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If you’re anything like us, you hate slaving away in the kitchen when the temperatures start rising. Beat the heat with these delicious, low-maintenance recipes that are perfect for the dog days of summer. Best part? You won’t even need to touch the stove! The recipes below each serve 4-6 … Read more
To know how many calories you need to eat in a day, you have to calculate your basal metabolic rate i.e BMR. Click BMR Calculator and calculate your daily calorie needs. Once you know your BMR, you can calculate your Daily Calorie Needs based on your activity level using the … Read more
One of Karachi’s most popular restaurants always hit by Tsunami of public. It is not easy to get a seat especially at weekends but if you succeeded in sitting it’s worth visiting. Karachites descend to devour their delicacies to this exotic restaurant. It serves at least 2,500 – 3000 people … Read more
Rule of thumb:
Use the oil-grease analogy when you buy foods:
when you can see liquid oil, the food most likely will increase your good cholesterol
when food is solid and fat, without liquid oil (butter, cookies) they will increase your bad cholesterol
Diets for high cholesterol, that is: diets to lower cholesterol levels, should include lots of fruits and vegetables, replace meat with fish and use oil for
Pomegranate juice has become popular in the past few years, but does it really live up to the hype? It looks like it.
Several recent studies have shown significant potential health benefits from drinking pomegranate juice. Here are eleven of them for you:
Fights Breast Cancer
Studies in Israel show that pomegranate juice destroys breast cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
Our body does need cholesterol to make bile salts, hormones and vitamin D. It is mainly produced by our liver. Cholesterol will build up on the artery walls when the level of cholesterol in the blood is too high. There are 2 main types of blood cholesterol: LDL (the “Bad” … Read more
You get up in the morning, you rush to get ready for work, you rush out the door without a breakfast. Perhaps you grab a bagel and cream cheese, perhaps a muffin, perhaps an Egg McMuffin. If you’re lucky, you get a pastry, a hearty breakfast of pancakes and sausage … Read more
Singapore is one of the biggest seafood consumers in Asia-Pacific with an average of 100,000 tonnes of seafood consumed each year. As such Singapore has an important role to play in the conservation and sustainability of marine resources. The pocket-sized WWF Singapore Seafood Guide gives Singaporeans information about making sustainable … Read more
If you chow down on curry dishes regularly, give yourself a pat on the back (or tummy). You probably gobble the spicy stuff because it’s delicious, but here’s another good reason to load curry sauce on your veggies: turmeric, the main ingredient in curry, is proving to have numerous health … Read more
Sometimes it is hard to trace a recipe’s origin. Take the Red Velvet Cake. There are many theories; some say it comes from the South, others say it originated in the North. But in actual fact all we really know is that it has been a favorite for decades, not … Read more