Maybe you'd like to lose a few pounds. When it comes to weight, there is only one equation which is scientifically indisputable: Eat more calories, gain weight. Eat fewer calories, lose weight. It's that simple. It's what every doctor and nutritionist has been saying for decades. For a great introduction, just check out the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent anti-obesity program, Calories Count. On the other hand, not everyone needs to lose weight.

Although skipping breakfast is a popular calorie-cutting strategy among some dieters, it usually backfires. Forgoing your morning meal may cause you to overeat later in the day. It will also keep your metabolism at its low resting level until you do eat. Also, research shows that people who succeed at losing weight, and keeping it off, almost always eat breakfast.

General guidelines suggest that to lose weight safely, lose 1/2 to 1 pound per week. One pound of fat has 3,500 calories. If you cut back by 500 calories per day, you can lose one pound of fat in one week. In addition to cutting calories, burn more calories each day with exercise. For example, by cutting back on 300 calories of food each day, and burning an extra 200 calories with aerobic exercise, you could expect to lose about a pound a week.

Cut in" means to distribute small chunks of a solid fat (butter or shortening) into flour before adding the liquid (usually milk or water). You do this using a pastry blender or two knives in a crisscross cutting motion. This technique is used when baking biscuits or pastry so they are tender and flaky. When the dough is baked, the fat melts in pockets which produces the flaky layers.

No. Since a chiropractic adjustment is a specific force, applied in a specific direction to a specific joint, it is virtually impossible to adjust oneself correctly and accurately. It is possible to turn or bend or twist in certain ways to create a "popping" sound that sometimes accompanies a chiropractic adjustment. Unfortunately, this type of joint manipulation is usually counterproductive, often making an already unstable spine even more unstable, and can sometimes be dangerous.

Ceramic is best cut using a special diamond saw. Small prototype parts can be cut from piezoceramic sheet stock by using a razor blade and a straight edge to score the piezo surface and then making a controlled break. Even with practice this method does not yield straight-sided parts or repeatable cuts. Use at your own risk.

No, the diet is very simple. You eat animal protein with all meals in addition to vegetables and fruit.

The natural flavor is a starter distillate. Starter distillate is a steam distillate of a culture grown on a skim milk medium which has been fortified with .01% citric acid. The culture could be one of the following: Streptococcus lactis, S. cremoris, S. lactis Subsp, Diactylactis, or Lueconostoc. (These are cultures that can also be found in kefir) According to our butter maker, distillate give the butter an old-fashioned tang, without having to sour the cream to achieve it. [back to top]

Because kosher salt is less dense than table salt and one brand of kosher salt is even less dense than the other, our standard formula must be adjusted. Substitute 2 cups of Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt or 11/2 cups of Morton Kosher Salt for 1 cup of table salt.

Generally no. The Edge Brownie Pan is sized to fit most standard box mixes and recipes designed for 9"x9" or 9"x13" pans, so adjustments aren't usually necessary.

A recipe must contain ingredients and the directions for assembling those ingredients. A recipe may contain your suggestions or comments relevant to that recipe. From time to time the Lead Moderator may decide to post an article explaining a recipe or technique in more detail. For this newsgroup, a recipe is defined as a list of ingredients with a set of instructions on how to put those ingredients together.

You can also access our recipe sections. These are at www.vrg.org/recipes and www.vrg.org/journal. VRG also publishes several cookbooks including Simply Vegan, Conveniently Vegan, Meatless Meals for Working People, The Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cookbook, Vegan Handbook, and more. You can also go to the search engine of your choice and type in "vegetarian recipes" and you will discover thousands of websites.

Salsas are usually mixtures of acid and low-acid ingredients; they are an example of an acidified food. The specific recipe, and sometimes preparation method, will determine if a salsa can be processed in a boiling water canner or a pressure canner. A process must be scientifically determined for each recipe. To can salsa at home, use our recipes for Hot Chile Salsa or Mexican Tomato Sauce. Your county Extension agent may have additional tested recipes for salsas.

Research and clinical studies, spanning over 50 years, have found that if there is a vertebral subluxation at the very top of the neck, this causes the entire spine (and body) to become unhealthy and unstable. These studies have also found that if the upper neck is carefully studied and precisely adjusted, the entire spine will regain health and stability without the need for adjustments throughout the spine.

Some people want the power and reliability of 1 BAR of boost but on a track day want to run 1.4 BAR, this option makes that possible. Some people like to use octane booster for more performance, the adjustable timing allows the user the ability to dial in even more ignition for maximum power.

The quickest way to do this is to select recipes in the recipe selection window and press To Editor toolbar button on that window, then press either NYC generic or Meal-Master, depending on the text format you want to use for the newsgroup post. Copy-paste from this editor window into your newsgroup article. You need not exit NYC to do this.

Please credit me and give a direct link to my site and the original recipes. Make make it clear that any changes you made were your own.