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Healthy Tip: Make your Own Salad Dressings

Get into the habit of making your own salad dressings and forget the store-bought brands.  It’s simple, quick, healthier, cheaper, and tastes so much better.  Use extra virgin olive oil as your oil base.  Here are recipes for 2 of my favorites that can always be found in my fridge.

A Prescription for Pistachios

Previous studies have repeatedly shown that nuts score a perfect 10 when it comes to cardiovascular risk reduction. Although scientific evidence is firmly established for almonds and walnuts, studies on pistachios have been lacking. Thanks to a new clinical trial in the September issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, pistachios can triumphantly join [...]

Another Reason to Enjoy Olive Oil

I consider extra virgin olive oil a superstar food for both sensory pleasure and health protection, and a fascinating new study in the October issue of Cell Metabolism provided yet another reason to make this delicious fat your oil of choice, namely better appetite control.  Olive oil is chock full of heart-happy monounsaturated fats and [...]