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Registration live for 2024 Indiana Small Farm Conference
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Registration is open for the 2024 Indiana Small Farm Conference — Indiana’s premier annual event for the state’s farming community. The 12th annual conference and trade show will take place Feb. 29-March 1 at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds in Danville, Indiana. Join this year’s keynote speaker, Michael Kilpatrick, founder of Growing Farmers and…
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Bariatric Surgery: Risks in the OR and Beyond
The extent of risk from bariatric weight-loss surgery may depend on the skill of the surgeon. After sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the third most common bariatric procedure is a revision to fix a previous bariatric procedure, as you can see below and at 0:16 in my video The Complications of Bariatric Weight-Loss Surgery.…
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Our Biggest Climate Stories of 2025
Long committed to covering the intersection of the food system and climate change, Civil Eats again kept a record in 2025. To capture the climate policies of the previous administration as a benchmark, we began the year with a look at four years of climate policy under Biden. Soon, our Food Policy Tracker team catalogued…
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Bariatric Weight-Loss Surgery and Mortality
Today, death rates after weight-loss surgery are considered to be “very low,” occurring in perhaps 1 in 300 to 1 in 500 patients on average. The treatment of obesity has long been stained by the snake-oil swindling of profiteers, hustlers, and quacks. Even the modern field of bariatric medicine (derived from the Greek word baros,…
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Don’t land on naughty list of holiday food wasters
UCCE advisor offers tips for reducing food waste from holiday feasts ‘Tis the season for celebrating with food. Lots of food. Enough food to feed the whole neighborhood. And that often leads to leftovers and food waste. The average US household wastes nearly 32% of the food it purchases. By throwing away less food, a…
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Bally Casino and Sports Betting: Your Complete Gaming and Wagering Destination
Introduction to Integrated Gaming and Sports Wagering The convergence of casino gaming and sports betting represents one of the most significant trends in contemporary online gambling. Players increasingly seek comprehensive entertainment destinations offering diverse betting and gaming options under unified platforms. Bally casino and sports betting exemplifies this integrated approach, combining traditional casino games with…
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Best Soil for Cucumbers in Pots: My Foolproof Mix (and Mistakes to Avoid)
December 23, 2025. I was repotting my third cucumber seedling of the season on my east-facing balcony in Hyderabad when I realised something: every time I fail with potted cucumbers, it starts with the soil. Not bugs. Not sun. The soil. That fluffy bag labelled “all-purpose potting mix” I’d grabbed from the nursery? It held…
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How Healthy Are Baruka Nuts?
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts? There is a new nut on the market called baru almonds, branded as “barukas” or baru nuts. Technically, it isn’t a nut but a seed native to the Brazilian Savannah, known as the Cerrado, which is now among the most threatened ecosystems on…
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Year-end survey spotlights food safety, age-related consumer behavior, out-of-stock trends
In the latest Consumer Food Insights Report, Joseph Balagtas, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University and director of the Center for Food Demand and Analysis, asked consumers to decide about discarding or consuming a food item based on different hypothetical “use by” dates. (Purdue Agricultural Communications photo/Tom Campbell) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Building off…
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Can Vegan Fecal Transplants Lower TMAO Levels?
If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora? “Almost 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates stated that ‘All disease begins in the gut.’” When we feed our gut bacteria right with whole plant foods, they feed us right back with beneficial compounds like butyrate, which…