but scatology the scientific study of excrement can tell scientists a lot about an animal including its habits overall health and presence of disease.
The bacteria in feces provide a sampling of an animal's gut flora and fauna which determine its health.
The study of feces has led also to advances in human medicine. For example poop transplants can be an effective means of treating intractable gut infections by reestablishing a healthy bacterial equilibrium.
Sometimes people would also drink the urine of the shaman or the reindeer as the hallucinogenic compounds are excreted this way without some of the harmful chemicals present in the fungi
and free from outdoor pollutants you could be traipsing inside.</</p><p>When removing your shoes becomes part of your daily routine it prevents everything from dirt and rocks to lawn chemicals and potential allergens from entering your house.</
Higher-than-normal levels of estrogen in pregnant women's urine scientists speculated may stimulate the germination of seeds
             A woman's urine was used as a way to determine her pregnancy status during the Middle ages too
if a needle placed in a vial of urine turned rust red or black the woman was probably pregnant io9. com reports.
Another popular test involved mixing wine with urine and watching the resulting changes. Since alcohol can react with the proteins in urine this test might have been successful
if analyzed by someone who knew what color-related changes to look for. Some 17th-century doctors dipped a ribbon into a pot of a woman's urine;
if the smell of the ribbon made the woman gag or feel nauseous she was presumed pregnant mentalfloss. com reports.
or hcg that's found only in pregnant women marking the first time a single compound was discovered that could indicate pregnancy status. To determine the presence of hcg a sample of the woman's urine was injected into an immature female mouse frog or rabbit.
If hcg was present in the urine sample the animal would go into heat indicating the woman was pregnant.
In 1972 scientists reported for the first time a radioimmunoassay pregnancy test that could distinguish between hcg and luteinizing hormone in a woman's urine.
Modern pregnancy tests which still rely on the presence of hcg in urine are up to 99 percent accurate depending on the presence of certain medications following the test's instructions accurately
Most of the evidence come from dissection of crocodiles'stomachs and their faeces. So there is some chance that these crocodiles are indirect eaters of fruit who feast on fruit-eating animals.
This oil combined with leaf litter and peeling bark during periods of dry windy weather can turn a small ground fire into a terrifying explosive firestorm in a matter of minutes.
or certain disease-causing bacteria like the kind found in human waste said study author Sarah Keim researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio.
He came to those figures partly by inspecting the bones found at the site--construction gang garbage.
However this method doesn't take into account the fact that humans lose some calories through urine and feces and as heat.
and collected people's feces to determine how many calories were wasted. Based on these experiments Atwater concluded that proteins
For example the almond study which also accounted for calories lost in feces suggested that some of the fat in whole almonds is locked away in a structure our bodies can't digest.
What is digested not is excreted out of the body in feces and urine. Some of the food provides the energy required to eat
and samples of feces and urine were taken regularly. By knowing what food went in and
 Tufts'Roberts thinks calories still count The environment is so full of junk food and excess portions that the only way many people can keep their weight healthy is to watch what they eat she said.
along with their waste frequently in welfare-depriving cages crates and pens. The majority of pregnant sows egg-laying hens and other farm animals are housed in barren crowded cages and crates barely larger than their bodies.
but in Joplin doors and glass windows at either end of long halls were destroyed by debris creating a dangerous situation Gallus said.
#Cat Poop Parasite Is Dangerously Widespread Be careful next time you change the kitty litter cat poop can carry a nefarious parasite that may be much more widespread than thought researchers say.
Cats in the United states release about 2. 6 billion pounds (1. 2 million metric tons) of feces into the environment every year.
Other animals like sheep and cattle can also acquire the parasite by ingesting the infected cat feces.
It has long been known that the parasite can survive in cat litter where the oocysts become aerosolized after 24 to 48 hours Torrey said.
and change their behavior causing them to be less afraid of the smell of cat urine.
Some like methane are produced through agricultural practices including livestock manure management. Others like CO2 largely result from natural processes like respiration and from the burning of fossil fuels.
Costa rica is also implementing a number of strategies to reduce emissions including converting solid waste to energy switching to cleaner fuels in cars trucks
Crocodiles and Alligators Snack on Fruit</a p></p><p>Ancient trash heaps in Bolivia used for millennia now suggest humans explored the western Amazon as early as 10000 years ago researchers say.</
and a tsunami inundated much of the Eastern United states. It is hypothesized that debris aerosols from the asteroid impact
or do they come out in their feces? Platt asked. What effects do their guts have on the seeds?
when he went to investigate he saw a roughly circular area of debris and apparently flattened reeds and grass which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but
and love garbage. Â Only those wolves who were least fearful and nonaggressive toward humans would be able to take advantage of that new source of food.
 Earthworms ingest the organic matter or litter that lies atop the soil. The litter is ground to a pulp in their gizzard broken down and digested by their gut bacteria
and excreted back into the soil. Soil digested by earthworms is much richer in nitrogen potassium and phosphates.
Their excrement also adds physical structure to the soil that holds in the carbon reduces erosion
In the northern part of the U s. forests rely on a layer of litter to regulate the temperature moisture and nutrient content of the soil.
As a consequence some tree species may not be able to survive a rapid decline in the litter layer.
We're losing the litter on the surface of the soil which has affects on future forest composition
Other new studies find that the fecal matter of millipedes and oribatid mites also transform carbon into its more decay resistant form.
One task she's been devoted particularly to is finding ways to keep her creations clean of debris and contaminants.
I would not rule it out Dr. Montserrat Torremorell of the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary medicine told Reuters. There is a chance that airborne contaminated feces may have played a role in the rapid dissemination of the disease she said.
when they re just 6 months old and their litters average about six sows reports Mississippi State university.
They produce an average of 1. 5 litters per year. Feral pigs were introduced to North america in the 1500s by Spanish explorers
In excreted fecal matter Cyclospora exists in the form of oocysts (a thick-walled structure containing immature dormant parasite spores) a product of sexual reproduction of the parasite.
but contamination of water and food (such as raw produce) with oocyst-containing fecal matter likely contributes to the dissemination.
There are usually three to five cubs in a litter and each newborn cheetah cub weighs only 5 to 10 ounces (142 to 284 grams).
but some males will even taste the urine to see if she's ready to mate.
Each individual leopard has its own hunting range which it marks with urine and claw marks.
and there are usually two or three cubs in a litter. The mom keeps her cubs hidden for about eight weeks until they're old enough to play
work hard work the task of bringing people from degradation poverty and waste to full manhood.
and fallen debris such as leaf litter thus leaving room for sequoia seedlings to sprout and grow.
and he took all the levelling debris took it to the top of the hill and threw it over the back in a big dump Redding said.
To this day I rarely eat junk food because it simply wasn't a part of my upbringing.
A minuscule $15000 grant to the Rich Earth Institute funds a study on using sanitized urine as fertilizer.
Coburn's report goes as far as to list a series of studies on turning waste into something worthwhile before dismissing the line of research because of the'ick'factor he said.
Another U s. Department of agriculture effort to turn manure from a dairy farm into a powerhouse for the farm's electricity gets a similarly shallow treatment that ignores the influence of methane from manure as a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
because goats are attracted to urine from hikers. The study is arguably less funny considering that goat-human encounters are up
and rock debris built up by glaciers called moraines which held clues to the past climate.
Within the soil he found evidence of past cultivation including animal manure and charred organic material (likely burnt kitchen scraps) both
and dead dry wood and debris piled up on the forest floor according to studies by fire ecologists such as Stephens. Fires today burn hotter and higher up into the big trees (so-called crown fires).
From debris to playground Christian Zimmerman vice president of design and construction with the Prospect Park Alliance spearheaded a new playground built from a small portion of the 500 trees that fell in Prospect Park during the storm.
But anyone who has fed ever their child fast food knows that it's hard to go back once kids get a taste for junk food.
More livestock means more manure which further enriches the soil enabling crops to be grown and spreads tree seeds so new trees grow.
#Humans Landed on'Treasure Island'Earlier Than Thought Ancient trash heaps in Bolivia used for millennia now suggest humans explored the western Amazon as early as 10000 years ago researchers say.
Whereas the underlying layer of shells might not obviously result from human activity molecules detected in the underlying layer are linked to human feces.
#Junk Food Subsidies Threaten American Health (Op-Ed) Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
The government's junk food bias Certainly there are other things we can do to protect our hearts.
So what's stopping us besides the fact that junk food is addictive? According to UCS it's upside-down government policy.
These perverse policies make Americans foot the bill twice once to subsidize commodity crops that wind up in junk food
and soy oils the building blocks of junk food according to an annual report published by CALPIRG Apples to Twinkies 2013:
Comparing Federal Subsidies for Fresh Produce and Junk Food. Apples are the only fruit or vegetable that benefits from a significant federal subsidy the report found
The report used the high-calorie Twinkie as its emblematic junk food because 17 of its 37 ingredients including corn syrup high-fructose corn syrup vegetable shortening
But even worse as the Athabasca flows downstream through the scarred industrial landscape it is contaminated by toxic waste leaching from tar-sands mining operations that poison the waters threatening wildlife
and millions more gallons of toxic waste that would leach into the rivers from tailings ponds
Old tires junk piles building eaves cement blocks upturned flower pots and even empty soda cans have been occupied by the bees according to the U s. Department of agriculture.
or other debris that close off bay areas. There are a number of islands on the lake including the Thousand Islands region
because to avoid the protein they end up cutting out desserts and junk foods thus losing weight.
because to avoid the protein they end up cutting out desserts and junk foods thus losing weight.
and rock debris blown out of the mountain face moving at nearly supersonic speeds. Everything within eight miles of the blast was wiped out almost instantly.
the insects also readily get the salt from animal urine muddy river banks puddles sweaty clothes
>.And that risk increased for those who smoked more frequently and those showing a higher level of the drug in their urine.</
Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities
Scientist Snaps Shot of Colorful Urine From red to blue to violet all the colors of the rainbow appear regularly in urine tests conducted at hospital labs. The prismatic pee collection seen in this stunning photo took only a week
and her colleagues collected the urine colors to highlight their fascinating behind-the-scenes work.
None of the urine samples were treated with chemicals in the lab to change their hue West said.
They did not believe it was actually urine she said. Hospital labs are tucked often away in a windowless basement
While the chromatic colors of pee are amazing doctors are interested usually more in the contents of urine.
I wouldn't generally just monitor the color of someone's urine said Kirsten Greene an assistant professor of urology at the University of California San francisco
Red Blood is the most common cause of red urine and is a definite health warning signal.
when people have red urine Greene said. Bladder cancer infections and kidney stones can all cause bleeding that shows up in urine
and all are worth a trip to the doctor. More benignly eating a lot of beets can turn your pee pink.
Orange Dark-colored urine also points to health problems. Liver cancer can cause dark brown urine containing excess bilirubin a brownish pigment produced by the liver.
A drug called phenazopyridine (Pyridium) created the bright orange urine seen in West's photograph.
It's a painkiller given to people with urinary tract infections and converts pee into a Gatorade-like color.
Antibiotics often alter urine color to orange Green said. People who eat enough carrots to turn their skin orange can have orange pee too she added.
Yellow Many people have seen the effects of dehydration on pee a dark yellow-colored urine.
Without enough water a pigment called urochrome becomes more concentrated in urine. On the other hand in hospitals some patients on intravenous fluids are hydrated
so they produce nearly colorless urine West said. The cloudy yellow urine in West's picture was caused by an infection.
Related: How much Urine Can a Healthy Bladder Hold? Green Green urine usually flows from dilution of blue urine as in West's image.
Occasionally a urinary tract infection may trigger green pee. Blue The rarest of all on the pee rainbow blue urine often comes from chemicals
and drugs given to patients. The No. 1 offender is called a drug methylene blue used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning and as a dye during surgery.
It makes the blue and green urine seen in West's photograph. Methylene blue was also a malaria treatment during WORLD WAR II.
Other medications that make blue urine include Viagra indomethacin and propofol the anesthetic drug infamously linked with Michael jackson's death.
Genetic conditions that affect the breakdown of dietary nutrients can also cause blue urine. Even blue food dyes sometimes passes into pee.
Indigo and Violet In this photo the deep purple urine comes from a patient with kidney failure. The dark black one is something that you usually see in kidney failure West said.
Your kidneys should be filtering your blood and getting rid of your waste and when you damage the kidneys there's a lot more blood in the urine she said.
Another violet venue: Patients with catheters can develop a rare complication called purple urine bag syndrome linked to a urinary tract infection and highly alkaline urine.
A genetic condition called porphyria may also trigger deep purple pee. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.
+Original article on Livescience. com n
#People With Celiac disease Don't Have To Miss the Cookout (Op-Ed) Mary Kay Sharrett R. D. L. D. of the Celiac disease Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital helps patients with celiac disease.
</p><p>But some people are pushing the definition of food group to a whole new level by trying to incorporate human waste and bacteria into the food chain.
</p><p>Many people have drunk urine throughout history for cultural reasons with some alternative medicine practitioners claiming the substance'
Army field guides say drinking urine is a good survival tool when stranded in the wilderness.</
Though urine fresh from the source is generally sterile pee left sitting out can contain harmful bacteria.
And because urine is so high in salts and minerals it could also lead to dehydration if drunk as a stand-alone beverage.<
<a href=http://www. space. com/20867-astronauts-drink-urine-and-other-wastewater-video. html>Video:
Astronauts Drink Urine and Other Waste</a p><p>The trend of new moms eating their placenta after giving birth has been on the rise in certain segments of the U s. population for years now.
and other pollutants including hydrofluorocarbons which are potent greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere
Fecal matter just ends up in the milk it's not like you can see it he said.
The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental protection agency to set air quality standards for six criteria pollutants:
but also air pollutants that are harmful to human health. Past studies have analyzed how reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would also improve air quality. 5 Ways Climate Change Affects Your Health
and local effect generally not further analyzing how air pollutants can drift across national borders long-term changes in human populations
and air pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter (tiny particles suspended in the air). The researchers found that aggressively reducing greenhouse gas emissions could help prevent 300000 to 700000 premature deaths annually byâ the year 2030 two-thirds
We found reducing greenhouse gases could lead to a pretty striking reduction in air pollutants
but junk food may actually contribute to depression. The evidence is mounting many studies have linked junk food consumption with depression
and as researchers continue to study mood and nutrition there are likely to be more. So doesn't now seem like a good time to start replacing the mood-busting junk in your diet with mood-boosting natural foods?
In September 2013 Anu Ruusunen of the University of Eastern Finland presented an analysis of the population-based Kuopio Ischaemic Heart disease Risk Factor Study as her nutritional epidemiology doctoral thesis
The more junk food they consumed the more likely they were to feel depressed. 6 Foods That Are Good For Your Brain It's important to note that these studies show an association
-and-effect relationship exists between junk food and depression. And it's not clear how the link may work it could be that people who already have symptoms of depression are more likely to eat junk food.
But let's shift gears from focusing on the negative side of things and focus on how to turn around our diets and potentially our moods.
Consider trading in your junk food addiction and adopting these mood-boosting habits: Healthy Bites appears weekly on Livescience.
Stuart Pimm of Duke university argued in an opinion piece in National geographic that these efforts would be a colossal waste
For example just one U s. family of four wastes 1656 pounds (751 kilograms) of food every year.</
A senseless waste when most Americans are keeping a close eye on household budgets and when one in six Americans lacks a secure supply of food.
Food is the single biggest item in our landfills a source of the powerful global warming pollutant methane.
and send it out of the body as urine. People can function well with just one kidney.
or at least waste not want not. It's been a tradition to eat animals that we study Girguis said.
I actually made drinking glasses out of 40000-year-old ice by hollowing out the inside of a waste core a byproduct of the sampling we did said Ed Brook a professor of geosciences at Oregon State university.
and debris. Conventional planet-forming theory posits that the dust eventually sticks together and grows forming larger and larger objects until they reach the size of planets (in the case of rocky planets) or planetary cores (in the case of gas giants such as Jupiter).
The year before in Oregon 4000 of real pig blood spilled from a truck carting animal waste from a processing plant.
and copper common pollutants found in mine waste that can pose a risk to humans and the environment.
Urine can be a really high nitrogen resource and hemlock can be competed out by other species in really high nitrogen environments.
Due to environmental pollutants found in fish experts recommend women of childbearing age keep fish intake to no more than 12 ounces per week.
But omega-3 researchers believe the risk of not getting enough omega-3 in your diet outweighs the potential risk of pollutants.
Werth also hopes to explore how pollutants affect the whales'baleen. I'm really worried about
or debris he said. Follow Tanya Lewis on Twitter@tanyalewis314. Follow us@livescience Facebookâ or Google+.
and by concentrating waste products you could make them easier to treat and dispose of. But this falls apart in practice:
while waste products are taken mostly out of the city and processed elsewhere. Cities need to find ways to grow their own food
Some 56 percent of global food loss and waste occurs in the developed world particularly in North america
A number of changes could reduce food loss and waste around the world. For example better storage facilities on farms in Africa and even putting harvested crops in plastic storage bags would reduce the amount of food that falls victim to pests there Hanson said.
Some greenhouse gases like methane are produced through agricultural practices including livestock manure management. Others like CO2 largely result from natural processes like respiration and from the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gas.
in the presence of certain pollutants these scents can chemically transform into undetectable forms researchers from the University of Southampton report today (Oct 3) in the journal Scientific Reports.
technology for each pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. The agency then initiated a science-driven process to develop rules for properly quantifying carbon emissions from these plants.
The main components of kidney stones in rats that ate the pet food says a federal document are melamine and uric acid (also known as urea the main component in urine.
and China developed nations have agreed now in principle to deal with short-term greenhouse gas pollutants like HFCS that can forestall nearly a Degree fahrenheit of warming over the coming decades.
Large woody debris results in river complexity which brings in the salmon which brings in the fish owls Slaght said.
Gas and smelly urine are the two most common side effects. Why does asparagus make urine smell?
Asparagus is the only food to contain the chemical asparagusic acid. When this aptly named chemical is digested it breaks down into sulfur-containing compounds
or smelling the odor in urine. So eat up! According to the Michigan Asparagus Advisory board: For more information on Fruits & Vegetables visit:
Animals sometimes drink salt from sweat urine and even blood de la Rosa said. These new findings support a 2012 report of a bee sipping the tears of a yellow-spotted river turtle in Ecuador's Yasunã National park. Similar findings were seen with butterflies drinking the tears of yellow-spotted river
and streams from agricultural runoff and human waste the researchers said. 12 Worst Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals
& Their Health Effects The sources of estrogenic chemicals are most likely complex mixtures from both agricultural sources such as animal wastes pesticides
and the manure of animals like cows chickens and pigs the researchers said. It's not clear exactly
American food-waste habits in addition to the wasting of food itself use up four percent of U s. oil and 25 percent of the nation's fresh water.
and composting Waste in its most literal sense is garbage. Americans throw out about 4. 4 pounds of stuff per person per day
and one of the single biggest sources of that waste is food. New york city launched a successful pilot curbside food-waste collection program this year
The city could save $100 million each year by diverting organic waste from landfills and turning it into healthy soil for parks and gardens.
The San francisco giants won this year's Green Glove Award from Major league Baseball keeping an impressive 86 percent of their waste out of landfills. 4. U s. fuel-efficiency standards are paying off In the traditional gasoline engines
These closures are a waste of time for beachgoers as well as a wasted opportunity for local businesses. In Chicago alone swim bans cost the local economy an estimated $2 million every year.
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011