and color sucking the mineral salts out of the soil chasing one another rolling around in mud-pits
Elsewhere in the clearing known as the Dzanga Bai I was awed by bongo buffalo sitatunga and hundreds of birds.
and to walk in the forest with Ba'Aka pygmies collecting medicinal herbs. I often think of Mekema my trusted Ba'Aka friend
Behind the World Championship of Pumpkin Hurling It's not unusual to enjoy a plentiful helping of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving.
The scientists found that fractal dimension predicted immune responsiveness meaning that partridges with more complex fractals on their plumage tended to have stronger immune systems.
and fractals by restricting the diets of 33 male and female partridges during their molting period while letting 35 others eat as much as they liked.
This resulted in the first set of birds weighing around 13 percent less than the control group.
The researchers then photographed the partridges'bibs and found the complexity of fractals was reduced significantly on the birds
#Quail Moms Customize Their Egg Camouflage Quail eggs are like fingerprints a new study suggests.
The creamy blue-and-brown speckled eggs splashed like a toddler's art project vary among birds
What's more in a laboratory experiment quail camouflaged their eggs according to their personal pattern picking lighter sand for less-speckled eggs and darker sand for eggs with more brown splotches.
What surprised researchers was the discovery that quail changed their approach to camouflage as their eggs got darker.
It's as if they knew the characteristics of their own eggs and chose the best substrate with
Quail camouflage Sitting at the bottom of the food chain with a spot on just about every predator's dinner menu quail
and their eggs need good hiding places. In the experiment quail could lay clutches in sand with white yellow red or black hues.
Researchers photographed each spot where the quail laid eggs and each location they ignored. The images revealed
whether quail moms picked the sand color that offered the most camouflage. They did really really well Lovell told Ouramazingplanet.
More than 50 percent of the time quail chose the sand color offering the best or second-best protection for their own egg pattern the study found.
The amazing thing is this change in strategy for the different eggs Lovell said. Quail with the creamiest egg colors picked white or yellow sand.
This strategy called background matching aims to hide the eggs by blending into a similarly-colored background.
Quail with darker more splotchy eggs conceal their eggs not by matching a background color
but by trying to break up the egg's outline through its color pattern an approach called disruptive coloration.
The same strategy the military uses in its camouflage patterning the egg splotches disrupt its own outline with the colors
and patterns on its shell Lovell explained. What the spots seem to be doing it making a predator think an egg is different from an egg shape he said.
Seeing splotches The quail were raised in captivity at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and had seen their eggs before the experiment started.
 It's possible that they learn the patterning through seeing eggs that they've laid Lovell said.
In the wild there is some evidence that birds are often less successful with their first clutch of eggs.
It may be that at that point in time they're not able to select the best place to lay their eggs.
Scientists think birds use patterning on eggs for camouflage but the darker colors may also help strengthen weak spots
or regulate temperature Lovell said. The shell color comes from two pigments: blue-green biliverdin and red-brown protoporphyrin which are both breakdown products of hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying protein found in the red blood cells of all vertebrates.
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Vyn camped out a tent and a blind with only a sleeping bag for warmth waiting for the eggs to hatch.
me exciting and nerve-wracking waiting for three days in this windstorm for these four eggs to hatch he said.
Vyn filmed the only nest with eggs in 2011: The other 20 eggs were bred in captivity
and the chicks released in Russia to make their 4971-mile (8000 kilometer) migration to Southeast asia.
or unpasteurized milk and its products such as cheese and encourages pediatricians to contact their state representatives to support such a ban according to the statement published today (Dec 16) in the journal Pediatrics.
which has very specific procedures and rituals for the sacrifice (and typically sacrifice chickens or goats not horses).
and other carrion-eating animals to scavenge on or even carry off these mysteriously missing body parts.
A c. Mace a member of Carter's archaeological team was killed by arsenic poisoning. Carter's personal secretary was found smothered in his bed in 1929.
5 Risks of Raw Vegan Diet On the road to good health there are many forks. Some paths such as vegetarianism or the Mediterranean diet have considerable science supporting them.
which shuns all animal products including eggs and dairy are winning converts. And then there's a new offshoot the raw vegan diet
which deems cooking to be unnatural and unhealthy. An increasing number of celebrities most recently tennis sensation Venus williams swear by this diet as the best way to prevent
and reverse diseases and to stay young and vital. Testimonials from ordinary folks are endless boasting advantages along the lines of having more energy better skin improved relationships with woodland creatures and so on
and live by a vegan diet caution their patients against attempting a raw diet. The reason?
A core tenet of the diet is that heating food above 104 degrees not only diminishes its nutrients
Dead or cooked foods are said to be depleted of their life energy as well as most of their nutrients.
Juicing and blending green smoothies often are key elements of this diet. Now for the misconceptions:
Cooking destroys nutrients Sure raw foods can be nutritious. But cooking breaks apart fibers and cellular walls to release nutrients that otherwise would be unavailable from the same raw food.
Cooking tomatoes for example increases by fivefold the bioavailability of the antioxidant lycopene. Similarly cooking carrots makes the beta-carotene they contain more available for the body to absorb.
Soups are full of nutrients that would not be available in a pot of raw carrots onions parsnips and potatoes.
Admittedly some nutrients are lost in cooking such as Vitamin c and certain B vitamins. But plants are so excess in nutrients that even this breakdown is insignificant in practical terms said John Mcdougall creator of the Mcdougall Program a vegan-friendly starch-based diet.
And by eating both raw and cooked foods you get the best of both worlds said Jennifer Nelson director of clinical dietetics at the Mayo Clinic and associate professor of nutrition at the Mayo Medical school in Rochester Minn.
And charring meats and vegetables creates cancer-causing chemicals. The solution however is not to stop all cooking
and to make more soups. Fermenting or juicing raw foods also can make some nutrients more available
but that shouldn't deter from the fact that cooking is an ancient craft that makes some foods more digestible and nutritious.
Fermented foods such as sauerkraut can carry enzymes into the gut. Their contribution to digestion is not zero
however that almost all nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine and that digestion at that stage relies almost entirely on human-generated bile and pancreatic enzymes.
the liver and the colon. In reality toxins can accumulate anywhere in the body particularly in fat and fatty tissue but also in proteins and bone.
As for the liver the confusion is that this organ filters toxins and must therefore the reasoning goes be loaded with toxins.
But the liver is more of a chemical-processing plant than a filter; it breaks down toxins as they pass through.
That is the liver doesn't have extra toxins by virtue of it being the body's natural toxin-neutralizer.
6'Magic bullet'Cures That Don't Exist Another argument is that burning fat in this case on a raw vegan diet would release toxins from the body.
and overwhelm the liver. In short there are no foods or herbs that can magically bind and pull toxins from your blood or organs.
The same would be true for cows or for any vegan animals that accumulate toxins in their fat;
And a healthful plant-rich diet with plenty of water can in general help your liver
Many on the diet do lose weight by consuming fewer calories. But weight loss should not be the ultimate goal.
(and for B12 impossible) to obtain a sufficient amount of these nutrients from raw plant-based foods. 5 Key Nutrients Women Need as They Age Also without access to a variety of foods year-round that can
from acids in the fruits that wear down the tooth enamel from sugar promoting decay from dried fruit (another raw vegan staple) sticking to the teeth
The raw diet could be more healthful than the so-called S. A d. standard American diet) of processed foods.
But there is no evidence that even given the resources to prepare a variety of raw foods daily the raw vegan diet would be more healthful than the plant-based diets promoted by Mcdougall
or Esselstyn or than the diets that allow modest amounts of animal products. Vegans would have to ask themselves what the added benefit would be from going raw
Humans around the world live to relatively similar ages on a multitude of different diets.
Most of the reasonable diets that consist of grains vegetables and meats will get you to at least age 70
if an accident or infectious disease doesn't kill you first. A traditional animal-based diet eaten by natives of Siberia is
just as natural as a traditional diet eaten by unnamed tribes in the Amazon. That said no known human culture has attempted ever to survive solely on raw plant foods.
It is the raw-only diet that is unnatural because it is impossible to survive on this diet without modern conveniences such as refrigerators storage devices and easy access to packaged foods such as the aforementioned shelled nuts.
In fact a child raised on a raw vegan diet without proper supplementation would likely develop severe neurological and growth problems due to a lack of Vitamin b12 and other nutrients.
Adults who have eaten animal products for more than 20 years by contrast have the benefit of relying on bodily stores of certain key nutrients.
In a natural setting without electricity anyone located outside of a narrow belt of land near the equators
Most scientists are in agreement that a combination of first eating meat and then cooking food enabled the development of the human brain.
Cooking in particular opened up a new world of calories and nutrients. The human brain after all requires a lot of energy.
Eating Meat Made Us Human Study Suggests Our raw-vegan cousin the gorilla has three times the body size of humans but one-third the brain cells;
but rather to inform rawists of the realities of this challenging diet. Christopher Wanjek is the author of a new novel Hey Einstein!
Long-term exposure to arsenic has been associated with skin lung bladder liver kidney and prostate cancers and low levels can cause skin lesions diarrhea and other symptoms.
#Replace Mood Busters in Your Diet with Mood Boosters does thought the of going out for an ice cream sundae make you giddy?
So doesn't now seem like a good time to start replacing the mood-busting junk in your diet with mood-boosting natural foods?
. Her research indicated that participants who ate a diet of vegetables berries fruit whole-grains fish poultry
and were also less likely to be diagnosed with depression during the follow-up period compared with those who ate an unhealthy diet that included sausages hot dogs sugary desserts processed foods and snacks.
But let's shift gears from focusing on the negative side of things and focus on how to turn around our diets and potentially our moods.
and beans and in room-temperature rice and pasta can ferment in the colon to promote the growth of good bacteria
Your body starts digesting these starches from the moment you start chewing extracting nutrients and energy.
The human body does not absorb nutrients or energy from them. Soluble fiber dissolves in water making food more viscous slowing digestion
Most high-fiber vegetable-based diets will be rich in resistant starches but some extra care is needed to get them into your diet.
For example pasta and rice have resistant starch but only at room temperature. So pasta salad and sushi are better sources of resistant starch.
Whole grains peas and beans have a form of resistant starch that maintains its structure even when hot though.
Green banana flour is another source of resistant starch and it is gluten free. Christopher Wanjek is the author of a new novel Hey Einstein!
a comical nature-versus-nurture tale about raising clones of Albert Einstein in less than-ideal settings.
and an Asian elephant egg a challenging prospect as no one has ever been able to harvest eggs from an elephant.
The female swallowed fertilized eggs turned its stomach into a uterus and gave birth to froglets through the mouth.
He's using cloning methods to put gastric brooding frog nuclei into eggs of living Australian marsh frogs.
Once a boat enters the water microorganisms begin accumulating on its surfaces creating a significant amount of drag and a big mess.
which is the sugar that is secreted but at the very beginning at the point of the molecular machinery that assembled
and allowed for the secretion of that sugar in the first place. Four of the taxa they sequenced produce visible mucilage
#Roses, Wine or Chocolate: Weather Controls it All This article was provided by Accuweather. com. With Valentine's day right around the corner everyone is searching for the perfect gift for their loved one.
From roses to chocolate and wine weather plays an important role in production. Roses The biggest weather-related factor in the production of beautiful roses is the temperature.
Wine How romantic it is to share a bottle of fine wine during a candlelit Valentine's dinner.
That energy then is converted into glucose in the plant by photosynthesis. Glucose is the sugar in the grape that ferments to become alcohol.
-and-Making-Wine. aspx#axzz2kisqwofj) Chocolate How can weather affect chocolate? Chocolate is made from cocoa beans.
The beans grow inside of a cacao pod which grows on a cacao tree. The tree needs just the right weather conditions to produce the cacao pods.
and the price of chocolate is kept low. If just one of the weather factors is not normal the chocolate industry suffers
and surfed the waves to shore leaving the highwater line littered with thousands of sticky fish balls.
Salton Sea Fish balls Fish balls The bone beds first brought Simpson out from Pennsylvania in 2010.
The fish balls sized from kumquat to mandarin appeared on a return visit in March 2013.
but older ones grew a dry hard rind in the sun like a cow patty.
but the extent of 2012's rotten-egg smell driven by strong southeasterly winds was unusually broad.
The greatest numbers of fish balls in 2013 showed up on the northern beaches where wind-driven waves pushed the balls up to the high-water mark said Elizabeth Heness a collaborator who is now a graduate student at the University of Texas at El paso. The rotting fish balls
Webb has also been monitoring the other condor eggs set to hatch this season to estimate how long before each chick pips
or breaks through its egg shell. Â He uses a technique called candling that shines a bright warm light on the eggs
and allows him to see how the chick is developing. In a photo released by the zoo Webb is examining an egg on March 11 that he estimates will hatch in 21 days.
They grew a wide range of fresh herbs such as coriander and chives; vegetables such as fava beans and Swiss chard;
Kids also spent 90 minutes a week in the kitchen with a cooking specialist making lunches that used the fresh herbs and produce.
and shared new foods with their classmates weekly said Gibbs. During these lunches which featured dishes ranging from pasta
and salads to curries and handmade pastries children were encouraged to taste the foods but they were under no pressure to eat them.
salad was served in see-through togo containers; and a sign that read Last Chance for Fruit was displayed next to fruit at the cash register.
what the teens left on their plates. The lunchroom makeover increased the amount of fruit the teens ate by 18 percent
(ages 8 to 11) were more likely to take an apple to eat with their lunch
Still some of you might want to do something a bit more dramatic than building a DNA model out of toothpicks and gumdrops.
You are also using the salts in the sports drink to begin to break the cell membrane
Cell membranes are made up of two layers consisting of fats sugars and salts. The fats are on the inside of the membrane where they can avoid touching the water that surrounds the cell.
the fat-loving end of the dish detergent molecule attaches to the grease from your hamburger
Pineapple juice and meat tenderizer both contain enzymes that further help to break down the cell membrane. 4. Why did I use ice cold alcohol?
Use about 2 cups of plant material and about half a cup of water and a tablespoon of salt instead of Gatorade.
opens Nov 17 taking visitors on an interactive visual tour of food as sustenance entertainment ritual and more.
and displays sample meals of people like writer Jane Austen Olympic athlete Michael Phelps and Mongolian leader Kublai Khan.
</p><p>Wild chickens naturally produce only about 15 eggs a year but farmers have bred domesticated chickens to lay up to 200 or 300 eggs per annum.</
</p><p>Many of the foods central to cuisines around the world originated in The americas.
For example until 500 years ago no one outside of The americas had tasted ever chili peppers chocolate or tomatoes.
t taste capsaicin the chemical that gives chili peppers their kick enabling birds to eat spicy peppers
and spread their seeds far and wide without being bothered by the irritant.</</p><p>American people didn'
and spoons to transfer food from plate to mouth. Meanwhile some people in China say the use of chopsticks over knives for eating there reflects the importance of scholars over warriors in Chinese culture.</
while pregnant and breast-feeding can pass along an appreciation for hot dishes to very young children.
me over for dinner said Kellog. Even though they live too far away I still appreciated the offer!
#Sell-By Labels Send Edible U s. Food to the Dump (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.
No one eats forty percent of the food produced in the United states. That's nearly half of America's food wasted not just on plates but in refrigerators and pantries in grocery stores and on farms.
Much of it perfectly good edible food worth $165 billion annually gets tossed in the trash instead of feeding someone who's hungry.
The U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) which oversees meat poultry and some egg products also says date labels are voluntary.
It does call for specific wording on a label if a manufacturer chooses to use one such as packing date sell-by date
and also receive expert tips on food storage as well more information on sorting out the date-label mess.
#Shining a Spotlight on Magnesium  Some nutrients get a lot of attention because we don t consume enough of them.
These are important nutrients that deserve the limelight. But they re not the only ones.
There are other nutrients that everyone should know more about. Today I d like to discuss a mineral that is essential for energy production bone health and nerve function.
so if your diet consists of mostly processed foods you may not be getting enough of this vital nutrient (and many others as well).
Almonds and cashews. Many nuts contain magnesium but almonds and cashews top the list. As little as one ounce of almonds has 80 milligrams of magnesium.
 Soybeans. have tried you ever steamed edamame (green soybeans? It can be an addicting snack. Not only is it high in magnesium
Proteins are essential nutrients found inside every cell in the body. They are used for growth
but you're better off getting the nutrient from real food some experts say I never recommend protein supplements said Katherine Tallmadge the author of Diet Simple (Lifeline Press 2011).
(and sugar) too and don't leave people feeling full in the same way that a well-rounded meal with a variety of flavors
and nutrients does said Tallmadge. You can feel full or more satisfied with fewer calories when you eat real food she added.
Good sources of protein include meat poultry fish legumes (such as dry beans and peas) eggs milk and tofu according to the CDC.
Mangieri notes that our bodies typically use a maximum of 20 to 30 grams of protein from a single meal.
 Beyond that any additionalâ protein in a meal or bar won't confer an extra tissue-repair
So it is important to space out protein consumption throughout the day consuming about equal portions at each meal.
For instance if you eat three meals a day you could consume about a third of your protein at breakfast a third at lunch and a third at dinner.
and it's an important component of the Mediterranean diet frequently cited as one of the most healthful ways of eating.
#Should You Switch to a Mediterranean Diet? A rigorous study released earlier this week showed thata Mediterranean diet lowered the risk of heart attack and stroke in people in Spain.
But do these findings mean you should revamp your diet? Experts say the Mediterranean diet is indeed one of the healthiest diets on the planet said Katherine Tallmadge a dietitian and the author of Diet Simple (Lifeline Press 2011.
But if you want to switch you should first know exactly what eating a Mediterranean diet really means.
You don t just pour olive oil all over your dishes and think you're eating the Mediterranean diet Tallmadge said.
But even people in the Mediterranean are moving away from this traditional diet and adding more cheese
and animal fat products to their meal plan she said. The main sources of fat in the traditional Mediterranean dietdiet come from olive oil nuts
Because Americans today eat a relatively poor diet nutrition-wise even just incorporating a few aspects of the Mediterranean diet into their current way of eating would be a massive improvement over
The traditional Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest diets on the planet experts say.
#Six Science-Based Strategies to Beat Holiday Bloat (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian noted motivational and wellness speaker author of Diet Simple:
When there are three pies on the holiday table pumpkin apple and pecan. Won't you have a slice of each?
What if there were only one type of pie say apple? Wouldn't you just have one slice?
so that we would get enough nutrients to survive. But today because we are exposed to a variety of fattening foods especially at restaurants buffets
or parties variety is a significant factor contributing to overeating and the obesity epidemic. Bottom line:
Would you prefer a bowl of sliced apples or a fruit salad with a variety of fruits?
 Diet Simple'sâ menu plans are filled with variety to help you stay on your plan
In one study researchers varied the amount of water in a food eaten as a first course
and found subjects who ate soup before a meal consumed 26 percent fewer calories at the main course.
In another study the researchers served salads before a main course and found people ate about 100 calories fewer at the following meal.
and soups even without added calories improves your feelings of fullness in a variety of ways.
And finally the larger a meal and the longer a meal goes on the more you lose interest in completing it.
The studies show eating a high-water-content low-calorie first course enhances satiety and reduces calorie intake at the next course.
Bottom line: Â If you eat alow-calorieâ soupâ or salad before every meal you could save 200 calories daily
and lose 20 pounds in a year all with this simple change alone. Diet Simple andâ Diet Simple Farm to Tableâ both have a wide variety of family-friendly soup
and salad recipes that will fill you up without the calories. You can also find out how simple sumptuous soups can speed up your weight loss in this article.
3. Control serving size. Â Simply the amount of food you are served will affect how full you feel
and how much you eat. When people are served varying amounts of the same food a smaller portion satisfies as much as a large one.
If the effect persists beyond two days those extra calories added daily over the course of a year would pack on 30 to 80 pounds in one year.
When good-tasting lower-calorie foods or portion-controlled meals are available we will eat those and feel just as satisfied.
If that saves 300 calories at lunch and dinner that's 60 pounds lost in one year.
 Diet Simpleâ andâ Diet Simple Farm to Tableâ are filled with wonderful ideas and recipes to help you stay on your program.
There are many ideas for handling food pushers inâ Diet Simple. Â 5. Show control with sweets.
Such foods contain life-sustaining nutrients and a love for those foods helped keep us alive.
 Because we have a natural urge for sweets include something naturally sweet at every meal such as fruit (remember the importance of variety?.
Or splurge once a week on a large dessert. Eat a 150 calorie treat instead of a 300 calorie treat daily
Inâ Diet Simple there are many ideas for having your sweets and eating them too! Â (Learn more about sweets the science behind our sweet cravings
Inâ Diet Simple there are many creative ways to increase your physical activity to fit your unique needs for weight loss
Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was Go ahead Eat the Halloween Candy and her additional contributions are available on her profile page.
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
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