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The day after Christmas is finally upon us
Our family is in the process of recovering from the process of opening Christmas presents.  The day after Christmas is known in many countries as Boxing Day, and in times past, was the day to give gifts to those less fortunate.  In the United States, its primarily significance [...] Read more »

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I suspect that many of us would place a lot of the blame for today’s obesity epidemic on soda products.  There is little doubt that they account for a large share of the “empty calories” each of us may consume in a given day.  I know — I like them.  At one time, I drank [...] Read more »

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My wife and I like to cook at home, and I recently wrote about how much we’ve come to enjoy old fashioned oats.  We’ve also discovered the benefits of baking with oat flour.
I recently discovered that one of my aunts was diagnosed with celiac disease.  This set me on trying to find out the nature [...] Read more »

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In trying to find ways to manage both my hunger and my weight, I finally hit upon the idea that eating high fiber foods might be the best thing I could try.  That’s when I started reading about old fashioned oatmeal.  According to my reading, the average American gets about half of the fiber in [...] Read more »

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There was an article in the Sunday Reader section of this week’s paper titled “Youthfulness an obsession - but at what cost?”  The author discusses some of the technologies available for maintaining both the appearance, and in some cases, the attributes of youth.  Options available to people now include things like injections with botulism (Botox), [...] Read more »

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