For those of you who are cooking and baking in preparation for a big family dinner tomorrow — here are some favorite food myths debunked. (Sorry!) Unbaked batter has no calories.  Not so.  Even though those scrapings on the edge of the bowl are not yet cooked, they still count. Edges of baked goods are…

Get ready folks!  The eating season is getting ready to start. From this week until the first of the year there will be candy, pastries, and  other fattening goodies in plenty to tempt you from your healthy lifestyle.  How are you going to cope with them? It’s probably not reasonable to suppose that you will…

Everyone hates to hear it — the “C” word.  Sometimes cancer seems  to strike indiscriminately, and there is no rhyme or reason for it.  But researchers keep turning up risk factors and lifestyle connections  — which means there ARE some things you can do to help prevent contracting some kinds of cancer. Like colon cancer. …

“Going to church has nothing to do with being a Christian,” a rather indignant friend said. “I can be just as good a Christian at home or at the lake as sitting in a church. Better maybe.” Some things never change. Charles Spurgeon, known as “The Prince of Preachers” talked about a similar run-in with…

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