#How to Get Kids to Like Vegetables: Study Reveals Tips One trick to getting kids to like their vegetables is simply to keep offering them a variety of veggies especially
and consuming a variety of them early in childhood contribute to healthier dietary habits that often continue into adulthood the researchers said.
in order to obtain pollen or nectar. How do they determine their speed when this type of optic flow is not available to them?
Baird and her colleagues trained free-flying bees to land on an experimental apparatus composed of a vertically oriented circular perspex disc with a tube in the middle connected to a sugar feeder.
The experiment was repeated several times each iteration with a different pattern on the disc (checkerboard a concentric ring and a pie-slice pattern.
When they approached the pie-slice pattern the bees didn t slow down until they almost hit the disc.
while the pie-slice pattern did not do so as effectively. Baird and her colleagues suspected that bees used the apparent expanding image to calibrate their speed by maintaining a constant speed of approach;
For decades people have clear-cut Sahelian trees the gum shea baobab and acacia to expand cattle land
Take the gum arabic and gum karaya trees of southern Mali. For generations villagers cleared the trees for cattle land.
and tap the trees for their high-value resins which the company exports to Europe to meet the rising need for such materials in products from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics to baked goods.
Leaves and fruits provide food fodder for livestock and organic matter to fortify the soil. More livestock means more manure which further enriches the soil enabling crops to be grown
Your diningroom table may be one of the reasons why Russian tiger forests are being pushed to the brink of destruction.
Overharvesting limits the supply of pine nuts and acorns a main food source for Amur tigers prey.
So next time you sit down at your dining room table and have a bite to eat or dance across your hardwood floor remember that as a consumer you can play an important role in protecting the most precious places on the planet.
and insert it in the place of the egg's original nucleus. Now that adult cell's genome can hum along in its new home creating stem cells without the mitochondrial defects present in its original form.
The vehicles negotiate tight turns slaloms rough pavement and grocery stops. Peak speeds are often around 45 mph (72 km h).
The researchers also examined where the cheetahs preferred to chase down their meals: Nearly half or 48 percent of the runs occurred on open grasslands 28 percent were carried out around large trees
These outbursts spewed a giant plume of ash that spread unusually far and stayed for an oddly long time in the atmosphereforcing widespread flight cancellations for days.
The researchers also saw that after the eruption levels of another nutrient nitrate were depleted nearly completely in the central Iceland Basin.
when volcanic iron fertilized the waters the resulting phytoplankton bloom sucked up other nutrients as well.
#If A Dry Tree Pops Sap Bubbles In The Woods (ISNS)--The crackling sounds wood makes as it burns are familiar to anyone who has roasted marshmallows before a campfire
Within a day a lamb can walk and climb as well as its mother. A bighorn sheep's size makes its climbing even more impressive.
The cells containing the passenger pigeon DNA could be transformed into cells that produce eggs and sperm
which could be injected into rock pigeon eggs. The pigeons that hatched would be rock pigeons but their offspring would resemble passenger pigeons.
The nucleus would be implanted into an elephant egg whose nucleus had been removed. But this is no easy feat no one has harvested yet successfully an elephant egg.
The challenges aren't trifling. Even if researchers succeed in creating a mammoth passenger pigeon or other extinct creature it has to survive in the wild.
It is known for its large assortment of dishes and its liberal use of herbs and spices.
Wheat Basmati rice and pulses with chana (Bengal gram) are important staples of the Indian diet.
The food is rich with curries and spices including ginger coriander cardamom turmeric dried hot peppers and cinnamon among others.
Chutneys thick condiments and spreads made from assorted fruits and vegetables such as tamarind and tomatoes and mint cilantro and other herbs are used generously in Indian cooking.
 Many Hindus are vegetarians but lamb and chicken are common in main dishes for non-vegetarians.
Much of Indian food is eaten with fingers or bread used as utensils. There is a wide array of breads served with meals including naan a leavened oven-baked flatbread
and bhatoora a fried fluffy flatbread common in North India and eaten with chickpea curry.
Architecture The most well-known example of Indian architecture is the Taj Mahal built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to honor his third wife Mumtaz Mahal.
It combines elements from Islamic Persian Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles. India also has many ancient temples.
Thanks to Earth Starter's Nourishmat growing fresh produce and herbs is as easy as laying out a mat.
In addition to providing complete planting guides for different regions of the country Earth Starter creates pre-planted seedballs packed with nutrients
and non-GMO seeds for a variety of produce and herbs. All you need to do is plant the seedball in the corresponding space on your Nourishmat water it
Though crowdfunding the company recently raised more than $100000 to create even more products and spread its gardening tools and knowledge to local schools and food-insecure urban areas.
This article was updated Oct 29 to reflect that earthworms decrease soil nutrients not increase. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.
or PMS may want to pay attention to the amount of iron in their diets according to a new study.
Other research has shown that diet affects the development of PMS or may ease the severity of its symptoms.
which is exploring the influence of diet and lifestyle on women's health. Researchers compared the mineral intakes from food as well as supplements for nearly 1060 women who had been diagnosed with PMS against those of roughly 1970 women who had few if any PMS symptoms.
The heme iron coming from animal sources such as red meat and poultry did not have the same effect.
because it's easier to eat a diet rich in plant and supplement sources. For example three-quarters of a cup of fortified cereal has 18 mg of non-heme iron
But a 3-ounce serving of beef has only 2 to 3 mg of heme iron so you would need to eat a large serving of beef to meet your daily iron needs
Because the effects of potassium on PMS need further investigation and the mineral is an important component of a healthy diet Bertone-Johnson said she would still encourage women who have PMS to consume the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for potassium or 4700
While DNA is an acid it s a very weak one more like vinegar or the citric acid in lemons than a dangerous acid like sulphuric acid.
which is a sugar a bit like glucose but with fewer carbons. The oedeoxy part means the ribose is missing one oxygen atom.
Think of genes as different apps on a smartphone so all the smartphones that make up your liver will have one set of apps on
and cauliflower or an omnivore who eats steak and kidney pies you are eating cells and each cell contains DNA
The only living parts that don t contain DNA are things like egg whites or filtered milk that are there for energy storage or blood juices in which our blood cells float.
If you eat a three course meal oysters for starters chicken and asparagus as a main and fruit salad for dessert you are eating lots of different DNA.
Basically DNA like proteins and complex carbohydrates gets broken down into pieces this is what digestion is all about.
me it is no different from eating fish for the main course and strawberries for dessert.
#Is It Really'Gluten-Free'?'FDA Sets New Limits People with celiac disease can now trust that foods labeled gluten-free are safe for them to eat the U s. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) says. The agency issued a final rule today (Aug 2) that requires foods with gluten-free labels to limit their gluten levels to less than 20 parts gluten per million parts of food.
The new rule also says that gluten-free foods cannot contain any wheat rye or barley or any of their crossbreeds.
If any ingredients derived from these grains are used they have to be processed to reduce their gluten to amounts less than the new limits according to a statement from the FDA.
This standard'gluten-free'definition will eliminate uncertainty about how food producers label their products
and will assure people with celiac disease that foods labeled'gluten-free'meet a clear standard established
and enforced by FDA said Michael R. Taylor deputy FDA commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.
People with the intestinal condition celiac disease have to avoid eating foods that contain gluten proteins that occur naturally in wheat rye and barley.
Eating cakes pasta and bread made with these grains'flours can be life threatening for people with celiac disease.
The only choice for the up to 3 million Americans living with CD is to adhere strictly to a gluten-free diet said Virginia A. Cox associate commissioner of the FDA's Office of External affairs. For these people consuming gluten can damage the intestines prevent the absorption of vitamins
which the body's defense system reacts to gluten by attacking the lining of the small intestine
The new gluten limit is the lowest level that can be detected in foods using available tools
Salt free or sodium free means less than 5 grams of salt per serving and items labeled sugar free should contain less than 0. 5 g of sugar per serving.
Foods labeled zero calories should have less than five calories in each serving. Manufacturers have one year to ensure their gluten-free labels are consistent with the FDA requirements.
Foods that carry labels stating they're gluten-free free of gluten without gluten and no gluten but fail to meet the set limits would be considered misbranded and subject to regulatory action by the FDA.
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#Is Your Olive oil As Healthy As You Think?(Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian;
author of Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks Substitutions Habits & Inspirations (Lifeline Press 2011; and a frequent national commentator on nutrition topics.
when using olive oil purchased from America's grocery shelves? Possibly. This issue first came to my attention at a Mediterranean Diet Conference
I attended in Florence Italy cosponsored by New york University's Department of Dietetics and the James Beard Foundation.
Malik is referring to the polyphenols in olive oil nutrients also found in wine tea cocoa
I save expensive olive oil for drizzling on salads and use canola oil for cooking especially with high heat.
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
#It's a Duck, It's a Rooster, It's a Dinosaur? What has a mouth like a duck's and a comb like a rooster's?
A dinosaur that roamed North america 75 million years ago. A new fossil discovery reveals the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus regalis sported a fleshy comb on its head similar to the ones on modern-day roosters.
For this reason despite dozens of outbreaks it was easier to contain the spread. But if this new bird flu strain does in fact become capable of human-to-human transmission
and seems to have been quietly spreading in chickens without anyone knowing about it he said.
And China learned a lot about how to limit the spread of bird flu after the last outbreaks simply by closing down poultry markets that appear to be likely starting points.
and prove as deadly as some had feared does not mean that this new outbreak will follow a similar course.
The monster is said to kill dogs chickens and other small animals as well as leave spooky cloven hoof prints in snow
Shortly after birth it changed form growing wings hooves and an equine head. It flew into the air with a bloodcurdling shriek killing a midwife in the process and headed toward the woods.
How Simple Dietary Changes Can Save Lives and Money and How We Get There. How?
Cutting down on fatty meats and sugary soft drinks comes to mind. Getting off our butts would help too.
But three of the four AHA-endorsed diets the Mediterranean-style diet the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet
which are used for biofuels livestock feed and the basic ingredients in processed food. At the same time farm policies offer few incentives for farmers to grow fruits
but the $689 million apple growers received during the last 18 years is compared peanuts with commodity crop support.
because 17 of its 37 ingredients including corn syrup high-fructose corn syrup vegetable shortening and corn starch are subsidized.
O'hara's second recommendation focuses on doing a better job delivering that produce at an affordable cost to consumers especially low-income Americans who are hardest hit by cardiovascular and other diet-related diseases.
It also would provide funding for the federal food stamp program now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP) to enable low-income consumers to buy healthy food from local farmers.
If Congress cares about saving lives it will adopt the provisions of the Brown-Pingree bill in the upcoming farm bill.
Because steamed veggies retain more nutrients than their boiled counterparts and kids seem to like the way they taste there may be an advantage to steaming vegetables rather than boiling them the researchers said.
when vegetables were served as part of a meal rather than a la carte. The study conducted by researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Food Quality and Preference.
Can Fruit Kick Candy to the Curb? Among the 39040 genes found in the kiwifruit many were similar to distantly related species including potatoes and tomatoes from the order Solanes a biological classification one step up from oefamily.
Tea bushes blueberries Brazil nuts azaleas and persimmons are all members of the plant order Ericales along with kiwifruit.
and now a stinkbug that feeds on the plant is making an American invasion too.
Because of their diet and life cycle the pungent-smelling insects were thought to be limited largely to areas where they could find the invading vine their favorite meal.
Based on observations in the wild researchers believed the eggs of kudzu bugs that hatched during the spring were part of a first generation Generation A
Symptoms, Treatment & Coping Strategies Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest the main sugar found in milk and other dairy products.
The initial diagnosis of lactose intolerance can be very simple t s a matter of eliminating certain foods from the diet to see
and then reintroducing the same foods into the the diet again to see if those symptoms would come back.
and dairy products according to research published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology  Treatments & Medications Over-the-counter pills or drops that contain lactase can be taken before meals to help alleviate
The most straightforward way would be to reduce the amount of milk or daily products in their diet.
Processed dairy such as yogurt and cheeses are tolerated usually better because the lactose is metabolized partially by bacteria during their preparation r
Swans loons ducks geese grebes and other water fowl are among the wildlife that inhabit Lake ontario.
#Let's Not'Feed The World':'Moving Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
The hunger organization Bread for Word talks not of how U s. agriculture will feed the world
The ambitious U s. initiative called Feed the Future does not use the phrase either but instead talks about supporting countries in developing their own agricultural sectors to generate opportunities for economic growth that can help reduce poverty and hunger.
and enjoying meals. To satisfy this basic need for the whole world is a noble endeavor.
Tackling issues like infrastructure transport storage prices and the role of women in an integrated way as both the FAO and the Feed the Future initiatives do is the only serious approach to the world hunger problem.
This article was adapted from the post Let's Drop'Feed The World':'A Plea To Move Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase on the UCS blog The Equation.
Elizabeth Buffalo the study's lead author is an associate professor of neurology at Emory University School of medicine.
Buffalo's experiment changed that. In research reported in November in the journal Nature three Rhesus monkeys looked at images on a computer screen
When Buffalo and her coworkers compared eye-tracking results to the electrode measurements they found that the monkeys like the rats were using neurons in the entorhinal cortex to construct a triangular grid they could superimpose on their environment.
We tend to explore things with our eyes said Buffalo and unlike the rats in the original experiments primates don't have to actually visit a place to construct the same kind of mental map.
Showing the monkeys the same picture twice enabled Buffalo to link grid cells to memory.
This suggests that grid cells may provide a kind of framework for making associations said Buffalo.
One of Buffalo's research interests is the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. Studies of brain changes in Alzheimer's disease in humans consistently show localized degeneration in the same parts of the entorhinal cortex where Buffalo found grid cells in monkeys.
May-Britt Moser one of the authors of the original Norwegian study described Buffalo's results as extremely exciting.
She suspects that the cells Buffalo observed which respond to the monkeys'eye movements may represent a new type of grid cell
--and that grid cells may start turning up in a variety of neurological contexts. In the brainwhat works will be used over and over again said Moser.
Now that we've identified them there are so many questions we can ask Buffalo said. Eleanor Nelsen is a science writer based in Madison Wisconsin.
and rosemary to spruce up the homes for their future nestlings. But all of this construction takes energy and puts a female in danger of attack from predators.
and the signals they may send to males. oepeople thought that its only function was to form a receptacle for the eggs he said.
#'Meat Mummies'Kept Egyptian Royalty Well-fed After Death Care for some ribs? The royal mummies of ancient Egypt apparently did as a new study finds that meat mummies left in Egyptian tombs as sustenance for the afterlife were treated with elaborate balms to preserve them.
Mummified cuts of meat are common finds in ancient Egyptian burials with the oldest dating back to at least 3300 B c. The tradition extended into the latest periods of mummification in the fourth century A d. The famous pharaoh King
Tutankhamun went to his final resting place accompanied by 48 cases of beef and poultry.
But meat mummies have been unstudied mostly until now. University of Bristol biogeochemist Richard Evershed and his colleagues were curious about how these cuts were prepared.
They also wondered if the mummification methods for meat differed from how Egyptians mummified people or pets.
The team analyzed four samples from meat mummies archived at the Cairo and British museums.
The oldest was a rack of cattle ribs from the tomb of Tjuiu an Egyptian noblewoman and her courtier Yuya.
The beef dates back to between 1386 B c. and 1349 B c. Gallery: Scanning Mummies for Heart disease The second sample dated to between 1064 B c
. and 948 B c. and consisted of meat from a calf found in the tomb of Isetemkheb D a sister and wife to a high priest in Thebes.
The final two samples were from the tomb of a Theban priestess Henutmehyt who died around 1290 B c. One of the meat mummies found in Henutmehyt's tomb was duck
and the other was probably goat. The researchers conducted a chemical analysis of the bandages or the meat itself in all four samples.
They found that animal fat coated the bandages of the calf and goat mummies; in the case of the calf the fat was on bandages not in contact with the meat suggesting it had been smeared on as a preservative rather than seeping through as grease.
The most intriguing chemical profile appeared on the beef mummy however. The bandaging around the mummy contained remnants of an elaborate balm made of fat or oil and resin from a Pistacia tree a shrubby desert plant.
This resin was a luxury item in ancient Egypt Evershed and his colleagues report today (Nov 18) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Nevertheless it makes sense to see a sophisticated embalming substance on the beef cut the researchers wrote.
which develop fetuses in eggs. See Images of the Furry Mammal Ancestor and Descendants There are over 5100 living placental species
This website allowed members of the team spread all over the globe to work simultaneously. Combining both DNA and morphological datasets led to an unprecedented amount of information for each of the 83 mammals they investigated.
which told them about the bears'diet and nutrition. When we look at the migration patterns of the collared bears it appears as though bears in recent years are arriving on shore earlier in the summer
The diet of working class Mexicans includes staples such as corn or wheat tortillas along with beans rice tomatoes chili peppers and chorizo a type of pork sausage.
 The diets of middle-and upper-income Mexicans are aligned more closely with diets of Americans
This is the most accurate test. 2. Use vinegar and baking soda. To do this test you will need:
and add 1 cup of white vinegar. Cap the jar and shake it well. If the mixture reacts with the vinegar by fizzing the soil is highly alkaline.
This test is the least accurate as it will only show results if the soil is very acidic or alkaline. 3. Use a cabbage juice indicator.
They need minerals and salts from the soil. Quality soils contain materials that dissolve in water easily
However the findings did show that a higher intake of cream was associated with lower bone mineral density in the hip but not in the spine.
Foods in this group included ice cream sour cream cream cheese and cream. Â Cream is definitely different from the rest of the dairy products said lead author Shivani Sahni an assistant scientist at the institute.
It's higher in saturated fat and has lesser amounts of bone-beneficial nutrients such as calcium protein and Vitamin d.
In addition the study found that eating cheese both hard cheeses like cheddar and Swiss and soft cheeses such as cottage and ricotta was linked not with higher bone mineral density of the hip or spine.
Sahni suspects cheese may have beneficial effects on bone health that were shown not in the research possibly
because the researchers lumped all kinds of cheese into one big category including processed varieties high in fat and sodium
which may not be so good for bones. Previous research has explored the link between people's milk-drinking habits during childhood
Researchers found that people who downed 2. 6 servings of milk yogurt and cheese a day
 Sahni suspects the various nutrients in dairy foods their protein calcium and Vitamin d content for example work in synergy
and together they have a better effect on bone health than any of these single nutrients acting alone.
#Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals Ancient Romans are known for eating well with mosaics from the empire portraying sumptuous displays of fruits vegetables cakes and of course wine.
whose feasts weren't preserved in art may have been stuck eating birdseed. Common people in ancient Rome ate millet a grain looked down upon by the wealthy as fit only for livestock according to a new study published in the March issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
In ancient Rome however diet varied based on social class and where a person lived. Ancient texts have plenty to say about lavish Roman feasts.
A formal feast involved multiple dishes eaten from a reclined position and could last for hours.
Roman locavores To determine diets from the Roman skeletons the researchers analyzed the bones for isotopes of carbon and nitrogen.
they photosynthesize differently than mostly fibrous C4 plants such as millet and sorghum. The differences in photosynthesis create different ratios of carbon isotopes preserved in the bones of the people who ate the plants.
Historical texts dismiss millet as animal feed or a famine food Killgrove said but the researcher's findings suggest that plenty of ordinary Romans depended on the easy-to-grow grain.
when he died carrying the signs of his country diet with him. Or perhaps he kept eating the food he was used to even after arriving in the city.
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