Cuckoo moms lay their eggs in the nests of other birds which raise them unwittingly.
She watches over her egg cocoon until her babies hatch at which point she starts regurgitating most of her meals to feed her offspring.
Once the babies are about a month old mommy spider rolls onto her back letting her babies climb aboard.
Before leaving the nest some of the ravenous babies cannibalize each other. 7. Bonobo wing-moms Unlike human males bonobo males hang out with mom
She will lay up to five eggs and once the tadpoles hatch she ferries each one on her back from the rain forest floor up to trees as tall as 100 feet (30 meters).
Mama frog then feeds her hatchlings some of her own unfertilized eggs over the next six to eight weeks of their development into frogs.
Striking gold Fifteen years ago Anderson first showed it was possible to get mustard plants to suck up gold from chemically treated soil containing gold particles.
Find a fast-growing plant with a lot of aboveground leafy mass such as mustard sunflowers or tobacco. Plant the crop on soil that contains gold.
Many plants root deep into the Earth drawing up nutrients and minerals they need for life.
#To Cut out Salt, Use a Knife To make food healthier don't just cut the salt.
for example by giving eaters the same salty sensation they get from processed foods but with reduced salt. 9 Snack foods:
A growing body of research suggests that people's enjoyment of food is related to many factors beyond a meal's actual taste.
A 2011 study found that white plates make food seem tastier while another study found that hot chocolate tastes better in orange cups.
In the third experiment 30 participants rated the saltiness of cheddar cheese eaten using a fork a spoon a toothpick or a knife.
The cheese tasted saltiest when served on a knife. It's not clear exactly why these trends occur.
Several of the researchers'previous findings on cutlery and plates are being tested in cooking schools
#Toddler Meals Have Too much Salt: CDC Most ready-to-eat meals for toddlers have too much salt government researchers say.
Of the 1115 ready-to-eat toddlers'meals examined in a study by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention nearly three-quarters were high in salt the researchers said. Some of the meals contained as much as 630 milligrams of sodium per serving about 40 percent of the American Heart Association's recommended daily sodium intake for children (1500 mg.
The findings are concerning because high salt intake is known to increase the risk of high blood pressure even in children.
In addition studies suggest people develop a taste for salt earlier in life. Children are born not with a taste for salt said study researcher Joyce Maalouf of the CDC.
The less sodium children consume the less they will want it Maalouf said. The researchers examined nutrition labels on ready-to-eat meals for babies (less than 1 year old)
and toddlers (ages 1 to 3). Examples of toddler meals include macaroni and cheese pizza and pasta with chicken.
Meals that contained more than 210 milligrams of salt per serving about one-seventh of the daily recommendation were considered to be high in salt The researchers chose this cutoff
because it's estimated that kids eat about seven servings daily of grains protein and dairy.
The other food groups fruits and vegetables have minimal salt. The good news is that baby foods were relatively low in sodium.
Just one of the more than 600 baby meals and snacks tested contained more than 210 mg of sodium per serving.
See Americans Still Eat Too much Salt. To lower salt intake the CDC recommends children eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
Parents should also read nutrition facts labels and choose foods with the lowest sodium. When preparing meals parents should choose low-sodium ingredients Maalouf said.
The study will be presented today (March 21) at the AHA meeting in New orleans. Pass it on: Nearly 75 percent of ready-to-eat meals for toddlers have too much salt.
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#Tomatoes, Summer's Last Sigh (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.
This article is adapted from one that first appeared on the Georgetown Dish. Tallmadge contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
and beautifully interpreted Greek salad with heirloom tomatoes (see recipe below) and other recipes from my book Diet Simple.
Every vegetable in the recipe the tomatoes cucumbers peppers sweet onions and garlic can be found at local farmers markets.
but for the meat lovers it's great with grilled chicken or seafood on the side Tomatoes are one of the superfoods in nature.
In a recent study men who consumed 10 or more servings of tomato products a week had a 35-percent decrease in risk of prostate cancer relative to those who consumed 1. 5 servings or fewer per week.
The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends that men take advantage of lycopene's cancer-preventing effects and fill tehir diets with foods such as tomatoes watermelon and guava.
Greek Salad with Heirloom Tomatoes as interpreted by Four Seasons Hotel Executive Chef Douglas Anderson Greek Salad with Heirloom Tomatoes From Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes:
Vinaigrette: 2 Tablespoons Freshly Harvested Extra Virgin Olive oil 2 Tablespoons Freshly Squeezed Lemon juice (1 Lemon) 1 Tablespoon Chopped Fresh Oregano
or Basil (or 1 tsp dried) 1 Clove Garlic Minced (optional) Salt and Pepper to Taste (Salt is not necessary with the cheese and olives) Vegetables:
2 cucumbers peeled seeded and sliced into a half-moon shape 1 onion peeled and chopped coarsely 1 medium yellow purple
or Goat cheese broken into small bits Instructions: Combine the vinaigrette ingredients in a large salad bowl and whisk until blended.
Add the cucumbers onion pepper and olives and toss into vinaigrette. Let sit for twenty minutes to marinate.
Add the heirloom tomatoes and cheese when ready to serve. Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was
What and When to Eat to Build Muscleand 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.
While deer pee can be a valuable source of nitrogen a rare and necessary nutrient for plants some deeryards are now too rich for the hemlocks to grow.
and the other is by excreting nutrients said Bryan Murray an ecologist and doctoral student at Michigan Tech University.
and cause choking is hard candy a new study finds. Between 2001 and 2009 more than 16100 children ages 14 and younger visited the emergency room
because they were choking on hard candy the study found. Â Overall nearly 112000 children visited the emergency department for nonfatal choking related to food during the eight-year study about 12400 per year.
That means that about 15 percent of all child emergency room visits related to choking on food were due to hard candy.
Other candy: 13324 visits (12.8 percent) Meat other than hot dogs: 12671 visits (12.2 percent) Bone: 12496 visits (12 percent) Fruits and vegetables:
10075 visits (9. 7 percent) Formula milk or breast milk: 6985 visits (6. 7 percent) Seeds nuts or shells:
6771 visits (6. 5 percent) Chips pretzels or popcorn: 4826 visits (4. 6 percent) Biscuits cookies or crackers:
3189 visits (3. 1 percent) Hot dogs: 2660 visits (2. 6 percent) Bread or pastries: 2385 visits (2. 3 percent) French fries:
874 visits (0. 8 percent) The majority of children who came to the emergency room because they were choking on food were treated
and released but about 10 percent needed to be hospitalized. Kids who choked on hot dogs or seeds nuts or shells were more likely to require hospitalization than those who choked on other foods.
The average age of kids treated for nonlethal food choking was about 4. 5 years old
Foods that may pose a greater choking risk to children include those that are similar in shape to the child's airway (such as hot dogs) those that are difficult to chew (raw fruits
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children ages 5 and younger should not be given hard candies
or gum and that raw fruits and vegetables be cut into small pieces when they are fed to young children.
some birds produce additional clutches of eggs; and many insects (including pests such as bark beetles in the West
To protect our family mom replaced butter with margarine. Not just any but she was told that Fleischmann's was the best choice.
Of course there is no cholesterol in margarine as cholesterol is produced only by living animals. There is no cholesterol in pretzels either.
Yet the breakdown product glucose can be transported to the liver producing fat and cholesterol. Thus a significant component of our cholesterol level is produced internally not eaten.
Ignorance to those simple details has had broad implications helping to accelerate ridiculous myths that may be partially responsible for Americans'obesity and the diabetes epidemic.
Margarine touted as heart safe even featured at medical conventions is extremely detrimental. So how could so many well-intentioned individuals have gotten it so wrong?
Avoid butter buy margarine. Pretzels breads sweets were fine as they did not contain cholesterol.
You may gain weight but as long as there was no cholesterol in it you could not get those ugly yellow plaques that caused blockages in the heart.
They eat foods that grow in the ground or lean meats and low-fat dairy products.
The team then collected scale insect egg sacs from both hot and cool zones and incubated them in hot and cool greenhouses.
In the hot greenhouse the egg sacs from the warmest urban zones produced almost four times as many insects as the egg sacs from cooler urban zones.
author of Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks Substitutions Habits & Inspirations (Lifeline Press 2011; and a frequent national commentator on nutrition topics.
I work with began prescribing the nutrient to depressed patients finding it made positive improvements.
Could it be possible that one nutrient could provide so many benefits? The connection between omega-3s and health was observed first in the 1970s.
These fatty acids are essential nutrients and enter every cell membrane in the human body serving as a cell lubricant improving flexibility
Researchers have shown that omega-3 fatty acids a type of polyunsaturated fat found primarily in seafood can improve your chances of living longer
and soybean oils) but now scientists have added omega-3 to the list of essential nutrients humans must get from their diets.
If you eat too much omega-6 as is the case with today's American diet this promotes inflammation blood clotting
and constricts blood vessels said Artemis Simopoulos president of the Center for Genetics Nutrition and Health and the author of The Omega Diet (Harper collins 1999).
and the cancer was less likely to spread when patients were given omega-3 fatty acids. And there is epidemiological evidence that men who eat more fish have a lower risk for prostate cancer.
More research needs to be done to understand who will benefit most from higher levels of omega-3s in their diets.
This changes the fatty acid composition of the meat to our detriment. Most research studies have found a positive benefit with 500 to 1000 milligrams of omega-3s per day.
For patients with coronary artery disease AHA recommends 1000 mg daily or double the seafood requirement (but never above 3000 mg without a doctor's supervision.
But omega-3 researchers believe the risk of not getting enough omega-3 in your diet outweighs the potential risk of pollutants.
However the nutrient found in flaxseed oil walnuts and canola oil is not as potent as marine-derived omega-3 from fish.
But it's still a great idea to include those sources in your diet. Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was GMOS Are a Grand Experiment on Health Environment
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
but the inside is sort of like Swiss cheese Leavitt told Livescience. That can make climate analysis
Last year in Chinese-ruled Macau customs officials discovered chocolate-coated ivory hidden in suspiciously heavy candy boxes.
But since many people do not get enough Vitamin d through their diet alone the dark winter months can leave people deficient in the vitamin.
because forest dwellers eat a more diverse diet than people in other environments do. Â In the North american West damage from fire logging and infection by the devastating mountain pine beetle is evident.
B vitamins are important nutrients for the body. They can be found in a variety of foods including whole grains potatoes bananas beans and lentils.
Eat a Plant-Based Diet To stave off death by a few extra years a vegetarian diet appears to be superior to a non-vegetarian one according to results of a study of more than 73000 people published today (June 3) in the Journal of the American Medical
The study the largest of its kind compared the longevity of meat eaters to that of four types of vegetarians:
lacto-ovo egetarians who consume dairy products and eggs; pesco-vegetarians who eat fish but rarely meat;
and semi-vegetarians who eat meat no more than once weekly. The winners in terms of cheating death the longest were the pesco-vegetarians followed by vegans and then the lacto-ovo-vegetarians.
The vegetarian groups on average had a 12 percent lower risk of dying over the study period compared to meat eaters.
The study participants were all members of the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Previous studies have shown that vegetarian diets are associated with decreased risk of numerous chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes obesity metabolic syndrome circulatory disease and hypertension.
And it's been known long that Seventh-Day Adventists with their healthy lifestyle that shuns tobacco
and a plant-based diet live longer that the general population Seventh-Day Adventists in California live on average four to seven years longer than other Californians an earlier study revealed.
Is it the absence of meat or the presence of a health-conscious attitude shared by many vegetarians or both that leads to healthier outcomes?
The researchers led by Dr. Michael J. Orlich of Loma Linda University in California (a Seventh-Day Adventist institution) analyzed the diets of 73308 Seventh-Day Adventists.
Those most likely to have died were the meat eaters. The pesco-vegetarians were 19 percent less likely to die over the study period than the meat eaters
and vegans were 15 percent less likely. Men benefited more than women from the vegetarian diet.
and other vegetarian diets are safe and that a range of vegetarian diets from strict to somewhat lax appears to be healthier than a diet dominated by processed foods
and meats according to Dr. Robert Baron of the University of California San francisco who wrote an editorial accompanying the new findings in the journal.
The American diet Referring to a generally unhealthy American diet Baron wrote that limiting sugars
and sugary drinks refined grains and large amounts of saturated and trans fats and eating more fruits vegetables whole grains legumes and nuts trumps the more narrow goals of whether to include moderate
amounts of dairy eggs fish or even meat. I do not think that we all necessarily need to be vegans
But I do think that the world would ultimately be a better place without certain industrially produced foods including beef.
Orlich added that even our non-vegetarians are relatively low meat consumers and relatively health conscious.
If we were comparing our vegetarian groups to the average American diet we might find more striking results.
The instruments measured ocean temperatures salinity (or salt content) and the movement of warm-water currents that carve channels through the ice shelf and flow underneath it.
Global Warming Brings Earlier Spring Flowers Additionally aâ study in the journalâ Ecology in September of last yearâ found that Broad-tailed hummingbirds which migrate northward from Central Americain the spring are becoming decoupled from their nectar resources
when their nectar resources are present but by the time they reach the central Rocky mountains even though they've sped up their migration by more than five days over the last 37 years their nectar resources are advancing three times faster by 17 days over the same time period.
 Spring and summer allergy seasons growing longer more intense Lewis Ziska a research plant physiologist at the United states Department of agriculture has been a pioneer in research linking higher temperatures
#Whales Trap Dinner with Mouthful of Swirling Bristles Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels a new study of baleen whales suggests.
and fingernails which forms large plates that enclose a fibrous inner core. Whales typically have about 300 plate structures on either side of their mouths perpendicular to the direction that water flows.
The whales'tongues wear away the inner edges of the plates to create a fringe that traps krill and other tasty morsels.
 Baleen biomechanics Werth wanted to compare the biomechanics of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) with that of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae.
The single baleen plates trapped the most beads at the lowest water speeds the results showed.
But baleen isn't found in single plates in a whale's mouth it's found in rows
so Werth tested a small rack of six baleen plates. Now the bristles formed a tangled net in the flowing water with most beads being trapped at about 28 to 31 inches/s (70 to 80 cm/s) exactly the speed bowhead whales swim
The fringes from adjacent plates would tangle up and make a really dense knot. Humpback whale baleen was shorter and coarser than bowhead baleen
Bowheads feed by continuous ram feeding at slower speeds whereas humpbacks feed in intermittent gulps at higher speeds.
#What and When to Eat to Build Muscle (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
It is one of the most important nutrients for the human body second only to water.
Low carb diets are often as high as 80 percent protein and can damage your health in many ways.)
Animal protein is in seafood dairy products meat poultry and eggs. Vegetarian protein can be found in legumes soy vegetables and grains.
Go for seafood poultry with no skin lean veal cuts pork tenderloin lean beef cuts (such as the round or tenderloin) or 95-percent-lean hams (less than 3 grams of fat per ounce.
Skim milk nonfat yogurt and low-fat cheeses are also great options. Soy products provide great low-calorie options too
and are high-quality proteins that are lean substitutes for meat. To add some protein to your diet toss four ounces (120 grams) of lean beef chicken
or seafood or 12 ounces (36 grams) of spiced tofu into your salad. This will add 30 grams of high-quality protein and no more than 150 to 200 calories.
Here are the numbers for some other great sources of protein: 8 ounces milk or yogurt:
8 grams protein 1 ounce meat/fish/chicken/cheese (the leaner the meat the more protein and the fewer calories:
7 grams protein 1 large egg: 7 grams protein 1/2 cup cooked or one ounce dry (1 slice bread) grain:
3 grams protein 1/2 cup cooked or one cup raw vegetables: 2 grams protein Timing is everything!
Taking in a high protein food with a little bit of carbohydrate and nutrients when your muscles are being broken down by exercise will build your muscle mass and your strength more effectively.
and magnesium important nutrients that you need to replenish your muscles. Current thinking among protein researchers is that this nutrient is more bioavailable for your muscles
if eaten in relatively small quantities throughout the day. For women 20 grams per meal is the ideal amount the body can utilize efficiently.
For men that can go up to 30 grams per meal. So with my personal protein-goal of 60 grams per day I make sure to have about 20 grams in the morning 20 grams midday and about 20 grams in the evening.
If you're a man who needs 100 grams per day you could spread out your protein intake for the day to four meals of about 25 grams each separated by at least two hours in between.
So an 8-ounce steak at night containing 56 grams of protein just won't cut it!
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
and later spread across the Atlantic ocean to the United states emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases soared as manufacturing
and they have been killed by hunters to be eaten as bush meat according to various news reports. Â The plight of Madagascar's lemurs is just one example of how a rising population of humans is contributing to the sixth-largest mass extinction in the history of the planet most biologists say.
Fishermen kill as many as 100 million sharks per year worldwide spurred in part by demand for shark fin soup a traditional Chinese delicacy.
However China's taste for the dish may be fading: According to the American environmental group Wildaid consumption of the soup is down 50 to 70 percent in the last two years.
Just a few years ago most Chinese didn't know that the dish came from sharks as its name translates to fish wing soup according to the Washington post.
But a series of public relations campaigns appear to have helped spread the word. In 2006 for example Wildaid enlisted the help of professional basketball player Yao Ming to educate people on the shark finning process.
A government campaign against lavish banquets where the soup was served often has made also a difference the Post reported.
I hope that increased public knowledge of declining nature will raise society's priority to conserve biodiversity.
but they may need to find a place in human diets if society is feed to the world's booming population.
Rather food security relies upon a number of intertwining factors including population size climate change food production food utilization (for things like animal feed
On the one hand the world needs to feed more people Hanson said. At the same time you want agriculture to continue to advance economic and social development.
Because corn is used also for animal feed an increase in corn prices can affect the cost of other foods.
but over the course of the century that could change Falcon said. Improving trade cooperation To continue to feed a growing population in light of the food shortages that are likely to occur with climate change global crop production in the future will have to be much more coordinated than it is said today Jason Clay an expert in natural resources management at the World
Can the World Feed 11 Billion People?(Infographic) Falcon agreed. Currently certain restrictions on trade exist that may prove problematic in the future such as
either when it is still edible or after it spoils due to negligence according to WRI.)The average American household loses $1600 a year on wasted food Hanson said.
11 billion people would require a different diet which may involve eating less meat or consumers growing more of their own food Cascio said Beef in particular is a very unsustainable food to eat Cascio said.
If we get away from thinking that feeding 11 billion people means giving them all Big macs
and steak sandwiches then we're at a better starting point Cascio said. According to an analysis by Cascio the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the production of cheeseburgers in the United states each year is about equal to the greenhouse gas emissions from 6. 5 million to 19.6 million SUVS over a year (There are about 16 million
SUVS on U s. roads Cascio said. 6 Ways to Feed 11 Billion People Scientists have been working on developing cultured meat
or meat grown in a lab Cascio said. Earlier this year researchers in The netherlands showcased their lab-grown burger
and allowed a taste test. However right now the cost is exorbitant (a single burger costs $325000)
and it does not taste exactly like meat (tastetesters said the burger was dry). But with future research the price is likely to come down
and the product's taste could improve Cascio said. And don't forget the insects. Beetles wasps grasshoppers and other insects are very efficient at converting the food they eat into body mass take up very little space
Although eating insects comes with an ick factor for many Westerners bugs are a part of the diet of about 2 billion people worldwide according to the report.
On the other hand producing 1000 calories of beef takes about 5133 liters of water. One kilogram of beef contains about 3000 calories
and requires about 15400 liters of water to produce.)In addition crop production in certain parts of the world is not very efficient Clay said.
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