I marvel at how much Westerners spend on diet schemes, from books to complete diet programs that go beyond just recommending diet foods and concoctions for you to stay trim, but also offer them for sale.  We need not starve ourselves with liquid diets, with tiny portions that maintain, not a weight level, but a [...]

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Can good nutrition improve one’s memory?  I know my mother used to think so.  As my siblings and I prepared for exams in high school, my mother used to plant a large bowl of pistachios on the table as a study aid.  It improved our memory she said. Since I have been forgetting a lot [...]

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I have a couple of friends who think that cooking a meal is equivalent to undergoing torture.  Cooking, to them, is a journey into the unknown, so they stay away from anything that resembles preparing food. But if you go to their homes and see their kitchens, it’s as though you are seeing an entirely [...]

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