General cooking tips
Buy Local Food : Take a child shopping with you, pick up one of the offending products and say quite loudly "Well we’re not buying that, think of the energy it’s used up just getting here!"
Kitchen Tip : Using a pressure cooker saves up to two-thirds of the cooking time, saves energy, and preserves the goodness in your food.
Dieting tips
The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a weight loss program initially advocated by Barry Sears in a number of books, publications and an accompanying website. The Zone diet is not particularly a fat reduction diet, nevertheless many zone diet fans discover that they manage to lose weight by following it.
The supposed science behind the Zone Diet is that if one were to control the levels of two important hormones, (insulin and glucogen), then your body releases eicosanoids (anti-inflamatory chemicals) which, as a consequence puts one's body in a state of equilibrium that is much more wholesome than it normally is, this is referred to as 'the zone'.
Sears alleges that if you get into this 'zone', your metabolism is much more efficient and, because of this, does not build up layers of fat.
The most important procedure of the diet is to control the precise ratio of carbs to proteins, and to dose yourself with large amounts of Omega 6 and omega 3 fish oils.