The Low Down on Safe Cooking Equipment

Microwaving has been a widely accepted method of cooking and heating meals, but few of us stop to think how ‘nuking’ affects the otherwise nutritious foods that we strive to incorporate into our diets. Nearly two decades ago, a German study reported that microwaving food is actually a major cause of the dramatic increases in cancer experienced in the industrialized world. The researchers found that microwaving, which unlike traditional cooking heats from the inside out, creates uniq...

Fish consumption is definitely a example of where people need to be properly educated before making any drastic dietary changes. Over the years, we have been told by government agencies such as the ADA (American Dietetic Association) that our diets should reflect those of healthy societies such as the Japanese, Italians and Greeks who presumably eat a practically vegetarian diet with the addition of lots of "heart healthy" fish (this actually isn't true, but we'll leave that revelation for anoth...

Since the mad cow disease scares began in the 1990s, people have been increasingly afraid of consuming red meat. Some even go so far as to say that red meat is inherently bad for you and should be avoided at all costs. Today, red meat is blamed for everything from obesity and heart disease to arthritis and violence. In our haste to label real foods as good or bad foods, we've inadvertently invented myths about their nutritional value. Let me set the record straight. While I would never say...