Much ado about breast-milkit takes a village...About a decade ago, the World health organization (WHO) advised mothers to exclusively breastfeed â oe that is, nothing but human milk â oe their infants for the first 6 months of their lives.
They reissued that recommendation in a statement earlier this month â oe citing optimal growth, development and health.
and converting it into fermentable sugars so it can be refined into fuel is too expensive to be commercially viable.
The Energy department has several research projects aimed at finding heat tolerant enzymes from fungi and microbes such as cellulases that break down plant cell walls and convert biomass into fermentable sugars.
which was licensed recently by Heinz to replace its classic ketchup bottle. After Pepsico gets the bottle on shelves with its own products,
New irrigation system helps farmers conserve waterthe world is getting undeniably thirstier. Recent studies project that water demand in many countries will exceed supply by 40 percent by the year 2030.
And design firms are stepping up to the plate, incorporating novel layouts, materials and products into this next generation of teaching places.
and tons of research--Victoria Bergsagel from Architects of Achievement covered them last week at the What Matters and What Counts in Education breakfast at the Denver Botanic Gardens:
Today, the farmers continue to produce organic produce for local vendors that include tomatoes, peppers, herbs, fennel, greens,
direct and focused with a solar dish and concentrator, to disinfect liquid-solid waste and produce biological charcoal that be used as a replacement for wood charcoal or chemical fertilizers.
wheat straw, switchgrass and other nonfood crops--into sugar which can then be fermented into fuels, feed and chemicals.
aluminum-tainted dumplings and cadmium-laced rice is enough to make anyone wary of what they're eating.
They're special sugars called human milk oligosaccharides (HMO. And until now, they've been too prohibitively expensive ($1000 Â pre gram) to put into formula.
in the lab. They did this by engineering a strain of  E coli bacteria to produce the sugar for them, quickly and cheaply.
Masson turned hers into a grazing pasture. With a low-voltage solar-powered electric fence and no additional food or maintenance costs, the project didn't require too much investment,
The Mexican government has undertaken a major effort to promote healthy diet and lifestyle, and marketers of healthier snacks are hoping to piggyback on the promotion from the public sector. Pepsico's new $20 million Global Center for Innovation in Baking
It also means using healthier oils and fewer fats and sugars. We re conscious of the lifestyle change of our consumers,
or nonexistent when it comes to issues like beekeeping, chickens, or selling produce. But last week Pittsburgh's city council adopted new rules to better align the city with its residents, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
it partnered with Dupont to find cost effective ways to bring corn stover-ethanol to market.
 Once the stovers, husks and leaves are collected and milled, they are broken further down by  enzymatic hydrolysis,
a process that  converts the cellulose and hemicellulose into sugars, which are fermented and made into ethanol.
and raise animals for food--chickens, bees, et cetera. Another aspect of the study is to  work on a standard lease agreement that can be used by various city departments with vacant land to make it easier to lease those spaces for community gardens.
when her daughter dragged her to the Buffalo Zoo. An associate professor of law at the  University at Buffalo, State university of New york, Braverman found herself flooded with questions.
But mainly, she wondered, how does this work? In her new book, Zooland: The  Institution  of Captivity, Braverman explores the evolution of zoos,
when my older daughter was old enough to drag me to the Buffalo Zoo, it was my first encounter with a zoo.
It started with the Buffalo Zoo. I started interviewing her staff. It was like a snowball.
It grew in ways that were unforeseeable. It became this huge project that encompassed almost 80 interviewees from across North america and other countries.
An elephant eating breakfast at the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel/By Irus Braverman
'The buffalo in the prairies are our brothers and the same thing for the deer.
It's essentially still a disease of chickens. I imagine there are a great number of flu strains that are carried by animal populations at any given time.
In the animal population there is a whole soup of flu viruses. We are not good at determining
it kills chickens. And it's associated with severe disease in humans. Even though H7 can also do that,
It does not cause a lot of disease in chickens, quails, etc. So with the H5n1 you see a lot of disease in your birds
With the H7 you cannot tell just by looking at the chickens. You have to be swabbing these birds regularly to find it.
So the chickens are contagious before they show any symptoms. Isn't that the case with most viruses?
Through the whole infectious course the animals can be unprotected wandering around That's pretty serious.
We would like to be on course toward a universal flu vaccine. We have vaccinated against the H1
Grabbing slices of pizza and fast-food burgers became a dangerous habit for Rhinehart so he decided to create a healthy food that required almost zero prep.
and after months of research, he produced a formula for liquid food that could completely supplant regular meals,
It will cost about $3 per meal, and is meant to provide 2, 000 healthy calories per day.
who will give up a filet mignon or truffles for a plain liquid drink, and why Soylent may one day help extend our average life span.
Muffins and pancakes, even tiramisu. I'm not much of a cook myself but it's interesting to see how far people have taken it.
On your blog you mention that it tastes like a sweet, succulent, hearty meal in a glass,
It's a little sweet, a little savory. It has salts, fats, and good carbohydrates that interact with taste buds in different ways.
It's nonspecific actually. Which is a good thing, because if you had a very specific flavor then you would get sick of it.
because those were easiest, a lot of pizza, cheeseburgers, and fast food. You didn't want to be bothered with prepping more healthy meals?
When I work on something that I find very interesting and very stimulating it's frustrating to get out of the flow.
I have my favorite foods, like sushi and barbecue, and I really enjoy the whole experience of eating.
Having to be concerned with all this stuff for every single meal would be an incredible burden.
Well, first of all, it's got to be healthier than the typical diet which, for most, is unbalanced horribly.
Most are filled with lot of simple sugars, saturated fats, basically a very poor nutrient ratio. They are designed not to be lived on.
the students from 40 city schools enjoyed a breakfast of Greek yogurt and listened as administration officials gave shout outs to school-based food successes,
such as a salad sale at a North Philadelphia elementary school. There much to celebrate here. Over the past several years, Philadelphia has revamped its school food offerings with striking success. Over a lunch of wraps and baked chips
the students split into small groups to brainstorm with classmates about how to keep the momentum going.
A handful of Southwest Center City middle schoolers dreamed up innovative ways to bring healthy change to their school--where many students eat at least two meals a day.
While eighth-grader Terell Greennagh resolved, â Å lunch is going to be hard to change,
â Â his classmates hoped the school would serve snacks of baby carrots or grapes rather than pretzels.
â Â she said. â Å Instead of just sitting there for lunch, they should let us do something. â Â Conversations like these are happening in school district offices,
Because that where the kids are. â Â Children consume as many as half their meals in schools, according to the U s. Department of agriculture,
with more than 5 billion school lunches served in 2011. With children spending so much time--and so many calories--in school, it the ideal place to promote nutrition,
New lunch standards included reducing fat and sodium content, increasing whole grain foods and doubling fruit and vegetables.
Though the USDA is offering a 6-cent reimbursement rate increase for the new meals,
The district banned soda machines, restricted portion sizes and sodium in snacks, introduced a lunch menu with more whole grains, educated parents about healthy eating and established school wellness councils.
and fundraisers promoting fruit salad and smoothies instead of candy and brownies. At a fall wellness event there, Elaine Rosario, the parent of a fourth-grade girl, said she glad the school instills healthy habits.
For a school lunch to be government reimbursable, Scheidel said, a fruit or vegetable must accompany the entree.
With a fruit and vegetable bar, students decide whether they â â¢re in the mood for orange wedges or bite-sized broccoli. â Å You â â¢re not putting something in their plate that they â â¢re not going to eat â
 Scheidel said. Businesses join the fight Behind the scenes, businesses are playing a growing role in the healthy school food movement,
When Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey of Revolution Foods set out to build a company offering delicious and nutritious school meals,
Since its 2005 launch, the company has served more than 50 million meals, many in low-income communities,
and one of its most popular items is a five-ingredient hotdog made with grass-fed beef. â Å Food has to taste good in order for kids to want to eat it,
she said Revolution Foods offers meals that can be reimbursed by the federal government. Farmers have been another private sector partner in the movement to make school food healthier.
I didn really like school lunch, but I loved my mom well-balanced meals, â Â she said. â Å It almost like we switched roles over the years. â Â Now,
Scheidel said, parents say their children don like the new healthy options. â Å If they â â¢re not eating fresh foods and whole grains at home,
â Å they â â¢re not going to like school lunch. â  Still, school food officials believe we â â¢re headed in the right direction.
You can find the newest condiment for your french fries in Amsterdam of course, the city where hooch is so legal you can puff away in certain coffee shops
The mayonnaise-like spread doesn't contain the active ingredient THC so it won't get you giggly, forgetful, relaxed,
We specialize in sauces and we constantly want to diversify. There's no way of knowing yet
whether the dope dip will catch on and sweep across the globe. Â But it does leave you wondering what the Dutch might serve up next.
so about radiation that it is missing a golden opportunity to move the world onto a low-CO2 diet by shifting to nuclear power.
who can forget the irony-laced scene where the anti-nuke protestors take a break to eat sustenance-giving bananas?)
The bird made famous in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can fly incredible distances with a single flap of the wings.
Let it spread its wings. Updated Jan 29 around 10:05 a m. PST adding reference to alternative nuclear's improved waste managementcover photo of Half Dome at Yosemite is from Diliff via Wikimediathe land of milk and honey-and radiation:
The cellulose, for instance, goes into everything from tires to chewing gum to salad dressing. We just have to manage the trees properly.
and salad rocket (arugula), along with useful desert plants around the seawater greenhouse. Another key element of the facility is concentrated the solar power plant:
growing salt-tolerant grasses for fodder or biofuel, and evaporating the concentrated saline the plant emits to produce salt, Science reports.
with warmer temperatures allowing the insect to move into previously inhospitable areas and shortening the beetle's life cycle by up to a year.
By converting sugars harvested from beetle-bitten lodgepole pines into n-butanol Cobalt is trying to replace some of the petroleum and petrochemical materials in anything from gasoline to plastics to paint.
in addition to a hefty supply of fish and seafood fetched from its 100-mile coastline. Since the meltdown, Fukushima has dropped from the nation fourth-largest rice producer to its seventh
together with Japan natural iodine-rich seafood diet, make Fukushima food today safer than an average CT scan.
fish and seafood pose an even bigger challenge. Marine creatures are always on the move following tides and currents. â Å Some fish in one area of the sea are contaminated,
to claim all seafood was safe. Â While natural iodine from some seafood helps cancel out the radioactive iodine in fast-moving fish
using octopi as a standard misrepresents localized risk. No one was fooled, further eroding trust. So, the fear of Fukushima's food persists.
natural iodine found in some seafood. â Å This the Japanese government did very well in contrast to the Soviet authorities following the Chernobyl accident.
The Japanese continue to monitor foodstuffs, and they have imposed even stricter limits on radiation in foodstuffs from Fukushima prefecture than we have for our own produce in the U k. and the U s. â Â Â Dr. Ian Fairlie,
an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment who is closely monitoring Fukushima says that Japanese should fear radiation just not necessarily in the region food. â Å Contaminated food intakes are a relatively small part of the problem.
A n entire acre will feature large chestnuts and walnuts in the overstory, full-sized fruit trees like big apples and mulberries in the understory,
and kid space full of thornless mini edibles adjacent to community gardening plots, native plant areas, a big timber-frame gazebo and gathering space with people barbecuing,
the type of feed they are receiving or one of a very large spectrum of health complications.
the sharing of nutrients, the transfer of energy from sunlight to plants and then to animals,
The spread of concrete, benign as it is, is suited more for a gas station than for the front lawn of a residence.
The new warehouse, located 15 miles from Chicago, grows more than one million pounds of greenery such as herbs
Several types of fish, mainly tilapia, are grown in the tanks that feed the aquaponic system
But thanks to the new vertical farm, citizens can eat locally produced goodies available exclusively at the Fairprice Finest supermarket.
Perhaps, most people try to protect the surroundings by reducing energy-consumption associated with foodstuff distribution from faraway farmers.
and grow your favorite vegetables, herbs and flowers without any hassle. Not only does this hydroponic system provides healthy and chemical-free produce,
while cooking or washing the dishes is recycled to provide nutrients to the hydroponics. Taking only a section of the area
We work together share a meal, play, talk, and make music. No money is exchanged. This is the stuff that communities are made of
where most of the nutrients and proteins reside. So he decided to investigate its chemical composition to see
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The research arm of a Chocolate Factory War! Scientists say they have determined the complete DNA sequence of the tree that produces cocoa beans,
an accomplishment that is expected to vastly accelerate efforts to assure a stable supply of chocolate
The candy maker Mars is expected to announce on Wednesday that a project it financed has completed essentially the raw sequence of the genome of the cacao tree,
The rivalry between the two big chocolate companies projects in some ways mirrors what occurred in the race to sequence the human genome, between Celera Genomics and the publicly financed Human genome Project.
the maker of Snickers, M&m S, Milky way and other confections, announced two years ago that it would spend $10 million over five years to sequence
Dr. Guiltinan said the new genetic information could lead to chocolate that tastes better and contains more flavonoids,
including those seeking fresh winter herbs; gadget-happy gardeners; and high-income parents and their science-fair kids.
While she boasted about picking fresh basil the other day for a risotto, she has lately been preoccupied with exotic fish.
but none of it reached their plates. And after the village shop closed in 1982, they had to travel to buy provisions.
Nick Snelgar, who earns a living from growing herbs and shrubs near his home in Martin,
thought it was crazy that he could not eat local produce.""It would be fresher, tastier and more nutritious than anything from the supermarket and
Chickens, lamb and pork are sold alongside vegetables at a Saturday morning market in the village hall throughout the year.
In Dorset, the Local Food Links scheme is providing hot lunches to 23 primary schools in Bridport and Blandford.
The school meals venture was triggered by the Jamie Oliver television series that led the government to order all schools to serve hot meals by September 2008.
It is now supplying similar meals to four care homes for older people and a day centre.
Crabtree admits he relies on charitable grants to break even on school meals at £2 a head.
Vegetable beds, herb gardens and orchards have sprung up on sites as varied and previously urban as the railway station forecourt and an elderly people's home, under the aegis of the Incredible Edible Todmorden campaign.
The DNA thus collected could be used to make a map showing the spread of microorganisms.
as Steve Kurtz, a professor of art at the State university of New york in Buffalo who works with biological material, found Out in May 2004 he awoke to find that his wife,
The police who accompanied paramedics to his home found Petri dishes used in his art displays,
First, I tried to identify the best wide-spectrum herb in Chinese, Indian, or Western medicine based on its long term traditional use and data indicating that the herbal extract can target multiple longevity genes identified by Genescient or by other research groups.
In Chinese traditional medicine, Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi) appeared to be the best Chinese herb because of its many traditional uses
Modern herbal treatments with Astragalus membranaceus root (often in concert with other herbs) are partly based on clinical trials showing benefits in strengthening immune function during viral (e g. chronic hepatitis)
In looking for the best herb in the Indian Ayurvedic medicinal tradition, I soon focused on the potent antidiabetic herb, Pterocarpus marsupium.
Crude extracts of Pterocarpus marsupium (Indian keno tree) bark naturally have high concentrations of pterostilbene (more than 4%by weight
Besides diabetes, the herb is reported also to cure a wide spectrum of ailments like skin diseases, fractures, bruises, constipation, hemorrhages, and rheumatoid arthritis.
These diverse health benefits of Pterocarpus marsupium make it a clear favorite to include in a preventive herbal cocktail along with Astragalus.
I looked for an effective herb with wide-spectrum health effects from the Western herbal tradition.
To round out the above herbs, I wanted an herbal compound that provided neural protection in the brain.
All of these neuroprotective properties of L-theanine make it a strong complementary addition to the three essential core herbs of the herbal mix.
We named the final 4-herb mix Stemcell 100 because of its positive effects on adult stem cells
Unlike corn or even sugar ethanol, halophyte algae (algae that grow in saltwater) do not compete with food stocks for freshwater. oewhen the cost of pumping ocean water into so-called wasteland regions such as the Sahara
Freitas has two other nanobot solutions. oenutribots floating through the bloodstream would allow people to eat virtually anything, a big fatty steak for instance,
in order to conserve energy, creating a complication.""If everything goes to sleep, the system will never wake up,
say, two bales of hay into five gallons of ethanol for less than $1 a gallon,
Florida has sugar. The Midwest has corn. Each region has been blessed with the ability to grow its own biomass."
Animal Welfare Drives Changes on US Farmsin an unlikely alliance, egg producers are teaming up with animal rights activists to back a plan requiring larger cages on chicken farms.
Under pressure from animal welfare groups, fast-food giant Mcdonald, major meat-processor Hormel and others recently agreed to end the use of tightly-confining pens at their suppliers pig farms.
Battery cage battle Nearly all eggs in the United states come from large facilities where hens are kept in small pens called battery cages.
Animal welfare groups say chickens in battery cages are given not enough room to move or raise their wings.
In 2008, the groups collected enough signatures for a California state ballot initiative to ban the battery cages.
a major California egg producer, campaigned against the proposal. oeat the end of the day, the voters made it clear that they wanted changes in the hen habitat,
and nesting boxes where the hens lay their eggs. Jill Benson company, JS West, became the first in the United states to install enriched cages.
Benson she says they definitely like the new cages. oewhat was a surprise is that the hens are producing just as many eggs, if not more,
Benson believes since eggs are shipped nationwide, the rules for how they are produced need to be uniform.
Egg farmers worried they would lose those battles, says Gene Gregory, president of United Egg Producers (UEP),
the biggest egg-farmers group in the country. oeso what we did reached, we out to the Humane Society of the United states
and said, Let have a discussion about this and see if we can t resolve this conflict,"
they push up the cost of eggs. Ludlum says consumers should be able to choose whether or not to spend more. oebut
The National Pork Producers Council also opposes the bill. It says the industry is responding to its customers,
nutrients and light a crop needs so they are able to reduce energy consumption which further brings down the cost to grow the crop.
Starting today, thousands of new confectionery and snack foods will be revealed May 8 10 during the 2012 SWEETS & SNACKS EXPOÂ in Chicago.
before and after receiving a small"Happiness"bag filled with a few pieces of candy. One hundred percent of those surveyed reported that even the small bag of candy brought happiness to their day,
increasing their happiness quotient by an average of 22 percent. Additionally, the survey revealed that consumers choose to snack because they like the taste (29 percent),
*"Trends in confectionery and snacks for 2012 are pushing new boundaries. As consumer palates become more complex,
This year there are a variety of new products with this flavor coupling, from milk chocolate-covered raisins and peanuts to cinnamon sugar popcorn, chocolate-covered pretzels, potato chips and more!
coconut and strawberry to create new confectionery flavors is gaining popularity, but the tropical fruit is also making its way to the snack aisle,
from freeze dried fruits to mouth-watering salsas and more. Packing a Healthy Punch Healthy snacking continues to gain momentum this year.
Whether gluten-free, all-natural, made from whole grains, or including B vitamins and antioxidants, there's no doubt consumers can find a snack packing the healthy punch they want
a plant-powered personal air filter (Idea#10 and#16), breathable chocolate bars (Idea#15), and, the latest, an edible food packaging called Wikicells (Idea#31).
Electrostatic charges can transform a sugar processing bi-product called bagasse, mixed with chitosan and alginate, into an edible shell membrane.
Now any food you might find wrapped in plastic in the store can come in a shell made just using this technology.
if edible packaging were succeed to, the public was prepared not to learn entirely novel ways of eating or drinking.
Indeed, Edwards released an ice cream wrapped in a fudge membrane, an almost too-recognizable treat. oeyou may say, Dave,
that sounds a lot like chocolate-covered ice cream, he says. oewell, if you took the chocolate-covered ice cream into your hand,
it would melt all over your hand. If you take the Wiki ice cream in your hand,
the ice cream may melt inside the fudge. You can then stick a straw into it
and drink it like a milkshake. And there it is, another idea one step closer to fruition
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