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Skin Cancer Prevention
If you live in Arizona you probably spend much of your time outdoors. With nearly 300 days of sunshine annually in this amazing state how…
How to Care For Your Skin after a Sunburn
Living in Arizona you are bound to get at least one sunburn in your lifetime. It is important to take precautions to prevent this from…
Best Foods for Expecting Mothers
Congratulations, you are pregnant! The food choices you make every day you are pregnant can affect your heath and the health of your baby. It…
Is It Food Poisoning Or The Stomach Flu?
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), even though the American food supply is among the safest in the world, there are about 48…
Are You Getting Enough Dairy In Your Diet?
Arizona’s 188,000 dairy cows provide us with the freshest milk, cheese and yogurt. On average, a dairy cow will produce 7 gallons of milk each…
The H5N2 Bird Flu, What Does It Mean?
The outbreak of the avian influenza H5N2 in the U.S. has seriously impacted Midwestern poultry and egg producers. This strain has already spread to 14…
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…
Pass the Milk and the Lactaid, Please
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau: I get all sorts of fun questions from our Arizona families inquiring about Arizona agriculture and even specific nutrition…
Let’s Celebrate Arizona Grown Leafy Greens
November is the month of gratitude and if there is one thing we have to be grateful for here in Arizona it is the abundance…
Cereal Flavored Milk, for the Kid in All of Us
Do you remember watching Saturday morning cartoons as you slurped down the milk left in the bottom of your cereal bowl? Now you can skip…
15 Fun Facts about Food
Most of us eat every day with only nutrition or sustenance on the mind. We don’t often look at the foods in our fridge for…
5 Simple Steps to Get Physical- and Get Healthy
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.…
Training Your Brain to Crave What’s Good for You
Cookies make your brain sparkle, at least during an MRI. These sparkles are the visual representation of the release of dopamine in the brain that…
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Pork and Nutrition: Taste What Pork Can Do!
By Joel Carr, Arizona Farm Bureau Strategic Communications Manager, and Julie Murphree, Strategic Communications Director When building a healthy, nutrient-rich plate, pork delivers in…
Spring Cleaning Your Cupboards: A Hilarious Adventure Awaits!
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Director of Strategic Communications Picture this: the sun’s shining, birds are chirping, and you’ve got that itch to tackle…
