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Dining with Diabetes: Holiday meals create challenges

MANHATTAN – For people with diabetes, the holiday onslaught of high sugar, high carbohydrate foods could feel like a demolition derby of sorts for their diet. But instead of feeling like they’re taking a hit from all sides of the party table, Christina Holmes said people with diabetes – or at risk for the disease – can benefit from common- sense strategies to navigate holiday meals.

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Feds give ‘threatened’ protection to lesser prairie chickens in Kansas, with flexibility for industry

The federal government will list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened in Kansas and neighboring states, triggering protections under federal law starting next year. A smaller, isolated population of the same grouse species in part of Texas and New Mexico will be listed as endangered and receive stricter protection.

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