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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:57 |
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 Federal officials investigating conditions at the two Iowa mega-farms whose products have been at the center of the biggest egg recall in U.S. history found filthy conditions, including chickens and rodents crawling up massive manure piles and flies and maggots "too numerous to count."
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:37 |
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Recent incidents of adulteration involving infant formula, other milk products and pet food with the industrial chemical melamine revealed the weaknesses of current methods widely used across the domestic and global food industry for determining protein content in foods.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:05 |
 Health conscious consumers who hesitate at the price of fresh blueberries and blackberries, fruits renowned for high levels of healthful antioxidants, now have an economical alternative, scientists reported at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). It is black rice, one variety of which got the moniker "Forbidden Rice" in ancient China because nobles commandeered every grain for themselves and forbade the common people from eating it.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:02 |
 Naringenin, an antioxidant derived from the bitter flavor of grapefruits and other citrus fruits, may cause the liver to break down fat while increasing insulin sensitivity, a process that naturally occurs during long periods of fasting.
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Friday, 27 August 2010 03:01 |
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With children going back to school, parents are concerned that their youngsters are staying fit and eating right, especially those who dine in a school cafeteria.
New research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that children who eat school lunches that are part of the federal government's National School Lunch Program are more likely to become overweight.
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Friday, 27 August 2010 02:57 |
 Has the long-sought magic potion in society's "battle with the bulge" finally arrived? An appetite-control agent that requires no prescription, has no common side effects, and costs almost nothing? Scientists report results of a new clinical trial confirming that just two 8-ounce glasses of the stuff, taken before meals, enables people to shed pounds. The weight-loss elixir, they told the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is ordinary water.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:19 |
 Italian youths whose parents allowed them to have alcohol with meals while they were growing up are less likely to develop harmful drinking patterns in the future, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:14 |
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Eating more green leafy vegetables can significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, finds research published online in the British Medical Journal.
The authors, led by Patrice Carter at the University of Leicester, say there is a need for further investigation into the potential benefits of green leafy vegetables.
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Monday, 23 August 2010 04:41 |
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Overweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and National Institute on Aging (NIA). They examined adiposity shifts across socio-demographic groups over time and found U.S. children and adolescents had significantly increased adiposity measures such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and triceps skinfold thickness (TST).
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Monday, 23 August 2010 04:37 |
 Immigration has been the hot topic at Texas Produce Conventions in recent years, but food safety and traceability issues trumped it this year, as growers and importers await food safety legislation from Congress, Food and Drug Administration regulations, and input from the Produce Traceability Initiative.
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:44 |
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 The recent nationwide egg recall that pulled more than a half-billion eggs from the shelves has renewed interest in the safety of the U.S. food supply, and it seems to have come at an opportune time for food safety agencies and legislators. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that has been languishing in Congress for a while now seems to have gained the public support it needs and is expected to pass in the Senate as early as September.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:08 |
 Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk -- thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:04 |
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Recent incidents of adulteration involving infant formula, other milk products and pet food with the industrial chemical melamine revealed the weaknesses of current methods widely used across the domestic and global food industry for determining protein content in foods. The possible utility of alternative existing and emerging methods is the subject of a new paper published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, a peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
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Friday, 27 August 2010 03:03 |
 Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea. Researchers are working with biotechnology company, Provexis, to test a new plantain based food product that could treat patients with the disease.
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Friday, 27 August 2010 03:00 |
 Has your toddler eaten fish today? A University of Illinois food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child's diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, nutritious salmon baby food for toddlers.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:21 |
 Contradicting a popular model of self-control, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist says the data from a 2007 study argues against the idea that glucose is the resource used to manage self control and that humans rely on this energy source for will power.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:15 |
 If you have high blood pressure, binge drinking may dramatically raise your risk of stroke or heart-related death, according to a South Korean study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Compared to non-drinkers with normal blood pressure, researchers found that the risk of cardiovascular death in men with blood pressure of at least 168 /100 millimeters of mercury was:
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Monday, 23 August 2010 04:43 |
 B vitamins-B-6, B-12 and folate-all nourish the brain. But much remains to be discovered about the relation between these essential nutrients and our brainpower.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritionist Lindsay H. Allen has collaborated in ongoing research that has taken a closer look at the role these nutrients may play in preventing decline in brain function.
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Monday, 23 August 2010 04:39 |
 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says green onions sold at five Highland Farms supermarkets in the Greater Toronto Area, including one in Mississauga, have tested positive for salmonella bacteria.
While the onions haven’t been definitively pegged as the source of an outbreak that’s sickened 25 young people in the area, the unmarked, unwrapped bunches are being looked at by federal and provincial investigators.
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 23:49 |
 HA NOI — About 85 per cent of Ha Noi's ice-making enterprises are unlicensed and do not meet hygiene-and-food-safety-standards, municipal Health Department figures show.
Department director Le Anh Tuan reports that only 42 of the city's 200 ice-making factories hold the supposedly compulsory licence.
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