Food Bites

Chocolate or kisses?

Looking for a little buzz? Kiss your boyfriend or have a chocolate, which is better?
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Milking a cold

Last (for now) in our series on colds and foods: Milk and colds. You may think milk is responsible for your goopy, runny nose, but it's not.
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The cold vs. soup

Does chicken soup really help a cold? Maybe. Sure as spit can't hurt.
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Feed a fever, starve a cold?

Cold and flu season is hard upon us, is all the advice to take our vitamin C useful or useless?
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All right. Who asked for this?

Apparently panning for gold in a bottle of Goldschlager, shot by shot by shot is too much work for some people.
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Caveat lector

It's that time of year again...well for the diet industry, it's always that time of year. You need to shape up, FAST, before the holidays (or vacation, or beach season). So, how to pick that book to let the inches melt away?
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Tips on food safety

What to do when your food bites back?
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Brown box for brown-bagging

Hormel is working hard to shoehorn itself into the "all-natural" kick. Their new line of lunch meats is easy to find in local supermarkets, and they've made their way into my lunchbox.
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Thoughts on salt, revisited

You know, I was there the day the news came down....but the Chicago Tribune has 5 more pages on salt for you to read.
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Summer vacation

I'd like to say I'm on vacation......
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Hybrid burgers

What's meat and soy and tasty all over? Solae's new "Better Burger" aspires to be the answer.
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Japanese home cooking

Japanese home cooking is very healthful and beautiful, I find it one of the most satisfying cuisines around.
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My favorite appliance

Like Danny Ackroyd playing Julia Child, I've just cut the dickens out of my finger--a mushroom slicing mishap. In a way I'm glad. Not because I'm a big freak or anything, but because I can tell you about my favorite appliance for the kitchen.
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Wonderous water

Water--it's crucial for your health. Have some today.
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The big deal about whole grains

As I'm sure you've noticed, I'm a big believer in whole grains. I'm not alone, learn more about why grains are good eats.
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Junk food junkies

Just because your school has a ban on unhealthy snacks doesn't mean that your kids aren't getting treats on the sly.
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But you don't look sick? Fibromyalgia awareness day

May 12, 2006 is fibromyalgia awareness day. This condition affects millions of people worldwide, including me, your intrepid FoodFodder reporter. Chances are you also know someone with this syndrome.
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Ancient way of eating may help you age well

The Mediterranean-style way of eating is much ballyhooed for heart health and is praised for being one of the healthier diets around. Now some research shows that eating like a Mediterranean may protect your brain as you get older.
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So many Peeps, so little time

Oh, they're here for such a short stay! They're little, squishy, and cute as the dickens. Peeps season is open.
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