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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Chili for a cold day or Superbowl Sunday

29 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Monica Epstein in Cooking

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In winter, we tend to reach for food that is hot and soothing, like soups, stews, and chili. They’re the antithesis of the weather outdoors; they warm our chilled bodies and comfort our stinging souls. No wonder chili is so popular a dish to serve on Superbowl Sunday, which falls smack in the middle of the coldest time of the year in America.

I’ve eaten so many delicious chilis in recent years, I can’t possibly pick a favorite. I can’t even narrow it down to meat or vegetarian. And if I were to pick meat would it be chicken or beef, and if it were beef, would it be ground or cubes? My mood runs the show if I’m doing the cooking. If someone else cooks, I’ll gladly eat what they prepare.
 

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What’s to gain when your sports team loses?

19 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by Monica Epstein in Health

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Weight, apparently.

Did you know that the Monday following a football game, fans of the losing team eat more saturated fats and sugars? So says a study published in Psychology Science, the journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The saturated fat intake of these fans was nearly sixteen percent higher than their normal saturated fat intake. And if the game came down to the wire, the results were even more marked.

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What’s in your shopping cart?

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

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It’s a common belief that you shouldn’t grocery shop when you’re hungry because you will buy more, and now Cornell University has proof. Their study found that people who hadn’t eaten anything in the five hours prior to shopping bought nineteen percent more groceries than those who had consumed a small snack of wheat crackers. In fact, the hungry shoppers purchased thirty-one percent more high-calorie snacks.

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