Nutrition Month Blends Tradition, Culture With Healthful Eating Nutritionists are encouraging people to eat right, your way, every day as a part of March’s National Nutrition Month. Eating right doesn’t mean you have to give up your favorite foods. You just nee...
Nutrition Month Blends Tradition, Culture With Healthful Eating Nutritionists are encouraging people to eat right, your way, every day as a part of March’s National Nutrition Month. Eating right doesn’t mean you have to give up your favorite foods. You just nee...
“The Versatile Tomato Plant” When Thomas Jefferson brought tomato seeds from Italy to our country, little did he know how vegetables affected a person’s eating desires and habits. At one time tomatoes were thought to be poison...
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By Eddie Shiner, Contributor Vermilion Today.Com
It's Strawberry Time! Strawberry season is March to early May and in Louisiana nine parishes grow strawberries commercially. The majority of our strawberries are grown in Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes. Did you kn...
The Bookworm Sez... By Terri Schlichenmeyer
Drivel, dreck, and what the heck.
That kind of sums up the books that were released in 2012. There were some good things, some downright awful things, and some things tha...
Exercise and awareness can counteract holiday stress The holidays are supposed to be a joyful time, but for many, this time of the year can bring stress and anxiety. Everything is red and green about the holidays, but a lot of people are experiencing...
Watch out for those extra holiday calories! Are you one of the many Americans who face the holiday season with some fear of gaining weight? The good news is that although many people gain weight from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, rese...
Vicki Foreman: Wife, Mother, Friend, Cancer Survivor Vicki Foreman is a lot of things, but she is a cancer survivor last.
Vicki, firstly, is the wife of Charles Foreman; mother to Heather, Hank and Corey; and the grandmother of four.
“I believe I ...
Farm Bureau backs Landowner Cleanup Bill BATON ROUGE – The state’s largest farm organization is backing a bill in the Louisiana Legislature that would allow both landowners and the oil and gas industry to mediate cleanup issues created by...
The Bookworm Sez: ‘The Rescue of Belle & Sundance’ The argument could be made that you’re a softy. You can’t bear to watch any TV show in which someone loses his pet; even Lassie puts a lump in your throat, never mind those commercials with the ho...
Lean, finely textured beef A couple of former USDA scientists called this beef product “pink slime” on a recent ABC news program. Media picked up on it characterizing the product as scraps and waste normally destined for p...