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NATURAL BORN PEST KILLERS Home Remedies for Pest Control By Eric Vinje, Planet Natural Not everybody likes cucumbers. You may be interested to learn that ants hate cucumbers, especially cucumber peels. You'll especially appreciate that fact if you want...

Seems to me these horses could be rounded-up to be selectively castrated to control the herd instead of transporting them to holding pens where they live out their lives. But maybe I'm missing something? Despite protests, feds to round up...

Trudi, I just had to show these off. Biggest, best looking broccoli I've ever grown. Closer to the camera are cauliflower and green beans. Beyond lie yellow squash and zucchini. To the right will be bell peppers (when they finally...

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds." Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. In Allan Luck's book, "The Healing Power of Doing Good," he points...

Members and Friends of Slow Food Shasta Cascade Official Yearly Meeting POT LUCK Sunday June 20 Come at 4:00ish - We'll eat at 6:00ish Join us for some relaxing fun in the sun in a beautiful oasis. and some...

Not that Medicare paid chiropractors very well to start with, but our seniors are under the impression that they have a certain amount of coverage when entering a chiropractic office. Well, they will now have 20-percent less than before. Many...

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Tina Marlin of Redding pours a mean cup of organic coffee for $1.35. Every Wednesday that same cup is 75 cents. Bring your cup from home and you pay 75 cents any day of the week....

From a newsletter of a colleague By Lani Simpson, DC All Supplements Are Not Created Equal: Weighing in on Pesticides in Fish Oil April 13, 2010 Recently, an article showed up in the news regarding omega-3 fish oil supplements and...

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Stopping Smoking Adds Years to Your Life. So, What Happens When You Quit Smoking? Information about health benefits of quitting from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: --Within 20 minutes after you smoke that last cigarette, your body begins...

At a diabetes forum today I snapped pictures of the buffet table. I just couldn't help but take pictures of foods that trash your blood sugar and create diabetes being fed to diabetics. What would I have fed them? Chicken...

Lifehack.org often has some great ideas. Here are 42 I found interesting. Consider one or two. 42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself Are you someone who likes to grow? Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? If...

This is a slight change from the Historical Society Cookbook recipe. 1 small onion-chopped 1 red pepper chopped 3 Tablespoons olive oil 1 pound grass-fed ground beef 1 cup catsup sweetened with Sucanat 1 Tablespoon red wine vinegar 1 Tablespoon...

From the current Atlantic Monthly--thought it was interesting. The Great Grocery Smackdown Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy? By Corby Kummer BUY MY FOOD at Walmart? No thanks. Until recently, I had been...

I know, my chances of being executed are rather remote---but if I had to choose my execution meal it would include the following items. I'd definitely choose food from my childhood like a chocolate malt--the kind from Candlestick Park and...

If you were sad to see Greengo's and Avocodo's close--you've got another chance to support a place to get fresh and healthy food. Grilla Bites opened in downtown last week at 1427 Market Street on the Market Street Promenade. I...

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Boy am I having a variety of computer problems. If it's not one thing... So I'm sending this fragile device off to Apple for about a 3 week stay. In the meantime, instead of trying to borrow computers to blog--I'm...

Certified Colon Therapists Dollie Popoff and Kriss Mann will explain colon therapy, the types of conditions it may help and how to have healthy digestion. Al and Mary Occasion of Churn Creek Meadows Organic Farm will talk about their organic...

Tests on more than 300 samples of canned tuna from the top three brands in the United States revealed that more than half contained mercury levels above what's considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. Researchers from the University of...

Ah! The new food pyramid--recommends 6 to 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice, oatmeal and pasta per day. First problem? You'll probably be fat. Second problem? You'll probably be diabetic. Who came up with this insane form of nutritional advice?...

When we have sugar cravings it's usually any combination of these five deficiencies. The first is that you may need more protein. Add more grass-fed meat, pastured chicken, pastured eggs, raw cheese, beans, nuts, cottage cheese or fish. After a...

My guests are Doug Bennett from Shasta-Cascade Food Farm Coalition and Gail Feenstra, PhD, from U.C. Davis. They'll discuss the movie Food, Inc., and present solutions to this overwhelming nutritional and economic challenge. Tune in at 10:00 a.m. at 1460...

I was talking to a home health nurse yesterday who cares for our advanced diabetic community. "These cases of diabetes, Trudi, you've seen nothing like it. These are people so addicted to sugar that they'd rather have their leg...

Why is Nicorette gum so dang expensive? Who can afford to stop smoking? It's over fifty- bucks for 100 pieces of nicotine gum. According to my interview of smokers--if you're a pack a day smoker you need so much of...

Even low-level exposure to BPA can be hazardous to your health -- the evidence has been accumulating for more than 10 years. There are more than 100 independent studies linking the chemical to serious health problems in humans, including: Prostate...

This from the John Wooden camp. Hi Trudi: Coach Wooden appreciates your email and sends greetings. He is recuperating from a recent hospital stay and is feeling better each day. He hopes you will understand because of his current health...

This from the John Wooden camp. Hi Trudi: Coach Wooden appreciates your email and sends greetings. He is recuperating from a recent hospital stay and is feeling better each day. He hopes you will understand because of his current health...

Doug Bennett and the crew from Shasta Cascade Food and Farm Coalition are showing this eye-opening film on Saturday, February 6th at the First United Methodist Church in Redding (corner of East and South). Starts at 3:00 p.m. Admission is...

I have some really great guests tomorrow on my radio show on KCNR. I'll start out talking about Jack LaLanne and then interview the owners of Fleet Feet athletic shoe shop as they address the benefits of supportive footwear. It...

I have some really great guests tomorrow on my radio show on KCNR. I'll start out talking about Jack LaLanne and then interview the owners of Fleet Feet athletic shoe shop as they address the benefits of supportive footwear. It...

Some herbs were made famous by the Greeks and have never lost popularity. The simple herb valerian is a good choice for garden variety stress. It's easy to find at health food, grocery and drug stores and is usually quite...

I'll go ahead and start posting my monthly columns on my blog. Walking through the perfume aisle at the department store, are you one of those people who can get so disoriented by the chemical cloud that you can't remember...

Redding acupuncturist Michel Czehatowski sends this: In Praise of Avocados Sunday, 24 January 2010 The Hass avocado (Persea americana Mill.) is a great American success story. A California mailman named Rudolph Hass discovered this cultivar, which turns purplish-black upon ripening,...

Dan Martin of Lazy 69 Ranch sends this e-mail this morning. My grandpa's role model was and is Jack LaLane. In the late 40s he met Jack on the beach at Avalon harbor, Catalina Island. Gramps was a gymnast and...

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Now at HomeCraft Breads you can get bread baked with one of my favorite oils--olive oil. They bake this organic whole wheat bread just one day per week. Call and have them put aside a loaf for you today....

They've got just four games left To catch the knights: Jan. 23 Saturday College of the Siskiyous Redding 7:30 Feb. 3 Wednesday College of the Redwoods Redding 7:30 Feb. 13 Saturday Feather River Redding 7:30 Feb. 17 Wednesday Butte Redding...

Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned By MICHAEL MOSS/ Newyorktimes.com Published: December 30, 2009 Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with...

WORLD Putin Says Chlorine in Chickens Unsafe BY DAN FLYNN | JAN 16, 2010 Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports. "We haven't seen any...

WORLD Putin Says Chlorine in Chickens Unsafe BY DAN FLYNN | JAN 16, 2010 Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports. "We haven't seen any...

For just $35.00, you can place an online order and garner these delightful morsels for your Shasta County inmate of choice. Between the rancid fat and the death-dose of sugar you can nearly guarantee a lively distraction from the humdrum...

For just $35.00, you can place an online order and garner these delightful morsels for your Shasta County inmate of choice. Between the rancid fat and the death-dose of sugar you can nearly guarantee a lively distraction from the humdrum...

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Redding Mountain Biking, Inc. may be just the group you're looking for. They have outings for beginners to extreme mountain biking. Meet in the Sunset Marketplace parking lot at 8:45 on Saturday mornings. Visit their Web site...

Some of these hardcore folks can be found at our own Cross Fit Redding health club. I love this stuff. Click here...