The plant uses its rotten aroma to attract flesh-eating critters like carrion beetles and flies that will carry its pollen to potentially cross pollinate other corpse flowers.
and eat as many candies as they can on their trick-or-treat adventure. Although what happens during this once-a-year occasion may not have major consequences on children's health
But there are sneaky steps parents can take to make Halloween a healthier day for kids without resorting to replacing all the candy with nuts and fruits.
For example parents might host craft parties where kids can use the candy to make things.
I'm a big fan of making candy haunted houses said Heather Mangieri a nutrition consultant and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Use the different shapes sizes and colors of the candy to see who can build a bigger haunted house.
and a few days after houses are built the candy gets tossed. That said there's no need to make Halloween a sugar-free day.
 Candy is part of a Halloween tradition and kids can enjoy the fun and candy Mangieri said.
Just don't let that one-day holiday turn into a three-week celebration. Parents can discard extra candy
or keep it in the freezer and out of sight. Children can send candies they have gathered to Operation Gratitude to be shipped to U S. soldiers overseas Mangieri said.
In any case setting family guidelines before Halloween for how much candy is reasonable to eat in one day and
what to do with the leftovers may help avoid a candy overdose said Vandana Sheth a registered dietitian based in Los angeles and a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
I believe that Halloween is the perfect time to reiterate the importance of moderation. Spooky fruits While children should be allowed to enjoy their earned candy on Halloween parents should also use the opportunity to introduce healthier snacks to kids by using attractive presentation.
Kids may like a banana but they would love a spooky banana ghost. Be creative and try to incorporate a variety of healthy Halloween-themed snacks
For frozen treats such as mini ice pops or frozen yogurt using a cooler filled with dry ice can give a spooky smoky effect enticing kids to choose the treats.
Both Mangieri and Sheth suggested that parents make sure children eat a meal before going trick
When children enjoy a healthy and balanced meal then they will eat fewer pieces of candy afterward.
Allowing kids to skip dinner is asking for candy calorie overload Mangieri said. Top treats Nutritionists suggest choosing smaller fun size candies
Parents should consider also including some more wholesome treats in candy collections prepared forâ trick-or-treaters.
Whole-grain crackers sugar-free gum mini rice cereal treat bars cereal bars made with real fruit mini 100-percent fruit-juice boxes
and low-fat pudding cups are among healthier options for treats Sheth said. 10 Ways to Promote Kids'Healthy Eating Habits Mangieri suggested including crunchy snacks such as mini pretzel packs
or bags of 100-calorie popcorn that can be packed as part of a school lunch. Her other favorite treat is lollipops.
Lollipops keep kids'mouths occupied which means less opportunity to shovel in endless amounts of sugar she said.
Don't forget toys If given a choice children may prefer toys over candy. Having a couple of toys
and nonfood items in your basket is especially important and considerate for kids with food allergies Sheth said.
Halloween-themed notebooks bouncy balls coloring pencils and small containers of modeling clay could be good nonfood treats.
But 9 of the 21 dietary supplements tested were found to have an unnatural compound called beta-methylphenethylamine
Walnut sphinx caterpillars whistle by forcing air out of holes in their sides. Flying insects perform death drops
Earthworms flee the vibrations of oncoming moles. Listen to caterpillars communicate with their butts Of course there may be another explanation for the apparent response to sound reported by Gagliano.
#Southern Diet May Increase Stroke Risk No matter where you live eating lots of Southern-style foods may increase your risk of stroke a new study suggests.
Examples of Southern-style foods included fried chicken fried fish fried potatoes bacon ham liver and gizzards and sugar-sweetened beverages such as sweet tea.
When one considers factors that increase cardiovascular disease risk the Southern diet poses a triple threat said study researcher Suzanne Judd Ph d. a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
And regularly downing sugar-sweetened beverages can increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes another risk factor for cardiovascular disease Judd said.
and educate them about the importance of eating a healthy diet Judd said. Pass it on:
and sugar-sweetened beverages is linked to an increased risk of stroke. Follow Rachael Rettner on Twitter@Rachaelrettner
and losers among wine-growing regions and for every region it will result in changes to the alcohol acid sugar tannins
Beverages Pack Calorie Punch (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
The researchers behind that study found that women who increased their intake of sugar-sweetened beverages such as sodas
Earlier studies demonstrated that consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks increased the likelihood of obesity in children
when they had based milk drinks at the beginning of a meal. The high protein levels in addition to cognitive beliefs about milk being a food may make it more satiating.
When you consider that an appropriately sized meal is anywhere from 400 to 700 calories
Double or triple these numbers at any given party tack on the calories in your meals
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
Thieves in Germany have absconded with about 5. 5 tons (5 metric tons) of Nutella the spreadable chocolate-hazelnut treat beloved by children (and more than a few adults) all over the world the Associated press reports.
Property owners in Maine have reported a startling increase in the theft of maple sap the sweet liquid that's used to make maple syrup the Montreal Gazette reports.
It takes roughly 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup so even though syrup is valued at about $50 per gallon it would take a lot of work to produce a little maple syrup aka liquid gold.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense you need a certain amount of trees to make this worth it
Costly though it may be the tapping of maple trees on private property pales in comparison to last year's heist of $18 million worth of refined maple syrup from a Quebec warehouse according to the New york times. The theft dealt a crushing
blow to Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve. Yes Canada has a strategic reserve of maple syrup
since the Canadian product dominates the global market.)It s like OPEC Simon Trã panier acting general manager of the Federation of Quebec Maple syrup Producers told the Times.
We're not producing all the maple syrup in the world. But by producing 70 to 78 percent we have the ability to adjust the quantity that is in the marketplace.
Thieves are getting more brazen in acting upon their sugar cravings: In the small town of Calais Maine sap bandits put taps into the maple trees in the town's cemetery igniting outrage among the local citizenry.
That was the first year they'd been put in trees at the cemetery and that's
It had the texture of hot dogs with match heads ground in he said. Living next to hydrothermal vents that spew toxic water rich in heavy metals
Marine biologist Win Watson recalls annual Make a Dish from Your Animal dinners at the Woods Hole Oceanic Institution in Woods Hole Mass. during the 1970s and 1980s.
At least one apocryphal but unconfirmed tale of mammoth eating comes from the National geographic Explorer's Club annual dinner
Photos of Exotic Food However one true tale of a Pleistocene repast comes from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Paleontologist Dale Guthrie
The meat was had tough and a strong aroma Guthrie wrote in the book Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe:
Of course meals from bugs are neither new nor unusual outside of modern Western cultures. Thus many researchers make an effort to overcome their fear of eating bugs
The group's local assistants would collect beetle larvae during the day and roast them at night.
They would singe the fur off in the fire and then skin out the meat.
and out delicious snack according to Joe Sapp an ecology graduate student at the University of California Santa cruz. They are full of nectar
and taste like candy he said. But pop into any in U s. entomology department and one will find plenty of advocates for bug eating.
So Turpin concocted corn fritters laced with European corn borers for an insect-cooking demonstration. Edible Bugs to Help Fight World Hunger Turpin also enthusiastically eats raw insects.
Seibel's tried vampire squid tastes like little more than slimy salt water and jumbo squid debating at first
Solving radial drift Young star systems are a mess of dust and debris. Conventional planet-forming theory posits that the dust eventually sticks together
Chicken-and-egg problem There is a chicken -and-egg problem that is bothering some astronomers: How did that massive mysterious object in Oph IRS 48 form?
One question for the future is whether the sort of trapping processes that we see in this object would also be present at earlier times
and other designs such as two peacocks flanking an amphora a dove and a partridge and one amphora with a pomegranate and a lemonlike fruit inside.
and severity increased during the period between 6000 and 3000 years ago coinciding with the spread of the highly flammable black spruce (Picea mariana).
#Sugar Mist Makes Veggies More Palatable to Kids BOSTON A light mist of sugar could help the broccoli
In preliminary studies preschoolers who were served lightly sweetened vegetables (sprayed with a mist of sugar) at lunchtime ate more of the healthy foods compared to those who were served unsweetened vegetables.
Although the researchers tested other ways to mask the vegetables'bitterness including various salts plain sugar worked the best.
Adding such a small amount of sugar means the vegetables do not taste markedly sweet said study researcher Valerie Duffy a professor at the University of Connecticut's Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Rather serving the sugar-enhanced veggies a few times should be enough to get children accustomed to eating them.
The researchers added about a half a teaspoon of sugar which has a mere 8 calories to three-fourths of a cup of vegetables.
The algae look like little petri dishes or footballs depending on the species and spend most of their lives drifting on currents.
A new study finds that bees use simple logical steps to learn from other bees which flowers hold the sweetest nectar.
Further investigation and a little warm water revealed what was actually inside the candy bar wrappers.
As the chocolate melted away officials discovered 583 bars of ivory all together weighing 75 lbs.
Also known as sulfur mustard the compound is named for its distinctive mustard smell which has also been compared to horseradish.
How to Make a Meal Everyone Can Eat What happens when a vegan a person on the Paleo diet
and a gluten-free eater sit down together to a Thanksgiving dinner? It sounds like the intro to a joke
but it's a real conundrum for the many people who have guests and loved ones with multiple dietary restrictions.
Though it can be tough to plan a meal in which every guest can eat everything there are several strategies that can make Turkey Day dining healthy and nutritious for everyone experts say.
Creating a meal with lots of side dishes that emphasize fruits and veggies can also make the Thanksgiving menu a crowd-pleaser Cassie said.
10 Tips for Sticking to Healthy Portions Simple meals Those who follow the Paleo diet typically shun grains sugars dairy
Those foods usually include fish wild game and poultry as well as fruits vegetables and eggs. Some on the diet also eat nuts.
For those folks simple staples such as green-bean casserole or mashed cauliflower work well. The green beans can be made with a healthy serving of coconut oil and homemade mushroom soup.
Turkey is an easy staple that Paleo dieters can enjoy while getting adequate protein and fat Cassie told Livescience.
Other dishes can be modified to make them Paleo-friendly. For instance sweet-potato casserole can be made without the marshmallows and cream.
Carb-conscious Many people (including people on the Paleo diet) now follow a gluten-free diet avoiding any foods that contain the protein gluten.
Still others are struggling with type 2 diabetes and must stick to a low-carb diet as a result.
For all these groups it's best to steer clear of white flour as a thickener
but either coconut or almond flour can be used as a substitute. For dessert make a coconut-milk pumpkin custard instead of a pie she said.
And for those who eat nuts one option is to make the crust out of nuts Franziska Spritzler a registered dietitian
and diabetes educator who runs lowcarbdietitian. com wrote in an email. Having some unsweetened whipped cream on the side can provide a satisfying low-carb treat she said.
Even without the sweet treats there are plenty of other options on the traditional Thanksgiving table for the carb-conscious.
Green beans salad and other low-carb vegetables are important to consume because they provide fiber
and phytonutrients (plant nutrients) that have beneficial health effects. Side dishes Vegetarians don't eat meat or fish and vegans typically avoid all animal products
but they too can enjoy green beans sweet potatoes cranberry sauce and other side dishes. The main thing is just keeping your side dishes free of any type of meat Cassie said.
For the person who's not vegetarian they can get plenty of protein from the turkey.
Many guests are also happy to bring a dish to share which can ensure that everyone eats happily Cassie said.
And before pulling out all the stops in a gluten-free low-carb vegan Paleo Thanksgiving check in with your guests as well Spritzler said Some low-carbers may choose to only eat the turkey
and vegetables anyway so it's a good idea to ask if they'd be interested in low-carb versions of their favorites before preparing them Spritzler said.
From deep-fryer burns to in-law anxiety here are some of the most notable: 1. Turkey troubles Nothing says Thanksgiving like cooking an obscenely large farm bird.
Perhaps it's not surprising then that emergency rooms see a lot of fowl-related injuries on Turkey Day.
5. Fowl Play Before or after the big meal families and friends often like to let off steam by playing sports
Multiple meats were the norm including unheard-of-today mincemeat pie. Gradually as Thanksgiving mythology became codified during the late 1800s turkey took its place at the head of the table.
But some of the side dishes eaten in Thanksgiving's early days rarely make an appearance now.
Maybe these old-fashioned meals will inspire something new on your table this year. Read More:
The History of the Thanksgiving Menu Pies Pies Pies The french Cook a 1653 translation of major French cookbook Le Vrai Cuisinier Franã§ois including this pumpkin pie recipe
and mix it with sugar butter a little salt and if you will stamped a few almonds;
If crust isn't your thing the 1796 American Cookery has covered you with several options for pompkin pudding:
No. 1 One quart stewed and strained pompkin 3 pints milk 6 beaten eggs sugar mace nutmeg
and ginger laid in to paste and baked in dishes three quarters of an hour.
No. 2. One quart of milk 1 pint pompkin 4 eggs molasses allspice and ginger in a crust make 1 hour.
Menu madness Menus for Thanksgiving Dinners from American Cookery magazine November 1921: I Three-Course Dinner for Small Family in Servantless House:
Roast Chicken stuffed with Chopped Celery and Oysters Baked Sweet potatoes Boiled Onions  Salad (Fine chopped apples and nuts in red apple cups) Cream Dressing  Mince or Squash pie a la mode
Sweet cider Coffee  II A Simple Company Dinner of Six Courses  Celery Clam Bouillon Saltines Ripe olives  Roast Chestnut-Stuffed Turkey
Giblet Sauce Buttered Asparagus Glazed Sweet potatoes Moulded Cranberry Jelly  Chicken salad in Salad Rolls  Thanksgiving Pudding Hard sauce  Chocolate ice cream Strawberry Sauce Â
Assorted Fruit Coffee  III A Formal Company Dinner. Eight Courses Curled Celery Oyster Soup Bread Sticks Radish Rosettes  Turbans of Flounder Hollandaise Sauce Potato Straws Olives Crusty Rolls
Salted Nuts  Capon a la Creme (Stuffing of Potatoes Mushrooms Chestnuts etc. Mashed Potatoes Green pea Timbales Cranberry sauce  Sweet cider Frappe  Venison Steaks Currant jelly Sauce Baked Parsnips  Apple
-and-Grape Salad  Macaroon Pudding Frozen Mince pie Hot chocolate Sauce  Glaceed Walnuts Fruit Black Coffee  IV Elaborate Formal Dinner.
Ten Courses Fruit cocktail Oysters on Half-shell Brown bread-and-Butter Sandwiches Quartered Lemons  Clear Bouillon Oysterettes Radishes Celery  Boiled Halibut Potato
Balls in Parsley Sauce Sweet pickles  Cauliflower au Gratin  Braised Turkey or Capon Bread Stuffing Giblet Gravy Duchesse Potatoes Spinach Â
Crystallized ginger Salted Pecans Pineapple Fritters Lemon Sauce  Granite of Cider and Apples  Cutlets of Duck with Chopped Celery  Orange Salad Â
Pumpkin pie Raisin and Cranberry Tarts Chocolate Parfait Almond Cakes  Nuts Raisins Bonbons Candied Orange peel Black Coffee  Thanksgiving menu from Fannie
Farmer s 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Oyster Soup Crisp Crackers Celery Salted Almonds Roast Turkey Cranberry Jelly Mashed Potatoes Onions in Cream Squash Chicken Pie Fruit Pudding Sterling
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#The 10 Weirdest Spills in Naturefrom molasses to rubber ducks some strange substances have spilled into waterways and onto roadways.
Here are some of the highlights. A molasses pipeline in Honolulu Harbor Hawaii last week was pumping the syrupy substance onto a ship
when it sprung a leak dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of the goo into the ocean.
The sugary fluid which has sunk to the bottom has killed thousands of fish attracting sharks and other scavengers.
It's not the first molasses mishap. A truck in Wagontire Ore. swerved to avoid a deer in 2008 spilling hundreds of gallons of molasses over the highway.
And in 1919 during the Boston Molasses Disaster a tank carrying 2. 5 million gallons of molasses burst flooding the city's streets and killing 21 people.
The tasty golden beverage has baptized highways numerous times. In 2012 alone trucks and tractor-trailers spilled 77000 lbs.
35000 kilograms) of Budweiser onto a Maryland interstate 55000 lbs. 25000 kg) of Heineken and Amstel Light on Interstate-95 and 43000 lbs.
19500 kg) of beer on a North carolina interstate Huffington Post reported. In 2004 a whale carcass exploded
while being transported from a beach where it died to a laboratory in the Taiwanese city of Tainan according to BBC News. Gas buildup inside the decomposing cetacean was thought to be responsible for the explosion
which took 13 hours and 50 workers to clean up. When a truck carrying construction glue collided with a bus in Chengdu City China it dowsed the street with its sticky contents.
A truck carrying 8000 gallons (more than 30000 liters) of a Japanese synthetic blood drink inspired by the HBO series True Blood caused a gory mess
and crashed in Sugar Land Texas in 2008 Weburbanist. com reported. The year before in Oregon 4000 of real pig blood spilled from a truck carting animal waste from a processing plant.
In 1992 29000 rubber duck toys being shipped from China to the U s. company The First Years Inc washed overboard in the Pacific ocean the Daily mail reported.
Fortunately the trucking company swept up the mess before it rained and became a smelly milky mess.
In 2000 millions of the popular LEGO plastic toys went for a swim when a ship hit by a rogue wave dumped a container full of them overboard.
Suppose you re baking Christmas goodies for friends and family this year and you have triangles on your mind.
(or Leonardo of Pisa) in the context of rabbits who could perform multiplication rapidly. They re tricky to spot in Pascal s triangle
the poppy seeds that make a grain of sand the grains of sand that would cover the length of a stadium
Chris Remien a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis uses math to better understand how biological markers relate to the diets of animals
and how they metabolize nutrients and toxins. The food and water animals consume leave chemical signatures (biomarkers) in their tissues;
Remien's models also help doctors estimate the extent of liver damage following overdose of acetaminophen (the active ingredient in some pain medicines) which is crucial for determining patient survival.
We have used stable isotopes to quantify African elephant diet over time as it relates to rainfall history
and constitute a greater portion of an elephant's diet. Using carbon isotopes in hair we can see exactly how much grass these animals are eating
and how their diet changes with changes in rainfall. Similarly we have used carbon isotopes in fossil soils to determine the fraction of woody cover sites that bear hominin fossils a problem that has implications for the history of our species
whether a patient will require a liver transplant for survival. Who has had the most influence on your thinking as a researcher?
and does it change with diet or age? said Julie Mennella a developmental psychobiologist at Monell another researcher in the study.
The relationship between diet and mrna production remains unclear. Previous studies have shown that diet could affect the expression of genes involved in nutrient digestion and metabolism.
It might be that people with low expression of bitter receptor genes who find vegetables to taste less bitter are more likely to include them in their diet than people with high expression of these genes the researchers said.
Conversely it is possible that eating bitter vegetables may change gene expression over time the researchers said.
and they want a piece of the pie. Â But Seidman said the tobacco industry learned its lessons from selling cigarettes
so to the naked eye it just looks the same old corn you grew up eating at every barbecue.
They speak many languages including Mayan languages (Yucatec Quiche Kekchi and Mopan) Spanish and English. However the Maya are an indigenous group tied both to their distant past as well as to events of the last several hundred years writes Richard Leventhal Carlos Chan Espinosa and Cristina Coc in a recent edition
and death day and night sky and earth Sharer writes noting that oeas lord of the celestial realm Itzamnaaj was the Milky way
They also controlled some critical (non-local) commodities that included critical everyday resources each family needed like salt he said noting that over time Maya rulers managed ever-larger portions of the economy.
Krampus dragging bad children to the underworld pine trees kissing Santa lighting a cigar off a Christmas tree anthropomorphic mice decorating trees and cats tossing snowballs.
That includes eating nutritious meals and exercising daily. But there are plenty of marketers out there would vehemently disagree
9 Meal Schedules: When to Eat to Lose weight Let's explore the research: 1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association:
One exception was a combination of garcinia cambogiaâ taken with another herb called gymnema sylvestre which showed a slight increase in weight loss results.
With everything from printed metal airplane wings to replacement organs on the horizon could printed food be next?
Think of making a sundae using a self-dispensing ice-cream machine. Building by extruding material through a nozzle is quite similar to how certain 3d printers called fused deposition modellers (FDM) work today.
They ve gone so far as partnering with The french Culinary Institute in Manhattan to print personalised chocolate
and cheese cookies cubes of pureed turkey and celery paste and even tiny spaceships made of deep fried scallops.
Novelty food suppliers have become early adopters of similar technology. Various chocolate printers are on the market
and for Valentine s day in Japan this year you could order chocolate made from a 3d scan of your face.
Further examples include a Burritobot on Kickstarter last year and Google serving 3d printed pasta. Other 3d printing technologies have been investigated for use with food.
In 2007 Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories introduced the Candyfab 4000 a DIY printer based on a modified selective laser sintering technique.
The method utilised a focused heat source moving over a bed of sugar to fuse large 3d sugar sculptures.
DDD) acquired The Sugar Lab a startup producing edible 3d sugar confections. The Sugar Lab had adapted 3d Systems'Color Jet Printing (CJP) technology to print flavoured edible binders on a sugar bed to fabricate solid structures.
Beyond novelty printed food could provide serious medical benefits. The netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific research (TNO) announced they ll build printers to reassemble pureed food to look like the original think 3d printed broccoli florets from pureed broccoli.
Beyond medical conditions TNO has proposed printing customised meals with varied levels of the basic food components like carbs protein and fat for everyone from seniors to athletes to expectant mothers.
And NASA sees 3d printed food as a revolutionary way to make personalised meals for astronauts.
Their ultimate goal would be to print a pizza. Beyond providing cosmic delivery food would also be tailored for astronauts'daily activities.
In this area one of the most interesting and perhaps controversial areas is the debate about printing meat.
Some suggest 3d printed meat could provide high quality protein for a growing global population without increasing stress on arable land
In 2011 Modern Meadow took up the challenge setting out to make ecological and economical leather and meat from bioprinters.
They cultured biopsied bovine cells to produce sheets of tissue eventually forming either meat or hide.
and ate cultured pork live at a TEDMED conference. Currently it is very expensive to produce tiny volumes of printed meat with estimates of thousands of dollars to make a pound of meat in the lab
. But could the process be scaled up and cell cultures made cheaper? Biopsies aren t the only sources for culture.
Industrial scale printing of meat could additionally use cells grown in an algae-based cell culture
For vegetarians printed meat somewhat circumvents concerns about harmful or destructive use of animals for food.
whether 3d printed meat is halal or kosher. There may not be an issue if there is no animal slaughter involved.
While we typically oeeat with our eyes and printed meat could be made in familiar shapes
That is if printed meat could be proven safe. Printed meat may result in a debate akin to that on GMO foods.
Certainly the public will want to know whether printed foods are safe for human consumption. Consumers will most likely demand adequate protections to ensure the development of printed foods does not limit their access to
whether they eat oereal meat or try printed meats so labelling regulation will be important. Farming communities and those in agricultural food production will also want a voice about
if when and how their industry will be transformed by industrialised printed meat. Early identification or those affected and extensive engagement with the range of community concerns about printed foods is warranted.
While no specific printed food exploration exists yet similar forms of community engagement have been developed in Australia through the Science and Technology Engagement Pathways framework (STEP.
Other entities like Riaus an Australian nonprofit has been active in stimulating community debate specifically about synthetic meat.
if printed meat can be made economically viable and if consumers will accept it. However the benefits of 3d printed food could be monumental.
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