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  Gail Carlson, MPH, Ph.D., former State Health Education Specialist, Continuing Medical Education, University of Missouri Your head hurts, your eyes are watery, your muscles ache...

  Tammy Roberts, MS, RD, LD, Nutrition and Health Education Specialist, Bates County, University of Missouri Extension   Beans are one of the best values around when...

If you’re like me, you’re going to come up with a few things to declare your New Year’s Resolutions. Maybe it will be exercising...

Do you like to bake bread? Do you know of someone who does? You should enter the National Festival of Breads in Manhattan, Kansas!...

During the holiday season, pecans and other nuts are commonly given as gifts or purchased for holiday cooking. Nuts can quickly lose quality if...

A holiday tradition is to give gifts of fruits and nuts (along with other products). Usually these are placed in an attractive basket, wrapped...

  Kansans looking forward to a weekend of holiday shopping will have to contend with varying forms of precipitation accompanied by bitterly cold temperatures. Although snowfall...

Cold and flu season is in full swing. One defense against them is to get plenty of vitamin E. Researchers at Tufts University’s USDA Human...