You can now get Dr. Maring's healthy recipes and farmer's market updates via RSS feed. That means you'll get them delivered to you as soon as they become available.

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a convenient way of getting the content you want, in real time. Just think: no more hunting through your inbox for that maple-mustard vinaigrette recipe. Dr. Maring gems will come to you, as fresh as a farmers' market strawberry.

To learn a bit more about RSS, including how to subscribe to Dr. Maring's feed, check out the following frequently asked questions (FAQ).

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An RSS feed is a site's syndicated content feed that you can subscribe to, using a news reader. Syndication means you don't have to visit each site individually to see what's new—you simply scan headlines or brief article summaries and click to read the full text. That's the "real simple" part. By using an RSS reader, you can view information from various sources, including headlines, summaries, links to full stories, etc.

A feed is a listing of a Web site's content. It is updated whenever new content is published to the site. You can "subscribe" to feeds, which means Web sites download lists of stories and present them to you in your feed reader. A feed might contain a list of new recipes or feature headlines. All news feeds will have a link back to the Web site, so if you see a headline, recipe, or story you like, you can click on the link and be taken to the Web site to read it.

You get up-to-the-minute information. RSS feeds are used by people who appreciate the convenience of up-to-the-minute news and reports and the time saved by reading only those updates that interest them. Using a news reader for your Web media means you need to visit a Web site only when you see a story in your news reader that interests you. Your news reader will automatically check for updates and let you know when there is a new story to be read!

There are a couple ways to access RSS feeds. Both are quick and easy:

1. You can download a news reader that displays RSS feeds from the Web sites you select, enabling you to view hundreds of headlines at once.
2. You can use a Web-based news reader. For example, My Yahoo! or My MSN users can now add RSS feeds directly to their personal page.

That's it! Then all you have to do is sit back and let the healthful recipes roll in.