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Keeping Pets Cool and Safe in Arizona’s Climate
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern For everyone with a beloved pet at home, keeping them healthy and happy should be a number one priority. There are many ways with which to make sure your pet stays healthy including…
5 Easy Tips for Keeping Away the Freshman 15
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern When entering your first year of college, you may hear quite a few references to the “freshman 15.” This refers to the 15 or so pounds of weight many students gain during their…
Excessive Heat Warnings: What You Should Know
Monsoon season is starting, and the heat is on! The Valley and Southwestern part of the state are under their first excessive heat warning of the season, and it doesn’t look like that warning will be lifted for at least…
National Egg Month
May is National Egg Month! Did you know that Arizona’s own Hickman’s Family Farms produces more than 7 million eggs a day for Arizona families? That is a lot of eggs! Of the eggs produced in the US each year, roughly…
9 Foods to Help You Lose Weight
Beating Back the Bulges Are you one of the more than nine million Americans (and 1.8 million Arizonians) who have vowed to lose weight in 2015? You should know that you are in good company. From a list of the…
Arizona Farm Couple Appointed to National Young Farmer & Rancher Committee
Dinsmore Family Arizona farmers Jonathan and Lara Dinsmore have been appointed to the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Committee, a national committee of young farmers and ranchers focused on developing leadership and honing other professional…
5 Simple Steps to Get Physical- and Get Healthy
Get physical and follow these tips for an active lifestyle (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com) It is a sad truth of our times that most people do not get as much physical activity as we need to safeguard our health. As technology…
How to Use Food to Manage Your Cholesterol
You can help to manage your cholesterol levels by eating these simple foods (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com) If you are looking for ways to lower your cholesterol, you may want to start by looking at what you eat. You may be…
Gardening is Good for Your Health
Follow these tips to grow delicious food in your garden (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com) Many garden hobbyists look to their time tending plants as a necessary counterbalance to the busy, stressed out pace of modern life. There is something grounding about…
The Mediterranean Diet: Does it Work?
Here are some facts about the Mediterranean Diet so you can decide if it may work for you (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com) There are many different diets that seem to be all the rage – going gluten-free, eating paleo-friendly, following the…
6 Tips and Tricks for Sticking to Your Resolutions
Follow these tips and tricks for keeping your New Year’s Resolutions (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com) It turns out that when it comes to our frequent inability to stick to our New Year’s resolutions, we shouldn’t be blaming our willpower, we should…
Two Small Steps to a Heart Healthier Diet
Follow these tips to eat a heart healthy diet (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com) By the time you read this, more than five people in the U.S. will have died from heart disease. As the number one killer of Americans, heart disease…
How to Make the Perfect Hot Dog
Photograph of a Coney Island hot dog. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Although we tend to think of hot dogs as All-American, they are actually immigrants from Germany and Italy. The ancestor of the modern day hot dog came from Frankfurt and…