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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Try Organic Food : Organically-grown food costs more, but you get what you pay for. It is 2-10 times richer in minerals, contains no pesticides, and tastes better. It is better for you, your planet, and your palate. Wild unhybridized food is what your body was designed for, before our ancestors started messing with Mother Nature. Take it easy with highly hybridized fruits (bananas, seedless anything) and vegetables (carrots, beets, white potatoes).


Weight loss info

The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet system invented by Miami, florida-area cardiologist arthur agatston which emphasizes the consumption of "good carbs" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Dr. agatston developed his weight loss regime as an aid to patients with heart conditions, as a consequence of his detailed analysis of scientific data completed on other dietary studies.
Examples of good foods include, lean beef, turkey breast, prawns, cottage cheese, peanut butter, nonfat milk and certain vegetables, like green beans, lettuce and spinach.








Wonderful Chocolate Cake Recipe
Wonderful Chocolate Cake Category Baking Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 c All-purpose flour

3/4 c Unsweetened cocoa powder

2 c Granulated sugar

2 ts Baking soda

1 ts Baking powder

1/4 ts Salt

4 tb Buttermilk powder

1 c Water

2 Jars Pureed baby-food prunes

(4 1/2 oz each) 1 ts Vanilla

1 ts Almond flavoring

Or butter flavoring Egg substitute (equal to two whole eggs 1 c Water

Orange glaze; * see note Sift flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt into large mixing bowl. In medium bowl, combine buttermilk powder, prunes, flavorings, egg substitute and water. Slowly pour moist ingredients into flour mixture, blending well. Spray 2 round 9-inch pans or one 9x13-inch rectangular pan with pan spray. Fill with batter and bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean. There's just one cup of water that you mix in with the buttermilk powder. I know the way it was written, it could be confusing. * Glaze For cake : 1 cup orange juice 2 cups powdered sugar 2 tsp grated orange peel Bring to a boil and pour over cake

while hot. Or if the cake has already cooled off, try this glaze 1 cup powdered sugar-- 4 to 5 tsp. milk-- 1 1/2 tsp. corn syrup -1/4 tsp. vanilla or bourbon whiskey. Combine and drizzle over cooled cake. Diana Hawkins -----

 
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