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Food and cooking tips

Have a Local Food Party : Instead of counting time or distance, simply enjoy the pleasures of local food by organizing a potluck meal in which everything must be local. Keep your fingers crossed that someone will splurge on handmade goat cheese, and don’t forget some local wine, beer or juice. If you’re organizing a big catered event, the Society for Nutrition Education has a downloadable brochure to help you line up local food resources.


Oven Tips : If you don't have one, consider buying a self-cleaning oven. They use less energy for normal cooking because of higher insulation levels. They also save on your rubber glove and cleanser purchases! However, if you use the self-cleaning feature more than once a month, you'll end up using more energy than you saved. When you clean the oven, do it right after cooking to take advantage of residual heat.

Diet info

The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a diet first advocated by Barry Sears in a series of books, publications and an associated website. The Zone diet isn’t distinctly a weight reduction diet, however many followers claim that they really manage to lose weight by following the zone diet.
The science behind the Zone Diet is that if you control the amount of two key hormones, (insulin and glucogen), then anti-inflammatory chemicals are released which, in turn puts one's body in a state of equilibrium that is an awful lot more healthy than normal, this is referred to as 'the zone'.
Sears states that when in the 'zone', your body is much more efficient and, as a consequence, does not build up layers of fat.
The most important method of the zone system is to keep tight control over the exact ratio of carbs to proteins, and to dose yourself with high levels of Omega 6 and omega 3 fish oils.

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