In addition to getting vegetables delivered from Homestead Creamery, I paid $35 for a share in Sausser Farms CSACo-op, which was supposed to result in 5lbs of vegetables a week for 24 weeks, and they were supposed to have a presence at the Salem Farmers Market. They haven’t opened at the Salem Farmers Market. Their [...]
Tagged Sausser FarmsThis week we received 2 vegetable boxes from Homestead Creamery. It’s the first week we’ve received 2, and it’s the first week that I’ve received any tomatoes, herbs, egg plant, and non-pickling cucumbers. The only other items we’ve received so far this season are cabbage, carrots, one mess of wax beans, one beet, and lots [...]
Tagged Sausser FarmsResearchers from the School of Medicine at UCLA have found that being too clean could impair the skin’s ability to heal. The team discovered that normal bacteria that live on the skin trigger a pathway that helps prevent inflammation when we get hurt. These bugs dampen overactive immune responses which can cause cuts and grazes [...]
The potency of interval training is nothing new. Many athletes have been straining through interval sessions once or twice a week along with their regular workout for years. But what researchers have been looking at recently is whether humans can increase endurance with only a few minutes of strenuous exercise, instead of hours? Could it [...]
Work or personal stress may make you want to pull your hair out, but it’s cellular stress that actually turns it gray, a new study has found. That’s because DNA is “under constant attack” by damaging agents, such as chemicals, ultraviolet light, and ionizing radiation. The stem cells within hair follicles responsible for color are [...]
After an outbreak of the bird flu, most carcasses end up in landfills. There, according to a new study, the virus can survive for up to two years. Landfills are designed to contain waste for far longer than that, so the practice is probably safe. Still, the new study suggests that waste managers might want [...]
The Department of Agriculture found that North Carolina has the highest number of hungry children, second only to Louisiana. The number comes from a massive study that finds one in four children in the Tar Heel state go hungry every day. Watch (WLOS)
Some hospital emergency rooms have seen record-breaking numbers of patients this week as those with coughs, sore throats and fevers — and sometimes no symptoms at all — have sought reassurance that they do not have swine flu. Although the pattern is far from universal, the surges have been particularly heavy at children’s hospitals. Read [...]
A community garden in Madison County is bringing people together and giving the local economy a jumpstart at the same time. The garden, located along Route 29, just opened to the community a week ago. The garden is giving the people of Madison a chance to take the locally grown food movement to a whole [...]
An annual two-day free dental clinic that has treated more than 1,000 people a year has been called off for 2009. For two years the Roanoke Mission of Mercy dental clinic has been a spring event at the Roanoke Civic Center, but scheduling conflicts with dental conferences forced organizers to cancel this year’s clinic and [...]
Injections of a natural growth factor into the brains of mice, rats and monkeys offers hope of preventing or reversing the earliest impacts of Alzheimer’s disease on memory. The benefits arose even in animals whose brains contained the hallmark plaques that clog up the brains of patients. By delivering brain-derived neurotrophic factor BDNF directly into [...]
On Saturday, January 7, 1984, I finished working a night shift at the 750th Military Intelligence Group on Security Hill at Misawa Air Base. I wasn’t feeling well that morning and asked to be excused from physical training (P.T.), but I was told no. While participating in P.T., I had a seizure and passed out. [...]
I recorded each day’s supper in 2008 in a Google Calendar.
The number of people seeking affordable health care has spiked as families struggle to deal with financial belt-tightening in the midst of a national recession. Waiting rooms packed with new patients have become commonplace at free clinics throughout the region and state, and clinic leaders say they only expect the situation to worsen as recent [...]
There is little doubt that depression is bad for the heart. Much as fatty diets, cigarette smoking, inactivity and obesity are linked with an increased risk of heart disease, recent evidence suggests that mental health has a similarly powerful impact. Reasearch published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that depression contributes to [...]
Children living in areas of high precipitation may be more likely to have autism, according to a new study, but the researchers caution that the finding of a rainfall-autism link is preliminary. The finding may have nothing to do with the rainfall or snow itself, they say, but rather factors associated with the precipitation, such [...]
When a 1991 cholera outbreak that killed thousands in Peru was traced to plankton blooms fueled by warmer-than-usual coastal waters, linking disease outbreaks to epidemics was a new idea. Now, scientists say, it is a near-certainty that global warming will drive significant increases in waterborne diseases around the world. Rainfalls will be heavier, triggering sewage [...]
The Roanoke City Market closed for two weeks earlier this month after a big mouse problem was discovered. During that time, 21 mice were found and the place was turned upside down for a major cleaning. There’s been a lot of talk that many will never eat there again, but vendors say this is now [...]
The U.S. Army is nearing a grim statistic – the number of soldiers who committed suicide this year is on pace to be an all-time high. The record was set in 2007 when there were 115 suicides. The Army says there have been 62 confirmed suicides by active duty members in 2008, with 31 unconfirmed [...]
Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden? That is where an entrepreneur in San Francisco comes in. For a fee, he will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing [...]