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I learned both these facts when visiting the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Web site this morning.

Here are links to the Web site’s new articles:

• Time is Brain – lists 10 simple steps to protect your brain; step 5 is “cut the fat and salt”
• Eating Well with Canada’s New Food Guide – Alyssa Rolnick, RD “point[s] our appetites in the right direction” by suggesting simple, achievable tips on wise food choices, incoporating them in appealing recipes, and then directing us to food guide tools. Well done!

This weekend I was going to write about odds-ratio and other statistical terms and concepts I’ve been struggling with while preparing to do a poster presentation on evidence-based practice — but it’s Saturday and St. Patrick’s Day so I’m going to change to a lighter and easier-for-me topic.

Epicurious is featuring The Luck of the Irish: authentic recipes, menus and brews to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. I’m posting this a bit late in the day to try any recipes, like tea brack, but you may want to read some of the short and interesting articles such as this one about how Irish cooks are rediscovering their native bounty.

Quiz: What do boxty, champ, fadge and colcannon have in common? You can find the answer here.

Yes, I’m back to recipes after only one post on a clinical topic. But after all, Nutrition Month really is about celebrating food.

Yesterday the Seventh Annual Weblog Award Winners were announced.  Among the five nominees for Best Food Weblog, my favourites are:

101 Cookbooks (I voted for this one)

Smitten Kitchen (my favourite title; great photography)

Help! I Have a Fire in My Kitchen (the winner; certainly the best tagline: “a humorous look into the adventures of a single parent who learned the hard way and with a great deal of trepidation how to cook, feed his children, friends and the rare date with a measure of dignity and [hopefully] good food - Recipes Included! And it is all KOSHER to boot!”)

*NMP = Nutrition Month Post. I decided to use an acronym to conserve valuable headline space. If you’re keeping stats (I am), I’m now batting just over .500 for posts: 7 in 13 days. I may make 31 by March 31st.

The title of this post comes from two featured recipes on the North by Northwest Cooking Club web site.

I’m a fan of CBC radio’s Sheryl Mackay and her show North by Northwest. I’m frequently adding books to my reading list based on Cheryl’s recommendation. Here is the latest addition to the cookbook category: Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health….and you can still have chocolate! by registered dietitian Liz Pearson and Home Economist Mairlyn Smith.

The book is available at your local bookseller and online. You can peruse the Table of Contents here and read an excerpt here.

To help us experience the pleasures and benefits of home-cooked, healthy meals prepared and eaten with the family, Dietitians of Canada has created and published this new cookbook during Nutrition Month 2007: Simply Great Food.

I can’t argue with co-author Patricia Chuey when she says:

“Dietitians of Canada’s Simply Great Food is the next best thing to actually sitting down with a registered dietitian and discussing how to achieve healthy eating for yourself and for your family”, says Patricia Chuey, Nutritional Consultant and Co-author. “It provides cooks with an education in food preparation and healthy eating while satisfying their desire to create appetizing, home-cooked meals that result in pure eating pleasure.”

The book is now available from your local independent bookseller as well as online.