What does summer bring?  FARMER'S MARKETS!!!

10 reasons to visit your local Farmer’s Market:

1.  Community Support--Support your local economy by supporting your local farmers.

2.  Freshness--fruits and vegetables are very fresh and often picked that same morning!

3.  Yummy--Far superior tasting fruits and vegetables.  Why?  See #2!

4.  Health--The fruits and vegetables are often organic.  Organic means you aren’t ingesting harmful pesticides. 

5.  More Environmentally Friendly--less shipping costs and pollution, less fuel usage, reduced packaging costs

6.  Save Money--the prices are often cheaper than the grocery store because the cost of the middleman and pricey shipping are eliminated.

7.  Get The Scoop--A great opportunity to talk to the farmer directly about where your food comes from and how it’s produced.  

8.  Cooking Help--If you see a vegetable you are unfamiliar with and want to give it a try, you can ask the farmer how to prepare it or for recipe ideas.

9.  Involve Your Kids--shoppin...

We are spending more money than ever to find and treat cancer—some $100 billion in direct treatment costs alone.

Today, one subsidiary of the global chemical firm Industrial Chemicals, Inc., makes a number of cancer-causing pesticides, such as atrazine—a compound banned in much of the industrial world—while another division of ICI, AstraZeneca, produces tamoxifen, one of the most widely prescribed cancer drugs in the world.

Could this paradoxical strategy have anything to do with the fact that both the incidence of cancer not tied to smoking and its treatment options keep steadily increasing, while efforts to restrain environmental causes of the disease remain stymied?

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