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Managing what you eat and how much exercise you get are frequent messages to those who are trying to lose weight. A new study says that the types of carbohydrates you eat may impact infla...

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Leah Thorsen, St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter, contacted the co-organizers of our local backyard chicken meetup list to do an article on keeping chickens.  She chose to interview an...

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Have you heard the saying that if the first thing you do when you wake up each morning is eat a live frog, nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day? Efficiency training exper...

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The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend a daily intake of three servings of dairy, where milk, yogurt, cheese and fortified soy beverages are included in the group, but many A...

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Have you seen those spider web-like "baskets" in tree limbs throughout the St. Louis area? Take a close look at the mostly impenetrable web structure and you'll see Eastern Tent Caterpill...

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When it comes to the economics of building Active House USA, or any "green" home, the paradigm is fairly simple and straightforward: If it’s not affordable, it’s hardly sustainable! With ...

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The latest hype on foods that are bad for you has risen to the level of toxicity. Is sugar toxic? Should it be eliminated? What forms of sugar are they talking about? And what does this b...

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The fate of the Rock Hill Presbyterian Church at the corner of Manchester and McKnight roads in Rock Hill has been sealed. The church, built in 1845, will be dismantled piece by piec...