#'Gluten-Free'Food Labels Now Mean What They Say Any food with a gluten-free label in the United states now must meet a new set of standards outlined by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.
and requires that foods labeled gluten-free have less than 20 parts of gluten per million parts of food the lowest level that can be detected with current measuring tools.
Any food labeled gluten-free cannot contain wheat rye barley or any of their crossbreeds unless the grains are stripped first of gluten.
People with certain digestive condtions such as celiac disease are advised to avoid eating gluten. Foods that naturally do not contain any gluten such as bottled water
or fruits and vegetables can also be labeled gluten-free under the new rule. This standard'gluten-free'definition eliminates uncertainty about how food producers label their products Felicia Billingslea director of FDA's Division of Food Labeling
and Standards said in a statement. People with celiac disease can rest assured that foods labeled'gluten-free'meet a clear standard established
and enforced by FDA. 7 Allergy Myths (and the Truth Behind Them) The FDA announced the new rule last year
and gave manufacturers one year to comply. About 5 percent of foods previously labeled gluten-free probably had more than 20 parts of gluten per million according to the FDA.
Gluten is made of natural proteins found in wheat rye and barley. Until now there was no gold standard for
what gluten-free meant. Without a clear definition consumers with celiac disease could not determine if gluten-free food was really gluten-free enough FDA officials said.
The FDA estimates that as many as 3 million people in the United states have celiac disease an intestinal condition with symptoms that include abdominal pain and diarrhea.
There is no cure for celiac disease and the only way to manage the disease is to avoid eating gluten altogether according to the American Celiac disease Alliance.
Eating too much gluten can trigger an abnormal immune response for people with the condition. The body launches an attack on the lining of the small intestine causing damage that prevents vital nutrients from being absorbed.
Nutrient deficiency can lead to conditions such as anemia and osteoporosis. Other health conditions such as diabetes thyroid disease
and intestinal cancers can also develop for people with celiac disease. The new rule applies to packaged food
but restaurant foods are a little trickier to regulate. The FDA said restaurant owners should make an effort to keep any gluten-free labels on menus consistent with the new rule.
The FDA recommended that anyone concerned about gluten-free claims in restaurants should ask specifically what is meant by gluten-free
and ask what ingredients are in the food. FDA officials said it is important to note that some foods labeled gluten-free were shipped before the new rule's Aug 5 compliance date.
Any food that does not meet the new requirement will be considered misbranded and the FDA will take regulatory action.
They are 32 to 37 inches (81 to 94 centimeters) from head to rump. Their tail adds another 16 inches (41 cm) to their length.
They are thought typically to be only meat eaters but they are actually omnivores they eat meat and vegetation.
They eat small game such as rodents rabbits fish and frogs and larger game like deer.
When they aren't snacking on bigger prey they will eat snakes insects fruit and grass.
But these pros will need more than just flying chops to navigate the challenging slalom course set up inside the speedway.
The researchers compared the coffee plant's NMTS to those found in other caffeine-producing plants including tea and cacao (the plant behind your favorite chocolate treats.
They discovered that C. canephora's NMTS were more closely related to other genes within the coffee plant itself than to the genes responsible for caffeine production in tea and chocolate.
Even though the caffeine genes in coffee tea and chocolate are all members of the same giant superfamily core eudicots the whole development of the caffeine genes in coffee is said independent Victor Albert
professor of biological sciences at the University of Buffalo and one of the study's authors.
which found that honeybees get a boost from caffeine found in plant nectar. This memory boost makes them more likely to remember flowers that contain this habit-forming substance and return there for nectar.
Caffeine habituates pollinators. Probably in the same way that it habituates us. It keeps them coming back for more Albert said.
and ends up looking like a plate boundary Bercovici told Live Science's Our Amazing Planet.
and connected into actual plate boundaries the researchers showed. They're like scars Bercovici said.
Eventually you get enough of them to form a contiguous plate boundary. The researchers also compared their Earth plate tectonics model to Venus finding that the surface of Venus was too hot for plate tectonics to develop.
#Tomato-Rich Diet May Lower Kidney Cancer Risk Women who eat more tomatoes or other lycopene-containing fruits
The amount of micronutrients including lycopene in the women's diets was estimated from the information they provided on questionnaires
The researchers also gathered data on the women's supplement use. 5 Key Nutrients Women Need As They Age During the study period 383 women were diagnosed with kidney cancer.
and a number of vitamins and other nutrients in the diet including lycopene Vitamin c Vitamin e and several carotenes.
The amount of lycopene in the diet of the women who consumed lycopene at the highest level in the study would be equal to eating four tomatoes daily said study researcher Dr. Won Jin Ho a medical
but also from tomato sauces and other fruits that contain lycopene Ho said. Kidney cancer also called renal cancer is the ninth most common cancer among Americans and accounts for about 2 percent of all cancers in the United states according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A diet rich in micronutrients that have antioxidant properties could potentially affect the risk of this cancer
Nymphal ticks are about the size of a poppy seed so if you wear lighter-colored clothing like light socks lighter-colored pants you're going to have an easier time identifying them. 8. Quick dry clothing
while Rachel prepared the nest for her eggs according to representatives from explore. org. When a pair of ospreys bonds they will attempt to mate more than 160 times over a period of weeks resulting in a clutch of two to four eggs.
The eggs will incubate for between 35 and 42 days before hatching. While a female incubates her eggs her mate provides most of her meals (osprey eat a diet almost exclusively of fish.
The eggs and chicks are almost never left alone including at night. About 50 days after they hatch chicks will start exercising their wings
and will practice flying from the nest. In early September they will launch on a solo journey along the Atlantic Flyway from Maine to South america via the Caribbean.
Explore. org is also operating a live puffin cam. The bird that can be seen in the burrow is incubating an egg that is expected to hatch in Mid-june.
Puffins were wiped out in Maine by hunters and egg snatchers but the National Audubon Society's Project Puffin reintroduced the birds in the 1970s.
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and feed and we have said hands Zydlewski. We'd never just let the lamprey stay attached.
Without a digestive system they can't really feed. They have one interest Zydlewski said and it's not eating.
But sand tigers want nothing to do with people their diet consists of small fish rays squids and shellfish.
Carl Moore) Coconut Crabs Coconut crabs are frankly enormous weighing as much as 9 pounds (4 kilograms) and measuring 3 feet (1 meter) across.
In addition as the name suggests their claws are powerful enough to open coconuts which are common on their home islands in the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
But no need to worry about a coconut crab attack any time soon. They are said not aggressive Jakob Krieger a researcher at Universitã¤t Greifswald who studies coconut crabs.
They are slow-moving creatures comparable to land turtles. The easiest way to avoid a coconut crab injury?
Don't touch one or pick it up. And if somehow you find one in the wheel well of your car (as Krieger saw
now that were cracking open coconuts when Woodrow wilson was president. Photo credit: Jakob Krieger University of Greifswald) Aye-aye Aye-ayes are nocturnal lemurs native to Madagascar.
The worst that they do is sometimes eat people's coconuts or sugar cane. See more images of aye-ayes Aye-ayes are extraordinary examples of evolution at its weirdest
and other creatures their diet consists primarily of insects. Photo credit: B & T Media Group Inc. Shutterstock. com) Cockroach No list of unnerving animals would be complete without cockroaches
The goldenrain tree fruit is a papery capsule that looks a bit like a small pepper or a Chinese lantern.
Over the past 13 years dozens of cinnamon-brown chicks have been raised in captivity to be released into the wild
Eggs laid by captive whooping cranes in Maryland Wisconsin and Alberta are incubated. When they hatch the chicks are raised by humans cloaked in white costumes with a beaked puppet on their hands to teach the birds to eat and drink.
Olsen and other biologists think the birds'strange upbringing might have something to do with their tendency to abandon their eggs.
In a 2011 study published in the journal Functional Ecology Angela Moles the head of the Big Ecology Lab at the University of New south wales looked at all the data on interactions between plants
and conserve their energy when it's dry. So scientists were surprised when they discovered the Amazon forest turns green during the tropical dry season from June through October even during an extreme drought based on data from NASA's Terra satellite.
It's the only type of plant that they use for laying their eggs. Since the introduction of genetically modified Round up Ready corn
Even I have been lured by the idea of getting my groceries for a fraction of their retail value.
In a 2014 Preventing Chronic Disease study researchers scoured over 1000 online store coupons from six national grocery chains
A whopping 25 percent were processed for snack foods candies and desserts and about 12 percent were for beverages
which mostly consisted of sodas juices and sports or energy drinks. So if you're looking to consume a healthy diet rich in fresh fruits
and veggies don't expect to save big from couponing. But that doesn't mean you can't save. 6 Easy Ways to Eat More Fruits
Also by cutting out the middle man#(grocery store) there's a chance you can save some dough. 2. Weigh pre-bagged produce.
If you're trying to limit the quantity of pricey organic items on your grocery list refer to the EWG's Dirty Dozen list to find which items of conventionally-grown (nonorganic) produce are the dirtiest.
and into several sections like the layers of a cake. One section could house the crew and another the plants in experimental growing media such as simulated Mars soil or fluid for hydroponic gardening.
Initially a vegetarian diet would seem logical as it is the simplest in terms of agricultural management. Soybeans provide basic proteins capable of sustaining human health.
Greens sprouts and even seaweed may help create a balanced diet. Indeed astronauts have grown successfully peas
and other sources of nutrients that people take for granted here On earth. At least in the early years Red planet residents will not have access to fruits containing Vitamin c
Mushrooms provide essential nutrients including Vitamin d and Vitamin b-6. Easy to grow and harvest mushrooms are ingredients in many popular dishes.
The fungi could grow in compost created using waste material from other agricultural processes as well as sanitary waste.
They have a tremendous advantage over many other meat sources because of their extremely efficient conversion of vegetable matter into insect protein.
In addition the husbandry associated with raising grasshoppers is compared relatively simple to that needed for cattle chickens
So grasshoppers may become a meat staple for Mars residents. Of course this would depend upon the guaranteed reliability of grasshopper containment systems.
Scientists have synthesized successfully meat using a 3d printer to align stem cells from animals in laboratory Petri dishes creating both hamburger
and chicken from materials that were never part of a living animal. Perhaps in the future the list of 3d printed proteins would also include fish.
NASA has experimented also with using 3d printers for making chocolate and even pizza. The grasshoppers would make a better dessert if dipped in the 3d printed chocolate.
Perhaps in the future the list of 3d printed proteins will include fish. While the exact forms that agriculture would take on Mars are still very much an unknown at least one thing is clear:
Thus Sussman's collection includes some obscure subjects such as green blobs of llareta a dense alien-looking cousin of parsley that grows high in Chile's Atacama desert.
and science writer Carl Zimmer who muses on the poppy-seed-size invertebrate called a gastrotrich that reaches old age in a matter of days.
and women who included legumes in their diet with adults who did not they found that people eating about one serving of legumes a day dropped LDL cholesterol by 0. 17 points (measured in milimoles/Liter) on average in six
or poorer diets to begin with and responded better when they ate healthier foods the researchers said.
One is by displacing other foods in the diet that may not be as heart healthy such as foods high in saturated fats like red meat
and cheese or high-glycemic foods such as white rice and white bread Ha said. A second way is that beans lentils
There's room or the potential to increase legume consumption as entrees in soups or salads or as a snack like hummus Ha said.
People could eat dried green peas lentils chickpeas or beans black red kidney lima pinto and cannellini she said.
or bloating when they first included more legumes in their diet they found that people's symptoms subsided with time.
A previous study found that a person who switched from a less healthy plan to a heart-healthy diet
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me to imagine Indians chasing buffalo across the prairies. Aridity had given the grass that stretched beyond our farmhouse this transfixing blue-green cast that had complemented perfectly our pale blue overarching skies.
The chickens always do come home to roost. Follow the author@Julenebair. This article first appeared as The Great Green Desert on Onearth. org.
#Elevated Carbon dioxide Levels Rob Crops Of Nutrients (ISNS)--Key crops eaten by a large portion of the world s population have lower levels of zinc
and soybeans grown in high carbon dioxide conditions have lower levels of these important nutrients. The finding has major global health implications as nearly 2 billion people around the world receive 70 percent or more of their dietary zinc and iron from these types of crops.#
Our database was more than 10 times larger than all the previously published FACE data on nutrients in food crops combined#Myers said.
If people consumed more food to make up for the drop in nutrients there could be other health consequences including increased obesity Myers posited.
The ratio of nutrients to calories in the food is really important.##Zinc and iron were reduced also significantly in legumes such as soybeans
and peas or iron-rich spinach The food industry could also fortify salts or other foods with iron and zinc Myers added.
Manure from horses cows pigs or chickens has the nitrogen phosphorus and other goodies that plants need.
and meat prices are also likely to climb as well since wholesale beef prices have hit record highs this year.
Many of these price spikes can be traced back to the record-breaking drought in California. But California farmers aren't the only ones struggling in the face of extreme weather.
Ohio farmers for example saw corn yields drop by up to 60 percent and first hay harvests by up to 70 percent during the long drought of 2007.
On May 7 1964 a catering-size can of corned beef from Rosario Argentina was opened in a supermarket in central Aberdeen.
The sun shone on the meat. Corned beef is cooked in the can and should be sterile.
But it wasn t. It had been contaminated after cooking when the can was cooled with untreated water from the River Parana.
The bacteria in the corned beef in the window grew vigorously. The first person to fall ill developed symptoms on May 12.
The probable explanation is that a slimming regime incorporating cold meats and salad was popular at the time.
Nobody died from typhoid in the outbreak thanks to antibiotics so in that regard it was modern.
Macqueen believed that dramatic statements of risk were necessary to prevent the spread of infection.
#and beef cattle raisers in Paraguay Kenya and Tanzania suffered economically as importing meat came to be seen as high risk in the initial panic about the source.
There was no person-to-person spread. All the infections were caused by eating contaminated corned beef or cold meats cut with the same slicer.
New cases continued to appear not because the source of infection was still active but because the incubation period the time between being infected
and falling ill was often long. Could the kind of events that happened in Aberdeen 50 years ago be repeated?
(even if as we saw in the horse meat scandal the label does not always accurately describe the contents).
It came on the surface of fenugreek seeds which had left Egypt by boat on November 24 2009 eventually arriving at an organic sprout producer near Hamburg on February 10 2011.
because were used as a salad garnish and many victims were not aware that they had eaten them.
That women were more commonly ill pointed to salads but photographs taken at meals were invaluable.
It was all very embarrassing for the German public health authorities particularly when the Hamburg health minister mistakenly announced that the organism that had caused the outbreak had been found on Spanish cucumbers causing serous economic damage to that industry.
The realities of 21st century mass production of cheap meat are likely to have driven up infection for example.
You now have a way of parrying swords maces or other weapons that might otherwise do you harm.
The last line coincided nicely with my backhanding one of the soldiers in the jaw as his mace missed my shoulder in a failed downstroke.
me with his mace but that gave him a heavy-footed stance and by sidestepping the blow
if we ate fewer hamburgers plain or fancy. Supersize me While beef consumption worldwide has been going up Americans have cut back considerably
since the mid-1970s largely due to rising beef prices and a greater awareness of the health risks associated with consuming red meat.
As of 2012 the average American was eating 52 pounds a year about 30 pounds less than four decades ago.
Regardless we still consume more per capita than the citizens of every other country excluding the beef emporiums of Argentina Brazil and Paraguay.
Eating less beef is a good thing. After all it's been linked to a host of potentially life-threatening problems including coronary heart disease and breast colon and prostate cancer.
But instead of forsaking beef altogether financially strapped Americans are eating more ground beef instead of steak and other pricier cuts.
Our hamburger economy has created in turn a market for better-burger chains which promise well better burgers.
These new upscale burger restaurants are serving more meat between the buns with at least twice the calories Hurley said.
You would get a healthier meal at a traditional fast-food burger place like Mcdonald's or Burger king.
They reported that a Five Guys Hamburger sans toppings is 700 calories considerably more than a Big mac's 540 calories or a Quarter Pounder's 410 calories with everything.
A Five Guys Bacon Cheeseburger meanwhile has 920 calories and 30 grams of saturated fat one-and-a-half days'worth without toppings.
And there are so many reasons not to eat beef. It's full of saturated fat it's high in calories it increases the risk of colon cancer
when deciding on a restaurant 58 percent said they would prefer that restaurants serve meat
and grass-fed beef and 41 percent are looking for natural and organic fare. To further differentiate themselves from traditional fast-food burger chains some premium burger chains have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon.
Shake Shack's menu boasts that its burgers are 100-percent all-natural Angus beef vegetarian-fed humanely raised and source-verified.
Elevation Burger goes even further promising 100-percent USDA-certified organic grass-fed free-range beef.
Hormones and antibiotics aside the biggest distinction when quantifying beef's marginal benefits to human health
whether cattle end their brief lives in crowded confined feedlots eating genetically modified corn and soybeans or spend all of their time on pasture eating grass and other forage crops
Feedlot cattle are prone to getting sick so producers routinely feed them antibiotics which also serve to accelerate growth.
and grazed on grass most cattle are shipped to feedlots to fatten them up quickly on a grain diet.
If you're going to eat beef you want the grass-fed variety. A 2010 study in Nutrition Journal reviewed three decades of research comparing the nutritional profiles of grass-fed
It turns out that grass-fed beef has lower levels of unhealthy fats and higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids
and E as well as cancer-fighting antioxidants Not many better-burger chains offer grass-fed beef however because there's not a lot of it around making it more expensive
and because it has a grassy flavor that Americans accustomed to fatty grain-fed beef find unfamiliar.
and a cursory Internet search turned up only three other premium burger chains featuring grass-fed beef:
Beef is the worst meat for the climate Before you begin searching high and low for a grass-fed burger
Free-range grass-fed cattle may be slightly better for your health than those that are grain-finished at feedlots
Agriculture accounts for about 6 percent of total U s. global-warming emissions and beef production alone accounts for 2. 2 percent of the total according to a 2011 Union of Concerned
Scientists (UCS) report Raising the Steaks. That's roughly equivalent to the annual heat-trapping emissions from 33 average-sized coal-fired power plants.
So while the emissions from beef production may seem relatively small it is not an insignificant part of the problem.
The more beef Americans eat the worse global warming gets said Doug Boucher director of UCS's Tropical forest and Climate Initiative.
and the climate if they replaced beef with poultry or pork or ate less meat altogether.
Beef is what scientists call an inefficient protein Boucher said. It requires substantial resources to produce compared with
what it contributes to the human diet. A 2012 UCS study Boucher co-authored Grade A Choice?
Solutions for Deforestation-Free Meat found that beef production uses about 60 percent of the world's agricultural land
but produces less than 5 percent of the protein and less than 2 percent of the calories that feed the global population.
's analysis. It found that beef requires 28 times more land and 11 times more water to produce than the equivalent calories from pork
or poultry and produces at least five times more carbon pollution. The contrast between beef and such staples as wheat rice and potatoes is even more stark.
Beef requires 160 times more land and results in 11 times more heat-trapping emissions.
The U s. beef industry is convinced not. The PNAS study represents a gross over-simplification of the complex systems that make up the beef value chain a point
which the authors acknowledge Kim Stackhouse-Lawson director of sustainability research for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association said in a statement.
The fact is the U s. beef industry produces beef with lower greenhouse gas emissions than any other country.
Stackhouse-Lawson is not entirely off base. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock in the United states and other developed countries peaked in 1970
and have fallen 23 percent since according to a July study in the journal Climatic Change. That decline however has been offset by rising livestock emissions in developing countries
which more than doubled largely due to increased domestic demand for meat. The study found that worldwide livestock emissions jumped 51 percent from 1961 to 2010.
Even though we're eating less beef these days which explains the drop in U s. livestock emissions we're still No. 1 in the total amount of tonnage.
Last year we put away 11.6 million metric tons of beef and veal according to the U s. Department of agriculture.
Americans'love affair with beef has consequences beyond our borders. According to Boucher's 2012 study U s. beef consumption helps drive tropical deforestation which is now responsible for about 10 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
As demand for beef goes up worldwide so does deforestation. If U s. consumers ate less beef Boucher explained U s. producers would have more to export to other countries.
And those exports would displace exports from Latin american beef producers reducing incentives to cut down tropical rainforests for cattle pasture land.
The bottom line is U s. demand for beef plays a substantial role in global markets Boucher said.
If U s. consumers want to eat'better'burgers they should consider turkey burgers veggie burgers and other alternatives.
All of those are much better for the environment whether you're talking about climate emissions land use water use or nitrogen pollution.
The tasty hamburger is the real culprit Caldeira an atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science said in a July 21 press release.
but a lot of improvement could come from eating pork or chicken instead of beef. Negin's most recent op-ed was Montana:
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