'Tis the season for all things sweet at Barbara Adams' Beyond Wonderful (www.beyondwonderful.com) the online headquarters for holiday baking. Resident pastry expert Catherine Christiansen takes the lead with a scrumptious series of recipes perfect for gifts and entertaining. Catherine offers classics like sugar cookies, spicy ginger snaps, and macaroons, plus more elaborate delicacies such as dried cherry nut bread and decadent, candy-laden "monster" cookies. . . . Read Full Article

The DaysAgo™ Digital Day Counter, which counts days to help families avoid food spoilage, was named the Best New Household Product of 2007 by Good Housekeeping at the magazine's 12th Annual "Good Buy Awards" ceremony. The Good Housekeeping award is DaysAgo's fourth since the day counter was introduced in March 2006. DaysAgo™ is the first digital day counter that answers the age-old question, "How many days ago did I open this?" The counter affixes to containers through either a magnet for metal surfaces or suction for others, and has a digital screen that counts days after the touch of a button. . . . Read Full Article

The status of Superfood is difficult to achieve, but that's exactly what the blueberry did last year as Vegetarian Times ranked its seven overachievers.

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Blueberries, a central ingredient in the newly released supplements found in the United States and Canada at Berrywiseinc.com (www.Berrywiseinc.com), were noted in the Times' top 7 as a Superfood that may help reverse some effects of aging and contained the highest antioxidant power of the 20 most common fruits and berries. The blueberry also achieved super status due to its ability to reduce cholesterol and help prevent urinary tract infections. The blueberry shared the Superfood roundtable with spinach, oats, soy, broccoli, tomatoes and tea, making the berry - arguably - the best-tasting of the bunch.
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Data presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) demonstrated that the all natural dietary fiber FBCx preferentially binds saturated dietary fat. The double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial with obese diabetic volunteers concluded that all volunteers in the active group responded to FBCx, but those that had the highest saturated fat-containing diets experienced the largest adjusted weight loss.
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