If you’d like to take cooking classes on vacation but don’t want to spend all your time in a kitchen, Outside magazine is recommending four resorts where wooden spoons and wooden oars are both on the menu.
At the Palms Cliff House Inn on Hawaii’s Big Island, learn Pacific Rim cooking, then paddle Hilo Bay in a double-hulled canoe.
At Comida de Campos, in Embudo, N.M., you can harvest ingredients for green chili stew and salsa fresca, then explore 700-year-old pueblos in Bandelier National Monument.
At the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., grillmeister Steven Raichlen runs BBQ-U, three-day workshops on smoking and grilling. The Allegheny Mountains and whitewater rafting await those who need a little fresh air.
Erna’s Elderberry House in Oakhurst, Calif., is just 20 minutes from the south gate of Yosemite, so when you’re done whipping up lemon grass risotto, you can head for the hills.
For details, check out the September issue of Outside magazine.
Want to lose 50 pounds in 10 days by eating as many kumquats as you like?
Kumquats aside, if a diet sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In addition to not delivering on their weight-loss promises, fad diets can be damaging to your health.
The Wheat Foods Council suggest thinking twice about following the latest “diet du jour” if it promotes any of the following:
* Promises rapid weight loss.
* Implies calories don’t count or has unsafe restrictions on calories.
* Classifies certain foods as “good” or “bad,” or prescribes “select” foods in large amounts.
* Eliminates entire food groups.
* Prescribes a “magic” or “miracle” pill, bar, powder, wafer, vitamin, mineral, enzyme or other supplement.
* Restricts specific foods to certain types of people (blood type, Zodiac sign, etc.)
* Is not backed by solid scientific evidence or based on sound science.
* Manipulates or misrepresents scientific facts or draws simplistic conclusions from a single study, complex study or one part of a study.
* Is promoted by a famous figure or star spokesperson.
* Promises weight loss without exercise or other lifestyle changes.
From staff and wire reports
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