but this refreshing fruit is soaked with nutrients. Each juicy bite has significant levels of vitamins A B6 and C lots of lycopene antioxidants and amino acids.
There are a lot of nutrients throughout said Jarzabkowski. This includes the white flesh nearest the rind. Another phytonutrient found in the watermelon is the amino acid citrulline
Jarzabkowski also warned watermelon lovers to be mindful of their sugar intake. Though watermelon's sugar is naturally occurring watermelon is still relatively high in sugar.
Some fun facts about watermelons from the National Watermelon Promotion Board and Science Kids. The watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is related to cucumbers pumpkins and squash.
The first cookbook published in the United states in 1776 contained a recipe for watermelon rind pickles.
My plan was to make dietary changes for myself and then help others so I majored in nutrition science during my undergrad years at the University of California Davis. Through my studies I learned about diet food regulations food toxicology metabolic pathways and nutrition standards but
If you take a painkiller to alleviate the headache that may come with dehydration this might leave you with a clearer mind to figure out what ails you
#A Chocolate a Day?(Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian noted motivational and wellness speaker author of Diet Simple:
195 Mental Tricks Substitutions Habits & Inspirations (Lifeline Press 2011) and a frequent national commentator on nutrition topics.
Is it true that a chocolate a day will keep the doctor away? That's what many chocolate companies would like you to believe in their Valentine's day advertisements.
While studies have shown that cocoa provides many positive health effects the chocolates you buy from your local stores may not impart those benefits.
The cacao bean grown mainly in Latin america Africa and Asia is loaded with beneficial compounds. In fact its early uses dating back 3000 years were mainly medicinal.
The Dawn of Chocolate Discovered A rich history One doctor in the 1500s found cacao made people extraordinarily fat
Eurpoeans discovered cocoa in the 1500s and over the next few centuries chocolate which we know
In this century chocolate (processed cocoa with added fat often milk and sugar) has been enjoyed for its melt-in-your mouth texture
The growth of chocolate research Since Hollenberg's studies cocoa research has intensified mainly due to the largesse of companies like Mars Inc. most famous for Milky way bars and M&ms.
What's striking is that candy companies such as Mars and Nestle's have hired respected nutrition scientists
But what about that chocolate bar in your vending machine? Are there any health benefits there? The answer:
Most research about chocolate's health benefits have used unsweetened cocoa or specially formulated high-flavanol chocolate.
Unfortunately these compounds are rarely in the chocolate we eat in 21st-century America. Flavanols impart a bitter taste
Katherine's Chocolate for Health Tips: If you're eating chocolate for health benefits you'll need to be very discriminating in your selections.
First you'll get more flavanols and therefore health benefits with less processing. The first choice is cocoa
Second look for chocolate which has the highest percentage of cocoa possible and to save calories look for chocolate with lower fat and sugar levels.
In general cocoa is your best first choice. Second choice is a semisweet or bittersweet chocolate with a high cocoa percentage.
Some chocolates go as high as 85 percent cocoa but legally can be as low as 35 percent.
I recommend no more than an ounce a day which may be about 110 to 150 calories depending on the chocolate.
Any more than that and you're probably going to take in too many calories for weight control.
Type of Chocolate Mg Flavonols Calories 1. 3 oz Dark Chocolate bars Average*:*82 mg 187 1. 3 oz Milk chocolate Bars Average*:
*42 mg 198 1 TBSP Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Average*:*75 mg 12*USDA's Nutrient Data Laboratory Recipe Katherine's Hot Cocoa 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa 1 tsp honey 1 cup
Skim milk or 1%Milk or Soy Milk Heat in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes and stir to blend the chocolate.
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
However the bone changes don't appear in the shins. This finding suggests the changes in Iron age women weren't due to an increase in walking
which he was boiling local herbs in a battered old aluminum pot. The smell of the plant potion filled the dwelling as
In fact eating lots of meat is a recent phenomenon. In ancient cultures vegetarianism was much more common except in nomadic populations.
Did they binge on eggplants and garlic? Why didn't someone spear a fish? A French research team figured out that by looking at the carbon atoms in mummies that had lived in Egypt between 3500 B c
The second smaller group C4 comprises foodstuffs like millet and sorghum. The common C3 plants take in less of the heavier isotope carbon-13
if your diet consisted mainly of C4 plants. The mummies that The french researchers studied were the remains of 45 people that had been shipped to two museums in Lyon France during the 19th century.
They measured carbon-13 to carbon-12 ratios (and also some other isotope ratios) in bone enamel and hair in these remains and compared them to similar measurements performed on pigs that had received controlled diets consisting of different proportions
of C3 and C4 foodstuffs. As pigs have a similar metabolism to humans their carbon isotope ratios could be compared to
As is the case with many modern people their diet was wheat-and barley-based.
and sorghum were only a minor part of the diet less than 10 percent. But there were a few surprises.
We found that the diet was constant over time; we had expected changes said Touzeau. This showed that the ancient Egyptians adapted well to the environment
However despite considerable cultural evidence there seems to have been little fish in their diet. There is abundant evidence for fishing in Egyptian wall reliefs
Gallery of Spooky Bats Most bats eat flowers small insects fruits nectar pollen and leaves though it depends on the type of bat.
Most of the region's nutrients were concentrated in the Nile floodplain and competition with farmers might have also hurt herbivore populations.
#Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Lethal Acid rain The oceans soured into a deadly sulfuric-acid stew after the huge asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs a new study suggests.
The prairie chicken actually a grouse is identifiable by its yellow head and red puffy neck.
s<a href=http://www. livescience. com/11283-glaciers. html>glaciers</a>feed the scenic White river of Washington state which flows into the Puyallup River and Puget sound.
Not surprisingly they do contain sugar with 16 grams per cup. Pineapples are members of the bromeliad family and one of the few bromeliads to produce edible fruit.
Canned pineapple is much higher in calories (198 per cup) and sugars due to its syrup.
If you do opt for canned pineapple try to get it with no added sugar or look for a variety that is canned in fruit juice instead of syrup.
Here are the nutrition facts for pineapple according to the U s. Food and Drug Administration which regulates food labeling through the National Labeling and Education Act:
whose bones are becoming brittle with age. Digestion Like many other fruits and vegetables pineapple contains dietary fiber
Those with allergies may want to consider incorporating pineapple into their diets more regularly to reduce sinus mucus long term.
This is because bromelain also has meat-tenderizing properties. The condition should cease within a few hours
They can eat up to 20 pounds (9 kg) of food during one meal. Since they are carnivores their meals consist of meat that they hunted.
Gray wolves usually eat large prey such as moose goats sheep and deer. Normally the pack of wolves will find the weakest
Red wolves eat smaller prey such as rodents insects and rabbits. They aren't afraid of going outside their carnivorous diet
and will eat berries on occasion too. Class: Mammalia (Mammals) Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Canis Species:
It reinforces the need for a healthy diet in people at risk from heart disease and stroke.
This would need much larger trials to investigate outcomes more carefully Cheriyan said. 7 Ways to Lower Your Risk of Heart disease Previous research has shown that cardiovascular disease is less common in countries where most people follow the so-called Mediterranean diet
which can help make food last longer without losing nutrients. Once developed it needs to be integrated into the global supply chain of food production.
Cinnamon oil is another natural product that has been shown to delay postharvest rotting in bananas and extending their storage life for up to 28 days.
Doc Reviews Food Words Used in Medicine From symptoms such as watermelon stomach to blueberry muffin rash food imagery has helped long doctors describe features of diseases and health conditions.
and researchers catching up on their meals in clinical side rooms or operating theatre offices or with an inevitably cold platter eaten with eyes glued to a microscope Lakhtakia wrote today (July 9) in the journal Medical Humanities.
and will continue to be a lively learning inducement for generations of budding physicians she said. 7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe From anchovy sauce to spaghetti and meatballs The food references in medicine range from beverages and fruits to dairy products
and even whole dishes. In a gastronomic tour of medical conditions Lakhtakia highlights some of the well-known instances.
For example anchovy sauce is used to describe the pus from a liver abscess and sago spleen indicates protein (amyloid) deposits
References to various types of cheese help doctors identify certain bacterial infections whereas egg shell crackling denotes the grating sound that indicates of a type of bone tumor that thins the bone surface as it expands.
The gastronomic analogies in medicine also draw on breakfast foods: A croissant in a cell nucleus cues doctors to diagnose benign growths on peripheral nerves
and blueberry muffin rash is a sign of congenital rubella while the shape of a red blood cell is referred to as doughnut.
Sometimes references include an entire dish for example a skin condition called tinea versicolor is characteristic by its spaghetti and meatball appearance.
With the names of fruits vegetables and legumes doctors can identify the shape of organs or the size of tumors.
For example the kidneys have a beanlike shape; people can have body shapes similar to an apple
or a pear and tumors can be walnut-size or orange-size. Fruits also come in handy in identifying certain diseases:
Strawberry cervix describes the inflamed red appearance of the neck of the uterus in women with a parasite infection called trichomoniasis
when it teamed up with humane organizations to announce groundbreaking reforms in the way chickens pigs cows
and breeding chickens to grow too heavy too fast which leads to crippling injuries; mutilating animals by cutting their tails horns and genitals off without pain relief;
and locking egg-laying hens veal calves and mother pigs in tiny cages for their entire lives.
Burger king for example announced in 2012 a policy to convert its egg supply in the United states to 100-percent cage-free;
And more than 60 other companies are working to move their pork suppliers away from gestation crates for breeding sows.
Or even Chickens prefer to be claimed in cages Ken Klippen an egg industry spokesperson. But science reveals a different story.
When the Prairie Swine Center a prestigious pork-industry research firm compared animal housing systems that confine pigs in gestation crates with group housing
It's time for all the industries producing meat and eggs to get on board. Follow the author on twitter at@Matthewprescott. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues
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Potatoes are thought often of as a comfort food richly mashed with butter and sour cream or crisply fried in vegetable oil.
But when prepared in these ways they can lead to weight gain diabetes and heart disease according to the Harvard School of Public health.
However when prepared the right way without butter cheese or sour cream for example these vegetables are somewhat nutritious.
Potatoes are low calorie with a medium-sized baked potato containing only about 110 calories.
and potatoes are full of this nutrient with about 45 percent of the daily recommended intake per medium baked potato according to the Washington state Potato Commission.
Inflammation Some people think potatoes and other members of the nightshade family such as eggplants tomatoes and peppers trigger arthritis flares.
The organization suggests that people with arthritis try cutting nightshade vegetables from their diets for two weeks to see
These nutrients are all present in potatoes. Potatoes are fat free but they are also starchy carbohydrates with little protein.
That is they cause blood sugar and insulin to surge and then dip. This effect can make people feel hungry again soon after eating
when planning meals people should remember potatoes'carb content. Potatoes should take the place of a grain on the plate.
Use it as a carb rather than as your only vegetable she said. Even when prepared in a healthy way potatoes can present health problems to individuals with obesity or diabetes.
Jarzabkowski likened the vegetables in this way to white bread. The Harvard School of Public health tracked the diet
and lifestyle of 120000 men and women for about 20 years and found that people who increased their consumption of French fries
You can probably guess that smothering your potato in sour cream and bacon isn't the healthiest way to enjoy it but
what is? Which is baked more nutritious boiled or steamed potatoes? Jarzabkowski emphasized the importance of preparation in potato consumption.
or microwaving a potato causes the lowest amount of nutrients to be lost she said. The next-healthiest way to cook a potato is through steaming which causes less nutrient loss than boiling.
Cooking a peeled potato in this way results in significant nutrient loss as the water-soluble nutrients leach out into the water.
In a potato those water-soluble nutrients include B-complex vitamins Vitamin c potassium and calcium. As much as 80 percent of a potato's Vitamin c may go down the drain
however you'll still get some of the nutrients. However you cook a potato try to eat the skin.
Ounce for ounce the skin contains more nutrients including the majority of the vegetable's fiber than the rest of the potato Jarzabkowski said.
Like tomatoes eggplants and peppers potatoes are members of the nightshade family. They are not root vegetables;
It is a myth that the word is an acronym for the Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet a supposed activist group that wanted to keep the potato out of Britain in the 19th century.
It took nearly four decades for the potato to spread to the rest of Europe.
He created a feast with only potato dishes which he realized was possible when he was fed only potatoes
When the king arrived late for dinner Collinet plunged already-fried potatoes into extremely hot oil to reheat them.
Over the course of the famine almost 1 million people died from starvation or disease.
They decompose dead organic matter through a process called mineralisation releasing mineral nutrients that plants absorb through their roots allowing the forest to grow.
when a rainforest is converted to a pasture something that is happening at an alarming rate in many parts of the Amazon.
This may have major implication on how nutrients are cycled in the new ecosystem. Any changes to the nitrogen cycle are likely to affect the carbon cycle
Our examination revealed that approximately 50%of Amazon s abandoned pastures are going through secondary forest formation.
Also using our results we can start devising new methods to aid the recovery of disturbed ecosystems imagine a cocktail of microbes added for ecosystem restoration.
Gardeners know plants require the right combination of soil nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus to thrive.
The plutons have been brought to the surface by millions of years of erosion along with uplift from tectonic forces at the boundary between the North american and Pacific plates.
A captive hamster's diet should be at least 16 percent protein and 5 percent fat according to Canadian Federation of Humane Societies.
Penguin-egg swap To understand how the flightless birds first reached the Crozet Islands Le Bohec
and replacing them with fake eggs. This is really weird Le Bohec told Live Science. If you are delicate enough
#Skipping Red Meat May Lower Breast cancer Risk Women who eat more poultry fish nuts and legumes and less red meat when they are young adults might have lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life according to a new study.
The researchers looked at nearly 89000 women ages 26 to 45 and followed them for 20 years to look at links between the women's diet as they reported it in 1991 and their risk of breast cancer.
By the end of the study period 2830 women had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The women who reported the highest consumption of red meat about 1. 6 servings daily had a 22 percent higher risk of breast cancer compared with women who ate the least red meat
or about 0. 2 servings daily according to the findings published today (June 10) in the journal BMJ.
Each serving per day increase in red meat was associated with a 13 percent increase in risk of breast cancer the researchers wrote in their paper.
but because breast cancer is a relatively common cancer the absolute number of excess cases attributable to red meat intake would be substantial
The researchers estimated that replacing one daily serving of red meat with a serving of other protein-rich foods may reduce risk of breast cancer by 14 percent.
Red meat alternatives include legumes nuts poultry and fish. Previous studies have linked red meat to several cancers particularly colon cancer.
Although it's not clear how red meat may increase the risk of cancer researchers are investigating several possible mechanisms.
For example cooking meat at high temperatures can produce cancer-causing chemicals. Meat proteins may also promote tumors'growth by triggering growth hormones
which could explain the link. Studies have produced mixed results on the link between red meat and breast cancer.
However most previous studies focused on people's diets during midlife and later whereas it is possible that diet during early adulthood has greater effects on the development of breast cancer the researchers said.
In the study red meat included both unprocessed and processed meat products. Poultry included chicken and turkey and fish included tuna salmon mackerel and sardines.
The results held when the researchers accounted for other factors that could affect the risk of breast cancer such as age weight race family history of breast cancer history of benign breast disease smoking habits and oral contraceptive use.
The researchers examined whether the link between red meat and breast cancer risk would change when levels of other risk factors changed.
They found that only oral contraceptives seemed to further increase the risk associated with red meat. For each daily serving of red meat the risk of breast cancer was 54 percent higher among women who currently used oral contraceptives
and 11 percent higher in women who were former users of the contraceptives. The researchers detailed the findings today (June 10) in the journal BMJ.
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#Whoosh! Aircraft Drops Retardant on Oregon Fire (Photo) Zooming low and tight against a cloud of billowing smoke an MD-87 air tanker drops retardant on the Two Bulls fire
in Oregon in a new photo. The stunning shot comes courtesy of Jim Hansen of the Central Oregon Fire Management Service who snapped it from a 337 Skymaster airplane on June 7 according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
and to accept a carbon source of corn-based sugar. The microorganisms feed on the plant-derived sugars and produce PHA.
The PHA is separated then from the bacteria and made into pellets that can be molded into plastic products.
Mango Materials'process uses bacteria grown in fermenters to transform methane and oxygen along with added nutrients (to supply excess carbon) into PHA.
whereas Mango Materials uses waste methane which is considerably less expensive than sugar. By using methane gas as the feedstock we can significantly drive down costs of production Morse says.
#Did'Deadly'Spider Eggs Really Hitch a Ride on Imported Bananas? It's enough to make you do a double take the next time you unpack your groceries!
A recent British news report claimed that imported bananas could play host to a certain species of venomous spiders.
A woman in Essex England recently discovered that a bunch of bananas delivered to her home by a local grocer was infested with spider eggs.
and reportedly identified the eggs as those belonging to the immense and deadly Brazilian wandering spider according to MSN New zealand.
It's unlikely that the woman's bananas were infested truly with deadly spider eggs said Richard Vetter a retired research associate of entomology at the University of California Riverside.
(if there even was had a spider laid the enigmatic eggs. Egg sacks are much harder to identify than spiders.
To identify them you need familiarity with the spider first then the egg sack Vetter said.
It's unlikely that British exterminators would be intimately familiar with the egg sacks of spiders from South and Central america he added.
However it is possible that the eggs in question belonged to an arachnid Vetter said. There are several genera of spider that sometimes survive the long trip from banana-producing nations such as Brazil Mexico Nicaragua and Costa rica to other parts of the world.
Among them are Phoneutria and Cupiennius two types of spiders that are commonly known as wandering spiders.
or any other banana-producing nation then those eggs didn't belong to one of the deadly species of Brazilian wandering spiders he added.
Another flying reptile Icarosaurus was much smaller only the size of a hummingbird with wing membranes sprouting from modified ribs.
Most such as the shrew-like Eozostrodon were egg layers although they clearly had suckled fur and their young.
what appears to be a muddy log covered in useful nesting materials they become dinner for the waiting beast.
Biologists banded Wisdom in 1956 as she incubated an egg and have been following her ever since.
For example flying fish eggs are a key part of the albatross diet but flying fish sometimes attach their eggs to bits of discarded plastic floating at sea Leary explained.
Though the seafaring albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) lays only one egg a year mothers spend much of their year incubating
and raising their chick according to FWS officials. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.+Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google
The bone wand was carved likely from the rib of an auroch the wild ancestor of cows
How Snakes Slither Up Trees Corn snakes enjoy a diet of rodents lizards frogs small birds bats and bird eggs.
Then corn snakes swallow their dinner whole usually head first. Occasionally they will swallow small prey alive.
They are oviparous meaning that the mothers lay eggs. Any time from May to July the mother pops out 10 to 30 eggs.
She lays them in rotting stumps piles of decaying vegetation or other places where there will be enough heat
and humidity for the eggs to incubate. Then she slithers off never to see the babies.
but there is still a tendency to eat a large hot meal at midday especially when it comes to family meals on Saturdays and Sundays.
Pork is consumed the most meat with Schweinshaxe (braised pork hock) and Saumagen (pork stomach) being among the traditional pork dishes.
Bratwurst a form of sausage is associated closely with German food. Cabbage beets and turnips are incorporated commonly into meals as they are native to the region
and potatoes and sauerkraut are also stars of German cuisine. Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage
and the country is known as the birthplace of a number of beer varieties including Pilsner Weizenbier (wheat beer) and Alt.
These beers were crafted according to Reinheitsgebot or the Purity Law a 16th century Bavarian law that decreed that beer could only be brewed from barley hops and water.
Brewers used the yeast available in the air. Brandy and schnapps are also favorite German alcoholic beverages. Germans have made tremendous contributions to classical music
Microscopic fungi called yeast turn the naturally occurring sugar in fruit into a chemical known as ethanol
and its role in diet for many species Dudley writes. It's not just Napa vineyards and drunks on the street.
and obesity amid today's excess of fat and sugar. 7 Foods You Can Overdose On
</p><p>Chicken moms take their duties very seriously. Creating an endless amount of calcium carbonate for eggshells is a difficult task so if chickens don'
t get enough calcium in their diets they' ll actually dissolve their own bones to make baby-housing shells.
That' s one way to lose baby weight!</</p><p>Cuckoos have figured out a unique way to get the neighbors to do the difficult work of raising young.
Momma cuckoos will sneakily lay their eggs in another bird' s nest. In doing so the cuckoo tricks the other bird often a different smaller species into taking on the expensive burden of raising the chick.
</p><p>Pacific gray whales migrate thousands of miles from cold plankton-rich Arctic waters to relatively nutrient-poor tropical lagoons off of the coast of Mexico where they give birth.
Females attach their egg cocoons to their webs and watch over them until the babies hatch.
but regurgitates most of her meals as a nutrient soup for her offspring while the spiderlings stay in their mother'
Thanksgiving dinners are probably pretty awkward after that kind of upbringing.</</p><p>Talk about a painful pregnancy.
After laying as many as five eggs and watching them hatch the strawberry poison arrow frog carries her tadpoles one by one on her back from the rain forest floor up into trees as high as 100 feet.
The mother strawberry poison arrow frog then feeds each of her young with her own unfertilized eggs over the course of six to eight weeks
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