Menu madness Menus for Thanksgiving Dinners from American Cookery magazine November 1921: I Three-Course Dinner for Small Family in Servantless House:
since colony collapse disorder has decimated local bee populations. No use crying over it the white powder that blanketed a New zealand highway
because my obsession with peacock spiders started with that species . However Maratus vespertilio is probably a close second.
which broadcast an animal's evolutionary fitness. Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.
Medical practitioners for example can use the presence of certain molecules in blood or tissue to diagnose
or predict disease. The proteins known as antibodies are examples of biomarkers indicating possible infection. Chris Remien a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis uses math to better understand how biological markers relate to the diets of animals
and how they metabolize nutrients and toxins. The food and water animals consume leave chemical signatures (biomarkers) in their tissues;
however metabolism sometimes alters these signatures. Remien develops mathematical models to understand how metabolism can change the biomarkers.
Remien's models also help doctors estimate the extent of liver damage following overdose of acetaminophen (the active ingredient in some pain medicines) which is crucial for determining patient survival.
I have been fortunate to work with a range of people from ecologists to medical doctors asking very different questions.
In other research my work on acetaminophen overdose will hopefully have a direct impact in how medical doctors view acetaminophen overdose patients.
Our modeling efforts offer insight into the nature of the dynamics of an overdose and hopefully will be able to better guide physicians in determining
whether a patient will require a liver transplant for survival. Who has had the most influence on your thinking as a researcher?
but also how these genes are instructed to make taste receptors according to a new study published today (Sept. 11) in theâ American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The Food and Drug Administration can't currently regulate electronic cigarettes because they don't technically contain tobacco
 A lot of people feel like the e-cigarette manufacturers are exploiting a loophole said the director of Smoking Cessation Services at Columbia University Medical center Daniel Seidman.
A 2010 studyâ in the British Medical Journal found that the scarce evidence indicates the existence of various toxic and carcinogenic compounds albeit in possibly much smaller concentrations than in traditional cigarettes.
and whether they cause cancer though we do know they likely cause heart disease and strokes.
 Despite this uncertainty the FDA recently decided to tweak their definition of a tobacco product to bring e-cigarettes under their jurisdiction.
Dr. Michael Siegel from Boston University's School of Public health is a firm believer in the power of e-cigarettes to help smokers quit
There's a health concern if you end up maintaining your addiction. You can't smoke cigarettes in a lot of public places.
This is a marketing strategy for the manufacturers. It keeps the addiction alive. Â The FDA declined to comment on the difficulties involved with drafting rules for a product about
which there has been so little conclusive evidence This has led to speculation about what form these new FDA enforced regulations might take a subject on
and that the chemicals are of a pharmaceutical grade. Â In the meantime Seidman worries that e-cigarettes simply assist smokers who wish to bring e-cigarettes into places such as airports where the smoker would
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#The Maya: History, Culture & Religion The Maya refer to both a modern-day people who can be found all over the world as well as their ancestors who built an ancient civilization that stretched throughout much of Central america one that reached its peak during the first millennium A d. The Maya civilization was unified never;
rather it consisted of numerous small states ruled by kings each apparently centred on a city.
When the Spanish arrived in Central america in force in the 16th century the diseases they brought devastated the Maya.
The diseases they brought decimated the Maya and the Spaniards forced the Maya to convert to Christianity even burning their books.
because magic pills make money. Acai berry green tea extract and capsaicin all had their time in the spotlight.
what the magic pills are made from. But do they work? 9 Meal Schedules: When to Eat to Lose weight Let's explore the research:
1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Â After a 12-week randomized double-blind study of overweight men
and women researchers concluded that garcinia cambogia did not produce significant weight or fat loss above the placebo. 2013 review in the journal Complementary Theories in Medicine:
Researchers evaluated clinical trials that used plant extracts as potential treatment for obesity and found that the evidence was not convincing in most cases.
but surely more research needs to be done on the subject. 2005 study in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology:
Extremely high doses seemed to cause testicular atrophy and toxicity. Yikes! If you do decide to hop on the latest bandwagon
If you're talking any prescription medications talk to your doctor before adding any herbal supplement.
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#The Ultimate Iron Chef When 3d printers Invade the Kitchen (Op-Ed) This article was published originally atâ The Conversation.
 The publication contributed the article to Livescience'sâ Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Beyond novelty printed food could provide serious medical benefits. The netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific research (TNO) announced they ll build printers to reassemble pureed food to look like the original think 3d printed broccoli florets from pureed broccoli.
TNO has targeted printers for nursing homes in order to help elderly people who have chewing and swallowing problems.
Beyond medical conditions TNO has proposed printing customised meals with varied levels of the basic food components like carbs protein and fat for everyone from seniors to athletes to expectant mothers.
Some suggest 3d printed meat could provide high quality protein for a growing global population without increasing stress on arable land
Biopsies aren t the only sources for culture. The process could potentially use stem cells.
They work with communities on a wide range of issues including synthetic biology and bionic implants.
Dr. Robert Gorkin is a Strategic Development Officer at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES.
and nurse it for several months afterward during the young-at-foot stage when the juvenile kangaroo permanently exits the pouch.
To prevent the bloodshed pregnant female geladas will often spontaneously have a miscarriage. The phenomenon was discovered first in 1959 in mice by biologist Hilda Bruce
There they inject venom and digestive enzymes into their mother to kill her and subsequently feast on the remains.
if their efforts result in grandkids researchers say. 8. Frog taxi service The strawberry poison arrow frog pulls out all the stops
Thar Hills--And Toxic Mercury (ISNS) --When gold was discovered in California in 1849 the miners were confronted with a problem:
and the poisonous mercury is now slowly making its way toward the fruit and nut orchards and the rice fields of California s lush Central Valley America s food basket according to new research by a team
and contamination of fish with mercury is established oewell. The area studied is called the Yuba Fan built up around the Yuba River that runs out of the Sierra nevada mountains north of Sacramento not far from California s verdant wine country. oethe Yuba fan is created totally artificial by humans said Singer
but the contamination in the Yuba fan is hundreds of times greater. Scientists believe trees do not absorb mercury
Mercury contamination from gold mining is a worldwide problem. Two yearsâ ago scientists discovered that gold mining in the Amazon had contaminated already the food supply in the Madre de dios area of Peru in that case from burning off the mercury in the amalgam.
In another paper published this week scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science mapped the contamination at Madre de dios using space satellites.
The chemicals involved in making gold soluble also induce the plants to take up other soil contaminants such as mercury arsenic
In some places where there were no tigers people made pugmarks out of their own plaster casts. Personnel were expected to locate tiger tracks
and obtain plaster casts or tracings of the pugmarks.)Now they cannot do that because they have to show tigers from their own camera traps.
The ABC recently reported that 400 people in the Philippines trampled vitamin-enriched oegolden rice trial crops because of fears to human health and biodiversity.
It s very easy to see this as the mindless actions of ill-informed ideologues and anti-science luddites.
and self-interest nor is scientific research free from cultural influence (consider halal vaccines for example). Some people have very good reasons to be suspicious of scientists and science.
Of the 1115 ready-to-eat toddlers'meals examined in a study by the Centers for Disease Control
#Tomatoes, Summer's Last Sigh (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
I recently created a presentation for the hotel's health club members called Four Steps For Strengthening Muscles Some Surprising News. For the presentation hotel executive chef Douglas Anderson uniquely
or more servings of tomato products a week had a 35-percent decrease in risk of prostate cancer relative to those who consumed 1. 5 servings or fewer per week.
In a separate study men with lycopene levels in the top 20 percenthad a 46-percent decrease in risk of heart attack compared to those in the bottom 20 percent.
Many studies have shown that lycopene-rich foods reduce the risk of prostate cancer but the mechanism behind the reduction was understood not well until now.
A recentâ studyâ found that lycopeneâ has a substantial protective effect against prostate cancer by interfering with the genes that would allow the prostate cancer cells to grow
The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends that men take advantage of lycopene's cancer-preventing effects and fill tehir diets with foods such as tomatoes watermelon and guava.
or seeds nuts or shells were more likely to require hospitalization than those who choked on other foods.
The researchers from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio analyzed information from a national database of emergency-department visits focusing on choking visits involving food that did not result in death.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children ages 5 and younger should not be given hard candies
Parents and caregivers should be familiar with techniques to rescue their children if choking does occur.
and Drug Administration take action to label foods that may pose a choking risk to children.
The study is published today (July 29) in the journal Pediatrics. Follow Rachael Rettner@Rachaelrettner. Followlivescience@livescience Facebook & Google+.
and even public health administration (for example with pollen forecasting). You can contribute phenology data to Nature s Notebook an online program the USA National Phenology Network manages that collects observations of leaf phenology from professional and amateur naturalists.
Ignorance Is (Op-Ed) Dr. Mitchell Roslin is chief of obesity surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New york. He holds several patents for the treatment of obesity
and designed a method for treating relapse after gastric bypass surgery. Roslin has expertise in laparoscopic obesity surgery duodenal switch surgery and revisional bariatric surgery.
He contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The recent but long overdue decision by the U s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban trans fats made
me think about many of the shows I would watch when I was a child. They would have a villain that was all evil eventually captured
It seems the medical world has functioned with somewhat similar simplicity. Awareness of heart disease and the finding of cholesterol in atherosclerotic plaques that created the blockages implied that
if cholesterol was avoided heart disease would be prevented. As a result cholesterol became the villain. Foods that eliminated cholesterol would be safe to eat
and would prevent heart disease. Educated homemakers like my mother rapidly accepted this advice. To protect our family mom replaced butter with margarine.
Not just any but she was told that Fleischmann's was the best choice. Today we know much more.
Ignorance to those simple details has had broad implications helping to accelerate ridiculous myths that may be partially responsible for Americans'obesity and the diabetes epidemic.
and potentially produced generations of individuals addicted to simple carbohydrates. When fat was consumed the consensus opinion said vegetable oils even those artificially hardened were safer for our susceptible coronary arteries.
Margarine touted as heart safe even featured at medical conventions is extremely detrimental. So how could so many well-intentioned individuals have gotten it so wrong?
And how can the medical community prevent this from happening again? The second question is probably the most important as the consequences of poor choices only become apparent years later.
This landmark study designed by Ancel Keys followed males who were at risk for heart disease from the United states Finland Yugoslavia Italy Greece and The netherlands.
and followed patients until 1981. The study showed that patients in the United states and Northern europe had higher rates of cardiovascular-disease-related deaths.
The data showed that active individuals who did not smoke were less likely to get heart disease.
Yet despite the broad findings the message that proliferated was that in countries that consumed more animal products
and thus cholesterol death rates were higher. This is the message that my mother received from physicians and the media.
Avoid butter buy margarine. Pretzels breads sweets were fine as they did not contain cholesterol.
me to an American Medical Association convention and it looked like a supermarket. Vendors were touting cholesterol-free foods.
The recent decision by the FDA and the 30 years of data demonstrating the damage of trans fats are clear evidence that the medical community's artificial efforts were not successful.
Besides heart disease trans fats have also been linked to cancer. But the real question is how can we avoid making the same mistake again?
or a miracle pill to prevent disease. Healthy people have a healthy lifestyle. They eat foods that grow in the ground or lean meats and low-fat dairy products.
The solution to the obesity epidemic begins with eating more fresh fruits and vegetables not re-engineering processed foods.
And if climate change causes temperatures to rise in forests as we expect we may see scale insects becoming a much bigger problem for ecosystem health.
#Understanding the Power of Omega-3s (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian;
I first became interested in the power of omega-3 fatty acids when psychiatrists I work with began prescribing the nutrient to depressed patients finding it made positive improvements.
Then I started hearing about the potential benefits of omega-3s for arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.
Could it be possible that one nutrient could provide so many benefits? The connection between omega-3s and health was observed first in the 1970s.
Scientists observed that Inuit populations in Greenland had reduced a rate of heart disease rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments even though they ate a high-fat and high-cholesterol diet.
The researchers hypothesized that the type of fat marine-derived might play a role. Since then study after study has confirmed that omega-3s in fish have a potent effect on reducing heart disease.
Omega-3s work several ways in the heart. They appear to prevent irregular heartbeat reduce fatty plaques inside artery walls decrease blood clotting decrease triglycerides (blood fat) increase HDL (good cholesterol) and decrease inflammation.
Omega-3 favorably affects a number of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and at the top of the list is reducing the risk of sudden death from heart attack said Penny Kris Etherton distinguished professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State university.
But when it comes to the benefits of omega-3s that may be just the tip of the iceberg!
if you have heart disease. But its healing powers don't stop there. Other organs may benefit.
In fact omega-3s are so important to human health the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board recently set a minimum daily requirement for the first time.
and constricts blood vessels said Artemis Simopoulos president of the Center for Genetics Nutrition and Health and the author of The Omega Diet (Harper collins 1999).
and prevents clot formation all important functions in preventing many diseases. The ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is the hottest debate among omega-3 researchers.
In 5 out of 6 of the clinical trials where people were given either a placebo
or omega-3 fatty acids on average the symptoms of depression have been reduced by about 50 percent said Joseph Hibbeln a psychiatrist at the National Institutes for Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism.
when the subjects were already on antidepressants and failing to respond to them. Hibbeln's studies found an increase in depression violence
Omega-3s may even improve conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Bone density may also be enhanced by omega-3 intake.
Osteoporosis is lower in populations who eat more fish such as Asians when compared to Europeans who eat more calcium-containing foods said Bruce Watkins nutrition professor at Purdue University.
The Greenland studies with Inuit populations found they don't suffer much from psoriasis a skin disease that causes painful inflammation redness and scales.
which causes psoriasis to spread. When researchers tested the impact of omega-3s on people with psoriasis after 10 weeks 60 percent of subjects experienced a decrease in the area of skin affected by the condition and a decrease in cell proliferation and skin inflammation.
Apparently the dose is essential. As the authors have said while the work is promising more research is needed to understand the mechanism and doses and why it works for some but not others.
which cause psoriasis new research is finding it inhibits proliferation of cancer cells in the breast prostate and colon.
But a new study found breast cancer patients responded better to chemotherapy and the cancer was less likely to spread
when patients were given omega-3 fatty acids. And there is epidemiological evidence that men who eat more fish have a lower risk for prostate cancer.
Omega-3 in Fish May Reduce Breast cancer Risk There is also evidence that omega-3s may help prevent Type 2 diabetes
and improve the effects of diabetes by reducing insulin resistance. The U s. Food and Drug Administration recently approved omega-3s for infant formulas because of the overwhelming evidence that it improves cognition and visual functioning in children.
A mother's breast milk provides it naturally especially when the mother regularly eats fish.)
Inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease may also improve with omega-3 supplementation. The studies are just beginning.
More research needs to be done to understand who will benefit most from higher levels of omega-3s in their diets.
Your genetics and environment play large roles in responsiveness to omega-3s. And while studies are very promising for a wide range of illnesses the optimal amount of omega-3
and the ideal ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 are debated still hotly in the scientific community.
What isn't debated is that adult women need atleast1. 1 grams of omega-3s daily and adult men need 1. 6 grams according to the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board.
For patients with coronary artery disease AHA recommends 1000 mg daily or double the seafood requirement (but never above 3000 mg without a doctor's supervision.
or overworking meaning omega-3s are actually reducing your immune response when they reduce inflammation. This suppression of the immune system could be an explanation for the recent possible connection between prostate cancer and high omega-3-fatty acid in the bloodstream.
However that is a single study and the issue needs more research. With high doses of omega-3s there is also a slight increase in risk for hemorrhagic stroke or excessive bleeding.
So people with compromised immune systems should take large doses only with a doctor's advice.
As usual I have to underscore balance. It may be safer to stick with food sources and not supplements so you don't go overboard
Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was GMOS Are a Grand Experiment on Health Environment
 Understanding conditioning and your dog's behavior Modern theories of behavior began with the work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov who was awarded the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for his work.
Hoping that she would someday become a therapy dog Honey's owner took the dog to meet a person in a wheelchair.
and from then on she wanted no part of being anywhere near a wheelchair. The wheelchair that was once a neutral stimulus caused Honey to react with panic
when she saw it. Her respiration and heart rates increased in the presence of any wheelchair.
The physiological changes in heart rate and respiration were the respondent part of the conditioning. When Honey learned to avoid
or escape wheelchairs operant conditioning (learned behavior had taken place. How classical conditioning can benefit dog owners As an example of classical conditioning related to a positive experience
if Honey had developed not a fear of wheelchairs and they were a neutral stimulus Honey's owner could have reached into her treat bag
and given Honey a preferred treat every time they were in the presence of a wheelchair.
as a result of seeing a wheelchair classical (respondent) conditioning had taken place. Pairing the dog's favorite treat with the object
Profits from wildlife trafficking estimated at $8 0 billion per year fund other illicit activities such as narcotics armsand human trafficking Kerry added.
The human body needs Vitamin d to maintain bone health and helps regulate the immune system. The ultraviolet light in sunlight actually converts cholesterol in your skin into Vitamin d.
and found that tree cover correlates with human health because forest dwellers eat a more diverse diet than people in other environments do.
 In the North american West damage from fire logging and infection by the devastating mountain pine beetle is evident.
Images of nearby nature on our phones and computers can alleviate mental fatigue. They enhance our attention help us cope with distraction
Researchers looked at 14 clinical trials involving nearly 50000 participants and found that people who took Vitamin b had a 7 percent decreased risk of stroke compared with people who took a placebo.
However among those who did have strokes taking Vitamin b supplements did not appear to affect the severity of strokes or the risk of dying from a stroke according to the study published Sept. 18 in the journal Neurology.
and whether a person has kidney disease or high blood pressure said study researcher Dr. Xu Yuming a neurologist at Zhengzhou University in China. 7 Ways to Raise Your Risk of Stroke Before you begin taking any supplements you should always talk to your doctor Yuming said.
In a stroke the blood supply to the brain is interrupted by a blood clot or the bursting of a blood vessel.
Common risk factors for stroke include high blood pressure high cholesterol and smoking. However previous studies indicate that these risk factors explain only half of the risk for stroke the researchers said.
Some studies have suggested that high levels of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood could potentially be a risk factor for vascular disease
and stroke or heart attack Yuming said. Some studies have suggested even that the supplements may increase the risk of these events.
The American Cancer Society notes that while supplements containing B vitamins are thought generally to be safe they should not be taken in large doses. High doses of vitamin B3 (niacin can cause health problems including blurred vision nausea vomiting and high blood sugar.
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Eat a Plant-Based Diet To stave off death by a few extra years a vegetarian diet appears to be superior to a non-vegetarian one according to results of a study of more than 73000 people published today (June 3) in the Journal of the American Medical
Previous studies have shown that vegetarian diets are associated with decreased risk of numerous chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes obesity metabolic syndrome circulatory disease and hypertension.
or the presence of a health-conscious attitude shared by many vegetarians or both that leads to healthier outcomes?
The researchers led by Dr. Michael J. Orlich of Loma Linda University in California (a Seventh-Day Adventist institution) analyzed the diets of 73308 Seventh-Day Adventists.
and meats according to Dr. Robert Baron of the University of California San francisco who wrote an editorial accompanying the new findings in the journal.
A second study published today by researchers at Johns hopkins university in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that a combination of regular exercise a Mediterranean diet smoking avoidance
and weight maintenance was associated with a lower risk of coronary artery disease. The Mediterranean diet emphasizes fruits vegetables nuts fish and healthy fats.
Those who adopted all four healthy behaviors had an 80 percent lower death rate over 7. 6 years compared to participants with none of the healthy behaviors lead author Haitham Ahmed of Johns Hopkins Hospital said in a statement.
The JAMA study on Seventh-Day Adventists does conflict with a large analysis published in 2009 based on the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Oxford) study
Orlich added that even our non-vegetarians are relatively low meat consumers and relatively health conscious.
His column Bad Medicine appears regularly on Livescience L
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