(NC)-Your doctor utters those dreaded words; you must lower your cholesterol or face the possibility of heart disease. You think you will have to give up all the foods you love. However, being healthy does not mean eating a rabbit's diet. Retailers are increasingly helping consumers find ways to eat the foods that they love without fearing the next checkup.

Here are some tips to help you understand how to eat any foods without a big serving of guilt.

Choose and enjoy a variety of foods every day. This will help you maintain a balanced diet.

Eat moderate, balanced portions. When portion sizes are reasonable, it will be easier to eat the foods you want and to stay healthy.

Eat exactly what you're hungry for. If y To Be Or Not To Be… Healthy? The Choice Is Yours Recipe

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Finding Delicious Cookie Recipes

by Mike Yeager

Many of us have an inner baker inside us that loves to find new cookie recipes to try. But, where do you find new, tried and true, cookie recipes that your family will love? People are always looking for the newest versions of their favorite recipes to broaden their dinner choices. New crockpot recipes, new chicken recipes, even new fondue recipes are all searched for by those needing something a little different. Let's face it, we all want something different from time to time, right? There are many places to find free recipes for any of your needs. Going to the local library and obtaining a membership (most of the time this is free as well) is one way to do some research.

They have many titles of books to choose from and many different types of Finding Delicious Cookie Recipes Recipe

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Digging Up Earthnuts (Conopodium Majus)

by Simon Mitchell

The custom of grubbing for Earthnuts, or Pignuts is as ancient as mankind itself. Although these tasty tubers are beloved of pigs (hence the name) they are a most unusual and rewarding woodland snack and there was a time when they were a popular nibble for country children on their way to and from school.

The fern like leaves appear along with the Lesser Celandine in the spring. During May and July they develop umbellifer heads with white flowers not unlike Cow Parsley. According to Gerard and others the Dutch once ate them 'boiled and buttered, as we do parseneps and carrots'. Unearthing a pignut is a delicate operation. The root disconnects from the tuber very easily, which can be several inches from where the stem appears above ground. Digging Up Earthnuts (Conopodium Majus) Recipe

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