MAKE AHEAD AND SLOW COOK MEALS THAT PACK A PUNCH 

HOMEMADE PASTA

MAKES: 4 SER. | PREP TIME: 60 TO 90 MIN. COOK TIME: 2 TO 4 MIN.

INGREDIENTS: 4 large eggs, room temperature | 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour | 1 Tbsp. olive oil | 1 tsp. salt, plus salt for water...

If you enjoy growing some of your own food, don’t stop at tomatoes and herbs. Mushrooms can be fun to grow and crazy healthy to eat. They’re fat-free, low-cal, and packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and other nutrients. They’ve even been called a brain-healthy superfo...

The sad truth is many Americans are carrying around too many pounds. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an estimated 160 million Americans are overweight or obes e, including nearly 75% of American men and over 60% of American women. 

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Throughout our lives, environmental pollutants, sun damage, and aging take a toll on our skin. Laser resurfacing is an option to help reduce the visible and non-visible impact they have on our appearance. Depending on the type of laser device, the procedures can resurf...

You have cancer.” These are scary, life-changing words. After the utter shock comes a fight for life — that precious gift we all sometimes take for granted. For me, it felt like I was held captive in a room from which I was desperate to escape. All I wanted to do was w...

It was 1995, right on the cusp of the Texas barbecue explosion across the country. I had recently moved to the Lone Star State, and Bon Appetite had just named Clark’s Outpost in

Tioga, one of its restaurants of the month. That was all the encouragement I needed to driv...

SNACK ON THESE STATE FAIR FAVORITES AT HOME

CORNY DOGS

MAKES: 8 SERVINGS | TIME: 45 MINUTES

INGREDIENTS: 2 quarts vegetable oil for frying | 1 cup yellow cornmeal (not stone-ground) | 1 cup flour | 1 tsp. salt | 4 tsp. baking soda | 1⁄4 cup sugar | 2 eggs | 1 cup milk | 8...

By definition, a placebo is anything that seems to be a real medicine but isn’t. It can take many forms, a capsule, a pill, a saline injection, or oral liquid. Whatever the form, placebos do not contain any active ingredient meant to affect your health. Yet, often they...

Robotic-assisted surgery, medical nanobots, and therapeutic exoskeletons used to be the stuff of sciencefiction. Today, the field of medical robotics has stepped out of the fantasy world and into our research labs, hospitals, and clinics. The current aims of medical ro...

I grew up eating vegetables that exclusively came from cans. Don’t get me wrong, my mom was a great parent. She followed the one meat, one starch, one vegetable mindset of her time. But like most families we knew, our spinach, peas, and corn were all canned. I was 40 b...