Food allergies are severe and people who have never experienced don’t realize the fatality of it. A 13-year-old, Katelyn Carlson , student of a Chicago Public School died after she suffered from severe allergic reaction...

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper said the magic words ( Bob Harper is a trainer at the ( He has been shown to push contestants out of their comfort zone and train harder. Yes, to get thin diet is the only key. For the simple...

Paula Deen is sorry for using racial slur Chef Paula Deen is apologetic for her racial slur. Earlier today she had released a video asking forgiveness for her racial slur. But, ( .She has always been full of drama and co...

Summer is the time when you don't want to switch on the stove or oven to cook anything -leave alone desserts . Here are some recipes which does not involve any cooking . It is as simple as mixing some things together the...

One of the most famous restaurants of Chicago Charlie Trotters closed down last year because the Chef Charlie Trotter wanted to study law. Looks like there was a reason to study law. Two New Yorkers who are pressing char...

Tongue Stapling, another way to lose weight ( This method, called “tongue patch”, made by Dr. Chugay in Venezuela, makes it almost impossible to eat solid foods. Your tongue suffers greatly by having this patch in. You l...

might not keep you from catching a cold, but not getting an adequate amount of the vitamin can keep you from burning fat. A study from ( found that folks with low-blood concentrations of vitamin C, who walked on treadmil...

The former host of Australia's Biggest Loser Ajay Rochester has revealed she has gained a staggering 105lbs. The 44-year-old, who hosted the weight-loss television show for four series between 2006 and 2009, said in a ra...

Different celebrities have different ways to endorse their diet plans. With a plethora of various celebrities who are endorsing their radical diet plans, it has become quite a difficult job to understand as to which plan...

The eyes sometimes have it, beating out the tongue, nose and brain in the emotional and biochemical balloting that determines the taste and allure of food, a scientist said here today. Speaking at the 245th National Meet...

Do you have a friend who eats pizzas and pastas actually change “eats” to hogs and remains thin? You on the other hand is counting calories, tracking every single thing you put in your body on “my fitness Pal” app you go...

Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. So sitting at a movie with a bucket of popcorn holdi...

The hottest British export might be boy band mania, from the Beatles to One Direction. And Americans are fascinated with Kate Middleton and her royal baby bump, but the next big British invasion, hitting stores in the Un...

It is after 8pm on Valentine’s Day and a queue is still stretching around the block. Inside the kitchen store in a suburban Los Angeles shopping mall, Nigella Lawson radiates charm and nervous energy, despite starting he...

The 34-year-old actress credits the trendy workout with her new bikini body. 'Buti has given my arms and shoulders definition, and helped to lift my butt, too,' Jennifer Love Hewitt told Shape. She's the magazine's lates...

The article in ( talks about the study how high fat diet is bad for the brain , but , if a high fat diet is accompanied with exercise -it almost negates the impact of fat on the brain . Excerpt from the ( : "But those an...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

Just as you were ready to tuck into a nice three-egg omelet again, comforted by the reassuring news that eggs are not so bad for you, here comes a study warning that for those over 40, the number of egg yolks consumed pe...

Food, Nutrition, and Health: What Research Really Shows Food is far more than calories and taste—it's medicine. Every meal either contributes to disease or helps prevent it. Yet in modern consumer culture, we often eat m...

Understanding Man Buys 17-Pound Lobster From Restaurant,Then,Releases It Into The Sea The topic "Man Buys 17-Pound Lobster From Restaurant,Then,Releases It Into The Sea" addresses an important contemporary issue or exper...

Cucumber And Radish Raita 2 cups plain low-fat yogurt (not fat-free) 3/4 pound cucumber (1 European or 4 Persian), peeled if waxed, seeded if necessary, and finely diced or shredded 4 to 6 radishes, finely diced 1 teaspo...

Can you really taste the difference between a $15 wine and a $150 wine? Wine enjoyment is such an objective experience and taste is not exactly an exact science....

The diet industry has spent decades telling people what they cannot eat. The emerging science of sustainable weight management is telling a different story — one built around the psychological reality of restriction, the...

A study published in the journal Steroids in 2012 and conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University made a somewhat counterintuitive claim that generated significant popular press coverage: eating dessert with breakfas...

Cottage cheese has quietly become one of the most recommended foods among nutritionists and fitness enthusiasts, offering an unusual combination of high protein, low fat, and culinary versatility that processed diet food...

Federal and state public health officials investigating an E. coli outbreak that had spread across six states in 2012 undertook the kind of epidemiological detective work that food safety investigations require: tracing...

The foraging movement—which has grown from a fringe interest of back-to-the-land enthusiasts into a mainstream culinary practice embraced by Michelin-starred restaurants and urban farmers market vendors alike—rests on a...

Chicago has a reputation as a serious meat city — the stockyards, the Italian beef, the deep-dish loaded with sausage — and while that reputation is earned, the city's dining scene had, by the early 2010s, developed a pa...

The idea of taxing unhealthy foods as a public health measure — what economists and health advocates have called a "fat tax" — has moved from academic speculation into serious policy debate, with several countries experi...

SEC subpoenas Chipotle in hiring probe Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Friday said it received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of that agency's investigation into the burrito chain's hiring p...

Blood triglycerides may be an important factor in your risk for heart disease. Your doctor may become concerned if your cholesterol level is too high. But another type of fatty substance found in the blood, known as trig...

Extracts from turmeric spice, known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, may help ward off heart attacks in people who have had recent bypass surgery, according to a study from Thailand. During bypass...

Volume 8 finds us in late spring, when the produce is finally cooperating and the question is no longer what to cook to stay warm but what to cook to stay light — meals that are satisfying without being heavy, that taste...

Nutrition is always a hot topic, and new fad diets and gimmicks continue to draw attention and peak interest. There is always some new wonder diet or product that is supposed to make you feel better, stronger, faster, le...

We know it has long been bad for your waistline. But fast food can also be bad for your mental health, according to a new study. Eating junk such as as hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza heightens your chance of developing de...

The third installment arrives with a menu built for a rainy spring Friday — the kind of evening where you want something that requires actual cooking, that fills the kitchen with good smells, and that rewards the attenti...

Volume 6 arrives with a menu that leans into the season — or rather, into the specific pleasure of cooking for early spring when the impulse is to lighten up but the evenings are still cool enough to want something warmi...

Volume 5 of the Friday cooking column arrives with a menu built around the principle that the best weeknight food often comes from the pantry rather than the produce aisle — dishes where the deep work has been done by so...

Food, Nutrition, and Health: What Research Really Shows Food is far more than calories and taste—it's medicine. Every meal either contributes to disease or helps prevent it. Yet in modern consumer culture, we often eat m...

All the New Year festivities and gatherings have given me many memories. There is a lot to ponder upon including the extra kilos that I picked up from delicious, mouth-watering platters that seemed hugely impossible to d...

Knowing what to eat, and in what quantities, is becoming a real challenge, as nutritional scientists continue to study the healing powers of certain foods. The latest discoveries, the so-called "super foods," are believe...

Le Siam, Naperville My husband, AS, was craving Thai. He had a sore throat and wanted to have some warm and spicy Thai soup. So we headed to Le Siam in Naperville, recommended by one of our friends. The restaurant was pr...

A 20 stone woman who was told 'get down the gym fatty' on a night out has shed a third of her weight in time for her dream wedding. Sarah Gould, 26, was so upset by the verbal abuse of the unknown male who approached her...

A study from Tel Aviv University produced a counterintuitive finding that generated significant popular attention: participants who ate a protein- and carbohydrate-rich breakfast that included a dessert item — chocolate,...

Few nutrition debates have been more durably contentious than the question of whether the whole egg — yolk and all — or just the egg white is the healthier choice. The answer has shifted substantially over the decades as...

Easy Breezy Bhindi! One of my favorite vegetables, this is one of the easiest okra recipes ever! The bhindi dish, fondly called Sorshe-Posto Bhindi in Bengali, can be prepared in a jiffy and yet it...

The Friday cooking column returns, with a focus this week on dishes that bridge the familiar and the slightly adventurous — meals that work for a weeknight family dinner but involve at least one ingredient or technique t...

Want to get the body you've always dreamed of in just five hours? One blogger and eating champion shows you how, without even having to deprive yourself of your favourite foods - in fact, you can eat potato chips and dri...

Born in a Bengali family, I obviously love to eat fish. I remember my school/college days, when I used to have rice and Bengali fish curry made by my mom for breakfast, lunch and dinner.Yes I know, rice for all three mea...

Black Bean and Cheese Burrito The best part about burritos is that there are no rules; you can fill them with anything that suits your desire or nutritional eating plan. "Women's Health" magazine recommends a lunchtime b...

Just who is your lover losing the weight for? People dieting while in a relationship are preparing to break up with their other half Don't feel too flattered if your partner starts losing weight - it might be for somebod...

Indian cuisine has a reputation for richness and indulgence, but tucked within the same tradition that gave the world butter chicken and gulab jamun is an arsenal of foods with genuinely fat-fighting properties. The same...

An Indian-origin man has been given a suspended jail term in Britain for secretly feeding his wife steroids so that she becomes overweight and stays at home to cook and look after their children. In the bizarre case, Lei...

The connection between sweet foods and sweet personalities may be more than metaphor. A series of studies published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people who prefer sweet-tasting foods als...

Turmeric's active compound curcumin has been the subject of hundreds of clinical studies investigating its anti-inflammatory properties, with results promising enough to make it one of the most researched plant-derived c...

Low-income moms who move from very poor neighborhoods to less disadvantaged ones lower their risk of becoming extremely obese and developing type 2 diabetes, a study reveals. "This research shows how important the enviro...

Diwali is on October 26th. Diwali for me just meant sweets and crackers. I have collected some easy to make recipes for you. Happy Diwali! Sandesh Serves 6-8 1 lb. Ricotta cheese 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. cardamom powder* 1. Kn...

Listeria in Cantaloupes: Deadliest Outbreak in a Decade At Least 13 People Have Died From Cantaloupes Tainted With Listeria Bacteria The CDC says 72 people have been sickened and 13 have died as a result of eating cantal...

Several American cities have enacted or are considering ordinances restricting mobile food vendors from operating within set distances of schools during school hours—a policy response to research on the relationship betw...

An overweight primary school teacher has lost almost eight stone after she was hypnotised into believing doctors had fitted her with a gastric band. Kim Robinshaw, 31, whose weight had spiralled to 21 stone was sent into...

The fitness and weight loss industry survives on a simple and endlessly exploitable gap between what people want to be true and what the evidence actually shows. What people want to be true is that there is a product — a...

The assumption that vegetarian cooking is inherently less satisfying, less flavorful, or less interesting than meat-based cooking has been dismantled so thoroughly in recent years — by chefs, food writers, and millions o...

Newborn babies tend to have more fat in their bodies, including in their liver, if their mothers had a higher body mass index (BMI) prior to falling pregnant, new research has found. "This study demonstrates that a woman...

By the time he reached the White House, Bill Clinton's appetite was legend. He loved hamburgers, steaks, chicken enchiladas, barbecue and french fries but wasn't too picky. At one campaign stop in New Hampshire, he repor...

It will give couch potatoes more reason to put their feet up and disappoint those who hit the gym to try to shed the extra pounds. Apparently, exercising is not the best way to lose weight. Research shows that, contrary...

Happiness is based on wife being slimmer than husband, according to study Researchers claim both partners are more content if the woman has a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) than the man. A four-year study found that relatio...

A colorful four-part plate, with a side dish of dairy, has replaced the 19-year-old food pyramid as the icon of the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines. The new icon, called "My Plate," is split into four sections -- red for fru...

Floyd Cardoz's victory on Top Chef Masters and his use of Indian cooking techniques and ingredients on mainstream American competitive food television represented a moment in the gradual mainstreaming of Indian cuisine i...

Indian cuisine has a particular genius for fruit desserts — a repertoire that draws on the subcontinent's extraordinary diversity of tropical and subtropical produce and transforms it through techniques ranging from the...

The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication tha...

An unlikely market has emerged in recent years, driven by converging forces of parental anxiety, medical research, and the remarkable connectivity of the internet: the buying and selling of human breast milk. The demand...

Frozen Watermelon Margarita adapted from Gourmet 1 large watermelon 4 limes 1 c tequila 1/4 c sugar lime salt (recipe below) Cut the watermelon into cubes. Using a hand blender, puree the watermelon and add remaining ing...

Ron Levy never planned to spend his career with his hands in clay and his face near a 900-degree fire. He trained as a fine arts painter, spent years in the art world, and came to the tandoor oven by a route that he hims...

A landmark study published in the journal Obesity found that fat removed through liposuction tends to return within a year—relocated to different parts of the body, particularly the abdomen and upper body, suggesting tha...

What the Yuck: Does blotting pizza save calories? Q: How many calories do you save blotting pizza with a napkin? You are probably cutting 20 to 50 calories a piece - not a whole lot, but I guess if you have a couple of s...

The repositioning of protein as weight management's most useful macronutrient had been building through the nutritional literature for over a decade by 2011, but the advice to actively prioritize protein — to "binge" on...

Breakfast in India is not a single meal. It is dozens of meals — a mosaic of regional traditions so distinct from one another that a breakfast table in Chennai would be virtually unrecognizable to someone who grew up eat...

The relationship between beverage consumption and weight gain had emerged by 2011 as one of the cleaner findings in nutritional epidemiology — remarkable in a field where clean findings were relatively rare. Liquid calor...

Curry has long been among the Britain's favourite dishes - but now there's one more reason to eat your vindaloo as a vital ingredient may be the key to fending off the cold virus. Fenugreek has been used by mothers for c...

Understanding After-School Snacks The topic "After-School Snacks" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Mult...

The midday meal presents a genuine challenge for people trying to eat well without either spending a fortune or accepting the dull monotony that "eating healthy" has wrongly come to imply. The salad, done properly, is on...

The premise behind most "superfoods" lists — that there exists a small set of foods so nutritionally exceptional that daily consumption of them can substitute for an otherwise poor diet — is one of the more durable piece...

The daikon radish has occupied a position of studied invisibility in Western culinary awareness for decades — familiar by sight to anyone who has eaten at a Japanese restaurant, consumed in quantity as a garnish or pickl...

American pediatric guidelines have shifted significantly on fruit juice over the past decade, moving from qualified endorsement to substantial restriction as evidence accumulated that juice—even 100 percent fruit juice—c...

The idea of food as medicine has been a controversial topic in this country in recent years. For decades the fight that the late Robert Atkins and his low-carb acolytes had with mainstream medicine has been as vitriolic...

The pumpkin pie debate is conducted with an intensity disproportionate to its actual stakes, which is one of the most reliable signs that a food argument is really about something else. People who insist that Thanksgivin...

To address the enduring and intertwined problems of hunger, child malnutrition and illiteracy, India launched the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world, back in the 1960s. Today the program f...

The challenge facing any cook attempting to integrate Indian spicing into Thanksgiving food is not culinary but conceptual: the holiday has such strong associations with specific flavors — the sweetness of cranberry, the...

The moment that Indian American Thanksgiving cooking achieves its highest form is not the fusion dish designed to split the difference between two cuisines but the table where both cuisines are present on their own terms...

The Indian relationship with Thanksgiving is one of the more interesting cultural adaptations performed by the South Asian diaspora in America. The holiday is deeply American — rooted in a specific colonial history, orga...

The restaurant industry's transformation of the family dinner from a domestic ritual into a commercial occasion has been one of the more quietly consequential social changes of the past half-century. In India, where the...

The economics of the all-you-can-eat buffet are an elegant illustration of behavioral psychology being weaponized against consumers, and the consumers cooperating enthusiastically in their own exploitation. The buffet's...

The recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is certainly alarming: It says that the number of Americans with diabetes will double or triple in the next 40 years. If they're right, we'll see...