Food therapy for a hectic Monday. Carne asada tacos plate.


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5 Foods Your Heart Will Thank You For Eating
It’s no fun to cut out salty snacks and red meat, but tasty alternatives can help you stay proactive about heart health without eating boiled chicken and rice cakes.
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Healthy Eating Pyramid


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Farm Bureau promotes smart shopping
ORANGE GROVE — Eating healthy and nutritious foods is one way to save money and stretch grocery budgets and the USDA brought that message this week during Food Check-out Week.
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FDA: negative-pressure devices lead to rise in injuries
share: digg facebook twitter Additional deaths and injuries associated with devices made by negative-pressure wound therapy companies, including San Antonio’s Kinetic Concepts Inc., have led the Food and Drug Administration to issue another alert Thursday. “Patients in particular need to understand the possible risks associated with using the device, so they need to make sure they’re watching …
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Healthy diet scheme scrutinized
Extra cash for chronically ill welfare recipients to eat healthy will be harder to get starting April 1 under new rules designed to combat fraud and comply with an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruling — changes that are making some sick people nervous.
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Healthy Hollywood: Fab Food Friday – Monica Potter’s Heart-Healthy Tips!
By Terri MacLeod NEW YORK, N.Y. — “The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago,” reveals the star of NBC’s “Parenthood” to Healthy Hollywood. Monica adds, “having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.” To …
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Therapy horses die in fire at Pine Dell Farm
A fire early Sunday morning at Pine Dell Farm, Pleasant Hill, killed six of Sugar Creek Equinapy’s therapeutic riding horses. The animals worked with children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities.
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New Cancer Therapy Offers New Hope For Patients
For cancer patients, the treatment often feels worse than the disease, but scientists have developed a new therapy with virtually no side effects.
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Eating healthy means eating safely
Strategies to Keep Foodborne Illnesses Away When it comes to healthy eating, it’s not enough to pack your diet with options like whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, low-sodium alternatives and heart-healthy selections.  Making smart food choices is just one-half of the equation.  The other half is using safe procedures for food preparation, serving and storage.  Food that is mishandled …
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