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Honeybee Scouts Find Food They can get up under your clothes where no other insect can go Miller said.

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Can Fruit Kick Candy to the Curb? Among the 39040 genes found in the kiwifruit many were similar to distantly related species including potatoes and tomatoes from the order Solanes a biological classification one step up from oefamily.

Tea bushes blueberries Brazil nuts azaleas and persimmons are all members of the plant order Ericales along with kiwifruit.

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#Kudzu-Eating Stinkbug May Attack US Soybeans Pesky vines of kudzu native to Asia have crept throughout the southeastern United states in recent decades

and now a stinkbug that feeds on the plant is making an American invasion too.

Because of their diet and life cycle the pungent-smelling insects were thought to be limited largely to areas where they could find the invading vine their favorite meal.

Based on observations in the wild researchers believed the eggs of kudzu bugs that hatched during the spring were part of a first generation Generation A

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Symptoms, Treatment & Coping Strategies Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest the main sugar found in milk and other dairy products.

The initial diagnosis of lactose intolerance can be very simple t s a matter of eliminating certain foods from the diet to see

and then reintroducing the same foods into the the diet again to see if those symptoms would come back.

and dairy products according to research published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology Â Treatments & Medications Over-the-counter pills or drops that contain lactase can be taken before meals to help alleviate

The most straightforward way would be to reduce the amount of milk or daily products in their diet.

and dairy products into several small portions and to take it with other foods. Processed dairy such as yogurt and cheeses are tolerated usually better

because the lactose is metabolized partially by bacteria during their preparation r

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#Lake ontario Facts Lake ontario is the smallest of all the Great lakes in surface area (7340 square miles/18960 square kilometers)

The lake has a number of lagoons and baymouth bars which are made formations of sand mud

Swans loons ducks geese grebes and other water fowl are among the wildlife that inhabit Lake ontario.

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In 1544 another Spaniard Cristobal de Pedraza the Bishop of Honduras claimed to have glimpsed a white city in his travels;

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#Let's Not'Feed The World':'Moving Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.

She is a leading expert on sustainable agriculture and the potential environmental risks of biotechnology holding a doctorate in molecular biology and a law degree.

The hunger organization Bread for Word talks not of how U s. agriculture will feed the world

but of agricultural development for small-scale producers and women improving nutrition for women and young children and ensuring that efforts are led country meaning the communities constituencies

The ambitious U s. initiative called Feed the Future does not use the phrase either but instead talks about supporting countries in developing their own agricultural sectors to generate opportunities for economic growth that can help reduce poverty and hunger.

Likewise the recent Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO) report on world agriculture and malnutrition The State of Food and Agriculture:

Food Systems for Better Nutritiondoesn't use the term feeding the world. FAO would eradicate malnutrition by integrating agriculture into local and regional food systems from inputs

and production through processing storage transport and retailing to consumption. Maybe the phrase is falling from favor.

and enjoying meals. To satisfy this basic need for the whole world is a noble endeavor.

U s. farmers can feel good that they are helping to meet the food needs of those who can afford to buy their products.

But the phrase conflates the important issues of food production and hunger alleviation. It implies that producing corn

and soybeans is the equivalent of putting food into the mouths of hungry people. But there is no direct connection between U s. corn

and soy production and ending hunger elsewhere (or for that matter in the United states). In fact the truth is that high production in the United states can depress world grain prices

Tackling issues like infrastructure transport storage prices and the role of women in an integrated way as both the FAO and the Feed the Future initiatives do is the only serious approach to the world hunger problem.

This article was adapted from the post Let's Drop'Feed The World':'A Plea To Move Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase on the UCS blog The Equation.

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Afternoon energy boost In other forests the process of making food from light known as photosynthesis tends to drop off in the afternoon.

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and changing food supplies these traits could be useful to breeders developing hardier breeds of cattle especially in the face of climate change Mctavish said.

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Someone gets into the car to go to the grocery store and suddenly can't remember how to get there.

Elizabeth Buffalo the study's lead author is an associate professor of neurology at Emory University School of medicine.

Buffalo's experiment changed that. In research reported in November in the journal Nature three Rhesus monkeys looked at images on a computer screen

When Buffalo and her coworkers compared eye-tracking results to the electrode measurements they found that the monkeys like the rats were using neurons in the entorhinal cortex to construct a triangular grid they could superimpose on their environment.

We tend to explore things with our eyes said Buffalo and unlike the rats in the original experiments primates don't have to actually visit a place to construct the same kind of mental map.

Showing the monkeys the same picture twice enabled Buffalo to link grid cells to memory.

This suggests that grid cells may provide a kind of framework for making associations said Buffalo.

One of Buffalo's research interests is the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. Studies of brain changes in Alzheimer's disease in humans consistently show localized degeneration in the same parts of the entorhinal cortex where Buffalo found grid cells in monkeys.

May-Britt Moser one of the authors of the original Norwegian study described Buffalo's results as extremely exciting.

She suspects that the cells Buffalo observed which respond to the monkeys'eye movements may represent a new type of grid cell

--and that grid cells may start turning up in a variety of neurological contexts. In the brainwhat works will be used over and over again said Moser.

Now that we've identified them there are so many questions we can ask Buffalo said. Eleanor Nelsen is a science writer based in Madison Wisconsin.

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and rosemary to spruce up the homes for their future nestlings. But all of this construction takes energy and puts a female in danger of attack from predators.

and the signals they may send to males. oepeople thought that its only function was to form a receptacle for the eggs he said.

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which was likely still dependent on its mother for food and protection. Separating the two could have severe consequences for the calf FWC manatee biologist Thomas Reinert said in a statement.

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#'Meat Mummies'Kept Egyptian Royalty Well-fed After Death Care for some ribs? The royal mummies of ancient Egypt apparently did as a new study finds that meat mummies left in Egyptian tombs as sustenance for the afterlife were treated with elaborate balms to preserve them.

Mummified cuts of meat are common finds in ancient Egyptian burials with the oldest dating back to at least 3300 B c. The tradition extended into the latest periods of mummification in the fourth century A d. The famous pharaoh King

Tutankhamun went to his final resting place accompanied by 48 cases of beef and poultry.

But meat mummies have been unstudied mostly until now. University of Bristol biogeochemist Richard Evershed and his colleagues were curious about how these cuts were prepared.

They also wondered if the mummification methods for meat differed from how Egyptians mummified people or pets.

The team analyzed four samples from meat mummies archived at the Cairo and British museums.

The oldest was a rack of cattle ribs from the tomb of Tjuiu an Egyptian noblewoman and her courtier Yuya.

The beef dates back to between 1386 B c. and 1349 B c. Gallery: Scanning Mummies for Heart disease The second sample dated to between 1064 B c

. and 948 B c. and consisted of meat from a calf found in the tomb of Isetemkheb D a sister and wife to a high priest in Thebes.

The final two samples were from the tomb of a Theban priestess Henutmehyt who died around 1290 B c. One of the meat mummies found in Henutmehyt's tomb was duck

and the other was probably goat. The researchers conducted a chemical analysis of the bandages or the meat itself in all four samples.

They found that animal fat coated the bandages of the calf and goat mummies; in the case of the calf the fat was on bandages not in contact with the meat suggesting it had been smeared on as a preservative rather than seeping through as grease.

The most intriguing chemical profile appeared on the beef mummy however. The bandaging around the mummy contained remnants of an elaborate balm made of fat or oil and resin from a Pistacia tree a shrubby desert plant.

This resin was a luxury item in ancient Egypt Evershed and his colleagues report today (Nov 18) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nevertheless it makes sense to see a sophisticated embalming substance on the beef cut the researchers wrote.

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which develop fetuses in eggs. See Images of the Furry Mammal Ancestor and Descendants There are over 5100 living placental species

This website allowed members of the team spread all over the globe to work simultaneously. Combining both DNA and morphological datasets led to an unprecedented amount of information for each of the 83 mammals they investigated.

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Bigger animals can eat a wider range of foods and be fiercer predators than their pip-squeak pals.

When food supplies dwindled these giant creatures could have had a tough time finding enough food Pimiento said.

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and it's threatening their access to food. A team of researchers studied the migration patterns of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Hudson bay Canada using satellite-tracking data collected between 1991 and1997 and 2004 and 2009.

Polar bears hunt their main food source seals primarily while on sea ice. Changes in the ice are driving the bears to spend more time on land where they have to go longer without eating

which told them about the bears'diet and nutrition. When we look at the migration patterns of the collared bears it appears as though bears in recent years are arriving on shore earlier in the summer

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and meetings they write. oein addition great houses with their large storage capacity may have served as central storage and distribution facilities for both food and trade items.

and were domesticated eating less turkey. With the population shrinking the site fell into ruin and oerefuse was being deposited in once-important civic

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Mexican food Mexican culinary norms vary widely based on income level and social class. The diet of working class Mexicans includes staples such as corn or wheat tortillas along with beans rice tomatoes chili peppers and chorizo a type of pork sausage.

Empanadas which are handheld pasty pockets that can contain savory or sweet fillings are popular.

Â The diets of middle-and upper-income Mexicans are aligned more closely with diets of Americans

and Europeans and include a wide variety of food items prepared in wide range of culinary styles.

Mexico is known for its tequila which is made from agave cactus that is well suited to the climate of central Mexico.

Soda is a very popular drink in Mexico as the country has developed a well beverage industry.

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This is the most accurate test. 2. Use vinegar and baking soda. To do this test you will need:

and add 1 cup of white vinegar. Cap the jar and shake it well. If the mixture reacts with the vinegar by fizzing the soil is highly alkaline.

This test is the least accurate as it will only show results if the soil is very acidic or alkaline. 3. Use a cabbage juice indicator.

Prepare your indicator solution by chopping a red cabbage into very fine pieces. Use about five cabbage leaves per three cups of distilled water.

Pour 100 milliliters (ml) of hot cabbage juice indicator over each sample and let them sit undisturbed for 30 minutes.

Compare the color of the cabbage juice indicator in each container. Soils with a nearly neutral ph will have little color change.

They need minerals and salts from the soil. Quality soils contain materials that dissolve in water easily

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In fact some foods in the dairy case do a better job than others at strengthening bones a new study suggests.

But they found no evidence that these two foods were linked to better bone density in the spine.

All the people in the dairy study completed a 126-item food frequency questionnaire which indicated how often they ate certain foods each week.

Scientists also considered whether people smoked took calcium or Vitamin d supplements and got regular exercise

However the findings did show that a higher intake of cream was associated with lower bone mineral density in the hip but not in the spine.

Foods in this group included ice cream sour cream cream cheese and cream. Â Cream is definitely different from the rest of the dairy products said lead author Shivani Sahni an assistant scientist at the institute.

It's higher in saturated fat and has lesser amounts of bone-beneficial nutrients such as calcium protein and Vitamin d.

In addition the study found that eating cheese both hard cheeses like cheddar and Swiss and soft cheeses such as cottage and ricotta was linked not with higher bone mineral density of the hip or spine.

Sahni suspects cheese may have beneficial effects on bone health that were shown not in the research possibly

because the researchers lumped all kinds of cheese into one big category including processed varieties high in fat and sodium

which may not be so good for bones. Previous research has explored the link between people's milk-drinking habits during childhood

or as adults and their bone mineral density as they grow older. However fewer studies have honed in on various types of dairy products

The findings appear in the February issue of the journal Archives of Osteoporosis. A food company that makes yogurt sponsored the research.

Researchers found that people who downed 2. 6 servings of milk yogurt and cheese a day

which equals a little more than 2. 5 cups of these foods had better bone density scores of the hip

Â Sahni suspects the various nutrients in dairy foods their protein calcium and Vitamin d content for example work in synergy

and together they have a better effect on bone health than any of these single nutrients acting alone.

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If actors handled food the monkeys would likely choose whoever they thought would give them the most treats.

Using food could have changed the capuchins'behaviors. A widespread behavior? I think it's a really interesting study with implications for helping us understand how cooperation comes about said Malini Suchak a primatologist at Emory University who wasn't involved in the research.

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#Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals Ancient Romans are known for eating well with mosaics from the empire portraying sumptuous displays of fruits vegetables cakes and of course wine.

whose feasts weren't preserved in art may have been stuck eating birdseed. Common people in ancient Rome ate millet a grain looked down upon by the wealthy as fit only for livestock according to a new study published in the March issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

In ancient Rome however diet varied based on social class and where a person lived. Ancient texts have plenty to say about lavish Roman feasts.

A formal feast involved multiple dishes eaten from a reclined position and could last for hours.

Roman locavores To determine diets from the Roman skeletons the researchers analyzed the bones for isotopes of carbon and nitrogen.

and are incorporated into the body from food. Such isotopes of carbon can tell researchers which types of plants people consumed.

they photosynthesize differently than mostly fibrous C4 plants such as millet and sorghum. The differences in photosynthesis create different ratios of carbon isotopes preserved in the bones of the people who ate the plants.

Historical texts dismiss millet as animal feed or a famine food Killgrove said but the researcher's findings suggest that plenty of ordinary Romans depended on the easy-to-grow grain.

One man whose isotope ratios showed him to be a major millet consumer was likely an immigrant later research revealed.

when he died carrying the signs of his country diet with him. Or perhaps he kept eating the food he was used to even after arriving in the city.

There's still a lot to learn about the Roman empire Killgrove said. We kind of think that it's been studied

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#Most Interesting Science News articles of the WeekA mystery blob scorpion-eating mice and trees of gold?

Instead the gums covering the area of her missing tooth were healed and her remaining teeth were healthy.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/40684-scorpion-eating-mice-no-sting. html target=blank>Scorpion-Eating Mice Feel No Sting</a p><p

Many plants root deep into the Earth drawing up nutrients and minerals they need for life.

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#Most People Shouldn t Eat Gluten-Free Many Americans are considering cutting back on the amount of gluten in their diets

if this is not done carefully the diet can be unhealthy. In a recent poll 30 percent of adults said they wanted to cut down

or be free of gluten according to The NDP Group the market-research company that conducted the poll.

Gluten is a protein found in many grains including wheat rye and barley. It's found in most breads cereals pastas and many processed foods according to Webmd.

People who have called a condition celiac disease develop an immune reaction to gluten that damages the intestine

and so they need to avoid the protein. About 1 percent of the population has celiac disease.

For most other people a gluten-free diet won't provide a benefit said Katherine Tallmadge a dietitian and the author of Diet Simple (Lifeline Press 2011.

What's more people who unnecessarily shun gluten may do so at the expense of their health Tallmadge said.

That's because whole grains which contain gluten are a good source of fiber vitamins

Gluten-free products are made often with refined grains and are low in nutrients. If you embrace such a diet you'll end up eating a lot of foods that are stripped of nutrients Tallmadge said.

Studies show gluten-free diets can be deficient in fiber iron folate niacin thiamine calcium Vitamin b12 phosphorus

and zinc she said. You can eat a healthy diet without gluten but you have to be very knowledgeable and most people aren't Tallmadge said.

People who go gluten-free may feel better because to avoid the protein they end up cutting out desserts and junk foods thus losing weight.

They mistakenly attribute that to their gluten-free decision Tallmadge said. Heather Mangieri a nutrition consultant and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics agreed.

There's nothing magical about eliminating gluten that results in weight loss Mangieri said. Any of us that eliminates

or removes cookies and candies from our diets and replaces them with fruits and vegetables is going to feel better.

Before you switch to a gluten-free diet you should be evaluated by your family physician

and a specialist who can determine if you have celiac disease. To be diagnosed with the disease people should see a gastroenterologist.

Other people who may need to cut back on gluten are individuals who have a wheat allergy they need to avoid wheat

but not all grains and people with gluten sensitivity who may feel better when they eat less gluten Webmd says.

If you want to go gluten-free do it the right way Mangieri said. If you eliminate wheat from the diet make sure to replace it with a healthy naturally gluten-free grain such as quinoa

or buckwheat Mangieri said. You should also balance the diet with lots of fruits and vegetables Mangieri said.

Lean meat and low-fat dairy products such as yogurt are also good for a gluten-free diet Tallmadge said.

Pass it on: If you don't haveceliac disease a wheat allergy or a gluten sensitivity you're unlikely to benefit from a gluten-free diet.

This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience. Follow Rachael Rettner on Twitter@Rachaelrettner

or Myhealthnewsdaily@Myhealth mhnd. We're also on Facebook & Google+o

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#Most People Shouldn't Eat Gluten-Free Many Americans are considering cutting back on the amount of gluten in their diets

or avoiding it altogether. However nutritionists say that if this is not done carefully the diet can be unhealthy.

In a recent poll 30 percent of adults said they wanted to cut down or be free of gluten according to The NDP Group the market-research company that conducted the poll.

That's the highest percentage of people to report having this goal since the poll began asking the question in 2009 NDP says.