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The men with whom I live

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, excessive alcohol consumption is responsible for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults in the United States. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans,which are produced jointly every five years by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, advise adults about healthy alcohol consumption.According to the guidelines, women should consume no more than one drink per day while men should limit their consumption to two drinks per day or less. Consuming more alcohol than the guidelines suggest can prove fatal, as the CDC notes that binge drinking is responsible for almost half the deaths related to excessive alcohol consumption.

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Navigating the NICU

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If you have a baby who is born too early or has serious health problems, he or she may be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a hospital unit that provides around-the-clock specialized care to newborns.

Keep your garden and tradition alive by saving seeds

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National Seed Swap Day has been celebrated every year on the last Saturday of January since its inception in Washington, D.C., in 2006. On this day — this year, it falls on Jan. 30 — gardeners come together and swap seeds from their best plants.

The art of seed-saving has all but disappeared from our culture. However, some passionate gardeners continue to carry on the time-honored and costeffective tradition of collecting the seeds from each year’s harvest to grow next year’s crop.

Strawberry crop coming early, looking good

BATON ROUGE Despite the recent cold snap, Louisiana strawberries are coming in at a steady clip. LSU AgCenter agent Mary Helen Ferguson said the producers are off to a good start this season, with no extreme temperatures so far.

“You should be able to find berries at a few locations now and that will increase over the coming weeks,” she said. “The growers I’ve talked to seem pretty satisfied with how things are going.”

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Honoring the King: A portrait of an Elvis tribute artist

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More than any other, it is the Elvis tribute artist (or ETA) who keeps the Elvis Presley flame burning for his fans, preening rockabilly pompadours, suiting up in flashy jumpsuits and warbling notes with a yearning sneer. At the time of the King’s passing in 1977, there were about 170 performers of Elvis tributes; today there are an estimated 400,000, and they are found across the globe. (There are even a few female ETAs.) Some have turned their tributes into lucrative careers - a toptier Elvis tribute artist can command a considerable fee for a performance.