Fiber art is often diminished because women are the chief designers and because most objects made from fabric are useful first and objets d’art after. Two concurrent exhibitions at N.C. State’s Gregg Museum are all about the power of textiles. In the main gallery, curator Janine LeBlanc has pulled objects from the permanent collection to spotlight the potency ...

Who doesn’t love carbohydrates? Some of my favorite foods — chocolate, bread and pasta — are all carb heavy (mostly refined carbs, a recognized and unfortunate body baddie). High-protein, low-carb diets have helped millions shed unwanted pounds, but I’ll bet that the one thing those high protein weight losers craved once they could add them back to their food ...

Julia Grout was the chair of the Women’s Department of Physical Education at Duke from 1924 to 1964. While in the Duke University Archives recently doing some research for an article on women’s athletics at Duke for Go Duke The Magazine, I ran across an article Mrs. Grout had written in 1940. The paper was called “Keeping Physically Fit,” and after reading it,...

Petey and I just finished dinner. We ate our faces off. But we always eat too much when I make my secret chicken tenders.

Q. I have just read that powerful acid-suppressing drugs are linked to hip fractures. My doctor wants me to stay on Prevacid even though I have expressed my concerns to him. When I told him what I had read about the dangers of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), he said, "Don't read so much." I wish HE would read more!