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Summertime is the time for picnics, swimming, baseball, and mosquitoes. But it’s the late summer mosquitoes that are the most dangerous for transmitting the West Nile virus.
According to the Minnesota Mosquito Control District, the Culex mosquito, which transmits … Continue Reading
If exercise for good health doesn’t sound interesting, then maybe exercise to help keep one young will.
Studies done at the genetic epidemiology department at King’s College in London show that exercise helps protect the body against aging.
The … Continue Reading
This unusual homemade hamburger recipe is healthy and delicious. If the peanuts are finely chopped dinner guests will be guessing what the secret ingredient is.
Hamburgers with Peanuts
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 cup chopped roasted peanuts
1/4 cup … Continue Reading
Broccoli is as good as a pharmaceutical drug for lowering cholesterol.
Broccoli, raw or cooked, is good for health. Studies reported by the National Institutes of Health show that steamed broccoli is as good as cholestyramine at binding bile … Continue Reading
Egyptian onions, also known as tree onions, and walking onions, are very prolific. They grow a regular onion bulb, but they also produce small onion bulblets at the top of the plant, which eventually fall over and start a … Continue Reading