Cooking and baking the majority of your foods from scratch can literally save your life.

Eating a regular diet of fast food, processed food and junk food over several decades can cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases. But the good news is that you can radically improve your health, lose weight and live longer by cooking from scratch with wholesome, fresh ingredients. ...

Ever noticed how that first juicy steak, after a long time without, tasted mouth-watering good and you enjoyed every last bite?

Now imagine you had to eat steak every night for one hundred days.

I’m sure the first couple of steaks will taste mighty good, but by the time the 100th steak rolls around, you might as well be eating cardboard. The novelty wears off. The tastes diminishes and dulls. And you no longer receive anywhere near the same level of satisfaction in eating that steak as you did the first night. ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 60% of Americans are obese.

Medical and disability reasons aside, a common cause of obesity is perpetual overeating. I personally know what it's like to have no self-control, to binge and binge, day after day. The self-loathing, the despair: hating the obsession, but loving the taste of the food all the while.

If you often "drown your sorrows" in a tub of ice cream, read on . . . 

Whoever it was who came up with the concept of “100 Calorie Packs” is a marketing genius. I mean seriously, this person (or persons) has hit the jack pot. With the countless diet merchandise and foods already out there, it’s impressive that someone came up with something so deceptively simple; it has already permeated every grocery and convenience store shelf out there with immediate success.

Psychologically, the advertising possibilities are endless. People are falling for this hook, line and sinker. Made by Nabisco, these "100 Calorie Packs" offer any one of your favorite, forbidden snack foods in a mini little package. Doritos, Oreo Cookies, Ritz Crackers, Teddy Grahams . . . whatever you’re craving, chances are you can find it all wrapped up in pretty little “100 Calorie” bow. ...