It’s the perfect time of year for my favorite fruit: strawberries!

Strawberry season actually varies depending on which region you’re in: they peek in April in Florida and Texas, May in the deep South, and in early June in middle sections and later June in the far northern US and Canada.
If you’re lucky enough to have your own little crop of berries, you may have ended up running out to grab a few more when using them in a recipe. If you buy them from the store, though, you’ve probably found that berries in those little plastic baskets aren’t …read more

Five foot four and one hundred and fifteen pounds, in my dreams. No wait, I think I had those measurements in… fifth grade! I would think that this individual would be in good health and in no way would I classify them as “fat”.
Of course, you can already see where this is going. Now we must redefine our concept of “fat” and examine not only BMI, but muscle to fat ratio.
In this particular case, the young ladies body was 24% fat, not the 18% it should have been. Even with normal waist circumference and BMI, your …read more