The New York Times published a list of appetizers that can be prepared in less than 20 minutes. This gives some good ideas for holiday season’s parties.

In this Santa Barbara Independent article, there is an interesting explanation of why French don’t get fat whereas "they eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do." The article author Michael Seabaugh quotes  Laurence Hauben an expert on the subject:

“The French don’t traditionally wolf down a meal at their desk or while commuting […]

Time published here a set of photographs from  a book by by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. The concept is to show a family from different countries with the food they eat. The french family’s photograph is linked below:

Here are some links to figure out what do 120, 200 or 300 calories look like:

120 calories:

200 calories:

300 calories:

In the TED presentation below, Dr Dean Ornish provides some insight about the rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accros the globe.