America’s 10 healthiest supermarkets

Let’s face it: Your weekly (or daily!) run to the grocery store is the foundation for your good health. So it’s thrilling news that the supermarket industry is on a health kick — these days you’ll likely find organic produce and “natural” packaged foods at almost any store. But which chains are outdoing themselves to deliver the freshest and healthiest food? And which provide the best tools to help you make smart choices? Health magazine asked six prominent health experts to help pick the top 10 healthiest grocery stores out of the nation’s largest chains. And surprise: Many are the traditional, affordable grocers close to your home! Here are the winners:

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Got fruit? Farm marketing programs pay off

Wisconsin's cranberry harvesters had some help this year from far, far away.

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FDA: Irradiating spinach, lettuce OK to kill germs

Consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce zapped with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and a few other germs.

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Putting the squeeze on produce to kill germs

Could food producers literally squeeze the salmonella out of a jalapeno? Or zap the E. coli from lettuce without it going limp?

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Wal-Mart branches out into locally grown produce

Wal-Mart stores in Arizona now stock Grand Canyon sweet onions while aisles in New York display state-grown eggplant, as the world's largest retailer says it has become the nation's largest buyer of locally grown fruits and vegetables.

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Produce farmers cheer farm bill

Fruit and vegetable growers would reap a bonanza in the farm bill passed Wednesday by the House that, for the first time, includes a significant amount of money for them.

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Maryland joins effort to put local food in school cafeterias

The strawberries just turning red on one Eastern Shore field here could end up on plates almost anywhere — except on cafeteria trays just down the road.

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Hawaii Working to Link Its Food Chain

A technology used to track everything from cattle and bottles of Viagra to U.S. military weapons will soon be tested on an unlikely candidate for surveillance: tomatoes.

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Cangenuity- McIntosh Apple, Tracing back the roots of the Mac

You like them apples, eh?

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Are you desperate to use up the overflow supply of zucchini issuing forth from your garden? Have you questioned the reasoning behind planting two dozen husky plants, each of which is, like the brooms in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, threatening to drown you in little green veggies?  …

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Kennedy, Obama, Freedom, and Excellence

Music: MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama are enemies of freedom. Ted Kennedy had access to the best medical care available.

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When this study was commissioned, who decided chosing to eat organic had to do with improved nutrients? I eat them to avoid pesticides, 'enhancements', fertilizers and assorted chemicals the food industry seems to regard as another food group! Otherwise, isn't an apple an appl …

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Besides the odd pang of guilt, few of us think about what goes into those berries. How do they grow them so big? How do they get across a continent unblemished? How do they grow in November? We went to California to find out.

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Maybe these bees were too tired to fly for themselves. A gang of honeybees landed on the wing of a plane used for flight school training at a Massachusetts airport.

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Iran could produce a simple nuclear device in one to three years and a nuclear warhead in another five years after that, a group of scientists and experts said in a report issued Tuesday.

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Interesting concept of a consulting company here in Colorado helping folks start home gardens as a way of providing food and saving a bit of cash.

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Is your farmers market just a grocery store with a taco stand and a didgeridoo?

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These days, keeping your budget in line isn't measured by the amount you spend, but by how much you save.

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Put down your peeler, and while you're at it, wash your bananas! Shape magazine identifies common kitchen mistakes, and explains why they may be robbing your food of nutrients.

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These six food groups hold the "power" to help you lose weight and turn back the clock. Don't miss our easy seven-day meal plan and delicious anti-aging snacks! See more irresistible headlines

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I'm not quite sure what to think. The title really says it all.

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...as The Fireman for their third and latest release together, Electric Arguments. McCartney entered the studio, without any material, and recorded 13 songs in 13 days...

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A BEER has been created that can prolong life and help avoid illness — but it tastes lousy. The genetically-modified ale was produced by student researchers who have named it BioBeer.

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Locavoracious - On a Season of Eating Local Produce

It's been weeks since I've eaten an avocado, I realized one day. Long a favorite of mine, whether in guacamole, or added to a salad with grapefruit as a tart foil, it fell off my menu this summer -as did the grapefruit. What happened? What happened is I decided to eat local.

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The time has come to give your kids the right choice. Let them chose and I am pretty sure they will find something that is healthy and finally gets them to think about healthy eating!

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Some lawmakers and consumer advocates say loopholes will let meatpackers blur the distinction between foreign and domestic meat.

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We have lost the sweetest of our native fruit: the only way to get it back is to grow it - even if that means guerrilla grafting. I feel almost shy about writing this column. It contains no revelations, no call to arms. No one gets savaged - well, only mildly.

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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday will issue a new regulation allowing spinach and lettuce sellers to take that extra step, a long-awaited move amid increasing outbreaks from raw produce.

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Two young East Bay girls are trying to find out if you really can fight city hall. The youngsters are battling to get their produce stand back after the city of Clayton shut them down.

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As we see food prices rise it is important for our health and the health of our economy to understand where we can best allocate those food dollars. This is a wonderfully researched piece with lots of helpful links.

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Drinkers are queuing up at their village pub to swap home-grown fruit and veg – and even rabbits and fish – for pints. The barter scheme means the pub now boasts the most home-grown menu in the country.

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FDA Finds One Jalapeño With Salmonella Saintpaul And Asserts Authority To Bankrupt Innocent Parties As Part Of FDA's Pursuit Of Vague "Public Health" Goals once again, needlessly and with reckless disregard for the rights of innocent people, the FDA has destroyed an industry.

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