Word: teaspoons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT WE USED TO THINK Butter packs a heart attack in every teaspoon. Switch to margarine...
...this still sounds like eating sawdust, try changing your diet in stages. Start with wheat bread, then switch to whole wheat. Some brands are milder than others. You might even mix a teaspoon of oat bran or wheat germ into your yogurt...
...that they may have found a gene that makes some African Americans more likely to suffer high blood pressure when they consume salt. The gene in question controls how much the blood vessels widen, which lowers blood pressure, or narrow, which raises blood pressure. As little as half a teaspoon of table salt can raise blood pressure levels five points (mm Hg) in those who have the gene...
...fresh produce if at all possible. Canned spinach is a horror. I prefer to wilt 10 oz. of spinach quickly in a covered skillet with a little water and lemon juice or with some garlic and a teaspoon of olive oil. It takes just three minutes to steam broccoli until it's bright green and a little crunchy--and it then retains its vitamins and other nutrients...
...creative, it could conceivably suffice to send along a candy-gram and call it a night. But when Valentine's falls on a Saturday night--for the first time in ten years--avoidance tactics become a recipe for disaster. Mix that in with the three-day weekend, add the teaspoon of truth that nobody has that much real schoolwork this early in the semester, bake for half an hour at 350 degrees, and you'd better be seriously prepared with something sweet for your sweetheart--or at least have made other plans. This year...