Study Researchers found that chocolates contain more healthy plant compounds and antioxidants, gram-for-gram, than fruit juice.
but chocolate is being heralded as the latest super food#by the scientists who carried out a study.
the raw ingredient of chocolate, with powders made from fruits like acai berries, blueberries, cranberries and pomegranates, the Daily Express reported.
Research into dark chocolate, containing around 60%cocoa, and cocoa drinks found that they too had more antioxidant activity and more flavanols#health-giving plant chemicals#than fruit.
The compounds in dark chocolate are just as good as the botanical compounds in fruit. Cacao seeds should be considered a super fruit
However, the findings do not alter the fact that their favourite is high in fat and sugar,
Dark chocolate needs to be considered as more of a tropical fruit like avocado which has a high fat content so you need to moderate the calories side of things.
nothing throws off the opposition quite like taping bread to your head...Hey honey, whats for dinner?#.
#After piling the snow over 100#high, Barry realized he couldnt find his car...Nothing says gross supermarket#quite like kiwi fruit with hairy backs...
Come on hare! You big-eared dumb-ass fuzz-ball! Lets race!..Fitting name...When you combine social networking with foosball#..
You may not be a knuckle cracker yourself, but chances are you have heard someone doing it.
The end results are creams with varying SPFS (Sun Protection Factors) that keep the body protected from UV radiation.
and the Non-GMO Project in defense of their participation in the so-called coexistence#talks with the USDA and proponents of GE alfalfa.
Fighting for a Ban on GE Alfalfa? The companies who have posted defenses of their participation in these talks have said, to a one,
that they believed in a ban of GE alfalfa. And that when that was taken off the table (more on this later) they were fighting for protections for farmers and consumers.
And we think that#we have not even had a chance to read the whole thing Ecological Impact Statement report about GE alfalfa over the weekend.
And I think its clear from your remarks Vilsack that this is a much bigger process than just the resolution of the alfalfa issue,
as of December 20th, at least, was not fighting for a ban on GE alfalfa, or demanding protections for farmers and consumers,
A Ban of GE Alfalfa Was Off the Table Back in December In December, to no ones surprise,
the USDA took a complete ban of GE alfalfa off the table as an option,
lending credibility to this farce of a discussion #(because now the USDA and Monsanto can argue,
and the White house was made aware of the fact that deregulation of GE alfalfa was not acceptable?
Though Organic Valley was excited very to announce that Secretary Vilsack had brought a 25 pound block of their cheese with him
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#The Amish Raw milk Black market Raw milk Is A Hot Commodity Two people have died in the last 10 years from drinking unpasteurized milk.
They even took my cheese-making equipment, #Nolt said over the phone. He puts his losses at $100
#Global Food Prices Hit Record Levels Sugar is among the items in the FAOS food price index.
and meat prices stable, they noted. But the overall uncertainty and inflation could eventually make the situation worse than three years ago,
Heavy rains in Australia damaged wheat to the extent that much of its usually high-quality crop has been downgraded to feed, experts noted.
Sugar prices are also at a 30-year high, he said. Prices for cereals are rising but still below their April 2008 peak.
Changing diets around the world stemming from higher incomes, especially in places like China and India, mean a greater demand for meat and better grains.
as were nations spread across the world, like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ecuador. But some of the worlds largest and poorest countries experienced rapid economic growth and only modest food inflation,
In the future, mushrooms may be as common in cars as they are on pizza. Believe it or not,
Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack has approved officially the unregulated planting of Monsantos genetically engineered alfalfa. In a move that will undoubtedly set a precedent for
and nothing less than obliterate our choice as organic consumers to be assured that we are avoiding genetically modified organisms in our food#The Problem with GE Alfalfa GE (genetically engineered) alfalfa has been modified to resist the effects of the weed killer glyphosate, also known as Roundup.
Alfalfa is a perennial crop that is most commonly grown as animal feed for dairy cows and most other livestock.
alfalfa also grows wild along roadsides throughout the country. The issues with GE alfalfa are numerous:
1. Safe for Human Consumption? First is the question of safety. Genetically engineered crops have not been tested for long-range health effects on humans
and wildlife. 2. Contamination of Non-GE Crops Alfalfa plants are pollinated by bees, most of which can travel
and no insurance policy against damages these farmers suffer as a result of GE alfalfa contamination. According to the Center for Food safety
They sue them. 3. Looming Threat to Organic Meat and Dairy Certified organic products cannot,
So those farmers who grow alfalfa to feed their dairy cows, who in turn are there to produce organic milk?
Theyre screwed if their alfalfa has been contaminated. Its no longer organic#under the law. And you and I, organic consumers that we are#were screwed equally because our choices for organic,
non-GMO dairy and meat products is diminished severely. 4. Increased (Not Decreased) Use of Chemical Weedkillers The USDAS own data shows that the adoption of Roundup Ready (GE) alfalfa would trigger a huge increase in the use
GE alfalfa will be sown in fields across the country this spring. There are a few steps we can take to avoid it.
Getting dairy and meat from small family farms is a good start, but remember that no matter how careful they are,
Hes the only one who can immediately prevent GE alfalfa from being planted this year. Food & Water Watch is running a campaign urging people to send letters to the President asking him to step in.
based on what Food safety News recently reported, the White house encouraged Vilsack to go with complete deregulation of GE alfalfa so the administration would appear friendly to big business.#
#There is sure to be more news on the horizon about not only GE alfalfa, but other GMO foods as well.
which led to the meat residues may also result in drug residues in milk.##More from the Times:
if it had been tested by the F. D. A. Agri-Mark must ensure that all of our milk sales, cheese,
butter and other products are in no danger of recall, #the letter said. Consumer safety cant be a priority for an industry that is against testing
which covers food other than meat, poultry and egg products. They are competing to develop the tracking technology
But more than a month later, FDA investigators correctly identified the source of the outbreak as peppers from Mexico.
and nectar and this is affecting bees. Research carried out by scientists at the US Department of agricultures Bee Research Laboratory,
#Time Running Out For Many Bird Species in Turkey The White-Headed Duck is threatened among many fowl.
One-seventh of the European population of the white-headed duck exists in Turkey spending winters in Lake Burdur in the Mediterranean region.
But its also more proof that the best way to feed your body the nutrients it needs isnt through supplementation,
but through your diet. How can you feed your bones? Well you may be surprised at the foods with the highest percentages of calcium#More and more people are rethinking the tried and true calcium supplementation after finding that it could increase heart attack risk significantly.
But that doesnt mean that you dont still need to have calcium in your diet.
It all comes back to a whole foods diet with foods loaded with calcium like figs (506 mg per serving), sesame seeds (88 mg), flaxseeds (255 mg), almonds (266 mg),
#Genetically Modified Chickens Developed Than Cannot Transmit Bird flu Scientists develop GM chickens that do not spread bird flu.
British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections#a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading
while the transgenic chickens still got sick and died when they were exposed to H5n1 bird flu,
they didnt transmit the virus to other chickens they came into contact with. Preventing virus transmission in chickens should reduce the economic impact of the disease
and reduce the risk posed to people,##said Laurence Tiley, of Cambridges department of veterinary medicine, one of the lead researchers on the study.
told a joint briefing the GM chickens could offer a way to improve economic and food security in parts of the world where bird flu is a major threat,
To breed their GM chickens, the researchers introduced a new gene into them that manufactures a small decoy#molecule that mimics an important control element of the bird flu virus. The replication machinery of the virus is tricked into recognizing the decoy molecule instead of the viral genes
After producing the modified chickens, they infected 10 of them and 10 normal chickens with H5n1 bird flu.
Like the normal chickens, the transgenic birds became sick with the virus, but they did not transmit the infection on to other chickens kept in the same pen with them
#even if those chickens were normal, non-transgenic birds. The study was published in Science. The researchers said they now plan to work on trying to make chickens that are fully resistant to bird flu rather than just blocking bird-to-bird transmission.
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#Genetically modified crops That Glow Green When Stressed Genetically altered Arabdopsis Thaliana plant, with green fluorescent protein (GFP) inserted near the on/off switches for anoxia and drought genes.
Cells expressing those genes glow green under a blue light (as shown. A group of University of Tennessee plant scientists has modified genetically tobacco plants
so that the plants will give off a phosphorescent green glow #when plant immune systems are under stress#as might be caused by plant pathogens, drought, insects, etc.
Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?
The FAO reports that there are more than1000 edible insect species. Insects can provide protein in the diet at a much lower environmental cost than traditional livestock, such as cows, pigs, or sheep.
For example, in May 2010, the FAO launched a program in Laos featuring celebrity chefs competing to whip up the tastiest insect dishes.
The cold-blooded creatures require less feed to produce proteins. For example, a cricket can produce the protein equivalent of cows with six times less feed.
Furthermore, insects can often feed on organic waste matter. Moreover insects are considered already delicacies in many cultures,
and the practice of eating insects goes back millenia. The Eewww-factor is learned a behavior reflecting our recent sensibilities about hygiene
The creamy belly tasted like scrambled eggs, while the thorax/lung area was a bit spongey. The shell is pretty tasteless and not edible anyway.#
#Not convinced? Well, at least for those of us in parts of the world where simply meeting our minimal nutritional demands is not the major issue,
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but a British study has found that couples with children eat a less healthy diet than those who have none.
The higher-income families ate more meat, more fresh fruit and more vegetables than others.
Age influenced the consumption of fats and sugar, both of which declined among older households. But perhaps most surprising
Having children in the house also reduced the demand for meat, and increased the consumption of dairy products, cereal and potatoes.
#said an author of the study, Richard Tiffin, a professor of economics at the University of Reading in England.
the social dynamic in a household with children makes the diet on average more unhealthy.##Via New york times Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati c
One after another, courses arrived from the kitchen: fish soup, duck fat potatoes, fusilli con cinghiale (pasta with wild boar.
With each bite and sigh of delight, the crowd eagerly participated in a crime#a scrumptious one,
As the groups name implies, the dishes contained ingredients#mushrooms, leafy greens and seaweed#that were gathered in the wild.
After many hours of cooking, it tasted like pulled pork. Mr. Rabins, whose first name, Iso, means seashore#in Japanese#My parents were said hippies,
which promotes the dinners and a monthly Underground Market. Attracting some 2, 500 fans, the market allows home cooks to sell their creations#from fresh baked fruit tarts to savory meat dishes#an idea that runs afoul of health codes.
At the first market in December 2009, city health department inspectors arrived. I was terrified, #Mr. Rabins said.
since the meals are prepared not in inspected, commercial kitchens, and because ingredients that are foraged are subjected not to government safety regulations.
Ms. Bing, who has attended underground dinners said she had mixed feelings about the lack of health department oversight.
like city snails to make escargot, seems more of a personal calling. It really changes the way you view the natural environment,
so lets give them credit for applesauce and mashed-up bananas, #but the rest of it is sugar,
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your brain becomes desensitized to the euphoria of junk food and sugar and needs more and more of it.
With all this information about GMOS in our diet. I think it s time to label them
In my experience about 85%of weight loss is related all diet and this study backs that claim up.
#Chicken farms turn to oregano as a substitute for antibiotics Chickens at Bell & Evans eat feed laced with oregano oil.
Anyone visiting Bell & Evans these days will notice the smell of oregano wafting for Scott Sechler s office.
The smell is so strong that visitors will wonder whether Sechler has quit the production of chicken and gone into the pizza business.
Oregano lies loose in trays and tied into bunches on tabletops and counters, and a big, blue drum that held oregano oil stands in the corner.
have tried you ever oregano tea?##Mr. Sechler asked, mashing leaves between his broad fingers. Off and on over the last three years or so, his chickens have been eating a specially milled diet laced with oregano oil and a touch of cinnamon.
Mr. Sechler swears by the concoction as a way to fight off bacterial diseases that plague meat
and poultry producers without resorting to antibiotics, which some experts say can be detrimental to the humans who eat the meat.
Products at Bell & Evans, based in this town about 30 miles east of Harrisburg, have long been free of antibiotics,
contributing to the company s financial success as consumers have demanded purer foods. But Mr. Sechler said that nothing he had used as a substitute in the past worked as well as oregano oil.
I have worried a bit about how I m going to sound talking about this, #he said. But I really do think we re on to something here.#
#Skeptics of herbal medicines abound, as any quick Internet search demonstrates. Oil of oregano is a perennial one,
advertised as a cure for just about everything, #said Scott Gavura, a pharmacist in Toronto who writes for the Web site Science-Based Medicine.
Data on sales of antibiotic-free meat is hard to come by, but the sales are a tiny fraction of the overall meat market.
Sales in the United states of organic meat, poultry and fish, which by law must be raised without antibiotics, totaled $538 million in 2011, according to the Organic Trade Association.
By comparison, sales of all beef that year were $79 billion. Still retailers like Costco, Whole Foods and Trader Joe s,
as well as some restaurant chains, complain that they cannot get enough antibiotic-free meat. Noodles & Company, a fast-growing chain of more than 300 restaurants, recently added antibiotic-free pork to the choices of ingredients that customers can add to their made-to-order pastas.
It ensured its supply by ordering cuts of meat that were not in relatively high demand
and by committing in advance to buy a year s worth, said Dan Fogarty, its executive vice president for marketing.
We re deliberately voting with our pocketbooks##he said. In a nationwide telephone survey of 1, 000 adults in March, more than 60 percent told the Consumer Reports National Research center that they would be willing to pay at least 5 cents a pound more for meat raised without antibiotics.
Before, it was kind of a nice little business, and while it s still microscopic in the grand scheme of things, we re seeing acceptance from retailers across the country, not just in California and on the East Coast,#said Stephen Mcdonnell, founder and chief executive of Applegate, an organic and natural
meats company. Mr. Mcdonnell said a confluence of trends from heightened interest in whole and natural foods to growing concerns about medical problems like diabetes,
obesity and glutenallergies, were contributing to the demand for antibiotic-free meat. There is growing concern among health care experts and policy makers about antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs,
who eat meat infected with them and then cannot be treated. In November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 25 national health organizations and advocacy groups issued a statement on antibiotics that
including more than 60 million pounds of ground beef contaminated withsalmonella Typhimurium and about 36 million pounds of ground turkey spoiled with salmonella Heidelberg.
Consumer Reports released a study last month that found the bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica in 69 percent of 198 pork chop
and ground pork samples bought at stores around the country. Some of the bacteria were resistant to one or more antibiotics.
The oregano oil product Mr. Sechler uses, By-O-Reg Plus, is made by a Dutch company, Ropapharm International.
A test of oregano oil on four small farms in Maine, which was financed by a $9, 914 grant from the Agriculture department,
studied the effectiveness of oregano oil on 18 mice infected with staph bacteria. Six mice were given oregano oil,
and half survived for the full 30 days of the treatment. Six received carvacrol, regarded by many experts to be the antibacterial component in oregano, in olive oil,
and none of them survived longer than 21 days. Six other mice received only olive oil and died within three days.
which was underwritten by a company, North american Herb and Spice, and presented at a meeting of the American College of Nutrition in 2001,
After hearing about Bell & Evans s use of oregano oil, Bob Ruth, the president of Country View Family Farms, a Pennsylvania-based company, decided to test it on some of his pigs.
Mr. Ruth and Mr. Sechler warned that using oregano oil to control bacterial infection also requires maintaining high standards of sanitation in barns where animals are sheltered,
You can t just replace antibiotics with oregano oil and expect it to work, #Mr. Sechler said.
or taste of a meal we re thinking of preparing? it s all within the realm of possibility in the next 5 years, according to IBM s list of technologies it thinks are on the cusp of adoption.
teething, or something more serious. 4. Digitized taste buds IBM s brainiacs think that machines will increasingly be able to taste things#like chocolate
or seafood ingredients that reinforce the flavor of different meats, or in some cases, can act as a substitute for a meat entirely.#
#This understanding of the chemical elements of food could help people get healthier by subbing in something that tastes like milk chocolate
but is better for them. 5. A nose that knows Breath analysis can do drunk more than keep drivers off the road.
it does not note that as much as half of that money goes to developers outside the United states. The pie,
I d rather get 70 percent of a large pie than all of a small pie, #he said.
#Giacomelli tells The Salt. You can t amplify the sun.#For American cities, like New york and Chicago,
made himself lunch and then took a long nap. In the evenings, he often walked to the local tavern, where he played dominoes past midnight.
On an outdoor patio at his weekend house, he set a table with Kalamata olives, hummus, heavy Ikarian bread and wine.
The strong winds that buffet the island#mentioned in the Iliad ##and the lack of natural harbors kept it outside the main shipping lanes for most of its history.
#made from dried herbs endemic to the island, which is enjoyed as an end-of-the-day cocktail.
He mentioned wild marjoram, sage (flaskomilia), a type of mint tea (fliskouni), rosemary and a drink made from boiling dandelion leaves
and adding a little lemon. People here think they re drinking a comforting beverage, but they all double as medicine,
and she wore a housedress with her hair in a bun. Inside, there was a table,
or business but was already setting out teacups and a plate of cookies. Meanwhile Thanasis scooted back and forth across the house with nervous energy,
have a late lunch, take a nap. At sunset, they either visited neighbors or neighbors visited them.
Their diet was also typical: a breakfast of goat s milk, wine, sage tea or coffee, honey and bread.
Lunch was almost always beans (lentils, garbanzos), potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion or a spinachlike green called horta) and whatever seasonal vegetables their garden produced;
dinner was bread and goat s milk. At Christmas and Easter, they would slaughter the family pig
and enjoy small portions of larded pork for the next several months. During a tour of their property, Thanasis and Eirini introduced their pigs to me by name.
Just after sunset, after we returned to their home to have some tea, another old couple walked in,
a professor at the University of Athens School of Pharmacy, is one of Europe s top experts on the bioactive properties of herbs and natural products.
rosemary is used as a remedy for gout; artemisia is thought to improve blood circulation. She invited
and later tested seven of the most commonly used herbs on Ikaria. As rich sources of polyphenols, they showed strong antioxidant properties,
Most of these herbs also contained mild diuretics. Doctors often use diuretics to treat hypertension#perhaps by drinking tea nightly,
Pes and Poulain were joined in the field by Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou of the University of Athens, an expert on the Mediterranean diet.
She noted that the Ikarians diet, like that of others around the Mediterranean, was rich in olive oil and vegetables,
low in dairy (except goat s milk) and meat products, and also included moderate amounts of alcohol.
low intake of saturated fats from meat and dairy was associated with lower risk of heart disease;
if as part of a Mediterranean diet, because it prompts the body to absorb more flavonoids, a type of antioxidant.
Local sourdough bread might actually reduce a meal s glycemic load. You could even argue that potatoes contributed heart-healthy potassium
they consume fewer pesticides and more nutrients. She estimated that the Ikarian diet, compared with the standard American diet,
might yield up to four additional years of life expectancy. Of course, it may not be only what they re eating;
it may also be what they re not eating. Are they doing something positive, or is it the absence of something negative?#
when I described to him the Ikarians longevity and their diet. Taubes is a founder of the nonprofit Nutrition Science Initiative
Or it could be the absence of sugar and white flour. From what I know of the Greek diet,
they eat very little refined sugar, and their breads have been made traditionally with stone-ground wheat.##Following the report by Pes and Poulain, Dr. Christina Chrysohoou,
a cardiologist at the University of Athens School of medicine, teamed up with half a dozen scientists to organize the Ikaria Study,
which includes a survey of the diet of 673 Ikarians. She found that her subjects consumed about six times as many beans a day as Americans,
and meat five times a month, drank on average two to three cups of coffee a day
measuring their diets, physical activity and how much they napped. They found that occasional napping was associated with a 12 percent reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease,
Local women gathered in the dining room at midmorning to gossip over tea. Late at night, after the dinner rush, tables were pushed aside
and the dining room became a dance floor, with people locking arms and kick-dancing to Greek music.
Parikos cooked the way her ancestors had for centuries, giving us a chance to consume the diet we were studying.
For breakfast, she served local yogurt and honey from the 90-year-old beekeeper next door.
For dinner she walked out into the fields and returned with handfuls of weedlike greens,
combined them with pumpkin and baked them into savory pies. My favorite was made a dish with black-eyed peas, tomatoes,
fennel tops and garlic and finished with olive oil that we dubbed Ikarian stew. Despite her consummately Ikarian air, Parikos was born actually in Detroit to an American father and an Ikarian mother.
She had attended high school, worked as a real estate agent and married in the United states. After she and her husband had their first child,
she felt a genetic craving#for Ikaria. I was not unhappy in America##she said.
we went out to dinner on the weekends, I drove a Chevrolet. But I was always in a hurry.#
She stopped shopping for most groceries, instead planting a huge garden that provided most of their fruits and vegetables.
if she thought her simple diet was going to make her family live longer. Yes,#she said.
the waves of the nearby Aegean could be heard barely over the din of breakfast. Do you know there s no word in Greek for privacy?#
Even if it s your lunch break from work you relax and enjoy your meal. You enjoy the company of whoever you are with.
Food here is enjoyed always in combination with conversation.##In the United states, when it comes to improving health,
diet only partly explained higher life expectancy. Exercise#at least the way we think of it, as willful, dutiful, physical activity#played a small role at best.
#Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed...and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
#But again, the key insight might be more about social structure than about the diet itself.
While for most people, diets eventually fail, the Adventists eat the way they do for decades.
When you go to an Adventist picnic, there s no steak grilling on the barbecue; it s a vegetarian potluck.
No one is drinking alcohol or smoking. As Nicholas Christakis, a physician and social scientist at Harvard, found
when examining data from a long-term study of the residents of Framingham, Mass.,health habits can be as contagious as a cold virus. By his calculation,
Your neighbors will cajole you out of your house for the village festival to eat your portion of goat meat.
or buy cough medicine without being routed through a gantlet of candy bars, salty snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages.
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