barrelhouse (noun) A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.
Synonyms:honky-tonk
Usage:After dinner, we grabbed a couple of beers at the local barrelhouse and let loose on the dance floor.
Leafy greens lower cardiovascular risk, and the more you eat, the lower your risk gets. They are also major cancer fighterscutting both ovarian-cancer risk, in one study, and non-Hodgkins-lymphoma risk, in another, by more than 40 percent.
Word of the Daywailful (adjective) Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression.
Synonyms:lamenting
Usage:The men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment surged forward and began its new journey.
Many fruits and vegetables are high in water, which provides volume but not calories. Grapefruit, for example, is about 90 percent water and has just 39 calories in a half-fruit serving.
escargot (noun) Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic.
Synonyms:snail
Usage: ordered escargot in an attempt to appear sophisticated, but when the plate of snails was set down before me, I could not bring myself to choke down a single one.
bumpkin (noun) A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.
Synonyms:chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel
Usage: Many people take one look at Farmer Dan and assume he is an unsophisticated country bumpkin, but his lectures on sustainable agriculture teach them never to judge a book by its cover.
Start with soup or salad. Begin lunch or dinner with a broth-based, vegetable-filled soup or a large salad with a small amount of low-fat or fat-free dressing. These foods take longer to eat and curb your hunger. Next, serve whole grains, an extra portion or two of vegetables and a small serving of lean protein for your main course.