CHAMPAIGN – The challenge: make a healthy lunch that kids will like. It's got to include all the food groups, and it's got to be inexpensive and easy to fix. Here are some suggestions: Fresh fruit is a hit. So are tater tots, chips, and an egg-and ...
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The idea of limiting sodium has been in the limelight when it comes to reducing the risk of high blood pressure. Recent studies, however, suggest that there is another player in the blood pressure challenge — potassium — but this time the goal is ...
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Rickets is making a comeback. It's a sign of how our lives are changing — and not for the better. We're seeing this disease, which is caused by a vitamin-D deficiency, in babies and toddlers. Rickets causes poor bone growth and even deformities ...
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• Cook. Meals prepared at home are cheaper than those bought at restaurants and allow you to control which ingredients you use. • Buy local. The strong dollar makes local organic produce cheaper than produce trucked in from California. (And it's ...
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Amid the champagne, love and laughter of her wedding day, one of Kate Murphy's older friends struck a sour note. “It's ridiculous that you're getting married at this age,” she said. “I mean, it's like Mars bars, you like them now, but how do ...
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SWAP a blueberry muffin (520 calories and 26g of fat) FOR a poached egg, a rasher of lean grilled bacon, a grilled tomato and mushrooms (261 calories and 17g of fat). Swap ... pizza SWAP two slices of pepperoni pizza (704 calories and 40g of fat) FOR ...
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Do you hear it? Aaaaahhhh — that long, wonderful sigh of relief. It is reverberating across this country from east to west, from north to south. Hope is bubbling up all over America. This is how the country felt in the mid-1940s when the second ...
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