Entries tagged ‘fat’

People sensitive to the taste of fat tend to eat less of it and are less likely to be overweight, according to Australian research that found human tongues can detect fatty tastes in addition to the five others — sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein-rich.

Can a drink a day keep the pounds away? Perhaps for the ladies. New research suggests that women who regularly consume moderate amounts of alcohol are less likely to gain weight than nondrinkers and are at lower risk for obesity.

If you’re a foodie, chef, or just plain daring, I bet you’ve been intrigued by the prospect of deep frying your turkey on Thanksgiving. The real problem is your family; probably your mom or a healthy loved one. “I don’t want my turkey fried for Thanksgiving” is an inevitable response you’ll hear when you tell the family that you’d like to deep fry this year.

Look at that picture… how could you not appreciate a cookbook with a big fatty slab of meat on the cover?

A visually delicious website popped up on the interwebs last month. This is Why You’re Fat is food porn at it’s finest… a photo stream of the world’s frankenfoods submitted by you, the fat bastard that created the marvelous monstrosity.

A recipe has recently surfaced on the web that is garnering more attention and web traffic than any White Castle stuffing recipe or Absolutely Ridiculous Burger ever could. That recipe is for the Bacon Explosion from BBQ Addicts.

As women catch up with men in the drinking stakes, their waistlines are also catching up with the beer belly, according to health experts.  An English dietitian has given the apple-shaped body type a new name– the wineglass–due to the love of the drink.  Jacqui Lowdon, from the British Dietetic Association, said it was the […]