Last week it was claimed that a substance in their dark-blue pigment also protects against colon cancer, the second most common fatal cancer in Britain. I cook roast butternut squash soup, followed by salmon and sweet-potato fishcakes - all a success - and various "super" greens, plus slow-roasted tomatoes. With the list growing almost weekly, I decided to find out if it's possible to live on superfoods alone, and how it would make me feel. So what is a superfood? One definition is that it...

He is the only person in Georgia history to win contested elections in all three branches of state government legislative, executive, and judicial. Ponder was one of the first farmers in the area to practice conservation tillage on cotton and peanuts. When he graduated, he started farming with his father and brother in Omega. Murray, a 1972 graduate, has successfully balanced family and career for 34 years. AP content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Former ABAC...

Conagra says that it won't comment on pending lawsuits and that the link between its products and an outbreak of salmonella in its jars of peanut butter is not yet proven. Meat and poultry are usually the source of these outbreaks, but recently fruits and vegetables have been the culprits. In a statement, Conagra says it will voluntarily recall its peanut butter because "consumer health safety is our top priority. Peanut butter is usually a very safe food, because the peanuts are roasted...

As the days marched past, despair set in and as she jealously observed others preparing for the school year, any iota of hope she harboured dissipated. Having just completed her Grade 10, Maggie was resigned to the conclusion that this was the end of her road despite her inner senses overwhelmingly suggesting otherwise. SCHOOL holidays are often the space of time in between busy school years to unwind, recharge and return to school a year older and a year wiser to tackle life's challenges...

They also argue that biodiesel is preferable to ethanol, which is normally distilled from corn or sugar cane, because using ethanol requires a modified engine. Goldberg's veggie brew, however, can be burned in any normal diesel engine, and releases less air pollution and global warming gas than standard fuel. And Goldberg and other advocates believe that driving diesel-powered Volkswagens powered by soy oil is good for the Earth - even better than driving hybrid cars, which are still...