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Heart Group Draws Hard Line On Sugar Intake

Americans need to cut back dramatically on sugar consumption, the American Heart Association said Aug. 24 in a recommendation likely to rile food and beverage companies. The group said women should eat no more than 100 calories of added processed sugar per day, or six teaspoons (25 grams), while most men should keep it to
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Recipe Swap – for Sep. 3, 2009

RECIPE SWAP There are certain times of year when there is simply too much of a good thing. Irene Lo Scerbo of West St. Paul sent us a terrific recipe for zucchini fritters in August, knowing readers would soon be in need of new ideas for using this abundant garden vegetable. Joy Smith in B.
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Fight Flu-Causing Germs

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With a growing worldwide flu pandemic, parents may be wondering if they should add hand sanitizers to their children’s backpacks. Researchers have shown that each hand may carry 10,000 to 10 million bacteria. Sneezing or coughing into your hands and then touching inanimate objects, such as doorknobs, can lead to the spread of germs from
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Ready, Set… Go Back To School

RENA NERBAS Medical experts agree that as a general rule, children should not carry more than 15 to 20 per cent of their body weight in their backpacks. The Consumer Product Safety C ommi s s i o n (CPSC) estimates that each year over 4,000 emergency visits to the hospital occur due to backpack
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Tractors On A Mission

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“We make smiles,” was the comment of one tractor driver in the second-annual Eden Foundation Tractor Trek on July 25. Forty tractors, 40 years and older, travelled 40 kilometres through six 130-year-old Mennonite villages in southern Manitoba, and all along the route, people lined up to see the parade of antique tractors. After a breakfast
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Use A Pressure Canner For Low-Acid Food

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If you are planning to home can green beans, peas, carrots or other low-acid vegetables this summer, process in a pressure canner. The acidity in the food determines if fruits or vegetables are processed in a pressure canner or a boiling water bath canner to control botulism bacteria. Low-acid vegetables and meats contain too little
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Old Is As Good As New

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Is your community tearing down old buildings and building anew to gain energy efficiency and a “greener” environment? If so, you are losing more than you’re gaining, according to a new way of thinking about old buildings that defines them as both far more energy efficient and “green” than presumed. Nicola Spasoff, municipal liaison officer
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Wood Windows Rule

“Few people know that old wooden windows can be repaired fairly easily. A well-maintained, single-pane wooden window, with a storm window and good weather stripping and sealing, is just as efficient as a new double-glazed sealed unit. Wood windows can also be maintained almost forever, while most new windows need to be replaced every 10
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Bring Cooking Back To The Home Kitchen

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There’s a new addition to the list of endangered species – the home cook. Spurred by a generation of food marketing that categorized cooking as just another chore, the act of cooking has been slowly chipped away at by convenience foods and ready-to-eat meals. Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC), along with registered nutritionist, television personality

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