This week’s I Love Food post is an Italian favorite. Being Italian I was able to collect a large amount of ILF photos during the holidays. I was also able to gain ten pounds from eating a week’s worth of lasagna during the break – but that is a different story. Maybe I should check out our Lifestyle section to see how to shed that Winter 15 .

Anyway, this is the first course of four to all of our holiday meals….Read full post

Did you tune in to the series premiere last night of Jane By Design on ABC Family? We hope you did, because we love it! (And are totally waiting for Jane to ditch that high school crush and look to that Jeremy who’s not only giving her the time of day, but also happens to be super adorable!)

Hopefully you know by now that we’ve been anxiously awaiting meeting Jane – and Gray, for that matter – seeing as…Read full post

With the series premiere of ABC Family’s Jane By Design getting closer and closer we definitely had our fashion savvy on high alert for our fifth JBD Style Challenge!

While it may not have been the challenge Gray had initially intended for us to work with, Jane was quick on her super cute heels and ready to come with a challenge – inspired by her own lifestyle, a lifestyle where you are constantly juggling everything from when to be where…Read full post

The Zen of Steve Jobs connects this period in Jobs’ life with key moments in Apple’s history. A section of the book takes place in 1986 at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California. Kobun teaches Jobs kinhin, a walking meditation, and alludes to Jobs’ quest to understand ma, a Japanese design concept apparent today in the simplicity in all iProducts. Since his triumphant return…Read full post

He made a name for himself as the wheelchair bound Jimmy Brooks on “Degrassi: the Next Generation” but when Aubrey Graham went by his middle name, Drake, he rocketed to stardom. Now Bluewater Comics shares the story of how Drake went from Canadian teen-melodrama to the hip hop star that worked with Lil Wayne’s stable of musicians with the comic “Fame: Drake.”

“The New York Times” best selling writer Marc Shapiro, who is no stranger to the bio-comic, is giving…Read full post

By Jan Wade-Miller

Good nutrition is important for good health and can help protect against many diseases later in life. However, one important nutrient many children and teens don’t get enough of is calcium. Calcium is a nutrient that helps to make bones and teeth strong and healthy. It is found mainly in milk and dairy products like cheese, sour cream and yogurt. It is even in foods like spinach, broccoli, almonds and canned red…Read full post

When most of us think about healthy eating we think of fruit, vegetables, whole grains and lean protein sources. So that means a salad should be healthy too, right? WRONG!

Unfortunately, many of us are deceived every time we go out to eat and order a salad. I have fallen for this trap many times. Some salads contain well over 1,000 calories and contain more fat and sodium than you should consume in an entire day! Yikes.

Sometimes it’s easy to…Read full post

Lose weight. Quit Smoking. Save Money. These probably sound familiar to you, as they are some of the most popular New Year’s resolutions made year after year. Unfortunately, four out of five people who make New Year’s resolutions will eventually break them, and a third won’t even make it until February!

If you feel like you fail year after year to keep your resolution, you’re not alone! It’s not easy making a lifestyle change, especially breaking life-long habits like smoking….Read full post

Lea Michele: Take on Challenges. “My new year’s resolutions are to keep working, doing things that are challenging, exciting and enjoyable,” the “Glee” actress said. “Maybe that will get me closer to my idols, Natalie Wood or Barbra Streisand.”

Christina Hendricks: Find Balance. ”I think balance in life is the key to good health. My goal in 2012 is to maintain balance by finding time to give to others. This year I partnered with LATISSE through the LATISSE Wishes Challenge campaign…Read full post

Pauly D and The Situation. What do they have in common besides the fact that they are both self-acclaimed, fist-pumping Guidos who have made a name for themselves on MTV’s Jersey Shore? They are both the oldest on the show.

Warning: Juiceheads come with age! That’s the thing about the shore; you go there as a bright-eyed 21-year-old expecting to meet other amateur drinkers in this adolescent…Read full post