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E. Coli and recalls. Do you know what to look for?

For the past few months, it seems every week there is another recall. There is no particular food that has been singled out. The recalls have been from companies who produce frozen fruit pops all the way to the most recent beef recall from a Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. out of Pennsylvania. There was also a [...]

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Old Colony Elder Services Offers Tips for Stretching Food Dollars

BROCKTON, MA…
Shawn Smith, Registered Dietician and Nutrition Program Director at Old Colony Elder Services (OCES), a non-profit Aging Services Access Point (ASAP) serving 23 towns in the greater Brockton and Plymouth areas, shares tips from the USDA: Food and Nutrition Service on stretching your food dollars through budgeting and food selection.
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Choose Fruits Instead Of Sugary Foods

My boyfriend has just told me that he and his mother are going back to Weight Watchers, again! This is a regular thing that they do and have never stuck to it yet.
Being a supportive girlfriend. I offered to rid their home of all their junk food, but I wasn’t prepared for the vast [...]

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10 Vitamin A-Rich Fruits

10 Vitamin A-Rich Fruits
Vitamin A is best-known for its role in maintaining and preserving good eyesight. More recently, it also became known as one of the potent antioxidants which is said to fight cancer by regulating cell growth and division specifically lycopene, one of its precursors. Vitamin A also stimulates the [...]

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Perk up and smile [Green or black, tea leaves spell health]

Twin demands of office and home can sap your energy. If you feel run down often, here are simple things you can perhaps do to re-energise yourselves.
Sipping tea
Green or black, tea leaves spell health. But if the leaves are brown, it means it has lost some of its healing potential. A [...]

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More antioxidants found in black rice than blueberries

Health conscious food consumers have already known blueberries are high in antioxidants. But a new study found black rice has even higher levels of antioxidants called anthocyanins.
The study presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) showed that one spoonful of black rice bran contains more anthocyanin antioxidants than [...]

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Tangy fruits help stay slim

New Delhi: Munching on tangy fruits can help you stay slim, reveals a new study. The study conducted on mice showed that the juice of the blood orange stopped them from piling on weight when fed a high-fat diet.
However, those fed with sweeter oranges gained significant amounts of fat.
The research team from [...]

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From farm to fork

Quality may not be a new mantra for the restaurant and wine industries, but for some local restaurateurs and winery owners homegrown, fresh produce is a new trend — with owners Old Erie, Anyela’s and Elderberry Pond not only creating culinary masterpieces, but growing the ingredients for them.
For Ted and Beth Tomandl, owners of the [...]

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Docs Prescribe Vegetables, Fruits for Patients

Doctors in Massachusetts and Maine are trying something new with their patients who are fighting obesity. Instead of drugs, they’re writing prescriptions for fruits and vegetables.
The physicians have started giving vouchers worth $1 per day to the states low-income families.
The move is a part of a new program created by Connecticut-based Wholesome [...]

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Fruit and Veggie “Prescriptions” Aimed at Cutting Obesity

Maine doctors will soon be writing out some unusual prescriptions — for fruits and vegetables. A new program aimed at boosting consumption of fresh fruits and veggies is launching today in Maine, five days after a similar program began in Massachusetts.
Under the program, created by Connecticut-based Wholesome Wave, health care providers offer “prescriptions” — or [...]

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How certain fruits deliver remarkable health benefits

How certain fruits deliver remarkable health benefits
Scientists have long marveled how some people in certain countries live remarkably long, healthy lives while we, in the west, suffer from high rates of chronic diseases and other health problems.
Computer analysis has enabled researchers to determine which populations are the healthiest and live the [...]

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As an Enfield resident, I am 100 percent in favor of the proposed Enfield wind farm.

While driving through Illinois and Indiana recently, I passed several breathtaking wind farms. They were not eyesores to the landscape and they were not noisy. As long as the technology and placement of the turbines are [...]

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Egg recall: Are your eggs on the list?

One of the nation’s largest egg-producing companies has initiated a nationwide recall of eggs packaged from May 16 through Aug. 13 because of concerns they could be contaminated with salmonella .
The egg recall was voluntarily initiated by Wright County Eggs, based in Galt, Iowa. The company says the suspect eggs come in [...]

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How GM Foods Affect Your Body by Amirah Bellamy

In a word, negatively. What are GM foods? Those foods whose DNA is modified to either switch on desired traits or switch off undesired ones and that are injected with poisons to allegedly reduce pesticide use. We’ve been told by GM food producers that GM foods are safe, will not adversely [...]

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Farms for the whole family to visit

Sometimes, farmers’ markets just can’t replace getting out to the country and doing it yourself. On the farm, you’ve got the sun, the wind and farm creatures curious about what’s in the pockets of your overalls. Nobody cares whether you are wearing a tie or whether you met your goals for [...]

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Locally Grown Fruits Latest Trend in Spa Treatment

Visitors have long come to the hilly Southern California hamlet of Ojai to get stuffed with the Pixie tangerines grown as a specialty in the area’s citrus groves.
Body technician Bree Sarver demonstrates the pixie tangerine and pomegranate treatment on Andrea Olsonat the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa on Tuesday, Aug. [...]

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