Zenergo, a social media tool with a focus on activity groups (hobbies, sports, arts, crafts, and other things), is putting out some great blog posts about cooking, wine tasting and other hobbies. Interest groups are the whole point of Zenergo, where you can connect with others who share the same interests and group experiences.

I know, you’re wondering how you can fit another social network into your busy online schedule…but check it out and see if its unique approach to group and social interaction is the right approach for you. You might learn a recipe or two along the way.

Check it out at www.zenergo.com

by Edna Sousa
When dieting, we typically just pay attention to our body size or specifically our weight. Sometimes we forget to pay attention to what we are eating or how the food helps our health. Because dieting is not just losing weight, it’s more than that. Dieting is feeling awesome, looking great, eating better. And this is the proof of the relationship between inner and out beauty.

So I’ve decided to provide a list of some great botanical ingredients you can use in your diet program that will help you lose weight, feel great, and stay health.
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English inventor and entrepreneur, James Nash, created a new way to go mobile with wine. His start-up company, callled Wine Innovations, has launched a new packaging breakthrough for wine lovers. It uses a plastic wine glass with a sealed, tear-off lid (like those orange juice cups you got in your school lunch) that’s filled with a single serving of red, white or rose.

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It’s about time someone came out with a cleaning product to wash your food with. We wash our dishes. We wash our counter tops. We use green cleaning products for our homes and kitchens. Some of us even look for anti-bacterial soaps to clean our hands before touching our food.

But what about cleaning our food? Most of us still use plain water for that.

Well, now Eat Cleaner has come out with a handy food cleaning product that is 100% natural, kosher and safe…and it does a better job of cleaning your food than just rinsing it with water. (more…)

An exciting new exercise tool is coming to the United States soon from Japan. This super-firm pad, made from inter-woven fibers (hence, it’s call a “nest”) supports your body while you perform all sorts of exercises on it. It’s perfect for jogging in place, jumping and dancing, plus you can use it for extra leverage the way you’d use a Pilates ball — giving your situps, pushups, and other leverage-based exercises more efficiency. It also provides an excellent platform for elderly folks to workout with super-low impact. It’s also fun for kids and couples.

“Many actresses and athletes are fascinated by Vernest…it looks like a fancy coushion, but you’ll know its difference as soon as you put your body on it. Nothing else can give you the springiness and the floating feeling you get with Vernest. (more…)

Annmarie Kostyk is taking her readers on a quest for the most delicious chocolate in all of the United States with her third book, The Chocolate Travel Guide: United States Edition 2010.

All things chocolate are covered including bean to bar makers, chocolatiers, confectioners, chocolate festivals, luscious hotel chocolate buffets, chocolate classes for the novice and the professional, and chocolate travel destinations. This guide features over five hundred addresses and websites showing chocolate lovers where to go to meet all of their chocolate needs.

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Designer Health Foods

Here’s an antioxidant berry juice I want at my next dinner party. It’s a goji berry drink packaged in a light-bulb-shaped bottle and dubbed gloji. I personally gave this one the best design award at the 2008 Natural Products Expo West in Los Angeles. It’s about as bright an idea as you can get. The gloji web site is as design-rich as the product. Go to www.gloji.com.

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Interesting Health Sites

Why Did the Tomato Go Out with the Prune? Because it couldn’t find a date! Here’s another: What’s small, red and whispers? The answer…a horse radish! These and other vegetable jokes are available at the Raw Food Diet website, along with a raw helping of articles, recipes, and quizzes…all about food or raw foods. Even if you’re not a raw foods supporter, you’ll find something interesting that you probably didn’t know before. See it all at www.rawguru.com.

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From the Blogs

The Healthbolt blog by Liz and Liberty is a humorous and often enlightening collection of tips, tidbits and practices that will keep you coming back for more. Some highlights include the recent collection of humorous exercise videos in “The Lighter Side of Exercise” the truth about what’s really on your toothbrush but smaller than the eye can see and the interesting Hara Hachi Bu practice of eating until you’re 80% full. You’ll also find out what seven health myths are just bunk and how spandex can help you avoid jet lag. It’s all at Healthbolt.
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This week’s food & health web picks include a some stories from the newswires and a few great blog entries. Our focus this week is on health and diet…

Top Stories…

Dieting is Out.This article at MSNBC reveals how Americans are more and more inclined to pass up dieting in favor of healthy food choices. Deprivation and suffering is seemingly no longer associated with losing weight, according to a poll. What’s more, people are more likely to consider a “heavy” person to be attractive, even though most folks still want to lose around 20 pounds. Read the entire story here.

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