Fad diets are weight-loss plans or aids that promise dramatic results. Fad diets often become popular very quickly and often fall out of favor just as quickly. Typically, these diets don’t result in long-term success and most often aren’t very healthy. Some are even dangerous to your health.

Is there a statute of limitations for giving a Valentine’s gift? How early can something be given or good deed done and have it applied to your account at the First National Bank of Love? A day? A week? Two weeks? A month? Obviously it depends a great deal on the recipient and whether you’re giving a “real pony” kind of gift or your present falls into the category of “Superman underwear.”

As you might guess from the double-barreled name, Unitarian Universalism is a kind of “blended family.”

While our government leaders are busy debating "health reform," I often get the sense they forget that most of us have medical needs that need to get addressed in today's very broken system.

A 26-year-old Sudbury man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing human bones from a burial vault and agreed to make full restitution for the damage, estimated at more than $21,000.

Although it occurs in 1 percent to 2 percent of the population, many people are not aware of and may even have a condition called body dysmorphic disorder.

We all know I'm a big fan of planning ahead and since most people are interested in shedding their winter weight and looking fitter and performing better come summer, I figured I might be able to lend a hand.

Weekly food rail, with tips on safe eating when the power is out, an easy recipe for a breakfast casserole, the latest from the Beer Nut, and more.

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I never pondered why my family of origin and everyone they surrounded themselves with were so preoccupied with food; it just was a fact of life. Now, having read a book titled “Why Italians Love to Talk About Food,” I finally understand that “Italy is food and food is Italy, literally emotionally, historically and symbolically.”

In 2005 the Super Bowl halftime show was performed by The Rolling Stones, whose ages one can detect only via carbon-dating methods. This year the featured band was The Who, who are so old they looked and sounded like pterodactyls on Lipitor.

Getting ready for a winter storm involves more than buying bread and milk. Protecting your family from discomfort is important, but protecting your family from danger is a priority. One real danger is carbon monoxide poisoning.

Nine months ago, on a perfect spring day in central Illinois, Eric Albers was married, and the future looked good. Three days later, Albers, 25, began fighting for his life. At one time, Albers could have faced an amputation as part of the treatment for his Ewing sarcoma bone cancer. Instead, he received a cadaver bone complete with tendons that enabled the surgical reattachment of his muscles to the transplanted donor humerus bone.

Learning to write her name in Braille was probably the hardest thing Cora Quinn ever did. It’s also one of the most important things she’s done. Quinn, 60, of Peoria has been blind most of her life. At age 5, she learned to read and write in Braille as a student at the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired in Jacksonville. Although it is still taught to children who attend the Jacksonville school, Quinn and others worry the skill is being left behind by some because of the many computerized and audio methods of reading/listening now available.

K.C. King recalls that her physician told her she was fine, even after doing some blood work. But she wasn’t. After visiting a nutritionist 14 years ago and finding that her liver function was “off the chart,” she underwent a food elimination diet and discovered she has celiac disease.