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A cozy chicken fricassee to add to your dinner rotation

A fricassee is somewhere between a sauté and a stew, and more importantly is another French home-cooked meal from my cookbook, "Season to Taste," that should be in your kitchen rotation. It's simple, yet cozy and delicious enough to make you feel like you have accomplished something of ...

Lovina appreciates her solar power

We entered the month of November. Saturday, we cleared out the rest of the garden beds with only green peppers and hot peppers left. We didn't have a killing frost, so the plants were still OK. We wanted to get some manure tilled in the dirt, so we decided to just pull the plants. It's nice to ...

Will testosterone strengthen women’s bones?

Q. I started hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with estradiol/testosterone pellets in my hips and compounded progesterone capsules. For a while, I felt like a teenager going through puberty. That feeling calmed down once we adjusted the dosage. I'd had osteopenia in my right hip for years, but after five years of HRT, my DEXA scan was normal: No more osteopenia! The testosterone definitely affects how I feel overall and keeps my libido working as it should. I would be a basket case without these hormones! A. Physicians have long recognized that hormone replacement therapy with ...

Awkwafina digs into her culinary roots to try something a little crazy: Open a restaurant

NEW YORK — Awkwafina was feeling under the weather recently and decided she was going to make soup. And that startled her because she hasn't always been the kind of person who made soup. "If I had told myself like a year or so ago that I would be looking at ingredients to make a soup, that would be like insane," she says, laughing. "Like, a soup? 'Hell, no, it's just a hot liquid.'" The actor-comedian-rapper's 180-degree shift is largely thanks to her latest project: Putting together a menu and finding a location and staff to open her own restaurant. The eight-episode Apple TV ...

The basics of diabetic eye disease

Diabetes is a serious condition that can adversely affect a person's quality of life. That's a reality well-known to the hundreds of millions of individuals across the globe who are living with diabetes. According to the International Diabetes Federation Atlas, 10.5 percent of the global adult ...

Resources to help save eyesight from diabetes

COLUMBUS — Prevent Blindness Ohio is offering a variety of resources to the public as part of its Diabetes-related Eye Disease Month in November. According to the most recent National Diabetes Statistics Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40.1 million, or approximately 12% of the U.S. population has diabetes. And an estimated 115.2 million U.S. adults over 18 years of age have prediabetes. The longer someone has diabetes, the higher their risk is of vision loss and blindness. Early detection and treatment can help to prevent significant vision impairment. ...