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If you’re new to gardening, testing your soil might seem difficult. You could purchase a soil pH testing kit from a nursery or garden center, but they often come with a big price tag. And they aren’t always reliable. Another ...

Do you have enough food for an unexpected snowstorm? Are you ready for a natural catastrophe? If not, now is the time to start. FEMA recommends that you have at least 3 days’ worth of food and water stored. But ...

After visiting with a friend, she convinced me to try making my own cheese.  Doubting my ability, I asked her if there was a cheese-making for beginners class she could recommend to me.  She smiled and said she would be ...

Ever tried the cabbage soup diet? Or counted fat grams in order to lose weight? If so, you’re not alone. For the last 50 years, low-fat diets have been very popular. After all, most doctors encouraged their patients to go ...

Bone-chilling cold. Long nights. And arctic blasts. Let’s face it: Winter can be depressing! Some of us get a little down during winter. Sure, we could eat a gallon of ice cream. Or, reach for prescriptions drugs. But sugar will ...

It’s a new year. And with a new year, comes new resolutions. What’s at the top of your list?  For many of us, it’s the goal to lose weight. So you get rid of the junk food and replace it ...

What is as inevitable as death and taxes?  Infections! After all, we catch all sorts of things — colds, influenza and strep throat. Whether we fly or go to the office, our immune system encounters deadly pathogens everywhere we go. ...

What’s in your food?  If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t know. And with all the chemicals being added into our food, even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it doesn’t know all of the ingredients in our ...

French bread will only last a few days before it goes bad. And canned goods will last you a few years. So all food has an expiration date, right? Wrong! Some foods can last a century. Yes, that’s right. A ...

Do you use antibacterial soap? If so, now is the time to stop. Recent studies show that antibacterial soaps are not only useless, but they’re also dangerous. According to Colleen Rogers, Ph.D., a lead microbiologist at the Food and Drug ...