If you are trying to lose weight, or you have high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, or other health conditions that require changing your diet, often it can be tough to find food that you like. And if you are preparing food for a family, you don’t want to have to fix totally separate meals for different family members.

People often complain that low-fat, low-salt food is tasteless, but it doesn’t have to be that way. All it takes is a little creativity and great, fresh ingredients.

Here is a fat-free, salt-free way to make grilled fish that is simply delicious. These instructions make enough grilled fish to serve two adults and a small child, but you can easily increase the quantities to serve more people.

You will use no oil or butter, and no salt. Yet this dish is richly flavorful. It is wonderful served with baked plantains and black beans (the traditional side dishes), or with baked potatoes, salad, and any other vegetables you like.

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As if we didn’t already know that diet and nutrition are exceptionally important before and during pregnancy. Now high blood sugar levels in pregnant mothers (gestational diabetes) have been linked to obesity in their children in later life.

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Noise really does harm your health. New medical research shows what we all know intuitively.

Many cities have banned the so-called “boombox cars” with huge speakers that dominate the whole neighborhood with sound. That is, the laws say the sound of your stereo should not be heard more than 50 feet from your car. Some cities have also banned the use of subwoofers, the subsonic speakers that make your windows vibrate and can cause structural damage to buildings.

The laws are a good idea, but it is hard to get them enforced. Apparently most police officers either disagree with the laws or consider them too trivial to bother with.

Earlier studies had shown that the human brain can cope with only three noise sources, and only for a short time. Concentration is impaired, and eventually the brain just shuts down, and we can no longer think. It’s not just being “overly sensitive,” though some are more affected by sound than others. It is a physical process that we need to be aware of.

Researchers have now found that continous or repeated noise over 50 decibels can damage your heart.

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What an odd society we live in. We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, and there is special concern for the rising problem of child obesity.

Yet at the same time, some people are so concerned about dietary fat that they feed their growing children diets that are too low in fat for proper growth and development.

Also in this news clip is a segment on the rise of deaths from childbirth in the U.S.

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“Would you like fully customized nutritional info with that?” How about full nutritional information on your fast food (or other restaurant) receipt that even tells how many calories you saved by holding the mayo? Or how much fat you added by ordering extra cheese and bacon?

It may be coming soon to a drive-thru near you. Several restaurants are offering such receipts in California, and their customers love it. Business is up, and more restaurants plan to offer the customized receipts.

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A new super-duper nutrition bar hits the stores this Fall. Each bar contains “three cups of pure vegetables and two cups of pure fruit.”

It sounds highly nutritious, but I still have to wonder… Does it taste good?

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Eating organic meat and dairy improves the quality of a mother’s breast milk. No nutrition-conscious person will be surprised to know that. But it could be valuable news for many expectant and nursing mothers.

It’s great to see such stories covered in the mainstream media, especially considering the recent legal actions by factory farm corporations to keep organic dairies from labeling their products as organic. It seems the corporations think that gives the organic farmers an unfair advantage.

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