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Sometimes a gift of food hits the spot with your special someone. Maybe they are a true-blue foodie. Or maybe they struggle to find that perfect take-along snack. Or maybe it's just as simple as them loving a specific vittle so much, that a gift of it would be just the thing this holiday season. Whatever the reason, we all love food and giving someone such a gift can certainly score points on the brownie-scale. (Sugar-free of course!)

Kent Altena shares the various methods needed to help you recover from exercise, whether it's is a workout at home or running a marathon. Kent's suggestions will help you improve performance, stay encouraged, and avoid injury.

In amongst the hustle and bustle of the holidays, most of us enjoy decking the halls and turning our homes into beautifully-decorated ensembles. Sometimes though, our budgets don't match our dreams and we have to transform our homes into a prince's castle on a pauper's budget.

Many people are overwhelmed by crowded, unappealing gyms. Sagdrina offers us an alternative approach to fitness worthy of our consideration. The TRX Suspension Trainer system is an innovative approach to incorporating challenging, body weight exercises in the privacy of your own home.

Dr. James Carlson points out the problems with current medical thinking. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about the role of dietary nutrition in healthcare.

The CarbSmart team wants to help you create new traditions, as well as reacquaint you with some old favorite ways to celebrate the holidays.

Is organic really better for us, or is it a scam? Filmmaker Kip Pastor sets out to answer this question in the food documentary In Organic We Trust.

We know you want your kids to eat and enjoy Brussels sprouts. Susie T. Gibbs offers up 3 sure fire recipes to entice your picky eaters!

Never heard of this squash-like fruit native to Mexico? Vanessa has the down low on this versatile fruit.

You’ve decarbed your holiday dinner: Fauxtatoes, grain-free dressing, sugar-free cheesecake with a nut crust. But without flour or cornstarch, how do you make gravy? Dana Carpender teaches how in just a few easy steps.

Over the top, but true, excess sugar is toxic to our health. In all its forms, whether processed or natural, too much sugar negatively influences not only our waistline but our health as well. Vanessa shares 5 tried and true strategies to side step sugar.

Under normal conditions it is clear that drugs and food are very different, however, because the brain reward systems responsible for making drugs of abuse so addictive are the same pleasure systems that are activated by the foods we eat, our brains can have a very hard time differentiating between the pleasure derived from mild doses of some drugs of abuse and some types of food. Dr. Nicole Avena shows us the primary differences between food and drugs of abuse and how these differences contribute to food addiction.