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Fresh salad greens in season
Fresh Kentucky salad greens are a sure sign of the spring garden season! Whether you choose to grow your own or purchase from our farmer’s market vendors, delicious salad greens make a refreshing and nutritious statement for your family meals....
Tags: Lettuce, Feta Cheese, Foods and Beverages, Honey, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Celebrate May with strawberries
Clark County Extension ServiceMay is the month to celebrate strawberries! Although we can get fresh strawberries most any time of year, they are more readily available May through June. Strawberries are low in calories and high in nutrients. One cup of strawberries contains 55...Tags: Dietary Supplements, Strawberries, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Salads
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Kentucky watermelons are nutritious, low-calorie and in season
Can’t you just taste a sweet, juicy watermelon right now? Watermelons are a popular fruit around Kentucky and are in season. Watermelons are low in calories, about 80 for 2 cups of diced pieces. They are high in lycopene, which is a powerful...
Tags: Dietary Supplements, Onions, Vitamin C, Tomatoes
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Friday is good day to get juiced
Clark County Extension Service Agent for Family and Consumer SciencesFriday is National Orange Juice Day. This may not be high on the list of importance for you but what I hope it does is remind you to increase the vitamin C in your diet. Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits such as oranges and grapefruit, as well as...Tags: Heart Disease, Dietary Supplements, Vitamin C, Diseases and Illnesses, Marketing
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Asparagus is a healthful spring veggie
Asparagus belongs to the lily family together with onions, leeks and garlic. The vegetable exists in three colors: green, white and purple. The green and most common type is slightly sweet in flavor with a tender and crisp texture. Asparagus is rich...Tags: Calcium, Consumers, Dietary Supplements, Onions, Vitamin C
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Doctor whose work saved millions reflects on career
The publication of Alfred Sommer's new memoir, "10 Lessons in Public Health," comes precisely 30 years after the publication of the most important thing he's ever written: "Increased mortality in children with mild vitamin A deficiency," a report of a...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Mineral Supplements, Health Organizations, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines
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There was what in Gatorade?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Consumers, Richard Nixon, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings, University of California, Davis
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Healthy Recipes: Turkey and Squash Soup
Now that you are stuffed with Turkey Day dinner, you're probably looking for ways to get rid of some of those leftovers. If you're looking for a healthy recipe, Eatingwell.com has some suggestions. The Turkey Squash Soup sounded the tastiest to me....
Tags: Limes, Foods and Beverages, Leeks, Peppers, Nutrition
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Smoked Salmon
Smoking is one of the oldest ways to preserve fish, used long before refrigeration. And while smoked salmon has been a standard as an appetizer in entertaining for decades, it has come a long way from its traditional roots. Today smoked salmon is making...Tags: Salads, Pasta, Science and Technology, Herbal Supplements, Soups
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For better health, add some greens to your winter menu
FARGO, N.D. - “Please keep your forks out of my broccoli,” I said to my teenage son and daughter while we enjoyed a family meal in a restaurant. They grinned at me and proceeded to steal the dark green vegetables from my plate. We need to review some...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Margarine, Macular Degeneration, Blindness, Heart Disease
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Spices have strong medicinal value
Dear Pharmacist: I ate like a hog over the holiday, and it was wonderful! To spare my guilt, are there any benefits to holiday foods and spices? — D.E., Orlando Dear D.E.: All those delicious spices have numerous medicinal benefits. Nutmeg can ease...Tags: Cinnamon, Common Cold, Diabetes, Macular Degeneration, Ovarian Cancer
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Nutrient trading a dirty deal for the bay
I imagine that most people have positive associations with the word "nutrient," and in my years as a physician, I did, too. After all, nutrients, like protein and vitamin A, are the cornerstone of human nutrition. But when we talk about the Chesapeake...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Politics, Energy Saving, Environmental Issues, Judges
May 15, 2013
|Story| Winchester Sun
May 1, 2013
|Story| Winchester Sun
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May 2, 2012
|Story| Winchester Sun
May 7, 2013
|Column| Herald Mail
Apr 15, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 14, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Nov 23, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 21, 2013
|Story| Daily American
Jan 11, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Jan 10, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Dec 9, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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