Since uncooked fish carries with it the risk for parasites, visit sushi restaurants that serve only previously frozen or cooked fish. A sushi chef combines pieces of fish, vegetables and sometimes mayonnaise or sauce on dried seaweed, rolls it up and cuts into pieces, usually four to six pieces per order. White rice is usual, although you may be able to find brown rice in some restaurants. Depending on the size of the roll, you’ll usually get about a half-cup to one cup of rice per roll, or one to two servings (100 calories per serving). Fish can be very lean, like abalone or flounder, or fattier (and healthy, too) such as tuna, salmon and mackerel.

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Healthy or not healthy? Not a simple question these days. While you’re aware banana splits and double bacon cheeseburgers are not the best choices when watching your waistline, some foods you least suspect can also be troublemakers.

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Food is love. Food is comfort. What Grandma didn’t tell us and probably didn’t know: Food is also sex. Certain consumables can light up your lovemaking. For the record, I’m not talking about the so-called aphrodisiacs that resemble human genitalia, such as oysters and figs.

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As the saying goes, “You are what you eat.” So, what effect does your diet really have on your appearance? We know eating sensibly helps maintain a healthy lifestyle, but it can also help maintain a healthy appearance.

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Pick a fruit, any fruit, and you know it’s good for you. It’s the same with vegetables and many whole grain foods. They deserve their nutritional halos.

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French fries, America’s favorite vegetable, isn’t really French at all. According to Wikipedia, Thomas Jefferson is attributed to coining the phrase. Jefferson had his French chef, Honore Julien, deep fry the small pieces of raw potatoes. Belgium is actually the country best known for these delicacies with recipes dating back to 1680.

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You bend and turn, twist and burn, all in an effort to lose that gut, but your pooch persists. But what can you do? Look at the food you’re feeding your body and replace some of the belly busters with slimming stomach staples (as in crucial diet ingredients, not invasive surgery fasteners).

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While there is some controversy about whether we all need eight glasses of fluid a day, the popularity of bottled water shows no let up. It’s healthful, it’s refreshing, and bottles are easy to carry. Despite the benefits of this trend, an increasing number of cities have enacted a ban on bottled waters, not because of the water, but to avoid the tremendous costs of eliminating the bottles.

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Take avocados and peanuts, for example. Not too long ago they wore a big scarlet “F” for too much fat. Yet as peanuts and avocados sat languishing on many people’s bad-for-you lists, researchers discovered that the fat in these two foods, mostly the monounsaturated kind, is extremely good for the heart–and for health in general.

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Just because you are heading down the road to weight loss doesn’t mean you have to steer clear of the drive-thru. Even when you are committed to following a healthy eating plan, it is still possible to ride in the fast-food lane. In fact, given the hectic pace of modern life, it is almost unrealistic to think that people won’t have to resort to eating take-out or convenience food from time to time. “Fast food is not something you want to consume every day,” warns eDiets Director of Nutritional Services Pamela Ofstein.

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