers for Disease Control. I’m sure there will be calls for [...]

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The term “comfort food” (first used, according to Webster’s Dictionary, in 1977) refers to foods consumed to achieve some level of improved emotional status, whether to relieve negative psychological affect or to increase positive.[1] More generally, comfort food can be defined as food that brings some form or measure of comfort, sense of well-being, or [...]

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The word ‘aphrodisiac’ is one that holds a great deal of appeal to millions of people in the world today just as it has done for many years stretching back to the ancient Greeks. Aphrodisiac foods are hugely sought after and here we will explain what constitutes a food to be an aphrodisiac and also [...]

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