Besides eating well to maintain a healthy weight foods like fruits vegetables and whole grains are linked to reduced cancer risk.
or blueberries have been shown to have specific anticancer actions. TAKE ACTION: Eat vegetables fruits whole grains
and lean meats to maintain a healthy weight. If you are looking for extra help in starting down the path of healthy eating visit eatright. org the website for the Academy of Nutrition
Many of the most important crops in Europe such as rapeseed sunflower soybeans apples and strawberries benefit from pollination by insects.
The study published in the journal PLOS ONE also suggests that these early hominins may have sought additional nourishment from fruits and invertebrates like worms and grasshoppers.
and seeds lean meats and poultry low-fat dairy products vegetables fruits whole grains and legumes.
and fruits to travel further. The new study explores the role of temperature in driving tree height a study which may allow us to forecast how forests adapt to climate change.
A group of university students are enjoying a specially designed fruit smoothie a day to discover
One group of students is drinking a smoothie made from carrots and a selection of underutilized Malaysian fruits while the control group received mineral water.
and Human Behaviour he found that people who ate more fruit and vegetables each day had a more golden color to their skin
and local tropical fruits could have on the appearance in an SE Asian population and whether the volunteers looked any healthier as a result.
v=PRIFS4N2ZQCCAROTENOIDS are natural lipophilic orange and yellow pigments present in most fruit and vegetables.
Each juice contained local Malaysian fruit such as Chiku Kedondong Pulasan Dragon fruit and Star fruit. After creating 30 different recipes seven smoothies were chosen for the study each containing up to 50 per cent underutilised fruit. 80 volunteers were recruited by Phd student Tan Kok Wei who is running the study
and took part in a six week trial. During that time measurements were taken of their body composition dietary intake skin color and brightness.
or eat enough fruit and vegetables and even fall below the recommended five portions a day.
because developing asthma is related to the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed. Gut bacteria ferment the dietary fibers contained in them
fruit and vegetables are playing an ever smaller role in people's diets. Now new results suggest that these two developments are not merely simultaneous they are linked also causally.
Another reason why fruit and vegetables are good for you Marsland thinks that the results obtained by his group are clinically relevant not only
however that here is another reason why one should eat more fruit and vegetables. Story Source:
#Electronic tongues measure grape ripenesselectronic tongues can become an ally of grape growers as they offer detailed information on the degree of grape maturity
In the study researchers applied electronic tongues developed in his lab to measure the maturity of eight different types of grapes (Macabeo Chardonnay Pinot noir Cabernet sauvignon Shyrah Merlot
the acidity of the fruit and its amount of sugar. The results confirm the usefulness of these devices for controlling grape maturity
and therefore evaluate the most appropriate time for harvesting. Among its main advantages the tongues are cheap and portable.
Similarly producers also highlight the potential usefulness of the tongue to perform analysis on the fruit at the premises where the produce is taken.
Specifically they evaluate their use to control the fermentation of grapes in vats. These devices allow performing a continuous monitoring of the process
From the laboratories at the Institute of Food engineering for Development the team has worked with almonds oats
and consumption habits of each property which were otherwise indistinguishable hospitality businesses says Ellis. Findings revealed foods that would have been inexpensive and widely available such as grains fruits nuts olives lentils local
Dave Bartlett, the Vice president of IBM's Smarter Buildings Initiative, recently made predictions for the top five building trends that are going to make a big impact in 2012,
In a conversation with Smartplanet, Bartlett explained his predictions and let us in on some projects that are already taking place to help these predictions come to fruition.
Neighborhoods, said Bartlett, are a great place to gain momentum for what we need to do at a city level.
According to Bartlett, this system helped IBM identify carbon in unexpected places like in methane leaks from utilities.
said Bartlett. We use a lot of resources without really understanding how we can change. Seeing the energy or water we use per task, then
said Bartlett. He called this environmental crowd sourcing, or the ability of a citizen to use their smartphone to alert the city to building issues,
Bartlett said that IBM has found that people want to be involved in the improvement of their communities,
More energy options for buildings Bartlett predicts that in the near future, as we develop more low carbon energy sources,
Bartlett, because depending on your own needs and how much you want to be a part of this, it puts people in control instead of having to take
said Bartlett. Smart building initiatives will help them listen to how their buildings are wasting energy and money,
Bartlett said. Currently, the cost of energy use in New york city municipal buildings is more than $800 million per year,
Bartlett. The price of alternative technology is starting drop due to the technology getting more efficient,
a pioneering mobile health company known for making the first glucose meter for Apple's iphone.
formerly of Apple and Pepsico, who met Vu at a dinner and received an impromptu product demonstration.
Vu and company worked around this hurdle by allowing the wearer to place the Shine on their Apple iphone.
meanwhile a floating pod-shaped snack shack serves fare prepared from fruit and vegetables grown on site.
people Grow bananas in Paris? This vertical farm might Coming soon: Commercial scale rooftop produce Brooklyn to host nation's largest rooftop farm
Apple and Walmart to take responsibility for their supply chains. Ma â¢s IPE has developed pollution databases
Apple. Our interaction with Apple in the beginning was not very smooth, Ma said, but then all these stakeholders, including Apple's own clients
and investors, started reading the questions posed in the report, and consumers started writing to them.
Elizabeth Economy, the head of Asia studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, said his approach was crucial in getting action.
Biting the Apple While large IT companies like Siemans, Alcatel and Nokia began working with IPE â¢s databases to make more informed choices about Chinese business partners, the world â¢s largest company,
Apple, wasn â¢t quick to hop on board. In January 2011, IPE and other environmental organizations took square aim at the tech titan.
In Å The Other Side of Apple  an investigation found more than 27 Chinese suppliers to Apple had environmental problems that violated the company â¢s own stated standards.
In fact, the report called out what appeared to be the company â¢s seeming ignorance of
Å In the Ëoe2011 Supplier Responsibility Report â¢published by Apple Inc, . where core violations were discovered from the 36 audits,
if Apple is even aware of these problems. Â For months after the report was published
Apple ignored the group's calls for a meeting to discuss the findings. But Ma and his group were relentless in their pursuit of Apple.
They provided details of Foxconn workers being hospitalized after cleaning Apple's ipad and iphone touch screens with dangerous chemicals and highlighted high rates of suicide among the workers to paint a portrait of dire working conditions.
They also documented sometimes outrageous pollution. Â Using data collected by Ma, a number of significant environmental violations at companies that made parts
or assembled Apple's products were exposed. One factory used by Apple Dongguan Shengyi, was the subject of constant pollution complaints from its neighbors.
The complaints were ignored until IPE unearthed records that exposed the magnitude of the company â¢s pollution.
Apple, which has cultivated the image of a globally-responsible company with a customer hoard of fashionable sophisticates,
and his ability to persuade Apple to agree to future independent audits have helped win him global acclaim,
Apple has agreed to third-party audits of its supply chain in China, with the first of these being completed in June for Meiko Electronics Co. Ltd.
customized internal circuit boards for Apple and other electronics companies--was dumping waste into a storm water channel,
The audit confirmed that the factory had taken major corrective action to fix the issues cited in our Apple report,
Apple did not return a call seeking comment about the changes it's made to its global supply chain policy.
Apple bakes fitness deeper into its ipod nano device with Nike+Ten years after its debut, Apple is integrating fitness more deeply into its line of ipods.
On Tuesday, Apple announced that its seventh generation ipod nano will allow people to track their activity with Nike+.
+This move shows that Apple is interested in not just delivering music during workouts, but also wants to help you track each step.
or even thrive alongside Apple. The awareness that Apple will bring to market will likely just increase demand for fitness-related gadget and apps.
Already, the ios health and fitness app space is expected to expand from 9, 000 to 13,000 healthcare-related apps by next year, according to Mobihealthnews.
Apple prepares to pull Evi from the App Storeevi, the Siri-like iphone and Android app, is gong to be pulled from the itunes App store,
Apple has approved versions of Evi for the App store many times, but on Friday evening True Knowledge received a call from Apple representative Richard Chipman saying that Apple is going to pull Evi from the store
because it was took similar to Siri. True Knowledge launched the artificial intelligence app in January, 2012,
The rule being cited for pulling the app is number 8. 4 in the App store's T&cs where it says that apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product
'and that all the user and press reviews along the lines of'now you don't need to buy a 4s have resulted in in a change of heart from Apple William Tunsall-Pedoe,
Right now, about 200,000 Apple users have purchased already the app without the ability to get updates.
Evi is still on Apple's App store, and although iphone users will not be able to continue using Evi the app will still available for Android users
Apple submits detailed proposal for'Spaceship'campusas NASA puts its historic spaceship mission to rest,
Apple plans to bring a little bit of that vision home. Apple has submitted plans of its futuristic office design to the City of Cupertino,
revealing more details and drawings of what the Spaceship campus will look like. The Apple Campus 2 is expected to be completed by 2015.
According to Cupertino's website, the proposal includes plans for a research and development building that is 2. 8 million square feet, a thousand seat auditorium,
Currently, Apple â¢s headquarters can only hold 2, 800 people but has 12,000 employees in the Bay area.
and convenience to Apple's employees by creating connected building, while reducing the building's overall footprint on the site.
Apple Spaceship campus to hold 12,000 employees and run on green energy via the City of Cupertino and Macrumors
Apple violations found in supplier chainsapple Inc. has surprised the general public by releasing a list of its major suppliers across the globe.
The following is an alphabetical listing of Apple production suppliers. These suppliers represent 97 percent of Apple's procurement expenditures for materials,
manufacturing, and assembly of Apple â¢s products worldwide. The California-based company  stated it conducted a total of 229 audits last year,
increasing their usual audit output by 80 percent last year. The technology giant conducted a review of its supply chain on every level, from assembly to material supplies.
There have been suggestions that Apple has taken this step to tackle criticism about working conditions within its supply chain,
in order to preserve basic human rights--especially Apple suppliers in countries that have known issues in this arena. The company's Supplier Responsibility page states that:
Apple is committed to the highest standards of social responsibility across our worldwide supply chain. We insist that all of our suppliers provide safe working conditions,
Apple requires that suppliers follow their principles and standards of a'supplier code of conduct'.'Perhaps after recent factory inspections that found problems in areas including working hours and environment,
The report stated that Apple suppliers were in compliance with acceptable standards only 38 percent of the time.
The supplier streams are increasing to cope with global demand for Apple products, and Chinese environmental and work activists have protested against the company's previous reluctance to disclose supplier details.
Reports suggest Apple Inc. will be taking additional steps after this audit report release to ensure that working conditions in factories remain aboveboard and at acceptable levels.
Apple will begin manufacturing Macs in U s. next yearin a wide-ranging interview, Apple CEO Tim cook tells Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple will begin manufacturing some of its products in the United states. N ext year we are going to bring some production to the U s. on the Mac.
We â¢ve been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it. It will happen in 2013.
Apple already  manufactures some parts for some products in the U s.--including the processor for the ipad and iphone in Texas and glass for Apple products in Kentucky.
Still, Apple will continue to manufacture a number of its products in the  controversial  Foxconn factories in China.
But Cook pointed to the increased transparency of the manufacturing process in the Foxconn factories thanks to audits preformed by the Fair Labor Association that Apple required the factories to undergo.
The Apple CEO Speaks Bloomberg Businessweek Photo: Flickr/afagen Related on Smartplanet: 6 reasons manufacturing is returning to North america
Apple's aversion to chaos (in industrial design) Less, but better. Who said the quote above?
If you guessed Steve jobs, former chief executive of Apple, you'd be wrong. It's legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams, of course.
senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive and the rest of the Apple design team to Rams'modern, minimal and rational approach to solving problems.
Richardson writes that Apple's products are emblematic of an attempt to tame the chaos
Today, the beguiling simplicity and rationality of Apple's products also provides an oasis of calm and personal control in a world where we have massive social upheaval
How many of these can you attribute to Apple products? To its competitors'?'Richardson, of course, is hardly the first to draw the comparison.
Apple's retail interest signifies Brazil's growthapple will open its first retail store in Brazil by Mid-march, according to press reports.
This is likely the beginning of Apple's expansion into the country which CEO Tim cook identified as a huge opportunity during a January 2012 earnings call.
Apple just needs to be more competitive. Android has around a 56%market share compared to Apple's 0. 4%,Kantar Worldpanel,
a market research firm, found in October 2012. Apple has a lot room to grow, and has worked with regulators to bring its latest phones to market in Brazil earlier than usual.
image credit: Apple, David Worthington
Applying organic sensibilities to commercial agriculturemy husband swears that New jersey corn--harvested in August and shucked and eaten as quickly as possible off the stalk--is the sweetest that money can buy.
So we often buy a lot of it, as well as local beefsteak tomatoes, until that ephemeral sweetness has faded.
as an example, won't work for a grape or a potato. I'm also going to spend some time boning up on something called the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops.
The kiosk was a large orange and white box with monitors that announced when a drink was ready
is the fruit of a three-year program undertaken by Argentina's state-run National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA,
An organic blueberry farmer in New jersey says it even works on caterpillars. I wouldn't expect caterpillars to crawl into the bucket,
peaches, corn, strawberries, tomatoes, oranges, coffee and other produce. Now they have their eyes on Europe.
Apple, Google, Facebook and Samsung all have plans for new, striking and audacious, headquarters or additions.
It even makes computer cases for Apple's Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. The Madrid-based company now sells its bags, jackets and shoes in stores like Barney's
Percentage of Foods Wasted in U s. Fats and Oils (33%)Dairy (32%)Grains (32%)Eggs (31%)Sugar/caloric sweeteners (31%)Vegetables (25%)Fruit (23
Style meets function in Mick Peel's bespoke bike saddlesflat streets, good biking infrastructure and temperate weather make Melbourne, Australia, a hot spot for cycling.
The city is also home to Mick Peel, a fashion designer that has worked up a large following for his bespoke bike saddles and bar tape.
Adventure Journal featured Peel, who works under the moniker Busyman Bicycles, in a Q&a this week.
But it certainly doesn't hurt, in Peel's case. He explains: My Phd has become about the interrelationship between design
Mick Peel Via: Adventure Journal
Super bug bacteria in meat and poultry, study saysif you grab chicken or some other meat from the grocery store,
What's more, it plans to include apples in every Happy Meal by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
oats, fruit. In every country in which we operate we have to be local. We're always finding ways to build sustainability into the agriculture in countries in
and to sell fruits and vegetables directly to the people of Linkã Â ping, which is home it roughly 100,000 people.
We have asparagus, almonds, cherries, heirloom apples, herbs â Â The cool thing is that we plant three times a year now â spring, summer and fall.
Weland gets overripe apples and peaches from Black Rock Orchard to make vinegar, and he is experimenting with making things like pickled ramps and fruit jams.
Wine on tap: This spring, Poste is starting to serve wine without the bottle. The restaurant is installing an eco-friendly wine-on tap system,
which saves money on shipping wine bottles. The wine (sauvignon blanc and merlot) will be served in the courtyard,
A park for all seasons--fall for the hues of red, orange, and yellow foliage; winter for snow-covered trees and ice skating;
but better known by locals as The Gherkin--directs the flow of winds from street level and open windows along its spiral body,
Yes, if the chef makes the sauce from the latest in tomato technology-genetically engineered purple tomatoes-a 16-inch pie could have the same health benefits as other foods such as blueberries and cranberries.
Purple tomatoes get their color from anthocyanin-a pigment also present in the berries and
With these purple tomatoes you can get the same compounds that are present in blueberries
and cranberries that give them their health benefits -but you can apply them to foods that people actually eat in significant amounts
and Apple have colluded on a fixed pricing agreement. Over the past several months Justice department has been investigating five major publishers and Apple on suspicion of pricing collusion for e-books.
And the antitrust officials have put the pressure on the publishers to settle by the end of April.
Can you summarize the dispute between the Justice department and the major publishers and Apple? MS: There are two things at issue.
or Apple, or Kobo to compete. And what the publishers are afraid of is an e-book market that is entirely dominated by Amazon.
What about Apple in all of this? MS: Apple been hurt by this, badly. Apple wanted the agency model.
Apple created it. And one of the reasons Apple wanted the agency model is because they really didn t want to get into managing prices in a store.
So with the agency model they can say to the publisher, You set the price,
whatever it is, as long as it the same price everywhere we don t care. We re just your agent, we don t care.
But now if they want to compete with their ibookstore they re going to have to get into pricing
So why have they also been made in flavors like cookies-and-cream, strawberry and banana?
if someone were trying to sell your kids banana-flavored heroin in a vial they could suck (instead of having to chase the dragon),
and planted with trees in rows like an apple orchard, so that it could sequester carbon and clean contaminated runoff.
The iphone 5 could have changed everythingprotestors dressed up to represent Foxconn workers outside an Apple retail outlet in Hong Hong on May 7th, 2011..
articles about Apple abound over the virtual waves. Few mention questionable labor practices. Imagine if today was a day of action?
If the level of attention Apple is receiving was showered on the students interning involuntary at Foxconn, for example?
but calling Apple out while everyone perks up to the word Apple renders making demands so much easier.
Boxes of the iphone 6 (or even more iconically, the iphone as Apple drops the numbering system),
This morning we're reading about nanotechnology. 1.)From pomegranate peel to nanoparticles. Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world,
but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology according to research published in the International Journal of Nanoparticles. 2.)U s. Government Accountability Office
said Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of the advocacy group Patient Privacy Rights, which researches data breaches and works for tighter security on people's personal health records.
When Peel opened her initial psychiatric practice in Brownsville Texas in the 1970s, many of her first patients in the U s.-Mexico border town had a similar concern:
and Peel s patients were worried that if their paper records somehow became public, they would be stigmatized for their medical diagnoses.
Peel said. There are prejudices associated with psychiatric diagnoses. People have powerful reactions to the names of these things.
Peel warned. While genetic information may help physicians fend off severe diseases earlier than ever it may also be used to stigmatize people who will be stripped of opportunity based on some familial history of disease.
Peel said, Lou Gehrig would never get a contract to be a ball player if the team knew he had a disease that would degenerate his muscles,
they can dispose of compostable waste (fruits, vegetables, egg shells, and organic materials) and reduce or eliminate waste going to landfills.
This man's apples will never turn brownyou know that brownish tinge apple slices get after a few minutes on the counter?
who in hopes of efficiency would slice the apples prior to her four charges arriving home from school.
both of the eater put off by brown apples and the preparer who wants her pre-sliced apples to appear fresh.
He's created a line of apples called Arctic Apples that can go for days without browning after slicing.
Apples and potatoes discolor through a process call enzymatic browning, which is driven by polyphenol oxidase (PPO).
A group of Australian engineers had figured out how to silence the gene for PPO in potatoes.
Carter licensed the technology through his company Okanagan Specialty Fruits, and began using it on apples.
The Arctic Apple is currently in the middle of the U s. Department of agriculture's 60-day comment period,
reports Co. Exist. The Okanagan website acknowledges the controversy around products like theirs on their website,
Most of the soybeans, corn, papaya, and sugar beet currently sold in the U s. are GMO,
but apples would be the only mainstream commercially available fruit with the treatment. Monsanto's sweet corn is set to hit the market this fall.
bacterial and fungal-driven browning will still show up to let us know the fruit's gone bad.
The on-the-ground experience of apple growers is that risk of contamination is quite high,
Whether or not consumers are ready for more GMO fruit, Okanagan is preparing to release Gala and Fuji varieties of Arctic Apples,
to match the Granny smith and Golden delicious currently in production. They also plan to introduce pitting-resistant cherries in the near future. via Co. Exist Photos:
Carter and Traditional vs. Arctic Apple from okspecialtyfruits. com
This mobile biofuel processor looks promisingpurdue University researchers developed a new biofuel processing center that can be built on a mobile platform.
The new process could turn agricultural waste and biomass into biofuel, which would cut down the cost of transporting the biomass back to a central refinery.
By using a method called fast-hydropyrolysis-hydrodeoxygenation, hydrogen is added to the mobile biomass-processing reactor.
Three decades of Apple's design history in 30 secondsapple's shares and market capitalization hit remarkable highs this week--its shares closing at $493. 42 on Friday,
While technology pundits and consumers eagerly await the latest in elegant Apple computing, now is as good a time as ever to take a look at the design history behind Apple's freshest--and forthcoming--products.
Handily a new video (edited by Boing Boing's managing editor, Rob Beschizza), provides a super-fast cram session on how Apple products have evolved.
Flashing before your eyes are a wooden prototype for a desktop computer; clunky Apple printers; early black-and-white on-screen interfaces;
cuddly ipod cases that look like ribbed socks; the ubiquitous iphone and ipad. Given that Apple's design achievements have distinguished its products and services in the marketplace over the years,
the video is worth watching to get a sense of how the company's designers, engineers,
It's one thing to keep discussing Apple's achievements, and another to see the fruits of 36 years of Apple's design strategies unfold before your eyes--in half a minute.
Here's the video:(via Boing Boing
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