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These Are the Best Foods for Heart Health

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We all know the heart is a vital organ. It keeps our blood moving through our body, controls us pulse rate and maintains us blood pressure. When it comes to maintaining your heart health over time, your diet can play an important role.

Everyone from the American Heart Association to the US Department of Health and Human Services recommends making specific food choices to support a healthy heart. Because foods for heart health can reduce other potential cardiovascular issues — such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol — it’s worth keeping that in mind as you plan your

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Healthy food options are limited for many rural WV communities

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CLAY — On a recent weekday, Sarah Williams was doing what she does most Tuesday mornings: waiting for a weekly delivery of produce, meat and dairy products for her mom-and-pop grocery store, Small Town Market.

“You know it’s Tuesday, but you never really know what time,” Williams said, looking past the empty wooden tables in her storefront. “It’s kind of a struggle to get things in here.”

Williams and her husband, BJ, expected to face some challenges when they started Small Town Market just as the first wave of pandemic closures hit West Virginia in 2020. But they knew Clay

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Local food service businesses partner to stay open, save money

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Bueno Burrito owner Nathan Stringer (right) is opening his Thomasville restaurant's kitchen to other food businesses, such as Perfect Portions healthy meal prep owner Bethany Martin (left) and two food trucks. It allows all involved to pool resources and save money during this time of rising commercial rents and food costs. Martin will set up her food prep area on the left side of the kitchen, which Stringer has cleared for her.

Bueno Burrito owner Nathan Stringer (right) is opening his Thomasville restaurant’s kitchen to other food businesses, such as Perfect Portions healthy meal prep owner Bethany Martin (left) and two food trucks. It allows all involved to pool resources and save money during this time of rising commercial rents and food costs. Martin will set up her food prep area on the left side of the kitchen, which Stringer has cleared for her.

THOMASVILLE — A few weeks ago Bethany Martin was preparing to close down her healthy food prep business Perfect Portions, which she has owned since 2018 when she

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UN Report: 131 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean cannot access a healthy diet – World

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The region has the highest cost for a healthy diet compared to the rest of the world, at USD 3.89 per person per day, while the world average is USD 3.54. SANTIAGO, Chile. The new United Nations report Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022 finds that 22.5% of the Latin America and the Caribbean population cannot afford a healthy diet. In the Caribbean this figure reaches 52%; in Mesoamerica, 27.8%; and in South America, 18.4%.

The publication reports that 131.3 million people in the region could not afford a healthy diet in 2020. This represents an increase of 8

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Salmon Arm food forest recognized nationally as healthy urban green space

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Salmon Arm’s Lighthouse Community Food Forest has been recognized as a shining example of a healthy, climate-resistant urban green space.

Located at the Salvation Army property at 441 3rd St. SW., the food forest took root in 2021 after discussions occurred between the Shuswap Food Action Network and the Salvation Army Lighthouse Community Ministries food bank around food security and the availability of locally produced healthy food. The project was designed and managed by Coldstream’s Keli Westgate of Lekker Land Design, and was recently recognized by the Society for Organic Urban Landcare (SOUL) as one of its Greener Greenspaces of

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Meet Keith Lee, the pro fighter with social anxiety who became TikTok’s ‘food godfather’ and savior of local Las Vegas restaurants in a matter of months

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Ronni Lee (left), Keith Lee (right) with their daughters Riley Lee (left) and Carter Lee (right).

Keith Lee’s (center) TikTok content mostly consisted of family-related videos before he shifted his focus to food reviews.Courtesy of Keith Lee

  • Keith Lee, 26, rose to new heights of TikTok at the end of 2022 as his videos gained exposure.

  • He started 2022 with one million followers and now has more than 8.6 million.

  • Lee uses his platform to help struggling Las Vegas businesses gain visibility.

Keith Lee started 2022 with one million TikTok followers, a number that stayed near constant until November, when his food review videos reached a level of virality that helped him gain over seven

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11 Ways to Actually Eat Healthier in the New Year

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Photo: Jacek Chabraszewski (Shutterstock)

Photo: Jacek Chabraszewski (Shutterstock)

If your resolution is to eat healthy in the new year, please don’t hop into any crash diets or misguided detoxes. Here are some of our best tips, articles, and in-depth guides about how to eat healthy in a way that’s actually good for your body and mind.

There is no “best” diet

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Photo: Liliya Kandrashevich (Shutterstock)

Around this time, your friends will be trying to convince you that the diet they’re on is the best one. Cut out all sugar, they’ll plead. Or do the mediterranean diet with them. But there’s no such thing as

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