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Getting A Glimpse Of Rural Medicine

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Jane Dueck made a startling discovery as she spent a week in Carman during late May experiencing rural life and medical practice. Her daily “commute” from her hotel room to the local hospital took exactly seven minutes. “That’s a new experience for me, to be able to get out the door just minutes before I
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Rural Volunteer Boards Taxed To The Max

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Rural volunteers who serve on community-based boards are frequently struggling with the complexities of their job and lack sources of help and advice. Those are conclusions drawn from an exploration of volunteer involvement on rural community-based boards done by a Brandon University adult student earning her masters of rural development. Betty Kelly, who lives, and,
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Fewer Sugary Drinks May Lower Blood Pressure

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Drinking fewer sugary drinks may help lower blood pressure, U. S. researchers said May 24 in findings adding to a growing body of research supporting cutting back on sweetened beverages. They found overweight people with high blood pressure who drank one less sugar-laden beverage a day significantly lowered their blood pressure over 18 months. For
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White House Garden Changing Attitudes

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“In the single year since the groundbreaking, Mrs. Obama has caused a dramatic paradigm shift.” – EDDIE GEHMAN KOHAN When the first lady broke ground for a garden on the south lawn of the White House last spring, it was front-page news in the New York Times and Washington Post. Michelle Obama planted the first
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Milk-, Wheat-Free Diet May Not Help Autism

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Apopular diet that eliminates wheat and milk protein does not appear to help children with autism, but early behavioural treatments do, researchers reported May 19. The findings are sure to disappoint many parents who have been trying to manage autism. “It would have been wonderful for children with autism and their families if we found
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Recipe Swap – for May. 27, 2010

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Outdoor work builds up big appetites this time of year, just as most of us have the least amount of time to cook. Meanwhile, first-of-the-season garden vegetables like asparagus, green onions, and rhubarb (and yes, rhubarb is a vegetable) beg for special recipes to enjoy them to the max. Here’s a mix of recipes from
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Rolling River First Nation Launches Library Program

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The Imagination Library is a program of Dolly Par ton’s Dol lywood Foundation, where children under the age of five receive an age-appropriate book every month, mailed directly to them at no charge to the child’s family. Parton’s parents were illiterate, as were many others in Tennessee, so in 1996 she created the Imagination Library
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Planting Outdoor Containers

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The art of gardening has evolved over the last decade or so, and it is no longer unusual to see several containers overflowing with colourful plants in any given landscape. The popular practice of creating attractive living areas in the outdoor landscape has led to people spending more time in their gardens. Decks and patios
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Sowing Seeds Of Hope For The World’s Hungry

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“It’s just a Christian response to meet the needs of the hungry.” BARRY REIMER, CO-CHAIR AND FARMER WI TH THE KILLARNEY GROWI NG PROJECT, WHO SOWED THE SECOND HALF OF A 120-ACRE FIELD EARMARKED FOR THE CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK. The conditions couldn’t be better,” said Dale Balour, who wanted things to go perfectly on Monday,

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