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1 hr ago | The Asheville Citizen-Times

Mountain cranberry: Grow lingonberries yourself -- they make a great backyard fruit

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Home Gardening, Home

5 hrs ago | MySanAntonio.com

Drink your fruits and vegetables

The popular specialty cocktail Red Tide at Watermark Grill is made with hibiscus- and maraschino-cherry-infused vodka and fresh lemonade.

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Related Topix: Drink, Cocktails, Life, Food, Vegetables, Tequila, Liquor, Alamo Heights, TX

9 hrs ago | The Pitch

Time to retire the pomegranate

Are some fruits just not worth the trouble? I believe that the time has come for us a society to agree to retire pomegranates -- which started popping up at grocery stores over the past two weeks.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Drink, Cocktails

14 hrs ago | Associated Content

Fruits and Vegetables that Lower Blood Pressure

High blood pressure or hypertension is indeed frightening. However, with lifestyle modification and eating lots of fruits and vegetables that lower blood pressure, it can be helped and good health can be restored.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Medicine, Health, Hypertension

18 hrs ago | The Hindu

Fruits, the fibre of health

GOING BANANAS Cricketers Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh munch on a banana during a training camp We manage to eat our daily requirement of vegetables.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Asia News Network

SEOUL: Rice grown with gold debuts

If you want to feel a million dollars, you could do worse than eating rice. SM Nanotech has developed rice with gold in it, which the company says will leave you feeling as fit as a king.

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Guardian Unlimited

Fears for fair trade farmers if 'banana war' ends

Banana prices should fall as a result of the deal, as Brussels cuts the import taxes it charges Latin American growers to sell their more cheaply produced fruit in to the European market.

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Related Topix: Life, Food

NBC26

The not-so-sweet truth about sugar

Americans on average eat and drink about 22 teaspoons of sugar daily, which is almost three to four times more than the daily recommendations.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition, Medicine, Diabetes, Baked Goods, Bread

The Honolulu Advertiser

Beware added sugar, less fiber in fruit products

Food companies often make health claims for their products - and, unfortunately, most of the time they're not just about helping people get healthier - they're about selling products.

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The Victoria Star

Toronto Zoo gorilla picks son's name by choosing one of five fruit piles

Charles, a male silverback gorilla, picks a piece of fruit from the "Nassir" station on Tuesday, Nov.

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WCTV Tallahassee

Jackson County to Introduce Healthier Food into Lunch Menus

Students at Sneads High School had a choice of a fish sandwich, cheese grits, burgers or pizza during lunch Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Pizza

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Desert Sun

Cut out the crust for a healthier pie

At most Thanksgiving dinners, a selection of pies is almost as traditional as the turkey.

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Related Topix: Baked Goods, Life, Dessert, Food, Pies, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Ice Cream

KMIR 6

Natural remedies: can they help you fight allergies?

If you have allergies and take prescription or over-the-counter antihistamines or prescription anti-inflammatories, you may wonder if there's an herbal option for allergy symptoms.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Allergy, Health, Life, Food, Entomology

Xinhuanet

Health Ministry defends fruit safety in Beijing

China's Ministry of Health said Wednesday that fruit sold in supermarkets in Beijing had been tested and found to meet national standards, in response to a Greenpeace report in July on pesticide residues on fruit sold in the national capital.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, World News, China, Asia, Agriculture, Science

Jewish World Review

Test your nutrition IQ

Test your nutrition IQ: Next super food: Maqui By Sam McManis Every change of season seemingly brings a hot new "super fruit." Pomegranate? That's so 2008.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition

Associated Content

Eating Sour Fruits for Health

By now most people know of the health benefits of pomegranates and cranberries, two famously sour fruits.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Urinary Tract Infections, Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Newkerala.com

One month in captivity, released Andhra engineer tells all

By Syed Zarir Hussain, Guwahati, Nov 18 : From apples to fruit bread, the captors of 50-year-old Andhra Pradesh civil engineer P. Krishna Rao tried their best to entertain him, but one month in captivity and constantly being guarded by armed militants has left him feeling traumatised.

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National Post

South key to fate of Afghanistan: Canadian general

NATO's International Security Assistance Force is pouring resources into Kandahar because "if the enemy has the South, they have a strong hold on Afghanistan," according to the Canadian general who runs the alliance's war planning for the six southern provinces.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Canada, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Life

ABC News - Brian Ross

Here's a Pretty Stand-in for Traditional Cranberry

Not to be unpatriotic, but another "cranberry" outshines our traditional Thanksgiving cranberry.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Food, Entertainment

Examiner.com

Italian salad with fruits and nuts for Thanksgiving

This pretty salad comes together in minutes. With your choice of fruits and nuts and scattered with goat cheese, the salad has the colors of the Italian flag but the ingredients are all harvest-celebration American.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Thanksgiving, Holidays

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