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If you're using fat free dressing on your salad, you're doing it all wrong. According to scientists, you need to eat salad with fat-based dressings to get the most out of the veggies. Having no fat in your salad actually diminishes the benefit from eating vegetables. This sounds a little crazy, right? But yes, even though fat free dressing has less calories than its fatty filled counterpart, you're not getting the full oomph you want when eating vegetables with skinny dressings. Researchers at Purdue University compared salad eating with dressing that had saturated fat, monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat at...

Why Make Your Own? Visit any supermarket or specialty grocery store and you'll be sure to find at least a shelf, and more often an aisle, devoted to bottled salad dressings, with every flavor imaginable. Why then would you make your own? Well, bottled salad dressings can be high in sodium and preservatives - and if you are in the mood for more than one flavor you will need to keep your refrigerator stocked with several bottles. It's really very simple to make your own dressings once you know the basics - you can then control the ingredients and mix...

H.S. Salad Dressing Befouler Booked Senior, 17, facing aggravated battery, disorderly conduct raps DECEMBER 18--Meet Marco Raphael Castro. The Illinois high school student surrendered today to face charges resulting from a revolting lunchroom prank earlier this month. According to Wheaton police and school officials, the 17-year-old senior ejaculated into a bottle of ranch salad dressing on December 6 and returned the befouled condiment to the Wheaton North High School cafeteria. It is unclear if the dressing was used by any students before the container was cleaned and refilled the following day. Castro, pictured below in Wheaton Police Department mug shots,...