IT WAS only when I drove into the compound on Maingot Street, Champs Fleurs, saw the huge container waiting for shipment and the piles upon piles of waste plastic, some ready for shipment some waiting to be ground or compressed before shipping, that I understood why Trevor Williams felt both hurt and saddened that Alan de Boehmler of Waste Disposal(...)

IF YOU work long hours and have little time for exercise, an energy drink can provide exactly what your body requires to stay alert. One way to get more vitamins and minerals into your diet is by drinking freshly made fruit juices, vegetable juices, and by blending thick and frothy smoothies and shakes from frozen fruit.

EATING smarter and keeping your heart in peak shape is about more than munching on a celery stick now and then. It’s about the bigger picture — the pattern of decisions you make every day. Because heart disease claims more American lives than any other illness, now is an ideal time to look at how your food choices affect your overall heart health.

AS THE agency charged with driving Trinidad and Tobago’s tourism development, the Tourism Development Company (TDC) is building a global platform for TT’s culinary products while preserving the country’s unique gastronomic traditions and ensuring sustainability of the culinary sector, through mentoring of professional chefs and community cooks.

ONE OF the terms used by the Qur’an during the early Makkan period to describe Islam was Al-Yusraa, or ‘The Easy Way’. This is simply because Islam was, and is the natural way of life. Indeed, whatever is natural for human beings should be easy for them in every way, hence cause them to gravitate towards it easily, and consequently bring harmony, p(...)

QUENCHING your thirst with sweetened drinks is a big diet don’t, since liquid calories may make it harder to regulate your total caloric intake, and therefore can make it easier to gain weight.

HAS YOU child eaten fish today? A University of Illinois food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child’s diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, nutritious salmon baby food for toddlers.

HERE ARE the minuses of how alcohol affects your body:

IN THE United States and Canada they’re known as cookies, the English call them biscuits (somewhat misleadingly because ‘bis’ means twice and ‘cuit’ is cooked — but they’re not, to my knowledge, cooked twice, so perhaps the US/Canadian term is more accurate for these chewy, toothsome cookies-cum-biscuits).