MiamiHerald.com: Outdoors Wire

7 Salt-Free Ways to Flavor Food: Pump up your meals with sodium-free add-ons that taste great

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:05 EST

Put down the salt shaker! There are healthier ways to make food taste great without overdosing on sodium, a huge threat to heart health. Instead of using table salt or eating sodium-packed processed and packaged foods (which account for about 80 percent of the sodium we consume), try flavoring fruits, veggies and lean meats with salt-free herbs and spices. In addition to helping you cut down on your sodium intake, many of these seasonings also bring additional health benefits to the plate. Heather K. Jones, RD, author of "The Salt Solution," offers some of her favorite healthy ways to punch up the flavor of any dish.

Orange juice is good for a cold and more nutrition myths

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:05 EST

We've all heard it before, "you should drink orange juice when you are sick because it will boost your immunity." But, is that really true?

Fitness: 14 things you can do in shorts right now

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:05 EST

La Nina winters are great if you love snow camping, skiing and sledding.

Great Rides: A Napa Valley route where the high point is a low point

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:05 EST

A meaningful adventure on a bicycle includes things we know, a few things we might anticipate and, with any luck, one or two pleasant surprises.

Fitness gear: Utopia Thermal Pant great for winter runs

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:03 EST

There's no messing around with quality when it comes to running gear. That's especially true in the winter, a season that requires clothing to perform the double duty of keeping you warm while allowing some breathing room.

Minnesota's famed walleyes giving way to bass and bullheads

Thu, 10 May 2007 17:36 EDT

Maybe it's prophetic that Minnesota is changing its new conservation license plates to show a jumping largemouth bass.

Lake Michigan anglers wonder were all the coho have gone

Thu, 10 May 2007 17:36 EDT

After starting out as hot as a $2 pistol, coho salmon fishing cut off abruptly at the extreme southern end of Lake Michigan this past week, and charter captains worried that the fish might have been affected by a newly discovered disease called viral hemorrhagic septicemia .

He's a rock for river's rockfish

Thu, 10 May 2007 17:26 EDT

Chuck Laughridge steered his jet-powered, flat-bottom aluminum boat up against the Roanoke River's current like a man who knows every rock in the river.

Cameras witness extreme catch using `xtreme' rules

Thu, 10 May 2007 17:16 EDT

One of the rarest events in South Florida offshore fishing tournament history occurred two weeks ago _ with the incident documented by ESPN cameras.

Pararescuer challenges the extreme wilderness to save others

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:07 EDT

Air National Guard Sgt. Robert Schnell's job is to save lives in some of the world's wildest and most dangerous terrain.