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Cherries Play Important Role in Your Health

Dan Fruits, Specialty Crops, This Land of Ours

Cathy Isom continues her series with the important role cherries play in your blood sugar, weight loss, and even sleep! That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Cherries Play Important Role in Your Health Despite being higher in sugar than fruits like fresh cranberries or raspberries, whole cherries are really very low on the glycemic index. They’ve been shown …

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Healthful Benefits of Aloe Vera

Dan This Land of Ours

Cathy Isom fills you in about healthful benefits of the perfect plant to have around the house, and why you should grow it. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours.     When it comes to house plants, the Aloe Vera plant is one you definitely want to have around. Especially if you or a loved one gets a burn, cut …

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Agri View: Imported Heart Healthy Foods

Dan Agri View, Fruits

  Everett Griner talks about one of our heart healthy foods still being imported in today’s Agri View.   Back when I was a young farm reporter I read that any crop grown anywhere in the world could be grown somewhere in America. Well I often wondered ever since why we don’t grow tea or coffee. Well, we do. Just …