Over the past several years we have been introduced to many new varieties of food.  The abundance of food on this planet is amazing. (Food shortage scares are not based in reality.)  We westerners love to buy new, and trendy items.  Foodies are always looking for the latest delectable goodie.  Here are a couple of the newest,  as well as healthy foods to hit the market: The Newest Non-GMO Fruit Meet “Opal Apple” the delicious new apple that is a cross between a Golden Delicious and a Topaz apple.  Cross-breeding fruits, vegetables and flowers is a...

I got excited a few months ago when I heard that the cookie diet, which has been around since I first started dieting (practically out of the womb), was still in existence.  Having put on an awful lot of weight in the last few years, I thought, heck I can do that for a few weeks.  Yes, I know it is not the proper way to eat, but why not?  Nothing else had been working – not low carb, intermittent fasting or eating vegetarian. I started to gain weight rapidly 2.5 years ago for no apparent reason. I was...

The other day I got an email from a friend lamenting the fact she was on a diet and weighed 2.5 pounds more than the previous day. I emailed her back and told her I had two words for her – water retention. Whether dieting or not, water retention is a problem for many women.  I am sure men have it too, but we don’t hear a lot about “feeling bloated” or “swollen feet” from the male gender. Celery is a wonderful natural diuretic because it contains sodium and potassium. If you suffer from edema (water retention),...