Tip of the week, 5/20/13

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[ A ]

• Add color to vegetable gardens
• Add some green to your diet
• Add variety to make salads more healthy and enjoyable
• Age-proof your house
• Air conditioning needs regular maintenance to be efficient
• Almonds are a heart-healthy choice
• Altering recipes can be easy and healthy
• Alternative party treats
• Defining Alzheimer's and dementia
• Are raw vegetables healthier than cooked?
• Asian ladybugs can be beneficial predator on other insects
• Asparagus is a heart-healthy choice
• Aspirin may help holiday hangovers, but not holiday trees
• Auto insurance basics
• Autumn colors
• Avoid headaches, prepare tax return early

[ B ]

• Baby talk promotes language skills
• Balancing the parent role with relationship needs
• Barbecue safely
• Bathroom safety for elderly
• Be a positive example when teaching children honesty
• Be a thoughtful giver with food items
• Be safe when exercising outdoors in cold weather
• Be sure you are packing healthy sack lunches
• Beef health benefits
• Beekeeping for beginners
• Boil order
• Boost early brain development
• Boost your health with blueberries
• Bottled water or tap
• Bulbs forced to bloom indoors require special care for replanting in garden
• Buy and sell cordwood
• Buying a horse
• Buying a vehicle right for you
• Buying used goods

[ C ]

• Carbon monoxide dangers
• Calcium, exercise among ways to maintain bone and muscle health
• Calibrating home garden equipment
• Care of roses after planting
• Caring for houseplants
• Caulking and filling cracks around windows and doors
• Chain saw safety
• Check the chimney if you plan to heat with wood
• Check your septic tank regularly
• Chiggers
• Children and Internet safety
• Children's conflicts
• Choose a doctor that's right for you
• Choose credible Web sites when searching for health information
• Choose produce wisely
• Choose the right lawn-care service
• Choosing a credit card: Read the fine print
• Choosing a tax preparer
• Cleaning field sprayers to avoid crop injury
• Cleaning stovepipes and chimneys
• Cleaning up after flood takes special care
• Coffee, energy drinkers beware: Many mega-sized drinks loaded with sugar
• Commodity futures terminology
• Common cold checklist
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs help save energy -- and money
• Compost can improve the quality of your garden soil
• Compulsive buying disorder
• Consumer fraud
• Counteract overscheduling children
• Controlling insect defoliators of Missouri trees: colony feeders
• Controlling insect defoliators of Missouri trees: web producers
• Controlling moles
• Cooking wit cheddar cheese
• Cost of using appliance
• Create a household inventory before disaster strikes your home
• Creating healthier holiday food and recipes
• Creative ways to lower the fat
• Cultural competency for kids (and adults)
• Cut down on how much gas you use and save

[ D ]

• Dealing with children who bite
• Deciding to be healthy
• Decreasing aggression in children
• Deeper isn’t always better when transplanting trees
• Dining etiquette pointers
• Disease prevention in home vegetable gardens
• Disregard for safety behind most ATV accidents in Missouri
• Don't bag it lawn care
• Don’t get bitten by frostbite
• Don't handicap yourself with traditions
• Don’t overdo the time-outs
• Don't overwater heat-stressed plants
• Don't rush to prune trees after ice storm
• Downside of supersize
• Drink for optimal athletic performance
• Drying flowers and foliage for arrangements
• Dual residence effects on children
• Dust mites control

[ E ]

• Eager gardeners should be wary of last spring frost
• Eat more fruits
• Eat more vegetables
• Eat right when money is tight
• Eat to be active
• Eating well as we age
• Edible landscaping combines best of both worlds
• Eight healthy habits to help lose weight
• Energy efficiency can pay off at tax time
• ENERGY STAR – What it means to you
• Ensure a good crop of tomatoes
• Establish a home orchard
• Estate planning - Where do I begin?
• Exercise for older adult

[ F ]

• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• Fall is time to clean up your garden, plant trees and shrubs
• Family meals
• Family records
• Farm ponds can put food on the table
• Fight menopause belly fat
• Find meaningful ways to celebrate the holidays
• Financial strategies for later life
• Fireplace or wood stove ashes can benefit garden
• Food labeled as “natural” isn’t necessarily healthy
• Food serving sizes
• Fragrant plants give gardens an extra dimension
• Freezing home-prepared foods
• Freezing vegetables successfully
• Fruit spray schedules for the homeowner
• Fruits and vegetables: better than supplements
• Fun things to do for little or no cost

[ G ]

• Garden diseases
• Gardeners may want to hold off early planting to avoid frost damage
• Get ready for home canning season
• Get rid of pantry pests
• Get your canning equipment and supplies ready
• Getting kids to eat fruits and vegetables
• Getting started saving
• Giving or receiving pets: an owner's responsibility
• Gladiolus
• Gout is a real pain — but it can be treated
• Grab-and-go box
• Grass clippings, compost and mulch
• Grief essential to heal from divorce
• Groundcovers
• Growing asparagus
• Growing citrus trees indoors

[ H ]

• Hate to exercise?
• Having a strong marriage
• Healthier eating for the holidays
• Healthful travel advice
• Healthy fall fruits and vegetables
• Healthy foods to try
• Healthy habits
• Healthy trick or treating
• Heart health
• Heating system maintenance
• Help children explore their curiosity
• Help children in a world that is critical of body size
• Help your child get a good night's sleep
• Help your family grow stronger
• Helping children cope with a parent's job loss
• Helping children deal with anger
• Helping children during a time of crisis
• Helping children understand emotions
• Helping your teenager be successful
• Herb gardening
• Hiring a reputable contractor
• Holiday cactus can provide years of color
• Home-canned foods problem solver
• Home insulation
• Home lawn watering
• Home lawn weed control
• Home safety checklist for families with young children
• Hot water conservation
• Hotbeds
• Housing investment
• How many sit-ups does it take to reduce belly fat?
• How to replace lost documents after a disaster or loss
• How to resolve disagreement in marriage

[ I ]

• Ice dams on the roof can damage your home
• Ice-melters can damage trees
• Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
• Improving lawn and landscape soils
• Ingredient substitutions and equivalents
• Injury prevention in the home
• Insomnia remains the most common sleep disorder
• Insulation for your home
• Involve youth and teens in family budgeting

[ J ]

• Jump-start your garden by planting seeds indoors

[ K ]

• Keep food safe for tailgating
• Keep kids safe from sexually transmitted diseases
• Keep track of your documents and records
• Keeping your memory sharp
• Kerosene heater safety
• Kids susceptible to frostbite

[ L ]

• Late winter ideal time to collect scion wood for apple, nut tree grafting
• Lawn establishment and renovation
• Lawn maintenance calendar
• Lawn weed control
• Least-toxic control methods to manage indoor plant pests
• Lightning
• Little things add up
• Living on less money
• Lodging consumer complaints
• Losing your job, don't panic

[ M ]

• Maintaining lost weight
• Make baking easier with Missouri Mix
• Make sure abandoned wells are properly sealed
• Make your home safer from burglary and theft
• Make your tax refund work for you
• Makeover of shopping habits can offset rising food costs
• Making a spending plan
• Making fruit leather
• Making resolutions stick
• Making yogurt at home
• Managing anger
• Managing chronic illnesses
• Managing lawns and turfgrass
• Managing stress in golden years
• Managing your money
• Managing your water heater
• Many options available for choosing elder care
• Many types of margarine have different uses
• Many uses for pumpkin
• Margarine or butter: That is the question.
• Meal planning
• Menu changes can offset higher food costs of Thanksgiving dinner
• Mold and mildew control in your home
• Mold on food can be dangerous
• Most Missouri snakes are harmless
• Motivation for those who hate exercise
• Mulches
• Multigenerational families provide benefits for everyone
• MyActivity Pyramid shows adults how to get in shape

[ N ]

• Natural lawn care
• Nature photographers share tips for taking outdoor photos
• Negotiation skills
• New Year’s resolutions
• Noise, the invisible hazard
• Nurture relationships through better listening
• Nutritious advantage of nuts

[ O ]

• Obtaining comfort and fuel economy with your thermostat
• October is ideal time to plant tulips for next spring
• Online holiday shopping safety measures
• Organization is key to morning routine
• Outstanding woody ornamentals
• Overdraft tip sheet

[ P ]

• Packing a healthy, affordable lunch
• Painting the exterior of your house
• Parents play key role in decreasing aggression in children
• Pay attention to your child’s good behavior
• Pesticide application safety
• Picking the right apple
• Planning, sticking to a budget eases holiday shopping stress
• Planning a terrarium
• Planning funerals in advance makes decisions easier
• Planting time calls for extra safety precautions
• Plants can remove indoor air pollutants
• Plug the spending leak in your wallet
• Poinsettias beyond the holidays
• Portion control is important for health
• Power of antioxidants
• Precautions to avoid frozen pipes
• Prepare emergency supplies for spring storm season
• Prepare your disaster supplies kit
• Preparing for an earthquake
• Preserve mind and body
• Preserving herbs
• Prevent cold-weather blues
• Prevent dementia
• Promoting young children's early literacy
• Proper lawn care can stop turfgrass diseases before it's too late
• Protect children from unintentional injuries
• Protect your bath and shower from mold and mildew
• Protect your vision with a healthy diet
• Protect yourself against identity theft
• Pruning ornamental shrubs
• Pruning time
• Pumpkins can be used in many tasty ways

[ Q ]

• Quench summer thirst
• Quit smoking

[ R ]

• Raised bed gardening
• Raising kind children
• Reading food labels
• Realizing the risks of radon
• Recycling plastic
• Reduce health care costs
• Reduce your food budget
• Reduce use of chemical pesticides in lawns and gardens
• Reduce your holiday financial stress
• Reduce your household energy costs
• Reducing holiday financial stress
• Relationships in later life
• Remodel or renovate your home
• Remodeling: Is now the right time?
• Repairing drawers
• Replace diets with good health habits
• Replacing receptacles and wall switches
• Replanting live Christmas trees can enhance landscape for years
• Road ready for winter
• Rudbeckia is good choice for novice gardeners

[ S ]

• Safe grilling
• Safe tractor operation
• Safe snow shoveling
• Safety with electricity
• Sanitation helps control indoor pests
• Save money on fertilizer
• Saving and investing
• Saving food after a power outage
• Saving water in your bathroom
• Sea salt or table salt
• Sealing gaps and cracks to save money, prevent problems
• Selling tips for local food producers
• Selling your home
• Senior citizens should jog their memory daily
• September is optimum time to start lawn seeding
• Several practical measures minimize poison ivy misery
• Shaded gardens
• Shopping for safe food
• Siblings should work together to help aging parents
• Simple strategies to avoid mindless eating
• Six steps to a healthier holiday season
• Sleep - Are you getting enough?
• Smooth the transition to summer visitation
• Social and emotional skills help children succeed in school, life
• Soft drinks and weight gain
• Soil testing for lawns
• Spend time with your kids
• Spring cleaning in the freezer
• Stain removal tips
• Start saving
• Starting a fire in a wood stove
• Stay active without succumbing to heat
• Stay healthy
• Stay in shape: Don't let desk jobs do you in
• Staying home alone: Is your child ready for self-care?
• Summer fun

[ T ]

• Take control of stress before it takes control of you
• Take small steps for big changes
• Take steps to offset soaring heating costs
• Taking online courses at MU
• Talking to children about cancer
• Talking smoke detectors wake sleeping children better than shrill, beeping alarm
• Talking with teens about sex
• Teaching children the value of chores
• Television viewing for children
• Test pressure canner gauges and prepare for home canning
• The Affordable Care Act in plain English
• The difference between flu and colds
• There is more than one way to get enough water
• Things every senior should consider
• Think twice before investing in a water filtration system
• Trapping still best for removing nuisance moles
• Traveling with children
• Tree placement
• Tree wraps can help prevent winter’s southwest injury

[ U ]

• Use a pedometer properly
• Use shock chlorination to disinfect contaminated wells
• Using, not abusing, timeouts for kids
• Using gallons per mile to measure fuel efficiency

[ V ]

• Vegetable harvesting and storage

[ W ]

• Walking: How fast is fast enough?
• Walking is the best medicine
• Warm, wet weather can trigger mold growth
• Water efficient landscaping
• Weatherizing your home has year-round benefits
• Weight loss
• What to do if your child worries too much
• What you need to know about sunscreen
• When mom or dad won't eat
• Wildflowers in the home landscape
• Winter squash is a great addition to fall menus
• Worm composting reduces household wastes

[ X ]

[ Y ]

• You can't purchase financial freedom with a credit card

[ Z ]

• Zinc lozenges can reduce severity of a cold
• Zucchini recipes

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