Stick to foods closest to their natural state like vegetables, nuts, lean protein, whole fruit, plain low-fat dairy, whole grains like barley, brown rice and quinoa, and healthy oils.

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In 2007 the area was severely affected when 40 properties flooded despite the nearby River Severn being low and the flood plain dry.

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"Investors shouldn't be surprised to see plain-vanilla equity funds repositioned as 'low-volatility' vehicles, " says Shannon Zimmerman, a fund analyst at Morningstar.

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I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.

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Fargo has purchased about 550 houses in low-lying areas since the 1970s to take them out of the flood plain or make room for levees, said Mayor Dennis Walaker.

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