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Oceans Alive website helps identify best fish to eat and redeems my Salade Nicoise by pointing me to healthier and sustainably caught yellowfin tuna.

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Yes, you should follow safety-tested recipes when you’re doing home canning, but don’t let novice canners’ paranoia about botulism discourage you trying this time-honored food preservation method.

Yes, there’s an outside chance you could poison yourself and your loved ones, but let’s put things in perspective.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a total of [...]

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The Trust for America’s Health today released its annual report on obesity, and, no surprise, we learn Americans are fat and getting fatter. At that link, you can read the news release or the entire report issued by the trust, a nonpartisan nonprofit group, including state by state information. I can report, consequently, that Kansas [...]

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The most interesting thing at the “Go Organic!” movie night last week was in the hall, not on the screen.
Some 200-300 people (by my estimate) paid $5 to see movies about organic food production and sample the goods supplied by Local Burger last Thursday, August 23, 2007, at Liberty Hall, the old opera house now [...]

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I love fresh salsa—you know, the uncooked kind that tastes like summer. I rarely make it, though, because I haven’t figured out how (or tried, I admit) to make salsa for one, and I’m not a regular chip-eater.
The other evening, a few friends came over after dinner, so I used their visit as an excuse [...]

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Another study links increased Vitamin D with reduced incidence of breast, colon cancer. For people like me who also are concerned about osteoporosis, this is doubly good news.

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