#Dark chocolate, red wine will keep your honey heart-healthy this Valentines day, expert saysforget the oysters and the champagne this Valentine's day.
If you want to keep your true love's heart beating strong the real foods of love are dark chocolate
Red wine and dark chocolate taste great and have heart-healthy components said Dr. Sirna who also is a professor of medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of medicine.
Dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 70 percent or higher is rich in flavonoids which help prevent the buildup of plaque in the arteries.
The FDA reports that eating a diet that includes one ounce of nuts daily can reduce your risk of heart disease.
Fish--Consider a Valentine's meal with fish that is high in omega-3 fatty acids which reduce your risk of dying from a heart attack.
Oatmeal--Cooked for a breakfast porridge or used in breads or desserts oatmeal is a good source of soluble fiber niacin folate and potassium.
Black or kidney beans--These beans are a good source of niacin folate magnesium omega-3 fatty acids calcium and soluble fiber.
Walnuts and almonds--Both walnuts and almonds contain omega-3 fatty acids Vitamin e magnesium fiber and heart-favorable mono-and polyunsaturated fats.
Berries--Blueberries cranberries raspberries and strawberries are a good source of beta carotene and lutein polyphenols Vitamin c folate potassium and fiber.
which uses plant resins to build its nestsscott thought it might be chewing gum originally Moore said.
The researchers also discovered another kind of bee Megachile rotundata an alfalfa leafcutter was using pieces of polyethylene-based plastic bags to construct its brood cells.
and spit out like gum--to form something new that they could use Moore said. In both cases larvae successfully developed from the plastic-lined nests.
The management regimes were compared from the point of view of six forest species such as the capercaillie hazel grouse flying squirrel
#Eat spinach or eggs for faster reflexes: Tyrosine helps you stop fastera child suddenly runs out into the road.
or eggs will stop faster thanks to the amino acid tyrosine found in these and other food products.
Tyrosine is found in such foods as spinach eggs cottage cheese and soya. Anyone who doesn't eat enough of these foodstuffs produces too little dopamine
which can lead to depression and apathy. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Leiden Universiteit.
or an energy-dense snack (cookies potato chips nacho chips and cheese-filled crackers). Sixty-one percent of children in the comic group chose a healthy snack after reading opposed to just 35%of the control group.
Herbicide drift was associated also with the declines of three species of herbivores including pea aphids spotted alfalfa aphids
One field edge site was located near a forest and alfalfa field. The old field was an acre plot near Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research farm.
In addition to liquid bovine whole milk the method can now be applied to bovine milk with reduced fat content goat whole milk sheep whole milk cheese dried milk
and bats still could find a suitable habitat with nesting places and from there spread into the plantations.
The regional agricultural authorities furthermore seemed unaware that bees visited flowering soybeans to collect nectar and pollen.
Bees from a single colony may gather nectar and pollen resources from flowers in a 200-square-kilometer area.
and sheep where they facilitate the digestion of feed consumed in the diet. Efforts to control methanogens in specific ways may improve feed utilization
and enhance the production of meat and milk researchers say. Methanogens are additionally a factor in human nutrition.
The organisms live in the large intestine where they enhance the breakdown of food. Some have proposed that restricting this activity of methanogens could help alleviate obesity.
and revealing how intense farming at the time of the Crusades contributed to its spread.
In more recent history the virus appears to have spread to the US from Europe around 120-150 years ago.
These afflictions cause significant economic losses to the poultry industry due to the costs of treatment for infected birds lowered rates of egg production and mortality.
With the aid of PCR methods the group tested 167 APEC strains derived from chickens
#Whole diet approach to lower cardiovascular risk has more evidence than low-fat dietsa study published in The American Journal of Medicine reveals that a whole diet approach which focuses on increased intake of fruits vegetables nuts
while strictly low-fat diets have the ability to lower cholesterol they are not as conclusive in reducing cardiac deaths.
By analyzing major diet and heart disease studies conducted over the last several decades investigators found that participants directed to adopt a whole diet approach instead of limiting fat intake had a greater reduction in cardiovascular death and nonfatal myocardial infarction.
Early investigations of the relationship between food and heart disease linked high levels of serum cholesterol to increased intake of saturated fat and subsequently an increased rate of coronary heart disease.
Nearly all clinical trials in the 1960s 70s and 80s compared usual diets to those characterized by low total fat low saturated fat low dietary cholesterol
These diets did reduce cholesterol levels. However they did not reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction or coronary heart disease deaths.
and trials from 1957 to the present investigators found that the whole diet approach and specifically Mediterranean-style diets are effective in preventing heart disease
even though they may not lower total serum or LDL cholesterol. The Mediterranean-style diet is low in animal products
and saturated fat and encourages intake of monounsaturated fats found in nuts and olive oil. In particular the diet emphasizes consumption of vegetables fruit legumes whole grains and fish.
The potency of combining individual cardioprotective foods is substantial --and perhaps even stronger than many of the medications and procedures that have been the focus of modern cardiology explains co-author Stephen Devries MD FACC Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology (Deerfield IL) and Division of Cardiology
Results from trials emphasizing dietary fat reduction were a disappointment prompting subsequent studies incorporating a whole diet approach with a more nuanced recommendation for fat intake.
and overall better at preventing heart disease than a blanket low-fat diet. Encouraging the consumption of olive oil over butter
Nutritional interventions have proven that a'whole diet'approach with equal attention to what is consumed as well as what is excluded is more effective in preventing cardiovascular disease than low fat low cholesterol diets.
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and some low-fat cheeses also reduced the relative risk of diabetes by 24%overall.
and low-fat cottage cheese) were 24%less likely to develop type 2 diabetes over the 11 years compared with non-consumers.
The same applies to other low-fat fermented dairy products such as low-fat unripened cheeses including fromage frais and low-fat cottage cheese.
and not accounting for change in diets over time but their study was large with long follow-up
and had detailed assessment of people's diets that was collected in real-time as people consumed the foods rather than relying on past memory.
when we have a lot of other evidence that consuming high amounts of certain foods such as added sugars
Although they pose a major threat grasshopper populations play a positive role in cycling nutrients from decomposing plant matter back into the soil.
This PLANT DNA offers valuable information about grasshopper diets because it holds more data than what can be observed by the naked eye.
the toll of agricultural intensification on this semi-free ranging managed species and the confounding pressure of viruses spread through Varroa mites and the burden of these viruses and mites at the individual bee and colony level.
--which would prevent an uncontrollable spread. This however has not proven to be entirely true.
Specific dietary preferences regarding animal products in food are common in the general population. Influences such as religion culture economic status environmental concern food intolerances and personal preferences all play a part in the foods that people choose to consume.
Last year a campaign to vaccinate children in Scotland against influenza was halted because of concern in the Muslim community about pork gelatine within the vaccine.
In addition the clearing of woodlots hedgerows pastures and wetlands to make way for bigger fields has continued apace
But for the objective of plant species conservation other strategies like preserving farmland habitats including woodlots pastures
Historically there's been no complete legally endorsed definition of whole grain flour and products explains Jan-Willem van der Kamp corresponding author of the paper and Senior Officer of International Projects at TNO Food and Nutrition.
When you read'25%whole grain flour'on one product label; the same claim on a different label could mean something quite different nutritionally.
what constitutes whole grain in food products--from breads to pasta to breakfast cereals--regardless of where they originate adds van der Kamp.
this is where sprouting begins) and bran (the grain's protective outer layer; it is rich in dietary fiber.
which can affect the resulting flour's nutritional value. The HEALTHGRAIN definition addresses all three of these issues detailing a permitted list of grains
The need for developing a more comprehensive detailed whole grain definition was identified during the course of the HEALTHGRAIN EU project an initiative intended to increase the use of whole grains and their health protecting constituents in food products for improved nutrition and health benefits.
in cooperation with a multidisciplinary group of nutrition scientists cereal scientists and technologists plant breeders flour milling specialists and experts in regulatory affairs from throughout Europe.
or chocolate has any environmental benefit.''Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Oxford.
We found that for every $1 increase in agricultural sales personal income rose by 22 cents over the course of five years said Goetz.
and redefines financial stress according to returns over feed costs instead of just the price of milk.
Both of these changes are in reaction to the severe dairy farm stress that was revealed by the Great Recession and the explosion in feed prices over the last few years.
The Margin Protection Program for Dairy Producers (MPP) is a voluntary program that pays participating farmers an indemnity when a national benchmark for milk income over feed costs falls below an insured level.
#Nitrogen management studied in greenhouse pepper productionas consumer demand for year-round fresh produce increases vegetable
Nitrogen the most important and widely used agricultural nutrient is also a major environmental contaminant. In many regions increased levels of nitrate found in groundwater have been attributed to the high rates of nitrogen fertilizer applied to surrounding crops.
Pepper production is becoming commercially important in various regions of the world including Israel Spain southern Europe
They selected two pepper cultivars with different growth habits for the study and drip-irrigated the greenhouse plants with solutions containing four different nitrogen concentrations.
when peppers were irrigated with N at 56.2 mgâ L-1 Yasuor said. Higher concentrations of nitrogen loaded more nitrogen into the environment
The experiments also showed that nitrogen treatments had no significant negative effect on pepper fruit physical
or chemical quality including sugar content and acidity. Additionally reduced nitrogen application did not affect nutritional quality components of the pepper fruit such as beta-carotene
and lycopene content nor did it reduce total antioxidant activity. Our results demonstrate how the environmental impact of intensive agriculture can be minimized without harming fruit yield
Edibles including berries fruits nuts greens and young shoots were by far the most frequently mentioned type of product in each study site.
when the parkâ##s commissioners welcomed thousands of school children every Nutting Day a local holiday at the time to the park to harvest chestnuts walnuts and hazelnuts (Gabriel 2011).
Knowing that infants may be biased to learn that fruits plucked from leafy green plants are edible suggests strategies for getting young children interested in eating novel fruits and vegetables such as taking them to a'pick-your-own'fruits and vegetables farm.
And during extreme heat chicks without waterproofing can't take a dip in cooling waters as adults can.
Rainfall and the number of storms per breeding season have increased already at The argentine study site said Ginger Rebstock UW research scientist
Once chicks die parents do not lay additional eggs that season. The findings are based on weather information collected at the regional airport and by researchers in the field as well as from penguin counts.
Glossophaga soricina a nectar bat feeding on the flowers of a banana plant. Nectar feeding bats comprised one of three evolutionary optima for mechanical advantage among New world Leaf-nosed bats.
Photo credit: Dr. Beth Clare Queen Mary University. The key finding is that in a highly diverse group--New world Leaf-nosed bats--selection for mechanical advantage has shaped three distinct optimal skull shapes that correspond to feeding niches Dr. Dá
These bats of which there are almost 200 species eat a variety of foods including insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood.
Their skulls mirror the variety of their diets--bats with long and narrow snouts eat nectar;
and engineering (dark blue) models for the base model of the omnivorous bat Carollia perspicillata (B) and the morphed models for the nectar-feeding Glossophaga soricina (A)
Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage--a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
which they find nectar. Morphological diversity among New world Leaf nosed bats with different diets. Nectar:
A) Platalina genovensium B) Glossophaga soricina; generalists: C) Carollia perspicillata D) Vampyrum spectrum; fig-eating frugivores:
E) Artibeus jamaicensis F) Chiroderma villosum; and short-faced bats: G) Phyllops falcatus H) Centurio senex.
and wing development plays a crucial role in the evolution of bees'ability to carry pollen.
Greater confusion was associated indirectly with backlash against nutritional advice in general as indicated by agreement with statements such as Dietary recommendations should be taken with a grain of salt
While this might work in the short term in the longer term it has a negative effect on crop growth as soil nutrients become more imbalanced.
As farmers use fertilizers for their crops nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus build up in the soil providing a reserve of nutrients that plants need to grow.
But fertilizer use remains very low in Africa and to increase crop production it is recognized widely that farmers must increase their fertilizer use.
and phosphorus inputs must happen in a way that provides crops with the balanced nutrient input they need.
The team fed their treated diet containing various types and concentrations of chemicals to the laboratory-raised bee larvae.
and flowers as well as human-made materials such as a sheet of tissue paper lying in a dish of water.
and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the deliberate molasses-slow animals in northeast Costa rica.
A sloth on the ground is such an easy meal for them. So this risky behavior must confer some sort of advantage.
When the sloth squats to do its business some female pyralid moths will emerge from the sloth fur to lay their eggs in the sloth's dung.
and render themselves nearly flightless damaging their wings to burrow into the wet matted fur to mate
Judging from their diet--which is all leaves from the tree they live in--they shouldn't be able to maintain even the slow lifestyle that makes them
Buffalo is known as Black Gold due to its contribution to economy which is being reared as milk meat hide and bone sources all over the world.
In particular it could provide more than 5%of the world's milk supply and 20%to 30%of the farm power in Southeast asia.
Considering the importance of buffalo and realizing the need of genomic research for its improvement Lal Teer Livestock took a great effort for The Whole Genome Sequencing of Water buffalo in collaboration with BGI since March 2012.
Researchers compared buffalo genome with other mammals'such as cattle horse panda pig and dog for discovering more genetic characteristics of water buffalo and providing guidance for its breeding and industrial transformation.
They are accessing nutrients that no other plants can access. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Journal of Botany.
and cheese just as well as most people of European descent are today. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Centre for Evolutionary Medicine have discovered that the population of the medieval town of Dalheim had a similar genetic predisposition for milk digestion to present-day Germans and Austrians.
and contains the sugar lactose. Most mammals lose the ability to digest lactose and thus milk as they get older.
The ability to digest the sugar is governed by the production of the enzyme lactase in the small intestine.
Insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood. The bats'skulls of today reflect this dietary diversity.
Species with long narrow snouts eat nectar while short-faced bats have exceptionally short wide palates for eating hard fruits.
One was the long narrow snout of nectar feeders the second was the extremely short and wide snout of short-faced bats
Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage which is a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
which they find nectar. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
and minerals in the soil to get nutrients for growth. The Sheffield team found that
#Lingonberries halt effects of high-fat dietlingonberries almost completely prevented weight gain in mice fed a high-fat diet a study at Lund University in Sweden has found--whereas the'super berry'aã
Some of the mice were fed a low-fat diet while the majority of the animals were fed a diet high in fat.
The mice that had eaten lingonberries had not put on more weight than the mice that had eaten a low-fat diet
and levels of fat in the liver were also lower than those of the animals who received a high-fat diet without any berries.
and higher levels of fat in the liver said Karin Berger diabetes researcher at Lund University.
Up to 20%of our mice's diet was lingonberries. It isn't realistic for humans to eat such a high proportion.
and diabetes by supplementing a more normal diet with berries said Karin Berger. However the Lund researchers do not recommend people start eating large quantities of lingonberry jam.
Boiling the berries can affect their nutrient content and jam contains a lot of sugar. Frozen lingonberries on cereal or in a smoothie are considerably better.
If anyone wonders--yes we now eat lingonberries on a regular basis! said Lovisa Heyman. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Lund University.
because it is rich in plant nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous. Now researchers from Wageningen University and Southern Illinois University revealed the effects of guano on the native trees of the arid coasts of South america.
We think this is related to the positive effect of marine nutrients on non-nitrogen fixing trees explains Gilles Havik a former master student at Wageningen University
Nutrients are limiting in the desert so this input from the sea through the nitrogen-rich guano has a positive effect for trees that cannot fix nitrogen.
What we found very striking is that trees that do fix nitrogen from the air do not seem to benefit from nutrients coming from the sea
even though fixing nutrients from the air is expensive for a plant continues Havik. These findings highlight the important interactions between marine and terrestrial environments
As the most calorically dense nutrient fat has been desired a energy source across much of human evolution.
and ultimately link this to satellite observations where we think changes in plant cycles due to climate change are being expressed on a global scale said Jack Mustard professor of geological sciences at Brown.
Mustard and Jianwu Tang at MBL are Yang's Ph d. advisers and authors on the paper.
and the researchers walked roughly 3200 kilometers (1988 miles) in the course of the study.
as a result of predation or the onset of farm operations before eggs hatched or young birds were ready to fly.
which could make them easier to protect and conserve. While studying the direct response of species to climatic shifts is important it's only one piece of a complicated puzzle.
Since breast milk contains all the nutrients required by young infants formula manufacturers aim to closely match their product's ingredients to those of breast milk.
It is packed full of nutrients like calcium and other minerals vitamins including Vitamin d protein fat and sugar in the form of lactose.
In the West people take milk drinking for granted because most people of European descent are able to produce the enzyme lactase in adulthood and so digest the milk sugar lactose.
and cheese because fermentation converts much of the lactose into fats. But in famine conditions such as
or Canje Pheasant and today exists only in parts of South america. Its relationship among birds is as unclear as its evolutionary history.
Toxic viral cocktails appear to have a strong link with honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) a mysterious malady that abruptly wiped out entire hives across the United states
Israel Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) Acute Bee Paralysis Virus (ABPV) Chronic Paralysis Virus (CPV) Kashmir Bee Virus (KBV) Deformed Wing
However unlike honeybees the mite-associated TRSV was restricted to their gastric cecum indicating that the mites likely facilitate the horizontal spread of TRSV within the hive without becoming diseased themselves.
The fact that infected queens lay infected eggs convinced these scientists that TRSV could also be transmitted vertically from the queen mother to her offspring.
and chocolate) could offer protection from type 2 diabetes--according to research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and King's college London.
which are found in herbs and vegetables such as parsley thyme and celery and anthocyanins found in berries red grapes wine and other red or blue-coloured fruits and vegetables.
This is one of the first large-scale human studies to look at how these powerful bioactive compounds might reduce the risk of diabetes.
what we are seeing is that people who eat foods rich in these two compounds--such as berries herbs red grapes wine-are less likely to develop the disease.
This is an exciting finding that shows that some components of foods that we consider unhealthy like chocolate
Our result revealing that this pesticide causes bees to hatch out at a smaller size is of concern as the size of workers produced in the field is likely to be a key component of colony success with smaller bees being less efficient at collecting nectar
The current treatment of this allergy consists of avoiding peach consumption neither fresh nor processed peaches (juices jam.
which CO2 in the atmosphere stimulates photosynthesis (like soya peanuts and a majority of plants including all trees).
The importance of a season of regular rainthe effect of rainfall change on cotton yield also differs from that of crops such as maize sorghum and millet.
While they are vital to our diet the long chains of natural polymeric carbohydrates that make up dietary fibre are impossible for humans to digest without the aid of our resident bacteria says UBC professor Harry Brumer with UBC
which is grown widely everywhereâ#said Alan Pepper an associate professor in the Texas A&m Department of biology and senior author of the paper that was led by a former Texas A&m graduate student now in Uzbekistan. â#oethis will increase the competitiveness of natural cotton fibers versus synthetic fibers
and pests. â#oefor a long time cotton breeders have been trying to develop upland cotton with the fiber qualities of barbadense cottonâ#Pepper said. â#oeglobally everybodyâ##s trying to do it.
A major criticism of GMOS Pepper notes focuses on cases where genes from other species â#even bacterial ones â#have been added to an organism to achieve a desired trait.
and the weed killer to farmers. â#oewhat weâ##re doing is a little differentâ#Pepper said. â#oeweâ##re not actually adding in a gene from another species. Rather weâ##re knocking down the effect of one
#or interfere with expression of that gene Pepper said. â#oethis was pure basic science seeking to understand the biological function of a geneâ#Pepper said. â#oeand sure enough the phytochrome â#knock-downâ##plants had all these phenotypic
#Finally, a way to authenticate premium chocolatefor some people nothing can top a morsel of luxuriously rich premium chocolate.
In ACS'Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry scientists are reporting for the first time a method to authenticate the varietal purity and origin of cacao beans the source of chocolate's main ingredient cocoa.
Dapeng Zhang and colleagues note that lower-quality cacao beans often get mixed in with premium varieties on their way to becoming chocolate bars truffles sauces and liqueurs.
and accommodation in the form of food bodies and nectar as well as hollow thorns which can be used as nests.
The ants depend completely on their host plants for nectar and the food bodies rich in proteins and lipids which they require.
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