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Don't skip all the health benefits eating breakfast can bring you.
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Does timing of meals affect health?

It turns out breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, according to a recent study

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They’re cagey. I fed them at 3 a.m.,” he noted. “You already fed them? Jake was barking, so I got up and fed them at 4:30 so you could sleep,” I responded. Yes, our three dachshunds are like infants who demand early-morning feedings. I got up with our three human kids when they were babies,
Use your favourite apples to make this tasty recipe.
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How about some apple nachos?

Prairie Fare: There are many uses for the fruit from the old apple tree in the yard

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I plan to make apple nachos for dessert,” I said to my 18-year-old daughter, who was taking a break from college food that evening. She looked at me for a couple of seconds. I think she was deciding whether she heard me correctly. She likes nachos, but I think I threw her for a loop
Replacing butter with vegetable oils might not be as healthy as originally thought.
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Did butter get a bad rap?

It’s not health food, but butter may be healthier than other options 
like high-linoleic acid oils

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Butter might be better. Since the 1960s, consumers have been told to swap butter and other saturated fats with “heart healthy” options like vegetable oils high in linoleic acid. Now a re-examination of previously unpublished data from the study that first made that claim is casting doubt. Researchers at the Univer­sity of North Carolina School
Most of the salt in our diets doesn’t actually come from the salt shaker.
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Ease up on the salt

Prairie Fare: Apple Crisp for Two

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Which shaker gets filled with salt and which gets pepper?” my daughter asked one day. She was examining small ceramic rabbits dressed in pastel-coloured spring attire. “Fill the one with three holes with salt and the one with two with pepper,” my husband responded. ‘Filling the three-holed shaker with pepper might be better for our
How can you tame a sweet tooth?
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How can you tame a sweet tooth?

Prairie Fare: New and improved Two-Ingredient Lemon Bars

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Mom, why are they called cookies instead of ‘bakies?’” my 17-year-old daughter asked me. She was scooping cookie dough onto a tray for a 4-H food entry in the fair. “You bake cookies. You don’t cook them,” she continued. She likes to test me with unusual questions on a regular basis. I pondered her question
Beef producers: reading this will lower your blood pressure
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Beef producers: reading this will lower your blood pressure

As long as you’re not producing well-marbled carcasses

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Penn State University researchers say that contrary to conventional wisdom, a growing body of evidence shows that eating lean beef can reduce risk factors for heart disease. “This research adds to the significant evidence, including work previously done in our lab, that supports lean beef’s role in a heart-healthy diet,” Penny M. Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor
Crops, Oilseeds

Dow AgroSciences Touts Profit Potential Of Nexera Hybrids

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Nexera canola varieties are a good deal for farmers and will only get better, according to Dow AgroSciences. Nexera canola is known for its highly stable oil, which has a long shelf life and therefore doesn’t have to be hydrogenated, a process which creates trans fats. But the knock has always been that Nexera varieties
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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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Fructose Tied To Higher Blood Pressure – for Oct. 8, 2009

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Adiet high in a form of sugar found in sweetened soft drinks and junk food raises blood pressure among men, according to research likely to mean more bad news for beverage companies and restaurant chains. One of two studies released Sept. 23 provided the first evidence that fructose helps raise blood pressure. It also found
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Pop Makers Opposed To Soft Drink Tax

More U. S. health experts are calling for taxing sweetened soft drinks, saying such taxes could fight obesity and be used to fund public health efforts. New York City health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, nutritionist Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert at Yale University in Connecticut

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