but it turns out they do not live on meat alone scientists have discovered unexpectedly that these predators occasionally snack on fruit as well.
For instance scientists have seen crocodilians eating wild grapes elderberries and citrus fruit directly from trees. I had found seeds in crocodiles before but
because everyone supposed they only ate meat. Although early research suggested crocodilians were unable to digest sugars
and other plant-based nutrients subsequent work with the American alligator has demonstrated otherwise. Crocodilians do not chew any fruit would likely get swallowed whole to digest in the strong acids of their guts.
Crocodilians always surprise us Platt said. I've been doing research on them for 25 years and
but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. But who or what is making them?
The breakthrough in today s paper is the sequencing of the entire genome of a Ctenophore known as the sea walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi.
They have eight rows of comb plates with cilia that provide them with locomotion. They are carnivorous hermaphroditic marine creatures that do not sting.
The sea walnut (M. leidyi) is native to the western Atlantic but has been introduced to the Black Caspian
and North seas where it has caused serious environmental and economic damage by eating native zooplankton and fish.
The sea walnut genome contained 16548 protein coding genes 44%of which shared homology-a type of ancestry-with non-Ctenophores.
As sea walnuts glow when disturbed so does this study shed light on some interesting assumptions about animal evolution.
Under these conditions one species of alga Anabaena flos-aquae produces a neurotoxin anatoxin-A which depolarizes and blocks acetylcholine receptors causing death in animals that drink the pond water.
#Daily Serving of Nuts Linked with Longer Life Eating a small amount of nuts each day may help people live longer a new study suggests.
The work was funded in part by the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation
and the U s. Food and Drug Administration says that eating 1. 5 ounces of nuts per day may reduce the risk of heart disease.
Every two to four years participants were asked about their typical food intake including how often they consumed nuts.
The findings were similar for consumption of peanuts as well as tree nuts including walnuts hazelnuts and almonds.
Still the study does not prove that eating nuts was the cause of people's longer lives;
It's really such a powerful thing to know that I can eat nuts as part of my diet
It's really such a cardio-protective food. The study relied on people's self-reports of
Because of these dumps the grizzlies started roaming for food in areas too close to the park's tourists leading to policies of euthanization and removal.
One of the explanations focuses on whitebark pine an important food as grizzlies bulk up for hibernation in the fall.
In response to lost pine trees the animals could switch to eating more meat or find other plants as a substitution van Manen said.
While van Manen declined to give specifics about the results until they are published he said there are no major indications that body fat as a percentage of bear weight is declining This could with further study suggest that the food source isn't the explanation.
Scientist Risked Execution for Fox Study (Op-Ed) Brian Hare is an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke university
and others have speculated that as humans began forming more permanent settlements over the last 15000 years a new canine food source appeared that led directly to the evolution of the dogs we know
 Only those wolves who were least fearful and nonaggressive toward humans would be able to take advantage of that new source of food.
 Hare's most recent Op-Ed was Dogs Show IQ TESTS Aren't So Smart.
Female gastric brooding frogs swallowed their fertilized eggs transformed their stomach into a uterus and gave birth to their sons and daughters through the mouth.
The team said they used cloning methods to implant the DNA-storing nuclei of preserved gastric brooding frog cells in the eggs of Australian marsh frog eggs.
Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
In addition to highlighting the availability of crops like sorghum and alfalfa that are inherently more drought-tolerant
and might be used more often in U s. agriculture Doug also discussed the success of conventional corn breeders who have increased drought tolerance at a steady pace of 1 percent per year over decades.
Causes of deforestation Deforestation is done typically to make more land available for housing and urbanization timber large scale cash crops such as soy and palm oil and cattle ranching.
or burning like soy coffee and palm oil can actually exacerbate soil erosion because their roots cannot hold onto the soil the way trees can.
Increased flooding lack of quality water and inability to produce their own food causes many locals migrate to cities that lack infrastructure for them.
Complications The primary complication of diarrhea is caused dehydration by the loss of large amounts of water salt and nutrients.
While water is fine it does not replace lost salt or nutrients so better choices are broth tea with honey sports drinks
and pulp-free juices. Avoid milk products caffeine alcohol and apple and pear juices since they may worsen diarrhea.
Soft bland foods are recommended as well including bananas plain rice toast crackers boiled potatoes smooth peanut butter cottage cheese noodles and applesauce.
Because yogurt cheese and miso contain probiotics which contain strains of bacteria similar to those in a healthy intestine they are also good choices.
Avoid fatty high-fiber or heavily seasoned foods for several days a
#Did Woman's'Visions'Locate Missing Boy? The search for a missing 11-year-old California boy came to a tragic end recently
when the body of Terry Smith Jr. was found. The boy's mother reported him missing July 7
and his body was found three days later not far from his home in the rural town of Menifee according to news reports.
A woman named Pam Ragland who claims to have psychic or intuitive powers is being credited by police
A team of National Science Foundation-funded scientists is investigating how a rampant beetle infestation could change the quantity and quality of drinking water in Colorado.
And so are changes to the quality of drinking water. Decomposing pine needles on the forest floor mix with runoff to create a pine tree tea foul tasting and smelling.
Scientists have found evidence that the fallen needles affect the natural chemical makeup of Colorado's drinking water
and these researchers continue to study the problem. You can learn more about this environmental problem in a video the National Science Foundation created with NBC Learn Sustainability:
The Food and Drug Administration however hasn endorsed t e-cigarettes as smoking-cessation aides and in 2010 the agency sent warning letters to companies who marketed e-cigarettes as such.
#Do Fast-food Restaurants Fall short on Their Health Claims? Fast-food restaurants are serving healthier options although only marginally so according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Preventive medicine.
You may have known that changes were afoot in the fast-food restaurants most vilified by doctors for serving unhealthy fare.
Mcdonald's Burger king and others now offer salad fruit and skim milk. The new offerings advertised prominently would make one think that a trip to the local burger joint is suddenly heart-healthy and waistline-friendly.
Not quite said Mary Hearst director of public health at St catherine University in St paul Minn. lead author on the report.
The advertising of fast food restaurants has been emphasizing'healthy'items but there has been no data to support the claims she told Livescience.
Based on the Healthy Eating Index a measure of diet quality that assesses conformance to federal diet guidelines the overall health quality of fast food was poor the researchers found.
In 2010 food items scored 48 points on average out of a possible 100 an increase from 44 points in 1997.
Supersize those fries and diet Coke So yes you now can get a side salad.
But along with adding some greens the restaurants also have added less healthful items in terms of calories fat salt sugar
The restaurants analyzed were Mcdonald's Burger king Wendy's Taco bell Kentucky fried chicken (KFC) Arby's Jack in the box and Dairy Queen.
After all fast food is fast food. But Hearst emphasized that the study doesn't state that fast food restaurants need to alter their menu.
At issue for the researchers in part are the health claims that fast-food restaurants make. If they are claiming healthy options they should be able to demonstrate it Hearst said.
If they seek a socially responsible mission they should continue to improve the nutritional quality of their menus.
and a 33-percent increase in the term low-fat on fast-food menus. Yet the offerings are not say 86 percent healthier.
KFC made the greatest gains from 42 to 51 points on the Healthy Eating Index by increasing its offerings of vegetables
Mcdonald's has improved the nutritional profile of its Happy Meals by adding apple slices and reducing the portion size of french fries;
and it has gained six points peaking at 48 on the Healthy Eating Index. What to order?
So what's a health-conscious consumer to do for lunch aside from packing it? A salad at just about any fast-food chain might not be the answer.
Analyses by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has found that most fast-food salads are not any more healthful than a greasy burger.
You need to be creative when eating at fast-food restaurants said Ulka Agarwal chief medical officer for the Washington D c.-based PCRM a health-advocacy group that also conducts its own research.
Agarwal said to watch for unhealthy items in disguise such as salads with bacon and fatty dressings pre-added.
A salad bar can allow you to control food type and portion and steer toward largely plant-based items she said.
At Chipotle one could order a burrito bowl with rice beans peppers and onions and no sour cream.
At Subway there are several low-fat cholesterol-free sandwiches now. But Agarwal added that sometimes
Hearst and her co-authors also discussed the positive impact that fast-food restaurants could have on their customers'health.
Given the relative influence of the fast-food industry on the U s. diet fast-food restaurants are in a unique position to improve the diet quality of the U s. population by improving the nutritional quality of menu offerings the authors wrote.
Removing a calf who is to become veal from his mother might be agony for the mother for her calf is all she has at the moment.
So any dog that chased hares was a harrier any lapdog was a spaniel and any large intimidating dog was a mastiff.
since this supposedly made the meat tender. Any dog who killed bulls was called a bulldog
To test a dog's communicative abilities owners pointed to food and recorded if their dogs followed their pointing.
The ability to follow a human point to find food or retrieve is something owners usually take for granted
In one game dogs saw their owners hide food under a cup but then point to the opposite cup.
Purebreds were statistically more likely to choose the cup their owner pointed to rather than the cup they remembered seeing the food go into.
In a slightly different version of the game dogs saw their owner hide the food
but then the owner switched the food to the other cup while the dog's eyes were covered.
but mixed breeds were significantly more likely than purebreds to use their memory to locate the food.
#Does Eating Veggies Make You an Optimist? People who have high blood levels of healthy plant compounds known as carotenoids also tend to be more optimistic about the future a new study has found.
Right now it s a question of which came first the chicken or the egg. This study lays the groundwork for future research said Emily Nicklett a professor of social work at the University of Michigan who was involved not in the current study.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of cancer
 Eating more fruits and vegetables may help people look on the bright side. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
Rim Fire in Photos There's no hard evidence that flame retardants actually increase a firefighting crew's initial success in containing a fire limiting its spread
For fighting forest fires retardants consist primarily of ammonium compounds such as ammonium phosphate ammonium sulfate and others. These compounds are used also in agricultural fertilizers.
With obesity in pets on the rise it is important for pet owners to factor in not only their dog's food
but also treats and table food researcher Lisa Freeman a professor of nutrition at Cummings School of veterinary medicine at Tufts University said in a statement.
But they said their results at least suggest pet owners should wash their hands after touching such treats as they would with any raw meat.
And this list runs the gamut with the usual suspects primates chewing on medicinal herbs as well as some more surprising drug-takers such as fruit flies ants
Fruit flies for example will lay their eggs in more alcoholic fruit (produced by natural fermentation) when parasitic wasps are hanging around said Todd Schlenke an Emory researcher who wasn't involved in the review paper.
In the flies increased blood-alcohol content causes the wasp maggot parasites living in their blood to die in a particularly gruesome way by having their internal organs evert outside their bodies through their anuses Schlenke told Livescience.
The 10 Most Diabolical and Disgusting Parasites Whereas the alcohol can have negative effects on the developing flies it also makes infection less likely.
When parasitic wasps are scarce the flies prefer to lay their eggs in less fermented fruit.
Infected larvae can also preferentially seek out areas of a fruit with more alcohol Schlenke said.
And monarch butterflies fight parasites by laying their eggs in toxic milkweed plants. Helping humans Animal medicine can be useful to humans in a variety of ways.
and lambs can learn to eat this medicine from observing their parents doing it Villalba said.
And high-quality fruits a crucial part of dwarf lemur diets are scarce during this time. Beyond finding surprising similarities with other mammals that spend their winters snoozing it's exciting to think about lemur hibernation
what could be the earliest evidence of ancient human ancestors hunting and scavenging meat. Animal bones and thousands of stone tools used by ancient hominins suggest that early human ancestors were butchering and scavenging animals at least 2 million years ago.
The findings published April 25 in the journal PLOS ONE support the idea that ancient meat eating might have fueled big changes in Homo species at that time.
and hominins leaving Africa for Eurasia said study co-author Joseph Ferraro an archaeologist at Baylor University in Waco Texas. The meaty meals may have provided the energy for those transformations he said.
Previously the earliest evidence of eating meat found in Olduvai gorge in Tanzania dates to 1. 8 million years ago.
and scavenging for meat until more than a million years later Ferraro said. Ancient hunters Exactly what caused big changes in human ancestors about 1. 9 million years ago has been a mystery.
Some studies suggest a shift toward a meat-heavy diet enabled the changes while others suggest that it wasn't only the meat
but cooking meat that made us human. More than a decade ago researchers unearthed a trove of thousands of stone tools piled atop animal bones in sandy silty sediment off the shores of Lake victoria in Kenya.
The artifacts at the site known as Kanjera were about 2 million years old and provided some of the earliest evidence of human species living in grassland rather than forest.
and to remove their meat and their organs Ferraro told Livescience. The combination of evidence suggests the animals must have been hunted not scavenged.
#Early Human Ancestors Transformed Diet Around Lucy's Time Early human ancestors made a drastic shift in their diet from eating exclusively fruits
Until about 4 million years ago our early hominin ancestors had diets that were isotopically at least very similar to chimpanzees'said Matt Sponheimer a paleoanthropologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The 10 Biggest Mysteries of the First Humans Diet insight Because plants using different methods of photosynthesis to grow absorb different amounts of carbon isotopes the ratio of those isotopes in dental enamel can reveal insights
But after that despite living in a very similar environment their diet underwent a radical transformation to include C4 and CAM plants.
That signified a change from eating exclusively leaves and fruits to foods derived from grasses and succulents.
That could include grass seeds and underground roots and even termites or small scavenged animals
although the exact composition of the diet still remains a mystery. Â The findings suggest that beginning around the time of Lucy human ancestors seem to have transitioned from a fairly restricted diet to one with more variety
and that may have led to their diversification Sponheimer said. Lucy and her like they seem to be willing to eat just about anything Sponheimer told Livescience.
and focusing on C4 foods. Though its large jaws were thought originally to be used for cracking nuts in fact now researchers believe they used their jaws to grind grasses and seeds.
which early hominins evolved that they depended increasingly on grassy foods or on creatures that ate grasses.
The craniodental morphology of P. boisei might also have led to us to speculate that it relied on grassy foods to a particularly great extent Klein wrote.
and release nutrients as soil passes through their digestive systems. In their tubular segmented bodies nutrients are transformed into a form that plants can consume.
Their influence on the environment has interested scientists since Charles darwin. Â So it came as a shock earlier this year
But in a process called stabilization earthworms convert the digestible carbon to a form that stays in 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
and fungi and not at the role of the earthworms that are said eating them Neher.
#Eating Fish During Pregnancy May Lower Anxiety Eating at least some fish during pregnancy may lower women's risk of anxiety a new study suggests.
The researchers also found that among vegetarian women those who had the strictest diets were 25 percent more likely to have compared anxiety with women who followed more flexible vegetarian diets and occasionally consumed fish or meat.
In order to have a healthy pregnancy women need to follow a healthy diet and not something special for pregnancy saidâ study author Juliana Vazâ a researcher at theâ Federal University of Pelotasâ in Brazil.
A healthy diet can include whole grains vegetables meat poultry and fish she said. Some fish and seafood are good sources of omega-3 fatty acids
which are among theâ nutrients that cannot be made by the body and must be obtained from diet.
Scientists have been studying the role of omega-3 in the body and how it affects different organs including the heart and brain.
Because of the demands of a growing fetus pregnant women need higher amounts of nutrients. The lack of fish and meat in a vegetarian diet may explain why vegetarian women in the study tended to experience more anxiety the researchers said.
In this study the vegetarian group did not fare well at all. The fetus's brain is growing dramatically
and the fetus is getting all the omega-3s that are being produced Chilton said. The study involved more than 9500 women who the researchers grouped based on their dietary patterns.
and included women who mainly ate fruits salad fish and cereals. The traditional group's diet consisted mainly of vegetables red meat and chicken.
Other groups were vegetarians women who ate large amounts of processed food and women who had a diet rich in sweets.
At the 32 weeks of pregnancy the women completed questionnaires and those who scored in the top 15 percent were classified as having high levels of anxiety.
It's not exactly clear how low omega-3s in diet may result in anxiety
Pregnant women should avoid eating fish that contains high levels of mercury such as tilefish swordfish king mackerel and shark.
It is safe to eat up to 12 ounces a week (the equivalent of two average meals) of a variety of fish lower in mercury such as salmon pollock catfish and canned light tuna according to the U s
. Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental protection agency. Email Bahar Gholipour or follow her@alterwired. Followâ Livescienceâ@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.
#Eating Insects Will feed Help Hungry World, UN Says NEW YORK The problem is familiar: How to feed a growing world population.
Now the United nations'Food and agriculture organization has weighed in favor of entomophagy the practice of eating insects. In a 200-plus-page report issued in May the FAO provides the first comprehensive assessment of insects'current and potential uses food for humans and livestock.
It is accepted widely that by 2050 the world will host 9 billion people. To accommodate this number current food production will need to almost double reads the report titled Edible Insects:
Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security. We need to find new ways of growing food.
Crowded Planet: 7 (Billion) Population Milestones Entomophagy has picked up momentum over the years Louis Sorkin an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural history in New york city
and a proponent of bug eating told an audience on Wednesday (June 26) night here at the New york Academy of Sciences.
and photos have been a part of the greater acceptance of bug-eating Sorkin said. You have to get people to
Although many Westerners may react to the idea of bug-eating with disgust insects make up a part of the traditional diets of about 2 billion people the report estimates.
because they can convert their own food to body mass more efficiently than traditional livestock
because unlike chickens pigs and cows insects are not warm-blooded Sorkin said. As a result they do not have to expend energy to keep themselves warm
But for Westerners entomophagy may require disguising dinner. I think most people here probably don't like to eat insects
and grind them into a flour more people would consume it Sorkin said. One company Utah-based Chapul has taken this approach
and sells energy bars made of cricket flour. Â Humans aren't the only ones who could stand to eat more insects.
Research is exploring using insect protein to feed farmed fish and poultry the report says. Follow us@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.
#Eating Peppers May Lower Parkinson's Risk Regularly eating peppers may lower the risk of Parkinson's disease a new study suggests.
Peppers and tobacco both belong to a family of plants called Solanaceae. As a result peppers be they red yellow
or green contain tiny amounts of nicotine. Previous research has suggested that the nicotine in cigarettes
Each year 50000 to 60000 new cases are diagnosed in the United states. Â The pepper advantage In the study the researchers looked at 490 people who had been diagnosed newly with Parkinson's disease
The researchers found that not only were associated peppers with a reduced risk of Parkinson's but also that the more peppers people consumed the greater the apparent benefit.
People who ate peppers five to six times a week or more slashed their Parkinson's risk by about 50 percent compared with those who ate them less than once a week.
Peppers'good-for-neuron powers were much clearer in people who had used never tobacco regularly Searles Nielsen added.
Exposure to nicotine from tobacco use is likely going to overshadow what people would get in their diet she explained.
While it is certainly intriguing to think that eating peppers may protect against Parkinson's disease we have to consider that there are other explanations she said.
and start eating red peppers Okun said. Much work will need to be done to understand the mechanism
Still it can't hurt to include peppers in your diet Searles Nielsen said. If you happen to like peppers fine she added.
Just don t overdo it. Keep in mind that too much of a good thing may not be a good thing Searles Nielsen said.
Eating peppers may lower the risk of Parkinson's disease. Follow Myhealthnewsdailyâ on Twitterâ@Myhealth mhnd. We're also onâ Facebookâ &â Google+.
and candy flavors that aren't allowed in cigarettes the CDC said Just last month the CDC found that more than a third of middle
#Eggs Don't Deserve Their Bad Reputation, Studies Show (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
195 Mental Tricks Substitutions Habits & Inspirations (Lifeline Press 2011) and a frequent national commentator on nutrition topics.
This Op-Ed was adapted from an article that first appeaared in the Washington post. Tallmadge contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
me Should I be eating eggs? My doctor tells me they're'poison 'and to avoid eggs
because they'll increase my cholesterol. My response? That's old news! Most of the studies I've seen conclude that eggs are fine
and may even improve your health as they contain nutrients difficult to find in other foods.
More importantly a report by Ying Rong of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and her colleagues published in The british Journal of Medicine in January reviewed 17 different egg studies.
The study concluded Higher consumption of eggs (up to one egg per day) is associated not with increased risk of coronary heart disease or stroke.
The increased risk of coronary heart disease among diabetic patients and reduced risk of hemorrhagic stroke associated with higher egg consumption in subgroup analyses warrant further studies.
The bottom line: Your nutritional needs and food choices should be personalized. You should enjoy food and eating as it is one of the basic pleasures in life!
My grandmother's favorite food in the whole wide world was eggs (see recipe below.
She loved eggs so much we named an egg cooking style after her. The grandmommy egg was soft-boiled for three minutes.
As it sat in an egg cup we would slice off the top third so the runny yolk would form a delicious and naturally creamy sauce for the white.
Unfortunately during the last decades of her life my grandmother came to see eggs as poison
and avoided one of her real food pleasures. Health authorities were warning the public against eating eggs for fear that they were a major cause of high cholesterol levels the bad kind low-density lipoprotein known as LDL and increased risk of heart disease.
New studies show that the caution may have been an exaggeration. Yes increased blood cholesterol levels can raise the risk of heart disease.
Eggs are high in dietary cholesterol. But does eating eggs raise blood cholesterol and cause heart disease?
This is where the story gets somewhat complicated so stay with me folks and I'll try to make sense of all of this.
Most epidemiological research the kind of research that studies large populations over time and analyzes their diets
and their health has found no connection between eating eggs and increases in heart disease. On the other hand controlled clinical studies where researchers feed subjects specific amounts of cholesterol
and measure the effect on blood do show a slight increase in blood cholesterol with increases in dietary cholesterol
though how much depends on genetic factors. Cholesterol is an important component of all human and animal cells and influences hormone biology among other functions.
Since your body naturally has all it needs from producing its own cholesterol there is no dietary requirement for more cholesterol.
The major determinant of plasma LDL level is saturated fatsaid Alice Lichtenstein professor of nutrition science and policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
And while eggs are high in cholesterol (186 milligrams 184 of them in the yolk) they're relatively low in saturated fat (1. 6 grams in the yolk.
Interestingly people in Japan consumers of some of the largest quantities of eggs in the world (averaging 328 eggs consumed per person per year have low levels of cholesterol
because the Japanese eat a diet low in saturated fat. Americans do just the opposite.
Research has shown that we usually have our eggs alongside foods high in saturated fat such as bacon sausage
and buttered toast. This meal pattern raises LDL levels and makes the effect of eating eggs worse than it actually is.
So how many eggs can you eat? That depends on a number of factors. The American Heart Association no longer includes limits on the number of egg yolks you can eat
but it recommends that you limit your cholesterol intake to 300 milligrams daily or 200 milligrams if you have heart disease
or if your LDL is greater than 100. You decide where that cholesterol comes from!
and say an egg a day is fine. The amount that one egg a day raises cholesterol in the blood is extremely small so small in fact that the increase in risk in heart disease related to this change in serum cholesterol could never be detected in any kind of study said Walter Willett professor of epidemiology and nutrition
at Harvard's School of Public health. Elevations in LDL of this small magnitude could easily be countered by other healthy aspects of eggs.
Based on the research my recommendation is if you eat a healthful diet go ahead and eat an egg a day.
 (My interview on CNN summarizes the key reasons why.  On the other hand if your cholesterol is high
and if you eat the typical American diet high in saturated fat devoid of fruits vegetables
and fiber maybe you shouldn't be eating an egg a day. But will taking eggs out of an unhealthy diet make a positive difference?
Probably not. I can't tell you how many times during my career I've heard people say I've cut out eggs
but my cholesterol is still high! The impact of a healthy balanced diet cannot be denied here.
Assuming you're eating a healthy diet here are some ways you may benefit by eating eggs.
Protein. Eggs are considered the gold standard that other proteins are measured against. Because of the superior amino acid mix an egg's six grams of protein are absorbed easily
and efficiently used by the body. The egg is also low-calorie (74 calories. Choline.
Yolks are one of the best sources of this essential nutrient. Choline is needed for brain development in a growing fetus
and may also be important for brain function in adults. Lutein and Zeaxanthin. These two important beneficial phytochemicals found in egg yolks (as well as kale
and spinach) help prevent eye diseases especially cataracts and age-related macular degeneration. While eggs contain less lutein
and zeaxanthin than greens these phytochemicals are more absorbable because of the presence of fat in the yolk.
Eggs are one of the few natural sources of Vitamin d important for the bones and teeth.
To bring this all together here is a recipe that is a regular meal for me any time of the day quick easy delicious nutritious!
Eggs Scrambled with Onion Garlic and Sweet cherry Tomatoes Servings: 1 Sautã 1/4 sweet onion and a smashed garlic clove over medium-high heat in 1 teaspoon canola or olive oil until almost soft.
Add a handful of chopped tomatoes to the pan (or any other vegetables you happen to have chopped such as spinach kale mushrooms
In a separate bowl whisk two eggs. Pour eggs into the pan containing the onion garlic
and tomato add 1 ounce low-fat cheese if you wish. Stir continuously until eggs are cooked.
Pour over toasted whole rye bread. Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was Is BMI Best?
8 Steps to Your Healthiest Weightand her additional contributions are available on her profile page.
Her latest book is Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes: 50 New Reasons to Cook In Season.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.
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