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For several years, a local business has made it easy for residents to serve up healthy meals. The trick is they do the shopping and prep work.

Lonnie Bouvier is the owner of Little Northern Meals, based in South Porcupine.

Most food items at the supermarket these days, including bread, eggs, and milk are considerably more expensive than they were in the recent past. And you can expect to continue to feel pain at the checkout container. As the USDA

Heart food

Heart-healthy approaches to eating include the Mediterranean diet, the DASH diet and the Portfolio diet. Photo: twomeows/Getty Images

Your diet — the foods and drinks you eat, not short-term restrictive programs — can impact

Mayoral candidate Jeff Brown’s successful opening of ShopRite stores in so-called food deserts — low-income areas that lack access to healthy and affordable grocery options — is the central theme of his campaign.

But in speeches and advertisements, Brown usually

HEDIS is a set of performance measures that are used to compare health plan performance and measure the quality of health plans. These measures were created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). About 90% of health plans