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(Family Features) Understanding and improving cholesterol is important for people of all ages, including children and teens. Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can help keep your heart healthy and lower your chances of getting heart disease or having a stroke. High cholesterol usually has no symptoms. In fact, about 38% of adults in the United States...

This time of year any plants growing in the garden are welcome! Those plants that come back year after year are especially welcome! Enjoying annuals that will set their own seed and come back year after year have a special appeal, although they need a bit different culture than the other more regular “perennials.” Self-seeding...

(Family Features) A beautifully designed charcuterie board may feel more like a grown-up treat, but with the right ingredients, delicious grazing boards can provide fun and nutrition for the whole family. No matter what you call it, charcuterie boards, grazing boards and snack platters are all basically the same thing. The boards make a trendy...

Published by Marilyn Frey Review by Shelley A. Leedahl $24.95 ISBN 9780981380346 One of the many joys of reading a memoir is learning you share certain places, people or experiences with an author. I didn’t anticipate crossovers between my life and Saskatchewan writer Marilyn Frey’s, but I discovered multiple intersections while reading her candid, thought...

Fortunately, both my husband and l love to travel. Truthfully, it sometimes takes me a while to talk him into it, but once we are there, he enjoys himself. There are benefits I see to stimulate your brain and create a learning experience. 1. Planning a trip takes a lot of work. You read from...

This is a perfect fresh smoothie for this summer! There are many benefits of this smoothie. It will help with gaining muscle and contains essential nutrients and calories to give you enough energy for your gym workout. Also, it is full of antioxidants, potassium and glycogen. This smoothie will aid digestion, and provide good bacteria...

Let’s clear something up: many conditions often accepted as “normal” parts of aging are anything but normal. Limited mobility due to joint pain, getting winded from mild exertion, and a medicine cabinet overflowing with prescriptions are not inevitable. These are warning signs that something needs to change, and quickly. Every day, our bodies decide whether...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming health care at an astounding pace. Vantage Market Research, an American firm specializing in emerging markets, estimates the global AI market in health will climb from US$6.6 billion in 2021 to US$95.7 billion by 2028. That’s an astounding 46.1 per cent compound annual growth. What’s does this mean for the...

Saskatoon lost one of the best of the best with Al Anderson’s passing on July 2 at the age of 92. He touched the city in many ways as a businessman and a volunteer, especially as an advocate for those with physical and intellectual disabilities. The inspiration for much of Anderson’s volunteer work came after...

The 2024 civic election may be different from any previous election. Normally citizens would be filing their nomination forms and a local paper would be publishing their profiles for public consumption. As I write this, I have seen nothing in the local newspaper about any council or school board candidates, although I have already received...