For inside the little white capsule was a full three course meal, designed to mimic the meals of the past in a single convenient, portable dose.
 Take the 1930 science fiction musical Just Imagine, which tells the story of a man who is woken from a fifty year coma to find himself in 1980s New york. As he tours a dystopian city oe where people are known only by number oe he is taken to a"cafã  Â,
where his new friends order him up a meal of clam chowder, roast beef, beets, asparagus, pie and coffee.
before declaring that"the roast beef was a little bit tough  and lamenting"the good old days Â. But if you look back to these"good old days Â,
the roots of the meal-in-a-pill stem not from the fertile minds of science fiction writers,
"When the last pie was made into the first pellet, women's true freedom began. Â The turn of the century also brought a fear that the planet simply could not provide enough food for its people
a grocer plonks six turkey dinner meal pills on to the counter for a lady buying thanksgiving supplies;
the ladies of the house reflect on the"antique  dirty dishes, a relic thanks to the meal pill.
including the meal-in-a-pill. Rather than derive pleasure from food, it was instead something to be controlled
It was not nourishment for the soul, but sustenance for life and man must simply swallow the pill as the future of food came barrelling towards him.
 It is the kind of technocratic, dysfunctional view loved by science fiction and is one that has reared repeatedly its head when talking about food pills.
in his 2006 book Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, Warren Belasco writes:"
and were unlikely to spill out into the delicate capsules oe aimed to provide nutritionally complete meals that could be eaten through straws.
Combined with the arrival of TV DINNERS and Cold war fears over food security depictions of future food also enjoyed a revival.
Just as US President Herbert hoover had won the election in 1928 on a promise of"a chicken in every pot Â,
however, the meal-in-a-pill turned from an object of fascination to one of ridicule.
but the idea of a three course meal remains as remote as the depiction of New york in Just Imagine.
Human beings are never going to eat pills for meals  pills can never be made to contain sufficient caloric volume.
and minerals needed for a meal in pill form. But you can't get calories except by eating food.
 It seems that humans were seduced by the idea of a meal-in-a-pill,
which held a"Year 2000 Â dinner event in 1944. A variety of meal pills were served:
tutti-frutti pills, a brown pill for the meat course and a miniature chocolate pellet for dessert.
Records show that after the pills they all sat down to coffee and plates of sandwiches
A raft of practices oe from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops oe contribute to depleted soils.
there are no roots to hold soil, nutrients and water in place. A dry spell can turn the ground to dust that is easily blown away,
and is also useful for animal feed. Essential minerals, such as nitrates, that crops suck up from the soil take a particularly long time to be replaced naturally.
release quantities of carbon dioxide and remove the nutrients in the leftover crop stalks. Instead, they say,
The rotting vegetation recycles nutrients and attracts microorganisms, worms and insects, which help maintain soil fertility
because as the population swells, our ability to feed everyone diminishes. Globally, one billion people are undernourished at present, especially in Sub-saharan africa and Asia.
the fundamental process that allows plants to use the light they capture to convert carbon dioxide into organic necessities like sugar and starch-or food,
 Turning the world greentraditionally, farmers have sought out the best places to plant their crops oe nutrient rich flood plains and the sides of volcanoes.
Instead, farmers are forced to use ever more marginal land oe plots that are too wet, too dry, too short on vital nutrients,
or are laced with damaging aluminium or salt. As a result, there is a push to develop crops that
These people live in parts of the world where their diets are dominated by staples oe foods such as rice, wheat, cassava,
a nutrient that the body can convert into Vitamin a. Developed in the 1990s, and field tested in the 2000s,
will ring in the new year by dropping a 7-foot-long bologna from a tall building.
#Todays Most Popular Products That Were invented by Accident Thomas Adams invented chewing gum after a bout of frustration.
Kellogg s Corn flakes came about when two brothers forgot to properly store wheat and then noticed that it came out as flakes when later processed.
Popsicles, too, came about by mistake. An 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson left a container of fruit-flavored soda with a stick in it outside on his porch
and went to lunch. Air seeped in, but the resulting cakes of soap were shipped out anyway.
Americans loved the new, floating cleanser. Absentmindedness aside, some of todays most common products became hits because their manufacturers,
Kotex arose when World war i Red cross nurses discerned that a cellulose wadding product meant for wound dressing also worked well as a sanitary pad.
when she set to work baking a preservative-free loaf of bread for her allergy-prone son. She had baked never a loaf in her life,
and she described one early attempt as oestone Age bread, but she finally started turning out bread so good her family doctor prescribed it to other patients.
The models are made wearing clothes entirely of real food) that depict a meal each was craving.
How often have thought you of using challah as shoulder pads, or wearing trousers made out of waffles.
The artichoke heart gown took over 6 hours to finish and the model stood the entire time
She uses foods such as bread red cabbage, tomatoes and spring onions and bananas, in this case. Each of her pieces consists of one kind of food.
The Spemann-Mangold Experiments German scientist Hans Spemann and Ph d candidate Hilde Mangold take the proverbial cake for strange brain experiments.
Angry Birds, in which the birds seek revenge on the egg-stealing pigs, is meant to be played easily in the checkout line
Roenick, asked for a birthday cake based on the game. Ms. Richardson spent nearly 80 hours crafting a two-tiered concoction that included hand-shaped replicas of the games cranky fowl. oehis birthday was in October,
but I couldnt finish the cake until November, she said. Her son loved the cake so much that oehe never let us cut it,
Ms. Richardson said. oei finally talked him into letting us get rid of it, but he kept most of the bird figures.
A photo of the cake ricocheted around the Web. oerequests from people who want one have been pouring in on Twitter and via e-mail
she said. Jordan Finley, 30, who works at a legal consulting firm in Los angeles, said he
and his boyfriend were such big fans of the game that they decided to create full-body bird costumes for Halloween. oeit was crazy,
but people who knew the game loved it. Everyone wanted to take pictures. It felt like being chased by the paparazzi or something.
Fans of the game took to the streets on Saturday for Angry Birds Day, celebrating its first anniversary.
Although Rovio has released two dozen other mobile games, none have come close to the success of Angry Birds,
Peter Vesterbacka, Rovios head of business development in North america, said the game was born when a Rovio designer sketched a rough outline of a bright red bird with a furious expression. oewe didnt know what the game concept would be loved,
he said. oethe entire game and storyline was built around the birds. Mr. Vesterbacka said the company took notice of the intricate storylines in Pixar films and the popularity of Mario and Luigi
A loosely-organized collective of people currently seeking to assist the spread of Wikileaks information by harassing the websites of those who refuse to cooperate with them,
herbs, vegetables and even a few wandering weeds that slipped in. The plants were chosen for their ability to tolerate foot traffic,
If patients say, oe Im good at making soy soup, but forget ingredients, guide them step by step,
Otherwise, oethey may make it into salt soup, and everyone will say, Oh, this is terrible, you stop doing it.
he said, with exercise, oenot drinking too much sugar, and saying, oe Daddy, dont drink so much because its not good for dementia.
But when oemy mother asked him to get ingredients for curry rice he came back with mayonnaise,
she said. And one day, Mr. Cha, 74, a retired subway official, could not find his way home. oei was like,
#Pumpkin pie: Delicious and Good for Facials Lets moosh it up all over! If youre too stuffed to eat your Thanksgiving leftovers this weekend,
some Thanksgiving leftovers namely pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes and cranberries can be used as affordable moisturizing bases for at home, do-it-yourself skin care treatments.
Thats right, that leftover pumpkin pie doesnt have to go straight to your hips it can go toward beautification instead of bloating.
and a quarter teaspoon of milk or soy milk to the batter. oeboth of those ingredients hydrate
Now, onto the next dish: cranberries. Cox said the juice from canned cranberry sauce or pulp from whole cranberries makes for one invigorating hair mask that,
in her words, will add oesilkiness, softness and luster to your locks. Her tip: Mix a cup of cranberry juice or puree with one beaten egg yolk, two teaspoons of sour cream and one teaspoon of potato flour until it turns into a paste.
Apply the paste on the hair, wait and rinse, and soon enough your shiny tresses will look good enough to eat.
The salt helps scrub everything away and, if you want, you can add scented oil for a little fragrance,
Those fruity Jell-o moldsthat your aunt or grandma always bring over for Thanksgiving can actually come in handy the next day as a quick and easy eye mask.
if you cut a couple pieces of Jell-o out of the mold and freeze them for 30 to 60 minutes,
Simply place the chilled Jell-o over the eyes for a minutes and soon enough, Cox said,
Well, dont put your white or dark meat on your face just yet. Although Cox has wracked her brain for years trying to come up with a good skin care use for leftover turkey,
she said turkey meat isnt exactly a traditional spa ingredient. Instead of putting turkey or your eyes or body,
#Winners of the 2010 Turnip Prize for Bad Art oegetting in a Pickle, the winner of the 2010 competition.
Pictured above is oegetting in a Pickle, the winner of the 2010 competition. The artist responsible won a turnip with a rusty nail shoved through it.
and encountered a large woodland bird that looked a bit like the Guinea fowl fowl theyd grown fond of eating back in England perhaps out of confusion that the two were the same species,
though I suspect they would prefer to be called anything but dinner. Via Treehugger Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati d
that feed primarily on seagrasses and are a common prey of sharks. In studies with elk, scientists have found that the presence of wolves alters their behavior almost constantly,
#Nutrition Expert Loses 27 Pounds in 10 Weeks on a Twinkie Diet Professor Haub who lost 27lb teaches human nutrition at Kansas State university in the U s a professor who went on a ten-week
diet based on cream cakes, snacks, sugary cereals and biscuits says he lost nearly two stone.
Mark Haub said that on the convenience store diet his bad cholesterol also dropped by 20 per cent and his level of triglycerides, a form of fat, by 39 per cent.
He cut his usual daily calorie intake from about 2, 600 to less than 1, 800 by eating one Twinkie deep-fried cake a mini-sponge cake with cream filling every three hours
instead of meals. To add variety to the cakes, which are sold often deep-fried, he ate Doritos, Kelloggs Pops cereal and Oreo cookies,
and had shot a daily double of espresso. The final third of his daily intake came in the form of a multivitamin pill and a protein shake
along with some kind of vegetable such as a can of green beans. He could not say whether he considered his diet healthy or unhealthy,
but talking about the sweets and snacks that he ate, he said: These foods are consumed by a lot of people.
Before his Twinkie diet, Mr Hub considered himself a healthy eater with a diet including whole grains, fibre
or wrong in society. oemany fear genetically modified crops because they believe that they may lead to unwanted gene spread in nature.
#How To Make Your Own Flavored Vodka Bacon flavored vodka? You bet. The act of flavoring or oeinfusing vodka yourself is not difficult
and is becoming wildly popular. Pick Your Flavor for Infusion There are countless options to choose from
You can use any fruit, vegetable, herb, or even a strip of bacon as your own taste playground.
Maybe youll want watermelon or citrus vodka on those hot, sunny days, or maybe warm yourself up during those chilly nights with honey pepper vodka
or the newly popular tea vodka Prepare the Ingredients for Infusion Choose one to two pieces of fruit or veggies or two to three handfuls of berries,
herbs, etc. Since you will likely be straining out the ingredients at the end of infusion, it doesnt matter
and dish soap and make sure it is completely dry before you begin. Infusing the Vodka Now its time to throw all your ingredients into the jar with the vodka.
Dozens of popular courses in psychology, statistics, biology and other fields are offered also primarily online.
Students on this scenic campus of stately oaks rarely meet classmates in these courses. Online education is known best for serving older,
a live video feed she switched on at one point showed her in black librarians glasses and a tank top.
her laptop open on the dining room table. As Dr. Joos lectured, a chat box scrolled with students comments and questions.
#U s. Pushes Cheese Sales Despite Warning About Fat Dairy management, which has made cheese its cause is a marketing creation of the United states Department of agriculture the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive.
Early last year Dominos Pizza was hurting. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies.
Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy management. It teamed up with Dominos to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese,
and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign. Consumers devoured the cheesier pizza
and sales soared by double digits. oethis partnership is clearly working, Brandon Solano, the Dominos vice president for brand innovation, said in a statement to The New york times
. But as healthy as this pizza has been for Dominos, one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a days maximum recommended amount of saturated fat,
which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories. And Dairy management, which has made cheese its cause,
is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United states Department of agriculture the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy management is vigorously promoting.
Yet the government, through Dairy management, is engaged in an effort to find ways to get dairy back into Americans diets, primarily through cheese.
Cheese has become the largest source of saturated fat; an ounce of many cheeses contains as much saturated fat as a glass of whole milk.
When Michelle Obama implored restaurateurs in September to help fight obesity, she cited the proliferation of cheeseburgers
and macaroni and cheese. oei want to challenge every restaurant to offer healthy menu options, she told the National Restaurant Associations annual meeting.
But in a series of confidential agreements approved by agriculture secretaries in both the Bush and Obama administrations,
Dairy management has worked with restaurants to expand their menus with cheese-laden products. Consider the Taco bell steak quesadilla, with cheddar
pepper jack, mozzarella and a creamy sauce. oethe item used an average of eight times more cheese than other items on their menu,
the Agriculture department said in a report, extolling Dairy managements work without mentioning that the quesadilla has more than three-quarters of the daily recommended level of saturated fat and sodium.
Dairy management, whose annual budget approaches $140 million, is financed largely by a government-mandated fee on the dairy industry.
A small amount of good-flavored cheese can be compatible with a healthy diet, but consumption in the U s. is enormous and way beyond
The department acknowledged that cheese is saturated high in fat but said that lower milk consumption had made cheese an important source of calcium. oewhen eaten in moderation
and with attention to portion size, cheese can fit into a low-fat, healthy diet, the department said.
In its reports to Congress, however, the Agriculture department tallies Dairy managements successes in millions of pounds of cheese served.
In 2007, the department highlighted Pizza huts Cheesy Bites pizza, Wendys oedual Double Melt sandwich concept,
and Burger kings Cheesy Angus Bacon cheeseburger and Tendercrisp chicken sandwich. oeboth featured two slices of American cheese, a slice of pepper jack and a cheesy sauce,
the department said. These efforts, the department reported, helped generate a oecheese sales growth of nearly 30 million pounds.
For years, the federal government bought the industrys excess cheese and butter, an outgrowth of a Depression-era commitment to use price supports
In a July letter to the departments nutrition committee, Dairy management wrote that efforts to make fat-free cheese have foundered largely
and fat-free cheeses has been limited, it said. Agriculture department data show that cheese is a major reason the average American diet contains too much saturated fat.
Research has found that the cardiovascular benefits in cutting saturated fat may depend on what replaces it.
Refined starches and sugar might be just as bad or even worse, while switching to unsaturated fats has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease.
It instructs pizza lovers: oeask for whole wheat crust and half the cheese even as Dairy management has worked with pizza chains like Dominos to increase cheese.
Dairy management runs the largest of 18 Agriculture department programs that market beef, pork, potatoes and other commodities.
Their budgets are paid largely by levies imposed on farmers, but Dairy management, which reported expenditures of $136 million last year, also received $5. 3 million that year from the Agriculture department to promote dairy sales overseas.
which promotes healthy diets, has a total budget of $6. 5 million. Although by law the secretary of agriculture approves Dairy managements contracts and advertising campaigns
Disputed Research oegreat news for dieters, Dairy management said in an advertisement in People magazine in 2005. oeclinical studies show that people on a reduced-calorie diet who consume three servings of milk,
cheese or yogurt each day can lose significantly more weight and more body fat than those who just cut calories.
The Revolutionary Diet Discovery That Will Help You Lose weight Faster. Precisely how dairy facilitates weight loss is unclear,
But in late 2006, Dairy management was still citing the weight-loss claim in urging the Agriculture department not to cut the amount of cheese in federal food assistance programs. oethe available data provide strong support for a beneficial effect of increased
its pretty hard to identify a contributor more significant than this meteoric rise in cheese consumption, Dr. Neal D. Barnard,
and the use of cheese to entice children into eating healthy foods like string beans. An All-out Campaign On Oct 13, Dominos announced the latest in its Legends line of cheesier pizza,
which Dairy management is promoting with the $12 million marketing effort. Called the Wisconsin, the new pie has six cheeses on top and two more in the crust. oethis is one way that we can support dairy farms across the country:
by selling a pizza featuring an abundance of their products, a Dominos spokesman said in a news release. oewe think thats a good thing.
A laboratory test of the Wisconsin that was commissioned By the times found that one-quarter of a medium thin-crust pie had 12 grams of saturated fat, more than three-quarters of the recommended daily maximum.
It also has 430 calories, double the calories in pizza formulations that the chain bills as its oelighter options.
According to contract records released through the Freedom of Information Act, Dairy managements role in helping to develop Dominos pizzas included generating
and testing new pizza concepts. When Dairy management began working with companies like Dominos it first had to convince them that cheese would make their products more desirable, records and interviews show.
It provided banners and special lighting for the drive up window menus at fast food restaurants, recalled Debra Olson Linday,
who led Dairy managements early efforts in promoting cheese to restaurant chains before leaving in 1997. By 1999, food retailers and manufacturers were coming to Dairy management for help. oelets sell more pizza and more cheese!
said two officials with Pizza hut, which began putting cheese inside its crust after holding development meetings with Dairy management,
according to a memorandum released by the Agriculture department. Derek Correia, a former Pizza hut product innovations chief, said Dairy management also helped find suppliers for the extra cheese. oewe were using four cheeses, if not six,
and with a company like Pizza hut, that is a lot of supply, he said in an interview. And unlike with its advertising campaigns, Dairy management and the Agriculture department could point to specific results with these projects.
The oesummer of Cheese promotion it developed with Pizza hut in 2002 generated the use of 102 million additional pounds of cheese
the department reported to Congress. oemore cheese on pizza equals more cheese sales, Mr. Gallagher,
the Dairy management chief executive, wrote in a guest column in a trade publication last year. oein fact,
if every pizza included one more ounce of cheese, we would sell an additional 250 million pounds of cheese annually.
Working with some of the largest food companies, Dairy management has pushed also to expand the use of cheese in processed foods and home cooking.
The Agriculture department has reported a 5 percent to 16 percent increase in sales of cheese snacks in stores where Dairy management has helped grocers reinvent their dairy aisles.
Now on display is an array of sliced grated and cubed products, along with handy recipes for home cooking that use more cheese.
The strategy is focusing on families whose cheese oehabit outpaces their concern about the health risks, Dairy management documents show.
Aquabundance is a highly productive aquaponic system that grows a nearly boundless variety of plants using organic nutrients supplied by fish growing in an attractive adjoining tank.
which develop along very different paths when put on different diets. The research was led by Professor Ryszard Maleszka of The Australian National Universitys College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, working with colleagues from the German Cancer Institute in Heidelberg,
because it shows how the outside world is linked to DNA via diet, and how environmental inputs can transiently modify our genetic hardware,
primarily with nitrogen and phosphorus. A team of researchers from the Universidad de Almerã a (UAL) has estimated the environmental impact of the Spanish diet
analyses the relationship of the food production and consumption chain with global warming and the acidification and eutrophication (excess of nutrients) of the environment, taking what a person in Spain ate in 2005 (881 kilograms) as a reference.
According to the study, producing food from animals, such as meat and dairy products, causes the greatest impact.
Human Excretion Contributes Nutrients oehuman excretion contributes significantly to water polluting through providing organic matter and nutrients
as they are nutrients, just like manure is reused as fertiliser in agriculture. oethe problem is that in many cases our rivers have a very low water level
However, in the tropics pressure to plant more land is growing fastest due to increasing human population, changing diets, food security concerns,
#Some Truly Disgusting Dishes Does this look like a mouth full of yum? Food, like so many things in life,
¢Balut (Soft-boiled Fetal Duck) For about 35 cents, if you live in the Philippines, you can enjoy a fertilized duck egg with an almost fully developed embryo inside.
Boiled and eaten directly from the shell, this dish is considered to be high in protein and an aphrodisiac.¢
¢Tuna fish Eyes The fatty, jellylike tissue around the eyeballs of a tuna fish is considered to be a great delicacy in Japan that costs about US $1.
It can be eaten a number of ways: raw, steamed or fried with garlic or soya sauce.¢
¢Birds Nest The Chinese make soup out of this, and one bowl costs anywhere from$30 to $100!
A sacred animal in India, urine from the cow is distilled before it is blended with traditional Indian herbs and medicinal plants.
¢Deep Fried Insects Topping off the list of specialty foods is this protein-rich delicacy from Thailand,
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